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
After "git pull" that is configured with pull.rebase=false
merge.ff=only fails due to our end having our own development, give
advice messages to get out of the "Not possible to fast-forward"
state.
* fc/advice-diverged-history:
advice: add diverging advice for novices
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()
Once we start running, we assumed that the list of alternate object
databases would never change. Hook into the machinery used to
update the list of packfiles during runtime to update this list as
well.
* ds/reprepare-alternates-when-repreparing-packfiles:
object-file: reprepare alternates when necessary
"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
Fix a segfaulting loop. The function and its caller may need
further clean-up.
* ew/commit-reach-clean-up-flags-fix:
commit-reach: avoid NULL dereference
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>
We don't look at the "to_fetch" or "nr_heads" parameters at all. At
first glance this seems like a bug (or at least pessimisation), because
it means we fetch more objects from the bundle than we actually need.
But the bundle does not have any way of computing the set of reachable
objects itself (we'd have to pull all of the objects out to walk them).
And anyway, we've probably already paid most of the cost of grabbing the
objects, since we must copy the bundle locally before accessing it.
So it's perfectly reasonable for the bundle code to just pull everything
into the local object store. Unneeded objects can be dropped later via
gc, etc.
But we should mark these unused parameters as such to avoid the wrath of
-Wunused-parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have a generic "fill" function that is used by both the dumb http
push and fetch code paths. It takes a void parameter in case the caller
wants to pass along extra data, but (since the previous commit) neither
does so.
So we could simply drop the extra parameter. But since it's good
practice to provide a void pointer for in callback functions, we'll
leave it here for the future, and just annotate it as unused (to appease
-Wunused-parameter).
While we're marking it, let's also fix the type in http-walker's
function to have the correct "void" type. The original had to cast the
function pointer and was technically undefined behavior (though
generally OK in practice).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We take a "walker" parameter for the request, but don't actually look at
it. This is due to 5424bc557f (http*: add helper methods for fetching
objects (loose), 2009-06-06). Before then, we consulted the "walker"
struct to tell us if we should be verbose, but now those messages are
printed elsewhere.
Let's drop the unused parameter to make -Wunused-parameter happy.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's some debugging code in mailmap.c which is only compiled if you
manually tweak the source to set DEBUG_MAILMAP. When it's not set, the
fallback noop uses static inline functions; we couldn't use macros here
because one of the functions is variadic (and variadic macros were
forbidden back then, but aren't now). As a result, this triggers
a -Wunused-parameter warning.
We have a few options here:
1. Leave it be. Just mark it as UNUSED, or switch to a variadic macro.
2. Assume the debugging code is useful, compile it always, and trigger
it with a run-time flag (e.g., with a trace key). This is pretty
easy to do, and carries a pretty small runtime cost.
3. Assume the debugging is not very useful, and just rip it out. This
matches what we did with a similar case in 69c5f17f11 (attr: drop
DEBUG_ATTR code, 2022-10-06).
The debugging flag has been mentioned only three times on the list.
Once, when it was added in 2009:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover.1234102794.git.marius@trolltech.com/
In 2013, when somebody fixed some compilation errors in the conditional
code (presumably because they used it while making other changes):
https://lore.kernel.org/git/1373871253-96480-1-git-send-email-sunshine@sunshineco.com/
And finally it seemed to have been useful to somebody in 2020:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/87eejswql6.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
So it's not totally without value. On the other hand, it's not likely to
be useful to non-developers (and certainly isn't if you have to
recompile). And using a debugger or adding your own inspection code is
likely to be as useful. So I've just dropped the code entirely here.
Note that we do still have to mark a few parameters unused in callback
functions which are passed to string_list_clear_func(). Those get an
extra pointer with the string being cleared, which we previously fed to
the debugging code.
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
Instead of forcing each command to choose to honor GPG related
configuration variables, make the subsystem lazily initialize
itself.
* jc/gpg-lazy-init:
drop pure pass-through config callbacks
gpg-interface: lazily initialize and read the configuration
More work towards -Wunused.
* jk/unused-post-2.39-part2: (21 commits)
help: mark unused parameter in git_unknown_cmd_config()
run_processes_parallel: mark unused callback parameters
userformat_want_item(): mark unused parameter
for_each_commit_graft(): mark unused callback parameter
rewrite_parents(): mark unused callback parameter
fetch-pack: mark unused parameter in callback function
notes: mark unused callback parameters
prio-queue: mark unused parameters in comparison functions
for_each_object: mark unused callback parameters
list-objects: mark unused callback parameters
mark unused parameters in signal handlers
run-command: mark error routine parameters as unused
mark "pointless" data pointers in callbacks
ref-filter: mark unused callback parameters
http-backend: mark unused parameters in virtual functions
http-backend: mark argc/argv unused
object-name: mark unused parameters in disambiguate callbacks
serve: mark unused parameters in virtual functions
serve: use repository pointer to get config
ls-refs: drop config caching
...
Code clean-up to clarify the rule that "git-compat-util.h" must be
the first to be included.
* en/header-cleanup:
diff.h: remove unnecessary include of object.h
Remove unnecessary includes of builtin.h
treewide: replace cache.h with more direct headers, where possible
replace-object.h: move read_replace_refs declaration from cache.h to here
object-store.h: move struct object_info from cache.h
dir.h: refactor to no longer need to include cache.h
object.h: stop depending on cache.h; make cache.h depend on object.h
ident.h: move ident-related declarations out of cache.h
pretty.h: move has_non_ascii() declaration from commit.h
cache.h: remove dependence on hex.h; make other files include it explicitly
hex.h: move some hex-related declarations from cache.h
hash.h: move some oid-related declarations from cache.h
alloc.h: move ALLOC_GROW() functions from cache.h
treewide: remove unnecessary cache.h includes in source files
treewide: remove unnecessary cache.h includes
treewide: remove unnecessary git-compat-util.h includes in headers
treewide: ensure one of the appropriate headers is sourced first
Code clean-up to clarify directory traversal API.
* en/dir-api-cleanup:
unpack-trees: add usage notices around df_conflict_entry
unpack-trees: special case read-tree debugging as internal usage
unpack-trees: rewrap a few overlong lines from previous patch
unpack-trees: mark fields only used internally as internal
unpack_trees: start splitting internal fields from public API
sparse-checkout: avoid using internal API of unpack-trees, take 2
sparse-checkout: avoid using internal API of unpack-trees
unpack-trees: clean up some flow control
dir: mark output only fields of dir_struct as such
dir: add a usage note to exclude_per_dir
dir: separate public from internal portion of dir_struct
unpack-trees: heed requests to overwrite ignored files
t2021: fix platform-specific leftover cruft
"git fsck" learned to check the index files in other worktrees,
just like "git gc" honors them as anchoring points.
* jk/fsck-indices-in-worktrees:
fsck: check even zero-entry index files
fsck: mention file path for index errors
fsck: check index files in all worktrees
fsck: factor out index fsck
When the prompt command mode was introduced in 1bfc51ac81 (Allow
__git_ps1 to be used in PROMPT_COMMAND, 2012-10-10), the assumption was
that it was necessary in order to properly add colors to PS1 in bash,
but this wasn't true.
It's true that the \[ \] markers add the information needed to properly
calculate the width of the prompt, and they have to be added directly to
PS1, a function returning them doesn't work.
But that is because bash coverts the \[ \] markers in PS1 to \001 \002,
which is what readline ultimately needs in order to calculate the width.
We don't need bash to do this conversion, we can use \001 \002
ourselves, and then the prompt command mode is not necessary to display
colors.
This is what functions returning colors are supposed to do [1].
[1] http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/053
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Joakim Petersen <joak-pet@online.no>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently `git rev-parse --quiet @{u}` is not actually quiet when
upstream isn't configured:
fatal: no upstream configured for branch 'foo'
Make it so.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git-rebase invokes format-patch, it wants to make sure we use the
normal prefixes, and are not confused by diff.noprefix or similar. When
this was added in 5b220a6876 (Add --src/dst-prefix to git-formt-patch
in git-rebase.sh, 2010-09-09), we only had --src-prefix and --dst-prefix
to do so, which requires re-specifying the prefixes we expect to see.
These days we can say what we want more directly: just use the defaults.
This is a minor cleanup that should have no behavior change, but
hopefully the result expresses more clearly what the code is trying to
accomplish.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a bug introduced with the "--format" option in
ce74de93 (ls-files: introduce "--format" option, 2022-07-23),
where relative paths were computed using the output buffer,
which could lead to random garbage data in the output.
Signed-off-by: Adam Johnson <me@adamj.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When accepting a packfile in git-receive-pack(1), we feed that packfile
into git-index-pack(1) to generate the packfile index. As the packfile
would often only contain unreachable objects until the references have
been updated, concurrently running garbage collection might be tempted
to delete the packfile right away and thus cause corruption. To fix
this, we ask git-index-pack(1) to create a `.keep` file before moving
the packfile into place, which is getting deleted again once all of the
reference updates have been processed.
Now in production systems we have observed that those `.keep` files are
sometimes not getting deleted as expected, where the result is that
repositories tend to grow packfiles that are never deleted over time.
This seems to be caused by a race when git-receive-pack(1) is killed
after we have migrated the kept packfile from the quarantine directory
into the main object database. While this race window is typically small
it can be extended for example by installing a `proc-receive` hook.
Fix this race by registering the lockfile as a tempfile so that it will
automatically be removed at exit or when receiving a signal.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the list of files as input was implemented in 6508eedf67
(t/aggregate-results: accomodate systems with small max argument list
length, 2010-06-01), a much simpler solution wasn't considered.
Let's just pass the directory as an argument.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When an object is not found in a repository's object store, we sometimes
call reprepare_packed_git() to see if the object was temporarily moved
into a new pack-file (and its old pack-file or loose object was
deleted). This process does a scan of each pack directory within each
odb, but does not reevaluate if the odb list needs updating.
Extend reprepare_packed_git() to also reprepare the alternate odb list
by setting loaded_alternates to zero and calling prepare_alt_odb(). This
will add newly-discoverd odbs to the linked list, but will not duplicate
existing ones nor will it remove existing ones that are no longer listed
in the alternates file. Do this under the object read lock to avoid
readers from interacting with a potentially incomplete odb being added
to the odb list.
If the alternates file was edited to _remove_ some alternates during the
course of the Git process, Git will continue to see alternates that were
ever valid for that repository. ODBs are not removed from the list, the
same as the existing behavior before this change. Git already has
protections against an alternate directory disappearing from the
filesystem during the lifetime of a process, and those are still in
effect.
This change is specifically for concurrent changes to the repository, so
it is difficult to create a test that guarantees this behavior is
correct. I manually verified by introducing a reprepare_packed_git() call
into get_revision() and stepped into that call in a debugger with a
parent 'git log' process. Multiple runs of prepare_alt_odb() kept
the_repository->objects->odb as a single-item chain until I added a
.git/objects/info/alternates file in a different process. The next run
added the new odb to the chain and subsequent runs did not add to the
chain.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It seems a user would expect this option would work regardless
of whether it's fetching from a single remote, many remotes,
or recursing into submodules.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we generate a diff with --cached, unmerged entries have no oid for
their index entry:
$ git diff-index --abbrev --cached HEAD
:100644 000000 f719efd 0000000 U my-conflict
So when we are asked to produce a patch, since we only have one side, we
just emit a special message:
$ git diff-index --cached -p HEAD
* Unmerged path my-conflict
This confuses interactive-patch modes that look at cached diffs. For
example:
$ git reset -p
BUG: add-patch.c:498: diff starts with unexpected line:
* Unmerged path my-conflict
Making things even more confusing, you'll get that error only if the
unmerged entry is alphabetically the first changed file. Otherwise, we
simply stick the unrecognized line to the end of the previous hunk.
There it's mostly harmless, as it eventually gets fed back to "git
apply", which happily ignores it. But it's still shown to the user
attached to the hunk, which is wrong.
So let's handle these lines as a noop. There's not really anything
useful to do with a conflicted merge in this case, and that's what we do
for other cases like "add -p". There we get a "diff --cc" line, which we
accept as starting a new file, but we refuse to use any of its hunks
(their headers start with "@@@" and not "@@ ", so we silently ignore
them).
It seems like simply recognizing the line and continuing in our parsing
loop would work. But we actually need to run the rest of the loop body
to handle matching up our colored/filtered output. But that code assumes
that we have some active file_diff we're working on. So instead, we'll
just insert a dummy entry into our array. This ends up the same as if we
saw a "diff --cc" line (a file with no hunks).
Reported-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous commit dropped support for diff.noprefix in format-patch.
While this will do the right thing in most cases (where sending patches
without a prefix was an accidental side effect of the sender preferring
to see their local patches without prefixes), it left no good option for
a project or workflow where you really do want to send patches without
prefixes. You'd be stuck using "--no-prefix" for every invocation.
So let's add a config option specific to format-patch that enables this
behavior. That gives people who have such a workflow a way to get what
they want, but makes it hard to accidentally trigger it.
A more backwards-compatible way of doing the transition would be to have
format.noprefix default to diff.noprefix when it's not set. But that
doesn't really help the "accidental" problem; people would have to
manually set format.noprefix=false. And it's unlikely that anybody
really wants format.noprefix=true in the first place. I'm adding it here
mostly as an escape hatch, not because anybody has expressed any
interest in it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The output of format-patch respects diff.noprefix, but this usually ends
up being a hassle for people receiving the patch, as they have to
manually specify "-p0" in order to apply it.
I don't think there was any specific intention for it to behave this
way. The noprefix option is handled by git_diff_ui_config(), and
format-patch exists in a gray area between plumbing and porcelain.
People do look at the output, and we'd expect it to colorize things,
respect their choice of algorithm, and so on. But this particular option
creates problems for the receiver (in theory so does diff.mnemonicprefix,
but since we are always formatting commits, the mnemonic prefixes will
always be "a/" and "b/").
So let's disable it. The slight downsides are:
- people who have set diff.noprefix presumably like to see their
patches without prefixes. If they use format-patch to review their
series, they'll see prefixes. On the other hand, it is probably a
good idea for them to look at what will actually get sent out.
We could try to play games here with "is stdout a tty", as we do for
color. But that's not a completely reliable signal, and it's
probably not worth the trouble. If you want to see the patch with
the usual bells and whistles, then you are better off using "git
log" or "git show".
- if a project really does have a workflow that likes prefix-less
patches, and the receiver is prepared to use "-p0", then the sender
now has to manually say "--no-prefix" for each format-patch
invocation. That doesn't seem _too_ terrible given that the receiver
has to manually say "-p0" for each git-am invocation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
