Give a bit of advice/hint message when "git maintenance" stops finding a
lock file left by another instance that still is potentially running.
* ps/gc-stale-lock-warning:
t7900: fix host-dependent behaviour when testing git-maintenance(1)
builtin/gc: provide hint when maintenance hits a stale schedule lock
The ref-transaction hook triggered for reflog updates, which has
been corrected.
* kn/ref-transaction-hook-with-reflog:
refs: don't invoke reference-transaction hook for reflogs
We now ensure "index-pack" is used with the "--promisor" option
only during a "git fetch".
* jt/index-pack-allow-promisor-only-while-fetching:
index-pack: teach --promisor to forbid pack name
"git fast-import" can be tricked into a replace ref that maps an
object to itself, which is a useless thing to do.
* en/fast-import-avoid-self-replace:
fast-import: avoid making replace refs point to themselves
GCC 15 compatibility updates.
* jk/gcc15:
object-file: inline empty tree and blob literals
object-file: treat cached_object values as const
object-file: drop oid field from find_cached_object() return value
object-file: move empty_tree struct into find_cached_object()
object-file: drop confusing oid initializer of empty_tree struct
object-file: prefer array-of-bytes initializer for hash literals
Fix for clar unit tests to support CMake build.
* ps/clar-build-improvement:
Makefile: let clar header targets depend on their scripts
cmake: use verbatim arguments when invoking clar commands
cmake: use SH_EXE to execute clar scripts
t/unit-tests: convert "clar-generate.awk" into a shell script
Documentation for "git bundle" saw improvements to more prominently
call out the use of '--all' when creating bundles.
* kh/bundle-docs:
Documentation/git-bundle.txt: discuss naïve backups
Documentation/git-bundle.txt: mention --all in spec. refs
Documentation/git-bundle.txt: remove old `--all` example
Documentation/git-bundle.txt: mention full backup example
We have recently added a new test to t7900 that exercises whether
git-maintenance(1) fails as expected when the "schedule.lock" file
exists. The test depends on whether or not the host has the required
executables present to schedule maintenance tasks in the first place,
like systemd or launchctl -- if not, the test fails with an unrelated
error before even checking for the lock file. This fails for example in
our CI systems, where macOS images do not have launchctl available.
Fix this issue by creating a stub systemctl(1) binary and using the
systemd scheduler.
Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up.
* jk/output-prefix-cleanup:
diff: store graph prefix buf in git_graph struct
diff: return line_prefix directly when possible
diff: return const char from output_prefix callback
diff: drop line_prefix_length field
line-log: use diff_line_prefix() instead of custom helper
Doc update to clarify how periodical maintenance are scheduled,
spread across time to avoid thundering hurds.
* sk/doc-maintenance-schedule:
doc: add a note about staggering of maintenance
* 'master' of https://github.com/j6t/gitk:
Makefile(s): avoid recipe prefix in conditional statements
doc: switch links to https
doc: update links to current pages
In GNU Make commit 07fcee35 ([SV 64815] Recipe lines cannot contain
conditional statements, 2023-05-22) and following, conditional
statements may no longer be preceded by a tab character (which Make
refers to as the recipe prefix).
There are a handful of spots in our various Makefile(s) which will break
in a future release of Make containing 07fcee35. For instance, trying to
compile the pre-image of this patch with the tip of make.git results in
the following:
$ make -v | head -1 && make
GNU Make 4.4.90
config.mak.uname:842: *** missing 'endif'. Stop.
The kernel addressed this issue in 82175d1f9430 (kbuild: Replace tabs
with spaces when followed by conditionals, 2024-01-28). Address the
issues in Git's tree by applying the same strategy.
When a conditional word (ifeq, ifneq, ifdef, etc.) is preceded by one or
more tab characters, replace each tab character with 8 space characters
with the following:
find . -type f -not -path './.git/*' -name Makefile -or -name '*.mak' |
xargs perl -i -pe '
s/(\t+)(ifn?eq|ifn?def|else|endif)/" " x (length($1) * 8) . $2/ge unless /\\$/
'
The "unless /\\$/" removes any false-positives (like "\telse \"
appearing within a shell script as part of a recipe).
After doing so, Git compiles on newer versions of Make:
$ make -v | head -1 && make
GNU Make 4.4.90
GIT_VERSION = 2.44.0.414.gfac1dc44ca9
[...]
$ echo $?
0
Reported-by: Dario Gjorgjevski <dario.gjorgjevski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cherry-picked-from: 728b9ac0c3
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
These sites offer https versions of their content.
Using the https versions provides some protection for users.
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cherry-picked-from: d05b08cd52
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
It's somewhat traditional to respect sites' self-identification.
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cherry-picked-from: 65175d9ea2
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Object reuse code based on multi-pack-index sent an unwanted copy
of object.
* tb/multi-pack-reuse-dupfix:
pack-objects: only perform verbatim reuse on the preferred pack
t5332-multi-pack-reuse.sh: demonstrate duplicate packing failure
Double-free fix.
* jk/fetch-prefetch-double-free-fix:
refspec: store raw refspecs inside refspec_item
refspec: drop separate raw_nr count
fetch: adjust refspec->raw_nr when filtering prefetch refspecs
Avoid build/test breakage on a system without working malloc debug
support dynamic library.
* jk/test-malloc-debug-check:
test-lib: move malloc-debug setup after $PATH setup
test-lib: check malloc debug LD_PRELOAD before using
"git gc" discards any objects that are outside promisor packs that
are referred to by an object in a promisor pack, and we do not
refetch them from the promisor at runtime, resulting an unusable
repository. Work it around by including these objects in the
referring promisor pack at the receiving end of the fetch.
* jt/repack-local-promisor:
index-pack: repack local links into promisor packs
t5300: move --window clamp test next to unclamped
t0410: use from-scratch server
t0410: make test description clearer
A "git fetch" from the superproject going down to a submodule used
a wrong remote when the default remote names are set differently
between them.
* db/submodule-fetch-with-remote-name-fix:
submodule: correct remote name with fetch
Fail gracefully instead of crashing when attempting to write the
contents of a corrupt in-core index as a tree object.
* ps/cache-tree-w-broken-index-entry:
unpack-trees: detect mismatching number of cache-tree/index entries
cache-tree: detect mismatching number of index entries
cache-tree: refactor verification to return error codes
"git maintenance start" crashed due to an uninitialized variable
reference, which has been corrected.
* ps/maintenance-start-crash-fix:
builtin/gc: fix crash when running `git maintenance start`
On macOS, fsmonitor can fall into a race condition that results in
a client waiting forever to be notified for an event that have
already happened. This problem has been corrected.
* jk/fsmonitor-event-listener-race-fix:
fsmonitor: initialize fs event listener before accepting clients
simple-ipc: split async server initialization and running
Use after free and double freeing at the end in "git log -L... -p"
had been identified and fixed.
* ds/line-log-asan-fix:
line-log: protect inner strbuf from free
Currently,
- Running "index-pack --promisor" outside a repo segfaults.
- It may be confusing to a user that running "index-pack --promisor"
within a repo may make changes to the repo's object DB, especially
since the packs indexed by the index-pack invocation may not even be
related to the repo.
As discussed in [1] and [2], teaching --promisor to forbid a packfile
name solves both these problems. This combination of arguments requires
a repo (since we are writing the resulting .pack and .idx to it) and it
is clear that the files are related to the repo.
Currently, Git uses "index-pack --promisor" only when fetching into
a repo, so it could be argued that we should teach "index-pack" a
new argument (say, "--fetching-mode") instead of tying --promisor to
a generic argument like the packfile name. However, this --promisor
feature could conceivably be used whenever we have a packfile that is
known to come from the promisor remote (whether obtained through Git's
fetch protocol or through other means) so not using a new argument seems
reasonable - one could envision a user-made script obtaining a packfile
and then running "index-pack --promisor --stdin", for example. In fact,
it might be possible to relax the restriction further (say, by also
allowing --promisor when indexing a packfile that is in the object DB),
but relaxing the restriction is backwards-compatible so we can revisit
that later.
One thing to watch out for is the possibility of a future Git feature
that indexes a pack in the context of a repo, but does not necessarily
write the resulting pack to it (and does not necessarily desire to
make any changes to the object DB). One such feature would be fetch
quarantine, which might need the repo context in order to detect
hash collisions, but would also need to ensure that the object DB
is undisturbed in case the fetch fails for whatever reason, even if
the reason occurs only after the indexing is complete. It may not be
obvious to the implementer of such a feature that "index-pack" could
sometimes write packs other than the indexed pack to the object DB,
but there are already other ways that "fetch" could write to the object
DB (in particular, packfile URIs and bundle URIs), so hopefully the
implementation of this future feature would already include a test that
the object DB be undisturbed.
This change requires the change to t5300 by 1f52cdfacb (index-pack:
document and test the --promisor option, 2022-03-09) to be undone.
(--promisor is already tested indirectly, so we don't need the explicit
test here any more.)
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20241114005652.GC1140565@coredump.intra.peff.net/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20241119185345.GB15723@coredump.intra.peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running scheduled maintenance via `git maintenance start`, we
acquire a lockfile to ensure that no other scheduled maintenance task is
running in the repository concurrently. If so, we do provide an error to
the user hinting that another process seems to be running in this repo.
There are two important cases why such a lockfile may exist:
- An actual git-maintenance(1) process is still running in this
repository.
- An earlier process may have crashed or was interrupted part way
through and has left a stale lockfile behind.
In c95547a394 (builtin/gc: fix crash when running `git maintenance
start`, 2024-10-10), we have fixed an issue where git-maintenance(1)
would crash with the "start" subcommand, and the underlying bug causes
the second scenario to trigger quite often now.
Most users don't know how to get out of that situation again though.
Ideally, we'd be removing the stale lock for our users automatically.
But in the context of repository maintenance this is rather risky, as it
can easily run for hours or even days. So finding a clear point where we
know that the old process has exited is basically impossible.
We have the same issue in other subsystems, e.g. when locking refs. Our
lockfile interfaces thus provide the `unable_to_lock_message()` function
for exactly this purpose: it provides a nice hint to the user that
explains what is going on and how to get out of that situation again by
manually removing the file.
Adapt git-maintenance(1) to print a similar hint. While we could use the
above function, we can provide a bit more context as we know exactly
what kind of process would create the lockfile.
Reported-by: Miguel Rincon Barahona <mrincon@gitlab.com>
Reported-by: Kev Kloss <kkloss@gitlab.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If someone replaces a commit with a modified version, then builds on
that commit, and then later decides to rewrite history in a format like
git fast-export --all | CMD_TO_TWEAK_THE_STREAM | git fast-import
and CMD_TO_TWEAK_THE_STREAM undoes the modifications that the
replacement did, then at the end you'd get a replace ref that points to
itself. For example:
$ git show-ref | grep replace
fb92ebc654641b310e7d0360d0a5a49316fd7264 refs/replace/fb92ebc654641b310e7d0360d0a5a49316fd7264
Git commands which pay attention to replace refs will die with an error
when a self-referencing replace ref is present:
$ git log
fatal: replace depth too high for object fb92ebc654641b310e7d0360d0a5a49316fd7264
Avoid such problems by deleting replace refs that will simply end up
pointing to themselves at the end of our writing. Unless users specify
--quiet, warn them when we delete such a replace ref.
Two notes about this patch:
* We are not ignoring the problematic update of the replace ref
(turning it into a no-op), we are replacing the update with a delete.
The logic here is that if the repository had a value for the replace
ref before fast-import was run, and the replace ref was explicitly
named in the fast-import stream, we don't want the replace ref to be
left with a pre-fast-import value.
* While loops with more than one element (e.g. refs/replace/A points
to B, and refs/replace/B points to A) are possible, they seem much
less plausible. It is pretty easy to create a sequence of
git-filter-repo commands that will trigger a self-referencing replace
ref, but I do not know how to trigger a scenario with a cycle length
greater than 1.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We define macros with the bytes of the empty trees and blobs for sha1
and sha256. But since e1ccd7e2b1 (sha1_file: only expose empty object
constants through git_hash_algo, 2018-05-02), those are used only for
initializing the git_hash_algo entries. Any other code using the macros
directly would be suspicious, since a hash_algo pointer is the level of
indirection we use to make everything work with both sha1 and sha256.
So let's future proof against code doing the wrong thing by dropping the
macros entirely and just initializing the structs directly.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The cached-object API maps oids to in-memory entries. Once inserted,
these entries should be immutable. Let's return them from the
find_cached_object() call with a const tag to make this clear.
Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
