Advice hints must be disabled individually by setting the relevant
advice.* variables to false in the Git configuration. For server-side
and scripted usages of Git where hints can be a hindrance, it can be
cumbersome to maintain configuration to ensure all advice hints are
disabled in perpetuity. This is a particular concern in tests, where
new or changed hints can result in failed assertions.
Add a --no-advice global option to disable all advice hints from being
displayed. This is independent of the toggles for individual advice
hints. Use an internal environment variable (GIT_ADVICE) to ensure this
configuration is propagated to the usage site, even if it executes in a
subprocess.
Signed-off-by: James Liu <james@jamesliu.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the documentation page consistent with the usage string printed by
"git help git" and consistent with the description of "[-v | --version]"
option.
Signed-off-by: James Liu <james@jamesliu.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We'll be adding another option to the --no-* class of options soon.
Clean up the existing options by grouping them together in the OPTIONS
section, and adding missing ones to the SYNOPSIS.
Signed-off-by: James Liu <james@jamesliu.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With 23865355 (attr: read attributes from HEAD when bare repo,
2023-10-13), we started to use the HEAD tree as the default
attribute source in a bare repository. One argument for such a
behaviour is that it would make things like "git archive" run in
bare and non-bare repositories for the same commit consistent.
This changes was merged to Git 2.43 but without an explicit mention
in its release notes.
It turns out that this change destroys performance of shallowly
cloning from a bare repository. As the "server" installations are
expected to be mostly bare, and "git pack-objects", which is the
core of driving the other side of "git clone" and "git fetch" wants
to see if a path is set not to delta with blobs from other paths via
the attribute system, the change forces the server side to traverse
the tree of the HEAD commit needlessly to find if each and every
paths the objects it sends out has the attribute that controls the
deltification. Given that (1) most projects do not configure such
an attribute, and (2) it is dubious for the server side to honor
such an end-user supplied attribute anyway, this was a poor choice
of the default.
To mitigate the current situation, let's revert the change that uses
the tree of HEAD in a bare repository by default as the attribute
source. This will help most people who have been happy with the
behaviour of Git 2.42 and before.
Two things to note:
* If you are stuck with versions of Git 2.43 or newer, that is
older than the release this fix appears in, you can explicitly
set the attr.tree configuration variable to point at an empty
tree object, i.e.
$ git config attr.tree 4b825dc642
* If you like the behaviour we are reverting, you can explicitly
set the attr.tree configuration variable to HEAD, i.e.
$ git config attr.tree HEAD
The right fix for this is to optimize the code paths that allow
accesses to attributes in tree objects, but that is a much more
involved change and is left as a longer-term project, outside the
scope of this "first step" fix.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After 2406bf5f (Win32: detect unix socket support at runtime,
2024-04-03), it fails with:
compat/mingw.c:4160:5: error: no previous prototype for function 'mingw_have_unix_sockets' [-Werror,-Wmissing-prototypes]
4160 | int mingw_have_unix_sockets(void)
| ^
because the prototype is behind `ifndef NO_UNIX_SOCKETS`.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the destination is read-only, "mv" on some version of macOS
asks whether to replace the destination even though in the test its
stdin is not a terminal (and thus doesn't conform to POSIX[1]).
The helper to corrupt a chunk-file is designed to work on the
files like commit-graph and multi-pack-index files that are
generally read-only, so use "mv -f" to work around this issue.
Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously we only checked whether we would iterate a certain (expected)
number of times.
Also check the parsed "raw", "key" and "val" fields during each
iteration.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linus@ucla.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Explain how to use parse_trailers(), because earlier we made the
trailer_info struct opaque. That is, because clients can no longer peek
inside it, we should give them guidance about how the (pointer to the)
opaque struct can still be useful to them.
Rename "head" struct to "trailer_objects" to make the wording of the new
comments a bit easier to read (because "head" itself doesn't really have
any domain-specific meaning here).
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linus@ucla.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make trailer_info_get() "static" to be file-scoped to trailer.c, because
no one outside of trailer.c uses it. Remove its declaration from
<trailer.h>.
We have to also reposition it to be above parse_trailers(), which
depends on it.
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linus@ucla.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 13211ae23f (trailer: separate public from internal portion of
trailer_iterator, 2023-09-09) we moved trailer_info behind an anonymous
struct to discourage use by trailer.h API users. However it still left
open the possibility of external use of trailer_info itself. Now that
there are no external users of trailer_info, we can make this struct
private.
Make this struct private by putting its definition inside trailer.c.
This has two benefits:
(1) it makes the surface area of the public facing
interface (trailer.h) smaller, and
(2) external API users are unable to peer inside this struct (because
it is only ever exposed as an opaque pointer).
There are a few disadvantages:
(A) every time the member of the struct is accessed an extra pointer
dereference must be done, and
(B) for users of trailer_info outside trailer.c, this struct can no
longer be allocated on the stack and may only be allocated on the
heap (because its definition is hidden away in trailer.c) and
appropriately deallocated by the user, and
(C) without good documentation on the API, the opaque struct is
hostile to programmers by going opposite to the "Show me your
data structures, and I won't usually need your code; it'll
be obvious." mantra [2].
(The disadvantages have already been observed in the two preparatory
commits that precede this one.) This commit believes that the benefits
outweigh the disadvantages for designing APIs, as explained below.
Making trailer_info private exposes existing deficiencies in the API.
This is because users of this struct had full access to its internals,
so there wasn't much need to actually design it to be "complete" in the
sense that API users only needed to use what was provided by the API.
For example, the location of the trailer block (start/end offsets
relative to the start of the input text) was accessible by looking at
these struct members directly. Now that the struct is private, we have
to expose new API functions to allow clients to access this
information (see builtin/interpret-trailers.c).
The idea in this commit to hide implementation details behind an "opaque
pointer" is also known as the "pimpl" (pointer to implementation) idiom
in C++ and is a common pattern in that language (where, for example,
abstract classes only have pointers to concrete classes).
However, the original inspiration to use this idiom does not come from
C++, but instead the book "C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques
for Creating Reusable Software" [1]. This book recommends opaque
pointers as a good design principle for designing C libraries, using the
term "interface" as the functions defined in *.h (header) files and
"implementation" as the corresponding *.c file which define the
interfaces.
The book says this about opaque pointers:
... clients can manipulate such pointers freely, but they can’t
dereference them; that is, they can’t look at the innards of the
structure pointed to by them. Only the implementation has that
privilege. Opaque pointers hide representation details and help
catch errors.
In our case, "struct trailer_info" is now hidden from clients, and the
ways in which this opaque pointer can be used is limited to the richness
of <trailer.h>. In other words, <trailer.h> exclusively controls exactly
how "trailer_info" pointers are to be used.
[1] Hanson, David R. "C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for
Creating Reusable Software". Addison Wesley, 1997. p. 22
[2] Raymond, Eric S. "The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and
Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary". O'Reilly, 1999.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linus@ucla.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is the second and final preparatory commit for making the
trailer_info struct private to the trailer implementation.
Make trailer_info_get() do the actual work of allocating a new
trailer_info struct, and return a pointer to it. Because
parse_trailers() wraps around trailer_info_get(), it too can return this
pointer to the caller. From the trailer API user's perspective, the call
to trailer_info_new() can be replaced with parse_trailers(); do so in
interpret-trailers.
Because trailer_info_new() is no longer called by interpret-trailers,
remove this function from the trailer API.
With this change, we no longer allocate trailer_info on the stack ---
all uses of it are via a pointer where the actual data is always
allocated at runtime through trailer_info_new(). Make
trailer_info_release() free this dynamically allocated memory.
Finally, due to the way the function signatures of parse_trailers() and
trailer_info_get() have changed, update the callsites in
format_trailers_from_commit() and trailer_iterator_init() accordingly.
Helped-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linus@ucla.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of directly accessing trailer_info members, access them
indirectly through new helper functions exposed by the trailer API.
This is the first of two preparatory commits which will allow us to
use the so-called "pimpl" (pointer to implementation) idiom for the
trailer API, by making the trailer_info struct private to the trailer
implementation (and thus hidden from the API).
Helped-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linus@ucla.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of calling "trailer_info_get()", which is a low-level function
in the trailers implementation (trailer.c), call
trailer_iterator_advance(), which was specifically designed for public
consumption in f0939a0eb1 (trailer: add interface for iterating over
commit trailers, 2020-09-27).
Avoiding "trailer_info_get()" means we don't have to worry about options
like "no_divider" (relevant for parsing trailers). We also don't have to
check for things like "info.trailer_start == info.trailer_end" to see
whether there were any trailers (instead we can just check to see
whether the iterator advanced at all).
Note how we have to use "iter.raw" in order to get the same behavior as
before when we iterated over the unparsed string array (char **trailers)
in trailer_info.
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linus@ucla.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously the iterator did not iterate over non-trailer lines. This was
somewhat unfortunate, because trailer blocks could have non-trailer
lines in them since 146245063e (trailer: allow non-trailers in trailer
block, 2016-10-21), which was before the iterator was created in
f0939a0eb1 (trailer: add interface for iterating over commit trailers,
2020-09-27).
So if trailer API users wanted to iterate over all lines in a trailer
block (including non-trailer lines), they could not use the iterator and
were forced to use the lower-level trailer_info struct directly (which
provides a raw string array that includes all lines in the trailer
block).
Change the iterator's behavior so that we also iterate over non-trailer
lines, instead of skipping over them. The new "raw" member of the
iterator allows API users to access previously inaccessible non-trailer
lines. Reword the variable "trailer" to just "line" because this
variable can now hold both trailer lines _and_ non-trailer lines.
The new "raw" member is important because anyone currently not using the
iterator is using trailer_info's raw string array directly to access
lines to check what the combined key + value looks like. If we didn't
provide a "raw" member here, iterator users would have to re-construct
the unparsed line by concatenating the key and value back together again
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test the number of trailers found by the iterator (to be more precise,
the parsing mechanism which the iterator just walks over) when given
some arbitrary log message.
We test the iterator because it is a public interface function exposed
by the trailer API (we generally don't want to test internal
implementation details which are, unlike the API, subject to drastic
changes).
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linus@ucla.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
RGB color parsing currently supports 24-bit values in the form #RRGGBB.
As in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS [1]), also allow to specify an RGB color
using only three digits with #RGB.
In this shortened form, each of the digits is – again, as in CSS –
duplicated to convert the color to 24 bits, e.g. #f1b specifies the same
color as #ff11bb.
In color.h, remove the '0x' prefix in the example to match the actual
syntax.
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hex-color
Signed-off-by: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make sure that the RGB color parser rejects invalid characters and
invalid lengths.
Signed-off-by: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is most probably just an editing left-over from cb357221a4 (t4026:
test "normal" color, 2014-11-20) which added this test.
Signed-off-by: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git rev-parse" is run with the "--is-inside-work-tree" option
and friends outside a Git repository, the command exits with a
non-zero status and says "fatal: not a repository". While it is not
wrong per-se, in the sense that it is useless to learn if we are
inside or outside a working tree in the first place when we are not
even in a repository, it could be argued that they should emit
"false" and exit with status 0, as they cannot possibly be "true".
As the current behaviour has been with us for a decade or more
since it was introduced in Git 1.5.3 timeframe, it is too late to
change it.
And arguably, the current behaviour is easier to use if you want to
distinguish among three states, i.e.,
(1) the cwd is not controlled by Git at all
(2) the cwd is inside a working tree
(3) the cwd is not inside a working tree (e.g., .git/hooks/)
with a single invocation of the command by doing
if inout=$(git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree)
then
case "$inout" in
true) : in a working tree ;;
false) : not in a working tree ;;
esac
else
: not in a repository
fi
So, let's document clearly that the command will die() when run
outside a repository in general, unless in some special cases like
when the command is in the --parseopt mode.
While at it, update the introductory text that makes it sound as if
the primary operating mode is the only operating mode of the
command, which was written long before we added "--parseopt" and
"--sq-quote" modes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
d44e5267ea (diff-lib: plug minor memory leaks in do_diff_cache(),
2020-11-14) added the call to diff_setup_done() to release the memory
of the parseopt member of struct diff_options that repo_init_revisions()
had allocated via repo_diff_setup() and prep_parse_options().
189e97bc4b (diff: remove parseopts member from struct diff_options,
2022-12-01) did away with that allocation; diff_setup_done() doesn't
release any memory anymore. So stop calling this function on the blank
diffopt member before it is overwritten, as this is no longer necessary.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Completing commands like "git rebase" in one repository will leak the
local __git_repo_path into the shell's environment so that completing
commands after changing to a different repository will give the old
repository's references (or none at all).
The bug report on the mailing list [1] suggests one simple way to observe
this yourself:
Enter the following commands from some directory:
mkdir a b b/c
for d (a b); git -C $d init && git -C $d commit --allow-empty -m init
cd a
git branch foo
pushd ../b/c
git branch bar
Now type these:
git rebase <TAB>… # completion for bar available; C-c to abort
declare -p __git_repo_path # outputs /path/to/b/.git
popd
git branch # outputs foo, main
git rebase <TAB>… # completion candidates are bar, main!
Ideally, the last typed <TAB> should be yielding foo, main.
Commit beb6ee7163 (completion: extract repository discovery from
__gitdir(), 2017-02-03) anticipated this problem by marking
__git_repo_path as local in __git_main and __gitk_main for Bash
completion but did not give the same mark to _git for Zsh completion.
Thus make __git_repo_path local for Zsh completion, too.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CALnO6CBv3+e2WL6n6Mh7ZZHCX2Ni8GpvM4a-bQYxNqjmgZdwdg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A scheduled "git maintenance" job is expected to work on all
repositories it knows about, but it stopped at the first one that
errored out. Now it keeps going.
* js/for-each-repo-keep-going:
maintenance: running maintenance should not stop on errors
for-each-repo: optionally keep going on an error
In addition to building the objects needed, try to link the objects
that are used in fuzzer tests, to make sure at least they build
without bitrot, in Linux CI runs.
* js/build-fuzz-more-often:
fuzz: link fuzz programs with `make all` on Linux
Advertise "git contacts", a tool for newcomers to find people to
ask review for their patches, a bit more in our developer
documentation.
* la/doc-use-of-contacts-when-contributing:
SubmittingPatches: demonstrate using git-contacts with git-send-email
SubmittingPatches: add heading for format-patch and send-email
SubmittingPatches: dedupe discussion of security patches
SubmittingPatches: discuss reviewers first
SubmittingPatches: quote commands
SubmittingPatches: mention GitGitGadget
SubmittingPatches: clarify 'git-contacts' location
MyFirstContribution: mention contrib/contacts/git-contacts
The "--rfc" option of "git format-patch" learned to take an
optional string value to be used in place of "RFC" to tweak the
"[PATCH]" on the subject header.
* jc/format-patch-rfc-more:
format-patch: "--rfc=-(WIP)" appends to produce [PATCH (WIP)]
format-patch: allow --rfc to optionally take a value, like --rfc=WIP
The "-k" and "--rfc" options of "format-patch" will now error out
when used together, as one tells us not to add anything to the
title of the commit, and the other one tells us to add "RFC" in
addition to "PATCH".
* ds/format-patch-rfc-and-k:
format-patch: ensure that --rfc and -k are mutually exclusive
The procedure to build multi-pack-index got confused by the
replace-refs mechanism, which has been corrected by disabling the
latter.
* xx/disable-replace-when-building-midx:
midx: disable replace objects
"git rebase --signoff" used to forget that it needs to add a
sign-off to the resulting commit when told to continue after a
conflict stops its operation.
* pw/rebase-m-signoff-fix:
rebase -m: fix --signoff with conflicts
sequencer: store commit message in private context
sequencer: move current fixups to private context
sequencer: start removing private fields from public API
sequencer: always free "struct replay_opts"
When the user gives an unknown command to the "add -p" prompt, the list
of accepted commands with their explanation is given. This is the same
output they get when they say '?'.
However, the unknown command may be due to a user input error rather
than the user not knowing the valid command.
To reduce the likelihood of user confusion and error repetition, instead
of displaying the list of accepted commands, display a short error
message with the unknown command received, as feedback to the user.
Include a reminder about the current command '?' in the new message, to
guide the user if they want help.
Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no need to show some UI messages on stderr, and yet doing so
may produce some undesirable results, such as messages appearing in an
unexpected order.
Let's use stdout for all UI messages, and adjusts the tests accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-2.44: (41 commits)
Git 2.44.1
Git 2.43.4
Git 2.42.2
Git 2.41.1
Git 2.40.2
Git 2.39.4
fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir
core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning
init.templateDir: consider this config setting protected
clone: prevent hooks from running during a clone
Add a helper function to compare file contents
init: refactor the template directory discovery into its own function
find_hook(): refactor the `STRIP_EXTENSION` logic
clone: when symbolic links collide with directories, keep the latter
entry: report more colliding paths
t5510: verify that D/F confusion cannot lead to an RCE
submodule: require the submodule path to contain directories only
clone_submodule: avoid using `access()` on directories
submodules: submodule paths must not contain symlinks
clone: prevent clashing git dirs when cloning submodule in parallel
...
