As the new formatting of literal and placeholders is introduced,
the synopsis in the man pages can now hold additional markup with
respect to the command help.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Literal and placeholder formatting is more heavily enforced, with some
asciidoc magic. Basically, the markup is preserved everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even though "git update-index --cacheinfo" ought to be filesystem
agnostic,
$ git update-index --add --cacheinfo "100644,$empty_blob,funny /empty"
fails only on Windows, and this unfortunately makes the approach of
the previous step unworkable.
Resurrect the earlier approach to give up on running the test on
known-bad platforms. Instead of computing a custom prerequisite,
just use !MINGW we have used elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The interactive-patch is a sequential process where, on each step, we
print one hunk from a patch and then ask the user how to proceed.
There is a possibility of repeating a step, for example if the user
enters a non-applicable option, i.e: "s"
$ git add -p
diff --git a/add-patch.c b/add-patch.c
index 52be1ddb15..8fb75e82e2 100644
--- a/add-patch.c
+++ b/add-patch.c
@@ -1394,7 +1394,7 @@ N_("j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk\n"
static int patch_update_file(struct add_p_state *s,
struct file_diff *file_diff)
{
- size_t hunk_index = 0;
+ size_t hunk_index = 0, prev_hunk_index = -1;
ssize_t i, undecided_previous, undecided_next;
struct hunk *hunk;
char ch;
(1/4) Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,j,J,g,/,e,p,?]? s
Sorry, cannot split this hunk
@@ -1394,7 +1394,7 @@ N_("j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk\n"
static int patch_update_file(struct add_p_state *s,
struct file_diff *file_diff)
{
- size_t hunk_index = 0;
+ size_t hunk_index = 0, prev_hunk_index = -1;
ssize_t i, undecided_previous, undecided_next;
struct hunk *hunk;
char ch;
(1/4) Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,j,J,g,/,e,p,?]?
... or an invalid option, i.e: "U"
$ git add -p
diff --git a/add-patch.c b/add-patch.c
index 52be1ddb15..8fb75e82e2 100644
--- a/add-patch.c
+++ b/add-patch.c
@@ -1394,7 +1394,7 @@ N_("j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk\n"
static int patch_update_file(struct add_p_state *s,
struct file_diff *file_diff)
{
- size_t hunk_index = 0;
+ size_t hunk_index = 0, prev_hunk_index = -1;
ssize_t i, undecided_previous, undecided_next;
struct hunk *hunk;
char ch;
(1/4) Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,j,J,g,/,e,p,?]? U
y - stage this hunk
n - do not stage this hunk
q - quit; do not stage this hunk or any of the remaining ones
a - stage this hunk and all later hunks in the file
d - do not stage this hunk or any of the later hunks in the file
j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk
J - leave this hunk undecided, see next hunk
g - select a hunk to go to
/ - search for a hunk matching the given regex
e - manually edit the current hunk
p - print again the current hunk
? - print help
@@ -1394,7 +1394,7 @@ N_("j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk\n"
static int patch_update_file(struct add_p_state *s,
struct file_diff *file_diff)
{
- size_t hunk_index = 0;
+ size_t hunk_index = 0, prev_hunk_index = -1;
ssize_t i, undecided_previous, undecided_next;
struct hunk *hunk;
char ch;
(1/4) Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,j,J,g,/,e,p,?]?
Printing the chunk again followed by the question can be confusing as
the user has to pay special attention to notice that the same chunk is
being reconsidered.
It can also be problematic if the chunk is longer than one screen height
because the result of the previous iteration is lost off the screen (the
help guide in the previous example).
To avoid such problems, stop printing the chunk if the iteration does
not advance to a different chunk.
Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Shortly we're going make interactive-patch stop printing automatically
the hunk under certain circumstances.
Let's introduce a new option to allow the user to explicitly request
the printing.
Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As afb31ad9 (t1010: fix unnoticed failure on Windows, 2021-12-11)
said:
On Microsoft Windows, a directory name should never end with a period.
Quoting from Microsoft documentation[1]:
Do not end a file or directory name with a space or a period.
Although the underlying file system may support such names, the
Windows shell and user interface does not.
[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file
and the condition addressed by this change is exactly that. If the
platform is unable to properly create these sample patches about a
file that lives in a directory whose name ends with a SP, there is
no point testing how "git apply" behaves there on the filesystem.
Even though the ultimate purpose of "git apply" is to apply a patch
and to update the filesystem entities, this particular test is
mainly about parsing a patch on a funny pathname correctly, and even
on a system that is incapable of checking out the resulting state
correctly on its filesystem, at least the parsing can and should work
fine. Rewrite the test to work inside the index without touching the
filesystem.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove an ancient and not well maintained Hg-to-git migration
script from contrib/.
Acked-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
cf. <37e4cd61-b370-437e-bd42-f98f47d3ad32@popies.net>
* jk/drop-hg-to-git:
contrib: drop hg-to-git script
The status.showUntrackedFiles configuration variable had a name
that tempts users to set a Boolean value expressed in our usual
"false", "off", and "0", but it only took "no". This has been
corrected so "true" and its synonyms are taken as "normal", while
"false" and its synonyms are taken as "no".
* jc/show-untracked-false:
status: allow --untracked=false and friends
status: unify parsing of --untracked= and status.showUntrackedFiles
"git diff" and friends learned two extra configuration variables,
diff.srcPrefix and diff.dstPrefix.
* ph/diff-src-dst-prefix-config:
diff.*Prefix: use camelCase in the doc and test titles
diff: add diff.srcPrefix and diff.dstPrefix configuration variables
Work to support a repository that work with both SHA-1 and SHA-256
hash algorithms has started.
* eb/hash-transition: (30 commits)
t1016-compatObjectFormat: add tests to verify the conversion between objects
t1006: test oid compatibility with cat-file
t1006: rename sha1 to oid
test-lib: compute the compatibility hash so tests may use it
builtin/ls-tree: let the oid determine the output algorithm
object-file: handle compat objects in check_object_signature
tree-walk: init_tree_desc take an oid to get the hash algorithm
builtin/cat-file: let the oid determine the output algorithm
rev-parse: add an --output-object-format parameter
repository: implement extensions.compatObjectFormat
object-file: update object_info_extended to reencode objects
object-file-convert: convert commits that embed signed tags
object-file-convert: convert commit objects when writing
object-file-convert: don't leak when converting tag objects
object-file-convert: convert tag objects when writing
object-file-convert: add a function to convert trees between algorithms
object: factor out parse_mode out of fast-import and tree-walk into in object.h
cache: add a function to read an OID of a specific algorithm
tag: sign both hashes
commit: export add_header_signature to support handling signatures on tags
...
In the last chapter of this document, pipes are used in commands to
filter out the first/last trace messages. But according to git(1),
trace messages are sent to stderr if GIT_TRACE is set to '1', so those
commands do not produce the described results.
Fix this by redirecting stderr to stdout prior to the pipe operator
to additionally connect stderr to stdin of the latter command.
Further, while reviewing the above fix, Kyle Lippincott noticed
a second issue with the second of the examples: a missing slash in the
executable path "./bin-wrappers git".
Add the missing slash.
Helped-by: Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before the changes to count omitted objects, the function
traverse_commit_list() was used and its call cannot be changed to pass
a pointer to an oidset to record omitted objects.
Fix the text to clarify that we now use another traversal function to
be able to pass the pointer to the introduced oidset.
Helped-by: Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit f0d2f84919 (MyFirstObjectWalk: update recommended usage,
2022-03-09) changed a call of parse_list_objects_filter() in a way
that probably never worked: parse_list_objects_filter() always needed
a pointer as its first argument.
Fix this by removing the CALLOC_ARRAY and passing the address of
rev->filter to parse_list_objects_filter() in accordance to
such a call in revisions.c, for example.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
pack-objects.c resides in builtin/ (not builtins/).
Fix the misspelled directory name.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit a4e7e317f8 (config: add ctx arg to config_fn_t, 2023-06-28)
added a fourth argument to config_fn_t but did not change relevant
function calls in Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk.txt.
Fix those calls and the example git_walken_config() to use
that additional argument.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The core.commentChar code recently learned to accept more than a
single ASCII character. But using it is annoying with multiple versions
of Git, since older ones will reject it outright:
$ git.v2.44.0 -c core.commentchar=foo stripspace -s
error: core.commentChar should only be one ASCII character
fatal: unable to parse 'core.commentchar' from command-line config
Let's add an alias core.commentString. That's arguably a better name
anyway, since we now can handle strings, and it makes it possible to
have a config that works reasonably with both old and new versions of
Git (see the example in the documentation).
This is strictly an alias, so there's not much point in adding duplicate
tests; I added a single one to t0030 that exercises the alias code.
Note also that the error messages for invalid values will now show the
variable the config parser handed us, and thus will be normalized to
lowercase (rather than camelcase). A few tests in t0030 are adjusted to
match.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "What's cooking" report lists the topics in flight, with a short
paragraph descibing what they are about.
Once written, the description is automatically picked up from the
"What's cooking" report and used in the commit log message of the
merge commit when the topic is merged into integration branches.
These commit log messges of the merge commits are then propagated to
the release notes.
It has been the maintainer's task to prepare these entries in the
"What's cooking" report. Even though the original author of a topic
may be in the best position to write the initial description of a
topic, we so far lacked a formal channel for the author to suggest
what description to use. The usual procedure has been for the
author to see the topic described in "What's cooking" report, and
then either complain about inaccurate explanation and/or offer a
rewrite.
Let's try an experiment to optionally let the author propose the one
paragraph description when the topic is submitted. Pick the cover
letter as the logical place to do so, and describe an experimental
workflow in the SubmittingPatches document.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As with git-rebase(1) and git-am(1), git-cherry-pick(1) can result in a
commit being made redundant if the content from the picked commit is
already present in the target history. However, git-cherry-pick(1) does
not have the same options available that git-rebase(1) and git-am(1) have.
There are three things that can be done with these redundant commits:
drop them, keep them, or have the cherry-pick stop and wait for the user
to take an action. git-rebase(1) has the `--empty` option added in commit
e98c4269c8 (rebase (interactive-backend): fix handling of commits that
become empty, 2020-02-15), which handles all three of these scenarios.
Similarly, git-am(1) got its own `--empty` in 7c096b8d61 (am: support
--empty=<option> to handle empty patches, 2021-12-09).
git-cherry-pick(1), on the other hand, only supports two of the three
possiblities: Keep the redundant commits via `--keep-redundant-commits`,
or have the cherry-pick fail by not specifying that option. There is no
way to automatically drop redundant commits.
In order to bring git-cherry-pick(1) more in-line with git-rebase(1) and
git-am(1), this commit adds an `--empty` option to git-cherry-pick(1). It
has the same three options (keep, drop, and stop), and largely behaves
the same. The notable difference is that for git-cherry-pick(1), the
default will be `stop`, which maintains the current behavior when the
option is not specified.
Like the existing `--keep-redundant-commits`, `--empty=keep` will imply
`--allow-empty`.
The `--keep-redundant-commits` option will be documented as a deprecated
synonym of `--empty=keep`, and will be supported for backwards
compatibility for the time being.
Signed-off-by: Brian Lyles <brianmlyles@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When `--keep-redundant-commits` was added in b27cfb0d8d
(git-cherry-pick: Add keep-redundant-commits option, 2012-04-20), it was
not marked as incompatible with the various operations needed to
continue or exit a cherry-pick (`--continue`, `--skip`, `--abort`, and
`--quit`).
Enforce this incompatibility via `verify_opt_compatible` like we do for
the other various options.
Signed-off-by: Brian Lyles <brianmlyles@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A consumer of the sequencer that wishes to take advantage of either the
`keep_redundant_commits` or `drop_redundant_commits` feature must also
specify `allow_empty`. However, these refer to two distinct types of
empty commits:
- `allow_empty` refers specifically to commits which start empty
- `keep_redundant_commits` refers specifically to commits that do not
start empty, but become empty due to the content already existing in
the target history
Conceptually, there is no reason that the behavior for handling one of
these should be entangled with the other. It is particularly unintuitive
to require `allow_empty` in order for `drop_redundant_commits` to have
an effect: in order to prevent redundant commits automatically,
initially-empty commits would need to be kept automatically as well.
Instead, rewrite the `allow_empty()` logic to remove the over-arching
requirement that `allow_empty` be specified in order to reach any of the
keep/drop behaviors. Only if the commit was originally empty will
`allow_empty` have an effect.
Note that no behavioral changes should result from this commit -- it
merely sets the stage for future commits. In one such future commit, an
`--empty` option will be added to git-cherry-pick(1), meaning that
`drop_redundant_commits` will be used by that command.
Signed-off-by: Brian Lyles <brianmlyles@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using git-cherry-pick(1) with `--allow-empty` while on an unborn
branch, an error is thrown. This is inconsistent with the same
cherry-pick when `--allow-empty` is not specified.
Detect unborn branches in `is_index_unchanged`. When on an unborn
branch, use the `empty_tree` as the tree to compare against.
Add a new test to cover this scenario. While modelled off of the
existing 'cherry-pick on unborn branch' test, some improvements can be
made:
- Use `git switch --orphan unborn` instead of `git checkout --orphan
unborn` to avoid the need for a separate `rm -rf *` call
- Avoid using `--quiet` in the `git diff` call to make debugging easier
in the event of a failure. Use simply `--exit-code` instead.
Make these improvements to the existing test as well as the new test.
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Lyles <brianmlyles@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git-am(1) got its own `--empty` option in 7c096b8d61 (am: support
--empty=<option> to handle empty patches, 2021-12-09), `stop` was used
instead of `ask`. `stop` is a more accurate term for describing what
really happens, and consistency is good.
Update git-rebase(1) to also use `stop`, while keeping `ask` as a
deprecated synonym. Update the tests to primarily use `stop`, but also
ensure that `ask` is still allowed.
In a future commit, we'll be adding a new `--empty` option for
git-cherry-pick(1) as well, making the consistency even more relevant.
Reported-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Lyles <brianmlyles@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both of these pages document very similar `--empty` options, but with
different styles. The exact behavior of these `--empty` options differs
somewhat, but consistent styling in the docs is still beneficial. This
commit aims to make them more consistent.
Break the possible values for `--empty` into separate sections for
readability. Alphabetical order is chosen for consistency.
In a future commit, we'll be documenting a new `--empty` option for
git-cherry-pick(1), making the consistency even more relevant.
Signed-off-by: Brian Lyles <brianmlyles@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for git-rebase(1) indicates that using the `--exec`
option will use `--empty=drop`. This is inaccurate: when `--interactive`
is not explicitly provided, `--exec` results in `--empty=keep`
behaviors.
Correctly indicate the behavior of `--exec` using `--empty=keep` when
`--interactive` is not specified.
Reported-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Brian Lyles <brianmlyles@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for "%(trailers[:options])" placeholder in the
"--pretty" option of commands in the "git log" family has been
updated.
* bl/doc-key-val-sep-fix:
docs: adjust trailer `separator` and `key_value_separator` language
docs: correct trailer `key_value_separator` description
A few typoes in "git config --help" have been corrected.
* bl/doc-config-fixes:
docs: fix typo in git-config `--default`
docs: clarify file options in git-config `--edit`
"git bugreport --no-suffix" was not supported and instead
segfaulted, which has been corrected.
* js/bugreport-no-suffix-fix:
bugreport.c: fix a crash in `git bugreport` with `--no-suffix` option
Improve the description of --no-index, to make it more clear to the users
what this option actually does under the hood, and what's its purpose.
Describe the dependency between --no-index and either of the --cached and
--untracked options, which cannot be used together.
As part of that, shuffle a couple of the options, to make the documentation
flow a bit better, because it makes more sense to describe first the options
that have something in common, and to after that describe an option that does
something differently. In more detail, --cached and --untracked both leave
git-grep(1) in the usual state, in which it treats the directory as a local
git repository, unlike --no-index that makes git-grep(1) treat the directory
not as a git repository.
While there, improve the descriptions of grep worker threads a bit, to give
them better context. Adjust the language a bit, to avoid addressing the
reader directly, which is in general preferred in technical documentation,
because it eliminates the possible element of persuading the user to do
something. In other words, we should be telling the user what our software
can do, instead of telling the user what to do.
Also perform some minor formatting improvements, to make it clear it's the
git commands, command parameters, and configuration option names.
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify that --recurse-submodules cannot be used together with --untracked,
and improve the formatting in a couple of places, to make it visually clear
that those are the commands or the names of configuration options.
While there, change a couple of "<tree>" placeholders to "_<tree>_", to help
with an ongoing translation improvement effort. [1]
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPig+cQc8W4JOpB+TMP=czketU1U7wcY_x9bsP5T=3-XjGLhRQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
User-defined pretty formats are stored in config, which is meant to use
case-insensitive matching for names as noted in config.txt's 'Syntax'
section:
All the other lines [...] are recognized as setting variables, in
the form 'name = value' [...]. The variable names are
case-insensitive, [...].
When a user specifies one of their format aliases with an uppercase in
it, however, it is not found.
$ git config pretty.testAlias %h
$ git config --list | grep pretty
pretty.testalias=%h
$ git log --format=testAlias -1
fatal: invalid --pretty format: testAlias
$ git log --format=testalias -1
3c2a3fdc38
This is true whether the name in the config file uses any uppercase
characters or not.
Use case-insensitive comparisons when identifying format aliases.
Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Lyles <brianmlyles@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These tests use raw `git config` calls, which is an older style that can
cause config to bleed between tests if not manually unset. `test_config`
ensures that config is unset at the end of each test automatically.
`test_config` is chosen over `git -c` since `test_config` still ends up
calling `git config` which seems slightly more realistic to how pretty
formats would be defined normally.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Lyles <brianmlyles@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Build the pack base name argument directly using strvec_pushf() instead
of with an intermediate strbuf. This is shorter, simpler and avoids the
need for explicit cleanup.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 23fc63bf8f (make tests ignorable with "make -i", 2005-11-08), each
test file defines a target in the test Makefile, such that one can
invoke:
make *checkout*
to run all tests with 'checkout' in their filename. This is useful to
run a subset of tests when you have a good idea of what part of the code
is touched by the changes your are testing.
Document that in t/README to help new (or more seasoned) contributors
that might not be aware.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Report unknown format elements and missing closing parentheses with
consistent and translated messages by calling strbuf_expand_bad_format()
at the very end of the combined if/else chain of expand_format() and
expand_atom().
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extract a function for reporting placeholders that are not enclosed in a
parenthesis or are unknown. This reduces the number of strings to
translate and improves consistency across commands. Call it at the end
of the if/else chain, after exhausting all accepted possibilities.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Imagine you want to grep for (. Easy:
$ git grep '('
fatal: unmatched parenthesis
uhoh. This is plainly wrong. Unless you know specifically that
(a) git grep has expression groups and '(' ... ')' are used for them.
(b) you can use -e '(' to explicitly say '(' is what you are looking
for, not the beginning of a group.
Similarly,
$ git grep ')'
fatal: incomplete pattern expression: )
is somehow worse. ")" is a complete regular expression pattern.
Of course, the error wants to say "group" here.
In this case it is also not "incomplete", it is unmatched.
Make them say
$ ./git grep '('
fatal: unmatched ( for expression group
$ ./git grep ')'
fatal: incomplete pattern expression group: )
which are clearer in indicating that it is not the expression that
is wrong (since no pattern had been parsed at all), but rather that
it is been misconstrued as a grouping operator.
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/1051205
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running `git maintenance run --auto`, then the various subtasks
will only run as needed. Thus, we for example end up only packing loose
objects if we hit a certain threshold.
Interestingly enough, the "pack-refs" task is actually _never_ executed
when the auto-flag is set because it does not have a condition at all.
As 41abfe15d9 (maintenance: add pack-refs task, 2021-02-09) mentions:
The 'auto_condition' function pointer is left NULL for now. We could
extend this in the future to have a condition check if pack-refs
should be run during 'git maintenance run --auto'.
It is not quite clear from that quote whether it is actually intended
that the task doesn't run at all in this mode. Also, no test was added
to verify this behaviour. Ultimately though, it feels quite surprising
that `git maintenance run --auto --task=pack-refs` would quietly never
do anything at all.
In any case, now that we do have the logic in place to let ref backends
decide whether or not to repack refs, it does make sense to wire it up
accordingly. With the "reftable" backend we will thus now perform
auto-compaction, which optimizes the refdb as needed.
But for the "files" backend we now unconditionally pack refs as it does
not yet know to handle the "auto" flag. Arguably, this can be seen as a
bug fix given that previously the task never did anything at all.
Eventually though we should amend the "files" backend to use some
heuristics for auto compaction, as well.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Forward the `--auto` flag to git-pack-refs(1) when it has been invoked
with this flag itself. This does not change anything for the "files"
backend, which will continue to eagerly pack refs. But it does ensure
that the "reftable" backend only compacts refs as required.
This change does not impact git-maintenance(1) because this command will
in fact never run the pack-refs task when run with `--auto`. This issue
will be addressed in a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ".git/obects/17/" shard is somewhat special because it is used by
git-gc(1) to estimate how many objects there are by extrapolating the
number of objects in that shard, only. In t6500 we thus have a hard
coded set of data that, when written to the object database, result in
blobs starting with that prefix.
We are about to need such "17"-prefixed objects in another test suite.
Extract them into "t/oid-info/hash-info" so that they can be reused by
other tests.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We're about to start using `struct maintenance_run_opts` in
`maintenance_task_pack_refs()`. Move its definition up to prepare for
this.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Calling git-pack-refs(1) will unconditionally cause it to pack all
requested refs regardless of the current state of the ref database. For
example:
- With the "files" backend we will end up rewriting the complete
"packed-refs" file even if only a single ref would require
compaction.
- With the "reftable" backend we will end up always compacting all
tables into a single table.
This behaviour can be completely unnecessary depending on the backend
and is thus wasteful.
With the introduction of the `PACK_REFS_AUTO` flag in the preceding
commit we can improve this and let the backends decide for themselves
whether to pack refs in the first place. Expose this functionality via a
new "--auto" flag in git-pack-refs(1), which mirrors the same flag in
both git-gc(1) and git-maintenance(1).
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some of the command line options in `cmd_pack_refs()` require us to
allocate memory. This memory is never released and thus leaking, but we
paper over this leak by declaring the respective variables as `static`
function-level variables, which is somewhat awkward.
Refactor the code to release the allocated memory and drop the `static`
declaration. While at it, remove the useless `flags` variable.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
