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Junio C Hamano f5536f1ce2 Merge branch 'cl/t9001-cleanup'
Test clean-up.

* cl/t9001-cleanup:
  t9001: use existing helper in send-email test
2018-02-13 13:39:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 6bed209a20 Merge branch 'jh/partial-clone'
The machinery to clone & fetch, which in turn involves packing and
unpacking objects, have been told how to omit certain objects using
the filtering mechanism introduced by the jh/object-filtering
topic, and also mark the resulting pack as a promisor pack to
tolerate missing objects, taking advantage of the mechanism
introduced by the jh/fsck-promisors topic.

* jh/partial-clone:
  t5616: test bulk prefetch after partial fetch
  fetch: inherit filter-spec from partial clone
  t5616: end-to-end tests for partial clone
  fetch-pack: restore save_commit_buffer after use
  unpack-trees: batch fetching of missing blobs
  clone: partial clone
  partial-clone: define partial clone settings in config
  fetch: support filters
  fetch: refactor calculation of remote list
  fetch-pack: test support excluding large blobs
  fetch-pack: add --no-filter
  fetch-pack, index-pack, transport: partial clone
  upload-pack: add object filtering for partial clone
2018-02-13 13:39:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano f3d618d2bf Merge branch 'jh/fsck-promisors'
In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the machinery
for checking object connectivity used by gc and fsck has been
taught that a missing object is OK when it is referenced by a
packfile specially marked as coming from trusted repository that
promises to make them available on-demand and lazily.

* jh/fsck-promisors:
  gc: do not repack promisor packfiles
  rev-list: support termination at promisor objects
  sha1_file: support lazily fetching missing objects
  introduce fetch-object: fetch one promisor object
  index-pack: refactor writing of .keep files
  fsck: support promisor objects as CLI argument
  fsck: support referenced promisor objects
  fsck: support refs pointing to promisor objects
  fsck: introduce partialclone extension
  extension.partialclone: introduce partial clone extension
2018-02-13 13:39:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano ed1b87ef91 Merge branch 'ab/simplify-perl-makefile'
The build procedure for perl/ part has been greatly simplified by
weaning ourselves off of MakeMaker.

* ab/simplify-perl-makefile:
  perl: treat PERLLIB_EXTRA as an extra path again
  perl: avoid *.pmc and fix Error.pm further
  Makefile: replace perl/Makefile.PL with simple make rules
2018-02-13 13:39:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano e7e80778e7 Merge branch 'nd/add-i-ignore-submodules'
"git add -p" was taught to ignore local changes to submodules as
they do not interfere with the partial addition of regular changes
anyway.

* nd/add-i-ignore-submodules:
  add--interactive: ignore submodule changes except HEAD
2018-01-23 13:16:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 897de845e6 Merge branch 'mm/send-email-fallback-to-local-mail-address'
Instead of maintaining home-grown email address parsing code, ship
a copy of reasonably recent Mail::Address to be used as a fallback
in 'git send-email' when the platform lacks it.

* mm/send-email-fallback-to-local-mail-address:
  send-email: add test for Linux's get_maintainer.pl
  perl/Git: remove now useless email-address parsing code
  send-email: add and use a local copy of Mail::Address
2018-01-23 13:16:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 087d1a8e9c Merge branch 'tg/stash-with-pathspec-fix'
"git stash -- <pathspec>" incorrectly blew away untracked files in
the directory that matched the pathspec, which has been corrected.

* tg/stash-with-pathspec-fix:
  stash: don't delete untracked files that match pathspec
2018-01-23 13:16:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano f0605836b7 Merge branch 'sb/submodule-update-reset-fix'
When resetting the working tree files recursively, the working tree
of submodules are now also reset to match.

* sb/submodule-update-reset-fix:
  submodule: submodule_move_head omits old argument in forced case
  unpack-trees: oneway_merge to update submodules
  t/lib-submodule-update.sh: fix test ignoring ignored files in submodules
  t/lib-submodule-update.sh: clarify test
2018-01-23 13:16:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 5550449812 Merge branch 'ab/commit-m-with-fixup'
"git commit --fixup" did not allow "-m<message>" option to be used
at the same time; allow it to annotate resulting commit with more
text.

* ab/commit-m-with-fixup:
  commit: add support for --fixup <commit> -m"<extra message>"
  commit doc: document that -c, -C, -F and --fixup with -m error
2018-01-23 13:16:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 86d7fcc40a Merge branch 'cc/codespeed'
"perf" test output can be sent to codespeed server.

* cc/codespeed:
  perf/run: read GIT_PERF_REPO_NAME from perf.repoName
  perf/run: learn to send output to codespeed server
  perf/run: learn about perf.codespeedOutput
  perf/run: add conf_opts argument to get_var_from_env_or_config()
  perf/aggregate: implement codespeed JSON output
  perf/aggregate: refactor printing results
  perf/aggregate: fix checking ENV{GIT_PERF_SUBSECTION}
2018-01-23 13:16:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 59b43c014d Merge branch 'ab/perf-grep-threads'
More perf tests for threaded grep

* ab/perf-grep-threads:
  perf: amend the grep tests to test grep.threads
2018-01-23 13:16:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano c0d75f0e2e Merge branch 'sb/diff-blobfind-pickaxe'
"diff" family of commands learned "--find-object=<object-id>" option
to limit the findings to changes that involve the named object.

* sb/diff-blobfind-pickaxe:
  diff: use HAS_MULTI_BITS instead of counting bits manually
  diff: properly error out when combining multiple pickaxe options
  diffcore: add a pickaxe option to find a specific blob
  diff: introduce DIFF_PICKAXE_KINDS_MASK
  diff: migrate diff_flags.pickaxe_ignore_case to a pickaxe_opts bit
  diff.h: make pickaxe_opts an unsigned bit field
2018-01-23 13:16:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano addd37cd64 Merge branch 'jk/abort-clone-with-existing-dest'
"git clone $there $here" is allowed even when here directory exists
as long as it is an empty directory, but the command incorrectly
removed it upon a failure of the operation.

* jk/abort-clone-with-existing-dest:
  clone: do not clean up directories we didn't create
  clone: factor out dir_exists() helper
  t5600: modernize style
  t5600: fix outdated comment about unborn HEAD
2018-01-23 13:16:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 14b9d9aa0d Merge branch 'jc/merge-symlink-ours-theirs'
"git merge -Xours/-Xtheirs" learned to use our/their version when
resolving a conflicting updates to a symbolic link.

* jc/merge-symlink-ours-theirs:
  merge: teach -Xours/-Xtheirs to symbolic link merge
2018-01-23 13:16:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano bc3dca07f4 Merge branch 'nd/ita-wt-renames-in-status'
"git status" after moving a path in the working tree (hence making
it appear "removed") and then adding with the -N option (hence
making that appear "added") detected it as a rename, but did not
report the  old and new pathnames correctly.

* nd/ita-wt-renames-in-status:
  wt-status.c: handle worktree renames
  wt-status.c: rename rename-related fields in wt_status_change_data
  wt-status.c: catch unhandled diff status codes
  wt-status.c: coding style fix
  Use DIFF_DETECT_RENAME for detect_rename assignments
  t2203: test status output with porcelain v2 format
2018-01-23 13:16:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano fac64e011f Merge branch 'dk/describe-all-output-fix'
An old regression in "git describe --all $annotated_tag^0" has been
fixed.

* dk/describe-all-output-fix:
  describe: prepend "tags/" when describing tags with embedded name
2018-01-23 13:16:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano ea7b5de1c1 Merge branch 'bc/hash-algo' into maint
* bc/hash-algo:
  t5601-clone: test case-conflicting files on case-insensitive filesystem
  repository: pre-initialize hash algo pointer
2018-01-21 21:12:37 -08:00
Eric Sunshine b6947af229 t5601-clone: test case-conflicting files on case-insensitive filesystem
A recently introduced regression caused a segfault at clone time on
case-insensitive filesystems when filenames differing only in case are
present. This bug has already been fixed (repository: pre-initialize
hash algo pointer, 2018-01-18), but it's not the first time similar
problems have arisen. Therefore, introduce a test to catch this case and
protect against future regressions.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-21 21:12:17 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 12434efc1d add--interactive: ignore submodule changes except HEAD
For 'add -i' and 'add -p', the only action we can take on a dirty
submodule entry is update the index with a new value from its HEAD. The
content changes inside (from its own index, untracked files...) do not
matter, at least until 'git add -i' learns about launching a new
interactive add session inside a submodule.

Ignore all other submodules changes except HEAD. This reduces the number
of entries the user has to check through in 'git add -i', and the number
of 'no' they have to answer to 'git add -p' when dirty submodules are
present.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-16 12:32:45 -08:00
Christian Ludwig ec3b4b06f8 t9001: use existing helper in send-email test
Use the wrapper function around the sed statement like everywhere
else in the test. Unfortunately the wrapper function is defined
pretty late.

Move the wrapper to the top of the test file, so future users have it
available right away.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ludwig <chrissicool@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-12 10:39:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 91ec08a078 Merge branch 'js/test-with-ws-in-path'
Hot fix to a test.

* js/test-with-ws-in-path:
  t3900: add some more quotes
2018-01-11 13:16:36 -08:00
Beat Bolli 36a6f49cc3 t3900: add some more quotes
In 89a70b80 ("t0302 & t3900: add forgotten quotes", 2018-01-03), quotes
were added to protect against spaces in $HOME. In the test_when_finished
command, two files are deleted which must be quoted individually.

[jc: with \$HOME in the test_when_finished command quoted, as
pointed out by j6t].

Signed-off-by: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-10 15:07:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano fac910641a Merge branch 'js/perl-path-workaround-in-tests'
* js/perl-path-workaround-in-tests:
  mingw: handle GITPERLLIB in t0021 in a Windows-compatible way
2018-01-10 14:01:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano a466ef018e Merge branch 'ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index'
"git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is
dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current
HEAD, which has been fixed.

* ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index:
  merge-recursive: do not look at the index during recursive merge
2018-01-10 14:01:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano bc4efaf103 Merge branch 'js/fix-merge-arg-quoting-in-rebase-p'
"git rebase -p -X<option>" did not propagate the option properly
down to underlying merge strategy backend.

* js/fix-merge-arg-quoting-in-rebase-p:
  rebase -p: fix quoting when calling `git merge`
2018-01-10 14:01:24 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin 3306f6524d mingw: handle GITPERLLIB in t0021 in a Windows-compatible way
Git's assumption that all path lists are colon-separated is not only
wrong on Windows, it is not even an assumption that is compatible with
POSIX.

In the interest of time, let's not try to fix this properly but simply
work around the obvious breakage on Windows, where the MSYS2 Bash used
by Git for Windows to interpret the Git's Unix shell scripts will
automagically convert path lists in the environment to
semicolon-separated lists of Windows paths (with drive letter and the
corresponding colon and all that jazz).

In other words, we simply look whether there is a semicolon in
GITPERLLIB and split by semicolons if found instead of colons. This is
not fool-proof, of course, as the path list could consist of a single
path. But that is not the case in Git for Windows' test suite, there are
always two paths in GITPERLLIB.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-10 14:00:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 4e51984e82 Merge branch 'bw/protocol-v1'
Test fix for a topic already in 'master'.

* bw/protocol-v1:
  http: fix v1 protocol tests with apache httpd < 2.4
2018-01-09 14:32:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano d702d5c5bd Merge branch 'js/test-with-ws-in-path'
Test fixes.

* js/test-with-ws-in-path:
  t0302 & t3900: add forgotten quotes
  Allow the test suite to pass in a directory whose name contains spaces
2018-01-09 14:32:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 5b1c54ac99 Merge branch 'ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index-maint' into ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index
* ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index-maint:
  merge-recursive: do not look at the index during recursive merge
2018-01-09 10:41:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano f309e8e768 merge-recursive: do not look at the index during recursive merge
When merging another branch into ours, if their tree is the same as
the common ancestor's, we can declare that our tree represents the
result of three-way merge.  In such a case, the recursive merge
backend incorrectly used to create a commit out of our index, even
when the index has changes.

A recent fix attempted to prevent this by adding a comparison
between "our" tree and the index, but forgot that this check must be
restricted only to the outermost merge.  Inner merges performed by
the recursive backend across merge bases are by definition made from
scratch without having any local changes added to the index.  The
call to index_has_changes() during an inner merge is working on the
index that has no relation to the merge being performed, preventing
legitimate merges from getting carried out.

Fix it by limiting the check to the outermost merge.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-09 10:39:30 -08:00
Thomas Gummerer bba067d2fa stash: don't delete untracked files that match pathspec
Currently when 'git stash push -- <pathspec>' is used, untracked files
that match the pathspec will be deleted, even though they do not end up
in a stash anywhere.

This is because the original commit introducing the pathspec feature in
git stash push (df6bba0937 ("stash: teach 'push' (and 'create_stash') to
honor pathspec", 2017-02-28)) used the sequence of 'git reset <pathspec>
&& git ls-files --modified <pathspec> | git checkout-index && git clean
<pathspec>'.

The intention was to emulate what 'git reset --hard -- <pathspec>' would
do.  The call to 'git clean' was supposed to clean up the files that
were unstaged by 'git reset'.  This would work fine if the pathspec
doesn't match any files that were untracked before 'git stash push --
<pathspec>'.  However if <pathspec> matches a file that was untracked
before invoking the 'stash' command, all untracked files matching the
pathspec would inadvertently be deleted as well, even though they
wouldn't end up in the stash, and are therefore lost.

This behaviour was never what was intended, only blobs that also end up
in the stash should be reset to their state in HEAD, previously
untracked files should be left alone.

To achieve this, first match what's in the index and what's in the
working tree by adding all changes to the index, ask diff-index what
changed between HEAD and the current index, and then apply that patch in
reverse to get rid of the changes, which includes removal of added
files and resurrection of removed files.

Reported-by: Reid Price <reid.price@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-08 13:02:25 -08:00
Alex Bennée d60be8acab send-email: add test for Linux's get_maintainer.pl
We had a regression that broke Linux's get_maintainer.pl. Using
Mail::Address to parse email addresses fixed it, but let's protect
against future regressions.

Note that we need --cc-cmd to be relative because this option doesn't
accept spaces in script names (probably to allow --cc-cmd="executable
--option"), while --smtp-server needs to be absolute.

Patch-edited-by: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-08 10:36:47 -08:00
Matthieu Moy c8f9d13dc6 perl/Git: remove now useless email-address parsing code
We now use Mail::Address unconditionaly, hence parse_mailboxes is now
dead code. Remove it and its tests.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-08 10:35:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano bc27a2e2fc Merge branch 'jh/memihash-opt'
Squelch compiler warning.

* jh/memihash-opt:
  t/helper/test-lazy-name-hash: fix compilation
2018-01-05 13:28:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano e82bbcbf60 Merge branch 'tb/test-lint-wc-l'
Test update.

* tb/test-lint-wc-l:
  check-non-portable-shell.pl: `wc -l` may have leading WS
2018-01-05 13:28:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano a778ba1c71 Merge branch 'ld/p4-multiple-shelves'
"git p4" update.

* ld/p4-multiple-shelves:
  git-p4: update multiple shelved change lists
2018-01-05 13:28:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 843d94b3cd Merge branch 'ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index'
"git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is
dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current
HEAD, which has been fixed.

* ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index:
  merge-recursive: avoid incorporating uncommitted changes in a merge
  move index_has_changes() from builtin/am.c to merge.c for reuse
  t6044: recursive can silently incorporate dirty changes in a merge
2018-01-05 13:28:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 07b747d324 Merge branch 'jk/test-suite-tracing'
Assorted fixes around running tests with "-x" tracing option.

* jk/test-suite-tracing:
  t/Makefile: introduce TEST_SHELL_PATH
  test-lib: make "-x" work with "--verbose-log"
  t5615: avoid re-using descriptor 4
  test-lib: silence "-x" cleanup under bash
2018-01-05 13:28:09 -08:00
Stefan Beller 7dcc1f4df8 submodule: submodule_move_head omits old argument in forced case
When using hard reset or forced checkout with the option to recurse into
submodules, the submodules need to be reset, too.

It turns out that we need to omit the duplicate old argument to read-tree
in all forced cases to omit the 2 way merge and use the more assertive
behavior of reading the specific new tree into the index and updating
the working tree.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-05 12:35:35 -08:00
Stefan Beller 63d963a470 t/lib-submodule-update.sh: fix test ignoring ignored files in submodules
It turns out that the test replacing a submodule with a file with
the submodule containing an ignored file is incorrectly titled,
because the test put the file in place, but never ignored that file.
When having an untracked file Instead of an ignored file in the
submodule, git should refuse to remove the submodule, but that is
a bug in the implementation of recursing into submodules, such that
the test just passed, removing the untracked file.

Fix the test first; in a later patch we'll fix gits behavior,
that will make sure untracked files are not deleted.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-05 12:35:35 -08:00
Stefan Beller 6419a12397 t/lib-submodule-update.sh: clarify test
Keep the local branch name as the upstream branch name to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-05 12:35:04 -08:00
Christian Couder 19cf57a92e perf/run: read GIT_PERF_REPO_NAME from perf.repoName
The GIT_PERF_REPO_NAME env variable is used in
the `aggregate.perl` script to set the 'environment'
field in the JSON Codespeed output.

Let's make it easy to set this variable by setting it
in a config file.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-05 12:31:08 -08:00
Christian Couder fccec20f0b perf/run: learn to send output to codespeed server
Let's make it possible to set in a config file the URL of
a codespeed server. And then let's make the `run` script
send the perf test results to this URL at the end of the
tests.

This should make is possible to easily automate the process
of running perf tests and having their results available in
Codespeed.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-05 12:31:08 -08:00
Christian Couder 5d6bb93090 perf/run: learn about perf.codespeedOutput
Let's make it possible to set in a config file the output
format (regular or codespeed) of the perf tests.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-05 12:31:08 -08:00
Christian Couder 3ae7d2b0cd perf/run: add conf_opts argument to get_var_from_env_or_config()
Let's make it possible to use `git config` type specifiers like
`--int` or `--bool`, so that config values are converted to the
canonical form and easier to use.

This additional argument is now the fourth argument of
get_var_from_env_or_config() instead of the fifth because we
want the default value argument to be unset if it is not
passed, and this is simpler if it is the last argument.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-05 12:31:07 -08:00
Christian Couder 05eb1c37ed perf/aggregate: implement codespeed JSON output
Codespeed (https://github.com/tobami/codespeed/) is an open source
project that can be used to track how some software performs over
time. It stores performance test results in a database and can show
nice graphs and charts on a web interface.

As it can be interesting to use Codespeed to see how Git performance
evolves over time and releases, let's implement a Codespeed output
in "perf/aggregate.perl".

Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-05 12:31:07 -08:00
Christian Couder 30ffff6ee2 perf/aggregate: refactor printing results
As we want to implement another kind of output than
the current output for the perf test results, let's
refactor the existing code that outputs the results
in its own print_default_results() function.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-05 12:31:07 -08:00
Christian Couder 6f5ecad6a5 perf/aggregate: fix checking ENV{GIT_PERF_SUBSECTION}
The way we check ENV{GIT_PERF_SUBSECTION} could trigger
comparison between undef and "" that may be flagged by
use of strict & warnings. Let's fix that.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-05 12:31:07 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin dd6fb0053c rebase -p: fix quoting when calling git merge
It has been reported that strategy arguments are not passed to `git
merge` correctly when rebasing interactively, preserving merges.

The reason is that the strategy arguments are already quoted, and then
quoted again.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1321

Original-patch-by: Kim Gybels <kgybels@infogroep.be>
Also-reported-by: Matwey V. Kornilov <matwey.kornilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-05 12:26:01 -08:00
Stefan Beller 15af58c1ad diffcore: add a pickaxe option to find a specific blob
Sometimes users are given a hash of an object and they want to
identify it further (ex.: Use verify-pack to find the largest blobs,
but what are these? or [1])

One might be tempted to extend git-describe to also work with blobs,
such that `git describe <blob-id>` gives a description as
'<commit-ish>:<path>'.  This was implemented at [2]; as seen by the sheer
number of responses (>110), it turns out this is tricky to get right.
The hard part to get right is picking the correct 'commit-ish' as that
could be the commit that (re-)introduced the blob or the blob that
removed the blob; the blob could exist in different branches.

Junio hinted at a different approach of solving this problem, which this
patch implements. Teach the diff machinery another flag for restricting
the information to what is shown. For example:

    $ ./git log --oneline --find-object=v2.0.0:Makefile
    b2feb64309 Revert the whole "ask curl-config" topic for now
    47fbfded53 i18n: only extract comments marked with "TRANSLATORS:"

we observe that the Makefile as shipped with 2.0 was appeared in
v1.9.2-471-g47fbfded53 and in v2.0.0-rc1-5-gb2feb6430b.  The
reason why these commits both occur prior to v2.0.0 are evil
merges that are not found using this new mechanism.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/223678/which-commit-has-this-blob
[2] https://public-inbox.org/git/20171028004419.10139-1-sbeller@google.com/

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-04 15:02:40 -08:00