A user could prepare an empty repository and set it to use SHA256 as
the object format. The new repository created by "git clone" from
such a repository however would not record that it is expecting
objects in the same SHA256 format. This works as expected if the
source repository is not empty.
Just like we started copying the name of the primary branch from the
remote repository even if it is unborn in 3d8314f8 (clone: propagate
empty remote HEAD even with other branches, 2022-07-07), lift the
code that records the object format out of the block executed only
when cloning from an instantiated repository, so that it works also
when cloning from an empty repository.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git blame --contents=<file> <rev> -- <path>" used to be forbidden,
but now it finds the origins of lines starting at <file> contents
through the history that leads to <rev>.
* jk/blame-contents-with-arbitrary-commit:
blame: allow --contents to work with non-HEAD commit
Streamline --rebase-merges command line option handling and
introduce rebase.merges configuration variable.
* ah/rebase-merges-config:
rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges
rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges=""
rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges
Code clean-up.
* jk/fast-export-cleanup:
fast-export: drop unused parameter from anonymize_commit_message()
fast-export: drop data parameter from anonymous generators
fast-export: de-obfuscate --anonymize-map handling
fast-export: factor out anonymized_entry creation
fast-export: simplify initialization of anonymized hashmaps
fast-export: drop const when storing anonymized values
The index files can become corrupt under certain conditions when
the split-index feature is in use, especially together with
fsmonitor, which have been corrected.
* js/split-index-fixes:
unpack-trees: take care to propagate the split-index flag
fsmonitor: avoid overriding `cache_changed` bits
split-index; stop abusing the `base_oid` to strip the "link" extension
split-index & fsmonitor: demonstrate a bug
The wildmatch library code unlearns exponential behaviour it
acquired some time ago since it was borrowed from rsync.
* pw/wildmatch-fixes:
t3070: make chain lint tester happy
wildmatch: hide internal return values
wildmatch: avoid undefined behavior
wildmatch: fix exponential behavior
When I ran this test using `TEST_SHELL_PATH=/bin/bash` in my Ubuntu
setup (where Bash is at version 5.0.17(1)-release), I was greeted with
this error message:
./test-lib.sh: line 1072: $CHALLENGE: ambiguous redirect
This commit fixes that error by quoting the `CHALLENGE` variable (which
has as value a path containing spaces), and by avoiding to cuddle the
empty string parameter in the `printf` call with the redirect character
(in fact, the `printf ''>$CHALLENGE` is removed because the next line
overwrites the file anyway because it _also_ uses a single `>` to
redirect the output).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This argument was added in 7cae7627c4 (builtin/grep.c: integrate with
sparse index, 2022-09-22), but it was a carry-over from an earlier
version where the --sparse flag was added to the 'git grep' builtin.
This argument does not exist, so currently the
p2000-sparse-operations.sh performance test script fails when reaching
this step.
With this fix, the script works with these numbers for my copy of the
Git source code repository:
Test HEAD
------------------------------------------------------------
2000.30: git grep --cached ... (full-v3) 0.34(1.20+0.14)
2000.31: git grep --cached ... (full-v4) 0.31(1.15+0.13)
2000.32: git grep --cached ... (sparse-v3) 0.26(1.13+0.12)
2000.33: git grep --cached ... (sparse-v4) 0.27(1.13+0.12)
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Transports that do not support protocol v2 did not correctly fall
back to protocol v0 under certain conditions, which has been
corrected.
* jk/fix-proto-downgrade-to-v0:
git_connect(): fix corner cases in downgrading v2 to v0
"git rev-parse --quiet foo@{u}", or anything that asks @{u} to be
parsed with GET_OID_QUIETLY option, did not quietly fail, which has
been corrected.
* fc/oid-quietly-parse-upstream:
object-name: fix quiet @{u} parsing
Lift the limitation that colored prompts can only be used with
PROMPT_COMMAND mode.
* fc/completion-colors-do-not-need-prompt-command:
completion: prompt: use generic colors
1f2e05f0b7 ("wildmatch: fix exponential behavior", 2023-03-20)
introduced a new test with a background process. Backgrounding
necessarily gives a result of 0, so that a seemingly broken && chain is
not really broken.
Adjust t3070 slightly so that our chain lint test recognizes the
construct for what it is and does not raise a false positive.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This should have been removed in `ab/retire-scripted-add-p` but wasn't.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a split-index is in effect, the `$GIT_DIR/index` file needs to
contain a "link" extension that contains all the information about the
split-index, including the information about the shared index.
However, in some cases Git needs to suppress writing that "link"
extension (i.e. to fall back to writing a full index) even if the
in-memory index structure _has_ a `split_index` configured. This is the
case e.g. when "too many not shared" index entries exist.
In such instances, the current code sets the `base_oid` field of said
`split_index` structure to all-zero to indicate that `do_write_index()`
should skip writing the "link" extension.
This can lead to problems later on, when the in-memory index is still
used to perform other operations and eventually wants to write a
split-index, detects the presence of the `split_index` and reuses that,
too (under the assumption that it has been initialized correctly and
still has a non-null `base_oid`).
Let's stop zeroing out the `base_oid` to indicate that the "link"
extension should not be written.
One might be tempted to simply call `discard_split_index()` instead,
under the assumption that Git decided to write a non-split index and
therefore the `split_index` structure might no longer be wanted.
However, that is not possible because that would release index entries
in `split_index->base` that are likely to still be in use. Therefore we
cannot do that.
The next best thing we _can_ do is to introduce a bit field to indicate
specifically which index extensions (not) to write. So that's what we do
here.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit adds a new test case that demonstrates a bug in the
split-index code that is triggered under certain circumstances when the
FSMonitor is enabled, and its symptom manifests in the form of one of
the following error messages:
BUG: fsmonitor.c:20: fsmonitor_dirty has more entries than the index (2 > 1)
BUG: unpack-trees.c:776: pos <n> doesn't point to the first entry of <dir>/ in index
error: invalid path ''
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by reset:
initial.t
Which of these error messages appears depends on timing-dependent
conditions.
Technically the root cause lies with a bug in the split-index code that
has nothing to do with FSMonitor, but for the sake of this new test case
it was the easiest way to trigger the bug.
The bug is this: Under specific conditions, Git needs to skip writing
the "link" extension (which is the index extension containing the
information pertaining to the split-index). To do that, the `base_oid`
attribute of the `split_index` structure in the in-memory index is
zeroed out, and `do_write_index()` specifically checks for a "null"
`base_oid` to understand that the "link" extension should not be
written. However, this violates the consistency of the in-memory index
structure, but that does not cause problems in most cases because the
process exits without using the in-memory index structure anymore,
anyway.
But: _When_ the in-memory index is still used (which is the case e.g. in
`git rebase`), subsequent writes of `the_index` are at risk of writing
out a bogus index file, one that _should_ have a "link" extension but
does not. In many cases, the `SPLIT_INDEX_ORDERED` flag _happens_ to be
set for subsequent writes, forcing the shared index to be written, which
re-initializes `base_oid` to a non-bogus state, and all is good.
When it is _not_ set, however, all kinds of mayhem ensue, resulting in
above-mentioned error messages, and often enough putting worktrees in a
totally broken state where the only recourse is to manually delete the
`index` and the `index.lock` files and then call `git reset` manually.
Not something to ask users to do.
The reason why it is comparatively easy to trigger the bug with
FSMonitor is that there is _another_ bug in the FSMonitor code:
`mark_fsmonitor_valid()` sets `cache_changed` to 1, i.e. treating that
variable as a Boolean. But it is a bit field, and 1 happens to be the
`SOMETHING_CHANGED` bit that forces the "link" extension to be skipped
when writing the index, among other things.
"Comparatively easy" is a relative term in this context, for sure. The
essence of how the new test case triggers the bug is as following:
1. The `git rebase` invocation will first reset the worktree to
a commit that contains only the `one.t` file, and then execute a
rebase script that starts with the following commands (commit hashes
skipped):
label onto
reset initial
pick two
label two
reset two
pick three
[...]
2. Before executing the `label` command, a split index is written, as
well as the shared index.
3. The `reset initial` command in the rebase script writes out a new
split index but skips writing the shared index, as intended.
4. The `pick two` command updates the worktree and refreshes the index,
marking the `two.t` entry as valid via the FSMonitor, which sets the
`SOMETHING_CHANGED` bit in `cache_changed`, which in turn causes the
`base_oid` attribute to be zeroed out and a full (non-split) index
to be written (making sure _not_ to write the "link" extension).
5. Now, the `reset two` command will leave the worktree alone, but
still write out a new split index, not writing the shared index
(because `base_oid` is still zeroed out, and there is no index entry
update requiring it to be written, either).
6. When it is turn to run `pick three`, the index is read, but it is
too short: It only contains a single entry when there should be two,
because the "link" extension is missing from the written-out index
file.
There are three bugs at play, actually, which will be fixed over the
course of the next commits:
- The `base_oid` attribute should not be zeroed out to indicate when
the "link" extension should not be written, as it puts the in-memory
index structure into an inconsistent state.
- The FSMonitor should not overwrite bits in `cache_changed`.
- The `unpack_trees()` function tries to reuse the `split_index`
structure from the source index, if any, but does not propagate the
`SPLIT_INDEX_ORDERED` flag.
While a fix for the second bug would let this test case pass, there are
other conditions where the `SOMETHING_CHANGED` bit is set. Therefore,
the bug that most crucially needs to be fixed is the first one.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The purpose of the new option is to accommodate users who would like
--rebase-merges to be on by default and to facilitate turning on
--rebase-merges by default without configuration in a future version of
Git.
Name the new option rebase.rebaseMerges, even though it is a little
redundant, for consistency with the name of the command line option and
to be clear when scrolling through values in the [rebase] section of
.gitconfig.
Support setting rebase.rebaseMerges to the nonspecific value "true" for
users who don't need to or don't want to learn about the difference
between rebase-cousins and no-rebase-cousins.
Make --rebase-merges without an argument on the command line override
any value of rebase.rebaseMerges in the configuration, for consistency
with other command line flags with optional arguments that have an
associated config option.
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As far as I can tell, --no-rebase-merges has always worked, but has
never been documented. It is especially important to document it before
a rebase.rebaseMerges option is introduced so that users know how to
override the config option on the command line. It's also important to
clarify that --rebase-merges without an argument is not the same as
--no-rebase-merges and not passing --rebase-merges is not the same as
passing --rebase-merges=no-rebase-cousins.
A test case is necessary to make sure that --no-rebase-merges keeps
working after its code is refactored in the following patches of this
series. The test case is a little contrived: It's unlikely that a user
would type both --rebase-merges and --no-rebase-merges at the same time.
However, if an alias is defined which includes --rebase-merges, the user
might decide to add --no-rebase-merges to countermand that part of the
alias but leave alone other flags set by the alias.
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fd2da4b1ea (archive: add --mtime, 2023-02-18) added a helper function
for checking the file modification time of an extracted entry. Use it
for the older mtime test as well to shorten the code and piggyback on
the archive extraction done to validate file contents.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --contents option can be used with git blame to blame the file as if
it had the contents from the specified file. This is akin to copying the
contents into the working tree and then running git blame. This option
has been supported since 1cfe77333f ("git-blame: no rev means start
from the working tree file.")
The --contents option always blames the file as if it was based on the
current HEAD commit. If you try to pass a revision while using
--contents, you get the following error:
fatal: cannot use --contents with final commit object name
This is because the blame process generates a fake working tree commit
which always uses the HEAD object as its sole parent.
Enhance fake_working_tree_commit to take the object ID to use for the
parent instead of always using the HEAD object. Then, always generate a
fake commit when we have contents provided, even if we have a final
object. Remove the check to disallow --contents and a final revision.
Note that the behavior of generating a fake working commit is still
skipped when a revision is provided but --contents is not provided.
Generating such a commit in that case would combine the currently
checked out file contents with the provided revision, which breaks
normal blame behavior and produces unexpected results.
This enables use of --contents with an arbitrary revision, rather than
forcing the use of the local HEAD commit. This makes the --contents
option significantly more flexible, as it is no longer required to check
out the working tree to the desired commit before using --contents.
Reword the documentation so that its clear that --contents can be used
with <rev>.
Add tests for the --contents option to the annotate-tests.sh test
script.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we handle an --anonymize-map option, we parse the orig/anon pair,
and then feed the "orig" string to anonymize_str(), along with a
generator function that duplicates the "anon" string to be cached in the
map.
This works, because anonymize_str() says "ah, there is no mapping yet
for orig; I'll add one from the generator". But there are some
downsides:
1. It's a bit too clever, as it's not obvious what the code is trying
to do or why it works.
2. It requires allowing generator functions to take an extra void
pointer, which is not something any of the normal callers of
anonymize_str() want.
3. It does the wrong thing if the same token is provided twice.
When there are conflicting options, like:
git fast-export --anonymize \
--anonymize-map=foo:one \
--anonymize-map=foo:two
we usually let the second one override the first. But by using
anonymize_str(), which has first-one-wins logic, we do the
opposite.
So instead of relying on anonymize_str(), let's directly add the entry
ourselves. We can tweak the tests to show that we handle overridden
options correctly now.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix for a "ls-files --format="%(path)" that produced nonsense
output, which was a bug in 2.38.
* aj/ls-files-format-fix:
ls-files: fix "--format" output of relative paths
"git format-patch" honors the src/dst prefixes set to nonstandard
values with configuration variables like "diff.noprefix", causing
receiving end of the patch that expects the standard -p1 format to
break. Teach "format-patch" to ignore end-user configuration and
always use the standard prefixes.
This is a backward compatibility breaking change.
* jk/format-patch-ignore-noprefix:
rebase: prefer --default-prefix to --{src,dst}-prefix for format-patch
format-patch: add format.noprefix option
format-patch: do not respect diff.noprefix
diff: add --default-prefix option
t4013: add tests for diff prefix options
diff: factor out src/dst prefix setup
When dowild() cannot match a '*' or '/**/' wildcard then it must return
WM_ABORT_TO_STARSTAR or WM_ABORT_ALL respectively. Failure to observe
this results in unnecessary backtracking and the time taken for a failed
match increases exponentially with the number of wildcards in the
pattern [1]. Unfortunately in some instances dowild() returns WM_NOMATCH
for a failed match resulting in long match times for patterns containing
multiple wildcards as can be seen in the following benchmark.
(Note that the timings in the Benchmark 1 are really measuring the time
to execute test-tool rather than the time to match the pattern)
Benchmark 1: t/helper/test-tool wildmatch wildmatch aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab "*a"
Time (mean ± σ): 22.8 ms ± 1.7 ms [User: 12.1 ms, System: 10.6 ms]
Range (min … max): 19.4 ms … 26.9 ms 113 runs
Warning: Ignoring non-zero exit code.
Benchmark 2: t/helper/test-tool wildmatch wildmatch aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab "*a*a*a*a*a*a*a*a*a"
Time (mean ± σ): 5.244 s ± 0.228 s [User: 5.229 s, System: 0.010 s]
Range (min … max): 4.969 s … 5.707 s 10 runs
Warning: Ignoring non-zero exit code.
Summary
't/helper/test-tool wildmatch wildmatch aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab "*a"' ran
230.37 ± 20.04 times faster than 't/helper/test-tool wildmatch wildmatch aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab "*a*a*a*a*a*a*a*a*a"'
The security implications are limited as it only affects operations that
are potentially DoS vectors. For example by creating a blob containing
such a pattern a malicious user can exploit this behavior to use large
amounts of CPU time on a remote server by pushing the blob and then
creating a new clone with --filter=sparse:oid. However this filter type
is usually disabled as it is known to consume large amounts of CPU time
even without this bug.
The WM_MATCH changed in the first hunk of this patch comes from the
original implementation imported from rsync in 5230f605e1 (Import
wildmatch from rsync, 2012-10-15). Compared to the others converted here
it is fairly harmless as it only triggers at the end of the pattern and
so will only cause a single unnecessary backtrack. The others introduced
by 6f1a31f0aa (wildmatch: advance faster in <asterisk> + <literal>
patterns, 2013-01-01) and 46983441ae (wildmatch: make a special case for
"*/" with FNM_PATHNAME, 2013-01-01) are more pernicious and will cause
exponential behavior.
A new test is added to protect against future regressions.
[1] https://research.swtch.com/glob
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tests in t1507-rev-parse-upstream.sh compare files "expect" and "actual"
to assert the output of "git rev-parse", "git show", and "git log".
However, two of the tests '@{reflog}-parsing does not look beyond colon'
and '@{upstream}-parsing does not look beyond colon' don't inspect the
contents of the created files.
Assert output of "git rev-parse" in tests in t1507-rev-parse-upstream.sh
to improve test coverage.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some tests in file t1404-update-ref-errors.sh create file "unchanged" as
the expected side for a test_cmp assertion at the end of the test for
output of "git for-each-ref". Test 'no bogus intermediate values during
delete' also creates a file named "unchanged" using "git for-each-ref".
However, the file isn't used for any assertions in the test. Instead,
"git rev-parse" is used to compare the reference with variable $D.
Don't create unused file "unchanged" in test 'no bogus intermediate
values during delete' of t1404-update-ref-errors.sh.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In t1400-update-ref.sh test 'transaction can create and delete' creates
files "expect" and "actual", but doesn't compare them. Similarly, test
'transaction cannot restart ongoing transaction' redirects output of
"git update-ref" to file "actual", but doesn't check its contents with
any assertions.
Assert output of "git update-ref" in tests to improve test coverage in
t1400-update-ref.sh.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test 'gitdir selection on unsupported repo' in t1302-repo-version.sh
writes output of a "git config" invocation to file "actual". However,
the test doesn't have any assertions for the file. The file was used by
this test until commit b9605bc4f2 (config: only read .git/config from
configured repos, 2016-09-12), before which "git config" was expected to
print the bogus value of "core.repositoryformatversion" to standard
output.
Don't redirect output of "git config" to file "actual" in test 'gitdir
selection on unsupported repo'.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Builtin "git mktree" writes the the object name of the tree object built
to the standard output. Tests 'mktree refuses to read ls-tree -r output
(1)' and 'mktree refuses to read ls-tree -r output (2)' in
"t1010-mktree.sh" redirect output of "git mktree" to a file, but don't
use its contents in assertions.
Don't redirect output of "git mktree" to file "actual" in tests that
assert that an invocation of "git mktree" must fail.
Output of "git mktree" is empty when it refuses to build a tree object.
So, alternatively, the test could assert that the output is empty.
However, there isn't a good reason for the user to expect the command to
be silent in such cases, so we shouldn't enforce it. The user shouldn't
use the output of a failing command anyway.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test "cat-file $arg1 $arg2 error on missing full OID" in
t1006-cat-file.sh compares files "expect.err" and "err.actual" to assert
the expected error output of "git cat-file". A similar test in the same
file named "cat-file $arg1 $arg2 error on missing short OID" also
creates these two files, but doesn't use them in assertions.
Assert error output of "git cat-file" in test "cat-file $arg1 $arg2
error on missing short OID" of t1006-cat-file.sh to improve test
coverage.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test 'reset should work' in t1005-read-tree-reset.sh compares two files
"expect" and "actual" to assert the expected output of "git ls-files".
Several other tests in the same file also create files "expect" and
"actual", but don't use them in assertions.
Assert output of "git ls-files" in t1005-read-tree-reset.sh to improve
test coverage.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git add -p" while the index is unmerged sometimes failed to parse
the diff output it internally produces and died, which has been
corrected.
* jk/add-p-unmerged-fix:
add-patch: handle "* Unmerged path" lines
The code to parse "git rebase -X<opt>" was not prepared to see an
unparsable option string, which has been corrected.
* ab/fix-strategy-opts-parsing:
sequencer.c: fix overflow & segfault in parse_strategy_opts()
"git format-patch" learned to write a log-message only output file
for empty commits.
* jk/format-patch-change-format-for-empty-commits:
format-patch: output header for empty commits
"git bundle" learned that "-" is a common way to say that the input
comes from the standard input and/or the output goes to the
standard output. It used to work only for output and only from the
root level of the working tree.
* jk/bundle-use-dash-for-stdfiles:
parse-options: use prefix_filename_except_for_dash() helper
parse-options: consistently allocate memory in fix_filename()
bundle: don't blindly apply prefix_filename() to "-"
bundle: document handling of "-" as stdin
bundle: let "-" mean stdin for reading operations
A few subcommands have been taught to stop users from working on a
branch that is being used in another worktree linked to the same
repository.
* rj/avoid-switching-to-already-used-branch:
switch: reject if the branch is already checked out elsewhere (test)
rebase: refuse to switch to a branch already checked out elsewhere (test)
branch: fix die_if_checked_out() when ignore_current_worktree
worktree: introduce is_shared_symref()
Allow "git bisect reset" to check out the original branch when the
branch is already checked out in a different worktree linked to the
same repository.
* rj/bisect-already-used-branch:
bisect: fix "reset" when branch is checked out elsewhere
"git push" has been taught to allow deletion of refs with one-level
names to help repairing a repository who acquired such a ref by
mistake. In general, we don't encourage use of such a ref, and
creation or update to such a ref is rejected as before.
* zh/push-to-delete-onelevel-ref:
push: allow delete single-level ref
receive-pack: fix funny ref error messsage
"git restore" supports options like "--ours" that are only
meaningful during a conflicted merge, but these options are only
meaningful when updating the working tree files. These options are
marked to be incompatible when both "--staged" and "--worktree" are
in effect.
* ak/restore-both-incompatible-with-conflicts:
restore: fault --staged --worktree with merge opts
There's code in git_connect() that checks whether we are doing a push
with protocol_v2, and if so, drops us to protocol_v0 (since we know
how to do v2 only for fetches). But it misses some corner cases:
1. it checks the "prog" variable, which is actually the path to
receive-pack on the remote side. By default this is just
"git-receive-pack", but it could be an arbitrary string (like
"/path/to/git receive-pack", etc). We'd accidentally stay in v2
mode in this case.
2. besides "receive-pack" and "upload-pack", there's one other value
we'd expect: "upload-archive" for handling "git archive --remote".
Like receive-pack, this doesn't understand v2, and should use the
v0 protocol.
In practice, neither of these causes bugs in the real world so far. We
do send a "we understand v2" probe to the server, but since no server
implements v2 for anything but upload-pack, it's simply ignored. But
this would eventually become a problem if we do implement v2 for those
endpoints, as older clients would falsely claim to understand it,
leading to a server response they can't parse.
We can fix (1) by passing in both the program path and the "name" of the
operation. I treat the name as a string here, because that's the pattern
set in transport_connect(), which is one of our callers (we were simply
throwing away the "name" value there before).
We can fix (2) by allowing only known-v2 protocols ("upload-pack"),
rather than blocking unknown ones ("receive-pack" and "upload-archive").
That will mean whoever eventually implements v2 push will have to adjust
this list, but that's reasonable. We'll do the safe, conservative thing
(sticking to v0) by default, and anybody working on v2 will quickly
realize this spot needs to be updated.
The new tests cover the receive-pack and upload-archive cases above, and
re-confirm that we allow v2 with an arbitrary "--upload-pack" path (that
already worked before this patch, of course, but it would be an easy
thing to break if we flipped the allow/block logic without also handling
"name" separately).
Here are a few miscellaneous implementation notes, since I had to do a
little head-scratching to understand who calls what:
- transport_connect() is called only for git-upload-archive. For
non-http git remotes, that resolves to the virtual connect_git()
function (which then calls git_connect(); confused yet?). So
plumbing through "name" in connect_git() covers that.
- for regular fetches and pushes, callers use higher-level functions
like transport_fetch_refs(). For non-http git remotes, that means
calling git_connect() under the hood via connect_setup(). And that
uses the "for_push" flag to decide which name to use.
- likewise, plumbing like fetch-pack and send-pack may call
git_connect() directly; they each know which name to use.
- for remote helpers (including http), we already have separate
parameters for "name" and "exec" (another name for "prog"). In
process_connect_service(), we feed the "name" to the helper via
"connect" or "stateless-connect" directives.
There's also a "servpath" option, which can be used to tell the
helper about the "exec" path. But no helpers we implement support
it! For http it would be useless anyway (no reasonable server
implementation will allow you to send a shell command to run the
server). In theory it would be useful for more obscure helpers like
remote-ext, but even there it is not implemented.
It's tempting to get rid of it simply to reduce confusion, but we
have publicly documented it since it was added in fa8c097cc9
(Support remote helpers implementing smart transports, 2009-12-09),
so it's possible some helper in the wild is using it.
- So for v2, helpers (again, including http) are mainly used via
stateless-connect, driven by the main program. But they do still
need to decide whether to do a v2 probe. And so there's similar
logic in remote-curl.c's discover_refs() that looks for
"git-receive-pack". But it's not buggy in the same way. Since it
doesn't support servpath, it is always dealing with a "service"
string like "git-receive-pack". And since it doesn't support
straight "connect", it can't be used for "upload-archive".
So we could leave that spot alone. But I've updated it here to match
the logic we're changing in connect_git(). That seems like the least
confusing thing for somebody who has to touch both of these spots
later (say, to add v2 push support). I didn't add a new test to make
sure this doesn't break anything; we already have several tests (in
t5551 and elsewhere) that make sure we are using v2 over http.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new "fetch.hideRefs" option can be used to exclude specified refs
from "rev-list --objects --stdin --not --all" traversal for
checking object connectivity, most useful when there are many
unrelated histories in a single repository.
* ew/fetch-hiderefs:
fetch: support hideRefs to speed up connectivity checks
Allow information carried on the WWW-AUthenticate header to be
passed to the credential helpers.
* mc/credential-helper-www-authenticate:
credential: add WWW-Authenticate header to cred requests
http: read HTTP WWW-Authenticate response headers
t5563: add tests for basic and anoymous HTTP access
