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>
Under normal circumstances, the "reftable" backend will automatically
perform compaction after appending to the stack. It is thus not
necessary and may even be considered wasteful to run git-pack-refs(1) in
"reftable"-backed repositories as it will cause the backend to compact
all tables into a single one. We do exactly that though when running
`git maintenance run --auto` or `git gc --auto`, which gets spawned by
Git after running some specific commands.
The `--auto` mode is typically only executing optimizations as needed.
To do so, we already use several heuristics for the various different
data structures in Git to determine whether to optimize them or not.
We do not use any heuristics for refs though and instead always optimize
them.
Introduce a new `PACK_REFS_AUTO` flag that can be passed to the backend.
When not handled by the backend we will continue to behave the exact
same as we do right now, that is we optimize refs unconditionally. This
is done for the "files" backend for now to retain current behaviour,
even though we may eventually also want to introduce heuristics here.
For the "reftable" backend though we already do have auto-compaction, so
we can easily reuse that logic to implement the new auto-packing flag.
Note that under normal circumstances, this should always end up being a
no-op. After all, we already invoke the code for every single addition
to the stack. But there are special cases where it can still be helpful
to execute the auto-compaction code explicitly:
- Concurrent writers may cause compaction to not run due to locks.
- Callers may decide to disable compaction altogether and then pack
refs at a later point due to various reasons.
- Other implementations of the reftable format may do compaction
differently or even not at all.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The intent of the `PACK_REFS_ALL` flag is to ask the backend to compact
all refs instead of only a subset of them. Thus, this flag gets passed
down to `refs_pack_refs()` via `struct pack_refs_opts::flags`.
But starting with 4fe42f326e (pack-refs: teach pack-refs --include
option, 2023-05-12), the flag's semantics have changed. Instead of being
handled by the respective backends, this flag is now getting handled by
the callers of `refs_pack_refs()` which will add a single glob ("*") to
the list of refs-to-be-packed. Thus, the flag serves no purpose to the
ref backends anymore.
Remove the flag and replace it with a local variable.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The declaration of `struct pack_refs_opts` is in a seemingly random
place. Move it so that it's located right next to its flags and
functions that use it.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The test helper provides a "ref-store <store> pack-refs" wrapper that
more or less directly invokes `refs_pack_refs()`. This helper is only
used in a single test with the "PACK_REFS_PRUNE" and "PACK_REFS_ALL"
flags. Both of these flags can directly be accessed via git-pack-refs(1)
though via the `--all` and `--prune` flags, which makes the helper
superfluous.
Refactor the test to use git-pack-refs(1) instead of the test helper.
Drop the now-unused test helper command.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git-pack-refs(1) fails in the reftable backend we end up printing
no error message at all, leaving the caller puzzled as to why compaction
has failed. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Whenever we commit a new table to the reftable stack we will end up
invoking auto-compaction of the stack to keep the total number of tables
at bay. This auto-compaction may fail though in case at least one of the
tables which we are about to compact is locked. This is indicated by the
compaction function returning `REFTABLE_LOCK_ERROR`. We do not handle
this case though, and thus bubble that return value up the calling
chain, which will ultimately cause a failure.
Fix this bug by ignoring `REFTABLE_LOCK_ERROR`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Compaction of a reftable stack may fail gracefully when there is a
concurrent process that writes to the reftable stack and which has thus
locked either the "tables.list" file or one of the tables. This is
expected and can be handled gracefully by some of the callers which
invoke compaction. Thus, to indicate this situation to our callers, we
return a positive return code from `stack_compact_range()` and bubble it
up to the caller.
This kind of error handling is somewhat awkward though as many callers
in the call chain never even think of handling positive return values.
Thus, the result is either that such errors are swallowed by accident,
or that we abort operations with an unhelpful error message.
Make the code more robust by always using negative error codes when
compaction fails, with `REFTABLE_LOCK_ERROR` for the described benign
error case.
Note that only a single callsite knew to handle positive error codes
gracefully in the first place. Subsequent commits will touch up some of
the other sites to handle those errors better.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We currently throw two different errors into a similar-but-different
error code:
- Errors when trying to lock the reftable stack.
- Errors when trying to write to the reftable stack which has been
modified concurrently.
This results in unclear error handling and user-visible error messages.
Create a new `REFTABLE_OUTDATED_ERROR` so that those error conditions
can be clearly told apart from each other. Adjust users of the old
`REFTABLE_LOCK_ERROR` to use the new error code as required.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In `reftable_stack_init_addition()` we call `stack_uptodate()` after
having created the lockfile to check whether the stack was modified
concurrently, which is indicated by a positive return code from the
latter function. If so, we return a `REFTABLE_LOCK_ERROR` to the caller
and abort the addition.
The error handling has an off-by-one though because we check whether the
error code is `> 1` instead of `> 0`. Thus, instead of returning the
locking error, we would return a positive value. One of the callers of
`reftable_stack_init_addition()` works around this bug by repeating the
error code check without the off-by-one. But other callers are subtly
broken by this bug.
Fix this by checking for `err > 0` instead. This has the consequence
that `reftable_stack_init_addition()` won't ever return a positive error
code anymore, but will instead return `REFTABLE_LOCK_ERROR` now. Thus,
we can drop the check for a positive error code in `stack_try_add()`
now.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Makefile and makefile fragments use the same indent style than the
rest of the code (with some inconsistencies).
Add them to the relevant .editorconfig section to make life easier for
editors and reviewers.
Signed-off-by: Max Gautier <mg@max.gautier.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the run_am() function, we set up a child_process struct to run
"git-am", allocating memory for its args and env strvecs. These are
normally cleaned up when we call run_command(). But if we encounter
certain errors, we exit the function early and try to clean up ourselves
by clearing the am.args field. This leaks the "env" strvec.
We should use child_process_clear() instead, which covers both. And more
importantly, it future proofs us against the struct ever growing more
allocated fields.
These are unlikely errors to happen in practice, so they don't actually
trigger the leak sanitizer in the tests. But we can add a new test which
does exercise one of the paths (and fails SANITIZE=leak without this
patch).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The log_write_email_headers() function recently learned to return the
"extra_headers_p" variable to the caller as an allocated string. We
start by copying rev_info.extra_headers into a strbuf, and then detach
the strbuf at the end of the function. If there are no extra headers, we
leave the strbuf empty. Likewise, if there are no headers to return, we
pass back NULL.
This misses a corner case which can cause a leak. The "do we have any
headers to copy" check is done by looking for a NULL opt->extra_headers.
But the "do we have a non-empty string to return" check is done by
checking the length of the strbuf. That means if opt->extra_headers is
the empty string, we'll "copy" it into the strbuf, triggering an
allocation, but then leak the buffer when we return NULL from the
function.
We can solve this in one of two ways:
1. Rather than checking headers->len at the end, we could check
headers->alloc to see if we allocated anything. That retains the
original behavior before the recent change, where an empty
extra_headers string is "passed through" to the caller. In practice
this doesn't matter, though (the code which eventually looks at the
result treats NULL or the empty string the same).
2. Only bother copying a non-empty string into the strbuf. This has
the added bonus of avoiding a pointless allocation.
Arguably strbuf_addstr() could do this optimization itself, though
it may be slightly dangerous to do so (some existing callers may
not get a fresh allocation when they expect to). In theory callers
are all supposed to use strbuf_detach() in such a case, but there's
no guarantee that this is the case.
This patch uses option 2. Without it, building with SANITIZE=leak shows
many errors in t4021 and elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In some cases it makes sense to loop around test cases so that we can
execute the same test with slightly different arguments. There are some
gotchas around quoting here though that are easy to miss and that may
lead to easy-to-miss errors and portability issues.
Document the proper way to do this in "t/README".
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In eb84c8b6ce (git-difftool--helper: honor `--trust-exit-code` with
`--dir-diff`, 2024-02-20) we have started to loop around some of the
tests in t7800 so that they are reexecuted with slightly different
arguments. As part of that refactoring the quoting of test bodies was
changed from single quotes (') to double quotes (") so that the value of
the loop variable is accessible to the body.
As the test body is later on passed to eval this change was not required
though. Let's revert it back to use single quotes as usual in our tests.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some of the tests in t7800 are executed repeatedly in a loop with
different arguments. To distinguish these tests, the value of that
variable is rendered into the test title. But given that one of the
values is the empty string, it results in a somewhat awkward test name:
difftool ignores exit code
Improve this by printing "without options" in case the value is empty.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it more clear what the whitespace characters are in the context of git
configuration files, and significantly improve the description of the leading
and trailing whitespace handling, especially how it works out together with
the presence of inline comments.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a handful of additional tests, to improve the coverage of the handling
of configuration file entries whose values contain internal whitespace,
leading and/or trailing whitespace, which may or may not be enclosed within
quotation marks, or which contain an additional inline comment.
At the same time, rework one already existing whitespace-related test a bit,
to ensure its consistency with the newly added tests. This change introduced
no functional changes to the already existing test.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a bug in function parse_value() that prevented whitespace characters
(i.e. spaces and horizontal tabs) found inside configuration option values
from being parsed and returned in their original form. The bug caused any
number of consecutive whitespace characters to be wrongly "squashed" into
the same number of space characters.
This bug was introduced back in July 2009, in commit ebdaae372b ("config:
Keep inner whitespace verbatim").
Further investigation showed that setting a configuration value, by invoking
git-config(1), converts value-internal horizontal tabs into "\t" escape
sequences, which the buggy value-parsing logic in function parse_value()
didn't "squash" into spaces. That's why the test included in the ebdaae37
commit passed, which presumably made the bug remain undetected for this long.
On the other hand, value-internal literal horizontal tab characters, found in
a configuration file edited by hand, do get "squashed" by the value-parsing
logic, so the right choice was to fix this bug by making the value-internal
whitespace characters preserved verbatim.
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In general, binary operators should be enclosed in a pair of leading and
trailing space (SP) characters. Thus, clean up one spotted expression that
for some reason had a "bunched up" operator.
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The output format for dates "iso-strict" has been tweaked to show
a time in the Zulu timezone with "Z" suffix, instead of "+00:00".
* bb/iso-strict-utc:
date: make "iso-strict" conforming for the UTC timezone
The status.showUntrackedFiles configuration variable was
incorrectly documented to accept "false", which has been corrected.
* jw/doc-show-untracked-files-fix:
doc: status.showUntrackedFiles does not take "false"
