The shebang was missing the leading `/` character, resulting in:
$ ./t5583-push-branches.sh
bash: ./t5583-push-branches.sh: cannot execute: required file not found
Add the missing character so the test can run.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach the recently invented "password expiry time" trait to the
wincred credential helper.
* mh/credential-password-expiry-wincred:
credential/wincred: store password_expiry_utc
The 'git merge-tree' command handles creating root trees for merges
without using the worktree. This is a critical operation in many Git
hosts, as they typically store bare repositories.
This builtin does not load the default Git config, which can have
several important ramifications.
In particular, one config that is loaded by default is
core.useReplaceRefs. This is typically disabled in Git hosts due to
the ability to spoof commits in strange ways.
Since this config is not loaded specifically during merge-tree, users
were previously able to use refs/replace/ references to make pull
requests that looked valid but introduced malicious content. The
resulting merge commit would have the correct commit history, but the
malicious content would exist in the root tree of the merge.
The fix is simple: load the default Git config in cmd_merge_tree().
This may also fix other behaviors that are effected by reading default
config. The only possible downside is a little extra computation time
spent reading config. The config parsing is placed after basic argument
parsing so it does not slow down usage errors.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The output of git-fetch(1) is obviously designed for consumption by
users, only: we neatly columnize data, we abbreviate reference names, we
print neat arrows and we don't provide information about actual object
IDs that have changed. This makes the output format basically unusable
in the context of scripted invocations of git-fetch(1) that want to
learn about the exact changes that the command performs.
Introduce a new machine-parseable "porcelain" output format that is
supposed to fix this shortcoming. This output format is intended to
provide information about every reference that is about to be updated,
the old object ID that the reference has been pointing to and the new
object ID it will be updated to. Furthermore, the output format provides
the same flags as the human-readable format to indicate basic conditions
for each reference update like whether it was a fast-forward update, a
branch deletion, a rejected update or others.
The output format is quite simple:
```
<flag> <old-object-id> <new-object-id> <local-reference>\n
```
We assume two conditions which are generally true:
- The old and new object IDs have fixed known widths and cannot
contain spaces.
- References cannot contain newlines.
With these assumptions, the output format becomes unambiguously
parseable. Furthermore, given that this output is designed to be
consumed by scripts, the machine-readable data is printed to stdout
instead of stderr like the human-readable output is. This is mostly done
so that other data printed to stderr, like error messages or progress
meters, don't interfere with the parseable data.
A notable ommission here is that the output format does not include the
remote from which a reference was fetched, which might be important
information especially in the context of multi-remote fetches. But as
such a format would require us to print the remote for every single
reference update due to parallelizable fetches it feels wasteful for the
most likely usecase, which is when fetching from a single remote.
In a similar spirit, a second restriction is that this cannot be used
with `--recurse-submodules`. This is because any reference updates would
be ambiguous without also printing the repository in which the update
happens.
Considering that both multi-remote and submodule fetches are user-facing
features, using them in conjunction with `--porcelain` that is intended
for scripting purposes is likely not going to be useful in the majority
of cases. With that in mind these restrictions feel acceptable. If
usecases for either of these come up in the future though it is easy
enough to add a new "porcelain-v2" format that adds this information.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The options of git-fetch(1) which we pass to `parse_options()` are
declared globally in `builtin/fetch.c`. This means we're forced to use
global variables for all the options, which is more likely to cause
confusion than explicitly passing state around.
Refactor the code to move the options into `cmd_fetch()`. Move variables
that were previously forced to be declared globally and which are only
used by `cmd_fetch()` into function-local scope.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Parsing the display format happens inside of `display_state_init()`. As
we only need to check for a simple config entry, this is a natural
location to put this code as it means that display-state logic is neatly
contained in a single location.
We're about to introduce a new "porcelain" output format though that is
intended to be parseable by machines, for example inside of a script.
This format can be enabled by passing the `--porcelain` switch to
git-fetch(1). As a consequence, we'll have to add a second callsite that
influences the output format, which will become awkward to handle.
Refactor the code such that callers are expected to pass the display
format that is to be used into `display_state_init()`. This allows us to
lift up the code into the main function, where we can then hook it into
command line options parser in a follow-up commit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We currently have two different display formats in git-fetch(1) with the
"full" and "compact" formats. This is tracked with a boolean value that
simply denotes whether the display format is supposed to be compacted
or not. This works reasonably well while there are only two formats, but
we're about to introduce another format that will make this a bit more
awkward to use.
Introduce a `enum display_format` that is more readily extensible.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When displaying reference updates, we try to print the references in a
neat table. As the table's width is determined its contents we thus need
to precalculate the overall width before we can start printing updated
references.
The calculation is driven by `display_state_init()`, which invokes
`refcol_width()` for every reference that is to be printed. This split
is somewhat confusing. For one, we filter references that shall be
attributed to the overall width in both places. And second, we
needlessly recalculate the maximum line length based on the terminal
columns and display format for every reference.
Refactor the code so that the complete width calculations are neatly
contained in `refcol_width()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`store_updated_refs()` parses the remote reference for two purposes:
- It gets used as a note when writing FETCH_HEAD.
- It is passed through to `display_ref_update()` to display
updated references in the following format:
```
* branch master -> master
```
In most cases, the parsed remote reference is the prettified reference
name and can thus be used for both cases. But if the remote reference is
HEAD, the parsed remote reference becomes empty. This is intended when
we write the FETCH_HEAD, where we skip writing the note in that case.
But when displaying the updated references this leads to inconsistent
output where the left-hand side of reference updates is missing in some
cases:
```
$ git fetch origin HEAD HEAD:explicit-head :implicit-head main
From https://github.com/git/git
* branch HEAD -> FETCH_HEAD
* [new ref] -> explicit-head
* [new ref] -> implicit-head
* branch main -> FETCH_HEAD
```
This behaviour has existed ever since the table-based output has been
introduced for git-fetch(1) via 165f390250 (git-fetch: more terse fetch
output, 2007-11-03) and was never explicitly documented either in the
commit message or in any of our tests. So while it may not be a bug per
se, it feels like a weird inconsistency and not like it was a concious
design decision.
The logic of how we compute the remote reference name that we ultimately
pass to `display_ref_update()` is not easy to follow. There are three
different cases here:
- When the remote reference name is "HEAD" we set the remote
reference name to the empty string. This is the case that causes
the left-hand side to go missing, where we would indeed want to
print "HEAD" instead of the empty string. This is what
`prettify_refname()` would return.
- When the remote reference name has a well-known prefix then we
strip this prefix. This matches what `prettify_refname()` does.
- Otherwise, we keep the fully qualified reference name. This also
matches what `prettify_refname()` does.
As the return value of `prettify_refname()` would do the correct thing
for us in all three cases, we can thus fix the inconsistency by passing
through the full remote reference name to `display_ref_update()`, which
learns to call `prettify_refname()`. At the same time, this also
simplifies the code a bit.
Note that this patch also changes formatting of the block that computes
the "kind" (which is the category like "branch" or "tag") and "what"
(which is the prettified reference name like "master" or "v1.0")
variables. This is done on purpose so that it is part of the diff,
hopefully making the change easier to comprehend.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a testcase that exercises the logic when an invalid output format is
passed via the `fetch.output` configuration.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We're about to introduce a new porcelain mode for the output of
git-fetch(1). As part of that we'll be introducing a set of new tests
that only relate to the output of this command.
Split out tests that exercise the output format of git-fetch(1) so that
it becomes easier to verify this functionality as a standalone unit. As
the tests assume that the default branch is called "main" we set up the
corresponding GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME environment variable
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running `git fetch --no-recurse-submodules`, the exectation is that
we don't fetch any submodules. And while this works for fetches of a
single remote, it doesn't when fetching multiple remotes at once. The
result is that we do recurse into submodules even though the user has
explicitly asked us not to.
This is because while we pass on `--recurse-submodules={yes,on-demand}`
if specified by the user, we don't pass on `--no-recurse-submodules` to
the subprocess spawned to perform the submodule fetch.
Fix this by also forwarding this flag as expected.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The titles of manual pages used to be chomped at an unreasonably
short limit, which has been removed.
* fc/doc-man-lift-title-length-limit:
doc: manpage: remove maximum title length
Our custom callout formatter is no longer used in the documentation
formatting toolchain, as the upstream default ones give better
output these days.
* fc/doc-drop-custom-callout-format:
doc: remove custom callouts format
Doc update to clarify how text and eol attributes interact to
specify the end-of-line conversion.
* ah/doc-attributes-text:
docs: rewrite the documentation of the text and eol attributes
"git send-email" learned to give the e-mail headers to the validate
hook by passing an extra argument from the command line.
* ms/send-email-feed-header-to-validate-hook:
send-email: expose header information to git-send-email's sendemail-validate hook
send-email: refactor header generation functions
The implementation of the default "negotiator", used to find common
ancestor over the network for object tranfer, used to be recursive;
it was updated to be iterative to conserve stackspace usage.
* hx/negotiator-non-recursive:
negotiator/skipping: fix some problems in mark_common()
negotiator/default: avoid stack overflow
The implementation of credential helpers used fgets() over fixed
size buffers to read protocol messages, causing the remainder of
the folded long line to trigger unexpected behaviour, which has
been corrected.
* tb/credential-long-lines:
contrib/credential: embiggen fixed-size buffer in wincred
contrib/credential: avoid fixed-size buffer in libsecret
contrib/credential: .gitignore libsecret build artifacts
contrib/credential: remove 'gnome-keyring' credential helper
contrib/credential: avoid fixed-size buffer in osxkeychain
t/lib-credential.sh: ensure credential helpers handle long headers
credential.c: store "wwwauth[]" values in `credential_read()`
Doc update to drop use of deprecated app-specific password against
gmail.
* jw/send-email-update-gmail-insn:
send-email docs: Remove mention of discontinued gmail feature
More header clean-up.
* en/header-split-cache-h-part-2: (22 commits)
reftable: ensure git-compat-util.h is the first (indirect) include
diff.h: reduce unnecessary includes
object-store.h: reduce unnecessary includes
commit.h: reduce unnecessary includes
fsmonitor: reduce includes of cache.h
cache.h: remove unnecessary headers
treewide: remove cache.h inclusion due to previous changes
cache,tree: move basic name compare functions from read-cache to tree
cache,tree: move cmp_cache_name_compare from tree.[ch] to read-cache.c
hash-ll.h: split out of hash.h to remove dependency on repository.h
tree-diff.c: move S_DIFFTREE_IFXMIN_NEQ define from cache.h
dir.h: move DTYPE defines from cache.h
versioncmp.h: move declarations for versioncmp.c functions from cache.h
ws.h: move declarations for ws.c functions from cache.h
match-trees.h: move declarations for match-trees.c functions from cache.h
pkt-line.h: move declarations for pkt-line.c functions from cache.h
base85.h: move declarations for base85.c functions from cache.h
copy.h: move declarations for copy.c functions from cache.h
server-info.h: move declarations for server-info.c functions from cache.h
packfile.h: move pack_window and pack_entry from cache.h
...
The detect-compilers script to help auto-tweaking the build system
had trouble working with compilers whose version number has extra
suffixes. The script has been taught that certain suffixes (like
"-win32" in "gcc 10-win32") can be safely stripped as they share
the same features and bugs with the version without the suffix.
* mh/fix-detect-compilers-with-nondigit-versions:
Handle some compiler versions containing a dash
The commit object parser has been taught to be a bit more lenient
to parse timestamps on the author/committer line with a malformed
author/committer ident.
* jk/parse-commit-with-malformed-ident:
parse_commit(): describe more date-parsing failure modes
parse_commit(): handle broken whitespace-only timestamp
parse_commit(): parse timestamp from end of line
t4212: avoid putting git on left-hand side of pipe
Remove full index requirement for `git diff-files`. Refactor the
ensure_expanded and ensure_not_expanded functions by introducing a
common helper function, ensure_index_state. Add test to ensure the index
is no expanded in `git diff-files`.
The `p2000` tests demonstrate a ~96% execution time reduction for 'git
diff-files' and a ~97% execution time reduction for 'git diff-files'
for a file using a sparse index:
Test before after
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
2000.94: git diff-files (full-v3) 0.09 0.08 -11.1%
2000.95: git diff-files (full-v4) 0.09 0.09 +0.0%
2000.96: git diff-files (sparse-v3) 0.52 0.02 -96.2%
2000.97: git diff-files (sparse-v4) 0.51 0.02 -96.1%
2000.98: git diff-files -- f2/f4/a (full-v3) 0.06 0.07 +16.7%
2000.99: git diff-files -- f2/f4/a (full-v4) 0.08 0.08 +0.0%
2000.100: git diff-files -- f2/f4/a (sparse-v3) 0.46 0.01 -97.8%
2000.101: git diff-files -- f2/f4/a (sparse-v4) 0.51 0.02 -96.1%
Signed-off-by: Shuqi Liang <cheskaqiqi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before integrating the 'git diff-files' builtin with the sparse index
feature, add tests to t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh to ensure
it currently works with sparse-checkout and will still work with sparse
index after that integration.
When adding tests against a sparse-checkout definition, we test two
modes: all changes are within the sparse-checkout cone and some changes
are outside the sparse-checkout cone.
In order to have staged changes outside of the sparse-checkout cone,
make a directory called 'folder1' and copy `a` into 'folder1/a'.
'folder1/a' is identical to `a` in the base commit. These make
'folder1/a' in the index, while leaving it outside of the
sparse-checkout definition. Change content inside 'folder1/a' in order
to test 'folder1/a' being present on-disk with modifications.
Signed-off-by: Shuqi Liang <cheskaqiqi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It seems pretty clear 5236fce6b4 (t1507: stop losing return codes of git
commands, 2019-12-20) missed a test_cmp.
Cc: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have a small helper function called "verbose", with the idea that you
can write:
verbose foo
to get a message to stderr when the "foo" command fails, even if it does
not produce any output itself. This goes back to 8ad1652418 (t5304: use
helper to report failure of "test foo = bar", 2014-10-10). It does work,
but overall it has not been a big success for two reasons:
1. Test writers have to remember to put it there (and the resulting
test code is longer as a result).
2. It doesn't handle the opposite case (we expect "foo" to fail, but
it succeeds), leading to inconsistencies in tests (which you can
see in many hunks of this patch, e.g. ones involving "has_cr").
Most importantly, we added a136f6d8ff (test-lib.sh: support -x option
for shell-tracing, 2014-10-10) at the same time, and it does roughly the
same thing. The output is not quite as succinct as "verbose", and you
have to watch out for stray shell-traces ending up in stderr. But it
solves both of the problems above, and has clearly become the preferred
tool.
Let's consider the "verbose" function a failed experiment and remove the
last few callers (which are all many years old, and have been dwindling
as we remove them from scripts we touch for other reasons). It will be
one less thing for new test writers to see and wonder if they should be
using themselves.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since ls-files recently learned a "--format" option, we can use that
rather than asking for all of "--stage" and then pulling out the bits we
want with "cut". That's simpler and avoids two extra processes (one for
cut, and one for the subshell to hold the intermediate result).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We generally avoid git on the left-hand side of a pipe, because it loses
the exit code of the command (and thus we'd miss things like segfaults
or unexpected failures). In the cases in t7001, we wouldn't expect
failures (they are just inspecting the repository state, and are not the
main point of the test), but it doesn't hurt to be careful.
In all but one case here we're piping "ls-files --stage" to cut off the
pathname (since we compare entries before and after moving). Let's pull
that into a helper function to avoid repeating the slightly awkward
replacement.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 'on all' in the title of the test 'write-tree on all' was unclear;
remove it.
* Add a baseline 'test_all_match git write-tree' before making any
changes to the index, providing a reference point for the 'write-tree'
prior to any modifications.
* Add a comparison of the output of 'git status --porcelain=v2' to test
the working tree after 'write-tree' exits.
* Ensure SKIP_WORKTREE files weren't materialized on disk by using
"test_path_is_missing".
Signed-off-by: Shuqi Liang <cheskaqiqi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We just started piping the file paths via `stdin` instead of passing
them via the command-line, to avoid running into command-line
limitations.
However, since we now pipe the file paths, we need to take care of
special characters.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2293
Signed-off-by: Nico Rieck <nico.rieck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To avoid running into command line limitations, some of Git's commands
support the `--stdin` option.
Let's use exactly this option in the three rev-list/log invocations in
gitk that would otherwise possibly run the danger of trying to invoke a
too-long command line.
While it is easy to redirect either stdin or stdout in Tcl/Tk scripts,
what we need here is both. We need to capture the output, yet we also
need to pipe in the revs/files arguments via stdin (because stdin does
not have any limit, unlike the command line). To help this, we use the
neat Tcl feature where you can capture stdout and at the same time feed
a fixed string as stdin to the spawned process.
One non-obvious aspect about this change is that the `--stdin` option
allows to specify revs, the double-dash, and files, but *no* other
options such as `--not`. This is addressed by prefixing the "negative"
revs with `^` explicitly rather than relying on the `--not` option
(thanks for coming up with that idea, Max!).
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1987
Analysis-and-initial-patch-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation at e75d1da38a claimed support, but it was never present
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The '--all' option of git-push built-in cmd support to push all branches
(refs under refs/heads) to remote. Under the usage, a user can easlily
work in some scenarios, for example, branches synchronization and batch
upload.
The '--all' was introduced for a long time, meanwhile, git supports to
customize the storage location under "refs/". when a new git user see
the usage like, 'git push origin --all', we might feel like we're
pushing _all_ the refs instead of just branches without looking at the
documents until we found the related description of it or '--mirror'.
To ensure compatibility, we cannot rename '--all' to another name
directly, one way is, we can try to add a new option '--heads' which be
identical with the functionality of '--all' to let the user understand
the meaning of representation more clearly. Actually, We've more or less
named options this way already, for example, in 'git-show-ref' and 'git
ls-remote'.
At the same time, we fix a related issue about the wrong help
information of '--all' option in code and add some test cases in
t5523, t5543 and t5583.
Signed-off-by: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier, 47cfc9bd (attr: add flag `--source` to work with tree-ish,
2023-01-14) taught "git check-attr" the "--source=<tree>" option to
allow it to read attribute files from a tree-ish, but did so only
for the command. Just like "check-attr" users wanted a way to use
attributes from a tree-ish and not from the working tree files,
users of other commands (like "git diff") would benefit from the
same.
Undo most of the UI change the commit made, while keeping the
internal logic to read attributes from a given tree-ish. Expose the
internal logic via a new "--attr-source=<tree>" command line option
given to "git", so that it can be used with any git command that
runs as part of the main git process.
Additionally, add an environment variable GIT_ATTR_SOURCE that is set
when --attr-source is passed in, so that subprocesses use the same value
for the attributes source tree.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 34ae3b70 (name-rev: deprecate --stdin in favor of --annotate-stdin),
we renamed --stdin to --annotate-stdin for the sake of a clearer name
for the option, and added text that indicates --stdin is deprecated. The
next step is to hide --stdin completely.
Make the option hidden. Also, update documentation to remove all
mentions of --stdin.
Signed-off-by: "John Cai" <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is $(git show -s --raw --pretty=format:%at HEAD) in this test
that is meant to grab the author time of the commit. We used to
have a bug in the command line option parser of the diff family of
commands, where "show -s --raw" was identical to "show -s".
With the "-s" bug fixed, "show -s --raw" would mean the same thing
as "show --raw", i.e. show the output from the diff machinery in the
"raw" format. And this test will start failing, so fix it before
that happens.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The original doc-diff script set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to make asciidoc's
output deterministic. Otherwise, the mtime of the source files would end
up in the footer of the manpage, causing noisy and uninteresting diff
hunks.
But this has been unused since 28fde3a1f4 (doc: set actual revdate for
manpages, 2023-04-13), as the footer uses the externally-specified
GIT_DATE instead (that needs to be set consistently, too, which it now
is as of the previous commit).
Asciidoc sets several automatic attributes based on the mtime (or manual
epoch), so it's still possible to write a document that would need
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH set to be deterministic. But if we wrote such a thing,
it's probably a mistake, and we're better off having doc-diff loudly
show it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sergey Organov noticed and reported "--patch --no-patch --raw"
behaves differently from just "--raw". It turns out that there are
a few interesting bugs in the implementation and documentation.
* First, the documentation for "--no-patch" was unclear that it
could be read to mean "--no-patch" countermands an earlier
"--patch" but not other things. The intention of "--no-patch"
ever since it was introduced at d09cd15d (diff: allow --no-patch
as synonym for -s, 2013-07-16) was to serve as a synonym for
"-s", so "--raw --patch --no-patch" should have produced no
output, but it can be (mis)read to allow showing only "--raw"
output.
* Then the interaction between "-s" and other format options were
poorly implemented. Modern versions of Git uses one bit each to
represent formatting options like "--patch", "--stat" in a single
output_format word, but for historical reasons, "-s" also is
represented as another bit in the same word. This allows two
interesting bugs to happen, and we have both X-<.
(1) After setting a format bit, then setting NO_OUTPUT with "-s",
the code to process another "--<format>" option drops the
NO_OUTPUT bit to allow output to be shown again. However,
the code to handle "-s" only set NO_OUTPUT without unsetting
format bits set earlier, so the earlier format bit got
revealed upon seeing the second "--<format>" option. This is
the problem Sergey observed.
(2) After setting NO_OUTPUT with "-s", code to process
"--<format>" option can forget to unset NO_OUTPUT, leaving
the command still silent.
It is tempting to change the meaning of "--no-patch" to mean
"disable only the patch format output" and reimplement "-s" as "not
showing anything", but it would be an end-user visible change in
behavior. Let's fix the interactions of these bits to first make
"-s" work as intended.
The fix is conceptually very simple.
* Whenever we set DIFF_FORMAT_FOO because we saw the "--foo"
option (e.g. DIFF_FORMAT_RAW is set when the "--raw" option is
given), we make sure we drop DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT. We forgot to
do so in some of the options and caused (2) above.
* When processing "-s" option, we should not just set
DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT bit, but clear other DIFF_FORMAT_* bits.
We didn't do so and retained format bits set by options
previously seen, causing (1) above.
It is even more tempting to lose NO_OUTPUT bit and instead take
output_format word being 0 as its replacement, but that would break
the mechanism "git show" uses to default to "--patch" output, where
the distinction between telling the command to be silent with "-s"
and having no output format specified on the command line matters,
and an explicit output format given on the command line should not
be "combined" with the default "--patch" format.
So, while we cannot lose the NO_OUTPUT bit, as a follow-up work, we
may want to replace it with OPTION_GIVEN bit, and
* make "--patch", "--raw", etc. set DIFF_FORMAT_$format bit and
DIFF_FORMAT_OPTION_GIVEN bit on for each format. "--no-raw",
etc. will set off DIFF_FORMAT_$format bit but still record the
fact that we saw an option from the command line by setting
DIFF_FORMAT_OPTION_GIVEN bit.
* make "-s" (and its synonym "--no-patch") clear all other bits
and set only the DIFF_FORMAT_OPTION_GIVEN bit on.
which I suspect would make the code much cleaner without breaking
any end-user expectations.
Once that is in place, transitioning "--no-patch" to mean the
counterpart of "--patch", just like "--no-raw" only defeats an
earlier "--raw", would be quite simple at the code level. The
social cost of migrating the end-user expectations might be too
great for it to be worth, but at least the "GIVEN" bit clean-up
alone may be worth it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
