A new configuration variable 'core.trustctime' is introduced to
allow ignoring st_ctime information when checking if paths
in the working tree has changed, because there are situations where
it produces too much false positives. Like when file system crawlers
keep changing it when scanning and using the ctime for marking scanned
files.
The default is to notice ctime changes.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Expanding system paths relative to git_exec_path can be used for
creating an installation that can be moved to a different directory
without re-compiling. We use this approach for template_dir and the
system wide gitconfig. The Windows installer (msysgit) is an example
for such a setup.
This commit moves common code to a new function system_path(). System
paths that are to be interpreted relative to git_exec_path are passed to
system_path() and the return value is used instead of the original path.
system_path() prefixes a relative path with git_exec_path and leaves
absolute paths unmodified. For example, we now write
template_dir = system_path(DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR);
[j6t: moved from path.c to exec_cmd.c]
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For everything other than using "git config" to read or write a
git-style config file that isn't the current repo's config file,
GIT_CONFIG was actively detrimental. Rather than argue over which
programs are important enough to have work anyway, just fix all of
them at the root.
Also removes GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, which would only be useful for programs
that do want to use global git-specific config, but not the repo's own
git-specific config, and want to use some other, presumably
git-specific config. Despite being documented, I can't find any sign that
it was ever used.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* lt/config-fsync:
Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files
Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines
Split up default "user" config parsing into helper routine
Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
As explained in the documentation[*] this is totally useless on
filesystems that do ordered/journalled data writes, but it can be a
useful safety feature on filesystems like HFS+ that only journal the
metadata, not the actual file contents.
It defaults to off, although we could presumably in theory some day
auto-enable it on a per-filesystem basis.
[*] Yes, I updated the docs for the thing. Hell really _has_ frozen
over, and the four horsemen are probably just beyond the horizon.
EVERYBODY PANIC!
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
.. just to finish it off. We'll leave the pager color config alone,
since it is such an odd-ball special case anyway.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This follows the example of the "core" config, and splits out the
default "user" config option parsing into a helper routine.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It makes the code a bit easier to read, and in theory a bit faster too
(no need to compare all the different "core.*" strings against non-core
config options).
The config system really should get something of a complete overhaul,
but in the absense of that, this at least improves on it a tiny bit.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sb/committer:
commit: Show committer if automatic
commit: Show author if different from committer
Preparation to call determine_author_info from prepare_to_commit
* bd/tests:
Rename the test trash directory to contain spaces.
Fix tests breaking when checkout path contains shell metacharacters
Don't use the 'export NAME=value' in the test scripts.
lib-git-svn.sh: Fix quoting issues with paths containing shell metacharacters
test-lib.sh: Fix some missing path quoting
Use test_set_editor in t9001-send-email.sh
test-lib.sh: Add a test_set_editor function to safely set $VISUAL
git-send-email.perl: Handle shell metacharacters in $EDITOR properly
config.c: Escape backslashes in section names properly
git-rebase.sh: Fix --merge --abort failures when path contains whitespace
Conflicts:
t/t9115-git-svn-dcommit-funky-renames.sh
git_config() only had a function parameter, but no callback data
parameter. This assumes that all callback functions only modify
global variables.
With this patch, every callback gets a void * parameter, and it is hoped
that this will help the libification effort.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* lt/core-optim:
Optimize symlink/directory detection
Avoid some unnecessary lstat() calls
is_racy_timestamp(): do not check timestamp for gitlinks
diff-lib.c: rename check_work_tree_entity()
diff: a submodule not checked out is not modified
Add t7506 to test submodule related functions for git-status
t4027: test diff for submodule with empty directory
Make git-add behave more sensibly in a case-insensitive environment
When adding files to the index, add support for case-independent matches
Make unpack-tree update removed files before any updated files
Make branch merging aware of underlying case-insensitive filsystems
Add 'core.ignorecase' option
Make hash_name_lookup able to do case-independent lookups
Make "index_name_exists()" return the cache_entry it found
Move name hashing functions into a file of its own
Make unpack_trees_options bit flags actual bitfields
Change cd67e4d4 introduced a new configuration parameter that told
pull to automatically perform a rebase instead of a merge. This
change provides a configuration option to enable this feature
automatically when creating a new branch.
If the variable branch.autosetuprebase applies for a branch that's
being created, that branch will have branch.<name>.rebase set to true.
Signed-off-by: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* lt/case-insensitive:
Make git-add behave more sensibly in a case-insensitive environment
When adding files to the index, add support for case-independent matches
Make unpack-tree update removed files before any updated files
Make branch merging aware of underlying case-insensitive filsystems
Add 'core.ignorecase' option
Make hash_name_lookup able to do case-independent lookups
Make "index_name_exists()" return the cache_entry it found
Move name hashing functions into a file of its own
Make unpack_trees_options bit flags actual bitfields
To warn the user in case he/she might be using an unintended
committer identity.
Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If an element of the configuration key name other than the first or last
contains a backslash, it is not escaped on output, but is treated as an
escape sequence on input. Thus, the backslash is lost when re-loading
the configuration.
This patch corrects this by having backslashes escaped properly, and
introduces a new test for this bug.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@fushizen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The earlier one botched the return value logic between config_bool and
config_bool_and_int. The former should normalize between 0 and 1 while
the latter should give back full range of integer values.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This new function can be used by config parsers to tell if a variable
is simply set, set to 1, or set to "true".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
..and start using it for directory entry traversal (ie "git status" will
not consider entries that match an existing entry case-insensitively to
be a new file)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These functions get called by other code, including parsing
config options from the command line. In that case,
config_file_name is NULL, leading to an ugly message or even
a segfault on some implementations of printf.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git branch" and "git checkout -b" now honor --track option even when
the upstream branch is local. Previously --track was silently ignored
when forking from a local branch. Also the command did not error out
when --track was explicitly asked for but the forked point specified
was not an existing branch (i.e. when there is no way to set up the
tracking configuration), but now it correctly does.
The configuration setting branch.autosetupmerge can now be set to
"always", which is equivalent to using --track from the command line.
Setting branch.autosetupmerge to "true" will retain the former behavior
of only setting up branch.*.merge for remote upstream branches.
Includes test cases for the new functionality.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
commit: discard index after setting up partial commit
filter-branch: handle filenames that need quoting
diff: Fix miscounting of --check output
hg-to-git: fix parent analysis
mailinfo: feed only one line to handle_filter() for QP input
diff.c: add "const" qualifier to "char *cmd" member of "struct ll_diff_driver"
Add "const" qualifier to "char *excludes_file".
Add "const" qualifier to "char *editor_program".
Add "const" qualifier to "char *pager_program".
config: add 'git_config_string' to refactor string config variables.
diff.c: remove useless check for value != NULL
fast-import: check return value from unpack_entry()
Validate nicknames of remote branches to prohibit confusing ones
diff.c: replace a 'strdup' with 'xstrdup'.
diff.c: fixup garding of config parser from value=NULL
Also use "git_config_string" to simplify "config.c" code
where "excludes_file" is set.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also use "git_config_string" to simplify "config.c" code
where "editor_program" is set.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also use "git_config_string" to simplify "config.c" code
where "pager_program" is set.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In many places we just check if a value from the config file is not
NULL, then we duplicate it and return 0. This patch introduces the new
'git_config_string' function to do that.
This function is also used to refactor some code in 'config.c'.
Refactoring other files is left for other patches.
Also not all the code in "config.c" is refactored, because the function
takes a "const char **" as its first parameter, but in many places a
"char *" is used instead of a "const char *". (And C does not allow
using a "char **" instead of a "const char **" without a warning.)
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
user.{name,email}, core.{pager,editor,excludesfile,whitespace} and
i18n.{commit,logoutput}encoding all expect string values.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is used to report misconfigured configuration file that does not
give any value to a non-boolean variable, e.g.
[section]
var
It is perfectly fine to say it if the section.var is a boolean (it means
true), but if a variable expects a string value it should be flagged as
a configuration error.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
find_beginning_of_line didn't take into account that the
previous line might have ended with \ in which case it shouldn't
stop but continue its search.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL and GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM environment
variables are magic undocumented switches that can be used
to ensure a totally clean environment. This is necessary for
running reliable tests, since those config files may contain
settings that change the outcome of tests.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data.
autocrlf=true will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to
CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and
CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by git. For text
files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings
such that we have only LF line endings in the repository.
But for binary files that are accidentally classified as text the
conversion can corrupt data.
If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by
setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes. Right
after committing you still have the original file in your work
tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell
git that this file is binary and git will handle the file
appropriately.
Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with
mixed line endings and the undesired effect of corrupting binary
files cannot be distinguished. In both cases CRLFs are removed
in an irreversible way. For text files this is the right thing
to do because CRLFs are line endings, while for binary files
converting CRLFs corrupts data.
This patch adds a mechanism that can either warn the user about
an irreversible conversion or can even refuse to convert. The
mechanism is controlled by the variable core.safecrlf, with the
following values:
- false: disable safecrlf mechanism
- warn: warn about irreversible conversions
- true: refuse irreversible conversions
The default is to warn. Users are only affected by this default
if core.autocrlf is set. But the current default of git is to
leave core.autocrlf unset, so users will not see warnings unless
they deliberately chose to activate the autocrlf mechanism.
The safecrlf mechanism's details depend on the git command. The
general principles when safecrlf is active (not false) are:
- we warn/error out if files in the work tree can modified in an
irreversible way without giving the user a chance to backup the
original file.
- for read-only operations that do not modify files in the work tree
we do not not print annoying warnings.
There are exceptions. Even though...
- "git add" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, the
next checkout would, so the safety triggers;
- "git apply" to update a text file with a patch does touch the files
in the work tree, but the operation is about text files and CRLF
conversion is about fixing the line ending inconsistencies, so the
safety does not trigger;
- "git diff" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, it is
often run to inspect the changes you intend to next "git add". To
catch potential problems early, safety triggers.
The concept of a safety check was originally proposed in a similar
way by Linus Torvalds. Thanks to Dimitry Potapov for insisting
on getting the naked LF/autocrlf=true case right.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
When DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR is specified as a relative path,
init-db made it relative to exec_path using prefix_path(), which
is wrong. prefix_path() is about a file inside the work tree.
There was a similar misuse in config.c that takes relative
ETC_GITCONFIG path. Noticed by Junio C Hamano.
We concatenate the paths manually. (prefix_filename() won't do
because it expects a prefix with a trailing '/'.)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR is specified as a relative path,
init-db made it relative to exec_path using prefix_path(), which
is wrong. prefix_path() is about a file inside the work tree.
There was a similar misuse in config.c that takes relative
ETC_GITCONFIG path.
A convenience function prefix_filename() can concatenate two paths
to form a path that points at somewhere outside the work tree.
Use it in these codepaths instead.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The config parsing routines use the static global
'config_file' to store the FILE* pointing to the current
config file being parsed. The function get_next_char()
automatically converts an EOF on this file to a newline for
the convenience of its callers, and it sets config_file to
NULL to indicate that EOF was reached.
This throws away useful information, though, since some
routines want to call ftell on 'config_file' to find out
exactly _where_ the routine ended. In the case of a key
ending at EOF boundary, we ended up segfaulting in some
cases (changing that key or adding another key in its
section), or failing to provide the necessary newline
(adding a new section).
This patch adds a new flag to indicate EOF and uses that
instead of setting config_file to NULL. It also makes sure
to add newlines where necessary for truncated input. All
three included tests fail without the patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a config file has become mildly corrupted due to a missing LF
we may discover some other option joined up against the end of a
numeric value. For example:
[section]
number = 1auto
where the "auto" flag was meant to occur on the next line, below
"number", but the missing LF has caused it to no longer be its
own option. Instead the word "auto" is parsed as a 'unit factor'
for the value of "number".
Before this change we got the confusing error message:
fatal: unknown unit: 'auto'
which told us nothing about where the problem appeared. Now we get:
fatal: bad config value for 'aninvalid.unit'
which at least points the user in the right direction of where to
search for the incorrectly formatted configuration file.
Noticed by erikh on #git, which received the original error from
a simple `git checkout -b` due to a midly corrupted config.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Avoids horrible 1-byte write(2) calls and cleans up the logic a bit.
Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/spht:
Use gitattributes to define per-path whitespace rule
core.whitespace: documentation updates.
builtin-apply: teach whitespace_rules
builtin-apply: rename "whitespace" variables and fix styles
core.whitespace: add test for diff whitespace error highlighting
git-diff: complain about >=8 consecutive spaces in initial indent
War on whitespace: first, a bit of retreat.
Conflicts:
cache.h
config.c
diff.c
The `core.whitespace` configuration variable allows you to define what
`diff` and `apply` should consider whitespace errors for all paths in
the project (See gitlink:git-config[1]). This attribute gives you finer
control per path.
For example, if you have these in the .gitattributes:
frotz whitespace
nitfol -whitespace
xyzzy whitespace=-trailing
all types of whitespace problems known to git are noticed in path 'frotz'
(i.e. diff shows them in diff.whitespace color, and apply warns about
them), no whitespace problem is noticed in path 'nitfol', and the
default types of whitespace problems except "trailing whitespace" are
noticed for path 'xyzzy'. A project with mixed Python and C might want
to have:
*.c whitespace
*.py whitespace=-indent-with-non-tab
in its toplevel .gitattributes file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are inconsistencies in the way commands currently handle
the core.excludesfile configuration variable. The problem is
the variable is too new to be noticed by anything other than
git-add and git-status.
* git-ls-files does not notice any of the "ignore" files by
default, as it predates the standardized set of ignore files.
The calling scripts established the convention to use
.git/info/exclude, .gitignore, and later core.excludesfile.
* git-add and git-status know about it because they call
add_excludes_from_file() directly with their own notion of
which standard set of ignore files to use. This is just a
stupid duplication of code that need to be updated every time
the definition of the standard set of ignore files is
changed.
* git-read-tree takes --exclude-per-directory=<gitignore>,
not because the flexibility was needed. Again, this was
because the option predates the standardization of the ignore
files.
* git-merge-recursive uses hardcoded per-directory .gitignore
and nothing else. git-clean (scripted version) does not
honor core.* because its call to underlying ls-files does not
know about it. git-clean in C (parked in 'pu') doesn't either.
We probably could change git-ls-files to use the standard set
when no excludes are specified on the command line and ignore
processing was asked, or something like that, but that will be a
change in semantics and might break people's scripts in a subtle
way. I am somewhat reluctant to make such a change.
On the other hand, I think it makes perfect sense to fix
git-read-tree, git-merge-recursive and git-clean to follow the
same rule as other commands. I do not think of a valid use case
to give an exclude-per-directory that is nonstandard to
read-tree command, outside a "negative" test in the t1004 test
script.
This patch is the first step to untangle this mess.
The next step would be to teach read-tree, merge-recursive and
clean (in C) to use setup_standard_excludes().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
