README has been renamed to README.md and its contents got tweaked
slightly to make it easier on the eyes.
* mm/readme-markdown:
README.md: move down historical explanation about the name
README.md: don't call git stupid in the title
README.md: move the link to git-scm.com up
README.md: add hyperlinks on filenames
README: use markdown syntax
There is a new DEVELOPER knob that enables many compiler warning
options in the Makefile.
* ls/makefile-cflags-developer-tweak:
add DEVELOPER makefile knob to check for acknowledged warnings
"git config section.var value" to set a value in per-repository
configuration file failed when it was run outside any repository,
but didn't say the reason correctly.
* js/config-set-in-non-repository:
git config: report when trying to modify a non-existing repo config
Handling of errors while writing into our internal asynchronous
process has been made more robust, which reduces flakiness in our
tests.
* jk/epipe-in-async:
t5504: handle expected output from SIGPIPE death
test_must_fail: report number of unexpected signal
fetch-pack: ignore SIGPIPE in sideband demuxer
write_or_die: handle EPIPE in async threads
Across the transition at around Git version 2.0, the user used to
get a pretty loud warning when running "git push" without setting
push.default configuration variable. We no longer warn, given that
the transition is over long time ago.
* mm/push-default-warning:
push: remove "push.default is unset" warning message
When "git submodule update" did not result in fetching the commit
object in the submodule that is referenced by the superproject, the
command learned to retry another fetch, specifically asking for
that commit that may not be connected to the refs it usually
fetches.
* sb/submodule-fetch-nontip:
submodule: try harder to fetch needed sha1 by direct fetching sha1
A helper function "git submodule" uses since v2.7.0 to list the
modules that match the pathspec argument given to its subcommands
(e.g. "submodule add <repo> <path>") has been fixed.
* sb/submodule-module-list-fix:
submodule helper list: respect correct path prefix
Recent versions of GNU grep are pickier when their input contains
arbitrary binary data, which some of our tests uses. Rewrite the
tests to sidestep the problem.
* jk/grep-binary-workaround-in-test:
t9200: avoid grep on non-ASCII data
t8005: avoid grep on non-ASCII data
The documentation did not clearly state that the 'simple' mode is
now the default for "git push" when push.default configuration is
not set.
* mm/push-simple-doc:
Documentation/git-push: document that 'simple' is the default
The "credential-cache" daemon process used to run in whatever
directory it happened to start in, but this made umount(2)ing the
filesystem that houses the repository harder; now the process
chdir()s to the directory that house its own socket on startup.
* jg/credential-cache-chdir-to-sockdir:
credential-cache--daemon: change to the socket dir on startup
credential-cache--daemon: disallow relative socket path
credential-cache--daemon: refactor check_socket_directory
Many codepaths forget to check return value from git_config_set();
the function is made to die() to make sure we do not proceed when
setting a configuration variable failed.
* ps/config-error:
config: rename git_config_set_or_die to git_config_set
config: rename git_config_set to git_config_set_gently
compat: die when unable to set core.precomposeunicode
sequencer: die on config error when saving replay opts
init-db: die on config errors when initializing empty repo
clone: die on config error in cmd_clone
remote: die on config error when manipulating remotes
remote: die on config error when setting/adding branches
remote: die on config error when setting URL
submodule--helper: die on config error when cloning module
submodule: die on config error when linking modules
branch: die on config error when editing branch description
branch: die on config error when unsetting upstream
branch: report errors in tracking branch setup
config: introduce set_or_die wrappers
Traditionally, the tests that try commands that work on the
contents in the working tree were named with "worktree" in their
filenames, but with the recent addition of "git worktree"
subcommand, whose tests are also named similarly, it has become
harder to tell them apart. The traditional tests have been renamed
to use "work-tree" instead in an attempt to differentiate them.
* mg/work-tree-tests:
tests: rename work-tree tests to *work-tree*
The configuration system has been taught to phrase where it found a
bad configuration variable in a better way in its error messages.
"git config" learnt a new "--show-origin" option to indicate where
the values come from.
* ls/config-origin:
config: add '--show-origin' option to print the origin of a config value
config: add 'origin_type' to config_source struct
rename git_config_from_buf to git_config_from_mem
t: do not hide Git's exit code in tests using 'nul_to_q'
Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc().
* jk/tighten-alloc: (22 commits)
ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
convert manual allocations to argv_array
argv-array: add detach function
add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
...
The memory ownership rule of fill_textconv() API, which was a bit
tricky, has been documented a bit better.
* jk/more-comments-on-textconv:
diff: clarify textconv interface
"git merge-tree" used to mishandle "both sides added" conflict with
its own "create a fake ancestor file that has the common parts of
what both sides have added and do a 3-way merge" logic; this has
been updated to use the usual "3-way merge with an empty blob as
the fake common ancestor file" approach used in the rest of the
system.
* jk/no-diff-emit-common:
xdiff: drop XDL_EMIT_COMMON
merge-tree: drop generate_common strategy
merge-one-file: use empty blob for add/add base
The ref-filter's format-parsing code has been refactored, in
preparation for "branch --format" and friends.
* kn/ref-filter-atom-parsing:
ref-filter: introduce objectname_atom_parser()
ref-filter: introduce contents_atom_parser()
ref-filter: introduce remote_ref_atom_parser()
ref-filter: align: introduce long-form syntax
ref-filter: introduce align_atom_parser()
ref-filter: introduce parse_align_position()
ref-filter: introduce color_atom_parser()
ref-filter: introduce parsing functions for each valid atom
ref-filter: introduce struct used_atom
ref-filter: bump 'used_atom' and related code to the top
ref-filter: use string_list_split over strbuf_split
The internal API to interact with "remote.*" configuration
variables has been streamlined.
* tg/git-remote:
remote: use remote_is_configured() for add and rename
remote: actually check if remote exits
remote: simplify remote_is_configured()
remote: use parse_config_key
Commit 8bf4bec (add "ok=sigpipe" to test_must_fail and use
it to fix flaky tests, 2015-11-27) taught t5504 to handle
"git push" racily exiting with SIGPIPE rather than failing.
However, one of the tests checks the output of the command,
as well. In the SIGPIPE case, we will not have produced any
output. If we want the test to be truly non-flaky, we have
to accept either output.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a command is marked as test_must_fail but dies with a
signal, we consider that a problem and report the error to
stderr. However, we don't say _which_ signal; knowing that
can make debugging easier. Let's share as much as we know.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the other side feeds us a bogus pack, index-pack (or
unpack-objects) may die early, before consuming all of its
input. As a result, the sideband demuxer may get SIGPIPE
(racily, depending on whether our data made it into the pipe
buffer or not). If this happens and we are compiled with
pthread support, it will take down the main thread, too.
This isn't the end of the world, as the main process will
just die() anyway when it sees index-pack failed. But it
does mean we don't get a chance to say "fatal: index-pack
failed" or similar. And it also means that we racily fail
t5504, as we sometimes die() and sometimes are killed by
SIGPIPE.
So let's ignore SIGPIPE while demuxing the sideband. We are
already careful to check the return value of write(), so we
won't waste time writing to a broken pipe. The caller will
notice the error return from the async thread, though in
practice we don't even get that far, as we die() as soon as
we see that index-pack failed.
The non-sideband case is already fine; we let index-pack
read straight from the socket, so there is no SIGPIPE at
all. Technically the non-threaded async case is also OK
without this (the forked async process gets SIGPIPE), but
it's not worth distinguishing from the threaded case here.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When write_or_die() sees EPIPE, it treats it specially by
converting it into a SIGPIPE death. We obviously cannot
ignore it, as the write has failed and the caller expects us
to die. But likewise, we cannot just call die(), because
printing any message at all would be a nuisance during
normal operations.
However, this is a problem if write_or_die() is called from
a thread. Our raised signal ends up killing the whole
process, when logically we just need to kill the thread
(after all, if we are ignoring SIGPIPE, there is good reason
to think that the main thread is expecting to handle it).
Inside an async thread, the die() code already does the
right thing, because we use our custom die_async() routine,
which calls pthread_join(). So ideally we would piggy-back
on that, and simply call:
die_quietly_with_code(141);
or similar. But refactoring the die code to do this is
surprisingly non-trivial. The die_routines themselves handle
both printing and the decision of the exit code. Every one
of them would have to be modified to take new parameters for
the code, and to tell us to be quiet.
Instead, we can just teach write_or_die() to check for the
async case and handle it specially. We do have to build an
interface to abstract the async exit, but it's simple and
self-contained. If we had many call-sites that wanted to do
this die_quietly_with_code(), this approach wouldn't scale
as well, but we don't. This is the only place where do this
weird exit trick.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We assume Git developers have a reasonably modern compiler and recommend
them to enable the DEVELOPER makefile knob to ensure their patches are
clear of all compiler warnings the Git core project cares about.
Enable the DEVELOPER makefile knob in the Travis-CI build.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add some comments on ref transaction semantics to refs.h
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is a pilot error to call `git config section.key value` outside of
any Git worktree. The message
error: could not lock config file .git/config: No such file or
directory
is not very helpful in that situation, though. Let's print a helpful
message instead.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The warning was important before the 2.0 transition, and remained
important for a while after, so that new users get push.default
explicitly in their configuration and do not experience inconsistent
behavior if they ever used an older version of Git.
The warning has been there since version 1.8.0 (Oct 2012), hence we can
expect the vast majority of current Git users to have been exposed to
it, and most of them have already set push.default explicitly. The
switch from 'matching' to 'simple' was planned for 2.0 (May 2014), but
actually happened only for 2.3 (Feb 2015).
Today, the warning is mostly seen by beginners, who have not set their
push.default configuration (yet). For many of them, the warning is
confusing because it talks about concepts that they have not learned and
asks them a choice that they are not able to make yet. See for example
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13148066/warning-push-default-is-unset-its-implicit-value-is-changing-in-git-2-0
(1260 votes for the question, 1824 for the answer as of writing)
Remove the warning completely to avoid disturbing beginners. People who
still occasionally use an older version of Git will be exposed to the
warning through this old version.
Eventually, versions of Git without the warning will be deployed enough
and tutorials will not need to advise setting push.default anymore.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The explanations about why the name was chosen are secondary compared to
the description and link to the documentation.
Some consider these explanations as good computer scientists joke, but
other see it as needlessly offensive vocabulary.
This patch preserves the historical joke, but gives it less importance
by moving it to the end of the README, and makes it clear that it is a
historical explanation, that does not necessarily reflect the state of
mind of current developers.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"the stupid content tracker" was true in the early days of Git, but
hardly applicable these days. "fast, scalable, distributed" describes
Git more accuralety.
Also, "stupid" can be seen as offensive by some people. Let's not use it
in the very first words of the README.
The new formulation is taken from the description of the Debian package.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation available on git-scm.com is nicely formatted. It's
better to point users to it than to the source code of the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows repository browsers like GitHub to display the content of
the file nicely formatted.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When reviewing a change that also updates a submodule in Gerrit, a
common review practice is to download and cherry-pick the patch
locally to test it. However when testing it locally, the 'git
submodule update' may fail fetching the correct submodule sha1 as
the corresponding commit in the submodule is not yet part of the
project history, but also just a proposed change.
If $sha1 was not part of the default fetch, we try to fetch the $sha1
directly. Some servers however do not support direct fetch by sha1,
which leads git-fetch to fail quickly. We can fail ourselves here as
the still missing sha1 would lead to a failure later in the checkout
stage anyway, so failing here is as good as we can get.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
--find-renames= and --rename-threshold= should be aliases.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipegassis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
10ae752 (merge-recursive: option to specify rename threshold,
2010-09-27) introduced this feature but did not include any tests.
The tests use the new option --find-renames, which replaces the then
introduced and now deprecated option --rename-threshold.
Also update name and description of t3032 for consistency:
"merge-recursive options" -> "merge-recursive space options"
Signed-off-by: Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipegassis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a regression introduced by 74703a1e4d (submodule: rewrite
`module_list` shell function in C, 2015-09-02).
Add a test to ensure we list the right submodule when giving a
specific pathspec.
Reported-By: Caleb Jorden <cjorden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "v(iew)" subcommand of the interactive "git am -i" command was
broken in 2.6.0 timeframe when the command was rewritten in C.
* jc/am-i-v-fix:
am -i: fix "v"iew
pager: factor out a helper to prepare a child process to run the pager
pager: lose a separate argv[]
"git worktree add -B <branchname>" did not work.
* nd/worktree-add-B:
worktree add -B: do the checkout test before update branch
worktree: fix "add -B"
Another try to add support to the ignore mechanism that lets you
say "this is excluded" and then later say "oh, no, this part (that
is a subset of the previous part) is not excluded".
* nd/exclusion-regression-fix:
dir.c: don't exclude whole dir prematurely
dir.c: support marking some patterns already matched
dir.c: support tracing exclude
dir.c: fix match_pathname()
