"git show-ref --verify" is useful for scripts that want to look up a
fully qualified refname without falling back to the DWIM rules used by
"git rev-parse" rules when the ref does not exist. Currently it will
only accept "HEAD" or a refname beginning with "refs/". Running
git show-ref --verify CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
will always result in
fatal: 'CHERRY_PICK_HEAD' - not a valid ref
even when CHERRY_PICK_HEAD exists. By calling refname_is_safe() instead
of comparing the refname to "HEAD" we can accept all one-level refs that
contain only uppercase ascii letters and underscores.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Define "special ref" as a very narrow set that consists of
FETCH_HEAD and MERGE_HEAD, and clarify everything else that used to
be classified as such are actually just pseudorefs.
* ps/not-so-many-refs-are-special:
Documentation: add "special refs" to the glossary
refs: redefine special refs
refs: convert MERGE_AUTOSTASH to become a normal pseudo-ref
sequencer: introduce functions to handle autostashes via refs
refs: convert AUTO_MERGE to become a normal pseudo-ref
sequencer: delete REBASE_HEAD in correct repo when picking commits
sequencer: clean up pseudo refs with REF_NO_DEREF
Update to a new feature recently added, "git show-ref --exists".
* tc/show-ref-exists-fix:
builtin/show-ref: treat directory as non-existing in --exists
c15129b699 (config: factor out global config file retrieval, 2024-01-18)
was a refactor that moved some of the code in this function to
`config.c`. However, in the process I managed to drop this code comment
which explains `$HOME not set`.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When $HOME/.gitignore is missing but XDG config file available, we
should write into the latter, not former. "git gc" and "git
maintenance" wrote into a wrong "global config" file, which have
been corrected.
* kh/maintenance-use-xdg-when-it-should:
maintenance: use XDG config if it exists
config: factor out global config file retrieval
config: rename global config function
config: format newlines
Instead of manually creating refs/ hierarchy on disk upon a
creation of a secondary worktree, which is only usable via the
files backend, use the refs API to populate it.
* ps/worktree-refdb-initialization:
builtin/worktree: create refdb via ref backend
worktree: expose interface to look up worktree by name
builtin/worktree: move setup of commondir file earlier
refs/files: skip creation of "refs/{heads,tags}" for worktrees
setup: move creation of "refs/" into the files backend
refs: prepare `refs_init_db()` for initializing worktree refs
The error message given when "git branch -d branch" fails due to
commits unique to the branch has been split into an error and a new
conditional advice message.
* rj/advice-delete-branch-not-fully-merged:
branch: make the advice to force-deleting a conditional one
advice: fix an unexpected leading space
advice: sort the advice related lists
Comment updates to help developers not to attempt to modify
messages from plumbing commands that must stay constant.
It might make sense to reassess the plumbing needs every few years,
but that should be done as a separate effort.
* es/some-up-to-date-messages-must-stay:
messages: mark some strings with "up-to-date" not to touch
"git fetch" learned to pay attention to "fetch.all" configuration
variable, which pretends as if "--all" was passed from the command
line when no remote parameter was given.
* tb/fetch-all-configuration:
fetch: add new config option fetch.all
Similar to the preceding conversion of the AUTO_MERGE pseudo-ref, let's
convert the MERGE_AUTOSTASH ref to become a normal pseudo-ref as well.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 70c70de616 (refs: complete list of special refs, 2023-12-14) we have
inrtoduced a new `is_special_ref()` function that classifies some refs
as being special. The rule is that special refs are exclusively read and
written via the filesystem directly, whereas normal refs exclucsively go
via the refs API.
The intent of that commit was to record the status quo so that we know
to route reads of such special refs consistently. Eventually, the list
should be reduced to its bare minimum of refs which really are special,
namely FETCH_HEAD and MERGE_HEAD.
Follow up on this promise and convert the AUTO_MERGE ref to become a
normal pseudo-ref by using the refs API to both read and write it
instead of accessing the filesystem directly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git maintenance register` registers the repository in the user's global
config. `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config` is supposed to be used if
`~/.gitconfig` does not exist. However, this command creates a
`~/.gitconfig` file and writes to that one even though the XDG variant
exists.
This used to work correctly until 50a044f1e4 (gc: replace config
subprocesses with API calls, 2022-09-27), when the command started calling
the config API instead of git-config(1).
Also change `unregister` accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Factor out code that retrieves the global config file so that we can use
it in `gc.c` as well.
Use the old name from the previous commit since this function acts
functionally the same as `git_system_config` but for “global”.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename this function to a more descriptive name since we want to use the
existing name for a new function.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove unneeded newlines according to `clang-format`.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
9080a7f178 (builtin/show-ref: add new mode to check for reference
existence, 2023-10-31) added the option --exists to git-show-ref(1).
When you use this option against a ref that doesn't exist, but it is
a parent directory of an existing ref, you get the following error:
$ git show-ref --exists refs/heads
error: failed to look up reference: Is a directory
when the ref-files backend is in use. To be more clear to user,
hide the error about having found a directory. What matters to the
user is that the named ref does not exist. Instead, print the same
error as when the ref was not found:
error: reference does not exist
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new extension "refstorage" so that we can mark a
repository that uses a non-default ref backend, like reftable.
* ps/refstorage-extension:
t9500: write "extensions.refstorage" into config
builtin/clone: introduce `--ref-format=` value flag
builtin/init: introduce `--ref-format=` value flag
builtin/rev-parse: introduce `--show-ref-format` flag
t: introduce GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT envvar
setup: introduce GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT envvar
setup: introduce "extensions.refStorage" extension
setup: set repository's formats on init
setup: start tracking ref storage format
refs: refactor logic to look up storage backends
worktree: skip reading HEAD when repairing worktrees
t: introduce DEFAULT_REPO_FORMAT prereq
Streaming spans of packfile data used to be done only from a
single, primary, pack in a repository with multiple packfiles. It
has been extended to allow reuse from other packfiles, too.
* tb/multi-pack-verbatim-reuse: (26 commits)
t/perf: add performance tests for multi-pack reuse
pack-bitmap: enable reuse from all bitmapped packs
pack-objects: allow setting `pack.allowPackReuse` to "single"
t/test-lib-functions.sh: implement `test_trace2_data` helper
pack-objects: add tracing for various packfile metrics
pack-bitmap: prepare to mark objects from multiple packs for reuse
pack-revindex: implement `midx_pair_to_pack_pos()`
pack-revindex: factor out `midx_key_to_pack_pos()` helper
midx: implement `midx_preferred_pack()`
git-compat-util.h: implement checked size_t to uint32_t conversion
pack-objects: include number of packs reused in output
pack-objects: prepare `write_reused_pack_verbatim()` for multi-pack reuse
pack-objects: prepare `write_reused_pack()` for multi-pack reuse
pack-objects: pass `bitmapped_pack`'s to pack-reuse functions
pack-objects: keep track of `pack_start` for each reuse pack
pack-objects: parameterize pack-reuse routines over a single pack
pack-bitmap: return multiple packs via `reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()`
pack-bitmap: simplify `reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()` signature
ewah: implement `bitmap_is_empty()`
pack-bitmap: pass `bitmapped_pack` struct to pack-reuse functions
...
The treewide clean-up of "up-to-date" strings done in 7560f547
(treewide: correct several "up-to-date" to "up to date", 2017-08-23)
deliberately left some out, but unlike the lines that were changed
by the commit, the lines that were deliberately left untouched by
the commit is impossible to ask "git blame" to link back to the
commit that did not touch them.
Let's do the second best thing, leave a short comment near them
explaining why those strings should not be modified or localized.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
[es: make in-code comment more developer-friendly]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The error message we show when the user tries to delete a not fully
merged branch describes the error and gives a hint to the user:
error: the branch 'foo' is not fully merged.
If you are sure you want to delete it, run 'git branch -D foo'.
Let's move the hint part so that it is displayed using the advice
machinery:
error: the branch 'foo' is not fully merged
hint: If you are sure you want to delete it, run 'git branch -D foo'
hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.forceDeleteBranch false"
Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git sparse-checkout (add|set) --[no-]cone --end-of-options" did
not handle "--end-of-options" correctly after a recent update.
* en/sparse-checkout-eoo:
sparse-checkout: be consistent with end of options markers
"git sparse-checkout set" added default patterns even when the
patterns are being fed from the standard input, which has been
corrected.
* jc/sparse-checkout-set-default-fix:
sparse-checkout: use default patterns for 'set' only !stdin
Remove unused header "#include".
* en/header-cleanup:
treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
treewide: add direct includes currently only pulled in transitively
trace2/tr2_tls.h: remove unnecessary include
submodule-config.h: remove unnecessary include
pkt-line.h: remove unnecessary include
line-log.h: remove unnecessary include
http.h: remove unnecessary include
fsmonitor--daemon.h: remove unnecessary includes
blame.h: remove unnecessary includes
archive.h: remove unnecessary include
treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
treewide: remove unnecessary includes from header files
Introduce a boolean configuration option fetch.all which allows to
fetch all available remotes by default. The config option can be
overridden by explicitly specifying a remote or by using --no-all.
The behavior for --all is unchanged and calling git-fetch with --all
and a remote will still result in an error.
Additionally, describe the configuration variable in the config
documentation and implement new tests to cover the expected behavior.
Also add --no-all to the command-line documentation of git-fetch.
Signed-off-by: Tamino Bauknecht <dev@tb6.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When creating a worktree we create the worktree's ref database manually
by first writing a "HEAD" file so that the directory is recognized as a
Git repository by other commands, and then running git-update-ref(1) or
git-symbolic-ref(1) to write the actual value. But while this is fine
for the files backend, this logic simply assumes too much about how the
ref backend works and will leave behind an invalid ref database once any
other ref backend lands.
Refactor the code to instead use `refs_init_db()` to initialize the ref
database so that git-worktree(1) itself does not need to know about how
to initialize it. This will allow future ref backends to customize how
the per-worktree ref database is set up. Furthermore, as we now already
have a worktree ref store around, we can also avoid spawning external
commands to write the HEAD reference and instead use the refs API to do
so.
Note that we do not have an equivalent to passing the `--quiet` flag to
git-symbolic-ref(1) as we did before. This flag does not have an effect
anyway though, as git-symbolic-ref(1) only honors it when reading a
symref, but never when writing one.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Shuffle around how we create supporting worktree files so that we first
ensure that the worktree has all link files ("gitdir", "commondir")
before we try to initialize the ref database by writing "HEAD". This
will be required by a subsequent commit where we start to initialize the
ref database via `refs_init_db()`, which will require an initialized
`struct worktree *`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The t5309 script triggers a racy false positive with SANITIZE=leak on a
multi-core system. Running with "--stress --run=6" usually fails within
10 seconds or so for me, complaining with something like:
+ git index-pack --fix-thin --stdin
fatal: REF_DELTA at offset 46 already resolved (duplicate base 01d7713666f4de822776c7622c10f1b07de280dc?)
=================================================================
==3904583==ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks
Direct leak of 32 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
#0 0x7fa790d01986 in __interceptor_realloc ../../../../src/libsanitizer/lsan/lsan_interceptors.cpp:98
#1 0x7fa790add769 in __pthread_getattr_np nptl/pthread_getattr_np.c:180
#2 0x7fa790d117c5 in __sanitizer::GetThreadStackTopAndBottom(bool, unsigned long*, unsigned long*) ../../../../src/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_linux_libcdep.cpp:150
#3 0x7fa790d11957 in __sanitizer::GetThreadStackAndTls(bool, unsigned long*, unsigned long*, unsigned long*, unsigned long*) ../../../../src/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_linux_libcdep.cpp:598
#4 0x7fa790d03fe8 in __lsan::ThreadStart(unsigned int, unsigned long long, __sanitizer::ThreadType) ../../../../src/libsanitizer/lsan/lsan_posix.cpp:51
#5 0x7fa790d013fd in __lsan_thread_start_func ../../../../src/libsanitizer/lsan/lsan_interceptors.cpp:440
#6 0x7fa790adc3eb in start_thread nptl/pthread_create.c:444
#7 0x7fa790b5ca5b in clone3 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone3.S:81
SUMMARY: LeakSanitizer: 32 byte(s) leaked in 1 allocation(s).
Aborted
What happens is this:
0. We construct a bogus pack with a duplicate object in it and trigger
index-pack.
1. We spawn a bunch of worker threads to resolve deltas (on my system
it is 16 threads).
2. One of the threads sees the duplicate object and bails by calling
exit(), taking down all of the threads. This is expected and is the
point of the test.
3. At the time exit() is called, we may still be spawning threads from
the main process via pthread_create(). LSan hooks thread creation
to update its book-keeping; it has to know where each thread's
stack is (so it can find entry points for reachable memory). So it
calls pthread_getattr_np() to get information about the new thread.
That may allocate memory that must be freed with a matching call to
pthread_attr_destroy(). Probably LSan does that immediately, but
if you're unlucky enough, the exit() will happen while it's between
those two calls, and the allocated pthread_attr_t appears as a
leak.
This isn't a real leak. It's not even in our code, but rather in the
LSan instrumentation code. So we could just ignore it. But the false
positive can cause people to waste time tracking it down.
It's possibly something that LSan could protect against (e.g., cover the
getattr/destroy pair with a mutex, and then in the final post-exit()
check for leaks try to take the same mutex). But I don't know enough
about LSan to say if that's a reasonable approach or not (or if my
analysis is even completely correct).
In the meantime, it's pretty easy to avoid the race by making creation
of the worker threads "atomic". That is, we'll spawn all of them before
letting any of them start to work. That's easy to do because we already
have a work_lock() mutex for handing out that work. If the main process
takes it, then all of the threads will immediately block until we've
finished spawning and released it.
This shouldn't make any practical difference for non-LSan runs. The
thread spawning is quick, and could happen before any worker thread gets
scheduled anyway.
Probably other spots that use threads are subject to the same issues.
But since we have to manually insert locking (and since this really is
kind of a hack), let's not bother with them unless somebody experiences
a similar racy false-positive in practice.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Assorted changes around pseudoref handling.
* ps/pseudo-refs:
bisect: consistently write BISECT_EXPECTED_REV via the refdb
refs: complete list of special refs
refs: propagate errno when reading special refs fails
wt-status: read HEAD and ORIG_HEAD via the refdb
Doc updates to clarify what an "unborn branch" means.
* jc/orphan-unborn:
orphan/unborn: fix use of 'orphan' in end-user facing messages
orphan/unborn: add to the glossary and use them consistently
Code clean-up.
* la/trailer-cleanups:
trailer: use offsets for trailer_start/trailer_end
trailer: find the end of the log message
commit: ignore_non_trailer computes number of bytes to ignore
Introduce a new `--ref-format` value flag for git-clone(1) that allows
the user to specify the ref format that is to be used for a newly
initialized repository.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new `--ref-format` value flag for git-init(1) that allows
the user to specify the ref format that is to be used for a newly
initialized repository.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new `--show-ref-format` to git-rev-parse(1) that causes it
to print the ref format used by a repository.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new "extensions.refStorage" extension that allows us to
specify the ref storage format used by a repository. For now, the only
supported format is the "files" format, but this list will likely soon
be extended to also support the upcoming "reftable" format.
There have been discussions on the Git mailing list in the past around
how exactly this extension should look like. One alternative [1] that
was discussed was whether it would make sense to model the extension in
such a way that backends are arbitrarily stackable. This would allow for
a combined value of e.g. "loose,packed-refs" or "loose,reftable", which
indicates that new refs would be written via "loose" files backend and
compressed into "packed-refs" or "reftable" backends, respectively.
It is arguable though whether this flexibility and the complexity that
it brings with it is really required for now. It is not foreseeable that
there will be a proliferation of backends in the near-term future, and
the current set of existing formats and formats which are on the horizon
can easily be configured with the much simpler proposal where we have a
single value, only.
Furthermore, if we ever see that we indeed want to gain the ability to
arbitrarily stack the ref formats, then we can adapt the current
extension rather easily. Given that Git clients will refuse any unknown
value for the "extensions.refStorage" extension they would also know to
ignore a stacked "loose,packed-refs" in the future.
So let's stick with the easy proposal for the time being and wire up the
extension.
[1]: <pull.1408.git.1667846164.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to discern which ref storage format a repository is supposed to
use we need to start setting up and/or discovering the format. This
needs to happen in two separate code paths.
- The first path is when we create a repository via `init_db()`. When
we are re-initializing a preexisting repository we need to retain
the previously used ref storage format -- if the user asked for a
different format then this indicates an error and we error out.
Otherwise we either initialize the repository with the format asked
for by the user or the default format, which currently is the
"files" backend.
- The second path is when discovering repositories, where we need to
read the config of that repository. There is not yet any way to
configure something other than the "files" backend, so we can just
blindly set the ref storage format to this backend.
Wire up this logic so that we have the ref storage format always readily
available when needed. As there is only a single backend and because it
is not configurable we cannot yet verify that this tracking works as
expected via tests, but tests will be added in subsequent commits. To
countermand this ommission now though, raise a BUG() in case the ref
storage format is not set up properly in `ref_store_init()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git clone" has been prepared to allow cloning a repository with
non-default hash function into a repository that uses the reftable
backend.
* ps/clone-into-reftable-repository:
builtin/clone: create the refdb with the correct object format
builtin/clone: skip reading HEAD when retrieving remote
builtin/clone: set up sparse checkout later
builtin/clone: fix bundle URIs with mismatching object formats
remote-curl: rediscover repository when fetching refs
setup: allow skipping creation of the refdb
setup: extract function to create the refdb
"git fetch --atomic" issued an unnecessary empty error message,
which has been corrected.
* jx/fetch-atomic-error-message-fix:
fetch: no redundant error message for atomic fetch
t5574: test porcelain output of atomic fetch
Code clean-up for sanity checking of command line options for "git
show-ref".
* rs/show-ref-incompatible-options:
show-ref: use die_for_incompatible_opt3()
"git checkout -B <branch> [<start-point>]" allowed a branch that is
in use in another worktree to be updated and checked out, which
might be a bit unexpected. The rule has been tightened, which is a
breaking change. "--ignore-other-worktrees" option is required to
unbreak you, if you are used to the current behaviour that "-B"
overrides the safety.
* jc/checkout-B-branch-in-use:
checkout: forbid "-B <branch>" from touching a branch used elsewhere
checkout: refactor die_if_checked_out() caller
"git sparse-checkout set ---no-cone" uses default patterns when none
is given from the command line, but it should do so ONLY when
--stdin is not being used. Right now, add_patterns_from_input()
called when reading from the standard input is sloppy and does not
check if there are extra command line parameters that the command
will silently ignore, but that will change soon and not setting this
unnecessary and unused default patterns start to matter when it gets
fixed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
93851746 (parse-options: decouple "--end-of-options" and "--",
2023-12-06) updated the world order to make callers of parse-options
that set PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT responsible for deciding what to
do with "--end-of-options" they may see after parse_options() returns.
This made a previous bug in sparse-checkout more visible; namely,
that
git sparse-checkout [add|set] --[no-]cone --end-of-options ...
would simply treat "--end-of-options" as one of the paths to include in
the sparse-checkout. But this was already problematic before; namely,
git sparse-checkout [add|set| --[no-]cone --sikp-checks ...
would not give an error on the mis-typed "--skip-checks" but instead
simply treat "--sikp-checks" as a path or pattern to include in the
sparse-checkout, which is highly unfriendly.
This behavior began when the command was converted to parse-options in
7bffca95ea (sparse-checkout: add '--stdin' option to set subcommand,
2019-11-21). Back then it was just called KEEP_UNKNOWN. Later it was
renamed to KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT in 99d86d60e5 (parse-options:
PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN only applies to --options, 2022-08-19) to clarify
that it was only about dashed options; we always keep non-option
arguments. Looking at that original patch, both Peff and I think that
the author was simply confused about the mis-named option, and really
just wanted to keep the non-option arguments. We never should have used
the flag all along (and the other cases were cargo-culted within the
file).
Remove the erroneous PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT flag now to fix this
bug. Note that this does mean that anyone who might have been using
git sparse-checkout [add|set] [--[no-]cone] --foo --bar
to request paths or patterns '--foo' and '--bar' will now have to use
git sparse-checkout [add|set] [--[no-]cone] -- --foo --bar
That makes sparse-checkout more consistent with other git commands,
provides users much friendlier error messages and behavior, and is
consistent with the all-caps warning in git-sparse-checkout.txt that
this command "is experimental...its behavior...will likely change". :-)
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The next commit will remove a bunch of unnecessary includes, but to do
so, we need some of the lower level direct includes that files rely on
to be explicitly specified.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
