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Jonathan Nieder 4698c8feb1 config: allow inaccessible configuration under $HOME
The changes v1.7.12.1~2^2~4 (config: warn on inaccessible files,
2012-08-21) and v1.8.1.1~22^2~2 (config: treat user and xdg config
permission problems as errors, 2012-10-13) were intended to prevent
important configuration (think "[transfer] fsckobjects") from being
ignored when the configuration is unintentionally unreadable (for
example with EIO on a flaky filesystem, or with ENOMEM due to a DoS
attack).  Usually ~/.gitconfig and ~/.config/git are readable by the
current user, and if they aren't then it would be easy to fix those
permissions, so the damage from adding this check should have been
minimal.

Unfortunately the access() check often trips when git is being run as
a server.  A daemon (such as inetd or git-daemon) starts as "root",
creates a listening socket, and then drops privileges, meaning that
when git commands are invoked they cannot access $HOME and die with

 fatal: unable to access '/root/.config/git/config': Permission denied

Any patch to fix this would have one of three problems:

  1. We annoy sysadmins who need to take an extra step to handle HOME
     when dropping privileges (the current behavior, or any other
     proposal that they have to opt into).

  2. We annoy sysadmins who want to set HOME when dropping privileges,
     either by making what they want to do impossible, or making them
     set an extra variable or option to accomplish what used to work
     (e.g., a patch to git-daemon to set HOME when --user is passed).

  3. We loosen the check, so some cases which might be noteworthy are
     not caught.

This patch is of type (3).

Treat user and xdg configuration that are inaccessible due to
permissions (EACCES) as though no user configuration was provided at
all.

An alternative method would be to check if $HOME is readable, but that
would not help in cases where the user who dropped privileges had a
globally readable HOME with only .config or .gitconfig being private.

This does not change the behavior when /etc/gitconfig or .git/config
is unreadable (since those are more serious configuration errors),
nor when ~/.gitconfig or ~/.config/git is unreadable due to problems
other than permissions.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 07:26:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 099ba556d0 Merge branch 'jk/config-parsing-cleanup'
Configuration parsing for tar.* configuration variables were
broken. Introduce a new config-keyname parser API to make the
callers much less error prone.

* jk/config-parsing-cleanup:
  reflog: use parse_config_key in config callback
  help: use parse_config_key for man config
  submodule: simplify memory handling in config parsing
  submodule: use parse_config_key when parsing config
  userdiff: drop parse_driver function
  convert some config callbacks to parse_config_key
  archive-tar: use parse_config_key when parsing config
  config: add helper function for parsing key names
2013-02-04 10:24:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 149a4211a4 Merge branch 'jc/custom-comment-char'
Allow a configuration variable core.commentchar to customize the
character used to comment out the hint lines in the edited text from
the default '#'.

* jc/custom-comment-char:
  Allow custom "comment char"
2013-02-04 10:23:49 -08:00
Jeff King 1b86bbb0ad config: add helper function for parsing key names
The config callback functions get keys of the general form:

  section.subsection.key

(where the subsection may be contain arbitrary data, or may
be missing). For matching keys without subsections, it is
simple enough to call "strcmp". Matching keys with
subsections is a little more complicated, and each callback
does it in an ad-hoc way, usually involving error-prone
pointer arithmetic.

Let's provide a helper that keeps the pointer arithmetic all
in one place.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-23 08:41:49 -08:00
Robin Rosenberg c08e4d5b5c Enable minimal stat checking
Specifically the fields uid, gid, ctime, ino and dev are set to zero
by JGit. Other implementations, eg. Git in cygwin are allegedly also
somewhat incompatible with Git For Windows and on *nix platforms
the resolution of the timestamps may differ.

Any stat checking by git will then need to check content, which may
be very slow, particularly on Windows. Since mtime and size
is typically enough we should allow the user to tell git to avoid
checking these fields if they are set to zero in the index.

This change introduces a core.checkstat config option where the
the user can select to check all fields (default), or just size
and the whole second part of mtime (minimal).

Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-22 09:33:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano eff80a9fd9 Allow custom "comment char"
Some users do want to write a line that begin with a pound sign, #,
in their commit log message.  Many tracking system recognise
a token of #<bugid> form, for example.

The support we offer these use cases is not very friendly to the end
users.  They have a choice between

 - Don't do it.  Avoid such a line by rewrapping or indenting; and

 - Use --cleanup=whitespace but remove all the hint lines we add.

Give them a way to set a custom comment char, e.g.

    $ git -c core.commentchar="%" commit

so that they do not have to do either of the two workarounds.

[jc: although I started the topic, all the tests and documentation
updates, many of the call sites of the new strbuf_add_commented_*()
functions, and the change to git-submodule.sh scripted Porcelain are
from Ralf.]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-16 12:48:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 4f43e9726a Merge branch 'jn/warn-on-inaccessible-loosen'
Deal with a situation where .config/git is a file and we notice
.config/git/config is not readable due to ENOTDIR, not ENOENT.

* jn/warn-on-inaccessible-loosen:
  config: exit on error accessing any config file
  doc: advertise GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM
  config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors
  config, gitignore: failure to access with ENOTDIR is ok
2013-01-06 22:11:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 29fb151525 Merge branch 'jk/error-const-return'
Help compilers' flow analysis by making it more explicit that
error() always returns -1, to reduce false "variable used
uninitialized" warnings.  Looks somewhat ugly but not too much.

* jk/error-const-return:
  silence some -Wuninitialized false positives
  make error()'s constant return value more visible
2013-01-05 23:42:00 -08:00
Jeff King a469a10193 silence some -Wuninitialized false positives
There are a few error functions that simply wrap error() and
provide a standardized message text. Like error(), they
always return -1; knowing that can help the compiler silence
some false positive -Wuninitialized warnings.

One strategy would be to just declare these as inline in the
header file so that the compiler can see that they always
return -1. However, gcc does not always inline them (e.g.,
it will not inline opterror, even with -O3), which renders
our change pointless.

Instead, let's follow the same route we did with error() in
the last patch, and define a macro that makes the constant
return value obvious to the compiler.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-15 10:45:59 -08:00
Jeff King 086109006f mailmap: support reading mailmap from blobs
In a bare repository, there isn't a simple way to respect an
in-tree mailmap without extracting it to a temporary file.
This patch provides a config variable, similar to
mailmap.file, which reads the mailmap from a blob in the
repository.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-12 11:12:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 2739889c98 Merge branch 'jk/config-ignore-duplicates'
Drop duplicate detection from "git-config --get"; this lets it
better match the internal config callbacks, which clears up some
corner cases with includes.

* jk/config-ignore-duplicates:
  builtin/config.c: Fix a sparse warning
  git-config: use git_config_with_options
  git-config: do not complain about duplicate entries
  git-config: collect values instead of immediately printing
  git-config: fix regexp memory leaks on error conditions
  git-config: remove memory leak of key regexp
  t1300: test "git config --get-all" more thoroughly
  t1300: remove redundant test
  t1300: style updates
2012-11-21 13:16:44 -08:00
Jeff King 97ed50f93b git-config: fix regexp memory leaks on error conditions
The get_value function has a goto label for cleaning up on
errors, but it only cleans up half of what the function
might allocate. Let's also clean up the key and regexp
variables there.

Note that we need to take special care when compiling the
regex fails to clean it up ourselves, since it is in a
half-constructed state (we would want to free it, but not
regfree it).

Similarly, we fix git_config_parse_key to return NULL when
it fails, not a pointer to some already-freed memory.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-24 03:36:54 -04:00
Jonathan Nieder 8f2bbe452e config: exit on error accessing any config file
There is convenience in warning and moving on when somebody has a
bogus permissions on /etc/gitconfig and cannot do anything about it.
But the cost in predictability and security is too high --- when
unreadable config files are skipped, it means an I/O error or
permissions problem causes important configuration to be bypassed.

For example, servers may depend on /etc/gitconfig to enforce security
policy (setting transfer.fsckObjects or receive.deny*).  Best to
always error out when encountering trouble accessing a config file.

This may add inconvenience in some cases:

  1. You are inspecting somebody else's repo, and you do not have
     access to their .git/config file.  Git typically dies in this
     case already since we cannot read core.repositoryFormatVersion,
     so the change should not be too noticeable.

  2. You have used "sudo -u" or a similar tool to switch uid, and your
     environment still points Git at your original user's global
     config, which is not readable.  In this case people really would
     be inconvenienced (they would rather see the harmless warning and
     continue the operation) but they can work around it by setting
     HOME appropriately after switching uids.

  3. You do not have access to /etc/gitconfig due to a broken setup.
     In this case, erroring out is a good way to put pressure on the
     sysadmin to fix the setup.  While they wait for a reply, users
     can set GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM to true to keep Git working without
     complaint.

After this patch, errors accessing the repository-local and systemwide
config files and files requested in include directives cause Git to
exit, just like errors accessing ~/.gitconfig.

Explained-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-14 10:14:52 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder 96b9e0e313 config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors
Git reads multiple configuration files: settings come first from the
system config file (typically /etc/gitconfig), then the xdg config
file (typically ~/.config/git/config), then the user's dotfile
(~/.gitconfig), then the repository configuration (.git/config).

Git has always used access(2) to decide whether to use each file; as
an unfortunate side effect, that means that if one of these files is
unreadable (e.g., EPERM or EIO), git skips it.  So if I use
~/.gitconfig to override some settings but make a mistake and give it
the wrong permissions then I am subject to the settings the sysadmin
chose for /etc/gitconfig.

Better to error out and ask the user to correct the problem.

This only affects the user and xdg config files, since the user
presumably has enough access to fix their permissions.  If the system
config file is unreadable, the best we can do is to warn about it so
the user knows to notify someone and get on with work in the meantime.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-13 21:59:16 -07:00
Ben Walton 0971e992c4 Remove the hard coded length limit on variable names in config files
Previously while reading the variable names in config files, there
was a 256 character limit with at most 128 of those characters being
used by the section header portion of the variable name.  This
limitation was only enforced while reading the config files.  It was
possible to write a config file that was not subsequently readable.

Instead of enforcing this limitation for both reading and writing,
remove it entirely by changing the var member of the config_file
struct to a strbuf instead of a fixed length buffer.  Update all of
the parsing functions in config.c to use the strbuf instead of the
static buffer.

The parsing functions that returned the base length of the variable
name now return simply 0 for success and -1 for failure.  The base
length information is obtained through the strbuf's len member.

We now send the buf member of the strbuf to external callback
functions to preserve the external api.  None of the external
callers rely on the old size limitation for sizing their own buffers
so removing the limit should have no externally visible effect.

Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-01 12:27:45 -07:00
Jeff King ba8bd8300a config: warn on inaccessible files
Before reading a config file, we check "!access(path, R_OK)"
to make sure that the file exists and is readable. If it's
not, then we silently ignore it.

For the case of ENOENT, this is fine, as the presence of the
file is optional. For other cases, though, it may indicate a
configuration error (e.g., not having permissions to read
the file). Let's print a warning in these cases to let the
user know.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-21 14:46:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a3ad9a0f8d Merge branch 'mm/config-xdg'
* mm/config-xdg:
  config: fix several access(NULL) calls
2012-07-22 12:56:27 -07:00
Matthieu Moy e3ebc35b16 config: fix several access(NULL) calls
When $HOME is unset, home_config_paths fails and returns NULL pointers
for user_config and xdg_config. Valgrind complains with Syscall param
access(pathname) points to unaddressable byte(s).

Don't call blindly access() on these variables, but test them for
NULL-ness before.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-16 09:59:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano b856ad623e Merge branch 'tb/sanitize-decomposed-utf-8-pathname'
Teaches git to normalize pathnames read from readdir(3) and all
arguments from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 (assuming
that they come as decomposed UTF-8) to work around issues on Mac OS.

I think there still are other places that need conversion
(e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
should be a good first step in the right direction.

* tb/sanitize-decomposed-utf-8-pathname:
  git on Mac OS and precomposed unicode
2012-07-13 15:37:51 -07:00
Torsten Bögershausen 76759c7dff git on Mac OS and precomposed unicode
Mac OS X mangles file names containing unicode on file systems HFS+,
VFAT or SAMBA.  When a file using unicode code points outside ASCII
is created on a HFS+ drive, the file name is converted into
decomposed unicode and written to disk. No conversion is done if
the file name is already decomposed unicode.

Calling open("\xc3\x84", ...) with a precomposed "Ä" yields the same
result as open("\x41\xcc\x88",...) with a decomposed "Ä".

As a consequence, readdir() returns the file names in decomposed
unicode, even if the user expects precomposed unicode.  Unlike on
HFS+, Mac OS X stores files on a VFAT drive (e.g. an USB drive) in
precomposed unicode, but readdir() still returns file names in
decomposed unicode.  When a git repository is stored on a network
share using SAMBA, file names are send over the wire and written to
disk on the remote system in precomposed unicode, but Mac OS X
readdir() returns decomposed unicode to be compatible with its
behaviour on HFS+ and VFAT.

The unicode decomposition causes many problems:

- The names "git add" and other commands get from the end user may
  often be precomposed form (the decomposed form is not easily input
  from the keyboard), but when the commands read from the filesystem
  to see what it is going to update the index with already is on the
  filesystem, readdir() will give decomposed form, which is different.

- Similarly "git log", "git mv" and all other commands that need to
  compare pathnames found on the command line (often but not always
  precomposed form; a command line input resulting from globbing may
  be in decomposed) with pathnames found in the tree objects (should
  be precomposed form to be compatible with other systems and for
  consistency in general).

- The same for names stored in the index, which should be
  precomposed, that may need to be compared with the names read from
  readdir().

NFS mounted from Linux is fully transparent and does not suffer from
the above.

As Mac OS X treats precomposed and decomposed file names as equal,
we can

 - wrap readdir() on Mac OS X to return the precomposed form, and

 - normalize decomposed form given from the command line also to the
   precomposed form,

to ensure that all pathnames used in Git are always in the
precomposed form.  This behaviour can be requested by setting
"core.precomposedunicode" configuration variable to true.

The code in compat/precomposed_utf8.c implements basically 4 new
functions: precomposed_utf8_opendir(), precomposed_utf8_readdir(),
precomposed_utf8_closedir() and precompose_argv().  The first three
are to wrap opendir(3), readdir(3), and closedir(3) functions.

The argv[] conversion allows to use the TAB filename completion done
by the shell on command line.  It tolerates other tools which use
readdir() to feed decomposed file names into git.

When creating a new git repository with "git init" or "git clone",
"core.precomposedunicode" will be set "false".

The user needs to activate this feature manually.  She typically
sets core.precomposedunicode to "true" on HFS and VFAT, or file
systems mounted via SAMBA.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-08 22:03:46 -07:00
Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen 21cf322791 config: read (but not write) from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file
Teach git to read the "gitconfig" information from a new location,
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config; this allows the user to avoid
cluttering $HOME with many per-application configuration files.

In the order of reading, this file comes between the global
configuration file (typically $HOME/.gitconfig) and the system wide
configuration file (typically /etc/gitconfig).

We do not write to this new location (yet).

If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/config
will be used. This is in line with XDG specification.

If the new file does not exist, the behavior is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-25 09:05:55 -07:00
Jeff King 9597921b6c move identity config parsing to ident.c
There's no reason for this to be in config, except that once
upon a time all of the config parsing was there. It makes
more sense to keep the ident code together.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-22 09:07:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a3db8511b7 Merge branch 'mm/simple-push'
New users tend to work on one branch at a time and push the result
out. The current and upstream modes of push is a more suitable default
mode than matching mode for these people, but neither is surprise-free
depending on how the project is set up. Introduce a "simple" mode that
is a subset of "upstream" but only works when the branch is named the same
between the remote and local repositories.

The plan is to make it the new default when push.default is not
configured.

By Matthieu Moy (5) and others
* mm/simple-push:
  push.default doc: explain simple after upstream
  push: document the future default change for push.default (matching -> simple)
  t5570: use explicit push refspec
  push: introduce new push.default mode "simple"
  t5528-push-default.sh: add helper functions
  Undocument deprecated alias 'push.default=tracking'
  Documentation: explain push.default option a bit more
2012-05-02 13:51:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 563b3527b4 Merge branch 'jk/maint-config-bogus-section'
"git config --rename-section" to rename an existing section into a
bogus one did not check the new name.

By Jeff King
* jk/maint-config-bogus-section:
  config: reject bogus section names for --rename-section
2012-04-30 14:46:46 -07:00
Jeff King 4c0a89fcde config: expand tildes in include.path variable
You can already use relative paths in include.path, which
means that including "foo" from your global "~/.gitconfig"
will look in your home directory. However, you might want to
do something clever like putting "~/.gitconfig-foo" in a
specific repository's config file.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-29 17:46:32 -07:00
Jeff King 94a35b1aea config: reject bogus section names for --rename-section
You can feed junk to "git config --rename-section", which
will result in a config file that git will not even parse
(so you cannot fix it with git-config). We already have
syntactic sanity checks when setting a variable; let's do
the same for section names.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-25 21:19:06 -07:00
Matthieu Moy b55e677522 push: introduce new push.default mode "simple"
When calling "git push" without argument, we want to allow Git to do
something simple to explain and safe. push.default=matching is unsafe
when used to push to shared repositories, and hard to explain to
beginners in some contexts. It is debatable whether 'upstream' or
'current' is the safest or the easiest to explain, so introduce a new
mode called 'simple' that is the intersection of them: push to the
upstream branch, but only if it has the same name remotely. If not, give
an error that suggests the right command to push explicitely to
'upstream' or 'current'.

A question is whether to allow pushing when no upstream is configured. An
argument in favor of allowing the push is that it makes the new mode work
in more cases. On the other hand, refusing to push when no upstream is
configured encourages the user to set the upstream, which will be
beneficial on the next pull. Lacking better argument, we chose to deny
the push, because it will be easier to change in the future if someone
shows us wrong.

Original-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-24 15:22:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 3f263099fc Merge branch 'ms/maint-config-error-at-eol-linecount'
When "git config" diagnoses an error in a configuration file and
shows the line number for the offending line, it miscounted if the
error was at the end of line.

By Martin Stenberg
* ms/maint-config-error-at-eol-linecount:
  config: report errors at the EOL with correct line number

Conflicts:
	t/t1300-repo-config.sh
2012-03-13 12:35:53 -07:00
Martin Stenberg 4b34059355 config: report errors at the EOL with correct line number
A section in a config file with a missing "]" reports the next line
as bad, same goes to a value with a missing end quote.

This happens because the error is not detected until the end of the
line, when line number is already increased. Fix this by decreasing
line number by one for these cases.

Signed-off-by: Martin Stenberg <martin@gnutiken.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-12 09:39:06 -07:00
Jeff King 9b25a0b52e config: add include directive
It can be useful to split your ~/.gitconfig across multiple
files. For example, you might have a "main" file which is
used on many machines, but a small set of per-machine
tweaks. Or you may want to make some of your config public
(e.g., clever aliases) while keeping other data back (e.g.,
your name or other identifying information). Or you may want
to include a number of config options in some subset of your
repos without copying and pasting (e.g., you want to
reference them from the .git/config of participating repos).

This patch introduces an include directive for config files.
It looks like:

  [include]
    path = /path/to/file

This is syntactically backwards-compatible with existing git
config parsers (i.e., they will see it as another config
entry and ignore it unless you are looking up include.path).

The implementation provides a "git_config_include" callback
which wraps regular config callbacks. Callers can pass it to
git_config_from_file, and it will transparently follow any
include directives, passing all of the discovered options to
the real callback.

Include directives are turned on automatically for "regular"
git config parsing. This includes calls to git_config, as
well as calls to the "git config" program that do not
specify a single file (e.g., using "-f", "--global", etc).
They are not turned on in other cases, including:

  1. Parsing of other config-like files, like .gitmodules.
     There isn't a real need, and I'd rather be conservative
     and avoid unnecessary incompatibility or confusion.

  2. Reading single files via "git config". This is for two
     reasons:

       a. backwards compatibility with scripts looking at
          config-like files.

       b. inspection of a specific file probably means you
	  care about just what's in that file, not a general
          lookup for "do we have this value anywhere at
	  all". If that is not the case, the caller can
	  always specify "--includes".

  3. Writing files via "git config"; we want to treat
     include.* variables as literal items to be copied (or
     modified), and not expand them. So "git config
     --unset-all foo.bar" would operate _only_ on
     .git/config, not any of its included files (just as it
     also does not operate on ~/.gitconfig).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 07:59:55 -08:00
Jeff King 4a7bb5ba95 config: eliminate config_exclusive_filename
This is a magic global variable that was intended as an
override to the usual git-config lookup process. Once upon a
time, you could specify GIT_CONFIG to any git program, and
it would look only at that file. This turned out to be
confusing and cause a lot of bugs for little gain. As a
result, dc87183 (Only use GIT_CONFIG in "git config", not
other programs, 2008-06-30) took this away for all callers
except git-config.

Since git-config no longer uses it either, the variable can
just go away. As the diff shows, nobody was setting to
anything except NULL, so we can just replace any sites where
it was read with NULL.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 07:58:54 -08:00
Jeff King c9b5e2a57d config: provide a version of git_config with more options
Callers may want to provide a specific version of a file in which to look
for config. Right now this can be done by setting the magic global
config_exclusive_filename variable.  By providing a version of git_config
that takes a filename, we can take a step towards making this magic global
go away.

Furthermore, by providing a more "advanced" interface, we now have a a
natural place to add new options for callers like git-config, which care
about tweaking the specifics of config lookup, without disturbing the
large number of "simple" users (i.e., every other part of git).

The astute reader of this patch may notice that the logic for handling
config_exclusive_filename was taken out of git_config_early, but added
into git_config. This means that git_config_early will no longer respect
config_exclusive_filename.  That's OK, because the only other caller of
git_config_early is check_repository_format_gently, but the only function
which sets config_exclusive_filename is cmd_config, which does not call
check_repository_format_gently (and if it did, it would have been a bug,
anyway, as we would be checking the repository format in the wrong file).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 07:58:07 -08:00
Jeff King 42bd39b57f config: teach git_config_rename_section a file argument
The other config-writing functions (git_config_set and
git_config_set_multivar) each have an -"in_file" version to
write a specific file. Let's add one for rename_section,
with the eventual goal of moving away from the magic
config_exclusive_filename global.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 07:52:41 -08:00
Jeff King 0a5f575927 config: teach git_config_set_multivar_in_file a default path
The git_config_set_multivar_in_file function takes a
filename argument to specify the file into which the values
should be written. Currently, this value must be non-NULL.
Callers which want to write to the default location must use
the regular, non-"in_file" version, which will either write
to config_exclusive_filename, or to the repo config if the
exclusive filename is NULL.

Let's migrate the "default to using repo config" logic into
the "in_file" form. That will let callers get the same
default-if-NULL behavior as one gets with
config_exclusive_filename, but without having to use the
global variable.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 07:52:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 48b303675a Merge branch 'jc/stream-to-pack'
* jc/stream-to-pack:
  bulk-checkin: replace fast-import based implementation
  csum-file: introduce sha1file_checkpoint
  finish_tmp_packfile(): a helper function
  create_tmp_packfile(): a helper function
  write_pack_header(): a helper function

Conflicts:
	pack.h
2011-12-16 22:33:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 5d6c53bb23 Merge branch 'na/strtoimax'
* na/strtoimax:
  Support sizes >=2G in various config options accepting 'g' sizes.
  Compatibility: declare strtoimax() under NO_STRTOUMAX
  Add strtoimax() compatibility function.
2011-12-05 15:12:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 568508e765 bulk-checkin: replace fast-import based implementation
This extends the earlier approach to stream a large file directly from the
filesystem to its own packfile, and allows "git add" to send large files
directly into a single pack. Older code used to spawn fast-import, but the
new bulk-checkin API replaces it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-01 11:46:09 -08:00
Ramsay Jones 05bab3ea28 config.c: Fix a static buffer overwrite bug by avoiding mkpath()
On cygwin, test number 21 of t3200-branch.sh (git branch -m q q2
without config should succeed) fails. The failure involves the
functions from path.c which parcel out internal static buffers
from the git_path() and mkpath() functions.

In particular, the rename_ref() function calls safe_create_leading\
_directories() with a filename returned by git_path("logs/%s", ref).
safe_create_leading_directories(), in turn, calls stat() on each
element of the path it is given. On cygwin, this leads to a call
to git_config() for each component of the path, since this test
explicitly removes the config file. git_config() calls mkpath(), so
on the fourth component of the path, the original buffer passed
into the function is overwritten with the config filename.

Note that this bug is specific to cygwin and it's schizophrenic
stat() functions (see commits adbc0b6, 7faee6b and 7974843). The
lack of a config file and a path with at least four elements is
also important to trigger the bug.

In order to fix the problem, we replace the call to mkpath() with
a call to mksnpath() and provide our own buffer.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-20 19:32:09 -08:00
Nick Alcock ebaa1bd407 Support sizes >=2G in various config options accepting 'g' sizes.
The config options core.packedGitWindowSize, core.packedGitLimit,
core.deltaBaseCacheLimit, core.bigFileThreshold, pack.windowMemory and
pack.packSizeLimit all claim to support suffixes up to and including
'g'.  This implies that they should accept sizes >=2G on 64-bit
systems: certainly, specifying a size of 3g should not silently be
translated to zero or transformed into a large negative value due to
integer overflow.  However, due to use of git_config_int() rather than
git_config_ulong(), that is exactly what happens:

% git config core.bigFileThreshold 2g
% git gc --aggressive # with extra debugging code to print out
                      # core.bigfilethreshold after parsing
bigfilethreshold: -2147483648
[...]

This is probably irrelevant for core.deltaBaseCacheLimit, but is
problematic for the other values.  (It is particularly problematic for
core.packedGitLimit, which can't even be set to its default value in
the config file due to this bug.)

This fixes things for 32-bit platforms as well.  They get the usual bad
config error if an overlarge value is specified, e.g.:

fatal: bad config value for 'core.bigfilethreshold' in /home/nix/.gitconfig

This is detected in all cases, even if the 32-bit platform has no size
larger than 'long'.  For signed integral configuration values, we also
detect the case where the value is too large for the signed type but
not the unsigned type.

Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-05 23:10:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a200dc8e62 Merge branch 'bc/attr-ignore-case'
* bc/attr-ignore-case:
  attr.c: respect core.ignorecase when matching attribute patterns
  attr: read core.attributesfile from git_default_core_config
  builtin/mv.c: plug miniscule memory leak
  cleanup: use internal memory allocation wrapper functions everywhere
  attr.c: avoid inappropriate access to strbuf "buf" member

Conflicts:
	transport-helper.c
2011-10-17 21:37:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 64589a03a8 attr: read core.attributesfile from git_default_core_config
This code calls git_config from a helper function to parse the config entry
it is interested in.  Calling git_config in this way may cause a problem if
the helper function can be called after a previous call to git_config by
another function since the second call to git_config may reset some
variable to the value in the config file which was previously overridden.

The above is not a problem in this case since the function passed to
git_config only parses one config entry and the variable it sets is not
assigned outside of the parsing function.  But a programmer who desires
all of the standard config options to be parsed may be tempted to modify
git_attr_config() so that it falls back to git_default_config() and then it
_would_ be vulnerable to the above described behavior.

So, move the call to git_config up into the top-level cmd_* function and
move the responsibility for parsing core.attributesfile into the main
config file parser.

Which is only the logical thing to do ;-)

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-06 13:54:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano cd4093b603 Merge branch 'rr/revert-cherry-pick-continue'
* rr/revert-cherry-pick-continue:
  builtin/revert.c: make commit_list_append() static
  revert: Propagate errors upwards from do_pick_commit
  revert: Introduce --continue to continue the operation
  revert: Don't implicitly stomp pending sequencer operation
  revert: Remove sequencer state when no commits are pending
  reset: Make reset remove the sequencer state
  revert: Introduce --reset to remove sequencer state
  revert: Make pick_commits functionally act on a commit list
  revert: Save command-line options for continuing operation
  revert: Save data for continuing after conflict resolution
  revert: Don't create invalid replay_opts in parse_args
  revert: Separate cmdline parsing from functional code
  revert: Introduce struct to keep command-line options
  revert: Eliminate global "commit" variable
  revert: Rename no_replay to record_origin
  revert: Don't check lone argument in get_encoding
  revert: Simplify and inline add_message_to_msg
  config: Introduce functions to write non-standard file
  advice: Introduce error_resolve_conflict
2011-10-05 12:36:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 96790ca029 Merge branch 'jc/pack-order-tweak'
* jc/pack-order-tweak:
  pack-objects: optimize "recency order"
  core: log offset pack data accesses happened
2011-08-05 14:54:57 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra 5ec3118293 config: Introduce functions to write non-standard file
Introduce two new functions corresponding to "git_config_set" and
"git_config_set_multivar" to write a non-standard configuration file.
Expose these new functions in cache.h for other git programs to use.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-04 15:40:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano ed16d0dbf1 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  doc/fast-import: clarify notemodify command
  Documentation: minor grammatical fix in rev-list-options.txt
  Documentation: git-filter-branch honors replacement refs
  remote-curl: Add a format check to parsing of info/refs
  git-config: Remove extra whitespaces
2011-07-22 13:58:46 -07:00
Pavan Kumar Sunkara 8b5900751a git-config: Remove extra whitespaces
Remove extra whitespaces introduced by commits
01ebb9dc and fc1905bb

Signed-off-by: Pavan Kumar Sunkara <pavan.sss1991@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-19 13:43:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano ff94409da9 Merge branch 'jk/clone-cmdline-config'
* jk/clone-cmdline-config:
  clone: accept config options on the command line
  config: make git_config_parse_parameter a public function
  remote: use new OPT_STRING_LIST
  parse-options: add OPT_STRING_LIST helper
2011-07-19 09:45:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano fe01ef31b7 Merge branch 'jk/maint-config-param'
* jk/maint-config-param:
  config: use strbuf_split_str instead of a temporary strbuf
  strbuf: allow strbuf_split to work on non-strbufs
  config: avoid segfault when parsing command-line config
  config: die on error in command-line config
  fix "git -c" parsing of values with equals signs
  strbuf_split: add a max parameter
2011-07-19 09:45:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 5f44324d88 core: log offset pack data accesses happened
In a workload other than "git log" (without pathspec nor any option that
causes us to inspect trees and blobs), the recency pack order is said to
cause the access jump around quite a bit. Add a hook to allow us observe
how bad it is.

"git config core.logpackaccess /var/tmp/pal.txt" will give you the log
in the specified file.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-06 19:09:29 -07:00
Jeff King 2496844bb2 config: make git_config_parse_parameter a public function
We use this internally to parse "git -c core.foo=bar", but
the general format of "key=value" is useful for other
places.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-22 11:25:21 -07:00