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Junio C Hamano fc0df933c8 Merge branch 'rs/opt-updates'
"git cmd -h" updates.

* rs/opt-updates:
  parseopt: group literal string alternatives in argument help
  remote: improve argument help for add --mirror
  checkout-index: improve argument help for --stage
2018-08-27 14:33:43 -07:00
René Scharfe bbc072f5d8 parseopt: group literal string alternatives in argument help
This formally clarifies that the "--option=" part is the same for all
alternatives.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-21 11:35:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 8963bb0c2d Merge branch 'rs/parse-opt-lithelp'
The parse-options machinery learned to refrain from enclosing
placeholder string inside a "<bra" and "ket>" pair automatically
without PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP.  Existing help text for option
arguments that are not formatted correctly have been identified and
fixed.

* rs/parse-opt-lithelp:
  parse-options: automatically infer PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP
  shortlog: correct option help for -w
  send-pack: specify --force-with-lease argument help explicitly
  pack-objects: specify --index-version argument help explicitly
  difftool: remove angular brackets from argument help
  add, update-index: fix --chmod argument help
  push: use PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP instead of unbalanced brackets
2018-08-17 13:09:56 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason c67318ecb6 push: use PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP instead of unbalanced brackets
The option help text for the force-with-lease option to "git push"
reads like this:

    $ git push -h 2>&1 | grep -e force-with-lease
       --force-with-lease[=<refname>:<expect>]

which comes from having N_("refname>:<expect") as the argument help
text in the source code, with an aparent lack of "<" and ">" at both
ends.

It turns out that parse-options machinery takes the whole string and
encloses it inside a pair of "<>", to make it easier for majority
cases that uses a single token placeholder.

The help string was written in a funnily unbalanced way knowing that
the end result would balance out, by somebody who forgot the
presence of PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP, which is the escape hatch
mechanism designed to help such a case.  We just should use the
official escape hatch instead.

Because ":<expect>" part can be omitted to ask Git to guess, it may
be more correct to spell it as "<refname>[:<expect>]", but that is
not the focus of this topic.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-03 08:31:28 -07:00
Brandon Williams 306f22dbc8 transport: convert transport_push to take a struct refspec
Convert 'transport_push()' to take a 'struct refspec' as a
parameter instead of an array of strings which represent
refspecs.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-18 06:19:44 +09:00
Brandon Williams aa40289ce9 push: convert to use struct refspec
Convert the refspecs in builtin/push.c to be stored in a 'struct
refspec' instead of being stored in a list of 'struct refspec_item's.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-18 06:19:44 +09:00
Brandon Williams 800a4ab399 push: check for errors earlier
Move the error checking for using the "--mirror", "--all", and "--tags"
options earlier and explicitly check for the presence of the flags
instead of checking for a side-effect of the flag.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-18 06:19:44 +09:00
Brandon Williams 86baf82521 remote: convert query_refspecs to take a struct refspec
Convert 'query_refspecs()' to take a 'struct refspec' as a parameter instead
of a list of 'struct refspec_item'.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-18 06:19:43 +09:00
Brandon Williams 6bdb304b10 remote: convert push refspecs to struct refspec
Convert the set of push refspecs stored in 'struct remote' to use
'struct refspec'.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-18 06:19:42 +09:00
Brandon Williams 0ad4a5ff50 refspec: rename struct refspec to struct refspec_item
In preparation for introducing an abstraction around a collection of
refspecs (much like how a 'struct pathspec' is a collection of 'struct
pathspec_item's) rename the existing 'struct refspec' to 'struct
refspec_item'.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-18 06:19:41 +09:00
Brandon Williams ec0cb49655 refspec: move refspec parsing logic into its own file
In preparation for performing a refactor on refspec related code, move
the refspec parsing logic into its own file.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-18 06:19:41 +09:00
Ryan Dammrose 960786e761 push: colorize errors
This is an attempt to resolve an issue I experience with people that are
new to Git -- especially colleagues in a team setting -- where they miss
that their push to a remote location failed because the failure and
success both return a block of white text.

An example is if I push something to a remote repository and then a
colleague attempts to push to the same remote repository and the push
fails because it requires them to pull first, but they don't notice
because a success and failure both return a block of white text. They
then continue about their business, thinking it has been successfully
pushed.

This patch colorizes the errors and hints (in red and yellow,
respectively) so whenever there is a failure when pushing to a remote
repository that fails, it is more noticeable.

[jes: fixed a couple bugs, added the color.{advice,push,transport}
settings, refactored to use want_color_stderr().]

Signed-off-by: Ryan Dammrose ryandammrose@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-24 10:38:47 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy f1e1bdd6bd completion: use __gitcomp_builtin in _git_push
The new completable options are:

--atomic
--exec=
--ipv4
--ipv6
--no-verify
--porcelain
--progress
--push-option
--signed

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-09 10:24:52 -08:00
Marius Paliga d8052750c5 builtin/push.c: add push.pushOption config
Push options need to be given explicitly, via the command line as "git
push --push-option <option>".  Add the config option push.pushOption,
which is a multi-valued option, containing push options that are sent
by default.

When push options are set in the lower-priority configulation file
(e.g. /etc/gitconfig, or $HOME/.gitconfig), they can be unset later in
the more specific repository config by the empty string.

Add tests and update documentation as well.

Signed-off-by: Marius Paliga <marius.paliga@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-24 09:57:54 +09:00
Junio C Hamano bdfcdefd2f Merge branch 'ma/parse-maybe-bool'
Code clean-up.

* ma/parse-maybe-bool:
  parse_decoration_style: drop unused argument `var`
  treewide: deprecate git_config_maybe_bool, use git_parse_maybe_bool
  config: make git_{config,parse}_maybe_bool equivalent
  config: introduce git_parse_maybe_bool_text
  t5334: document that git push --signed=1 does not work
  Doc/git-{push,send-pack}: correct --sign= to --signed=
2017-08-22 10:29:03 -07:00
Martin Ågren 8957661378 treewide: deprecate git_config_maybe_bool, use git_parse_maybe_bool
The only difference between these is that the former takes an argument
`name` which it ignores completely. Still, the callers are quite careful
to provide reasonable values for it.

Once in-flight topics have landed, we should be able to remove
git_config_maybe_bool. In the meantime, document it as deprecated in the
technical documentation. While at it, document git_parse_maybe_bool.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-07 13:29:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f31d23a399 Merge branch 'bw/config-h'
Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir
that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API
into its own header file.

* bw/config-h:
  config: don't implicitly use gitdir or commondir
  config: respect commondir
  setup: teach discover_git_directory to respect the commondir
  config: don't include config.h by default
  config: remove git_config_iter
  config: create config.h
2017-06-24 14:28:41 -07:00
Brandon Williams b2141fc1d2 config: don't include config.h by default
Stop including config.h by default in cache.h.  Instead only include
config.h in those files which require use of the config system.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-15 12:56:22 -07:00
Stefan Beller 4e53d6a541 builtin/push.c: respect 'submodule.recurse' option
The closest mapping from the boolean 'submodule.recurse' set to "yes"
to the variety of submodule push modes is "on-demand", so implement that.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-01 10:36:36 +09:00
Brandon Williams 54cc8aca60 push: unmark a local variable as static
There isn't any obvious reason for the 'struct string_list push_options'
and 'struct string_list_item *item' to be marked as static, so unmark
them as being static.  Also, clear the push_options string_list to
prevent memory leaking.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-02 09:49:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 792e22e3fd Merge branch 'bw/push-submodule-only'
"git submodule push" learned "--recurse-submodules=only option to
push submodules out without pushing the top-level superproject.

* bw/push-submodule-only:
  push: add option to push only submodules
  submodules: add RECURSE_SUBMODULES_ONLY value
  transport: reformat flag #defines to be more readable
2017-01-31 13:14:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 6c18dd4dc3 Merge branch 'jc/push-default-explicit'
A lazy "git push" without refspec did not internally use a fully
specified refspec to perform 'current', 'simple', or 'upstream'
push, causing unnecessary "ambiguous ref" errors.

* jc/push-default-explicit:
  push: test pushing ambiguously named branches
  push: do not use potentially ambiguous default refspec
2016-12-27 00:11:40 -08:00
Brandon Williams 225e8bf778 push: add option to push only submodules
Teach push the --recurse-submodules=only option.  This enables push
to recursively push all unpushed submodules while leaving the
superproject unpushed.

This is a desirable feature in a scenario where updates to the
superproject are handled automatically by some other means, perhaps
a tool like Gerrit code review.  In this scenario, a developer could
make a change which spans multiple submodules and then push their
commits for code review.  Upon completion of the code review, their
commits can be accepted and applied to their respective submodules
while the code review tool can then automatically update the
superproject to the most recent SHA1 of each submodule.  This would
reduce the merge conflicts in the superproject that could occur if
multiple people are contributing to the same submodule.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-20 12:26:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano eef2bdaa4a push: do not use potentially ambiguous default refspec
When the user does the lazy "git push" with no parameters with
push.default set to either "upstream", "simple" or "current",
we internally generated a refspec that has the current branch name
on the source side and used it to push.

However, the branch name (say "test") may be an ambiguous refname in
the context of the source repository---there may be a tag with the
same name, for example.  This would trigger an unnecessary error
without any fault on the end-user's side.

Be explicit and give a full refname as the source side to avoid the
ambiguity.  The destination side when pushing with the "current"
sent only the name of the branch and forcing the receiving end to
guess, which is the same issue.  Be explicit there as well.

Reported-by: Kannan Goundan <kannan@cakoose.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-28 23:30:30 -07:00
Stefan Beller f6a4e61fbb push: accept push options
This implements everything that is required on the client side to make use
of push options from the porcelain push command.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-14 15:50:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 15be621072 Merge branch 'mm/push-default-warning'
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
2016-02-26 13:37:25 -08:00
Matthieu Moy 2f275207ce push: remove "push.default is unset" warning message
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>
2016-02-25 09:56:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano e84d5e9fa1 Merge branch 'ew/force-ipv4'
"git fetch" and friends that make network connections can now be
told to only use ipv4 (or ipv6).

* ew/force-ipv4:
  connect & http: support -4 and -6 switches for remote operations
2016-02-24 13:25:54 -08:00
Eric Wong c915f11eb4 connect & http: support -4 and -6 switches for remote operations
Sometimes it is necessary to force IPv4-only or IPv6-only operation
on networks where name lookups may return a non-routable address and
stall remote operations.

The ssh(1) command has an equivalent switches which we may pass when
we run them.  There may be old ssh(1) implementations out there
which do not support these switches; they should report the
appropriate error in that case.

rsync support is untouched for now since it is deprecated and
scheduled to be removed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Reviewed-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-12 11:34:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 7b9d1b9556 Merge branch 'ps/push-delete-option'
"branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not.

* ps/push-delete-option:
  push: add '-d' as shorthand for '--delete'
  push: add '--delete' flag to synopsis
2016-01-12 15:16:54 -08:00
Ralf Thielow 6a4f2eced4 push: don't mark options of recurse-submodules for translation
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-22 14:40:47 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 38a2559113 push: add '-d' as shorthand for '--delete'
"git push" takes "--delete" but does not take a short form "-d",
unlike "git branch" which does take both.  Bring consistency
between them.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-16 12:30:10 -08:00
Mike Crowe d34141cd08 push: follow the "last one wins" convention for --recurse-submodules
Use the "last one wins" convention for --recurse-submodules rather
than treating conflicting options as an error.

Also, fix the declaration of the file-scope recurse_submodules
global variable to put it on a separate line.

Signed-off-by: Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-04 13:04:04 -08:00
Mike Crowe b33a15b081 push: add recurseSubmodules config option
The --recurse-submodules command line parameter has existed for some
time but it has no config file equivalent.

Following the style of the corresponding parameter for git fetch, let's
invent push.recurseSubmodules to provide a default for this
parameter. This also requires the addition of --recurse-submodules=no to
allow the configuration to be overridden on the command line when
required.

The most straightforward way to implement this appears to be to make
push use code in submodule-config in a similar way to fetch.

Signed-off-by: Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-11-20 08:02:07 -05:00
Dave Borowitz 68c757f219 push: add a config option push.gpgSign for default signed pushes
Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-19 12:58:58 -07:00
Dave Borowitz 30261094b1 push: support signing pushes iff the server supports it
Add a new flag --sign=true (or --sign=false), which means the same
thing as the original --signed (or --no-signed).  Give it a third
value --sign=if-asked to tell push and send-pack to send a push
certificate if and only if the server advertised a push cert nonce.

If not, warn the user that their push may not be as secure as they
thought.

Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-19 12:58:45 -07:00
Dave Olszewski a8bc269f11 push: allow --follow-tags to be set by config push.followTags
Signed-off-by: Dave Olszewski <cxreg@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-14 15:08:35 -07:00
Jeff King 06c21e18ab cmd_push: pass "flags" pointer to config callback
This will let us manipulate any transport flags which have matching
config options (there are none yet, but we will add one in
the next patch).

We could also just make "flags" a static file-scope global,
but the result is a little confusing. We end up passing it
along through do_push and push_with_options, each of which
further munge it. Having slightly-differing versions of the
flags variable available to those functions would probably
cause more confusion than it is worth. Let's just keep the
original local to cmd_push, and it can continue to pass it
through the call-stack.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-02-17 10:49:29 -08:00
Jeff King d16c33b4c1 cmd_push: set "atomic" bit directly
This makes the code shorter and more obvious by removing an
unnecessary interim variable.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-02-17 10:49:18 -08:00
Jeff King 06038cd7b7 git_push_config: drop cargo-culted wt_status pointer
The push config callback does not expect any incoming data
via the void pointer. And if it did, it would certainly not
be a "struct wt_status". This probably got picked up
accidentally in b945901 (push: heed user.signingkey for
signed pushes, 2014-10-22), which copied the template for
the config callback from builtin/commit.c.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-02-15 22:55:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 39fa6112ec Merge branch 'sb/atomic-push'
"git push" has been taught a "--atomic" option that makes push to
update more than one ref an "all-or-none" affair.

* sb/atomic-push:
  Document receive.advertiseatomic
  t5543-atomic-push.sh: add basic tests for atomic pushes
  push.c: add an --atomic argument
  send-pack.c: add --atomic command line argument
  send-pack: rename ref_update_to_be_sent to check_to_send_update
  receive-pack.c: negotiate atomic push support
  receive-pack.c: add execute_commands_atomic function
  receive-pack.c: move transaction handling in a central place
  receive-pack.c: move iterating over all commands outside execute_commands
  receive-pack.c: die instead of error in case of possible future bug
  receive-pack.c: shorten the execute_commands loop over all commands
2015-02-11 13:43:51 -08:00
Ronnie Sahlberg d0e8e09cd8 push.c: add an --atomic argument
Add a command line argument to the git push command to request atomic
pushes.

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-01-07 19:56:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 23c0956441 Merge branch 'jk/push-simple'
Git 2.0 was supposed to make the "simple" mode for the default of
"git push", but it didn't.

* jk/push-simple:
  push: truly use "simple" as default, not "upstream"
2014-12-12 14:31:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano bb87344a74 Merge branch 'rt/push-recurse-submodule-usage-string'
* rt/push-recurse-submodule-usage-string:
  builtin/push.c: fix description of --recurse-submodules option
2014-12-12 14:31:38 -08:00
Jeff King 00a6fa0720 push: truly use "simple" as default, not "upstream"
The plan for the push.default transition had all along been
to use the "simple" method rather than "upstream" as a
default if the user did not specify their own push.default
value. Commit 11037ee (push: switch default from "matching"
to "simple", 2013-01-04) tried to implement that by moving
PUSH_DEFAULT_UNSPECIFIED in our switch statement to
fall-through to the PUSH_DEFAULT_SIMPLE case.

When the commit that became 11037ee was originally written,
that would have been enough. We would fall through to
calling setup_push_upstream() with the "simple" parameter
set to 1. However, it was delayed for a while until we were
ready to make the transition in Git 2.0.

And in the meantime, commit ed2b182 (push: change `simple`
to accommodate triangular workflows, 2013-06-19) threw a
monkey wrench into the works. That commit drops the "simple"
parameter to setup_push_upstream, and instead checks whether
the global "push_default" is PUSH_DEFAULT_SIMPLE. This is
right when the user has explicitly configured push.default
to simple, but wrong when we are a fall-through for the
"unspecified" case.

We never noticed because our push.default tests do not cover
the case of the variable being totally unset; they only
check the "simple" behavior itself.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-30 18:11:25 -08:00
Ralf Thielow eedc4be54f builtin/push.c: fix description of --recurse-submodules option
The description of the option for argument "recurse-submodules"
is marked for translation even if it expects the untranslated
string and it's missing the option "on-demand" which was introduced
in eb21c73 (2014-03-29, push: teach --recurse-submodules the on-demand
option). Fix this by unmark the string for translation and add the
missing option.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-18 11:19:16 -08:00
Michael J Gruber b9459019bb push: heed user.signingkey for signed pushes
push --signed promises to take user.signingkey as the signing key but
fails to read the config.

Make it do so.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-24 10:50:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a85b377d04 push: the beginning of "git push --signed"
While signed tags and commits assert that the objects thusly signed
came from you, who signed these objects, there is not a good way to
assert that you wanted to have a particular object at the tip of a
particular branch.  My signing v2.0.1 tag only means I want to call
the version v2.0.1, and it does not mean I want to push it out to my
'master' branch---it is likely that I only want it in 'maint', so
the signature on the object alone is insufficient.

The only assurance to you that 'maint' points at what I wanted to
place there comes from your trust on the hosting site and my
authentication with it, which cannot easily audited later.

Introduce a mechanism that allows you to sign a "push certificate"
(for the lack of better name) every time you push, asserting that
what object you are pushing to update which ref that used to point
at what other object.  Think of it as a cryptographic protection for
ref updates, similar to signed tags/commits but working on an
orthogonal axis.

The basic flow based on this mechanism goes like this:

 1. You push out your work with "git push --signed".

 2. The sending side learns where the remote refs are as usual,
    together with what protocol extension the receiving end
    supports.  If the receiving end does not advertise the protocol
    extension "push-cert", an attempt to "git push --signed" fails.

    Otherwise, a text file, that looks like the following, is
    prepared in core:

	certificate version 0.1
	pusher Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1315427886 -0700

	7339ca65... 21580ecb... refs/heads/master
	3793ac56... 12850bec... refs/heads/next

    The file begins with a few header lines, which may grow as we
    gain more experience.  The 'pusher' header records the name of
    the signer (the value of user.signingkey configuration variable,
    falling back to GIT_COMMITTER_{NAME|EMAIL}) and the time of the
    certificate generation.  After the header, a blank line follows,
    followed by a copy of the protocol message lines.

    Each line shows the old and the new object name at the tip of
    the ref this push tries to update, in the way identical to how
    the underlying "git push" protocol exchange tells the ref
    updates to the receiving end (by recording the "old" object
    name, the push certificate also protects against replaying).  It
    is expected that new command packet types other than the
    old-new-refname kind will be included in push certificate in the
    same way as would appear in the plain vanilla command packets in
    unsigned pushes.

    The user then is asked to sign this push certificate using GPG,
    formatted in a way similar to how signed tag objects are signed,
    and the result is sent to the other side (i.e. receive-pack).

    In the protocol exchange, this step comes immediately before the
    sender tells what the result of the push should be, which in
    turn comes before it sends the pack data.

 3. When the receiving end sees a push certificate, the certificate
    is written out as a blob.  The pre-receive hook can learn about
    the certificate by checking GIT_PUSH_CERT environment variable,
    which, if present, tells the object name of this blob, and make
    the decision to allow or reject this push.  Additionally, the
    post-receive hook can also look at the certificate, which may be
    a good place to log all the received certificates for later
    audits.

Because a push certificate carry the same information as the usual
command packets in the protocol exchange, we can omit the latter
when a push certificate is in use and reduce the protocol overhead.
This however is not included in this patch to make it easier to
review (in other words, the series at this step should never be
released without the remainder of the series, as it implements an
interim protocol that will be incompatible with the final one).
As such, the documentation update for the protocol is left out of
this step.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-15 13:23:20 -07:00
Jeff King cf4fff579e refactor skip_prefix to return a boolean
The skip_prefix() function returns a pointer to the content
past the prefix, or NULL if the prefix was not found. While
this is nice and simple, in practice it makes it hard to use
for two reasons:

  1. When you want to conditionally skip or keep the string
     as-is, you have to introduce a temporary variable.
     For example:

       tmp = skip_prefix(buf, "foo");
       if (tmp)
	       buf = tmp;

  2. It is verbose to check the outcome in a conditional, as
     you need extra parentheses to silence compiler
     warnings. For example:

       if ((cp = skip_prefix(buf, "foo"))
	       /* do something with cp */

Both of these make it harder to use for long if-chains, and
we tend to use starts_with() instead. However, the first line
of "do something" is often to then skip forward in buf past
the prefix, either using a magic constant or with an extra
strlen(3) (which is generally computed at compile time, but
means we are repeating ourselves).

This patch refactors skip_prefix() to return a simple boolean,
and to provide the pointer value as an out-parameter. If the
prefix is not found, the out-parameter is untouched. This
lets you write:

  if (skip_prefix(arg, "foo ", &arg))
	  do_foo(arg);
  else if (skip_prefix(arg, "bar ", &arg))
	  do_bar(arg);

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-20 10:44:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano e3f1185946 Merge branch 'cc/starts-n-ends-with-endgame'
prefixcmp/suffixcmp are gone.
2014-03-07 15:18:28 -08:00