"git branch @" created refs/heads/@ as a branch, and in general the
code that handled @{-1} and @{upstream} was a bit too loose in
disambiguating.
* jk/interpret-branch-name:
checkout: restrict @-expansions when finding branch
strbuf_check_ref_format(): expand only local branches
branch: restrict @-expansions when deleting
t3204: test git-branch @-expansion corner cases
interpret_branch_name: allow callers to restrict expansions
strbuf_branchname: add docstring
strbuf_branchname: drop return value
interpret_branch_name: move docstring to header file
interpret_branch_name(): handle auto-namelen for @{-1}
When we parse "git checkout $NAME", we try to interpret
$NAME as a local branch-name. If it is, then we point HEAD
to that branch. Otherwise, we detach the HEAD at whatever
commit $NAME points to.
We do the interpretation by calling strbuf_branchname(), and
then blindly sticking "refs/heads/" on the front. This leads
to nonsense results when expansions like "@{upstream}" or
"@" point to something besides a local branch. We end up
with a local branch name like "refs/heads/origin/master" or
"refs/heads/HEAD".
Normally this has no user-visible effect because those
branches don't exist, and so we fallback to feeding the
result to get_sha1(), which resolves them correctly.
But as the new test in t3204 shows, there are corner cases
where the effect is observable, and we check out the wrong
local branch rather than detaching to the correct one.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The interpret_branch_name() function converts names like
@{-1} and @{upstream} into branch names. The expanded ref
names are not fully qualified, and may be outside of the
refs/heads/ namespace (e.g., "@" expands to "HEAD", and
"@{upstream}" is likely to be in "refs/remotes/").
This is OK for callers like dwim_ref() which are primarily
interested in resolving the resulting name, no matter where
it is. But callers like "git branch" treat the result as a
branch name in refs/heads/. When we expand to a ref outside
that namespace, the results are very confusing (e.g., "git
branch @" tries to create refs/heads/HEAD, which is
nonsense).
Callers can't know from the returned string how the
expansion happened (e.g., did the user really ask for a
branch named "HEAD", or did we do a bogus expansion?). One
fix would be to return some out-parameters describing the
types of expansion that occurred. This has the benefit that
the caller can generate precise error messages ("I
understood @{upstream} to mean origin/master, but that is a
remote tracking branch, so you cannot create it as a local
name").
However, out-parameters make the function interface somewhat
cumbersome. Instead, let's do the opposite: let the caller
tell us which elements to expand. That's easier to pass in,
and none of the callers give more precise error messages
than "@{upstream} isn't a valid branch name" anyway (which
should be sufficient).
The strbuf_branchname() function needs a similar parameter,
as most of the callers access interpret_branch_name()
through it.
We can break the callers down into two groups:
1. Callers that are happy with any kind of ref in the
result. We pass "0" here, so they continue to work
without restrictions. This includes merge_name(),
the reflog handling in add_pending_object_with_path(),
and substitute_branch_name(). This last is what powers
dwim_ref().
2. Callers that have funny corner cases (mostly in
git-branch and git-checkout). These need to make use of
the new parameter, but I've left them as "0" in this
patch, and will address them individually in follow-on
patches.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "core.logAllRefUpdates" that used to be boolean has been
enhanced to take 'always' as well, to record ref updates to refs
other than the ones that are expected to be updated (i.e. branches,
remote-tracking branches and notes).
* cw/log-updates-for-all-refs-really:
doc: add note about ignoring '--no-create-reflog'
update-ref: add test cases for bare repository
refs: add option core.logAllRefUpdates = always
config: add markup to core.logAllRefUpdates doc
When core.logallrefupdates is true, we only create a new reflog for refs
that are under certain well-known hierarchies. The reason is that we
know that some hierarchies (like refs/tags) are not meant to change, and
that unknown hierarchies might not want reflogs at all (e.g., a
hypothetical refs/foo might be meant to change often and drop old
history immediately).
However, sometimes it is useful to override this decision and simply log
for all refs, because the safety and audit trail is more important than
the performance implications of keeping the log around.
This patch introduces a new "always" mode for the core.logallrefupdates
option which will log updates to everything under refs/, regardless
where in the hierarchy it is (we still will not log things like
ORIG_HEAD and FETCH_HEAD, which are known to be transient).
Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Cornelius Weig <cornelius.weig@tngtech.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Callers of the hold_locked_index() function pass 0 when they want to
prepare to write a new version of the index file without wishing to
die or emit an error message when the request fails (e.g. somebody
else already held the lock), and pass 1 when they want the call to
die upon failure.
This option is called LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR by the underlying lockfile
API, and the hold_locked_index() function translates the paramter to
LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR when calling the hold_lock_file_for_update().
Replace these hardcoded '1' with LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR and stop
translating. Callers other than the ones that are replaced with
this change pass '0' to the function; no behaviour change is
intended with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
Among the callers of hold_locked_index() that passes 0:
- diff.c::refresh_index_quietly() at the end of "git diff" is an
opportunistic update; it leaks the lockfile structure but it is
just before the program exits and nobody should care.
- builtin/describe.c::cmd_describe(),
builtin/commit.c::cmd_status(),
sequencer.c::read_and_refresh_cache() are all opportunistic
updates and they are OK.
- builtin/update-index.c::cmd_update_index() takes a lock upfront
but we may end up not needing to update the index (i.e. the
entries may be fully up-to-date), in which case we do not need to
issue an error upon failure to acquire the lock. We do diagnose
and die if we indeed need to update, so it is OK.
- wt-status.c::require_clean_work_tree() IS BUGGY. It asks
silence, does not check the returned value. Compare with
callsites like cmd_describe() and cmd_status() to notice that it
is wrong to call update_index_if_able() unconditionally.
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>
"git add --chmod=+x <pathspec>" added recently only toggled the
executable bit for paths that are either new or modified. This has
been corrected to flip the executable bit for all paths that match
the given pathspec.
* tg/add-chmod+x-fix:
t3700-add: do not check working tree file mode without POSIXPERM
t3700-add: create subdirectory gently
add: modify already added files when --chmod is given
read-cache: introduce chmod_index_entry
update-index: add test for chmod flags
"git checkout <word>" does not follow the usual disambiguation
rules when the <word> can be both a rev and a path, to allow
checking out a branch 'foo' in a project that happens to have a
file 'foo' in the working tree without having to disambiguate.
This was poorly documented and the check was incorrect when the
command was run from a subdirectory.
* nd/checkout-disambiguation:
checkout: fix ambiguity check in subdir
checkout.txt: document a common case that ignores ambiguation rules
checkout: add some spaces between code and comment
Add a static initializer for struct checkout and use it throughout the
code base. It's shorter, avoids a memset(3) call and makes sure the
base_dir member is initialized to a valid (empty) string.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The two functions in parse_branchname_arg(), verify_non_filename and
check_filename, need correct prefix in order to reconstruct the paths
and check for their existence. With NULL prefix, they just check paths
at top dir instead.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the chmod option was added to git add, it was hooked up to the diff
machinery, meaning that it only works when the version in the index
differs from the version on disk.
As the option was supposed to mirror the chmod option in update-index,
which always changes the mode in the index, regardless of the status of
the file, make sure the option behaves the same way in git add.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the fact that checkout_stage() and checkout_merged() don't
change the objects passed to them by adding the modifier const.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All of the callers of this function use struct object_id, so rename it
to get_oid_mb and make it take struct object_id instead of
unsigned char *.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since all of its callers have been updated, convert read_mmblob to take
a pointer to struct object_id.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert all the static functions that are not callbacks to struct
object_id.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert struct cache_entry to use struct object_id by applying the
following semantic patch and the object_id transforms from contrib, plus
the actual change to the struct:
@@
struct cache_entry E1;
@@
- E1.sha1
+ E1.oid.hash
@@
struct cache_entry *E1;
@@
- E1->sha1
+ E1->oid.hash
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git checkout --detach <branch>" used to give the same advice
message as that is issued when "git checkout <tag>" (or anything
that is not a branch name) is given, but asking with "--detach" is
an explicit enough sign that the user knows what is going on. The
advice message has been squelched in this case.
* sb/checkout-explit-detach-no-advice:
checkout: do not mention detach advice for explicit --detach option
When a user asked for a detached HEAD specifically with `--detach`,
we do not need to give advice on what a detached HEAD state entails as
we can assume they know what they're getting into as they asked for it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Call strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() to add abbreviated hashes to strbufs
instead of taking detours through find_unique_abbrev() and its static
buffer. This is shorter and a bit more efficient.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The recursive merge machinery accumulates its output in an output
buffer, to be flushed at the end of merge_recursive(). At this point,
we forgot to release the output buffer.
When calling merge_trees() (i.e. the non-recursive part of the recursive
merge) directly, the output buffer is never flushed because the caller
may be merge_recursive() which wants to flush the output itself.
For the same reason, merge_trees() cannot release the output buffer: it
may still be needed.
Forgetting to release the output buffer did not matter much when running
git-checkout, or git-merge-recursive, because we exited after the
operation anyway. Ever since cherry-pick learned to pick a commit range,
however, this memory leak had the potential of becoming a problem.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, callers of merge_trees() or merge_recursive() expected that
code to die() with an error message. This used to be okay because we
called those commands from scripts, and had a chance to print out a
message in case the command failed fatally (read: with exit code 128).
As scripting incurs its own set of problems (portability, speed,
idiosyncrasies of different shells, limited data structures leading to
inefficient code), we are converting more and more of these scripts into
builtins, using library functions directly.
We already tried to use merge_recursive() directly in the builtin
git-am, for example. Unfortunately, we had to roll it back temporarily
because some of the code in merge-recursive.c still deemed it okay to
call die(), when the builtin am code really wanted to print out a useful
advice after the merge failed fatally. In the next commits, we want to
fix that.
The code touched by this commit expected merge_trees() to die() with
some useful message when there is an error condition, but merge_trees()
is going to be improved by converting all die() calls to return error()
instead (i.e. return value -1 after printing out the message as before),
so that the caller can react more flexibly.
This is a step to prepare for the version of merge_trees() that no
longer dies, even if we just imitate the previous behavior by calling
exit(128): this is what callers of e.g. `git merge` have come to expect.
Note that the callers of the sequencer (revert and cherry-pick) already
fail fast even for the return value -1; The only difference is that they
now get a chance to say "<command> failed".
A caller of merge_trees() might want handle error messages themselves
(or even suppress them). As this patch is already complex enough, we
leave that change for a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
More markings of messages for i18n, with updates to various tests
to pass GETTEXT_POISON tests.
One patch from the original submission dropped due to conflicts
with jk/upload-pack-hook, which is still in flux.
* va/i18n-even-more: (38 commits)
t5541: become resilient to GETTEXT_POISON
i18n: branch: mark comment when editing branch description for translation
i18n: unmark die messages for translation
i18n: submodule: escape shell variables inside eval_gettext
i18n: submodule: join strings marked for translation
i18n: init-db: join message pieces
i18n: remote: allow translations to reorder message
i18n: remote: mark URL fallback text for translation
i18n: standardise messages
i18n: sequencer: add period to error message
i18n: merge: change command option help to lowercase
i18n: merge: mark messages for translation
i18n: notes: mark options for translation
i18n: notes: mark strings for translation
i18n: transport-helper.c: change N_() call to _()
i18n: bisect: mark strings for translation
t5523: use test_i18ngrep for negation
t4153: fix negated test_i18ngrep call
t9003: become resilient to GETTEXT_POISON
tests: unpack-trees: update to use test_i18n* functions
...
Standardise messages in order to save translators some work.
Nuances fixed in this commit:
"failed to read %s"
"read of %s failed"
"detach the HEAD at named commit"
"detach HEAD at named commit"
"removing '%s' failed"
"failed to remove '%s'"
"index file corrupt"
"corrupt index file"
"failed to read %s"
"read of %s failed"
"detach the HEAD at named commit"
"detach HEAD at named commit"
Signed-off-by: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The executable bit will not be detected (and therefore will not be
set) for paths in a repository with `core.filemode` set to false,
though the users may still wish to add files as executable for
compatibility with other users who _do_ have `core.filemode`
functionality. For example, Windows users adding shell scripts may
wish to add them as executable for compatibility with users on
non-Windows.
Although this can be done with a plumbing command
(`git update-index --add --chmod=+x foo`), teaching the `git-add`
command allows users to set a file executable with a command that
they're already familiar with.
Signed-off-by: Edward Thomson <ethomson@edwardthomson.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The experimental "multiple worktree" feature gains more safety to
forbid operations on a branch that is checked out or being actively
worked on elsewhere, by noticing that e.g. it is being rebased.
* nd/worktree-various-heads:
branch: do not rename a branch under bisect or rebase
worktree.c: check whether branch is bisected in another worktree
wt-status.c: split bisect detection out of wt_status_get_state()
worktree.c: check whether branch is rebased in another worktree
worktree.c: avoid referencing to worktrees[i] multiple times
wt-status.c: make wt_status_check_rebase() work on any worktree
wt-status.c: split rebase detection out of wt_status_get_state()
path.c: refactor and add worktree_git_path()
worktree.c: mark current worktree
worktree.c: make find_shared_symref() return struct worktree *
worktree.c: store "id" instead of "git_dir"
path.c: add git_common_path() and strbuf_git_common_path()
dir.c: rename str(n)cmp_icase to fspath(n)cmp
This function find_shared_symref() is used in a couple places:
1) in builtin/branch.c: it's used to detect if a branch is checked out
elsewhere and refuse to delete the branch.
2) in builtin/notes.c: it's used to detect if a note is being merged in
another worktree
3) in branch.c, the function die_if_checked_out() is actually used by
"git checkout" and "git worktree add" to see if a branch is already
checked out elsewhere and refuse the operation.
In cases 1 and 3, if a rebase is ongoing, "HEAD" will be in detached
mode, find_shared_symref() fails to detect it and declares "no branch is
checked out here", which is not really what we want.
This patch tightens the test. If the given symref is "HEAD", we try to
detect if rebase is ongoing. If so return the branch being rebased. This
makes checkout and branch delete operations safer because you can't
checkout a branch being rebased in another place, or delete it.
Special case for checkout. If the current branch is being rebased,
git-rebase.sh may use "git checkout" to abort and return back to the
original branch. The updated test in find_shared_symref() will prevent
that and "git rebase --abort" will fail as a result.
find_shared_symref() and die_if_checked_out() have to learn a new
option ignore_current_worktree to loosen the test a bit.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is never read, so we can pass NULL to resolve_ref_unsafe().
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git show 'HEAD:Foo[BAR]Baz'" did not interpret the argument as a
rev, i.e. the object named by the the pathname with wildcard
characters in a tree object.
* nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs:
get_sha1: don't die() on bogus search strings
check_filename: tighten dwim-wildcard ambiguity
checkout: reorder check_filename conditional
When specifying both revisions and pathnames, we allow
"<rev> -- <pathspec>" to be spelled without the "--" as long
as it is not ambiguous. The original logic was something
like:
1. Resolve each item with get_sha1(). If successful,
we know it can be a <rev>. Verify that it _isn't_ a
filename, using verify_non_filename(), and complain of
ambiguity otherwise.
2. If get_sha1() didn't succeed, make sure that it _is_
a file, using verify_filename(). If not, complain
that it is neither a <rev> nor a <pathspec>.
Both verify_filename() and verify_non_filename() rely on
check_filename(), which definitely said "yes, this is a
file" or "no, it is not" using lstat().
Commit 28fcc0b (pathspec: avoid the need of "--" when
wildcard is used, 2015-05-02) introduced a convenience
feature: check_filename() will consider anything with
wildcard meta-characters as a possible filename, without
even checking the filesystem.
This works well for case 2. For such a wildcard, we would
previously have died and said "it is neither". Post-28fcc0b,
we assume it's a pathspec and proceed.
But it makes some instances of case 1 worse. We may have an
extended sha1 expression that contains meta-characters
(e.g., "HEAD^{/foo.*bar}"), and we now complain that it's
also a filename, due to the wildcard characters (even though
that wildcard would not match anything in the filesystem).
One solution would be to actually expand the pathname and
see if it matches anything on the filesystem. But that's
potentially expensive, and we do not have to be so rigorous
for this DWIM magic (if you want rigor, use "--").
Instead, we can just use different rules for cases 1 and 2.
When we know something is a rev, we will complain only if it
meets a much higher standard for "this is also a file";
namely that it actually exists in the filesystem. Case 2
remains the same: we use the looser "it could be a filename"
standard introduced by 28fcc0b.
We can accomplish this by pulling the wildcard logic out of
check_filename() and putting it into verify_filename(). Its
partner verify_non_filename() does not need a change, since
check_filename() goes back to implementing the "higher
standard".
Besides these two callers of check_filename(), there is one
other: git-checkout does a similar DWIM itself. It hits this
code path only after get_sha1() has returned failure, making
it case 2, which gets the special wildcard treatment.
Note that we drop the tests in t2019 in favor of a more
complete set in t6133. t2019 was not the right place for
them (it's about refname ambiguity, not dwim parsing
ambiguity), and the second test explicitly checked for the
opposite result of the case we are fixing here (which didn't
really make any sense; as shown by the test_must_fail in the
test, it would only serve to annoy people).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we have a "--" flag, we should not be doing DWIM magic
based on whether arguments can be filenames. Reorder the
conditional to avoid the check_filename() call entirely in
this case. The outcome is the same, but the short-circuit
makes the dependency more clear.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's unlikely that we would fail to create or update a
symbolic ref (especially HEAD), but if we do, we should
notice and complain. Note that there's no need to give more
details in our error message; create_symref will already
have done so.
While we're here, let's also fix a minor memory leak in
clone.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert all instances of get_object_hash to use an appropriate reference
to the hash member of the oid member of struct object. This provides no
functional change, as it is essentially a macro substitution.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
struct object is one of the major data structures dealing with object
IDs. Convert it to use struct object_id instead of an unsigned char
array. Convert get_object_hash to refer to the new member as well.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Convert most instances where the sha1 member of struct object is
dereferenced to use get_object_hash. Most instances that are passed to
functions that have versions taking struct object_id, such as
get_sha1_hex/get_oid_hex, or instances that can be trivially converted
to use struct object_id instead, are not converted.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Under normal circumstances, and like other git commands,
git checkout will write progress info to stderr if
attached to a terminal. This option allows progress
to be forced even if not using a terminal. Also,
progress can be skipped if using option --no-progress.
Signed-off-by: Edmundo Carmona Antoranz <eantoranz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The gitmodules API accessed from the C code learned to cache stuff
lazily.
* hv/submodule-config:
submodule: allow erroneous values for the fetchRecurseSubmodules option
submodule: use new config API for worktree configurations
submodule: extract functions for config set and lookup
submodule: implement a config API for lookup of .gitmodules values
Even though multiplication is commutative, the order of arguments
should be xcalloc(nmemb, size). ps_matched is an array of 1-byte
element whose size is the same as the number of pathspec elements.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We remove the extracted functions and directly parse into and read out
of the cache. This allows us to have one unified way of accessing
submodule configuration values specific to single submodules. Regardless
whether we need to access a configuration from history or from the
worktree.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "new-worktree-mode" hack in "checkout" that was added in
nd/multiple-work-trees topic has been removed by updating the
implementation of new "worktree add".
* es/worktree-add-cleanup: (25 commits)
Documentation/git-worktree: fix duplicated 'from'
Documentation/config: mention "now" and "never" for 'expire' settings
Documentation/git-worktree: fix broken 'linkgit' invocation
checkout: drop intimate knowledge of newly created worktree
worktree: populate via "git reset --hard" rather than "git checkout"
worktree: avoid resolving HEAD unnecessarily
worktree: make setup of new HEAD distinct from worktree population
worktree: detect branch-name/detached and error conditions locally
worktree: add_worktree: construct worktree-population command locally
worktree: elucidate environment variables intended for child processes
worktree: make branch creation distinct from worktree population
worktree: add: suppress auto-vivication with --detach and no <branch>
worktree: make --detach mutually exclusive with -b/-B
worktree: introduce options container
worktree: simplify new branch (-b/-B) option checking
worktree: improve worktree setup message
branch: publish die_if_checked_out()
checkout: teach check_linked_checkout() about symbolic link HEAD
checkout: check_linked_checkout: simplify symref parsing
checkout: check_linked_checkout: improve "already checked out" aesthetic
...
In preparation for allowing different "backends" to store the refs
in a way different from the traditional "one ref per file in $GIT_DIR
or in a $GIT_DIR/packed-refs file" filesystem storage, reduce
direct filesystem access to ref-like things like CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
from scripts and programs.
* dt/refs-backend-preamble:
git-stash: use update-ref --create-reflog instead of creating files
update-ref and tag: add --create-reflog arg
refs: add REF_FORCE_CREATE_REFLOG flag
git-reflog: add exists command
refs: new public ref function: safe_create_reflog
refs: break out check for reflog autocreation
refs.c: add err arguments to reflog functions
