With 23865355 (attr: read attributes from HEAD when bare repo,
2023-10-13), we started to use the HEAD tree as the default
attribute source in a bare repository. One argument for such a
behaviour is that it would make things like "git archive" run in
bare and non-bare repositories for the same commit consistent.
This changes was merged to Git 2.43 but without an explicit mention
in its release notes.
It turns out that this change destroys performance of shallowly
cloning from a bare repository. As the "server" installations are
expected to be mostly bare, and "git pack-objects", which is the
core of driving the other side of "git clone" and "git fetch" wants
to see if a path is set not to delta with blobs from other paths via
the attribute system, the change forces the server side to traverse
the tree of the HEAD commit needlessly to find if each and every
paths the objects it sends out has the attribute that controls the
deltification. Given that (1) most projects do not configure such
an attribute, and (2) it is dubious for the server side to honor
such an end-user supplied attribute anyway, this was a poor choice
of the default.
To mitigate the current situation, let's revert the change that uses
the tree of HEAD in a bare repository by default as the attribute
source. This will help most people who have been happy with the
behaviour of Git 2.42 and before.
Two things to note:
* If you are stuck with versions of Git 2.43 or newer, that is
older than the release this fix appears in, you can explicitly
set the attr.tree configuration variable to point at an empty
tree object, i.e.
$ git config attr.tree 4b825dc642
* If you like the behaviour we are reverting, you can explicitly
set the attr.tree configuration variable to HEAD, i.e.
$ git config attr.tree HEAD
The right fix for this is to optimize the code paths that allow
accesses to attributes in tree objects, but that is a much more
involved change and is left as a longer-term project, outside the
scope of this "first step" fix.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 97e9d0b78a (trailer: find the end of the log message, 2023-10-20)
combined two code paths for finding the end of the log message. For the
"no_divider" case, we used to use find_trailer_end(), and that has now
been rolled into find_end_of_log_message(). But there's a regression;
that function returns early when no_divider is set, returning the whole
string.
That's not how find_trailer_end() behaved. Although it did skip the
"---" processing (which is what "no_divider" is meant to do), we should
still respect ignored_log_message_bytes(), which covers things like
comments, "commit -v" cut lines, and so on.
The bug is actually in the interpret-trailers command, but the obvious
way to experience it is by running "commit -v" with a "--trailer"
option. The new trailer will be added at the end of the verbose diff,
rather than before it (and consequently will be ignored entirely, since
everything after the diff's intro scissors line is thrown away).
I've added two tests here: one for interpret-trailers directly, which
shows the bug via the parsing routines, and one for "commit -v".
The fix itself is pretty simple: instead of returning early, no_divider
just skips the "---" handling but still calls ignored_log_message_bytes().
Reported-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Recent conversion to allow more than 0/1 in GIT_FLUSH broke the
mechanism by flipping what yes/no means by mistake, which has been
corrected.
* cp/git-flush-is-an-env-bool:
write-or-die: fix the polarity of GIT_FLUSH environment variable
"git stash" sometimes was silent even when it failed due to
unwritable index file, which has been corrected.
* ps/report-failure-from-git-stash:
builtin/stash: report failure to write to index
A failed "git tag -s" did not necessarily result in an error
depending on the crypto backend, which has been corrected.
* jc/sign-buffer-failure-propagation-fix:
ssh signing: signal an error with a negative return value
tag: fix sign_buffer() call to create a signed tag
"git diff --no-index file1 file2" segfaulted while invoking the
external diff driver, which has been corrected.
* jk/diff-external-with-no-index:
diff: handle NULL meta-info when spawning external diff
"git diff --no-rename A B" did not disable rename detection but did
not trigger an error from the command line parser.
* rs/parse-options-with-keep-unknown-abbrev-fix:
parse-options: simplify positivation handling
parse-options: fully disable option abbreviation with PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN
Rename detection logic ignored the final line of a file if it is an
incomplete line.
* en/diffcore-delta-final-line-fix:
diffcore-delta: avoid ignoring final 'line' of file
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
When GIT_FLUSH is set to 1, true, on, yes, then we should disable
skip_stdout_flush, but the conversion somehow did the opposite.
With the understanding of the original motivation behind "skip" in
06f59e9f (Don't fflush(stdout) when it's not helpful, 2007-06-29),
we can sympathize with the current naming (we wanted to avoid
useless flushing of stdout by default, with an escape hatch to
always flush), but it is still not a good excuse.
Retire the "skip_stdout_flush" variable and replace it with "flush_stdout"
that tells if we do or do not want to run fflush().
Reported-by: Xiaoguang WANG <wxiaoguang@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sideband demultiplexer fixes.
* jx/sideband-chomp-newline-fix:
pkt-line: do not chomp newlines for sideband messages
pkt-line: memorize sideband fragment in reader
test-pkt-line: add option parser for unpack-sideband
Doc update.
* js/contributor-docs-updates:
SubmittingPatches: hyphenate non-ASCII
SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub artifact format
SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub visual
SubmittingPatches: provide tag naming advice
SubmittingPatches: update extra tags list
SubmittingPatches: discourage new trailers
SubmittingPatches: drop ref to "What's in git.git"
CodingGuidelines: write punctuation marks
CodingGuidelines: move period inside parentheses
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
Doc update.
* ml/doc-merge-updates:
Documentation/git-merge.txt: use backticks for command wrapping
Documentation/git-merge.txt: fix reference to synopsis
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
Doc updates.
* jc/doc-most-refs-are-not-that-special:
docs: MERGE_AUTOSTASH is not that special
docs: AUTO_MERGE is not that special
refs.h: HEAD is not that special
git-bisect.txt: BISECT_HEAD is not that special
git.txt: HEAD is not that special
Bunch of small fix-ups to the reftable code.
* ps/reftable-fixes:
reftable/block: reuse buffer to compute record keys
reftable/block: introduce macro to initialize `struct block_iter`
reftable/merged: reuse buffer to compute record keys
reftable/stack: fix use of unseeded randomness
reftable/stack: fix stale lock when dying
reftable/stack: reuse buffers when reloading stack
reftable/stack: perform auto-compaction with transactional interface
reftable/stack: verify that `reftable_stack_add()` uses auto-compaction
reftable: handle interrupted writes
reftable: handle interrupted reads
reftable: wrap EXPECT macros in do/while
Code clean-up around use of configuration variables.
* jk/config-cleanup:
sequencer: simplify away extra git_config_string() call
gpg-interface: drop pointless config_error_nonbool() checks
push: drop confusing configset/callback redundancy
config: use git_config_string() for core.checkRoundTripEncoding
diff: give more detailed messages for bogus diff.* config
config: use config_error_nonbool() instead of custom messages
imap-send: don't use git_die_config() inside callback
git_xmerge_config(): prefer error() to die()
config: reject bogus values for core.checkstat
Clean-up code that handles combinations of incompatible options.
* rs/incompatible-options-messages:
worktree: simplify incompatibility message for --orphan and commit-ish
worktree: standardize incompatibility messages
clean: factorize incompatibility message
revision, rev-parse: factorize incompatibility messages about - -exclude-hidden
revision: use die_for_incompatible_opt3() for - -graph/--reverse/--walk-reflogs
repack: use die_for_incompatible_opt3() for -A/-k/--cruft
push: use die_for_incompatible_opt4() for - -delete/--tags/--all/--mirror