When we iterate over the list of loose objects to check, we
get the actual path of each object. But we then throw it
away and pass just the sha1 to fsck_sha1(), which will do a
fresh lookup. Usually it would find the same object, but it
may not if an object exists both as a loose and a packed
object. We may end up checking the packed object twice, and
never look at the loose one.
In practice this isn't too terrible, because if fsck doesn't
complain, it means you have at least one good copy. But
since the point of fsck is to look for corruption, we should
be thorough.
The new read_loose_object() interface can help us get the
data from disk, and then we replace parse_object() with
parse_object_buffer(). As a bonus, our error messages now
mention the path to a corrupted object, which should make it
easier to track down errors when they do happen.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git archive" and "git mailinfo" stopped reading from local
configuration file with a recent update.
* jc/setup-cleanup-fix:
archive: read local configuration
mailinfo: read local configuration
"git rebase -i" did not work well with core.commentchar
configuration variable for two reasons, both of which have been
fixed.
* js/rebase-i-commentchar-fix:
rebase -i: handle core.commentChar=auto
stripspace: respect repository config
rebase -i: highlight problems with core.commentchar
Since b9605bc4f2 ("config: only read .git/config from configured
repos", 2016-09-12), we do not read from ".git/config" unless we
know we are in a repository. "git archive" however didn't do the
repository discovery and instead relied on the old behaviour.
Teach the command to run a "gentle" version of repository discovery
so that local configuration variables are honoured.
[jc: stole tests from peff]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since b9605bc4f2 ("config: only read .git/config from configured
repos", 2016-09-12), we do not read from ".git/config" unless we
know we are in a repository. "git mailinfo" however didn't do the
repository discovery and instead relied on the old behaviour. This
was mostly OK because it was merely run as a helper program by other
porcelain scripts that first chdir's up to the root of the working
tree.
Teach the command to run a "gentle" version of repository discovery
so that local configuration variables like mailinfo.scissors are
honoured.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The way "git stripspace" reads the configuration was not quite
kosher, in that the code forgot to probe for a possibly existing
repository (note: stripspace is designed to be usable outside the
repository as well). It read .git/config only when it was run from
the top-level of the working tree by accident. A recent change
b9605bc4f2 ("config: only read .git/config from configured repos",
2016-09-12) stopped reading the repository-local configuration file
".git/config" unless the repository discovery process is done, so
that .git/config is never read even when run from the top-level,
exposing the old bug more.
When rebasing interactively with a commentChar defined in the
current repository's config, the help text at the bottom of the edit
script potentially used an incorrect comment character. This was not
only funny-looking, but also resulted in tons of warnings like this
one:
Warning: the command isn't recognized in the following line
- #
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function used to have the caller pass in the current
value of HEAD, in order to make sure we didn't clobber HEAD.
In 55c4a6730, that logic moved to validate_new_branchname(),
which just resolves HEAD itself. The parameter to
create_branch is now unused.
Since we have to update and re-wrap the docstring describing
the parameters anyway, let's take this opportunity to break
it out into a list, which makes it easier to find the
parameters.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The smudge/clean filter API expect an external process is spawned
to filter the contents for each path that has a filter defined. A
new type of "process" filter API has been added to allow the first
request to run the filter for a path to spawn a single process, and
all filtering need is served by this single process for multiple
paths, reducing the process creation overhead.
* ls/filter-process:
contrib/long-running-filter: add long running filter example
convert: add filter.<driver>.process option
convert: prepare filter.<driver>.process option
convert: make apply_filter() adhere to standard Git error handling
pkt-line: add functions to read/write flush terminated packet streams
pkt-line: add packet_write_gently()
pkt-line: add packet_flush_gently()
pkt-line: add packet_write_fmt_gently()
pkt-line: extract set_packet_header()
pkt-line: rename packet_write() to packet_write_fmt()
run-command: add clean_on_exit_handler
run-command: move check_pipe() from write_or_die to run_command
convert: modernize tests
convert: quote filter names in error messages
Git generally does not explicitly close file descriptors that were
open in the parent process when spawning a child process, but most
of the time the child does not want to access them. As Windows does
not allow removing or renaming a file that has a file descriptor
open, a slow-to-exit child can even break the parent process by
holding onto them. Use O_CLOEXEC flag to open files in various
codepaths.
* ls/git-open-cloexec:
read-cache: make sure file handles are not inherited by child processes
sha1_file: open window into packfiles with O_CLOEXEC
sha1_file: rename git_open_noatime() to git_open()
Push pptr down into the FROM_MERGE branch of the if/else statement,
where it's actually used, and call commit_list_append() for appending
elements instead of playing tricks with commit_list_insert(). Call
copy_commit_list() in the amend branch instead of open-coding it. Don't
bother setting pptr in the final branch as it's not used thereafter.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When new paths were added by "git add -N" to the index, it was
enough to circumvent the check by "git commit" to refrain from
making an empty commit without "--allow-empty". The same logic
prevented "git status" to show such a path as "new file" in the
"Changes not staged for commit" section.
* nd/ita-empty-commit:
commit: don't be fooled by ita entries when creating initial commit
commit: fix empty commit creation when there's no changes but ita entries
diff: add --ita-[in]visible-in-index
diff-lib: allow ita entries treated as "not yet exist in index"
Update of the sequencer codebase to make it reusable to reimplement
"rebase -i" continues.
* js/prepare-sequencer: (27 commits)
sequencer: mark all error messages for translation
sequencer: start error messages consistently with lower case
sequencer: quote filenames in error messages
sequencer: mark action_name() for translation
sequencer: remove overzealous assumption in rebase -i mode
sequencer: teach write_message() to append an optional LF
sequencer: refactor write_message() to take a pointer/length
sequencer: roll back lock file if write_message() failed
sequencer: stop releasing the strbuf in write_message()
sequencer: left-trim lines read from the script
sequencer: support cleaning up commit messages
sequencer: support amending commits
sequencer: allow editing the commit message on a case-by-case basis
sequencer: introduce a helper to read files written by scripts
sequencer: prepare for rebase -i's commit functionality
sequencer: remember the onelines when parsing the todo file
sequencer: get rid of the subcommand field
sequencer: avoid completely different messages for different actions
sequencer: strip CR from the todo script
sequencer: completely revamp the "todo" script parsing
...
A minor regression fix for "git submodule".
* sb/submodule-ignore-trailing-slash:
t0060: sidestep surprising path mangling results on Windows
submodule: ignore trailing slash in relative url
submodule: ignore trailing slash on superproject URL
Update "git diff --no-index" codepath not to try to peek into .git/
directory that happens to be under the current directory, when we
know we are operating outside any repository.
* jk/no-looking-at-dotgit-outside-repo:
diff: handle sha1 abbreviations outside of repository
diff_aligned_abbrev: use "struct oid"
diff_unique_abbrev: rename to diff_aligned_abbrev
find_unique_abbrev: use 4-buffer ring
test-*-cache-tree: setup git dir
read info/{attributes,exclude} only when in repository
"git push" and "git fetch" reports from what old object to what new
object each ref was updated, using abbreviated refnames, and they
attempt to align the columns for this and other pieces of
information. The way these codepaths compute how many display
columns to allocate for the object names portion of this output has
been updated to match the recent "auto scale the default
abbreviation length" change.
* jc/abbrev-auto:
transport: compute summary-width dynamically
transport: allow summary-width to be computed dynamically
fetch: pass summary_width down the callchain
transport: pass summary_width down the callchain
Allow the default abbreviation length, which has historically been
7, to scale as the repository grows. The logic suggests to use 12
hexdigits for the Linux kernel, and 9 to 10 for Git itself.
* lt/abbrev-auto:
abbrev: auto size the default abbreviation
abbrev: prepare for new world order
abbrev: add FALLBACK_DEFAULT_ABBREV to prepare for auto sizing
Some code paths want to format multiple abbreviated sha1s in
the same output line. Because we use a single static buffer
for our return value, they have to either break their output
into several calls or allocate their own arrays and use
find_unique_abbrev_r().
Intead, let's mimic sha1_to_hex() and use a ring of several
buffers, so that the return value stays valid through
multiple calls. This shortens some of the callers, and makes
it harder to for them to make a silly mistake.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A recently graduated topic regressed "git rev-list --header"
output, breaking "gitweb". This has been fixed.
* jk/diff-submodule-diff-inline:
rev-list: use hdr_termination instead of a always using a newline
When fetching from a remote that has many tags that are irrelevant
to branches we are following, we used to waste way too many cycles
when checking if the object pointed at by a tag (that we are not
going to fetch!) exists in our repository too carefully.
* jk/fetch-quick-tag-following:
fetch: use "quick" has_sha1_file for tag following
"git rebase" immediately after "git clone" failed to find the fork
point from the upstream.
* jk/merge-base-fork-point-without-reflog:
merge-base: handle --fork-point without reflog
"git ls-files" learned "--recurse-submodules" option that can be
used to get a listing of tracked files across submodules (i.e. this
only works with "--cached" option, not for listing untracked or
ignored files). This would be a useful tool to sit on the upstream
side of a pipe that is read with xargs to work on all working tree
files from the top-level superproject.
* bw/ls-files-recurse-submodules:
ls-files: add pathspec matching for submodules
ls-files: pass through safe options for --recurse-submodules
ls-files: optionally recurse into submodules
git: make super-prefix option
The require_clean_work_tree() helper was recreated in C when "git
pull" was rewritten from shell; the helper is now made available to
other callers in preparation for upcoming "rebase -i" work.
* js/libify-require-clean-work-tree:
wt-status: begin error messages with lower-case
wt-status: teach has_{unstaged,uncommitted}_changes() about submodules
wt-status: export also the has_un{staged,committed}_changes() functions
wt-status: make the require_clean_work_tree() function reusable
pull: make code more similar to the shell script again
pull: drop confusing prefix parameter of die_on_unclean_work_tree()
This function is meant to be used when reading from files in the
object store, and the original objective was to avoid smudging atime
of loose object files too often, hence its name. Because we'll be
extending its role in the next commit to also arrange the file
descriptors they return auto-closed in the child processes, rename
it to lose "noatime" part that is too specific.
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
ita entries are dropped at tree generation phase. If the entire index
consists of just ita entries, the result would be a a commit with no
entries, which should be caught unless --allow-empty is specified. The
test "!!active_nr" is not sufficient to catch this.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If i-t-a entries are present and there is no change between the index
and HEAD i-t-a entries, index_differs_from() still returns "dirty, new
entries" (aka, the resulting commit is not empty), but cache-tree will
skip i-t-a entries and produce the exact same tree of current
commit.
index_differs_from() is supposed to catch this so we can abort
git-commit (unless --no-empty is specified). Update it to optionally
ignore i-t-a entries when doing a diff between the index and HEAD so
that it would return "no change" in this case and abort commit.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now we have identified three callchains that have a set of refs that
they want to show their <old, new> object names in an aligned output,
we can replace their reference to the constant TRANSPORT_SUMMARY_WIDTH
with a helper function call to transport_summary_width() that takes
the set of ref as a parameter. This step does not yet iterate over
the refs and compute, which is left as an exercise to the readers.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The leaf function on the "fetch" side that uses TRANSPORT_SUMMARY_WIDTH
constant is builtin/fetch.c::format_display() and it has two distinct
callchains. The one that reports the primary result of fetch originates
at store_updated_refs(); the other one that reports the pruning of
the remote-tracking refs originates at prune_refs().
Teach these two places to pass summary_width down the callchain,
just like we did for the "push" side in the previous commit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The subcommands are used exactly once, at the very beginning of
sequencer_pick_revisions(), to determine what to do. This is an
unnecessary level of indirection: we can simply call the correct
function to begin with. So let's do that.
While at it, ensure that the subcommands return an error code so that
they do not have to die() all over the place (bad practice for library
functions...).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sequencer is our attempt to lib-ify cherry-pick. Yet it behaves
like a one-shot command when it reads its configuration: memory is
allocated and released only when the command exits.
This is kind of okay for git-cherry-pick, which *is* a one-shot
command. All the work to make the sequencer its work horse was
done to allow using the functionality as a library function, though,
including proper clean-up after use.
To remedy that, take custody of the option values in question,
allocating and duping literal constants as needed and freeing them
at end.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When adding support for prefixing output of log and other commands using
--line-prefix, commit 660e113ce1 ("graph: add support for
--line-prefix on all graph-aware output", 2016-08-31) accidentally
broke rev-list --header output.
In order to make the output appear with a line-prefix, the flow was
changed to always use the graph subsystem for display. Unfortunately
the graph flow in rev-list did not use info->hdr_termination as it was
assumed that graph output would never need to putput NULs.
Since we now always use the graph code in order to handle the case of
line-prefix, simply replace putchar('\n') with
putchar(info->hdr_termination) which will correct this issue.
Add a test for the --header case to make sure we don't break it in the
future.
Reported-by: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Codepaths involved in interacting alternate object store have
been cleaned up.
* jk/alt-odb-cleanup:
alternates: use fspathcmp to detect duplicates
sha1_file: always allow relative paths to alternates
count-objects: report alternates via verbose mode
fill_sha1_file: write into a strbuf
alternates: store scratch buffer as strbuf
fill_sha1_file: write "boring" characters
alternates: use a separate scratch space
alternates: encapsulate alt->base munging
alternates: provide helper for allocating alternate
alternates: provide helper for adding to alternates list
link_alt_odb_entry: refactor string handling
link_alt_odb_entry: handle normalize_path errors
t5613: clarify "too deep" recursion tests
t5613: do not chdir in main process
t5613: whitespace/style cleanups
t5613: use test_must_fail
t5613: drop test_valid_repo function
t5613: drop reachable_via function
In order for the receiving end of "git push" to inspect the
received history and decide to reject the push, the objects sent
from the sending end need to be made available to the hook and
the mechanism for the connectivity check, and this was done
traditionally by storing the objects in the receiving repository
and letting "git gc" to expire it. Instead, store the newly
received objects in a temporary area, and make them available by
reusing the alternate object store mechanism to them only while we
decide if we accept the check, and once we decide, either migrate
them to the repository or purge them immediately.
* jk/quarantine-received-objects:
tmp-objdir: do not migrate files starting with '.'
tmp-objdir: put quarantine information in the environment
receive-pack: quarantine objects until pre-receive accepts
tmp-objdir: introduce API for temporary object directories
check_connected: accept an env argument
"git clone" of a local repository can be done at the filesystem
level, but the codepath did not check errors while copying and
adjusting the file that lists alternate object stores.
* jk/clone-copy-alternates-fix:
clone: detect errors in normalize_path_copy
This change is not completely faithful: instead of initializing all fields
to 0, we choose to initialize command and subcommand to -1 (instead of
defaulting to REPLAY_REVERT and REPLAY_NONE, respectively). Practically,
it makes no difference at all, but future-proofs the code to require
explicit assignments for both fields.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
packet_write() should be called packet_write_fmt() because it is a
printf-like function that takes a format string as first parameter.
packet_write_fmt() should be used for text strings only. Arbitrary
binary data should use a new packet_write() function that is introduced
in a subsequent patch.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we auto-follow tags in a fetch, we look at all of the
tags advertised by the remote and fetch ones where we don't
already have the tag, but we do have the object it peels to.
This involves a lot of calls to has_sha1_file(), some of
which we can reasonably expect to fail. Since 45e8a74
(has_sha1_file: re-check pack directory before giving up,
2013-08-30), this may cause many calls to
reprepare_packed_git(), which is potentially expensive.
This has gone unnoticed for several years because it
requires a fairly unique setup to matter:
1. You need to have a lot of packs on the client side to
make reprepare_packed_git() expensive (the most
expensive part is finding duplicates in an unsorted
list, which is currently quadratic).
2. You need a large number of tag refs on the server side
that are candidates for auto-following (i.e., that the
client doesn't have). Each one triggers a re-read of
the pack directory.
3. Under normal circumstances, the client would
auto-follow those tags and after one large fetch, (2)
would no longer be true. But if those tags point to
history which is disconnected from what the client
otherwise fetches, then it will never auto-follow, and
those candidates will impact it on every fetch.
So when all three are true, each fetch pays an extra
O(nr_tags * nr_packs^2) cost, mostly in string comparisons
on the pack names. This was exacerbated by 47bf4b0
(prepare_packed_git_one: refactor duplicate-pack check,
2014-06-30) which uses a slightly more expensive string
check, under the assumption that the duplicate check doesn't
happen very often (and it shouldn't; the real problem here
is how often we are calling reprepare_packed_git()).
This patch teaches fetch to use HAS_SHA1_QUICK to sacrifice
accuracy for speed, in cases where we might be racy with a
simultaneous repack. This is similar to the fix in 0eeb077
(index-pack: avoid excessive re-reading of pack directory,
2015-06-09). As with that case, it's OK for has_sha1_file()
occasionally say "no I don't have it" when we do, because
the worst case is not a corruption, but simply that we may
fail to auto-follow a tag that points to it.
Here are results from the included perf script, which sets
up a situation similar to the one described above:
Test HEAD^ HEAD
----------------------------------------------------------
5550.4: fetch 11.21(10.42+0.78) 0.08(0.04+0.02) -99.3%
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --fork-point option looks in the reflog to try to find
where a derived branch forked from a base branch. However,
if the reflog for the base branch is totally empty (as it
commonly is right after cloning, which does not write a
reflog entry), then our for_each_reflog call will not find
any entries, and we will come up with no merge base, even
though there may be one with the current tip of the base.
We can fix this by just adding the current tip to
our list of collected entries.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The <tree-ish> parameter is actually optional (see man page).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is a common mistake to say "git blame --reverse OLD path",
expecting that the command line is dwimmed as if asking how lines
in path in an old revision OLD have survived up to the current
commit.
* jc/blame-reverse:
blame: dwim "blame --reverse OLD" as "blame --reverse OLD.."
blame: improve diagnosis for "--reverse NEW"
The existing "git fetch --depth=<n>" option was hard to use
correctly when making the history of an existing shallow clone
deeper. A new option, "--deepen=<n>", has been added to make this
easier to use. "git clone" also learned "--shallow-since=<date>"
and "--shallow-exclude=<tag>" options to make it easier to specify
"I am interested only in the recent N months worth of history" and
"Give me only the history since that version".
* nd/shallow-deepen: (27 commits)
fetch, upload-pack: --deepen=N extends shallow boundary by N commits
upload-pack: add get_reachable_list()
upload-pack: split check_unreachable() in two, prep for get_reachable_list()
t5500, t5539: tests for shallow depth excluding a ref
clone: define shallow clone boundary with --shallow-exclude
fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-exclude
upload-pack: support define shallow boundary by excluding revisions
refs: add expand_ref()
t5500, t5539: tests for shallow depth since a specific date
clone: define shallow clone boundary based on time with --shallow-since
fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-since
upload-pack: add deepen-since to cut shallow repos based on time
shallow.c: implement a generic shallow boundary finder based on rev-list
fetch-pack: use a separate flag for fetch in deepening mode
fetch-pack.c: mark strings for translating
fetch-pack: use a common function for verbose printing
fetch-pack: use skip_prefix() instead of starts_with()
upload-pack: move rev-list code out of check_non_tip()
upload-pack: make check_non_tip() clean things up on error
upload-pack: tighten number parsing at "deepen" lines
...
"git pack-objects" in a repository with many packfiles used to
spend a lot of time looking for/at objects in them; the accesses to
the packfiles are now optimized by checking the most-recently-used
packfile first.
* jk/pack-objects-optim-mru:
pack-objects: use mru list when iterating over packs
pack-objects: break delta cycles before delta-search phase
sha1_file: make packed_object_info public
provide an initializer for "struct object_info"
We call "qsort(array, nelem, sizeof(array[0]), fn)", and most of
the time third parameter is redundant. A new QSORT() macro lets us
omit it.
* rs/qsort:
show-branch: use QSORT
use QSORT, part 2
coccicheck: use --all-includes by default
remove unnecessary check before QSORT
use QSORT
add QSORT
When a client pushes objects to us, index-pack checks the
objects themselves and then installs them into place. If we
then reject the push due to a pre-receive hook, we cannot
just delete the packfile; other processes may be depending
on it. We have to do a normal reachability check at this
point via `git gc`.
But such objects may hang around for weeks due to the
gc.pruneExpire grace period. And worse, during that time
they may be exploded from the pack into inefficient loose
objects.
Instead, this patch teaches receive-pack to put the new
objects into a "quarantine" temporary directory. We make
these objects available to the connectivity check and to the
pre-receive hook, and then install them into place only if
it is successful (and otherwise remove them as tempfiles).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On a case-insensitive filesystem, we should realize that
"a/objects" and "A/objects" are the same path. We already
use fspathcmp() to check against the main object directory,
but until recently we couldn't use it for comparing against
other alternates (because their paths were not
NUL-terminated strings). But now we can, so let's do so.
Note that we also need to adjust count-objects to load the
config, so that it can see the setting of core.ignorecase
(this is required by the test, but is also a general bugfix
for users of count-objects).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's no way to get the list of alternates that git
computes internally; our tests only infer it based on which
objects are available. In addition to testing, knowing this
list may be helpful for somebody debugging their alternates
setup.
Let's add it to the "count-objects -v" output. We could give
it a separate flag, but there's not really any need.
"count-objects -v" is already a debugging catch-all for the
object database, its output is easily extensible to new data
items, and printing the alternates is not expensive (we
already had to find them to count the objects).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The alternate_object_database struct uses a single buffer
both for storing the path to the alternate, and as a scratch
buffer for forming object names. This is efficient (since
otherwise we'd end up storing the path twice), but it makes
life hard for callers who just want to know the path to the
alternate. They have to remember to stop reading after
"alt->name - alt->base" bytes, and to subtract one for the
trailing '/'.
It would be much simpler if they could simply access a
NUL-terminated path string. We could encapsulate this in a
function which puts a NUL in the scratch buffer and returns
the string, but that opens up questions about the lifetime
of the result. The first time another caller uses the
alternate, the scratch buffer may get other data tacked onto
it.
Let's instead just store the root path separately from the
scratch buffer. There aren't enough alternates being stored
for the duplicated data to matter for performance, and this
keeps things simple and safe for the callers.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
