Object-file API shuffling.
* ab/object-file-api-updates:
object-file API: pass an enum to read_object_with_reference()
object-file.c: add a literal version of write_object_file_prepare()
object-file API: have hash_object_file() take "enum object_type"
object API: rename hash_object_file_literally() to write_*()
object-file API: split up and simplify check_object_signature()
object API users + docs: check <0, not !0 with check_object_signature()
object API docs: move check_object_signature() docs to cache.h
object API: correct "buf" v.s. "map" mismatch in *.c and *.h
object-file API: have write_object_file() take "enum object_type"
object-file API: add a format_object_header() function
object-file API: return "void", not "int" from hash_object_file()
object-file.c: split up declaration of unrelated variables
Change the hash_object_file() function to take an "enum
object_type".
Since a preceding commit all of its callers are passing either
"{commit,tree,blob,tag}_type", or the result of a call to type_name(),
the parse_object() caller that would pass NULL is now using
stream_object_signature().
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Split up the check_object_signature() function into that non-streaming
version (it accepts an already filled "buf"), and a new
stream_object_signature() which will retrieve the object from storage,
and hash it on-the-fly.
All of the callers of check_object_signature() were effectively
calling two different functions, if we go by cyclomatic
complexity. I.e. they'd either take the early "if (map)" branch and
return early, or not. This has been the case since the "if (map)"
condition was added in 090ea12671 (parse_object: avoid putting whole
blob in core, 2012-03-07).
We can then further simplify the resulting check_object_signature()
function since only one caller wanted to pass a non-NULL "buf" and a
non-NULL "real_oidp". That "read_loose_object()" codepath used by "git
fsck" can instead use hash_object_file() followed by oideq().
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change those users of the object API that misused
check_object_signature() by assuming it returned any non-zero when the
OID didn't match the expected value to check <0 instead. In practice
all of this code worked before, but it wasn't consistent with rest of
the users of the API.
Let's also clarify what the <0 return value means in API docs.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the write_object_file() function to take an "enum object_type"
instead of a "const char *type". Its callers either passed
{commit,tree,blob,tag}_type and can pass the corresponding OBJ_* type
instead, or were hardcoding strings like "blob".
This avoids the back & forth fragility where the callers of
write_object_file() would have the enum type, and convert it
themselves via type_name(). We do have to now do that conversion
ourselves before calling write_object_file_prepare(), but those
codepaths will be similarly adjusted in subsequent commits.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improve the error that's emitted in cases where we find a loose object
we parse, but which isn't at the location we expect it to be.
Before this change we'd prefix the error with a not-a-OID derived from
the path at which the object was found, due to an emergent behavior in
how we'd end up with an "OID" in these codepaths.
Now we'll instead say what object we hashed, and what path it was
found at. Before this patch series e.g.:
$ git hash-object --stdin -w -t blob </dev/null
e69de29bb2
$ mv objects/e6/ objects/e7
Would emit ("[...]" used to abbreviate the OIDs):
git fsck
error: hash mismatch for ./objects/e7/9d[...] (expected e79d[...])
error: e79d[...]: object corrupt or missing: ./objects/e7/9d[...]
Now we'll instead emit:
error: e69d[...]: hash-path mismatch, found at: ./objects/e7/9d[...]
Furthermore, we'll do the right thing when the object type and its
location are bad. I.e. this case:
$ git hash-object --stdin -w -t garbage --literally </dev/null
8315a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f
$ mv objects/83 objects/84
As noted in an earlier commits we'd simply die early in those cases,
until preceding commits fixed the hard die on invalid object type:
$ git fsck
fatal: invalid object type
Now we'll instead emit sensible error messages:
$ git fsck
error: 8315[...]: hash-path mismatch, found at: ./objects/84/15[...]
error: 8315[...]: object is of unknown type 'garbage': ./objects/84/15[...]
In both fsck.c and object-file.c we're using null_oid as a sentinel
value for checking whether we got far enough to be certain that the
issue was indeed this OID mismatch.
We need to add the "object corrupt or missing" special-case to deal
with cases where read_loose_object() will return an error before
completing check_object_signature(), e.g. if we have an error in
unpack_loose_rest() because we find garbage after the valid gzip
content:
$ git hash-object --stdin -w -t blob </dev/null
e69de29bb2
$ chmod 755 objects/e6/9de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
$ echo garbage >>objects/e6/9de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
$ git fsck
error: garbage at end of loose object 'e69d[...]'
error: unable to unpack contents of ./objects/e6/9d[...]
error: e69d[...]: object corrupt or missing: ./objects/e6/9d[...]
There is currently some weird messaging in the edge case when the two
are combined, i.e. because we're not explicitly passing along an error
state about this specific scenario from check_stream_oid() via
read_loose_object() we'll end up printing the null OID if an object is
of an unknown type *and* it can't be unpacked by zlib, e.g.:
$ git hash-object --stdin -w -t garbage --literally </dev/null
8315a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f
$ chmod 755 objects/83/15a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f
$ echo garbage >>objects/83/15a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f
$ /usr/bin/git fsck
fatal: invalid object type
$ ~/g/git/git fsck
error: garbage at end of loose object '8315a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f'
error: unable to unpack contents of ./objects/83/15a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f
error: 8315a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f: object corrupt or missing: ./objects/83/15a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f
error: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000: object is of unknown type 'garbage': ./objects/83/15a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f
[...]
I think it's OK to leave that for future improvements, which would
involve enum-ifying more error state as we've done with "enum
unpack_loose_header_result" in preceding commits. In these
increasingly more obscure cases the worst that can happen is that
we'll get slightly nonsensical or inapplicable error messages.
There's other such potential edge cases, all of which might produce
some confusing messaging, but still be handled correctly as far as
passing along errors goes. E.g. if check_object_signature() returns
and oideq(real_oid, null_oid()) is true, which could happen if it
returns -1 due to the read_istream() call having failed.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change code I added in acf9de4c94 (mktag: use fsck instead of custom
verify_tag(), 2021-01-05) to make use of a new API function that takes
the fsck_msg_{id,type} types, instead of arbitrary strings that
we'll (hopefully) parse into those types.
At the time that the fsck_set_msg_type() API was introduced in
0282f4dced (fsck: offer a function to demote fsck errors to warnings,
2015-06-22) it was only intended to be used to parse user-supplied
data.
For things that are purely internal to the C code it makes sense to
have the compiler check these arguments, and to skip the sanity
checking of the data in fsck_set_msg_type() which is redundant to
checks we get from the compiler.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the fsck_error callback to also pass along the
fsck_msg_id. Before this change the only way to get the message id was
to parse it back out of the "message".
Let's pass it down explicitly for the benefit of callers that might
want to use it, as discussed in [1].
Passing the msg_type is now redundant, as you can always get it back
from the msg_id, but I'm not changing that convention. It's really
common to need the msg_type, and the report() function itself (which
calls "fsck_error") needs to call fsck_msg_type() to discover
it. Let's not needlessly re-do that work in the user callback.
1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/87blcja2ha.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the FSCK_{FATAL,INFO,ERROR,WARN,IGNORE} defines into a new
fsck_msg_type enum.
These defines were originally introduced in:
- ba002f3b28 (builtin-fsck: move common object checking code to
fsck.c, 2008-02-25)
- f50c440730 (fsck: disallow demoting grave fsck errors to warnings,
2015-06-22)
- efaba7cc77 (fsck: optionally ignore specific fsck issues
completely, 2015-06-22)
- f27d05b170 (fsck: allow upgrading fsck warnings to errors,
2015-06-22)
The reason these were defined in two different places is because we
use FSCK_{IGNORE,INFO,FATAL} only in fsck.c, but FSCK_{ERROR,WARN} are
used by external callbacks.
Untangling that would take some more work, since we expose the new
"enum fsck_msg_type" to both. Similar to "enum object_type" it's not
worth structuring the API in such a way that only those who need
FSCK_{ERROR,WARN} pass around a different type.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Refactor code I recently changed in 1f3299fda9 (fsck: make
fsck_config() re-usable, 2021-01-05) so that I could use fsck's config
callback in mktag in 1f3299fda9 (fsck: make fsck_config() re-usable,
2021-01-05).
I don't know what I was thinking in structuring the code this way, but
it clearly makes no sense to have an fsck_config_internal() at all
just so it can get a fsck_options when git_config() already supports
passing along some void* data.
Let's just make use of that instead, which gets us rid of the two
wrapper functions, and brings fsck's common config callback in line
with other such reusable config callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that mktag has been migrated to use the fsck machinery to check
its input, it makes sense to teach it to run in the equivalent of "git
fsck"'s default mode.
For cases where mktag is used to (re)create a tag object using data
from an existing and malformed tag object, the validation may
optionally have to be loosened. Teach the command to take the
"--[no-]strict" option to do so.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark the errors mktag might emit for translation. This is a plumbing
command, but the errors it emits are intended to be human-readable.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert the "mktag" command to use parse-options.h instead of its own
ad-hoc argc handling. This doesn't matter much in practice since it
doesn't support any options, but removes another special-case in our
codebase, and makes it easier to add options to it in the future.
It does marginally improve the situation for programs that want to
execute git commands in a consistent manner and e.g. always use
--end-of-options. E.g. "gitaly" does that, and has a blacklist of
built-ins that don't support --end-of-options. This is one less
special case for it and other similar programs to support.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In earlier commits mktag learned to use the fsck machinery, at which
point we needed to add fsck.extraHeaderEntry so it could be as strict
about extra headers as it's been ever since it was implemented.
But it's not nice to need to switch away from "mktag" to "hash-object"
+ manual "fsck" just because you'd like to have an extra header. So
let's support turning it off by getting "fsck.*" variables from the
config.
Pedantically speaking it's still not possible to make "mktag" behave
just like "hash-object -t tag" does, since we're unconditionally going
to check the referenced object in verify_object_in_tag(), which is our
own check, and not one that exists in fsck.c.
But the spirit of "this works like fsck" is preserved, in that if you
created such a tag with "hash-object" and did a full "fsck" on the
repository it would also error out about that invalid object, it just
wouldn't emit the same message as fsck does.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the validation logic in "mktag" to use fsck's fsck_tag()
instead of its own custom parser. Curiously the logic for both dates
back to the same commit[1]. Let's unify them so we're not maintaining
two sets functions to verify that a tag is OK.
The behavior of fsck_tag() and the old "mktag" code being removed here
is different in few aspects.
I think it makes sense to remove some of those checks, namely:
A. fsck only cares that the timezone matches [-+][0-9]{4}. The mktag
code disallowed values larger than 1400.
Yes there's currently no timezone with a greater offset[2], but
since we allow any number of non-offical timezones (e.g. +1234)
passing this through seems fine. Git also won't break in the
future if e.g. French Polynesia decides it needs to outdo the Line
Islands when it comes to timezone extravagance.
B. fsck allows missing author names such as "tagger <email>", mktag
wouldn't, but would allow e.g. "tagger [2 spaces] <email>" (but
not "tagger [1 space] <email>"). Now we allow all of these.
C. Like B, but "mktag" disallowed spaces in the <email> part, fsck
allows it.
In some ways fsck_tag() is stricter than "mktag" was, namely:
D. fsck disallows zero-padded dates, but mktag didn't care. So
e.g. the timestamp "0000000000 +0000" produces an error now. A
test in "t1006-cat-file.sh" relied on this, it's been changed to
use "hash-object" (without fsck) instead.
There was one check I deemed worth keeping by porting it over to
fsck_tag():
E. "mktag" did not allow any custom headers, and by extension (as an
empty commit is allowed) also forbade an extra stray trailing
newline after the headers it knew about.
Add a new check in the "ignore" category to fsck and use it. This
somewhat abuses the facility added in efaba7cc77 (fsck:
optionally ignore specific fsck issues completely, 2015-06-22).
This is somewhat of hack, but probably the least invasive change
we can make here. The fsck command will shuffle these categories
around, e.g. under --strict the "info" becomes a "warn" and "warn"
becomes "error". Existing users of fsck's (and others,
e.g. index-pack) --strict option rely on this.
So we need to put something into a category that'll be ignored by
all existing users of the API. Pretending that
fsck.extraHeaderEntry=error ("ignore" by default) was set serves
to do this for us.
1. ec4465adb3 (Add "tag" objects that can be used to sign other
objects., 2005-04-25)
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UTC_time_offsets
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This introduces no functional change, but refactors the print-out of
the hash at the end to do the same thing with less code.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This minor stylistic churn is usually something we'd avoid, but if we
don't do this then the file after changes in subsequent commits will
only have this minor style inconsistency, so let's change this while
we're at it.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the hardcoded hint of 2^12 to 0. The default strbuf hint is
perfectly fine here, and the only reason we were hardcoding it is
because it survived migration from a pre-strbuf fixed-sized buffer.
See fd17f5b5f7 (Replace all read_fd use with strbuf_read, and get rid
of it., 2007-09-10) for that migration.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some callers of check_object_signature() can work on arbitrary
repositories, but the repo does not get passed to this function.
Instead, the_repository is always used internally. To fix possible
inconsistencies, allow the function to receive a struct repository and
make those callers pass on the repo being handled.
Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This should make these functions easier to find and cache.h less
overwhelming to read.
In particular, this moves:
- read_object_file
- oid_object_info
- write_object_file
As a result, most of the codebase needs to #include object-store.h.
In this patch the #include is only added to files that would fail to
compile otherwise. It would be better to #include wherever
identifiers from the header are used. That can happen later
when we have better tooling for it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow callers of lookup_replace_object
to be more specific about which repository to handle. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
lookup_replace_object is a low-level function that most users of the
object store do not need to use directly.
Move it to replace-object.h to avoid a dependency loop in an upcoming
change to its inline definition that will make use of repository.h.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert both the argument and the return value to be pointers to struct
object_id. Update the callers and their internals to deal with the new
type. Remove several temporaries which are no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert read_sha1_file to take a pointer to struct object_id and rename
it read_object_file. Do the same for read_sha1_file_extended.
Convert one use in grep.c to use the new function without any other code
change, since the pointer being passed is a void pointer that is already
initialized with a pointer to struct object_id. Update the declaration
and definitions of the modified functions, and apply the following
semantic patch to convert the remaining callers:
@@
expression E1, E2, E3;
@@
- read_sha1_file(E1.hash, E2, E3)
+ read_object_file(&E1, E2, E3)
@@
expression E1, E2, E3;
@@
- read_sha1_file(E1->hash, E2, E3)
+ read_object_file(E1, E2, E3)
@@
expression E1, E2, E3, E4;
@@
- read_sha1_file_extended(E1.hash, E2, E3, E4)
+ read_object_file_extended(&E1, E2, E3, E4)
@@
expression E1, E2, E3, E4;
@@
- read_sha1_file_extended(E1->hash, E2, E3, E4)
+ read_object_file_extended(E1, E2, E3, E4)
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert this function to take a pointer to struct object_id and rename
it check_object_signature. Introduce temporaries to convert the return
values of lookup_replace_object and lookup_replace_object_extended into
struct object_id.
The temporaries are needed because in order to convert
lookup_replace_object, open_istream needs to be converted, and
open_istream needs check_sha1_signature to be converted, causing a loop
of dependencies. The temporaries will be removed in a future patch.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert the definition and declaration of write_sha1_file to
struct object_id and adjust usage of this function.
This commit also converts static function write_sha1_file_prepare, as it
is closely related.
Rename these functions to write_object_file and
write_object_file_prepare respectively.
Replace sha1_to_hex, hashcpy and hashclr with their oid equivalents
wherever possible.
Signed-off-by: Patryk Obara <patryk.obara@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The synopsys text and the usage string of subcommands that read list
of things from the standard input are often shown like this:
git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes>
This is problematic in a number of ways:
* The way to use these commands is more often to feed them the
output from another command, not feed them from a file.
* Manual pages outside Git, commands that operate on the data read
from the standard input, e.g "sort", "grep", "sed", etc., are not
described with such a "< redirection-from-file" in their synopsys
text. Our doing so introduces inconsistency.
* We do not insist on where the output should go, by saying
git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes> > <output>
* As it is our convention to enclose placeholders inside <braket>,
the redirection operator followed by a placeholder filename
becomes very hard to read, both in the documentation and in the
help text.
Let's clean them all up, after making sure that the documentation
clearly describes the modes that take information from the standard
input and what kind of things are expected on the input.
[jc: stole example for fmt-merge-msg from Jonathan]
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most callers want to silently get a replacement object, and they do not
care what the real name of the replacement object is. Worse yet, no sane
interface to return the underlying object without replacement is provided.
Remove the function and make only the few callers that want the name of
the replacement object find it themselves.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix warnings from 'make check'.
- These files don't include 'builtin.h' causing sparse to complain that
cmd_* isn't declared:
builtin/clone.c:364, builtin/fetch-pack.c:797,
builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c:34, builtin/hash-object.c:78,
builtin/merge-index.c:69, builtin/merge-recursive.c:22
builtin/merge-tree.c:341, builtin/mktag.c:156, builtin/notes.c:426
builtin/notes.c:822, builtin/pack-redundant.c:596,
builtin/pack-refs.c:10, builtin/patch-id.c:60, builtin/patch-id.c:149,
builtin/remote.c:1512, builtin/remote-ext.c:240,
builtin/remote-fd.c:53, builtin/reset.c:236, builtin/send-pack.c:384,
builtin/unpack-file.c:25, builtin/var.c:75
- These files have symbols which should be marked static since they're
only file scope:
submodule.c:12, diff.c:631, replace_object.c:92, submodule.c:13,
submodule.c:14, trace.c:78, transport.c:195, transport-helper.c:79,
unpack-trees.c:19, url.c:3, url.c:18, url.c:104, url.c:117, url.c:123,
url.c:129, url.c:136, thread-utils.c:21, thread-utils.c:48
- These files redeclare symbols to be different types:
builtin/index-pack.c:210, parse-options.c:564, parse-options.c:571,
usage.c:49, usage.c:58, usage.c:63, usage.c:72
- These files use a literal integer 0 when they really should use a NULL
pointer:
daemon.c:663, fast-import.c:2942, imap-send.c:1072, notes-merge.c:362
While we're in the area, clean up some unused #includes in builtin files
(mostly exec_cmd.h).
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since v1.7.0-rc0~34 (make "mktag" a built-in, 2010-01-22), git mktag
uses the C99-style %td format to print ptrdiff_t values. It falls
back to %d when NO_C99_FORMAT is set, on the assumption that pre-C99
systems probably are using 32-bit pointers.
But many modern systems are 64-bit and
* sometimes one wants to test the NO_C99_FORMAT fallbacks using a
modern development platform;
* some platforms (I'm looking at you, msvc) have not gotten with the
program and are still C89-only.
These ptrdiff_t values are offsets from the beginning of a buffer, so
a size_t or uintmax_t would work about as well. Use the latter so we
can take advantage of the PRIuMAX fallback in git-compat-util.h, even
on C99-challenged systems with 64-bit pointers.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This shrinks the top-level directory a bit, and makes it much more
pleasant to use auto-completion on the thing. Instead of
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab>
Display all 180 possibilities? (y or n)
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-sh
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-show-branch.c builtin-show-ref.c
builtin-shortlog.o builtin-show-branch.o builtin-show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shor<tab>
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shortlog.c
you get
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab> [type]
builtin/ builtin.h
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sh<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o show-branch.c show-branch.o show-ref.c show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sho [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shor<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shortlog.c
which doesn't seem all that different, but not having that annoying
break in "Display all 180 possibilities?" is quite a relief.
NOTE! If you do this in a clean tree (no object files etc), or using an
editor that has auto-completion rules that ignores '*.o' files, you
won't see that annoying 'Display all 180 possibilities?' message - it
will just show the choices instead. I think bash has some cut-off
around 100 choices or something.
So the reason I see this is that I'm using an odd editory, and thus
don't have the rules to cut down on auto-completion. But you can
simulate that by using 'ls' instead, or something similar.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
