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We're manually parsing the HEAD reference in git-prompt to figure out whether it is a symbolic or direct reference. This makes it intimately tied to the on-disk format we use to store references and will stop working once we gain additional reference backends in the Git project. Ideally, we would refactor the code to exclusively use plumbing tools to read refs such that we do not have to care about the on-disk format at all. Unfortunately though, spawning processes can be quite expensive on some systems like Windows. As the Git prompt logic may be executed quite frequently we try very hard to spawn as few processes as possible. This refactoring is thus out of question for now. Instead, condition the logic on the repository's ref format: if the repo uses the the "files" backend we can continue to use the old logic and read the respective files from disk directly. If it's anything else, then we use git-symbolic-ref(1) to read the value of HEAD. This change makes the Git prompt compatible with the upcoming "reftable" format. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> |
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Contributed Software Although these pieces are available as part of the official git source tree, they are in somewhat different status. The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them, and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved faster. I am not expecting to touch these myself that much. As far as my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are owned by their respective primary authors. I am willing to help if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners" have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree owners. IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch. If you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer). This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the drill. I expect things that start their life in the contrib/ area to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory. On the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused and inactive ones from time to time. If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves there is general interest (it does not have to be a list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport), submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your stuff there. -jc