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Michael Haggerty 0e729c7ed5 update-ref: fix "verify" command with missing <oldvalue>
If "git update-ref --stdin" was given a "verify" command with no
"<newvalue>" at all (not even zeros), the code was mistakenly setting
have_old=0 (and leaving old_sha1 uninitialized). But this is
incorrect: this command is supposed to verify that the reference
doesn't exist. So in this case we really need old_sha1 to be set to
null_sha1 and have_old to be set to 1.

Moreover, since have_old was being set to zero, *no* check of the old
value was being done, so the new value of the reference was being set
unconditionally to the value in new_sha1. new_sha1, in turn, was set
to null_sha1 in the expectation that that was the old value and it
shouldn't be changed. But because the precondition was not being
checked, the result was that the reference was being deleted
unconditionally.

So, if <oldvalue> is missing, set have_old unconditionally and set
old_sha1 to null_sha1.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Acked-by: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-12-11 11:56:53 -08:00
Michael Haggerty a46e41fca3 t1400: add some more tests of "update-ref --stdin"'s verify command
Two of the tests fail because

    verify refs/heads/foo

with no argument (not even zeros) actually *deletes* refs/heads/foo.
This problem will be fixed in the next commit.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-12-11 11:56:26 -08:00
Ronnie Sahlberg 8159f4af7d test: put tests for handling of bad ref names in one place
There's no straightforward way to grep for all tests dealing with
invalid refs.  Put them in a single test script so it is easy to see
what functionality has not been exercised with bad ref names yet.

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-15 10:47:25 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder 62a2d52514 branch -d: avoid repeated symref resolution
If a repository gets in a broken state with too much symref nesting,
it cannot be repaired with "git branch -d":

 $ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/nonsense refs/heads/nonsense
 $ git branch -d nonsense
 error: branch 'nonsense' not found.

Worse, "git update-ref --no-deref -d" doesn't work for such repairs
either:

 $ git update-ref -d refs/heads/nonsense
 error: unable to resolve reference refs/heads/nonsense: Too many levels of symbolic links

Fix both by teaching resolve_ref_unsafe a new RESOLVE_REF_NO_RECURSE
flag and passing it when appropriate.

Callers can still read the value of a symref (for example to print a
message about it) with that flag set --- resolve_ref_unsafe will
resolve one level of symrefs and stop there.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-15 10:47:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano bb0ced7581 Merge branch 'rs/read-ref-at'
* rs/read-ref-at:
  refs.c: change read_ref_at to use the reflog iterators
2014-06-16 12:18:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 2cc70cefdd Merge branch 'mh/ref-transaction'
Update "update-ref --stdin [-z]" and then introduce a transactional
support for (multi-)reference updates.

* mh/ref-transaction: (27 commits)
  ref_transaction_commit(): work with transaction->updates in place
  struct ref_update: add a type field
  struct ref_update: add a lock field
  ref_transaction_commit(): simplify code using temporary variables
  struct ref_update: store refname as a FLEX_ARRAY
  struct ref_update: rename field "ref_name" to "refname"
  refs: remove API function update_refs()
  update-ref --stdin: reimplement using reference transactions
  refs: add a concept of a reference transaction
  update-ref --stdin: harmonize error messages
  update-ref --stdin: improve the error message for unexpected EOF
  t1400: test one mistake at a time
  update-ref --stdin -z: deprecate interpreting the empty string as zeros
  update-ref.c: extract a new function, parse_next_sha1()
  t1400: test that stdin -z update treats empty <newvalue> as zeros
  update-ref --stdin: simplify error messages for missing oldvalues
  update-ref --stdin: make error messages more consistent
  update-ref --stdin: improve error messages for invalid values
  update-ref.c: extract a new function, parse_refname()
  parse_cmd_verify(): copy old_sha1 instead of evaluating <oldvalue> twice
  ...
2014-06-03 12:06:41 -07:00
Ronnie Sahlberg 4207ed285f refs.c: change read_ref_at to use the reflog iterators
read_ref_at has its own parsing of the reflog file for no really good reason
so lets change this to use the existing reflog iterators. This removes one
instance where we manually unmarshall the reflog file format.

Remove the now redundant ref_msg function.

Log messages for errors are changed slightly. We no longer print the file
name for the reflog, instead we refer to it as 'Log for ref <refname>'.
This might be a minor useability regression, but I don't really think so, since
experienced users would know where the log is anyway and inexperienced users
would not know what to do about/how to repair 'Log ... has gap ...' anyway.

Adapt the t1400 test to handle the change in log messages.

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-03 11:09:32 -07:00
Michael Haggerty f11b09fb60 update-ref --stdin: harmonize error messages
Make (most of) the error messages for invalid input have the same
format [1]:

    $COMMAND [SP $REFNAME]: $MESSAGE

Update the tests accordingly.

[1] A few error messages are left with their old form, because
    $COMMAND and $REFNAME aren't passed all the way down the call
    stack.  Maybe those sites should be changed some day, too.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-07 12:09:14 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 726f69166f update-ref --stdin: improve the error message for unexpected EOF
Distinguish this error from the error that an argument is missing for
another reason.  Update the tests accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-07 12:09:14 -07:00
Michael Haggerty ff6ee39525 t1400: test one mistake at a time
This case wants to test passing a bad refname to the "update" command.
But it also passes too few arguments to "update", which muddles the
situation: which error should be diagnosed?  So split this test into
two:

* One that passes too few arguments to update

* One that passes all three arguments to "update", but with a bad
  refname.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-07 12:09:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 1fbd504942 update-ref --stdin -z: deprecate interpreting the empty string as zeros
In the original version of this command, for the single case of the
"update" command's <newvalue>, the empty string was interpreted as
being equivalent to 40 "0"s.  This shorthand is unnecessary (binary
input will usually be generated programmatically anyway), and it
complicates the parser and the documentation.

So gently deprecate this usage: remove its description from the
documentation and emit a warning if it is found.  But for reasons of
backwards compatibility, continue to accept it.

Helped-by: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-07 12:09:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 3afcc46374 update-ref.c: extract a new function, parse_next_sha1()
Replace three functions, update_store_new_sha1(),
update_store_old_sha1(), and parse_next_arg(), with a single function,
parse_next_sha1().  The new function takes care of a whole argument,
including checking whether it is there, converting it to an SHA-1, and
emitting errors on EOF or for invalid values.  The return value
indicates whether the argument was present or absent, which requires
a bit of intelligence because absent values are represented
differently depending on whether "-z" was used.

The new interface means that the calling functions, parse_cmd_*(),
don't have to interpret the result differently based on the
line_termination mode that is in effect.  It also means that
parse_cmd_create() can distinguish unambiguously between an empty new
value and a zeros new value, which fixes a failure in t1400.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-07 12:09:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 191f241b52 t1400: test that stdin -z update treats empty <newvalue> as zeros
This is the (slightly inconsistent) status quo; make sure it doesn't
change by accident.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-07 12:09:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty ac1177553d update-ref --stdin: simplify error messages for missing oldvalues
Instead of, for example,

    fatal: update refs/heads/master missing [<oldvalue>] NUL

emit

    fatal: update refs/heads/master missing <oldvalue>

Update the tests accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-07 12:09:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 9255f059ff update-ref --stdin: make error messages more consistent
The old error messages emitted for invalid input sometimes said
"<oldvalue>"/"<newvalue>" and sometimes said "old value"/"new value".
Convert them all to the former.  Update the tests accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-07 12:09:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 1746ef4e9d update-ref --stdin: improve error messages for invalid values
If an invalid value is passed to "update-ref --stdin" as <oldvalue> or
<newvalue>, include the command and the name of the reference at the
beginning of the error message.  Update the tests accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-07 12:09:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 20fcffcc8d t1400: add some more tests involving quoted arguments
Previously there were no good tests of C-quoted arguments.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-07 12:09:11 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 697a41519b parse_arg(): really test that argument is properly terminated
The old parse_arg(), when fed an argument

    "refs/heads/a"master

parsed 'refs/heads/a' off of the front of the argument and considered
itself successful.  It was only when parse_next_arg() tried to parse
the *next* argument that a problem was noticed.  But in fact, the
definition of the input format requires arguments to be terminated by
SP or NUL, so *this* argument is already erroneous and parse_arg()
should diagnose the problem.

So teach parse_arg() to verify that C-quoted arguments are terminated
correctly.  If not, emit a more specific error message.

There is no corresponding error case of a non-C-quoted argument that
is not terminated correctly, because the end of a non-quoted argument
is *by definition* a space or NUL, so there is no way to insert other
junk between the "end" of the argument and the argument terminator.

Adjust the tests to expect the new error message.  Add a docstring to
the function, incorporating the comments that were formerly within the
function plus some added information.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-07 12:09:11 -07:00
Michael Haggerty c132911088 t1400: provide more usual input to the command
The old version was passing (among other things)

    update SP refs/heads/c NUL NUL 0{40} NUL

to "git update-ref -z --stdin" to test whether the old-value check for
c is working.  But the <newvalue> is empty, which is a bit off the
beaten track.

So, to be sure that we are testing what we want to test, provide an
actual <newvalue> on the "update" line.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-07 12:09:10 -07:00
Michael Haggerty b984d333a1 t1400: fix name and expected result of one test
The test

    stdin -z create ref fails with zero new value

actually passes an empty new value, not a zero new value.  So rename
the test s/zero/empty/, and change the expected error from

    fatal: create $c given zero new value

to

    fatal: create $c missing <newvalue>

Of course, this makes the test fail now, because although "git
update-ref" tries to distinguish between these two errors, it does not
succeed in this situation.  Fixing it is more than a one-liner, so
mark the test test_expect_failure for now.  The failure will be fixed
later in this patch series.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-07 12:09:10 -07:00
Aman Gupta b9d56b5dd9 update-ref: fail create operation over stdin if ref already exists
Signed-off-by: Aman Gupta <aman@tmm1.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Acked-by: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-02 10:40:43 -07:00
Brad King c6268bc008 update-ref: add test cases covering --stdin signature
Extend t/t1400-update-ref.sh to cover cases using the --stdin option.

Signed-off-by: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-11 10:38:26 -07:00
Johan Herland b274a7146c Fix failure to delete a packed ref through a symref
When deleting a ref through a symref (e.g. using 'git update-ref -d HEAD'
to delete refs/heads/master), we would remove the loose ref, but a packed
version of the same ref would remain, the end result being that instead of
deleting refs/heads/master we would appear to reset it to its state as of
the last repack.

This patch fixes the issue, by making sure we pass the correct ref name
when invoking repack_without_ref() from within delete_ref().

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-21 12:08:42 -07:00
Johan Herland 75c96e05ce t1400-update-ref: Add test verifying bug with symrefs in delete_ref()
When deleting a ref through a symref (e.g. using 'git update-ref -d HEAD'
to delete refs/heads/master), we currently fail to remove the packed
version of that ref. This testcase demonstrates the bug.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-21 12:07:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 22dbeee715 Merge branch 'jc/fix-diff-files-unmerged'
* jc/fix-diff-files-unmerged:
  diff-files: show unmerged entries correctly
  diff: remove often unused parameters from diff_unmerge()
  diff.c: return filepair from diff_unmerge()
  test: use $_z40 from test-lib
2011-05-06 10:52:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 3749fde561 test: use $_z40 from test-lib
There is no need to duplicate the definition of $_z40 and $_x40 that
test-lib.sh supplies the test scripts.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-23 22:34:43 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder 598f0877aa t1400 (update-ref): use test_must_fail
As t/README explains:

	When a gitcommand dies due to a segfault, test_must_fail
	diagnoses it as an error; "! git <command>" treats it as
	just another expected failure, which would let such a bug
	go unnoticed.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-09 15:00:29 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder 2dec68cf8f tests: add missing &&, batch 2
Same rules as before: this patch only adds " &&" to the end of
some lines in the test suite.

Intended to be applied on top of or squashed with the last
batch if they look okay.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-09 14:45:22 -08:00
Miklos Vajna 188c3827c1 Tests: use test_cmp instead of diff where possible
Several old tests were written before test_cmp was introduced, convert
these to test_cmp.

If were are at it, fix the order of the arguments where necessary to
make expected come first, so the command shows how the test result
deviates from the correct output.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-17 14:25:52 -07:00
Miklos Vajna 045a476f91 update-ref --no-deref -d: handle the case when the pointed ref is packed
In this case we did nothing in the past, but we should delete the
reference in fact.

The problem was that when the symref is not packed but the referenced
ref is packed, then we assumed that the symref is packed as well, but
symrefs are never packed.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-31 22:41:55 -07:00
Miklos Vajna 569740bdd0 Fix git update-ref --no-deref -d.
Till now --no-deref was just ignored when deleting refs, fix this.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-26 14:44:25 -07:00
Nanako Shiraishi 0cb0e143ff tests: use "git xyzzy" form (t0000 - t3599)
Converts tests between t0050-t3903.

Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-03 12:41:46 -07:00
Stephan Beyer d492b31caf t/: Use "test_must_fail git" instead of "! git"
This patch changes every occurrence of "! git" -- with the meaning
that a git call has to gracefully fail -- into "test_must_fail git".

This is useful to

 - make sure the test does not fail because of a signal,
   e.g. SIGSEGV, and

 - advertise the use of "test_must_fail" for new tests.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-13 13:21:26 -07:00
Jeff King d1a4489a56 avoid null SHA1 in oldest reflog
When the user specifies a ref by a reflog entry older than
one we have (e.g., "HEAD@{20 years ago"}), we issue a
warning and give them the "from" value of the oldest reflog
entry. That is, we say "we don't know what happened before
this entry, but before this we know we had some particular
SHA1".

However, the oldest reflog entry is often a creation event
such as clone or branch creation. In this case, the entry
claims that the ref went from "00000..." (the null sha1) to
the new value, and the reflog lookup returns the null sha1.

While this is technically correct (the entry tells us that
the ref didn't exist at the specified time) it is not
terribly useful to the end user. What they probably want
instead is "the oldest useful sha1 that this ref ever had".
This patch changes the behavior such that if the oldest ref
would return the null sha1, it instead returns the first
value the ref ever had.

We never discovered this problem in the test scripts because
we created "fake" reflogs that had only a specified segment
of history. This patch updates the tests with a creation
event at the beginning of history.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-08 13:57:27 -07:00
Karl Hasselström 3fe8dce6fc Make old sha1 optional with git update-ref -d
Giving the old sha1 is already optional when changing a ref, and it's
quite handy when running update-ref manually. So make it optional for
deleting a ref too.

Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-02 22:52:39 -07:00
Karl Hasselström 40672a1904 Add some tests for git update-ref -d
Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-27 20:56:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 41ac414ea2 Sane use of test_expect_failure
Originally, test_expect_failure was designed to be the opposite
of test_expect_success, but this was a bad decision.  Most tests
run a series of commands that leads to the single command that
needs to be tested, like this:

    test_expect_{success,failure} 'test title' '
	setup1 &&
        setup2 &&
        setup3 &&
        what is to be tested
    '

And expecting a failure exit from the whole sequence misses the
point of writing tests.  Your setup$N that are supposed to
succeed may have failed without even reaching what you are
trying to test.  The only valid use of test_expect_failure is to
check a trivial single command that is expected to fail, which
is a minority in tests of Porcelain-ish commands.

This large-ish patch rewrites all uses of test_expect_failure to
use test_expect_success and rewrites the condition of what is
tested, like this:

    test_expect_success 'test title' '
	setup1 &&
        setup2 &&
        setup3 &&
        ! this command should fail
    '

test_expect_failure is redefined to serve as a reminder that
that test *should* succeed but due to a known breakage in git it
currently does not pass.  So if git-foo command should create a
file 'bar' but you discovered a bug that it doesn't, you can
write a test like this:

    test_expect_failure 'git-foo should create bar' '
        rm -f bar &&
        git foo &&
        test -f bar
    '

This construct acts similar to test_expect_success, but instead
of reporting "ok/FAIL" like test_expect_success does, the
outcome is reported as "FIXED/still broken".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-01 20:49:34 -08:00
Linus Torvalds c3b0dec509 Be more careful about updating refs
This makes write_ref_sha1() more careful: it actually checks the SHA1 of
the ref it is updating, and refuses to update a ref with an object that it
cannot find.

Perhaps more importantly, it also refuses to update a branch head with a
non-commit object. I don't quite know *how* the stable series maintainers
were able to corrupt their repository to have a HEAD that pointed to a tag
rather than a commit object, but they did. Which results in a totally
broken repository that cannot be cloned or committed on.

So make it harder for people to shoot themselves in the foot like that.

The test t1400-update-ref.sh is fixed at the same time, as it
assumed that the commands involved in the particular test would
not care about corrupted repositories whose refs point at
nonexistant bogus objects.  That assumption does not hold true
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-16 11:53:35 -08:00
Alex Riesen d9c8344b46 stop t1400 hiding errors in tests
The last rm in the test was lacking an "&&" before it,
which caused the errors in the commands be silently hidden.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-08 23:55:55 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce 432e93a164 Cleanup unnecessary file modifications in t1400-update-ref
Kristian Høgsberg pointed out that the two file modifications
we were doing during the 'creating initial files' step are not even
used within the test suite.  This was actually confusing as we do
not even need these changes for the tests to pass.  All that really
matters here is the specific commit dates are used so that these
appear in the branch's reflog, and that the dates are different so
that the branch will update when asked and the reflog entry is
also updated.  There is no need for the file modification.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-05 23:17:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 5be60078c9 Rewrite "git-frotz" to "git frotz"
This uses the remove-dashes target to replace "git-frotz" to "git frotz".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-02 22:52:14 -07:00
Tom Prince e0d10e1c63 [PATCH] Rename git-repo-config to git-config.
Signed-off-by: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-28 16:16:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 16d7cc90dd Extend read_ref_at() to be usable from places other than sha1_name.
You can pass an extra argument to the function to receive the
reflog message information.  Also when the log does not go back
beyond the point the user asked, the cut-off time and count are
given back to the caller for emitting the error messages as
appropriately.

We could later add configuration for get_sha1_basic() to make it
an error instead of it being just a warning.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19 17:57:53 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce 0bee591869 Enable reflogs by default in any repository with a working directory.
New and experienced Git users alike are finding out too late that
they forgot to enable reflogs in the current repository, and cannot
use the information stored within it to recover from an incorrectly
entered command such as `git reset --hard HEAD^^^` when they really
meant HEAD^^ (aka HEAD~2).

So enable reflogs by default in all future versions of Git, unless
the user specifically disables it with:

  [core]
    logAllRefUpdates = false

in their .git/config or ~/.gitconfig.

We only enable reflogs in repositories that have a working directory
associated with them, as shared/bare repositories do not have
an easy means to prune away old log entries, or may fail logging
entirely if the user's gecos information is not valid during a push.
This heuristic was suggested on the mailing list by Junio.

Documentation was also updated to indicate the new default behavior.
We probably should start to teach usuing the reflog to recover
from mistakes in some of the tutorial material, as new users are
likely to make a few along the way and will feel better knowing
they can recover from them quickly and easily, without fsck-objects'
lost+found features.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-15 22:31:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano ef176ad06a Fix t1400-update-ref test minimally
It depended on specific error messages to detect failure but the
implementation changed and broke the test.  This fixes the breakage
minimally.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-17 19:09:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 8aac4b45f3 t1400: make test debuggable.
I had a hard time figuring out why this test was failing with
the packed-refs update without running it under "sh -x".  This
makes output from "sh t1400-update-ref.sh -v" more descriptive.

Updating other tests would be a good janitorial task.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-16 13:41:14 -07:00
Shawn Pearce 818f477c40 Display an error from update-ref if target ref name is invalid.
Alex Riesen (raa.lkml@gmail.com) recently observed that git branch
would fail with no error message due to unexpected situations with
regards to refs.  For example, if .git/refs/heads/gu is a file but
"git branch -b refs/heads/gu/fixa HEAD" was invoked by the user
it would fail silently due to refs/heads/gu being a file and not
a directory.

This change adds a test for trying to create a ref within a directory
that is actually currently a file, and adds error printing within
the ref locking routine should the resolve operation fail.

The error printing code probably belongs at this level of the library
as other failures within the ref locking, writing and logging code
are also currently at this level of the code.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-28 20:53:53 -07:00
Eric Wong 8ff99e7417 tests: Set EDITOR=: and VISUAL=: globally
This way we don't have to remember to set it for each test; and
if we forget, we won't cause interactive editors to be spawned
for non-interactive tests.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-11 12:32:54 -07:00
Shawn Pearce a3a733e63b Record the type of commit operation in the reflog.
If committing a merge (.git/MERGE_HEAD exists), an initial tree
(no HEAD) or using --amend to amend the prior commit then denote
the subtype of commit in the reflog.  This helps to distinguish
amended or merge commits from normal commits.

In the case of --amend the prior sha1 is probably the commit which
is being thrown away in favor of the new commit.  Since it is likely
that the old commit doesn't have any ref pointing to it anymore
it can be interesting to know why that the commit was replaced
and orphaned.

In the case of a merge the prior sha1 is probably the first parent
of the new merge commit.  Consequently having its prior sha1 in the
reflog is slightly less interesting but its still informative to
know the commit was the result of a merge which had to be completed
by hand.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-10 21:21:16 -07:00
Shawn Pearce 9c7466fa24 Verify git-commit provides a reflog message.
The reflog message from git-commit should include the first line
of the commit message as supplied by the user.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-24 22:25:49 -07:00