In `resolve_gitlink_ref()` we implicitly rely on `the_repository` to
look up the submodule ref store. Now that we can look up submodule ref
stores for arbitrary repositories we can improve this function to
instead accept a repository as parameter for which we want to resolve
the gitlink.
Do so and adjust callers accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Looking up submodule ref stores has two deficiencies:
- The initialized subrepo will be attributed to `the_repository`.
- The submodule ref store will be tracked in a global map.
This makes it impossible to have submodule ref stores for a repository
other than `the_repository`.
Modify the function to accept the parent repository as parameter and
move the global map into `struct repository`. Like this it becomes
possible to look up submodule ref stores for arbitrary repositories.
Note that this also adds a new reference to `the_repository` in
`resolve_gitlink_ref()`, which is part of the refs interfaces. This will
get adjusted in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The refs code has two global maps that track the submodule and worktree
ref stores. Even though both of these maps track values by strings, we
still use a `struct hashmap` instead of a `struct strmap`. This has the
benefit of saving us an allocation because we can combine key and value
in a single struct. But it does introduce significant complexity that is
completely unneeded.
Refactor the code to use `struct strmap`s instead to reduce complexity.
It's unlikely that this will have any real-world impact on performance
given that most repositories likely won't have all that many ref stores.
Furthermore, this refactoring allows us to de-globalize those maps and
move them into `struct repository` in a subsequent commit more easily.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ref storages are typically only initialized once for `the_repository`
and then never released. Until now we got away with that without causing
memory leaks because `the_repository` stays reachable, and because the
ref backend is reachable via `the_repository` its memory basically never
leaks.
This is about to change though because of the upcoming migration logic,
which will create a secondary ref storage. In that case, we will either
have to release the old or new ref storage to avoid leaks.
Implement a new `release` callback and expose it via a new
`ref_storage_release()` function.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reference backends have two callbacks `init` and `init_db`. The
similarity of these two callbacks has repeatedly confused me whenever I
was looking at them, where I always had to look up which of them does
what.
Rename the `init_db` callback to `create_on_disk`, which should
hopefully be clearer.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The names of the functions that implement the `init` and `init_db`
callbacks in the "files" and "packed" backends do not match the names of
the callbacks, which is inconsistent. Rename them so that they match,
which makes it easier to discover their respective implementations.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a section to explain how to work around other in-flight patches and
how to navigate conflicts which arise as a series is being iterated.
This provides the necessary steps that users can follow to reduce
friction with other ongoing topics and also provides guidelines on how
the users can also communicate this to the list efficiently.
Co-authored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With fe3ccc7aab (Merge branch 'ps/config-subcommands', 2024-05-15),
git-config(1) has gained support for subcommands. These subcommands live
next to the old, action-based mode, so that both the old and new way
continue to work.
The manpage for this command has been updated to prominently show the
subcommands, and the action-based modes are marked as deprecated. Update
Bash completion scripts accordingly to advertise subcommands instead of
actions.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
1ff750b1 (tests: make GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON a boolean, 2019-06-21)
added this test, in which "test-tool -C" is fed a name of a
directory that does not exist, and expects that it dies because of a
failure to read the configuration file(s), because the configuration
setting is screwed up to contain mutual inclusion loop, before it
notices that the directory to chdir into does not exist and dies.
It is of dubious value to etch the current order of events, i.e.,
the configuration needs to be read that early (for initializing
trace2 subsystem) before we even notice the lack of the directory
and have a chance to fail, into stone. Indeed, if you completely
compile out trace2 subsystem so that it does not even attempt to
read the configuration that early, we would die with a different
error message (i.e. "unable to chdir to 'cycle'") and this test will
fail.
At least give a bogus argument to "test-tool -C" a name that is
clearly bogus to make sure we can more easily see what is going on
with plenty of comments.
We may want to remove this test altogether, instead, though.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The refs API lost functions that implicitly assumes to work on the
primary ref_store by forcing the callers to pass a ref_store as an
argument.
* ps/refs-without-the-repository:
refs: remove functions without ref store
cocci: apply rules to rewrite callers of "refs" interfaces
cocci: introduce rules to transform "refs" to pass ref store
refs: add `exclude_patterns` parameter to `for_each_fullref_in()`
refs: introduce missing functions that accept a `struct ref_store`
A new global "--no-advice" option can be used to disable all advice
messages, which is meant to be used only in scripts.
* jl/git-no-advice:
t0018: two small fixes
advice: add --no-advice global option
doc: add spacing around paginate options
doc: clean up usage documentation for --no-* opts
* ps/refs-without-the-repository:
refs: remove functions without ref store
cocci: apply rules to rewrite callers of "refs" interfaces
cocci: introduce rules to transform "refs" to pass ref store
refs: add `exclude_patterns` parameter to `for_each_fullref_in()`
refs: introduce missing functions that accept a `struct ref_store`
The bug went unnoticed because grep with null RE matches everything.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Telka <marcel@telka.sk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git passes a credential that has been used successfully to the helpers
to record. If a credential is already stored,
"git-credential-osxkeychain store" just records the credential returned
by "git-credential-osxkeychain get", and unnecessary (sometimes
problematic) SecItemAdd() and/or SecItemUpdate() are performed.
We can skip such unnecessary operations by marking a credential returned
by "git-credential-osxkeychain get". This marking can be done by
utilizing the "state[]" feature:
- The "get" command sets the field "state[]=osxkeychain:seen=1".
- The "store" command skips its actual operation if the field
"state[]=osxkeychain:seen=1" exists.
Introduce a new state "state[]=osxkeychain:seen=1".
Suggested-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Koji Nakamaru <koji.nakamaru@gree.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git passes a credential that has been used successfully to the helpers
to record. If "git-credential-osxkeychain store" commands run in
parallel (with fetch.parallel configuration and/or by running multiple
git commands simultaneously), some of them may exit with the error
"failed to store: -25299". This is because SecItemUpdate() in
add_internet_password() may return errSecDuplicateItem (-25299) in this
situation. Apple's documentation [1] also states as below:
In macOS, some of the functions of this API block while waiting for
input from the user (for example, when the user is asked to unlock a
keychain or give permission to change trust settings). In general, it
is safe to use this API in threads other than your main thread, but
avoid calling the functions from multiple operations, work queues, or
threads concurrently. Instead, serialize function calls or confine
them to a single thread.
The error has not been noticed before, because the former implementation
ignored the error.
Introduce an exclusive lock to serialize execution of operations.
[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/certificate_key_and_trust_services/working_with_concurrency
Signed-off-by: Koji Nakamaru <koji.nakamaru@gree.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--exit-code" option of "git diff" command learned to work with
the "--ext-diff" option.
* rs/external-diff-with-exit-code:
diff: fix --exit-code with external diff
diff: report unmerged paths as changes in run_diff_cmd()
The "whitespace check" task that was enabled for GitHub Actions CI
has been ported to GitLab CI.
* jt/port-ci-whitespace-check-to-gitlab:
gitlab-ci: add whitespace error check
ci: make the whitespace report optional
ci: separate whitespace check script
github-ci: fix link to whitespace error
ci: pre-collapse GitLab CI sections
"git tag" learned the "--trailer" option to futz with the trailers
in the same way as "git commit" does.
* jp/tag-trailer:
builtin/tag: add --trailer option
builtin/commit: refactor --trailer logic
builtin/commit: use ARGV macro to collect trailers
The "test-tool" has been taught to run testsuite tests in parallel,
bypassing the need to use the "prove" tool.
* js/unit-test-suite-runner:
cmake: let `test-tool` run the unit tests, too
ci: use test-tool as unit test runner on Windows
t/Makefile: run unit tests alongside shell tests
unit tests: add rule for running with test-tool
test-tool run-command testsuite: support unit tests
test-tool run-command testsuite: remove hardcoded filter
test-tool run-command testsuite: get shell from env
t0080: turn t-basic unit test into a helper
Pseudorefs are not stored in the ref database as by definition, they
carry additional metadata that essentially makes them not a ref. As
such, writing pseudorefs via the ref backend does not make any sense
whatsoever as the ref backend wouldn't know how exactly to store the
data.
Restrict writing pseudorefs via the ref backend.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ref-filter interfaces currently define root refs as either a
detached HEAD or a pseudo ref. Pseudo refs aren't root refs though, so
let's properly distinguish those ref types.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `is_root_ref()` function will happily clarify a pseudoref as a root
ref, even though pseudorefs are no refs. Next to being wrong, it also
leads to inconsistent behaviour across ref backends: while the "files"
backend accidentally knows to parse those pseudorefs and thus yields
them to the caller, the "reftable" backend won't ever see the pseudoref
at all because they are never stored in the "reftable" backend.
Fix this issue by filtering out pseudorefs in `is_root_ref()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Root refs are those refs that live in the root of the ref hierarchy.
Our old and venerable "HEAD" reference falls into this category, but we
don't yet classify it as such in `is_root_ref()`.
Adapt the function to also treat "HEAD" as a root ref. This change is
safe to do for all current callers:
- `ref_kind_from_refname()` already handles "HEAD" explicitly before
calling `is_root_ref()`.
- The "files" and "reftable" backends explicitly call both
`is_root_ref()` and `is_headref()` together.
This also aligns behaviour or `is_root_ref()` and `is_headref()` such
that we stop checking for ref existence. This changes semantics for our
backends:
- In the reftable backend we already know that the ref must exist
because `is_headref()` is called as part of the ref iterator. The
existence check is thus redundant, and the change is safe to do.
- In the files backend we use it when populating root refs, where we
would skip adding the "HEAD" file if it was not possible to resolve
it. The new behaviour is to instead mark "HEAD" as broken, which
will cause us to emit warnings in various places.
As there are no callers of `is_headref()` left afer the refactoring, we
can absorb it completely into `is_root_ref()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before this patch series, root refs except for "HEAD" and our special
refs were classified as pseudorefs. Furthermore, our terminology
clarified that pseudorefs must not be symbolic refs. This restriction
is enforced in `is_root_ref()`, which explicitly checks that a supposed
root ref resolves to an object ID without recursing.
This has been extremely confusing right from the start because (in old
terminology) a ref name may sometimes be a pseudoref and sometimes not
depending on whether it is a symbolic or regular ref. This behaviour
does not seem reasonable at all and I very much doubt that it results in
anything sane.
Last but not least, the current behaviour can actually lead to a
segfault when calling `is_root_ref()` with a reference that either does
not exist or that is a symbolic ref because we never initialized `oid`,
but then read it via `is_null_oid()`.
We have now changed terminology to clarify that pseudorefs are really
only "MERGE_HEAD" and "FETCH_HEAD", whereas all the other refs that live
in the root of the ref hierarchy are just plain refs. Thus, we do not
need to check whether the ref is symbolic or not. In fact, we can now
avoid looking up the ref completely as the name is sufficient for us to
figure out whether something would be a root ref or not.
This change of course changes semantics for our callers. As there are
only three of them we can assess each of them individually:
- "ref-filter.c:ref_kind_from_refname()" uses it to classify refs.
It's clear that the intent is to classify based on the ref name,
only.
- "refs/reftable_backend.c:reftable_ref_iterator_advance()" uses it to
filter root refs. Again, using existence checks is pointless here as
the iterator has just surfaced the ref, so we know it does exist.
- "refs/files_backend.c:add_pseudoref_and_head_entries()" uses it to
determine whether it should add a ref to the root directory of its
iterator. This had the effect that we skipped over any files that
are either a symbolic ref, or which are not a ref at all.
The new behaviour is to include symbolic refs know, which aligns us
with the adapted terminology. Furthermore, files which look like
root refs but aren't are now mark those as "broken". As broken refs
are not surfaced by our tooling, this should not lead to a change in
user-visible behaviour, but may cause us to emit warnings. This
feels like the right thing to do as we would otherwise just silently
ignore corrupted root refs completely.
So in all cases the existence check was either superfluous, not in line
with the adapted terminology or masked potential issues. This commit
thus changes the behaviour as proposed and drops the existence check
altogether.
Add a test that verifies that this does not change user-visible
behaviour. Namely, we still don't want to show broken refs to the user
by default in git-for-each-ref(1). What this does allow though is for
internal callers to surface dangling root refs when they pass in the
`DO_FOR_EACH_INCLUDE_BROKEN` flag.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename `is_special_ref()` to `is_pseudo_ref()` to adapt to the newly
defined terminology in our gitglossary(7). Note that in the preceding
commit we have just renamed `is_pseudoref()` to `is_root_ref()`, where
there may be confusion for in-flight patch series that add new calls to
`is_pseudoref()`. In order to intentionally break such patch series we
have thus picked `is_pseudo_ref()` instead of `is_pseudoref()` as the
new name.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename `is_pseudoref()` to `is_root_ref()` to adapt to the newly defined
terminology in our gitglossary(7).
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Except for the pseudorefs MERGE_HEAD and FETCH_HEAD, all refs that live
in the root of the ref hierarchy behave the exact same as normal refs.
They can be symbolic refs or direct refs and can be read, iterated over
and written via normal tooling. All of these refs are stored in the ref
backends, which further demonstrates that they are just normal refs.
Extend the definition of "ref" to also cover such root refs. The only
additional restriction for root refs is that they must conform to a
specific naming schema.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify limitations that pseudorefs have:
- They can be read via git-rev-parse(1) and similar tools.
- They are not surfaced when iterating through refs, like when using
git-for-each-ref(1). They are not refs, so iterating through refs
should not surface them.
- They cannot be written via git-update-ref(1) and related commands.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Nowadays, Git knows about three different kinds of refs. As defined in
gitglossary(7):
- Regular refs that start with "refs/", like "refs/heads/main".
- Pseudorefs, which live in the root directory. These must have
all-caps names and must be a file that start with an object hash.
Consequently, symbolic refs are not pseudorefs because they do not
start with an object hash.
- Special refs, of which we only have "FETCH_HEAD" and "MERGE_HEAD".
This state is extremely confusing, and I would claim that most folks
don't fully understand what is what here. The current definitions also
have several problems:
- Where does "HEAD" fit in? It's not a pseudoref because it can be
a symbolic ref. It's not a regular ref because it does not start
with "refs/". And it's not a special ref, either.
- There is a strong overlap between pseudorefs and special refs. The
pseudoref section for example mentions "MERGE_HEAD", even though it
is a special ref. Is it thus both a pseudoref and a special ref?
- Why do we even need to distinguish refs that live in the root from
other refs when they behave just like a regular ref anyway?
In other words, the current state is quite a mess and leads to wild
inconsistencies without much of a good reason.
The original reason why pseudorefs were introduced is that there are
some refs that sometimes behave like a ref, even though they aren't a
ref. And we really only have two of these nowadays, namely "MERGE_HEAD"
and "FETCH_HEAD". Those files are never written via the ref backends,
but are instead written by git-fetch(1), git-pull(1) and git-merge(1).
They contain additional metadata that highlights where a ref has been
fetched from or the list of commits that have been merged.
This original intent in fact matches the definition of special refs that
we have recently introduced in 8df4c5d205 (Documentation: add "special
refs" to the glossary, 2024-01-19). Due to the introduction of the new
reftable backend we were forced to distinguish those refs more clearly
such that we don't ever try to read or write them via the reftable
backend. In the same series, we also addressed all the other cases where
we used to write those special refs via the filesystem directly, thus
circumventing the ref backend, to instead write them via the backends.
Consequently, there are no other refs left anymore which are special.
Let's address this mess and return the pseudoref terminology back to its
original intent: a ref that sometimes behave like a ref, but which isn't
really a ref because it gets written to the filesystem directly. Or in
other words, let's redefine pseudorefs to match the current definition
of special refs. As special refs and pseudorefs are now the same per
definition, we can drop the "special refs" term again. It's not exposed
to our users and thus they wouldn't ever encounter that term anyway.
Refs that live in the root of the ref hierarchy but which are not
pseudorefs will be further defined in a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We use several global variables to pass data between callers and
callbacks in `get_color()` and `get_colorbool()`. Convert those to use
callback data structures instead.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both the `do_all` and `use_key_regexp` bits essentially act like flags
to `get_value()`. Let's convert them to actual flags so that we can get
rid of the last two remaining global variables that track options.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We track the "fixed value" option via two separate bits: once via the
global variable `fixed_value`, and once via the CONFIG_FLAGS_FIXED_VALUE
bit in `flags`. This is confusing and may easily lead to issues when one
is not aware that this is tracked via two separate mechanisms.
Refactor the code to use the flag exclusively. We already pass it to all
the required callsites anyway, except for `collect_config()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `key` variable is used by the `get_value()` function for two
purposes:
- It is used to store the result of `git_config_parse_key()`, which is
then passed on to `collect_config()`.
- It is used as a store to convert the provided key to an
all-lowercase key when `use_key_regexp` is set.
Neither of these cases warrant a global variable at all. In the former
case we can pass the key via `struct collect_config_data`. And in the
latter case we really only want to have it as a temporary local variable
such that we can free associated memory.
Refactor the code accordingly to reduce our reliance on global state.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `key_regexp` variable is used by the `format_config()` callback when
`use_key_regexp` is set. It is only ever set up by its only caller,
`collect_config()` and can thus easily be moved into the
`collect_config_data` structure.
Do so to remove our reliance on global state.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `regexp` variable is used by the `format_config()` callback when
`CONFIG_FLAGS_FIXED_VALUE` is not set. It is only ever set up by its
only caller, `collect_config()` and can thus easily be moved into the
`collect_config_data` structure.
Do so to remove our reliance on global state.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `value_pattern` variable is used by the `format_config()` callback
when `CONFIG_FLAGS_FIXED_VALUE` is used. It is only ever set up by its
only caller, `collect_config()` and can thus easily be moved into the
`collect_config_data` structure.
Do so to remove our reliance on global state.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `do_not_match` variable is used by the `format_config()` callback as
an indicator whether or not the passed regular expression is negated. It
is only ever set up by its only caller, `collect_config()` and can thus
easily be moved into the `collect_config_data` structure.
Do so to remove our reliance on global state.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The variable tracking whether or not we want to honor includes is
tracked via a global variable. Move it into the location options
instead.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The default value is tracked via a global variable. Move it into the
display options instead.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The type options are tracked via a global variable. Move it into the
display options instead.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The display options are tracked via a set of global variables. Move
them into a self-contained structure so that we can easily parse all
relevant options and hand them over to the various functions that
require them.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
