* maint-1.6.3:
Change mentions of "git programs" to "git commands"
Documentation: merge: one <remote> is required
help.c: give correct structure's size to memset()
push: point to 'git pull' and 'git push --force' in case of non-fast forward
'git push' failing because of non-fast forward is a very common situation,
and a beginner does not necessarily understand "fast forward" immediately.
Add a new section to the git-push documentation and refer them to it.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change mentions of "git programs" to "git commands"
Most of the docs and printouts refer to "commands" when discussing what
the end users call via the "git" top-level program. We should refer them
as "git programs" when we discuss the fact that the commands are
implemented as separate programs, but in other contexts, it is better to
use the term "git commands" consistently.
Signed-off-by: Ori Avtalion <ori@avtalion.name> Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When making a histogram of delta chain length in the pack, the program
collects number of objects whose delta depth exceeds the MAX_CHAIN limit
in histogram[0], and showed it as the number of items that exceeds the
limit correctly. HOWEVER, it also showed the same number labeled as
"chain length = 0".
In fact, we are not showing the number of objects whose chain length is
zero, i.e. the base objects. Correct this.
Importing the popen2 module in Python-2.6 results in the
"DeprecationWarning: The popen2 module is deprecated. Use the
subprocess module." message. The module itself isn't used in fact, so
just removing it solves the problem.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Configuration values are expected to be quoted when they have leading or
trailing whitespace, but inner whitespace should be kept verbatim even if
the value is not quoted. This is already documented in git-config(1), but
the code caused inner whitespace to be collapsed to a single space,
breaking, for example, clones from a path that has two consecutive spaces
in it, as future fetches would only see a single space.
Reported-by: John te Bokkel <tanj.tanj@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
request-pull: allow ls-remote to notice remote.$nickname.uploadpack
The location to pull from should be converted from the configured nickname
to URL in the message, but ls-remote should be fed the nickname so that
the command uses remote.$nickname.* variables, most notably "uploadpack".
Signed-off-by: Tom Grennan <tgrennan@redback.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-rerere.txt: Clarify ambiguity of the config variable
Use the less ambiguous
"set variable foo in order to enable bar"
rather than
"set variable foo to enable bar" which may trick users into
assuming that "enable" is a good value for "foo".
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git svn gc" will not compress unhandled.log files if
Compress::Zlib is missing. However, leftover index files should
always be removed, so add a test for this behavior as well.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* en/fast-export:
fast-export: Document the fact that git-rev-list arguments are accepted
Add new fast-export testcases
fast-export: Add a --tag-of-filtered-object option for newly dangling tags
fast-export: Do parent rewriting to avoid dropping relevant commits
fast-export: Make sure we show actual ref names instead of "(null)"
fast-export: Omit tags that tag trees
fast-export: Set revs.topo_order before calling setup_revisions
* git://git.bogomips.org/git-svn:
git svn: make minimize URL more reliable over http(s)
git svn: avoid escaping '/' when renaming/copying files
t9142: stop httpd after the test
git svn: the branch command no longer needs the full path
git svn: revert default behavior for --minimize-url
git svn: add gc command
git svn: make minimize URL more reliable over http(s)
In addition to path-based restrictions, Subversion servers over
http(s) may have access controls implemented via the LimitExcept
directive in Apache. In some cases, LimitExcept may be
(arguably) misconfigured to not allow REPORT requests while
allowing OPTIONS and PROPFIND.
This caused problems with our existing minimize_url logic that
only issued OPTIONS and PROPFIND requests when connecting and
using SVN::Ra::get_latest_revnum. We now call SVN::Ra::get_log
if get_latest_revnum succeeds, resulting in a REPORT request
being sent. This will increase our chances of tripping access
controls before we start attempting to fetch history.
Disable asciidoc 8.4.1+ semantics for `{plus}` and friends
asciidoc 8.4.1 changed the semantics of inline backtick quoting so
that they disable parsing of inline constructs, i.e.,
Input: `{plus}`
Pre 8.4.1: +
Post 8.4.1: {plus}
Fix this by defining the asciidoc attribute 'no-inline-literal'
(which, per the 8.4.1 changelog, is the toggle to return to the old
behaviour) when under ASCIIDOC8.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git svn: avoid escaping '/' when renaming/copying files
Timothy Schaeffer reported the following:
> Git-svn has been giving me the following error for some time
> when calling "git svn dcommit":
>
> RA layer request failed: PROPFIND request failed on
> '/svn/stf/branches/dev/sw%2Fdpemu%2Finclude%2FNetCnxn.h': PROPFIND of
> '/svn/stf/branches/dev/sw%2Fdpemu%2Finclude%2FNetCnxn.h': 302 Found
> (https://oursvnrepo.net) at /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 508
>
> This only occurred when git detected a rename or copy.
>
> Following the lead into git-svn.perl,
> and noticing that some of the '/'s in the path were hex-encoded
> and some were not,
> I changed the regex used to find chars
> to hex-encode in the relative part of the path
> to exclude '/'.
> It works, so far.
> I have included a patch.
While this has previous not been a problem in my experience,
newer versions of SVN may be stricter and this does not
introduce regressions in t9115.
git svn: the branch command no longer needs the full path
This was introduced in 0b2af457a49e3b00d47d556d5301934d27909db8
("Fix branch detection when repository root is inaccessible")
but reintroduced in the previous commit.
git svn: revert default behavior for --minimize-url
This reverts the --minimize-url behavior change that
appeared recently in commit 0b2af457a49e3b00d47d556d5301934d27909db8
("Fix branch detection when repository root is inaccessible").
However, we now allow the option to be turned off by allowing
"--no-minimize-url" so people with limited-access setups can
still take advantage of the fix in 0b2af457a49e3b00d47d556d5301934d27909db8.
Also document the behavior and default settings of minimize-url
in the manpage for the first time.
This introduces a temporary UI regression to allow t9141 to pass
that will be reverted (fixed) in the next commit.
The second and third tests of this script expected that Russian strings
are converted between ISO-8859-5 and Shift_JIS in the "blame --porcelain"
format output correctly.
Sure, many platforms may convert between such a combination, but that is
only because one of the base character set of Shift_JIS, JIS X 0208,
defines codepoints for Russian characters (among others); I do not think
anybody uses Shift_JIS when seriously writing Russian, and it is perfectly
understandable if iconv() libraries on some platforms fail converting
between this combination, as it does not matter in reality.
This patch changes the test to verify Japanese strings are converted
correctly between EUC-JP and Shift_JIS in the same procedure. The point
of the test is not about verifying the platform's iconv() library, but to
see if "git blame" makes correct iconv() library calls when it should.
We could instead use ISO-8859-5 and KOI8-R as the combination, because
they are both meant to represent Russian, in order to make this test
meaningful on more platforms, but we already use Shift_JIS vs EUC-JP
combinations to test other programs in our test suite, so this combination
is safer from the point of view of the portability. Besides, I do not
read nor write Russian; sorry ;-)
This change allows tests to pass on my (friend's) Solaris 5.11 box.
* av/maint-config-reader:
After renaming a section, print any trailing variable definitions
Make section_name_match start on '[', and return the length on success
Show the presence of untracked files in the bash prompt.
Added the envvar GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES to 'git-completion.bash'.
When set to a nonempty value, then the char '%' will be shown next
to the branch name in the bash prompt.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Trstenjak <daniel.trstenjak@science-computing.de> Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
SunOS grep does not understand -C<n> nor -e
Fix export_marks() error handling.
git branch: clean up detached branch handling
git branch: avoid unnecessary object lookups
git branch: fix performance problem
do_one_ref(): null_sha1 check is not about broken ref
The first "grep -C1" test in t7002 does not pass on my SunOS-5.11-i86pc,
and that is not because our way to spawn external grep is broken, but
because the native grep does not understand -C<n>.
It turns out that Peff was also using this option himself because our
Makefile doesn't do that automatically. Brandon Casey uses SUNWspro
compiler without having to set this, and it turns out that the compiler
does not define preprocessor macro __unix__ which made him always use the
built-in grep, never an external one.
Let's be more explicit and say that we do not use external grep on Suns.
When you have grafts that pretend that a given commit has different
parents than the ones recorded in the commit object, it is dangerous
to let 'git repack' remove those hidden parents, as you can easily
remove the graft and end up with a broken repository.
So let's play it safe and keep those parent objects and everything
that is reachable by them, in addition to the grafted parents.
As this behavior can only be triggered by git pack-objects, and as that
command handles duplicate parents gracefully, we do not bother to cull
duplicated parents that may result by using both true and grafted
parents.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a test showing that 'git repack' throws away grafted-away parents
Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the 'show detached branch info' a routine of its own. And in the
process, avoid the object lookup that is unnecessary if the current
branch isn't detached.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git branch' looks at _all_ the refs, and verifies them. Which means that
during cold-cache situations with a slow disk (and lots of tags, for
example) it can take several very annoying seconds (7.5s according to a
report by Carlos R. Mafra).
This avoids most of it by simply doing the filtering before looking up
the commits, by using the "raw" version of for_each_ref.
Reported-by: Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git svn: fix shallow clone when upstream revision is too new
Thanks to Ka-Hing Cheung for the initial bug report and patch:
> git-svn uses $ra->get_latest_revnum to find out the latest
> revision, but that can be problematic, because get_latest_revnum
> returns the latest revnum in the entire repository, not
> restricted by whatever URL you used to construct $ra. So if you
> do git svn clone -r HEAD svn://blah/blah/trunk, it won't work if
> the latest checkin is in one of the branches (it will try to
> fetch a rev that doesn't exist in trunk, making the clone
> useless).
Relying on SVN::Core::INVALID_REVNUM (-1) as the "start"
argument to SVN::Ra::get_log() proved unreliable with http(s)
URLs so the result of SVN::Ra::get_latest_revnum() is used as
the "start" argument instead.
do_one_ref(): null_sha1 check is not about broken ref
f8948e2 (remote prune: warn dangling symrefs, 2009-02-08) introduced a
more dangerous variant of for_each_ref() family that skips the check for
dangling refs, but it also made another unrelated check optional by
mistake.
The check to see if a ref points at 0{40} is not about brokenness, but is
about a possible future plan to represent a deleted ref by writing 40 "0"
in a loose ref when there is a stale version of the same ref already in
.git/packed-refs, so that we can implement deletion of a ref without
having to rewrite the packed refs file excluding the ref being deleted.
This check has to live outside of the conditional.
configure.ac: properly unset NEEDS_SSL_WITH_CRYPTO when sha1 func is missing
The empty assignment NEEDS_SSL_WITH_CRYPTO= was mistakenly paired with the
assignment NEEDS_SSL_WITH_CRYPTO=YesPlease in the "action-if-found"
parameter of the AC_CHECK_LIB macro. The empty assignment was intended for
the "action-if-not-found" section, since in that case, the necessary sha1
hash function was not found and the internal sha1 implementation will be
used instead.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---8<----
@@
expression *E;
@@
(
E ==
- 0
+ NULL
|
E !=
- 0
+ NULL
|
E =
- 0
+ NULL
)
@@
identifier f;
type T;
@@
T *f(...) {
<...
- return 0;
+ return NULL;
...>
}
--->8----
There are a lot more hits in compat/nedmallox and compat/regex but these
are borrowed code we rather do not want to maintain our own forks for,
and this patch refrains from touching them.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git stash: modernize use of "dashed" git-XXX calls
Replace remaining git-XXX calls with git XXX.
Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at> Acked-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
configure.ac: rework/fix the NEEDS_RESOLV and NEEDS_LIBGEN tests
The "action" parameters for these two tests were supplied incorrectly for
the way the tests were implemented. The tests check whether a program
which calls hstrerror() or basename() successfully links when -lresolv or
-lgen are used, respectively. A successful linking would result in
NEEDS_RESOLV or NEEDS_LIBGEN being unset, and failure would result in
setting the respective variable.
Aside from that issue, the tests did not handle the case where neither
library was necessary for accessing the functions in question. So solve
both of these issues by re-working the two tests so that their form is like
the NEEDS_SOCKET test which attempts to link with just the c library, and
if it fails then assumes that the additional library is necessary and sets
the appropriate variable.
Also an entry in the config.mak.in file is necessary for the NEEDS_LIBGEN
variable to appear in the config.mak.autogen file with the value assigned
by the configure script. Without it, the generated shell script would
contain a snippet like this:
for ac_lib in ; do
...
which is incorrect.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Trailing whitespace and no newline fix
diff --cc: a lost line at the beginning of the file is shown incorrectly
combine-diff.c: fix performance problem when folding common deleted lines
If a patch adds a new line to the end of a file and this line ends with
one trailing whitespace character and has no newline, then
'--whitespace=fix' currently does not remove that trailing whitespace.
This patch fixes this by removing the check for trailing whitespace at
the end of the line at a hardcoded offset which does not take the
eventual absence of newline into account.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --cc: a lost line at the beginning of the file is shown incorrectly
When combine-diff inspected the diff from one parent to the merge result,
it misinterpreted a header in the form @@ -l,k +0,0 @@.
This hunk header means that K lines were removed from the beginning of the
file, so the lost lines must be queued to the sline that represents the
first line of the merge result, but we incremented our pointer incorrectly
and ended up queuing it to the second line, which in turn made the lossage
appear _after_ the first line.
combine-diff.c: fix performance problem when folding common deleted lines
For a deleted line in a patch with the parent we are looking at, the
append_lost() function finds the same line among a run of lines that were
deleted from the same location by patches from parents we previously
checked. This is so that patches with two parents
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
one one
-two -two
three three
-quatro -fyra
+four +four
can be coalesced into this sequence, reusing one line that describes the
removal of "two" for both parents.
@@@ -1,4 -1,4 +1,3 @@@
one
--two
three
- quatro
-frya
++four
While reading the second patch (that removes "two" and then "fyra"), after
finding where removal of the "two" matches, we need to find existing
removal of "fyra" (if exists) in the removal list, but the match has to
happen after all the existing matches (in this case "two"). The code used
a naïve O(n^2) algorithm to compute this by scanning the whole removal
list over and over again.
This patch remembers where the next scan should be started in the existing
removal list to avoid this.
In a rebase with --onto, the correct test for whether we can skip
rewriting a commit is if it is already on top of $ONTO, not $UPSTREAM.
Without --onto, this distinction does not exist and the behavior does
not change.
In a situation with two merged branches on a common base X:
X---o---o---o---M
\ /
x---x---x---x
Y
if we try to move the branches from their base on X to be based on Y,
so as to get
X
Y---o'--o'--o'--M'
\ /
x'--x'--x'--x'
then we fail. The command `git rebase -p --onto Y X M` moves only the
first-parent chain, like so:
X
\
x---x---x---x
\
Y---o'--o'--o'--M'
because it mistakenly drops the other branch(es) x---x---x---x from
the TODO file. This tests and fixes this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@ksplice.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git svn: rename tests that had conflicting numbers
Some unrelated tests were developed simultaneously and resulted
in test numbers conflicting. To avoid difficulty when referring
to tests via the "tXXXX" convention, rename the newer tests.
push: do not give big warning when no preference is configured
If the message said "we will be changing the default in the future, so
this is to warn people who want to keep the current default what to do",
it would have made some sense, but as it stands, the message is merely an
unsolicited advertisement for a new feature, which it is not helpful at
all. Squelch it.
'git log --no-walk' sorts commits by commit time whereas 'git show' does
not (it leaves them as given on the command line). Document this by two
tests so that we never forget why ba1d450 (Tentative built-in "git
show", 2006-04-15) introduced it and 8e64006 (Teach revision machinery
about --no-walk, 2007-07-24) exposed it as an option argument.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
cvsexportcommit: reorder tests to quiet intermittent failure
Reorder tests introduced in fef3a7cc and 54d5cc0e so an intermittent but
unimportant failure on the CVS side related to the former does not interfere
with what is actually being tested.
Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk> Tested-by: Tommy Nordgren <tommy.nordgren@comhem.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
checkout -f: deal with a D/F conflict entry correctly
When we switch branches with "checkout -f", unpack_trees() feeds two
cache_entries to oneway_merge() function in its src[] array argument. The
zeroth entry comes from the current index, and the first entry represents
what the merge result should be, taken from the tree recorded in the
commit we are switching to.
When we have a blob (either regular file or a symlink) in the index and in
the work tree at path "foo", and the switched-to tree has "foo/bar",
i.e. "foo" becomes a directory, src[0] is obviously that blob currently
registered at "foo". Even though we do not have anything at "foo" in the
switched-to tree, src[1] is _not_ NULL in this case.
The unpack_trees() machinery places a special marker df_conflict_entry
to signal that no blob exists at "foo", but it will become a directory
that may have somthing underneath it (namely "foo/bar"), so a usual 3-way
merge can notice the situation.
But oneway_merge() codepath failed to notice this and passed the special
marker directly to merged_entry(). This happens to remove the "foo" in
the end because the df_conflict_entry does not have any name (hence the
"error" message) and its addition in add_index_entry() is rejected, but it
is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When we fall back to a standard for_each_reflog_ent() after failing to find
the nth branch switch (or if we had a short reflog) with the call to
for_each_recent_reflog_ent(), we do not need to free the memory allocated
for our strbuf's since a strbuf_reset() will be performed in
grab_nth_branch_switch() before assigning to the entry.
Plus, the strbuf_release() negates the non-zero hint we initially gave to
strbuf_init() just above these lines.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some mailing lists are configured add prefix "[listname] " to all their
messages, and also people hand-edit subject lines, be it an output from
format-patch or a patch generated by some other means.
We cannot stop people from mucking with the subject line, and with the
change, there always will be need for hand editing the subject when that
happens. People have depended on the leading [bracketed string] removal.
In our 'oneway_merge()' we always do an 'lstat()' to see if we might
need to mark the entry for updating.
But we really shouldn't need to do that when the cache entry is already
marked as being ce_uptodate(), and this makes us do unnecessary lstat()
calls if we have index preloading enabled.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improve on the 'invalid object' error message at commit time
Not that anybody should ever get it, but somebody did (probably because
of a flaky filesystem, but whatever). And each time I see an error
message that I haven't seen before, I decide that next time it will look
better.
So this makes us write more relevant information about exactly which
file ended up having issues with a missing object. Which will tell
whether it was a tree object, for example, or just a regular file in the
index (and which one).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
as an odd way of asking for a log. I realize I should just have used "git
log", but at the same time it does make perfect conceptual sense. After
all, you _could_ have done
git show HEAD HEAD~1 HEAD~2 HEAD~3 HEAD~4
and saying "git show HEAD~5.." is pretty natural. It's not like "git show"
only ever showed a single commit (or other object) before either! So
conceptually, giving a commit range is a very sensible operation, even
though you'd traditionally have used "git log" for that.
However, doing that currently results in an error
fatal: object ranges do not make sense when not walking revisions
which admittedly _also_ makes perfect sense - from an internal git
implementation standpoint in 'revision.c'.
However, I think that asking to show a range makes sense to a user, while
saying "object ranges no not make sense when not walking revisions" only
makes sense to a git developer.
So on the whole, of the two different "makes perfect sense" behaviors, I
think I originally picked the wrong one. And quite frankly, I don't really
see anybody actually _depending_ on that error case. So why not change it?
So rather than error out, just turn that non-walking error case into a
"silently turn on walking" instead.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-scm.com is now the "official" Git project page, having taken over
from git.or.cz, so update the default link accordingly. This saves a
redirect when people hit git.or.cz.
Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
SVN allows uppercase A-F characters in repositories. Although
`svnadmin' does not create UUIDs with uppercase by default, it
is possible to change the UUID of a SVN repository and SVN
itself will make no attempt to normalize them.
Thanks to Esben Skovenborg for discovering this issue.
git-svn: Fix branch detection when repository root is inaccessible
For the case of multiple projects sharing a single SVN repository, it is
common practice to create the standard SVN directory layout within a
subdirectory for each project. In such setups, access control is often
used to limit what projects a given user may access. git-svn failed to
detect branches (e.g. when passing --stdlayout to clone) because it
relied on having access to the root directory in the repository. This
patch solves this problem by making git-svn use paths relative to the
given repository URL instead of the repository root.
Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
git-svn: Always duplicate paths returned from get_log
This makes get_log more safe to use because callers cannot run into path
clobbering any more. The additional overhead will not affect performance
since the critical calls from the fetch loop need the path duplication
anyway and the rest of the call sites is not performance critical.
Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
quickfetch(): Prevent overflow of the rev-list command line
quickfetch() calls rev-list to check whether the objects we are about to
fetch are already present in the repo (if so, we can skip the object fetch).
However, when there are many (~1000) refs to be fetched, the rev-list
command line grows larger than the maximum command line size on some systems
(32K in Windows). This causes rev-list to fail, making quickfetch() return
non-zero, which unnecessarily triggers the transport machinery. This somehow
causes fetch to fail with an exit code.
By using the --stdin option to rev-list (and feeding the object list to its
standard input), we prevent the overflow of the rev-list command line,
which causes quickfetch(), and subsequently the overall fetch, to succeed.
However, using rev-list --stdin is not entirely straightforward: rev-list
terminates immediately when encountering an unknown object, which can
trigger SIGPIPE if we are still writing object's to its standard input.
We therefore temporarily ignore SIGPIPE so that the fetch process is not
terminated.
The patch also contains a testcase to verify the fix (note that before
the patch, the testcase would only fail on msysGit).
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Improved-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Improved-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Tested-by: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>