Since 60a12722ac (attr: remove maybe-real, maybe-macro from git_attr,
2017-01-27), we will always mark an attribute macro (e.g., "binary")
that is specifically queried for as "unspecified", even though listing
_all_ attributes would display it at set. E.g.:
$ echo "* binary" >.gitattributes
$ git check-attr -a file
file: binary: set
file: diff: unset
file: merge: unset
file: text: unset
$ git check-attr binary file
file: binary: unspecified
The problem stems from an incorrect conversion of the optimization from
06a604e670 (attr: avoid heavy work when we know the specified attr is
not defined, 2014-12-28). There we tried in collect_some_attrs() to
avoid even looking at the attr_stack when the user has asked for "foo"
and we know that "foo" did not ever appear in any .gitattributes file.
It used a flag "maybe_real" in each attribute struct, where "real" meant
that the attribute appeared in an actual file (we have to make this
distinction because we also create an attribute struct for any names
that are being queried). But as explained in that commit message, the
meaning of "real" was tangled with some special cases around macros.
When 60a12722ac later refactored the macro code, it dropped maybe_real
entirely. This missed the fact that "maybe_real" could be unset for two
reasons: because of a macro, or because it was never found during
parsing. This had two results:
- the optimization in collect_some_attrs() ceased doing anything
meaningful, since it no longer kept track of "was it found during
parsing"
- worse, it actually kicked in when the caller _did_ ask about a macro
by name, causing us to mark it as unspecified
It should be possible to salvage this optimization, but let's start with
just removing the remnants. It hasn't been doing anything (except
creating bugs) since 60a12722ac, and nobody seems to have noticed the
performance regression. It's more important to fix the correctness
problem clearly first.
I've added two tests here. The second one actually shows off the bug.
The test of "check-attr -a" is not strictly necessary, but we currently
do not test attribute macros much, and the builtin "binary" not at all.
So this increases our general test coverage, as well as making sure we
didn't mess up this related case.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Belated documentation update to adjust to a new world order that
happened a yew years ago.
* uk/merge-subtree-doc-update:
howto/using-merge-subtree: mention --allow-unrelated-histories
Code clean-up to serve as a BCP example.
Further clean-up patches may want to follow soon.
* sb/strbuf-h-update:
strbuf.h: format according to coding guidelines
Doc update.
* ma/commit-graph-docs:
Doc: refer to the "commit-graph file" with dash
git-commit-graph.txt: refer to "*commit*-graph file"
git-commit-graph.txt: typeset more in monospace
git-commit-graph.txt: fix bullet lists
Doc updates.
* fe/doc-updates:
git-describe.1: clarify that "human readable" is also git-readable
git-column.1: clarify initial description, provide examples
git-archimport.1: specify what kind of Arch we're talking about
A regression in Git 2.12 era made "git fsck" fall into an infinite
loop while processing truncated loose objects.
* jk/detect-truncated-zlib-input:
cat-file: handle streaming failures consistently
check_stream_sha1(): handle input underflow
t1450: check large blob in trailing-garbage test
Our test scripts can now take the '-V' option as a synonym for the
'--verbose-log' option.
* sg/test-verbose-log:
test-lib: introduce the '-V' short option for '--verbose-log'
The "container" mode of TravisCI is going away. Our .travis.yml
file is getting prepared for the transition.
* ss/travis-ci-force-vm-mode:
travis-ci: no longer use containers
Operations on promisor objects make sense in the context of only a
small subset of the commands that internally use the revisions
machinery, but the "--exclude-promisor-objects" option were taken
and led to nonsense results by commands like "log", to which it
didn't make much sense. This has been corrected.
* md/exclude-promisor-objects-fix:
exclude-promisor-objects: declare when option is allowed
Documentation/git-log.txt: do not show --exclude-promisor-objects
"git repack" in a shallow clone did not correctly update the
shallow points in the repository, leading to a repository that
does not pass fsck.
* js/shallow-and-fetch-prune:
repack -ad: prune the list of shallow commits
shallow: offer to prune only non-existing entries
repack: point out a bug handling stale shallow info
The receive.denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead codepath kicked in even
when the push should have been rejected due to other reasons, such
as it does not fast-forward or the update-hook rejects it, which
has been corrected.
* jc/receive-deny-current-branch-fix:
receive: denyCurrentBranch=updateinstead should not blindly update
Under certain circumstances, "git diff D:/a/b/c D:/a/b/d" on
Windows would strip initial parts from the paths because they
were not recognized as absolute, which has been corrected.
* js/diff-notice-has-drive-prefix:
diff: don't attempt to strip prefix from absolute Windows paths
A mutex used in "git pack-objects" were not correctly initialized
and this caused "git repack" to dump core on Windows.
* js/pack-objects-mutex-init-fix:
pack-objects (mingw): initialize `packing_data` mutex in the correct spot
pack-objects (mingw): demonstrate a segmentation fault with large deltas
pack-objects: fix typo 'detla' -> 'delta'
The implementation of run_command() API on the UNIX platforms had a
bug that caused a command not on $PATH to be found in the current
directory.
* jk/run-command-notdot:
run-command: mark path lookup errors with ENOENT
"git log --graph" showing an octopus merge sometimes miscounted the
number of display columns it is consuming to show the merge and its
parent commits, which has been corrected.
* np/log-graph-octopus-fix:
log: fix coloring of certain octopus merge shapes
The codepath to support the experimental split-index mode had
remaining "racily clean" issues fixed.
* sg/split-index-racefix:
split-index: BUG() when cache entry refers to non-existing shared entry
split-index: smudge and add racily clean cache entries to split index
split-index: don't compare cached data of entries already marked for split index
split-index: count the number of deleted entries
t1700-split-index: date back files to avoid racy situations
split-index: add tests to demonstrate the racy split index problem
t1700-split-index: document why FSMONITOR is disabled in this test script
