If the original version of `write_locked_index()` returned with an
error, it didn't roll back the lockfile unless the error occured at the
very end, during closing/committing. See commit 03b866477 (read-cache:
new API write_locked_index instead of write_index/write_cache,
2014-06-13).
In commit 9f41c7a6b (read-cache: close index.lock in do_write_index,
2017-04-26), we learned to close the lock slightly earlier in the
callstack. That was mostly a side-effect of lockfiles being implemented
using temporary files, but didn't cause any real harm.
Recently, commit 076aa2cbd (tempfile: auto-allocate tempfiles on heap,
2017-09-05) introduced a subtle bug. If the temporary file is deleted
(i.e., the lockfile is rolled back), the tempfile-pointer in the `struct
lock_file` will be left dangling. Thus, an attempt to reuse the
lockfile, or even just to roll it back, will induce undefined behavior
-- most likely a crash.
Besides not crashing, we clearly want to make things consistent. The
guarantees which the lockfile-machinery itself provides is A) if we ask
to commit and it fails, roll back, and B) if we ask to close and it
fails, do _not_ roll back. Let's do the same for consistency.
Do not delete the temporary file in `do_write_index()`. One of its
callers, `write_locked_index()` will thereby avoid rolling back the
lock. The other caller, `write_shared_index()`, will delete its
temporary file anyway. Both of these callers will avoid undefined
behavior (crashing).
Teach `write_locked_index(..., COMMIT_LOCK)` to roll back the lock
before returning. If we have already succeeded and committed, it will be
a noop. Simplify the existing callers where we now have a superfluous
call to `rollback_lockfile()`. That should keep future readers from
wondering why the callers are inconsistent.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`write_locked_index()` takes two flags: `COMMIT_LOCK` and `CLOSE_LOCK`.
At most one is allowed. But it is also possible to use no flag, i.e.,
`0`. But when `write_locked_index()` calls `do_write_index()`, the
temporary file, a.k.a. the lockfile, will be closed. So passing `0` is
effectively the same as `CLOSE_LOCK`, which seems like a bug.
We might feel tempted to restructure the code in order to close the file
later, or conditionally. It also feels a bit unfortunate that we simply
"happen" to close the lock by way of an implementation detail of
lockfiles. But note that we need to close the temporary file before
`stat`-ing it, at least on Windows. See 9f41c7a6b (read-cache: close
index.lock in do_write_index, 2017-04-26).
Drop `CLOSE_LOCK` and make it explicit that `write_locked_index()`
always closes the lock. Whether it is also committed is governed by the
remaining flag, `COMMIT_LOCK`.
This means we neither have nor suggest that we have a mode to write the
index and leave the file open. Whatever extra contents we might
eventually want to write, we should probably write it from within
`write_locked_index()` itself anyway.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reimplement `is_expected_rev` & `check_expected_revs` shell function in
C and add a `--check-expected-revs` subcommand to `git bisect--helper` to
call it from git-bisect.sh .
Using `--check-expected-revs` subcommand is a temporary measure to port
shell functions to C so as to use the existing test suite. As more
functions are ported, this subcommand would be retired but its
implementation will be called by some other method.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reimplement `bisect_clean_state` shell function in C and add a
`bisect-clean-state` subcommand to `git bisect--helper` to call it from
git-bisect.sh .
Using `--bisect-clean-state` subcommand is a measure to port shell
function to C so as to use the existing test suite. As more functions
are ported, this subcommand will be retired but its implementation will
be called by bisect_reset() and bisect_start().
Also introduce a function `mark_for_removal` to store the refs which
need to be removed while iterating through the refs.
Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reimplement the `write_terms` shell function in C and add a `write-terms`
subcommand to `git bisect--helper` to call it from git-bisect.sh . Also
remove the subcommand `--check-term-format` as it can now be called from
inside the function write_terms() C implementation.
Also `|| exit` is added when calling write-terms subcommand from
git-bisect.sh so as to exit whenever there is an error.
Using `--write-terms` subcommand is a temporary measure to port shell
function to C so as to use the existing test suite. As more functions
are ported, this subcommand will be retired and its implementation will
be called by some other method.
Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reimplement the `check_term_format` shell function in C and add
a `--check-term-format` subcommand to `git bisect--helper` to call it
from git-bisect.sh
Using `--check-term-format` subcommand is a temporary measure to port
shell function to C so as to use the existing test suite. As more
functions are ported, this subcommand will be retired and its
implementation will be called by some other method/subcommand. For
eg. In conversion of write_terms() of git-bisect.sh, the subcommand will
be removed and instead check_term_format() will be called in its C
implementation while a new subcommand will be introduced for write_terms().
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelein <Johannes.Schindelein@gmx.de>
Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`--next-all` is meant to be used as a subcommand to support multiple
"operation mode" though the current implementation does not contain any
other subcommand along side with `--next-all` but further commits will
include some more subcommands.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have two users of `struct apply_state` and the related functionality
in apply.c. Each user sets up its `apply_state` by handing over a
pointer to its static `lock_file`. (Before 076aa2cbd (tempfile:
auto-allocate tempfiles on heap, 2017-09-05), we could never free
lockfiles, so making them static was a reasonable approach.)
Other than that, they never directly access their `lock_file`s, which
are instead handled by the functionality in apply.c.
To make life easier for the caller and to make it less tempting for a
future caller to mess with the lock, make apply.c fully responsible for
setting up the `lock_file`. As mentioned above, it is now safe to free a
`lock_file`, so we can make the `struct apply_state` contain an actual
`struct lock_file` instead of a pointer to one.
The user in builtin/apply.c is rather simple. For builtin/am.c, we might
worry that the lock state is actually meant to be inherited across
calls. But the lock is only taken as `apply_all_patches()` executes, and
code inspection shows that it will always be released.
Alternatively, we can observe that the lock itself is never queried
directly. When we decide whether we should lock, we check a related
variable `newfd`. That variable is not inherited, so from the point of
view of apply.c, the state machine really is reset with each call to
`init_apply_state()`. (It would be a bug if `newfd` and the lock status
were not in sync. The duplication of information in `newfd` and the lock
will be addressed in the next patch.)
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`newfd` starts out negative. If we then take the lock, `newfd` will
become non-negative. We later check for exactly that property before
calling `write_locked_index()`. That is, we are simply using `newfd` as
a boolean to keep track of whether we took the lock or not. (We always
use `newfd` and `lock_file` together, so they really are mirroring each
other.)
Drop `newfd` and check with `is_lock_file_locked()` instead. While at
it, move the `static struct lock_file` into `cmd_checkout_index()` and
make it non-static. It is only used in this function, and after
076aa2cbd (tempfile: auto-allocate tempfiles on heap, 2017-09-05), we
can have lockfiles on the stack.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no longer any need to allocate and leak a `struct lock_file`.
The previous patch addressed an instance where we needed a minor tweak
alongside the trivial changes.
Deal with the remaining instances where we allocate and leak a struct
within a single function. Change them to have the `struct lock_file` on
the stack instead.
These instances were identified by running `git grep "^\s*struct
lock_file\s*\*"`.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up.
* rs/cleanup-strbuf-users:
graph: use strbuf_addchars() to add spaces
use strbuf_addstr() for adding strings to strbufs
path: use strbuf_add_real_path()
Code clean-up.
* rs/resolve-ref-optional-result:
refs: pass NULL to resolve_refdup() if hash is not needed
refs: pass NULL to refs_resolve_refdup() if hash is not needed
Our documentation advises to not re-use a strbuf, after strbuf_release
has been called on it. Use the proper reset instead.
Currently 'strbuf_release' releases and re-initializes the strbuf, so it
is safe, but slow. 'strbuf_reset' only resets the internal length variable,
such that this could also be accounted for as a micro-optimization.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The error messages shown when the branch command is misused
by supplying it wrong number of parameters wasn't meaningful.
That's because it used the the phrase "too many branches"
assuming all parameters to be "valid" branch names. It's not
always the case as exemplified below,
$ git branch
foo
* master
$ git branch -m foo foo old
fatal: too many branches for a rename operation
Change the messages to be more general thus making no assumptions
about the "parameters".
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint:
color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config
provide --color option for all ref-filter users
t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always
t3203: drop "always" color test
t6006: drop "always" color config tests
t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test
t7508: use test_terminal for color output
t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output
t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always
test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
When ref-filter learned about want_color() in 11b087adfd
(ref-filter: consult want_color() before emitting colors,
2017-07-13), it became useful to be able to turn colors off
and on for specific commands. For git-branch, you can do so
with --color/--no-color.
But for git-for-each-ref and git-tag, the other users of
ref-filter, you have no option except to tweak the
"color.ui" config setting. Let's give both of these commands
the usual color command-line options.
This is a bit more obvious as a method for overriding the
config. And it also prepares us for the behavior of "always"
changing (so that we are still left with a way of forcing
color when our output goes to a non-terminal).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up to prevent future mistakes by copying and pasting
code that checks the result of read_in_full() function.
* jk/read-in-full:
worktree: check the result of read_in_full()
worktree: use xsize_t to access file size
distinguish error versus short read from read_in_full()
avoid looking at errno for short read_in_full() returns
prefer "!=" when checking read_in_full() result
notes-merge: drop dead zero-write code
files-backend: prefer "0" for write_in_full() error check
Some commands (most notably "git status") makes an opportunistic
update when performing a read-only operation to help optimize later
operations in the same repository. The new "--no-optional-locks"
option can be passed to Git to disable them.
* jk/no-optional-locks:
git: add --no-optional-locks option
"git branch" learned "-c/-C" to create a new branch by copying an
existing one.
* sd/branch-copy:
branch: fix "copy" to never touch HEAD
branch: add a --copy (-c) option to go with --move (-m)
branch: add test for -m renaming multiple config sections
config: create a function to format section headers
Recent versions of "git rev-parse --parseopt" did not parse the
option specification that does not have the optional flags (*=?!)
correctly, which has been corrected.
* bc/rev-parse-parseopt-fix:
parse-options: only insert newline in help text if needed
parse-options: write blank line to correct output stream
t0040,t1502: Demonstrate parse_options bugs
git-rebase: don't ignore unexpected command line arguments
rev-parse parseopt: interpret any whitespace as start of help text
rev-parse parseopt: do not search help text for flag chars
t1502: demonstrate rev-parse --parseopt option mis-parsing
The final batch to "git rebase -i" updates to move more code from
the shell script to C.
* js/rebase-i-final:
rebase -i: rearrange fixup/squash lines using the rebase--helper
t3415: test fixup with wrapped oneline
rebase -i: skip unnecessary picks using the rebase--helper
rebase -i: check for missing commits in the rebase--helper
t3404: relax rebase.missingCommitsCheck tests
rebase -i: also expand/collapse the SHA-1s via the rebase--helper
rebase -i: do not invent onelines when expanding/collapsing SHA-1s
rebase -i: remove useless indentation
rebase -i: generate the script via rebase--helper
t3415: verify that an empty instructionFormat is handled as before
Use strbuf_addstr() instead of strbuf_addf() for adding strings. That's
simpler and makes the intent clearer.
Patch generated by Coccinelle and contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci;
adjusted indentation in refs/packed-backend.c manually.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add some UNLEAKs where we are about to return from `cmd_*`. UNLEAK the
variables in the same order as we've declared them. While addressing
`msg` in builtin/tag.c, convert the existing `strbuf_release()` calls as
well.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce function get_submodule_displaypath() to replace the code
occurring in submodule_init() for generating displaypath of the
submodule with a call to it.
This new function will also be used in other parts of the system
in later patches.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Simplify mru.[ch] and related code by reusing the double-linked list
implementation from list.h instead of a custom one.
This commit is an intermediate step. Our final goal is to get rid of
mru.[ch] at all and inline all logic.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Olga Telezhnaia <olyatelezhnaya@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows us to get rid of several write-only variables.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support in update-index to manually add/remove the fsmonitor
extension via --[no-]fsmonitor flags.
Add support in update-index to manually set/clear the fsmonitor
valid bit via --[no-]fsmonitor-valid flags.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new command line option (-f) to ls-files to have it use lowercase
letters for 'fsmonitor valid' files
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the index is read from disk, the fsmonitor index extension is used
to flag the last known potentially dirty index entries. The registered
core.fsmonitor command is called with the time the index was last
updated and returns the list of files changed since that time. This list
is used to flag any additional dirty cache entries and untracked cache
directories.
We can then use this valid state to speed up preload_index(),
ie_match_stat(), and refresh_cache_ent() as they do not need to lstat()
files to detect potential changes for those entries marked
CE_FSMONITOR_VALID.
In addition, if the untracked cache is turned on valid_cached_dir() can
skip checking directories for new or changed files as fsmonitor will
invalidate the cache only for those directories that have been
identified as having potential changes.
To keep the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID state accurate during git operations;
when git updates a cache entry to match the current state on disk,
it will now set the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID bit.
Inversely, anytime git changes a cache entry, the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID bit
is cleared and the corresponding untracked cache directory is marked
invalid.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Memory leaks in various codepaths have been plugged.
* ma/leakplugs:
pack-bitmap[-write]: use `object_array_clear()`, don't leak
object_array: add and use `object_array_pop()`
object_array: use `object_array_clear()`, not `free()`
leak_pending: use `object_array_clear()`, not `free()`
commit: fix memory leak in `reduce_heads()`
builtin/commit: fix memory leak in `prepare_index()`
"git fast-export" with -M/-C option issued "copy" instruction on a
path that is simultaneously modified, which was incorrect.
* jt/fast-export-copy-modify-fix:
fast-export: do not copy from modified file
"git describe --match <pattern>" has been taught to play well with
the "--all" option.
* mk/describe-match-with-all:
describe: teach --match to handle branches and remotes
Code clean-up.
* rs/resolve-ref-optional-result:
refs: pass NULL to resolve_ref_unsafe() if hash is not needed
refs: pass NULL to refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() if hash is not needed
refs: make sha1 output parameter of refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() optional
Many codepaths have been updated to squelch -Wimplicit-fallthrough
warnings from Gcc 7 (which is a good code hygiene).
* jk/fallthrough:
consistently use "fallthrough" comments in switches
curl_trace(): eliminate switch fallthrough
test-line-buffer: simplify command parsing
"git describe --match" learned to take multiple patterns in v2.13
series, but the feature ignored the patterns after the first one
and did not work at all. This has been fixed.
* jk/describe-omit-some-refs:
describe: fix matching to actually match all patterns
Some tools like IDEs or fancy editors may periodically run
commands like "git status" in the background to keep track
of the state of the repository. Some of these commands may
refresh the index and write out the result in an
opportunistic way: if they can get the index lock, then they
update the on-disk index with any updates they find. And if
not, then their in-core refresh is lost and just has to be
recomputed by the next caller.
But taking the index lock may conflict with other operations
in the repository. Especially ones that the user is doing
themselves, which _aren't_ opportunistic. In other words,
"git status" knows how to back off when somebody else is
holding the lock, but other commands don't know that status
would be happy to drop the lock if somebody else wanted it.
There are a couple possible solutions:
1. Have some kind of "pseudo-lock" that allows other
commands to tell status that they want the lock.
This is likely to be complicated and error-prone to
implement (and maybe even impossible with just
dotlocks to work from, as it requires some
inter-process communication).
2. Avoid background runs of commands like "git status"
that want to do opportunistic updates, preferring
instead plumbing like diff-files, etc.
This is awkward for a couple of reasons. One is that
"status --porcelain" reports a lot more about the
repository state than is available from individual
plumbing commands. And two is that we actually _do_
want to see the refreshed index. We just don't want to
take a lock or write out the result. Whereas commands
like diff-files expect us to refresh the index
separately and write it to disk so that they can depend
on the result. But that write is exactly what we're
trying to avoid.
3. Ask "status" not to lock or write the index.
This is easy to implement. The big downside is that any
work done in refreshing the index for such a call is
lost when the process exits. So a background process
may end up re-hashing a changed file multiple times
until the user runs a command that does an index
refresh themselves.
This patch implements the option 3. The idea (and the test)
is largely stolen from a Git for Windows patch by Johannes
Schindelin, 67e5ce7f63 (status: offer *not* to lock the
index and update it, 2016-08-12). The twist here is that
instead of making this an option to "git status", it becomes
a "git" option and matching environment variable.
The reason there is two-fold:
1. An environment variable is carried through to
sub-processes. And whether an invocation is a
background process or not should apply to the whole
process tree. So you could do "git --no-optional-locks
foo", and if "foo" is a script or alias that calls
"status", you'll still get the effect.
2. There may be other programs that want the same
treatment.
I've punted here on finding more callers to convert,
since "status" is the obvious one to call as a repeated
background job. But "git diff"'s opportunistic refresh
of the index may be a good candidate.
The test is taken from 67e5ce7f63, and it's worth repeating
Johannes's explanation:
Note that the regression test added in this commit does
not *really* verify that no index.lock file was written;
that test is not possible in a portable way. Instead, we
verify that .git/index is rewritten *only* when `git
status` is run without `--no-optional-locks`.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We try to read "len" bytes into a buffer and just assume
that it happened correctly. In practice this should usually
be the case, since we just stat'd the file to get the
length. But we could be fooled by transient errors or by
other processes racily truncating the file.
Let's be more careful. There's a slim chance this could
catch a real error, but it also prevents people and tools
from getting worried while reading the code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To read the "gitdir" file into memory, we stat the file and
allocate a buffer. But we store the size in an "int", which
may be truncated. We should use a size_t and xsize_t(),
which will detect truncation.
An overflow is unlikely for a "gitdir" file, but it's a good
practice to model.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many callers of read_in_full() expect to see the exact
number of bytes requested, but their error handling lumps
together true read errors and short reads due to unexpected
EOF.
We can give more specific error messages by separating these
cases (showing errno when appropriate, and otherwise
describing the short read).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Comparing the result of read_in_full() using less-than is
potentially dangerous, as a negative return value may be
converted to an unsigned type and be considered a success.
This is discussed further in 561598cfcf (read_pack_header:
handle signed/unsigned comparison in read result,
2017-09-13).
Each of these instances is actually fine in practice:
- in get-tar-commit-id, the HEADERSIZE macro expands to a
signed integer. If it were switched to an unsigned type
(e.g., a size_t), then it would be a bug.
- the other two callers check for a short read only after
handling a negative return separately. This is a fine
practice, but we'd prefer to model "!=" as a general
rule.
So all of these cases can be considered cleanups and not
actual bugfixes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rev-parse" learned "--is-shallow-repository", that is to be
used in a way similar to existing "--is-bare-repository" and
friends.
* ow/rev-parse-is-shallow-repo:
rev-parse: rev-parse: add --is-shallow-repository
"git gc" tries to avoid running two instances at the same time by
reading and writing pid/host from and to a lock file; it used to
use an incorrect fscanf() format when reading, which has been
corrected.
* aw/gc-lockfile-fscanf-fix:
gc: call fscanf() with %<len>s, not %<len>c, when reading hostname
Step #0 of a planned & larger series to make the in-core object
store per in-core repository object.
* jn/per-repo-object-store-fixes:
replace-objects: evaluate replacement refs without using the object store
push, fetch: error out for submodule entries not pointing to commits
pack: make packed_git_mru global a value instead of a pointer
Many codepaths did not diagnose write failures correctly when disks
go full, due to their misuse of write_in_full() helper function,
which have been corrected.
* jk/write-in-full-fix:
read_pack_header: handle signed/unsigned comparison in read result
config: flip return value of store_write_*()
notes-merge: use ssize_t for write_in_full() return value
pkt-line: check write_in_full() errors against "< 0"
convert less-trivial versions of "write_in_full() != len"
avoid "write_in_full(fd, buf, len) != len" pattern
get-tar-commit-id: check write_in_full() return against 0
config: avoid "write_in_full(fd, buf, len) < len" pattern
At times, it makes sense to avoid the cost of writing out the index
when the only changes can easily be recomputed on demand. This causes
problems when trying to write test cases to verify that state as they
can't guarantee the state has been persisted to disk.
Add a new option (--force-write-index) to update-index that will
ensure the index is written out even if the cache_changed flag is not
set.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows us to get rid of some write-only variables, among them seven
SHA1 buffers.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
