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Michael Haggerty b3bbbc5c24 lock_ref_for_update(): add a files_ref_store argument
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty f18a789250 commit_ref_update(): add a files_ref_store argument
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty f7b0a987b5 lock_raw_ref(): add a files_ref_store argument
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 0a95ac5f63 repack_without_refs(): add a files_ref_store argument
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty bd427cf27f refs: make peel_ref() virtual
For now it only supports the main reference store.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 284689ba0f refs: make create_symref() virtual
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 8231527e15 refs: make pack_refs() virtual
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 62665823d2 refs: make verify_refname_available() virtual
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty e1e33b722c refs: make read_raw_ref() virtual
Reference backends will be able to customize this function to implement
reference reading.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 424dcc7683 resolve_gitlink_ref(): implement using resolve_ref_recursively()
resolve_ref_recursively() can handle references in arbitrary files
reference stores, so use it to resolve "gitlink" (i.e., submodule)
references. Aside from removing redundant code, this allows submodule
lookups to benefit from the much more robust code that we use for
reading non-submodule references. And, since the code is now agnostic
about reference backends, it will work for any future references
backend (so move its definition to refs.c).

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 34c7ad8ffc read_raw_ref(): take a (struct ref_store *) argument
And make the function work for submodules.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty b9180c9d5d resolve_gitlink_packed_ref(): remove function
Now that resolve_packed_ref() can work with an arbitrary
files_ref_store, there is no need to have a separate
resolve_gitlink_packed_ref() function.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 611118d06e resolve_packed_ref(): rename function from resolve_missing_loose_ref()
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 6356c658e4 refs: reorder definitions
Move resolve_gitlink_ref() and related functions lower in the file to
avoid the need for forward declarations in the next step.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:12 -07:00
Ronnie Sahlberg 127b42a186 refs: add a transaction_commit() method
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 49c0df6a68 {lock,commit,rollback}_packed_refs(): add files_ref_store arguments
These functions currently only work in the main repository, so add an
assert_main_repository() check to each function.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 4308651c3c resolve_missing_loose_ref(): add a files_ref_store argument
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty f0d21efc35 get_packed_ref(): add a files_ref_store argument
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty d99825ab73 add_packed_ref(): add a files_ref_store argument
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 00eebe351c refs: create a base class "ref_store" for files_ref_store
We want ref_stores to be polymorphic, so invent a base class of which
files_ref_store is a derived class. For now there is exactly one
ref_store for the main repository and one for any submodules whose
references have been accessed.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:12 -07:00
Ronnie Sahlberg 3dce444f17 refs: add a backend method structure
Add a `struct ref_storage_be` to represent types of reference stores. In
OO notation, this is the class, and will soon hold some class
methods (e.g., a factory to create new ref_store instances) and will
also serve as the vtable for ref_store instances of that type.

As yet, the backends cannot do anything.

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 65a0a8e5fa refs: rename struct ref_cache to files_ref_store
The greater goal of this patch series is to develop the concept of a
reference store, which is a place that references, their values, and
their reflogs are stored, and to virtualize the reference interface so
that different types of ref_stores can be implemented. We will then, for
example, use ref_store instances to access submodule references and
worktree references.

Currently, we keep a ref_cache for each submodule that has had its
references iterated over. It is a far cry from a ref_store, but they are
stored the way we will want to store ref_stores, and ref_stores will
eventually have to hold the reference caches. So let's treat ref_caches
as embryo ref_stores, and build them out from there.

As the first step, simply rename `ref_cache` to `files_ref_store`, and
rename some functions and attributes correspondingly.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:12 -07:00
David Turner ff3a299c45 rename_ref_available(): add docstring
And improve the internal variable names.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty f6e75467ca resolve_gitlink_ref(): eliminate temporary variable
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-09 15:28:12 -07:00
Jacob Keller 99b43a61f2 allow do_submodule_path to work even if submodule isn't checked out
Currently, do_submodule_path will attempt locating the .git directory by
using read_gitfile on <path>/.git. If this fails it just assumes the
<path>/.git is actually a git directory.

This is good because it allows for handling submodules which were cloned
in a regular manner first before being added to the superproject.

Unfortunately this fails if the <path> is not actually checked out any
longer, such as by removing the directory.

Fix this by checking if the directory we found is actually a gitdir. In
the case it is not, attempt to lookup the submodule configuration and
find the name of where it is stored in the .git/modules/ directory of
the superproject.

If we can't locate the submodule configuration, this might occur because
for example a submodule gitlink was added but the corresponding
.gitmodules file was not properly updated.  A die() here would not be
pleasant to the users of submodule diff formats, so instead, modify
do_submodule_path() to return an error code:

 - git_pathdup_submodule() returns NULL when we fail to find a path.
 - strbuf_git_path_submodule() propagates the error code to the caller.

Modify the callers of these functions to check the error code and fail
properly. This ensures we don't attempt to use a bad path that doesn't
match the corresponding submodule.

Because this change fixes add_submodule_odb() to work even if the
submodule is not checked out, update the wording of the submodule log
diff format to correctly display that the submodule is "not initialized"
instead of "not checked out"

Add tests to ensure this change works as expected.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-31 18:07:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 87492cb24d Merge branch 'mh/ref-iterators'
The API to iterate over all the refs (i.e. for_each_ref(), etc.)
has been revamped.

* mh/ref-iterators:
  for_each_reflog(): reimplement using iterators
  dir_iterator: new API for iterating over a directory tree
  for_each_reflog(): don't abort for bad references
  do_for_each_ref(): reimplement using reference iteration
  refs: introduce an iterator interface
  ref_resolves_to_object(): new function
  entry_resolves_to_object(): rename function from ref_resolves_to_object()
  get_ref_cache(): only create an instance if there is a submodule
  remote rm: handle symbolic refs correctly
  delete_refs(): add a flags argument
  refs: use name "prefix" consistently
  do_for_each_ref(): move docstring to the header file
  refs: remove unnecessary "extern" keywords
2016-07-25 14:13:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 702ebbf4e2 Merge branch 'mh/update-ref-errors'
Error handling in the codepaths that updates refs has been
improved.

* mh/update-ref-errors:
  lock_ref_for_update(): avoid a symref resolution
  lock_ref_for_update(): make error handling more uniform
  t1404: add more tests of update-ref error handling
  t1404: document function test_update_rejected
  t1404: remove "prefix" argument to test_update_rejected
  t1404: rename file to t1404-update-ref-errors.sh
2016-07-25 14:13:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 6b34ce90a7 Merge branch 'mh/split-under-lock'
Further preparatory work on the refs API before the pluggable
backend series can land.

* mh/split-under-lock: (33 commits)
  lock_ref_sha1_basic(): only handle REF_NODEREF mode
  commit_ref_update(): remove the flags parameter
  lock_ref_for_update(): don't resolve symrefs
  lock_ref_for_update(): don't re-read non-symbolic references
  refs: resolve symbolic refs first
  ref_transaction_update(): check refname_is_safe() at a minimum
  unlock_ref(): move definition higher in the file
  lock_ref_for_update(): new function
  add_update(): initialize the whole ref_update
  verify_refname_available(): adjust constness in declaration
  refs: don't dereference on rename
  refs: allow log-only updates
  delete_branches(): use resolve_refdup()
  ref_transaction_commit(): correctly report close_ref() failure
  ref_transaction_create(): disallow recursive pruning
  refs: make error messages more consistent
  lock_ref_sha1_basic(): remove unneeded local variable
  read_raw_ref(): move docstring to header file
  read_raw_ref(): improve docstring
  read_raw_ref(): rename symref argument to referent
  ...
2016-07-25 14:13:32 -07:00
brian m. carlson c368dde924 coccinelle: apply object_id Coccinelle transformations
Apply the set of semantic patches from contrib/coccinelle to convert
some leftover places using struct object_id's hash member to instead
use the wrapper functions that take struct object_id natively.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28 11:39:02 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 841caad903 lock_ref_for_update(): avoid a symref resolution
If we're overwriting a symref with a SHA-1, we need to resolve the value
of the symref (1) to check against update->old_sha1 and (2) to write to
its reflog. However, we've already read the symref itself and know its
referent. So there is no need to read the symref's value through the
symref; we can read the referent directly.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-20 11:49:00 -07:00
Michael Haggerty e3f510393c lock_ref_for_update(): make error handling more uniform
To aid the effort, extract a new function, check_old_oid(), and use it
in the two places where the read value of the reference has to be
checked against update->old_sha1.

Update tests to reflect the improvements.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-20 11:49:00 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 2880d16f09 for_each_reflog(): reimplement using iterators
Allow references with reflogs to be iterated over using a ref_iterator.
The latter is implemented as a files_reflog_iterator, which in turn uses
dir_iterator to read the "logs" directory.

Note that reflog iteration doesn't correctly handle per-worktree
reflogs (either before or after this patch).

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-20 11:38:21 -07:00
Michael Haggerty d24b21e9fc for_each_reflog(): don't abort for bad references
If there is a file under "$GIT_DIR/logs" with no corresponding
reference, the old code was emitting an error message, aborting the
reflog iteration, and returning -1. But

* None of the callers was checking the exit value

* The callers all want to find all legitimate reflogs (sometimes for the
  purpose of determining object reachability!) and wouldn't benefit from
  a truncated iteration anyway.

So instead, emit an error message and skip the "broken" reflog, but
continue with the iteration.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-20 11:38:20 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 4c4de89573 do_for_each_ref(): reimplement using reference iteration
Use the reference iterator interface to implement do_for_each_ref().
Delete a bunch of code supporting the old for_each_ref() implementation.
And now that do_for_each_ref() is generic code (it is no longer tied to
the files backend), move it to refs.c.

The implementation is via a new function, do_for_each_ref_iterator(),
which takes a reference iterator as argument and calls a callback
function for each of the references in the iterator.

This change requires the current_ref performance hack for peel_ref() to
be implemented via ref_iterator_peel() rather than peel_entry() because
we don't have a ref_entry handy (it is hidden under three layers:
file_ref_iterator, merge_ref_iterator, and cache_ref_iterator). So:

* do_for_each_ref_iterator() records the active iterator in
  current_ref_iter while it is running.

* peel_ref() checks whether current_ref_iter is pointing at the
  requested reference. If so, it asks the iterator to peel the
  reference (which it can do efficiently via its "peel" virtual
  function). For extra safety, we do the optimization only if the
  refname *addresses* are the same, not only if the refname *strings*
  are the same, to forestall possible mixups between refnames that come
  from different ref_iterators.

Please note that this optimization of peel_ref() is only available when
iterating via do_for_each_ref_iterator() (including all of the
for_each_ref() functions, which call it indirectly). It would be
complicated to implement a similar optimization when iterating directly
using a reference iterator, because multiple reference iterators can be
in use at the same time, with interleaved calls to
ref_iterator_advance(). (In fact we do exactly that in
merge_ref_iterator.)

But that is not necessary. peel_ref() is only called while iterating
over references. Callers who iterate using the for_each_ref() functions
benefit from the optimization described above. Callers who iterate using
reference iterators directly have access to the ref_iterator, so they
can call ref_iterator_peel() themselves to get an analogous optimization
in a more straightforward manner.

If we rewrite all callers to use the reference iteration API, then we
can remove the current_ref_iter hack permanently.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-20 11:38:20 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 3bc581b940 refs: introduce an iterator interface
Currently, the API for iterating over references is via a family of
for_each_ref()-type functions that invoke a callback function for each
selected reference. All of these eventually call do_for_each_ref(),
which knows how to do one thing: iterate in parallel through two
ref_caches, one for loose and one for packed refs, giving loose
references precedence over packed refs. This is rather complicated code,
and is quite specialized to the files backend. It also requires callers
to encapsulate their work into a callback function, which often means
that they have to define and use a "cb_data" struct to manage their
context.

The current design is already bursting at the seams, and will become
even more awkward in the upcoming world of multiple reference storage
backends:

* Per-worktree vs. shared references are currently handled via a kludge
  in git_path() rather than iterating over each part of the reference
  namespace separately and merging the results. This kludge will cease
  to work when we have multiple reference storage backends.

* The current scheme is inflexible. What if we sometimes want to bypass
  the ref_cache, or use it only for packed or only for loose refs? What
  if we want to store symbolic refs in one type of storage backend and
  non-symbolic ones in another?

In the future, each reference backend will need to define its own way of
iterating over references. The crux of the problem with the current
design is that it is impossible to compose for_each_ref()-style
iterations, because the flow of control is owned by the for_each_ref()
function. There is nothing that a caller can do but iterate through all
references in a single burst, so there is no way for it to interleave
references from multiple backends and present the result to the rest of
the world as a single compound backend.

This commit introduces a new iteration primitive for references: a
ref_iterator. A ref_iterator is a polymorphic object that a reference
storage backend can be asked to instantiate. There are three functions
that can be applied to a ref_iterator:

* ref_iterator_advance(): move to the next reference in the iteration
* ref_iterator_abort(): end the iteration before it is exhausted
* ref_iterator_peel(): peel the reference currently being looked at

Iterating using a ref_iterator leaves the flow of control in the hands
of the caller, which means that ref_iterators from multiple
sources (e.g., loose and packed refs) can be composed and presented to
the world as a single compound ref_iterator.

It also means that the backend code for implementing reference iteration
will sometimes be more complicated. For example, the
cache_ref_iterator (which iterates over a ref_cache) can't use the C
stack to recurse; instead, it must manage its own stack internally as
explicit data structures. There is also a lot of boilerplate connected
with object-oriented programming in C.

Eventually, end-user callers will be able to be written in a more
natural way—managing their own flow of control rather than having to
work via callbacks. Since there will only be a few reference backends
but there are many consumers of this API, this is a good tradeoff.

More importantly, we gain composability, and especially the possibility
of writing interchangeable parts that can work with any ref_iterator.

For example, merge_ref_iterator implements a generic way of merging the
contents of any two ref_iterators. It is used to merge loose + packed
refs as part of the implementation of the files_ref_iterator. But it
will also be possible to use it to merge other pairs of reference
sources (e.g., per-worktree vs. shared refs).

Another example is prefix_ref_iterator, which can be used to trim a
prefix off the front of reference names before presenting them to the
caller (e.g., "refs/heads/master" -> "master").

In this patch, we introduce the iterator abstraction and many utilities,
and implement a reference iterator for the files ref storage backend.
(I've written several other obvious utilities, for example a generic way
to filter references being iterated over. These will probably be useful
in the future. But they are not needed for this patch series, so I am
not including them at this time.)

In a moment we will rewrite do_for_each_ref() to work via reference
iterators (allowing some special-purpose code to be discarded), and do
something similar for reflogs. In future patch series, we will expose
the ref_iterator abstraction in the public refs API so that callers can
use it directly.

Implementation note: I tried abstracting this a layer further to allow
generic iterators (over arbitrary types of objects) and generic
utilities like a generic merge_iterator. But the implementation in C was
very cumbersome, involving (in my opinion) too much boilerplate and too
much unsafe casting, some of which would have had to be done on the
caller side. However, I did put a few iterator-related constants in a
top-level header file, iterator.h, as they will be useful in a moment to
implement iteration over directory trees and possibly other types of
iterators in the future.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-20 11:38:20 -07:00
Michael Haggerty a873924483 ref_resolves_to_object(): new function
Extract new function ref_resolves_to_object() from
entry_resolves_to_object(). It can be used even if there is no ref_entry
at hand.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-20 11:38:19 -07:00
Michael Haggerty ffeef64231 entry_resolves_to_object(): rename function from ref_resolves_to_object()
Free up the old name for a more general purpose.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-20 11:38:19 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 2eed2780f0 get_ref_cache(): only create an instance if there is a submodule
If there is not a nonbare repository where a submodule is supposedly
located, then don't instantiate a ref_cache for it.

The analogous check can be removed from resolve_gitlink_ref().

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-20 11:38:19 -07:00
Michael Haggerty c5f04dddb6 delete_refs(): add a flags argument
This will be useful for passing REF_NODEREF through.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-20 11:38:18 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 4633a846f5 refs: use name "prefix" consistently
In the context of the for_each_ref() functions, call the prefix that
references must start with "prefix". (In some places it was called
"base".) This is clearer, and also prevents confusion with another
planned use of the word "base".

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-20 11:38:18 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 067622b0e8 do_for_each_ref(): move docstring to the header file
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-20 11:38:17 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 7a418f3a17 lock_ref_sha1_basic(): only handle REF_NODEREF mode
Now lock_ref_sha1_basic() is only called with flags==REF_NODEREF. So we
don't have to handle other cases anymore.

This enables several simplifications, the most interesting of which come
from the fact that ref_lock::orig_ref_name is now always the same as
ref_lock::ref_name:

* Remove ref_lock::orig_ref_name
* Remove local variable orig_refname from lock_ref_sha1_basic()
* ref_name can be initialize once and its value reused
* commit_ref_update() never has to write to the reflog for
  lock->orig_ref_name

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:50 +02:00
Michael Haggerty 5d9b2de4ef commit_ref_update(): remove the flags parameter
commit_ref_update() is now only called with flags=0. So remove the flags
parameter entirely.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:50 +02:00
Michael Haggerty 6e30b2f652 lock_ref_for_update(): don't resolve symrefs
If a transaction includes a non-NODEREF update to a symbolic reference,
we don't have to look it up in lock_ref_for_update(). The reference will
be dereferenced anyway when the split-off update is processed.

This change requires that we store a backpointer from the split-off
update to its parent update, for two reasons:

* We still want to report the original reference name in error messages.
  So if an error occurs when checking the split-off update's old_sha1,
  walk the parent_update pointers back to find the original reference
  name, and report that one.

* We still need to write the old_sha1 of the symref to its reflog. So
  after we read the split-off update's reference value, walk the
  parent_update pointers back and fill in their old_sha1 fields.

Aside from eliminating unnecessary reads, this change fixes a
subtle (though not very serious) race condition: in the old code, the
old_sha1 of the symref was resolved before the reference that it pointed
at was locked. So it was possible that the old_sha1 value logged to the
symref's reflog could be wrong if another process changed the downstream
reference before it was locked.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:50 +02:00
Michael Haggerty 8169d0d06a lock_ref_for_update(): don't re-read non-symbolic references
Before the previous patch, our first read of the reference happened
before the reference was locked, so we couldn't trust its value and had
to read it again. But now that our first read of the reference happens
after acquiring the lock, there is no need to read it a second time. So
move the read_ref_full() call into the (update->type & REF_ISSYMREF)
block.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:50 +02:00
Michael Haggerty 92b1551b1d refs: resolve symbolic refs first
Before committing ref updates, split symbolic ref updates into two
parts: an update to the underlying ref, and a log-only update to the
symbolic ref. This ensures that both references are locked correctly
during the transaction, including while their reflogs are updated.

Similarly, if the reference pointed to by HEAD is modified directly, add
a separate log-only update to HEAD, rather than leaving the job of
updating HEAD's reflog to commit_ref_update(). This change ensures that
HEAD is locked correctly while its reflog is being modified, as well as
being cheaper (HEAD only needs to be resolved once).

This makes use of a new function, lock_raw_ref(), which is analogous to
read_raw_ref(), but acquires a lock on the reference before reading it.

This change still has two problems:

* There are redundant read_ref_full() reference lookups.

* It is still possible to get incorrect reflogs for symbolic references
  if there is a concurrent update by another process, since the old_oid
  of a symref is determined before the lock on the pointed-to ref is
  held.

Both problems will soon be fixed.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>

WIP
2016-06-13 11:23:50 +02:00
Michael Haggerty 8415d24746 unlock_ref(): move definition higher in the file
This avoids the need for a forward declaration in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:49 +02:00
Michael Haggerty 165056b2fc lock_ref_for_update(): new function
Extract a new function, lock_ref_for_update(), from
ref_transaction_commit().

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:49 +02:00
Michael Haggerty 71564516de add_update(): initialize the whole ref_update
Change add_update() to initialize all of the fields in the new
ref_update object. Rename the function to ref_transaction_add_update(),
and increase its visibility to all of the refs-related code.

All of this makes the function more useful for other future callers.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:49 +02:00
Michael Haggerty 3a8af7be8f verify_refname_available(): adjust constness in declaration
The two string_list arguments can be const.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:49 +02:00
David Turner 12fd3496d1 refs: don't dereference on rename
When renaming refs, don't dereference either the origin or the destination
before renaming.

The origin does not need to be dereferenced because it is presently
forbidden to rename symbolic refs.

Not dereferencing the destination fixes a bug where renaming on top of
a broken symref would use the pointed-to ref name for the moved
reflog.

Add a test for the reflog bug.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:49 +02:00
David Turner d99aa884df refs: allow log-only updates
The refs infrastructure learns about log-only ref updates, which only
update the reflog.  Later, we will use this to separate symbolic
reference resolution from ref updating.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:49 +02:00
Michael Haggerty 5a563d4ad1 ref_transaction_commit(): correctly report close_ref() failure
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:49 +02:00
Michael Haggerty c52ce248d6 ref_transaction_create(): disallow recursive pruning
It is nonsensical (and a little bit dangerous) to use REF_ISPRUNING
without REF_NODEREF. Forbid it explicitly. Change the one REF_ISPRUNING
caller to pass REF_NODEREF too.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:49 +02:00
Michael Haggerty 0568c8e9dc refs: make error messages more consistent
* Always start error messages with a lower-case letter.

* Always enclose reference names in single quotes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:49 +02:00
Michael Haggerty bcb497d0f8 lock_ref_sha1_basic(): remove unneeded local variable
resolve_ref_unsafe() can cope with being called with NULL passed to its
flags argument. So lock_ref_sha1_basic() can just hand its own type
parameter through.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:49 +02:00
Michael Haggerty cf596442c6 read_raw_ref(): move docstring to header file
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:49 +02:00
Michael Haggerty bb462b0028 read_raw_ref(): improve docstring
Among other things, document the (important!) requirement that input
refname be checked for safety before calling this function.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:49 +02:00
Michael Haggerty 92b380931e read_raw_ref(): rename symref argument to referent
After all, it doesn't hold the symbolic reference, but rather the
reference referred to.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:49 +02:00
Michael Haggerty fa96ea1b88 read_raw_ref(): clear *type at start of function
This is more convenient and less error-prone for callers.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:49 +02:00
Michael Haggerty 3a0b6b9aba read_raw_ref(): rename flags argument to type
This will hopefully reduce confusion with the "flags" arguments that are
used in many functions in this module as an input parameter to choose
how the function should operate.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:49 +02:00
Michael Haggerty efe472813d ref_transaction_commit(): remove local variables n and updates
These microoptimizations don't make a significant difference in speed.
And they cause problems if somebody ever wants to modify the function to
add updates to a transaction as part of processing it, as will happen
shortly.

Make the same changes in initial_ref_transaction_commit().

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-06-13 11:23:26 +02:00
Michael Haggerty e711b1af2e rename_ref(): remove unneeded local variable
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-05-05 16:37:30 +02:00
Michael Haggerty 76fc394d50 commit_ref_update(): write error message to *err, not stderr
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-05-05 16:37:30 +02:00
Michael Haggerty e167a5673e read_raw_ref(): don't get confused by an empty directory
Even if there is an empty directory where we look for the loose version
of a reference, check for a packed reference before giving up. This
fixes the failing test that was introduced two commits ago.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-05-05 16:37:04 +02:00
Michael Haggerty 5387c0d883 commit_ref(): if there is an empty dir in the way, delete it
Part of the bug revealed in the last commit is that resolve_ref_unsafe()
incorrectly returns EISDIR if it finds a directory in the place where it
is looking for a loose reference, even if the corresponding packed
reference exists. lock_ref_sha1_basic() notices the bogus EISDIR, and
use it as an indication that it should call remove_empty_directories()
and call resolve_ref_unsafe() again.

But resolve_ref_unsafe() shouldn't report EISDIR in this case. If we
would simply make that change, then remove_empty_directories() wouldn't
get called anymore, and the empty directory would get in the way when
commit_ref() calls commit_lock_file() to rename the lockfile into place.

So instead of relying on lock_ref_sha1_basic() to delete empty
directories, teach commit_ref(), just before calling commit_lock_file(),
to check whether a directory is in the way, and if so, try to delete it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2016-05-05 16:31:17 +02:00
Junio C Hamano edc2f715bd Merge branch 'dt/pre-refs-backend'
Code restructuring around the "refs" area to prepare for pluggable
refs backends.

* dt/pre-refs-backend: (24 commits)
  refs: on symref reflog expire, lock symref not referrent
  refs: move resolve_ref_unsafe into common code
  show_head_ref(): check the result of resolve_ref_namespace()
  check_aliased_update(): check that dst_name is non-NULL
  checkout_paths(): remove unneeded flag variable
  cmd_merge(): remove unneeded flag variable
  fsck_head_link(): remove unneeded flag variable
  read_raw_ref(): change flags parameter to unsigned int
  files-backend: inline resolve_ref_1() into resolve_ref_unsafe()
  read_raw_ref(): manage own scratch space
  files-backend: break out ref reading
  resolve_ref_1(): eliminate local variable "bad_name"
  resolve_ref_1(): reorder code
  resolve_ref_1(): eliminate local variable
  resolve_ref_unsafe(): ensure flags is always set
  resolve_ref_unsafe(): use for loop to count up to MAXDEPTH
  resolve_missing_loose_ref(): simplify semantics
  t1430: improve test coverage of deletion of badly-named refs
  t1430: test for-each-ref in the presence of badly-named refs
  t1430: don't rely on symbolic-ref for creating broken symrefs
  ...
2016-04-25 15:17:15 -07:00
David Turner 41d796ed5c refs: on symref reflog expire, lock symref not referrent
When locking a symbolic ref to expire a reflog, lock the symbolic
ref (using REF_NODEREF) instead of its referent.

Add a test for this.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-10 11:35:46 -07:00
David Turner 2d0663b216 refs: move resolve_ref_unsafe into common code
Now that resolve_ref_unsafe's only interaction with the backend is
through read_raw_ref, we can move it into the common code. Later,
we'll replace read_raw_ref with a backend function.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-10 11:35:41 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 89e8238965 read_raw_ref(): change flags parameter to unsigned int
read_raw_ref() is going to be part of the vtable for reference backends,
so clean up its interface to use "unsigned int flags" rather than "int
flags". Its caller still uses signed int for its flags arguments. But
changing that would touch a lot of code, so leave it for now.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-10 11:35:31 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 8c346fb1d7 files-backend: inline resolve_ref_1() into resolve_ref_unsafe()
resolve_ref_unsafe() wasn't doing anything useful anymore.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-10 11:35:29 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 42a38cf788 read_raw_ref(): manage own scratch space
Instead of creating scratch space in resolve_ref_unsafe() and passing
it down through resolve_ref_1 to read_raw_ref(), teach read_raw_ref()
to manage its own scratch space. This reduces coupling across the
functions at the cost of some extra allocations.

Also, when read_raw_ref() is implemented for different reference
backends, the other implementations might have different scratch
space requirements.

Note that we now preserve errno across the calls to strbuf_release(),
which calls free() and can thus theoretically overwrite errno.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-10 11:35:26 -07:00
David Turner 7048653a73 files-backend: break out ref reading
Refactor resolve_ref_1 in terms of a new function read_raw_ref, which
is responsible for reading ref data from the ref storage.

Later, we will make read_raw_ref a pluggable backend function, and make
resolve_ref_unsafe common.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-10 11:35:24 -07:00
Michael Haggerty afbe782fa3 resolve_ref_1(): eliminate local variable "bad_name"
We can use (*flags & REF_BAD_NAME) for that purpose.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-10 11:35:22 -07:00
Michael Haggerty e6702e570b resolve_ref_1(): reorder code
There is no need to adjust *flags if we're just about to fail.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-10 11:35:21 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 90c28ae11c resolve_ref_1(): eliminate local variable
In place of `buf`, use `refname`, which is anyway a better description
of what is being pointed at.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-10 11:35:19 -07:00
Michael Haggerty a70a93b794 resolve_ref_unsafe(): ensure flags is always set
If the caller passes flags==NULL, then set it to point at a local
scratch variable. This removes the need for a lot of "if (flags)"
guards in resolve_ref_1() and resolve_missing_loose_ref().

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-10 11:35:17 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 37da4227b2 resolve_ref_unsafe(): use for loop to count up to MAXDEPTH
The loop's there anyway; we might as well use it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-10 11:35:15 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 419c6f4c76 resolve_missing_loose_ref(): simplify semantics
Make resolve_missing_loose_ref() only responsible for looking up a
packed reference, without worrying about whether we want to read or
write the reference and without setting errno on failure. Move the other
logic to the caller.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-10 11:35:13 -07:00
David Turner 937705901b refs: move for_each_*ref* functions into common code
Make do_for_each_ref take a submodule as an argument instead of a
ref_cache.  Since all for_each_*ref* functions are defined in terms of
do_for_each_ref, we can then move them into the common code.

Later, we can simply make do_for_each_ref into a backend function.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-10 11:34:55 -07:00
David Turner 2bf68ed5aa refs: move head_ref{,_submodule} to the common code
These don't use any backend-specific functions.  These were previously
defined in terms of the do_head_ref helper function, but since they
are otherwise identical, we don't need that function.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-10 11:34:41 -07:00
Kazuki Yamaguchi 18eb3a9ce7 set_worktree_head_symref(): fix error message
Emit an informative error when failed to hold lock of HEAD.

2233066e (refs: add a new function set_worktree_head_symref,
2016-03-27) added set_worktree_head_symref(), but this is missing a
call to unable_to_lock_message() after hold_lock_file_for_update()
fails, so it emits an empty error message:

  % git branch -m oldname newname
  error:
  error: HEAD of working tree /path/to/wt is not updated
  fatal: Branch renamed to newname, but HEAD is not updated!

Thanks to Eric Sunshine for pointing this out.

Signed-off-by: Kazuki Yamaguchi <k@rhe.jp>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-08 10:26:23 -07:00
Kazuki Yamaguchi 2233066e77 refs: add a new function set_worktree_head_symref
Add a new function set_worktree_head_symref, to update HEAD symref for
the specified worktree.

To update HEAD of a linked working tree,
create_symref("worktrees/$work_tree/HEAD", "refs/heads/$branch", msg)
could be used. However when it comes to updating HEAD of the main
working tree, it is unusable because it uses $GIT_DIR for
worktree-specific symrefs (HEAD).

The new function takes git_dir (real directory) as an argument, and
updates HEAD of the working tree. This function will be used when
renaming a branch.

Signed-off-by: Kazuki Yamaguchi <k@rhe.jp>
Acked-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-04 12:57:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 11529ecec9 Merge branch 'jk/tighten-alloc'
Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc().

* jk/tighten-alloc: (22 commits)
  ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
  convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
  diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
  transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
  git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
  sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
  test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
  fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
  fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
  write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
  prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
  use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
  convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
  use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
  convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
  convert manual allocations to argv_array
  argv-array: add detach function
  add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
  harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
  tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
  ...
2016-02-26 13:37:16 -08:00
Jeff King 96ffc06f72 convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
Using FLEX_ARRAY macros reduces the amount of manual
computation size we have to do. It also ensures we don't
overflow size_t, and it makes sure we write the same number
of bytes that we allocated.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22 14:51:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano ad25723e69 Merge branch 'jk/ref-cache-non-repository-optim'
The underlying machinery used by "ls-files -o" and other commands
have been taught not to create empty submodule ref cache for a
directory that is not a submodule.  This removes a ton of wasted
CPU cycles.

* jk/ref-cache-non-repository-optim:
  resolve_gitlink_ref: ignore non-repository paths
  clean: make is_git_repository a public function
2016-02-03 14:16:07 -08:00
Jeff King a2d5156c2b resolve_gitlink_ref: ignore non-repository paths
When we want to look up a submodule ref, we use
get_ref_cache(path) to find or auto-create its ref cache.
But if we feed a path that isn't actually a git repository,
we blindly create the ref cache, and then may die deeper in
the code when we try to access it. This is a problem because
many callers speculatively feed us a path that looks vaguely
like a repository, and expect us to tell them when it is
not.

This patch teaches resolve_gitlink_ref to reject
non-repository paths without creating a ref_cache. This
avoids the die(), and also performs better if you have a
large number of these faux-submodule directories (because
the ref_cache lookup is linear, under the assumption that
there won't be a large number of submodules).

To accomplish this, we also break get_ref_cache into two
pieces: the lookup and auto-creation (the latter is lumped
into create_ref_cache). This lets us first cheaply ask our
cache "is it a submodule we know about?" If so, we can avoid
repeating our filesystem lookup. So lookups of real
submodules are not penalized; they examine the submodule's
.git directory only once.

The test in t3000 demonstrates a case where this improves
correctness (we used to just die). The new perf case in
p7300 shows off the speed improvement in an admittedly
pathological repository:

Test                  HEAD^               HEAD
----------------------------------------------------------------
7300.4: ls-files -o   66.97(66.15+0.87)   0.33(0.08+0.24) -99.5%

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-01-25 11:42:13 -08:00
Jeff King 2859dcd4c8 lock_ref_sha1_basic: handle REF_NODEREF with invalid refs
We sometimes call lock_ref_sha1_basic with REF_NODEREF
to operate directly on a symbolic ref. This is used, for
example, to move to a detached HEAD, or when updating
the contents of HEAD via checkout or symbolic-ref.

However, the first step of the function is to resolve the
refname to get the "old" sha1, and we do so without telling
resolve_ref_unsafe() that we are only interested in the
symref. As a result, we may detect a problem there not with
the symref itself, but with something it points to.

The real-world example I found (and what is used in the test
suite) is a HEAD pointing to a ref that cannot exist,
because it would cause a directory/file conflict with other
existing refs.  This situation is somewhat broken, of
course, as trying to _commit_ on that HEAD would fail. But
it's not explicitly forbidden, and we should be able to move
away from it. However, neither "git checkout" nor "git
symbolic-ref" can do so. We try to take the lock on HEAD,
which is pointing to a non-existent ref. We bail from
resolve_ref_unsafe() with errno set to EISDIR, and the lock
code thinks we are attempting to create a d/f conflict.

Of course we're not. The problem is that the lock code has
no idea what level we were at when we got EISDIR, so trying
to diagnose or remove empty directories for HEAD is not
useful.

To make things even more complicated, we only get EISDIR in
the loose-ref case. If the refs are packed, the resolution
may "succeed", giving us the pointed-to ref in "refname",
but a null oid. Later, we say "ah, the null oid means we are
creating; let's make sure there is room for it", but
mistakenly check against the _resolved_ refname, not the
original.

We can fix this by making two tweaks:

  1. Call resolve_ref_unsafe() with RESOLVE_REF_NO_RECURSE
     when REF_NODEREF is set. This means any errors
     we get will be from the orig_refname, and we can act
     accordingly.

     We already do this in the REF_DELETING case, but we
     should do it for update, too.

  2. If we do get a "refname" return from
     resolve_ref_unsafe(), even with RESOLVE_REF_NO_RECURSE
     it may be the name of the ref pointed-to by a symref.
     We already normalize this back to orig_refname before
     taking the lockfile, but we need to do so before the
     null_oid check.

While we're rearranging the REF_NODEREF handling, we can
also bump the initialization of lflags to the top of the
function, where we are setting up other flags. This saves us
from having yet another conditional block on REF_NODEREF
just to set it later.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-01-13 09:05:42 -08:00
Jeff King 6294dcb49f lock_ref_sha1_basic: always fill old_oid while holding lock
Our basic strategy for taking a ref lock is:

  1. Create $ref.lock to take the lock

  2. Read the ref again while holding the lock (during which
     time we know that nobody else can be updating it).

  3. Compare the value we read to the expected "old_sha1"

The value we read in step (2) is returned to the caller via
the lock->old_oid field, who may use it for other purposes
(such as writing a reflog).

If we have no "old_sha1" (i.e., we are unconditionally
taking the lock), then we obviously must omit step 3. But we
_also_ omit step 2. This seems like a nice optimization, but
it means that the caller sees only whatever was left in
lock->old_oid from previous calls to resolve_ref_unsafe(),
which happened outside of the lock.

We can demonstrate this race pretty easily. Imagine you have
three commits, $one, $two, and $three. One script just flips
between $one and $two, without providing an old-sha1:

  while true; do
    git update-ref -m one refs/heads/foo $one
    git update-ref -m two refs/heads/foo $two
  done

Meanwhile, another script tries to set the value to $three,
also not using an old-sha1:

  while true; do
    git update-ref -m three refs/heads/foo $three
  done

If these run simultaneously, we'll see a lot of lock
contention, but each of the writes will succeed some of the
time. The reflog may record movements between any of the
three refs, but we would expect it to provide a consistent
log: the "from" field of each log entry should be the same
as the "to" field of the previous one.

But if we check this:

  perl -alne '
    print "mismatch on line $."
            if defined $last && $F[0] ne $last;
    $last = $F[1];
  ' .git/logs/refs/heads/foo

we'll see many mismatches. Why?

Because sometimes, in the time between lock_ref_sha1_basic
filling lock->old_oid via resolve_ref_unsafe() and it taking
the lock, there may be a complete write by another process.
And the "from" field in our reflog entry will be wrong, and
will refer to an older value.

This is probably quite rare in practice. It requires writers
which do not provide an old-sha1 value, and it is a very
quick race. However, it is easy to fix: we simply perform
step (2), the read-under-lock, whether we have an old-sha1
or not. Then the value we hand back to the caller is always
atomic.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-01-13 09:05:30 -08:00
Jeff King 396da8f7a0 create_symref: write reflog while holding lock
We generally hold a lock on the matching ref while writing
to its reflog; this prevents two simultaneous writers from
clobbering each other's reflog lines (it does not even have
to be two symref updates; because we don't hold the lock, we
could race with somebody writing to the pointed-to ref via
HEAD, for example).

We can fix this by writing the reflog before we commit the
lockfile. This runs the risk of writing the reflog but
failing the final rename(), but at least we now err on the
same side as the rest of the ref code.

Noticed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-29 10:34:25 -08:00
Jeff King 370e5ad65e create_symref: use existing ref-lock code
The create_symref() function predates the existence of
"struct lock_file", let alone the more recent "struct
ref_lock". Instead, it just does its own manual dot-locking.
Besides being more code, this has a few downsides:

 - if git is interrupted while holding the lock, we don't
   clean up the lockfile

 - we don't do the usual directory/filename conflict check.
   So you can sometimes create a symref "refs/heads/foo/bar",
   even if "refs/heads/foo" exists (namely, if the refs are
   packed and we do not hit the d/f conflict in the
   filesystem).

This patch refactors create_symref() to use the "struct
ref_lock" interface, which handles both of these things.
There are a few bonus cleanups that come along with it:

 - we leaked ref_path in some error cases

 - the symref contents were stored in a fixed-size buffer,
   putting an artificial (albeit large) limitation on the
   length of the refname. We now write through fprintf, and
   handle refnames of any size.

 - we called adjust_shared_perm only after the file was
   renamed into place, creating a potential race with
   readers in a shared repository. The lockfile code now
   handles this when creating the lockfile, making it
   atomic.

 - the legacy prefer_symlink_refs path did not do any
   locking at all. Admittedly, it is not atomic from a
   reader's perspective (as it unlinks and re-creates the
   symlink to overwrite), but at least it cannot conflict
   with other writers now.

 - the result of this patch is hopefully more readable. It
   eliminates three goto labels. Two were for error checking
   that is now simplified, and the third was to reach shared
   code that has been pulled into its own function.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-29 10:33:31 -08:00
Jeff King b9badadd06 create_symref: modernize variable names
Once upon a time, create_symref() was used only to point
HEAD at a branch name, and the variable names reflect that
(e.g., calling the path git_HEAD). However, it is much more
generic these days (and has been for some time). Let's
update the variable names to make it easier to follow:

  - `ref_target` is now just `refname`. This is closer to
    the `ref` that is already in `cache.h`, but with the
    extra twist that "name" makes it clear this is the name
    and not a ref struct. Dropping "target" hopefully makes
    it clear that we are talking about the symref itself,
    not what it points to.

  - `git_HEAD` is now `ref_path`; the on-disk path
    corresponding to `ref`.

  - `refs_heads_master` is now just `target`; i.e., what the
    symref points at. This term also matches what is in
    the symlink(2) manpage (at least on Linux).

  - the buffer to hold the symref file's contents was simply
    called `ref`. It's now `buf` (admittedly also generic,
    but at least not actively introducing confusion with the
    other variable holding the refname).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-29 10:33:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano e0048d3e0d Merge branch 'sg/lock-file-commit-error'
Cosmetic improvement to lock-file error messages.

* sg/lock-file-commit-error:
  Make error message after failing commit_lock_file() less confusing
2015-12-11 10:40:55 -08:00
David Turner 0845122c39 refs: break out ref conflict checks
Create new function find_descendant_ref, to hold one of the ref
conflict checks used in verify_refname_available. Multiple backends
will need this function, so move it to the common code.

Also move rename_ref_available to the common code, because alternate
backends might need it and it has no files-backend-specific code.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-11-20 04:52:01 -05:00
David Turner 5f3c3a4e6f files_log_ref_write: new function
Because HEAD and stash are per-worktree, every refs backend needs to
go through the files backend to write these refs.

So create a new function, files_log_ref_write, and add it to
refs/refs-internal.h. Later, we will use this to handle reflog updates
for per-worktree symbolic refs (HEAD).

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-11-20 04:52:01 -05:00
Michael Haggerty 7bd9bcf372 refs: split filesystem-based refs code into a new file
As another step in the move to pluggable reference backends, move the
code that is specific to the filesystem-based reference backend (i.e.,
the current system of storing references as loose and packed files) into
a separate file, refs/files-backend.c.

Aside from a tiny bit of file header boilerplate, this commit only moves
a subset of the code verbatim from refs.c to the new file, as can easily
be verified using patience diff:

    git diff --patience $commit^:refs.c $commit:refs.c
    git diff --patience $commit^:refs.c $commit:refs/files-backend.c

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-11-20 04:52:01 -05:00
Michael Haggerty 4cb77009e1 refs/refs-internal.h: new header file
There are a number of constants, structs, and static functions defined
in refs.c and treated as private to the references module. But we want
to support multiple reference backends within the reference module,
and those backends will need access to some heretofore private
declarations.

We don't want those declarations to be visible to non-refs code, so we
don't want to move them to refs.h. Instead, add a new header file,
refs/refs-internal.h, that is intended to be included only from within
the refs module. Make some functions non-static and move some
declarations (and their corresponding docstrings) from refs.c to this
file.

In a moment we will add more content to the "refs" subdirectory.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-11-20 04:52:01 -05:00