UNIX reference time of 1970-01-01 00:00 is UTC timezone, not local time zone
I got bitten because in the UK (where one would expect 1970-01-01 00:00
to be UTC 0) some politicians decided to mess around with daylight
savings time from 1968 to 1971; it was permanently BST (+0100). That
means that on my computer the following is true:
It's actually saying (in my timezone) "1970-01-01 01:00:00 UTC" + $ts.
Clearly this is wrong. The UNIX epoch started at midnight UTC not 1am
UTC.
This leads to the tagged time in hooks--update being shown as one hour
earlier than the true tagged time (in my timezone). The problem would
be worse for other timezones. For a +1300 timezone on 1970-01-01, the
tagged time would be 13 hours earlier. Oops.
The solution is to force the reference time to UTC, which is what this
patch does. In my timezone:
Teach for-each-ref about a little language called Tcl.
Love it or hate it, some people actually still program in Tcl. Some
of those programs are meant for interfacing with Git. Programs such as
gitk and git-gui. It may be useful to have Tcl-safe output available
from for-each-ref, just like shell, Perl and Python already enjoy.
Thanks to Sergey Vlasov for pointing out the horrible flaws in the
first and second version of this patch, and steering me in the right
direction for Tcl value quoting.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows pushing over the git:// protocol, and while it's not
authenticated, it could make sense from within a firewalled
setup where nobody but trusted internal people can reach the git
port. git-daemon is possibly easier and faster to set up in the
kind of situation where you set up git instead of CVS inside a
company.
"git-receive-pack" is disabled by default, so you need to enable it
explicitly by starting git-daemon with the "--enable=receive-pack"
command line argument, or by having your config enable it automatically.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation/config.txt: Fix documentation of colour config tweaks.
* The description of valid colour specifications was rather
incomplete, so fix it so that it actually describes colour specs as
accepted by color_parse().
* The list of colour items allowed in color.diff.BLAH was missing the
`commit' and `whitespace' entries.
Signed-off-by: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
create_symref(): do not assume pathname from git_path() persists long enough
Being lazy to rely on the cycling N buffers mkpath() and friends
return is nice in general, but it makes it too easy to introduce
new bugs that are "mysterious".
Introduction of read_ref() in create_symref() after calling
git_path() to get the git_HEAD value (i.e. the path to create a
new symref at) consumed more than the available buffers and
broke a later call to mkpath() that derives lockpath from it.
If HEAD is tied to a branch then both logs/HEAD and logs/heads/<branch> are
updated. This is also true for any symbolic refs in general, but only HEAD
will see its reflog created automatically.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Compute accurate distances in git-describe before output.
My prior change to git-describe attempts to print the distance
between the input commit and the best matching tag, but this distance
was usually only an estimate as we always aborted revision walking
as soon as we overflowed the configured limit on the number of
possible tags (as set by --candidates).
Displaying an estimated distance is not very useful and can just be
downright confusing. Most users (heck, most Git developers) don't
immediately understand why this distance differs from the output
of common tools such as `git rev-list | wc -l`. Even worse, the
estimated distance could change in the future (including decreasing
despite no rebase occuring) if we find more possible tags earlier
on during traversal. (This could happen if more tags are merged
into the branch between queries.) These factors basically make an
estimated distance useless.
Fortunately we are usually most of the way through an accurate
distance computation by the time we abort (due to reaching the
current --candidates limit). This means we can simply finish
counting out the revisions still in our commit queue to present
the accurate distance at the end. The number of commits remaining
in the commit queue is probably less than the number of commits
already traversed, so finishing out the count is not likely to take
very long. This final distance will then always match the output of
`git rev-list | wc -l`.
We can easily reduce the total number of commits that need to be
walked at the end by stopping as soon as all of the commits in the
commit queue are flagged as being merged into the already selected
best possible tag. If that's true then there are no remaining
unseen commits which can contribute to our best possible tag's
depth counter, so further traversal is useless.
Basic testing on my Mac OS X system shows there is no noticable
performance difference between this accurate distance counting
version of git-describe and the prior version of git-describe,
at least when run on git.git.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Teach git-describe to display distances from tags.
If you get two different describes at different
times from a non-rewinding branch and they both come up with the same
tag name, you can tell which is the 'newer' one by distance. This is
rather common in practice, so its incredibly useful.
[jc: still needs documentation and fixups when traversal gives up
early.]
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-blame --porcelain: quote filename in c-style when needed.
Otherwise a pathname that has funny characters such as LF would
screw up the parsing programs of the output.
Strictly speaking, this is not backward compatible, but the
current output for pathnames that have embedded LF and such
cannot be sanely parsed anyway, and pathnames that only use
characters from the portable pathname character set won't be
affected.
This adds --incremental option to help GUI porcelains to show
the result from git-blame incrementally. The output gives the
origin information in the same format as the porcelain format.
The first line has commit object name, the line number of the
first line in the group in the original file, the line number of
that file in the final image, and number of lines in the group.
Then subsequent lines show the metainformation for the commit
when the commit is shown for the first time, except the filename
information is always shown (we cannot even make it conditional
to -C option as blame always follows the renaming of the file
wholesale).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Back when only handful commands that created commit and tag were
the only users of committer identity information, it made sense
to explicitly call setup_ident() to pre-fill the default value
from the gecos information. But it is much simpler for programs
to make the call automatic when get_ident() is called these days,
since many more programs want to use the information when updating
the reflog.
git-log -g --pretty=oneline should display the reflog message
In the context of reflog output the reflog message is more useful than
the commit message's first line. When relevant the reflog message
will contain that line anyway.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Allow the tag signing key to be specified in the config file
I did this:
$ git tag -s test-sign
gpg: skipped "Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>": secret key not available
gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
failed to sign the tag with GPG.
The problem is that I have used the comment field in my key's UID
definition.
$ gpg --list-keys andy
pub 1024D/4F712F6D 2003-08-14
uid Andy Parkins (Google) <andyparkins@gmail.com>
So when git-tag looks for "Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>";
obviously it's not going to be found.
There shouldn't be a requirement that I use the same form of my name in
my git repository and my gpg key - I might want to be formal (Andrew) in
my gpg key and informal (Andy) in the repository. Further I might have
multiple keys in my keyring, and might want to use one that doesn't
match up with the address I use in commit messages.
This patch adds a configuration entry "user.signingkey" which, if
present, will be passed to the "-u" switch for gpg, allowing the tag
signing key to be overridden. If the entry is not present, the fallback
is the original method, which means existing behaviour will continue
untouched.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If abbrev is set to zero in git-describe, don't add the unique suffix
When on a non-tag commit, git-describe normally outputs descriptions of
the form v1.0.0-g1234567890
Some scripts (for example the update hook script) might just want to
know the name of the nearest tag, so they then have to do
x=$(git-describe HEAD | sed 's/-g*//')
This is costly, but more importantly is fragile as it is relying on the
output format of git-describe, which we would then have to maintain
forever.
This patch adds support for setting the --abbrev option to zero. In
that case git-describe does as it always has, but outputs only the
nearest found tag instead of a completely unique name. This means that
scripts would not have to parse the output format and won't need
changing if the git-describe suffix is ever changed.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
fix suggested branch creation command when detaching head
Doing:
$ git checkout HEAD^
Generates the following message:
|warning: you are not on ANY branch anymore.
|If you meant to create a new branch from the commit, you need -b to
|associate a new branch with the wanted checkout. Example:
| git checkout -b <new_branch_name> HEAD^
Of course if the user does as told at this point the created branch
won't be located at the expected commit. Reword this message a bit to
avoid such confusion.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
vc-git.el: Take into account the destination name in vc-checkout.
This is necessary for vc-version-other-window. Based on a patch by Sam
Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>.
Currently, the vc-git-checkout function uses `git checkout' to fetch a
file from the git repository to the working copy. However, it is
completely ignoring the input argument that specifies the destination
file. `git-checkout' does not support specifying this, so we have to
use `git-cat-file', capture the output in a buffer and then save it.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The file format dictates that entries are LF terminated so
the message cannot have one in it. Chomp the message to make
sure it only has a single line if necessary, while removing the
leading whitespace.
Junio added the found variable to enforce commit date order when two
tags have the same distance from the requested commit. Except it is
unnecessary as match_cnt is already used to record how many possible
tags have been identified thus far.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Older Solaris machines lack stdint.h but have inttypes.h.
The standard has inttypes.h including stdint.h, so at worst
this pollutes the namespace a bit.
Signed-off-by: Jason Riedy <ejr@cs.berkeley.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
diffcore-pickaxe: fix infinite loop on zero-length needle
The "contains" algorithm runs into an infinite loop if the needle string
has zero length. The loop could be modified to handle this, but it makes
more sense to simply have an empty needle return no matches. Thus, a
command like
git log -S
produces no output.
We place the check at the top of the function so that we get the same
results with or without --pickaxe-regex. Note that until now,
git log -S --pickaxe-regex
would match everything, not nothing.
Arguably, an empty pickaxe string should simply produce an error
message; however, this is still a useful assertion to add to the
algorithm at this layer of the code.
Noticed by Bill Lear.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Allow non-developer to clone, checkout and fetch more easily.
The code that uses committer_info() in reflog can barf and die
whenever it is asked to update a ref. And I do not think
calling ignore_missing_committer_name() upfront like recent
receive-pack did in the aplication is a reasonable workaround.
What the patch does.
- git_committer_info() takes one parameter. It used to be "if
this is true, then die() if the name is not available due to
bad GECOS, otherwise issue a warning once but leave the name
empty". The reason was because we wanted to prevent bad
commits from being made by git-commit-tree (and its
callers). The value 0 is only used by "git var -l".
Now it takes -1, 0 or 1. When set to -1, it does not
complain but uses the pw->pw_name when name is not
available. Existing 0 and 1 values mean the same thing as
they used to mean before. 0 means issue warnings and leave
it empty, 1 means barf and die.
- ignore_missing_committer_name() and its existing caller
(receive-pack, to set the reflog) have been removed.
- git-format-patch, to come up with the phoney message ID when
asked to thread, now passes -1 to git_committer_info(). This
codepath uses only the e-mail part, ignoring the name. It
used to barf and die. The other call in the same program
when asked to add signed-off-by line based on committer
identity still passes 1 to make sure it barfs instead of
adding a bogus s-o-b line.
- log_ref_write in refs.c, to come up with the name to record
who initiated the ref update in the reflog, passes -1. It
used to barf and die.
The last change means that git-update-ref, git-branch, and
commit walker backends can now be used in a repository with
reflog by somebody who does not have the user identity required
to make a commit. They all used to barf and die.
I've run tests and all of them seem to pass, and also tried "git
clone" as a user whose GECOS is empty -- git clone works again
now (it was broken when reflog was enabled by default).
contrib/emacs/vc-git.el: support vc-version-other-window
Currently, the vc-git-checkout function uses `git checkout' to fetch a
file from the git repository to the working copy. However, it is
completely ignoring the input argument that specifies the destination
file. `git-checkout' does not support specifying this, so we have to
use `git-cat-file', capture the output in a buffer and then save it.
New files in git weren't being downloaded during CVS update
If a repository was checked out via git-cvsserver and then later a new
file is added to the git repository via some other method; a CVS update
wasn't fetching the new file.
It would be reported as a new file as
A some/dir/newfile.c
but would never appear in the directory.
The problem seems to be that git-cvsserver was treating these two cases
identically, as "A" type results.
1. New file in repository
2. New file locally
In fact, traditionally, case 1 is treated as a "U" result, and case 2
only is treated as an "A" result. "A", should just report that the file
is added locally and then skip that file during an update as there is
(of course) nothing to send.
In both these cases there is no working revision, so the checking for
"is there no working revision" will return true. The test for case 2
needs refining to say "if there is no working revision and no upstream
revision". This patch does just that, leaving case 1 to be handled by
the normal "U" handler.
I've also updated the log message to more accurately describe the
operation. i.e. that "A" means that content is scheduled for addition;
not that it actually has been added.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
fetch-pack: remove --keep-auto and make it the default.
This makes git-fetch over git native protocol to automatically
decide to keep the downloaded pack if the fetch results in more
than 100 objects, just like receive-pack invoked by git-push
does. This logic is disabled when --keep is explicitly given
from the command line, so that a very small clone still keeps
the downloaded pack as before.
The 100 threshold can be adjusted with fetch.unpacklimit
configuration. We might want to introduce transfer.unpacklimit
to consolidate the two unpacklimit variables, which will be a
topic for the next patch.
ls-remote and clone: accept --upload-pack=<path> as well.
This makes them consistent with other commands that take the
path to the upload-pack program. We also pass --upload-pack
instead of --exec to the underlying fetch-pack, although it is
not strictly necessary.
Documentation: --amend cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F.
We used to get the following confusing error message:
$ git commit --amend -a -m foo
Option -m cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F
This is because --amend cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F, which makes
sense, because they try to handle the same log message in different ways.
So update the documentation to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation/config.txt: Correct info about subsection name
Contrary to variable values, in subsection names parsing character
escape codes (besides literal escaping of " as \", and \ as \\)
is not performed; subsection name cannot contain newlines.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Commit c1a4278e switched the "merging checkout" implementation
from 3-way read-tree to merge-recursive, but forgot that
merge-recursive will signal an unmerged state with its own exit
status code. This prevented the clean-up phase (paths cleanly
merged should not be updated in the index) from running.
format-patch: fix bug with --stdout in a subdirectory
We set the output directory to the git subdirectory prefix if one has
not already been specified. However, in the case of --stdout, we
explicitly _don't_ want the output directory to be set. The result was
that "git-format-patch --stdout" in a directory besides the project root
produced the "standard output, or directory, which one?" error message.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[PATCH] honor --author even with --amend, -C, and -c.
Earlier code discarded GIT_AUTHOR_DATE taken from the base
commit when --author was specified. This was often wrong as
that use is likely to fix the spelling of author's name.
git-svn: remove leading slash when printing removed directories
Not sure why it was there in the first place, we always do our
work relative to the URL we're connected to; even if that URL is
the root of the repository, so the leading slash is pointless...
Lets be consistent when printing things for the user to see.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
sha1_file.c: Avoid multiple calls to find_pack_entry().
We used to call find_pack_entry() twice from read_sha1_file() in order
to avoid printing an error message, when the object did not exist. This
is fixed by moving the call to error() to the only place it really
could be called.
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Separate part of Documentation/config.txt which deals with git config file
syntax into "Syntax" subsection, and expand it. Add information about
subsections, boolean values, escaping and escape sequences in string
values, and continuing variable value on the next line.
Add also proxy settings to config file example to show example of
partially enclosed in double quotes string value.
Parts based on comments by Junio C Hamano, Johannes Schindelin,
config.c, and the smb.conf(5) man page.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This separates the connectivity check into separate codepaths,
one for reachable objects and the other for unreachable ones,
while adding a lot of comments to explain what is going on.
When checking an unreachable object, unlike a reachable one, we
do not have to complain if it does not exist (we used to
complain about a missing blob even when the only thing that
references it is a tree that is dangling). Also we do not have
to check and complain about objects that are referenced by an
unreachable object.
This makes the messages from fsck-objects a lot less noisy and
more useful.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-prune is not safe when run uncontrolled in parallel while
other git operations are creating new objects. To avoid
mistakes, do not run git-prune by default from git-gc.
shallow repository: disable unsupported operations for now.
We currently do not support fetching/cloning from a shallow repository
nor pushing into one. Make sure these are not attempted so that we
do not have to worry about corrupting repositories needlessly.
Make sure git_connect() always give two file descriptors.
Earlier, git_connect() returned the same fd twice or two
separate fds, depending on the way the connection was made (when
we are talking to the other end over a single socket, we used
the same fd twice, and when our end is connected to a pipepair
we used two).
This forced callers who do close() and dup() to really care
which was which, and most of the existing callers got this
wrong, although without much visible ill effect. Many were
closing the same fd twice when we are talking over a single
socket, and one was leaking a fd.
This fixes it to uniformly use two separate fds, so if somebody
wants to close only reader side can just do close() on it
without worrying about it accidentally also closing the writer
side or vice versa.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Protecting 'mature' objects does not make it any safer. We should
admit that git-prune is inherently unsafe when run in parallel with
other operations without involving unwarranted locking overhead,
and with the latest git, even rebase and reset would not immediately
create crufts anyway.
Teach the revision walker to walk by reflogs with --walk-reflogs
When called with "--walk-reflogs", as long as there are reflogs
available, the walker will take this information into account, rather
than the parent information in the commit object.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The static variable "prefix" was shadowed by an unused parameter
of the same name. In case of execution in a subdirectory, the
static variable was accessed, leading to a crash.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
We pass a timestamp (i.e. number of seconds elapsed since Jan 1 1970,
00:00:00 GMT) to the function. So there is no need to "fix" the
timestamp according to the timezone.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>