There are 9 places where prefix_path is called, and only in one of
them the returned pointer was checked to be non-zero and only to
call exit(128) as it is usually done by die(). In other 8 places,
the returned value was not checked and it caused SIGSEGV when a
path outside of the working tree was used. For instance, running
git update-index --add /some/path/outside
caused SIGSEGV.
This patch changes prefix_path() to die if the path is outside of
the repository, so it never returns NULL.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
When setup_git_directory() returns successfully, it is supposed to move
current working directory to worktree toplevel directory.
However, the code recomputing prefix inside setup_git_directory() has
to move cwd back to original working directory, in order to get new
prefix. After that, it should move cwd back to worktree toplevel
directory as expected.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* dr/ceiling:
Eliminate an unnecessary chdir("..")
Add support for GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES
Fold test-absolute-path into test-path-utils
Implement normalize_absolute_path
Conflicts:
cache.h
setup.c
* j6t/mingw: (38 commits)
compat/pread.c: Add a forward declaration to fix a warning
Windows: Fix ntohl() related warnings about printf formatting
Windows: TMP and TEMP environment variables specify a temporary directory.
Windows: Make 'git help -a' work.
Windows: Work around an oddity when a pipe with no reader is written to.
Windows: Make the pager work.
When installing, be prepared that template_dir may be relative.
Windows: Use a relative default template_dir and ETC_GITCONFIG
Windows: Compute the fallback for exec_path from the program invocation.
Turn builtin_exec_path into a function.
Windows: Use a customized struct stat that also has the st_blocks member.
Windows: Add a custom implementation for utime().
Windows: Add a new lstat and fstat implementation based on Win32 API.
Windows: Implement a custom spawnve().
Windows: Implement wrappers for gethostbyname(), socket(), and connect().
Windows: Work around incompatible sort and find.
Windows: Implement asynchronous functions as threads.
Windows: Disambiguate DOS style paths from SSH URLs.
Windows: A rudimentary poll() emulation.
Windows: Implement start_command().
...
GIT's guts work with a forward slash as a path separators. We do not change
that. Rather we make sure that only "normalized" paths enter the depths
of the machinery.
We have to translate backslashes to forward slashes in the prefix and in
command line arguments. Fortunately, all of them are passed through
functions in setup.c.
A macro has_dos_drive_path() is defined that checks whether a path begins
with a drive letter+colon combination. This predicate is always false on
Unix. Another macro is_dir_sep() abstracts that a backslash is also a
directory separator on Windows.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
This turns two switch/case statements into an if-else-if cascade because
we later do not want to have
case '/':
#ifdef __MINGW32__
case '\\':
#endif
but use a predicate is_dir_sep(foo) in order to check for the directory
separator.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Once we find the absolute paths for git_dir and work_tree, we can make
git_dir a relative path since we know pwd will be work_tree. This should
save the kernel some time traversing the path to work_tree all the time
if git_dir is inside work_tree.
Daniel's patch didn't apply for me as-is, so I recreated it with some
differences, and here are the numbers from ten runs each.
There is some IO for me - probably due to more-or-less random flushing of
the journal - so the variation is bigger than I'd like, but whatever:
Before:
real 0m8.135s
real 0m7.933s
real 0m8.080s
real 0m7.954s
real 0m7.949s
real 0m8.112s
real 0m7.934s
real 0m8.059s
real 0m7.979s
real 0m8.038s
After:
real 0m7.685s
real 0m7.968s
real 0m7.703s
real 0m7.850s
real 0m7.995s
real 0m7.817s
real 0m7.963s
real 0m7.955s
real 0m7.848s
real 0m7.969s
Now, going by "best of ten" (on the assumption that the longer numbers
are all due to IO), I'm saying a 7.933s -> 7.685s reduction, and it does
seem to be outside of the noise (ie the "after" case never broke 8s, while
the "before" case did so half the time).
So looks like about 3% to me.
Doing it for a slightly smaller test-case (just the "arch" subdirectory)
gets more stable numbers probably due to not filling the journal with
metadata updates, so we have:
Before:
real 0m1.633s
real 0m1.633s
real 0m1.633s
real 0m1.632s
real 0m1.632s
real 0m1.630s
real 0m1.634s
real 0m1.631s
real 0m1.632s
real 0m1.632s
After:
real 0m1.610s
real 0m1.609s
real 0m1.610s
real 0m1.608s
real 0m1.607s
real 0m1.610s
real 0m1.609s
real 0m1.611s
real 0m1.608s
real 0m1.611s
where I'ld just take the averages and say 1.632 vs 1.610, which is just
over 1% peformance improvement.
So it's not in the noise, but it's not as big as I initially thought and
measured.
(That said, it obviously depends on how deep the working directory path is
too, and whether it is behind NFS or something else that might need to
cause more work to look up).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the case where setup_git_directory_gently fails, avoid the last
chdir("..") by moving it after the ceil_offset check.
Signed-off-by: David Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make git recognize a new environment variable that prevents it from
chdir'ing up into specified directories when looking for a GIT_DIR.
Useful for avoiding slow network directories.
For example, I use git in an environment where homedirs are automounted
and "ls /home/nonexistent" takes about 9 seconds. Setting
GIT_CEILING_DIRS="/home" allows "git help -a" (for bash completion) and
"git symbolic-ref" (for my shell prompt) to run in a reasonable time.
Signed-off-by: David Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git_config() only had a function parameter, but no callback data
parameter. This assumes that all callback functions only modify
global variables.
With this patch, every callback gets a void * parameter, and it is hoped
that this will help the libification effort.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* lh/git-file:
Teach GIT-VERSION-GEN about the .git file
Teach git-submodule.sh about the .git file
Teach resolve_gitlink_ref() about the .git file
Add platform-independent .git "symlink"
git init --shared=0xxx, where '0xxx' is an octal number, will create
a repository with file modes set to '0xxx'. Users with a safe umask
value (0077) can use this option to force file modes. For example,
'0640' is a group-readable but not group-writable regardless of
user's umask value. Values compatible with old Git versions are written
as they were before, for compatibility reasons. That is, "1" for
"group" and "2" for "everybody".
"git config core.sharedRepository 0xxx" is also handled.
Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch allows .git to be a regular textfile containing the path of
the real git directory (prefixed with "gitdir: "), which can be useful on
platforms lacking support for real symlinks.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
setup_git_directory_gently() only modified the value of its *nongit_ok
argument if we were not in a git repository. Now it will always set it
to 0 when we are inside a repository.
Also remove now unnecessary initializations in the callers of this
function.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier commit d089ebaa (setup: sanitize absolute and funny paths) made
get_pathspec() aware of absolute paths, but with a botched interface that
forced the callers to count the resulting pathspecs in order to detect
an error of giving a path that is outside the work tree.
This fixes it, by dying inside the function.
We had ls-tree test that relied on a misfeature in the original
implementation of its pathspec handling. Leading slashes were silently
removed from them. However we allow giving absolute pathnames (people
want to cut and paste from elsewhere) that are inside work tree these
days, so a pathspec that begin with slash _should_ be treated as a full
path. The test is adjusted to match the updated rule for get_pathspec().
Earlier I mistook three tests given by Robin that they should succeed, but
these are attempts to add path outside work tree, which should fail
loudly. These tests also have been fixed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change removes all obvious useless if-before-free tests.
E.g., it replaces code like this:
if (some_expression)
free (some_expression);
with the now-equivalent:
free (some_expression);
It is equivalent not just because POSIX has required free(NULL)
to work for a long time, but simply because it has worked for
so long that no reasonable porting target fails the test.
Here's some evidence from nearly 1.5 years ago:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2006-October/031544.html
FYI, the change below was prepared by running the following:
git ls-files -z | xargs -0 \
perl -0x3b -pi -e \
's/\bif\s*\(\s*(\S+?)(?:\s*!=\s*NULL)?\s*\)\s+(free\s*\(\s*\1\s*\))/$2/s'
Note however, that it doesn't handle brace-enclosed blocks like
"if (x) { free (x); }". But that's ok, since there were none like
that in git sources.
Beware: if you do use the above snippet, note that it can
produce syntactically invalid C code. That happens when the
affected "if"-statement has a matching "else".
E.g., it would transform this
if (x)
free (x);
else
foo ();
into this:
free (x);
else
foo ();
There were none of those here, either.
If you're interested in automating detection of the useless
tests, you might like the useless-if-before-free script in gnulib:
[it *does* detect brace-enclosed free statements, and has a --name=S
option to make it detect free-like functions with different names]
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=build-aux/useless-if-before-free
Addendum:
Remove one more (in imap-send.c), spotted by Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/setup:
builtin-mv: minimum fix to avoid losing files
git-add: adjust to the get_pathspec() changes.
Make blame accept absolute paths
setup: sanitize absolute and funny paths in get_pathspec()
The prefix_path() function called from get_pathspec() is
responsible for translating list of user-supplied pathspecs to
list of pathspecs that is relative to the root of the work
tree. When working inside a subdirectory, the user-supplied
pathspecs are taken to be relative to the current subdirectory.
Among special path components in pathspecs, we used to accept
and interpret only "." ("the directory", meaning a no-op) and
".." ("up one level") at the beginning. Everything else was
passed through as-is.
For example, if you are in Documentation/ directory of the
project, you can name Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt as:
howto/maintain-git.txt
../Documentation/howto/maitain-git.txt
../././Documentation/howto/maitain-git.txt
but not as:
howto/./maintain-git.txt
$(pwd)/howto/maintain-git.txt
This patch updates prefix_path() in several ways:
- If the pathspec is not absolute, prefix (i.e. the current
subdirectory relative to the root of the work tree, with
terminating slash, if not empty) and the pathspec is
concatenated first and used in the next step. Otherwise,
that absolute pathspec is used in the next step.
- Then special path components "." (no-op) and ".." (up one
level) are interpreted to simplify the path. It is an error
to have too many ".." to cause the intermediate result to
step outside of the input to this step.
- If the original pathspec was not absolute, the result from
the previous step is the resulting "sanitized" pathspec.
Otherwise, the result from the previous step is still
absolute, and it is an error if it does not begin with the
directory that corresponds to the root of the work tree. The
directory is stripped away from the result and is returned.
- In any case, the resulting pathspec in the array
get_pathspec() returns omit the ones that caused errors.
With this patch, the last two examples also behave as expected.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
setup_git_directory_gently has done the check already.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
git-am -i: report rewritten title
git grep shows the same hit repeatedly for unmerged paths
Do check_repository_format() early (re-fix)
Do check_repository_format() early
Add missing inside_work_tree setting in setup_git_directory_gently
This pushes check_repository_format() (actually _gently() version)
to setup_git_directory_gently() in order to prevent from
using unsupported repositories.
New setup_git_directory_gently()'s behaviour is stop searching
for a valid gitdir and return as if there is no gitdir if a
unsupported repository is found. Warning will be thrown in these
cases.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Repository version check is only performed when
setup_git_directory() is called. This makes sure
setup_git_directory_gently() does the check too.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using the helper function to test for absolute paths makes porting easier.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We check in cmd_blame() if the specified path is there, but we
failed to set up the working tree before that.
While at it, make setup_work_tree() just return if it was run
before.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create a setup_work_tree() that can be used from any command requiring
a working tree conditionally.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When both GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE are set, and
setup_git_directory_gently() changes the current working
directory accordingly, it should also set inside_work_tree = 1.
Without this, work_tree handling code in setup_git_directory()
will be activated. If you stay in root work tree (no prefix),
it does not harm. It does if you work from a subdirectory though.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are a few programs, such as config and diff, which allow running
without a git repository. Therefore, they have to call
setup_git_directory_gently().
However, when GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE were set, and the current
directory was a subdirectory of the work tree,
setup_git_directory_gently() would return a bogus NULL prefix.
This patch fixes that.
Noticed by REPLeffect on IRC.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The old behaviour was to unilaterally default to the cwd is the work tree
when GIT_DIR was set, but GIT_WORK_TREE wasn't, no matter if we are inside
the GIT_DIR, or if GIT_DIR is actually something like ../../../.git.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
apply: remove directory that becomes empty by renaming the last file away
setup.c:verify_non_filename(): don't die unnecessarily while disambiguating
If you have a working tree _file_ "foo", attempt to refer to a
branch "foo/bar" without -- to disambiguate, like this:
$ git log foo/bar
tried to make sure that foo/bar cannot be naming a working tree
file "foo/bar" (in which case we would say "which one do you
want? A rev or a working tree file? clarify with -- please").
We run lstat("foo/bar") to check that. If it does not succeed,
there is no ambiguity.
That is good. But we also checked the error status for the
lstat() and expected it to fail with ENOENT. In this particular
case, however, it fails with ENOTDIR. That should be treated as
"expected error" as well.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In set_work_tree(), variable rel needs to be reinitialized to
NULL on every call (it should not be static).
Make sure the incoming dir variable is not too long before
copying to the temporary buffer, and make sure chdir to the
resulting directory succeeds.
This was spotted and fixed by Alex and Johannes in a handful
patch exchanges. Here is the final version.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
The old version of work-tree support was an unholy mess, barely readable,
and not to the point.
For example, why do you have to provide a worktree, when it is not used?
As in "git status". Now it works.
Another riddle was: if you can have work trees inside the git dir, why
are some programs complaining that they need a work tree?
IOW it is allowed to call
$ git --git-dir=../ --work-tree=. bla
when you really want to. In this case, you are both in the git directory
and in the working tree. So, programs have to actually test for the right
thing, namely if they are inside a working tree, and not if they are
inside a git directory.
Also, GIT_DIR=../.git should behave the same as if no GIT_DIR was
specified, unless there is a repository in the current working directory.
It does now.
The logic to determine if a repository is bare, or has a work tree
(tertium non datur), is this:
--work-tree=bla overrides GIT_WORK_TREE, which overrides core.bare = true,
which overrides core.worktree, which overrides GIT_DIR/.. when GIT_DIR
ends in /.git, which overrides the directory in which .git/ was found.
In related news, a long standing bug was fixed: when in .git/bla/x.git/,
which is a bare repository, git formerly assumed ../.. to be the
appropriate git dir. This problem was reported by Shawn Pearce to have
caused much pain, where a colleague mistakenly ran "git init" in "/" a
long time ago, and bare repositories just would not work.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some lines were not indented by tabs but by spaces.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For compatibility reasons, "git init --shared=all" does not write
"all" into the config, but a number. In the shared setup, you
really have to support even older clients on the _same_ repository.
But git_config_perm() did not pick up on it.
Also, "git update-server-info" failed to pick up on the shared
permissions.
This patch fixes both issues, and adds a test to prove it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Tested-by: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In user space, and for getcwd(), the check to see if the
resulting path begins with a '/' does not make sense. This is
merely a mistake by Linus who is so used to code for the kernel,
where a d_path() return value pathname can be either a real
path, or something like "pipe:[8003]", and the difference is the
'/' at the beginning.
Pointed out by Dscho, Matthias Lederhofer and clarified by Linus.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ei/worktree+filter:
filter-branch: always export GIT_DIR if it is set
setup_git_directory: fix segfault if repository is found in cwd
test GIT_WORK_TREE
extend rev-parse test for --is-inside-work-tree
Use new semantics of is_bare/inside_git_dir/inside_work_tree
introduce GIT_WORK_TREE to specify the work tree
test git rev-parse
rev-parse: introduce --is-bare-repository
rev-parse: document --is-inside-git-dir
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Additionally there was a similar part calling setenv and getenv
in the same way which missed a check if getenv succeeded.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Up to now to check for a working tree this was used:
!is_bare && !inside_git_dir
(the check for bare is redundant because is_inside_git_dir
returned already 1 for bare repositories).
Now the check is:
inside_work_tree && !inside_git_dir
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
setup_gdg is used as abbreviation for setup_git_directory_gently.
The work tree can be specified using the environment variable
GIT_WORK_TREE and the config option core.worktree (the environment
variable has precendence over the config option). Additionally
there is a command line option --work-tree which sets the
environment variable.
setup_gdg does the following now:
GIT_DIR unspecified
repository in .git directory
parent directory of the .git directory is used as work tree,
GIT_WORK_TREE is ignored
GIT_DIR unspecified
repository in cwd
GIT_DIR is set to cwd
see the cases with GIT_DIR specified what happens next and
also see the note below
GIT_DIR specified
GIT_WORK_TREE/core.worktree unspecified
cwd is used as work tree
GIT_DIR specified
GIT_WORK_TREE/core.worktree specified
the specified work tree is used
Note on the case where GIT_DIR is unspecified and repository is in cwd:
GIT_WORK_TREE is used but is_inside_git_dir is always true.
I did it this way because setup_gdg might be called multiple
times (e.g. when doing alias expansion) and in successive calls
setup_gdg should do the same thing every time.
Meaning of is_bare/is_inside_work_tree/is_inside_git_dir:
(1) is_bare_repository
A repository is bare if core.bare is true or core.bare is
unspecified and the name suggests it is bare (directory not
named .git). The bare option disables a few protective
checks which are useful with a working tree. Currently
this changes if a repository is bare:
updates of HEAD are allowed
git gc packs the refs
the reflog is disabled by default
(2) is_inside_work_tree
True if the cwd is inside the associated working tree (if there
is one), false otherwise.
(3) is_inside_git_dir
True if the cwd is inside the git directory, false otherwise.
Before this patch is_inside_git_dir was always true for bare
repositories.
When setup_gdg finds a repository git_config(git_default_config) is
always called. This ensure that is_bare_repository makes use of
core.bare and does not guess even though core.bare is specified.
inside_work_tree and inside_git_dir are set if setup_gdg finds a
repository. The is_inside_work_tree and is_inside_git_dir functions
will die if they are called before a successful call to setup_gdg.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
git.el: Retrieve commit log information from .dotest directory.
git.el: Avoid appending a signoff line that is already present.
setup_git_directory_gently: fix off-by-one error
user-manual: install user manual stylesheet with other web documents
user-manual: fix rendering of history diagrams
user-manual: fix missing colon in git-show example
user-manual: fix inconsistent use of pull and merge
user-manual: fix inconsistent example
glossary: fix overoptimistic automatic linking of defined terms
Documentation: s/seperator/separator/
Adjust reflog filemode in shared repository
don't tell getcwd that the buffer has one spare byte for an extra /
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This mechanically converts strncmp() to use prefixcmp(), but only when
the parameters match specific patterns, so that they can be verified
easily. Leftover from this will be fixed in a separate step, including
idiotic conversions like
if (!strncmp("foo", arg, 3))
=>
if (!(-prefixcmp(arg, "foo")))
This was done by using this script in px.perl
#!/usr/bin/perl -i.bak -p
if (/strncmp\(([^,]+), "([^\\"]*)", (\d+)\)/ && (length($2) == $3)) {
s|strncmp\(([^,]+), "([^\\"]*)", (\d+)\)|prefixcmp($1, "$2")|;
}
if (/strncmp\("([^\\"]*)", ([^,]+), (\d+)\)/ && (length($1) == $3)) {
s|strncmp\("([^\\"]*)", ([^,]+), (\d+)\)|(-prefixcmp($2, "$1"))|;
}
and running:
$ git grep -l strncmp -- '*.c' | xargs perl px.perl
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
For example, it makes no sense to check the presence of a file
named "HEAD" when calling "git log HEAD" in a bare repository.
Noticed by Han-Wen Nienhuys.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
This allows "git checkout v1.4.3" to dissociate the HEAD of
repository from any branch. After this point, "git branch"
starts reporting that you are not on any branch. You can go
back to an existing branch by saying "git checkout master", for
example.
This is still experimental. While I think it makes sense to
allow commits on top of detached HEAD, it is rather dangerous
unless you are careful in the current form. Next "git checkout
master" will obviously lose what you have done, so we might want
to require "git checkout -f" out of a detached HEAD if we find
that the HEAD commit is not an ancestor of any other branches.
There is no such safety valve implemented right now.
On the other hand, the reason the user did not start the ad-hoc
work on a new branch with "git checkout -b" was probably because
the work was of a throw-away nature, so the convenience of not
having that safety valve might be even better. The user, after
accumulating some commits on top of a detached HEAD, can always
create a new branch with "git checkout -b" not to lose useful
work done while the HEAD was detached.
We'll see.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Many users find it unfriendly that they can create a bare git
repository easily with `git clone --bare` but are then unable to
run simple commands like `git log` once they cd into that newly
created bare repository. This occurs because we do not check to
see if the current working directory is a git repository.
Instead of failing out with "fatal: Not a git repository" we should
try to automatically detect if the current working directory is
a bare repository and use that for GIT_DIR, and fail out only if
that doesn't appear to be true.
We test the current working directory only after we have tried
searching up the directory tree. This is to retain backwards
compatibility with our previous behavior on the off chance that
a user has a 'refs' and 'objects' subdirectories and a 'HEAD'
file that looks like a symref, all stored within a repository's
associated working directory.
This change also consolidates the validation logic between the case
of GIT_DIR being supplied and GIT_DIR not being supplied, cleaning
up the code.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
