"git status" has long shown essentially the same message as "git
commit"; the message it gives while preparing for the root commit,
i.e. "Initial commit", was hard to understand for some new users.
Now it says "No commits yet" to stress more on the current status
(rather than the commit the user is preparing for, which is more in
line with the focus of "git commit").
* ks/status-initial-commit:
status: contextually notify user about an initial commit
Traditionally, the default die() routine had a code to prevent it
from getting called multiple times, which interacted badly when a
threaded program used it (one downside is that the real error may
be hidden and instead the only error message given to the user may
end up being "die recursion detected", which is not very useful).
* ab/die-errors-in-threaded:
die(): stop hiding errors due to overzealous recursion guard
Fix a recent regression to "git rebase -i" and add tests that would
have caught it and others.
* pw/rebase-i-regression-fix-tests:
t3420: fix under GETTEXT_POISON build
rebase: add more regression tests for console output
rebase: add regression tests for console output
rebase -i: add test for reflog message
sequencer: print autostash messages to stderr
apply: check git diffs for mutually exclusive header lines
A file can either be added, removed, copied, or renamed, but no two of
these actions can be done by the same patch. Some of these combinations
provoke error messages due to missing file names, and some are only
caught by an assertion. Check git patches already as they are parsed
and report conflicting lines on sight.
Found by Vegard Nossum using AFL.
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An empty string as mode specification is accepted silently by git apply,
as Vegard Nossum found out using AFL. It's interpreted as zero. Reject
such bogus file modes, and only accept ones consisting exclusively of
octal digits.
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2c93286a (fix "git apply --index ..." not to deref NULL) added a check
for git patches missing a +++ line, preventing a segfault. Check for
missing --- lines as well, and add a test for each case.
Found by Vegard Nossum using AFL.
Original-patch-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git add -p" were updated in 2.12 timeframe to cope with custom
core.commentchar but the implementation was buggy and a
metacharacter like $ and * did not work.
The preceding bitmap entries have a 1-byte XOR-offset and 1-byte flags,
so their size is not a multiple of 4. Thus the name-hash cache is only
guaranteed to be 2-byte aligned and so we must use get_be32 rather than
indexing the array directly.
Signed-off-by: James Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge branch 'sg/revision-parser-skip-prefix' into maint
Code clean-up.
* sg/revision-parser-skip-prefix:
revision.c: use skip_prefix() in handle_revision_pseudo_opt()
revision.c: use skip_prefix() in handle_revision_opt()
revision.c: stricter parsing of '--early-output'
revision.c: stricter parsing of '--no-{min,max}-parents'
revision.h: turn rev_info.early_output back into an unsigned int
The result from "git diff" that compares two blobs, e.g. "git diff
$commit1:$path $commit2:$path", used to be shown with the full
object name as given on the command line, but it is more natural to
use the $path in the output and use it to look up .gitattributes.
* jk/diff-blob:
diff: use blob path for blob/file diffs
diff: use pending "path" if it is available
diff: use the word "path" instead of "name" for blobs
diff: pass whole pending entry in blobinfo
handle_revision_arg: record paths for pending objects
handle_revision_arg: record modes for "a..b" endpoints
t4063: add tests of direct blob diffs
get_sha1_with_context: dynamically allocate oc->path
get_sha1_with_context: always initialize oc->symlink_path
sha1_name: consistently refer to object_context as "oc"
handle_revision_arg: add handle_dotdot() helper
handle_revision_arg: hoist ".." check out of range parsing
handle_revision_arg: stop using "dotdot" as a generic pointer
handle_revision_arg: simplify commit reference lookups
handle_revision_arg: reset "dotdot" consistently
"git describe --contains" penalized light-weight tags so much that
they were almost never considered. Instead, give them about the
same chance to be considered as an annotated tag that is the same
age as the underlying commit would.
* jc/name-rev-lw-tag:
name-rev: favor describing with tags and use committer date to tiebreak
name-rev: refactor logic to see if a new candidate is a better name
A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the
pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new
FREE_AND_NULL() macro.
* ab/free-and-null:
*.[ch] refactoring: make use of the FREE_AND_NULL() macro
coccinelle: make use of the "expression" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
coccinelle: add a rule to make "expression" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
coccinelle: make use of the "type" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
coccinelle: add a rule to make "type" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
git-compat-util: add a FREE_AND_NULL() wrapper around free(ptr); ptr = NULL
Using "git add d/i/r" when d/i/r is the top of the working tree of
a separate repository would create a gitlink in the index, which
would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others. We
learned to give warnings when this happens.
* jk/warn-add-gitlink:
t: move "git add submodule" into test blocks
add: warn when adding an embedded repository
Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir
that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API
into its own header file.
* bw/config-h:
config: don't implicitly use gitdir or commondir
config: respect commondir
setup: teach discover_git_directory to respect the commondir
config: don't include config.h by default
config: remove git_config_iter
config: create config.h
* bw/ls-files-sans-the-index:
ls-files: factor out tag calculation
ls-files: factor out debug info into a function
ls-files: convert show_files to take an index
ls-files: convert show_ce_entry to take an index
ls-files: convert prune_cache to take an index
ls-files: convert ce_excluded to take an index
ls-files: convert show_ru_info to take an index
ls-files: convert show_other_files to take an index
ls-files: convert show_killed_files to take an index
ls-files: convert write_eolinfo to take an index
ls-files: convert overlay_tree_on_cache to take an index
tree: convert read_tree to take an index parameter
convert: convert renormalize_buffer to take an index
convert: convert convert_to_git to take an index
convert: convert convert_to_git_filter_fd to take an index
convert: convert crlf_to_git to take an index
convert: convert get_cached_convert_stats_ascii to take an index
The code to pick up and execute command alias definition from the
configuration used to switch to the top of the working tree and
then come back when the expanded alias was executed, which was
unnecessarilyl complex. Attempt to simplify the logic by using the
early-config mechanism that does not chdir around.
* js/alias-early-config:
alias: use the early config machinery to expand aliases
t7006: demonstrate a problem with aliases in subdirectories
t1308: relax the test verifying that empty alias values are disallowed
help: use early config when autocorrecting aliases
config: report correct line number upon error
discover_git_directory(): avoid setting invalid git_dir
The pretty-format specifiers like '%h', '%t', etc. had an
optimization that no longer works correctly. In preparation/hope
of getting it correctly implemented, first discard the optimization
that is broken.
* rs/pretty-add-again:
pretty: recalculate duplicate short hashes
A new test to show the interaction between the pattern [^a-z]
(which matches '/') and a slash in a path has been added. The
pattern should not match the slash with "pathmatch", but should
with "wildmatch".
* ab/wildmatch-glob-slash-test:
wildmatch test: cover a blind spot in "/" matching
doc: clarify syntax for %C(auto,...) in pretty formats
The manual correctly describes the syntax with `auto,` but the
trailing `,` is hard to spot in a terminal. The HTML format does not
have this problem. Adding an example helps both worlds.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Newly added tests to t3420 in this series prepare expected
human-readable output from "git rebase -i" and then compare the
actual output with it. As the output from the command is designed
to go through i18n/l10n, we need to use test_i18ncmp to tell
GETTEXT_POISON build that it is OK the output does not match.
As there is no portable way to pass timezone information to
strftime, some output format from "git log" and friends are
impossible to produce. Teach our own strbuf_addftime to replace %z
and %Z with caller-supplied values to help working around this.
* rs/strbuf-addftime-zZ:
date: use localtime() for "-local" time formats
t0006: check --date=format zone offsets
strbuf: let strbuf_addftime handle %z and %Z itself
* sg/revision-parser-skip-prefix:
revision.c: use skip_prefix() in handle_revision_pseudo_opt()
revision.c: use skip_prefix() in handle_revision_opt()
revision.c: stricter parsing of '--early-output'
revision.c: stricter parsing of '--no-{min,max}-parents'
revision.h: turn rev_info.early_output back into an unsigned int
The "add" section for 'git-submodule' is redundant in its
description and the short synopsis line. Fix it.
Remove the redundant mentioning of the 'repository' argument
being mandatory.
The text is hard to read because of back-references, so remove
those.
Replace the word "humanish" by "canonical" as that conveys better
what we do to guess the path.
While at it, quote all occurrences of '.gitmodules' as that is an
important file in the submodule context, also link to it on its
first mention.
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
status: contextually notify user about an initial commit
The existing message, "Initial commit", makes sense for the commit template
notifying users that it's their initial commit, but is confusing when
merely checking the status of a fresh repository (or orphan branch)
without having any commits yet.
Change the output of "status" to say "No commits yet" when "git
status" is run on a fresh repo (or orphan branch), while retaining the
current "Initial commit" message displayed in the template that's
displayed in the editor when the initial commit is being authored.
Correspondingly change the output of "short status" to "No commits yet
on " when "git status -sb" is run on a fresh repo (or orphan branch).
A few alternatives considered were,
* Waiting for initial commit
* Your current branch does not have any commits
* Current branch waiting for initial commit
The most succint one among the alternatives was chosen.
[with help on tests from Ævar]
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
die(): stop hiding errors due to overzealous recursion guard
Change the recursion limit for the default die routine from a *very*
low 1 to 1024. This ensures that infinite recursions are broken, but
doesn't lose the meaningful error messages under threaded execution
where threads concurrently start to die.
The intent of the existing code, as explained in commit cd163d4b4e ("usage.c: detect recursion in die routines and bail out
immediately", 2012-11-14), is to break infinite recursion in cases
where the die routine itself calls die(), and would thus infinitely
recurse.
However, doing that very aggressively by immediately printing out
"recursion detected in die handler" if we've already called die() once
means that threaded invocations of git can end up only printing out
the "recursion detected" error, while hiding the meaningful error.
An example of this is running a threaded grep which dies on execution
against pretty much any repo, git.git will do:
With the current version of git this will print some combination of
multiple PCRE failures that caused the abort and multiple "recursion
detected", some invocations will print out multiple "recursion
detected" errors with no PCRE error at all!
Before this change, running the above grep command 1000 times against
git.git[1] and taking the top 20 results will on my system yield the
following distribution of actual errors ("E") and recursion
errors ("R"):
322 E R
306 E
116 E R R
65 R R
54 R E
49 E E
44 R
15 E R R R
9 R R R
7 R E R
5 R R E
3 E R R R R
2 E E R
1 R R R R
1 R R R E
1 R E R R
The exact results are obviously random and system-dependent, but this
shows the race condition in this code. Some small part of the time
we're about to print out the actual error ("E") but another thread's
recursion error beats us to it, and sometimes we print out nothing but
the recursion error.
With this change we get, now with "W" to mean the new warning being
emitted indicating that we've called die() many times:
502 E
160 E W E
120 E E
53 E W
35 E W E E
34 W E E
29 W E E E
16 E E W
16 E E E
11 W E E E E
7 E E W E
4 W E
3 W W E E
2 E W E E E
1 W W E
1 W E W E
1 E W W E E E
1 E W W E E
1 E W W E
1 E W E E W
Which still sucks a bit, due to a still present race-condition in this
code we're sometimes going to print out several errors still, or
several warnings, or two duplicate errors without the warning.
But we will never have a case where we completely hide the actual
error as we do now.
Now, git-grep could make use of the pluggable error facility added in
commit c19a490e37 ("usage: allow pluggable die-recursion checks",
2013-04-16). There's other threaded code that calls set_die_routine()
or set_die_is_recursing_routine().
But this is about fixing the general die() behavior with threading
when we don't have such a custom routine yet. Right now the common
case is not an infinite recursion in the handler, but us losing error
messages by default because we're overly paranoid about our recursion
check.
So let's just set the recursion limit to a number higher than the
number of threads we're ever likely to spawn. Now we won't lose
errors, and if we have a recursing die handler we'll still die within
microseconds.
There are race conditions in this code itself, in particular the
"dying" variable is not thread mutexed, so we e.g. won't be dying at
exactly 1024, or for that matter even be able to accurately test
"dying == 2", see the cases where we print out more than one "W"
above.
But that doesn't really matter, for the recursion guard we just need
to die "soon", not at exactly 1024 calls, and for printing the correct
error and only one warning most of the time in the face of threaded
death this is good enough and a net improvement on the current code.
1. for i in {1..1000}; do git grep -P --threads=8 '(*LIMIT_MATCH=1)-?-?-?---$' 2>&1|perl -pe 's/^fatal: r.*/R/; s/^fatal: p.*/E/; s/^warning.*/W/' | tr '\n' ' '; echo; done | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 20
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since c9d961647 (i18n: add--interactive: mark
edit_hunk_manually message for translation, 2016-12-14),
when the user asks to edit a hunk manually, we respect
core.commentChar in generating the edit instructions.
However, when we then strip out comment lines, we use a
simple regex like:
/^$commentChar/
If your chosen comment character is a regex metacharacter,
then that will behave in a confusing manner ("$", for
instance, would only eliminate blank lines, not actual
comment lines).
We can fix that by telling perl not to respect
metacharacters.
Reported-by: Christian Rösch <christian@croesch.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The prompt_yesno function loops indefinitely waiting for a
"y" or "n" response. But it doesn't handle EOF, meaning
that we can end up in an infinite loop of reading EOF from
stdin. One way to simulate that is with:
echo e | GIT_EDITOR='echo corrupt >' git add -p
Let's break out of the loop and propagate the undef to the
caller. Without modifying the callers that effectively turns
it into a "no" response. This is reasonable for both of the
current callers, and it leaves room for any future caller to
check for undef explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When help.autoCorrect is enabled, an invalid git command prints a
warning and a continuation message, which differs depending on
whether or not the value of help.autoCorrect is positive or
negative.
With help.autoCorrect = 15:
WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'log'
in 1.5 seconds automatically...
With help.autoCorrect < 0:
WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'log'
The continuation message's phrasing is awkward. This commit cleans it up.
As a bonus, we now use full-sentence strings which make translation easier.
With help.autoCorrect = 15:
WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
Continuing in 1.5 seconds, assuming that you meant 'log'.
With help.autoCorrect < 0:
WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'log'.
Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the indentation from "\t " to "\t". This indenting issue was
introduced when the test was added in commit 1d2f393ac9
("status/commit: show staged submodules regardless of ignore
config", 2014-04-05).
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
grep: fix erroneously copy/pasted variable in check/assert pattern
Fix an erroneously copy/pasted check for the pcre2_jit_stack variable
to check pcre2_match_context instead. The former was already checked
in the preceding "if" statement.
This is a trivial and obvious error introduced in my commit 94da9193a6 ("grep: add support for PCRE v2", 2017-06-01).
In practice if pcre2_match_context_create() returned NULL we were
likely in a situation where malloc() was returning NULL, and were thus
screwed anyway, but if only the pcre2_match_context_create() call
returned NULL (through some transitory bug) PCRE v2 would just
allocate and supply its own context object when matching, and we'd run
normally at the trivial expense of not getting a slight speedup by
sharing the context object between successive matches.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git $cmd -h" for builtin commands calls the implementation of the
command (i.e. cmd_$cmd() function) without doing any repository
set-up, and the commands that expect RUN_SETUP is done by the Git
potty needs to be prepared to show the help text without barfing.
* jk/consistent-h:
t0012: test "-h" with builtins
git: add hidden --list-builtins option
version: convert to parse-options
diff- and log- family: handle "git cmd -h" early
submodule--helper: show usage for "-h"
remote-{ext,fd}: print usage message on invalid arguments
upload-archive: handle "-h" option early
credential: handle invalid arguments earlier
When an existing repository is used for t/perf testing, we first
create bit-for-bit copy of it, which may grab a transient state of
the repository and freeze it into the repository used for testing,
which then may cause Git operations to fail. Single out "the index
being locked" case and forcibly drop the lock from the copy.
* ab/perf-remove-index-lock:
perf: work around the tested repo having an index.lock
Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.
* ab/pcre-v2:
grep: add support for PCRE v2
grep: un-break building with PCRE >= 8.32 without --enable-jit
grep: un-break building with PCRE < 8.20
grep: un-break building with PCRE < 8.32
grep: add support for the PCRE v1 JIT API
log: add -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp
grep: skip pthreads overhead when using one thread
grep: don't redundantly compile throwaway patterns under threading
The convention for a command line is to follow "git cmdname
--options" with revisions followed by an optional "--"
disambiguator and then finally pathspecs. When "--" is not there,
we make sure early ones are all interpretable as revs (and do not
look like paths) and later ones are the other way around. A
pathspec with "magic" (e.g. ":/p/a/t/h" that matches p/a/t/h from
the top-level of the working tree, no matter what subdirectory you
are working from) are conservatively judged as "not a path", which
required disambiguation more often. The command line parser
learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax
looks like so.
* jk/pathspec-magic-disambiguation:
verify_filename(): flip order of checks
verify_filename(): treat ":(magic)" as a pathspec
check_filename(): handle ":^" path magic
check_filename(): use skip_prefix
check_filename(): refactor ":/" handling
t4208: add check for ":/" without matching file
rebase: add more regression tests for console output
Check the console output when using --autostash and the stash does not
apply is what we expect. The test is quite strict but should catch any
changes to the console output from the various rebase flavors.
Thanks-to: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Check the console output when using --autostash and the stash applies
cleanly is what we expect. The test is quite strict but should catch
any changes to the console output from the various rebase flavors.
Thanks-to: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The rebase messages are printed to stderr traditionally. However due
to a bug introduced in 587947750bd (rebase: implement --[no-]autostash
and rebase.autostash, 2013-05-12) which was faithfully copied when
reimplementing parts of the interactive rebase in the sequencer the
autostash messages are printed to stdout instead.
It is time to fix that: let's print the autostash messages to stderr
instead of stdout.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`for_each_bisect_ref()` is called by `for_each_bad_bisect_ref()` with
a term "bad". This used to make it call `for_each_ref_in_submodule()`
with a prefix "refs/bisect/bad". But the latter is the name of the
reference that is being sought, so the empty string was being passed
to the callback as the trimmed refname. Moreover, this questionable
practice was turned into an error by
b9c8e7f2fb prefix_ref_iterator: don't trim too much, 2017-05-22
It makes more sense (and agrees better with the documentation of
`--bisect`) for the callers to receive the full reference names. So
* Add a new function, `for_each_fullref_in_submodule()`, to the refs
API. This plugs a gap in the existing functionality, analogous to
`for_each_fullref_in()` but accepting a `submodule` argument.
* Change `for_each_bad_bisect_ref()` to call the new function rather
than `for_each_ref_in_submodule()`.
* Add a test.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
mergetools/meld: improve compatibiilty with Meld on macOS X
The macOS X fork of Meld[1] requires a "=" in the "--output"
argument, as it uses a wrapper[2] script that munges the
"--output" argument before calling into the common "meld"
script.
The macOS X wrapper script[2] accepts "--output=<filename>"
only, despite the fact that the underlying meld code accepts
both "--output <filename" and "--output=<filename>"[3].
All versions of meld which accept "--output" accept it in
the "--output=<filename>" form, so use "--output=<file>" for
maximum compatibility.
Reported-by: Matthew Groth <mgroth49@gmail.com> Helped-by: Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
coccinelle: make use of the "expression" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
A follow-up to the existing "expression" rule added in an earlier
change. This manually excludes a few occurrences, mostly things that
resulted in many FREE_AND_NULL() on one line, that'll be manually
fixed in a subsequent change.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
coccinelle: make use of the "type" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
Apply the result of the just-added coccinelle rule. This manually
excludes a few occurrences, mostly things that resulted in many
FREE_AND_NULL() on one line, that'll be manually fixed in a subsequent
change.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
wildmatch test: cover a blind spot in "/" matching
A negated character class that does not include '/', e.g. [^a-z]:
- Should match '/' when doing "wildmatch"
- Should not match '/' when doing "pathmatch"
Add two tests to cover these cases.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-compat-util: add a FREE_AND_NULL() wrapper around free(ptr); ptr = NULL
Add a FREE_AND_NULL() wrapper marco for the common pattern of freeing
a pointer and assigning NULL to it right afterwards.
The implementation is similar to the (currently unused) XDL_PTRFREE
macro in xdiff/xmacros.h added in commit 3443546f6e ("Use a *real*
built-in diff generator", 2006-03-24). The only difference is that
free() is called unconditionally, see [1].
See [2] for a suggested alternative which does this via a function
instead of a macro. As covered in replies to that message, while it's
a viable approach, it would introduce caveats which this approach
doesn't have, so that potential change is left to a future follow-up
change.
This merely allows us to translate exactly what we're doing now to a
less verbose & idiomatic form using a macro, while guaranteeing that
we don't introduce any functional changes.
When we convert seconds-since-epochs timestamps into a
broken-down "struct tm", we do so by adjusting the timestamp
according to the known offset and then using gmtime() to
break down the result. This means that the resulting struct
"knows" that it's in GMT, even though the time it represents
is adjusted for a different zone. The fields where it stores
this data are not portably accessible, so we have no way to
override them to tell them the real zone info.
For the most part, this works. Our date-formatting routines
don't pay attention to these inaccessible fields, and use
the same tz info we provided for adjustment. The one
exception is when we call strftime(), whose %Z format
reveals this hidden timezone data.
We solved that by always showing the empty string for %Z.
This is allowed by POSIX, but not very helpful to the user.
We can't make this work in the general case, as there's no
portable function for setting an arbitrary timezone (and
anyway, we don't have the zone name for the author zones,
only their offsets).
But for the special case of the "-local" formats, we can
just skip the adjustment and use localtime() instead of
gmtime(). This makes --date=format-local:%Z work correctly,
showing the local timezone instead of an empty string.
The new test checks the result for "UTC", our default
test-lib value for $TZ. Using something like EST5 might be
more interesting, but the actual zone string is
system-dependent (for instance, on my system it expands to
just EST). Hopefully "UTC" is vanilla enough that every
system treats it the same.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already test that "%z" and "%Z" show the right thing, but
we don't actually check that the time we display is the
correct one. Let's add two new tests:
1. Test that "format:" shows the time in the author's
timezone, just like the other time formats.
2. Test that "format-local:" shows time in the local
timezone. We don't want to use our normal UTC for this,
because its offset is zero (so the result would be
"correct" even if the code forgot to apply the offset
or applied it in the wrong direction).
We'll use the EST5 zone, which is already used
elsewhere in the script (and so is assumed to be
available everywhere).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
strbuf: let strbuf_addftime handle %z and %Z itself
There is no portable way to pass timezone information to strftime. Add
parameters for timezone offset and name to strbuf_addftime and let it
handle the timezone-related format specifiers %z and %Z internally.
Callers can opt out for %Z by passing NULL as timezone name. %z is
always handled internally -- this helps on Windows, where strftime would
expand it to a timezone name (same as %Z), in violation of POSIX.
Modifiers are not handled, e.g. %Ez is still passed to strftime.
Use an empty string as timezone name in show_date (the only current
caller) for now because we only have the timezone offset in non-local
mode. POSIX allows %Z to resolve to an empty string in case of missing
information.
Helped-by: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
sub-process: correct path to API docs in a comment
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Acked-by: Ben Peart <peartben@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>