gitweb.git
Merge branch 'cb/maint-kill-subprocess-upon-signal'Junio C Hamano Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:18:50 +0000 (13:18 -0800)

Merge branch 'cb/maint-kill-subprocess-upon-signal'

* cb/maint-kill-subprocess-upon-signal:
dashed externals: kill children on exit
run-command: optionally kill children on exit

Git 1.7.9 v1.7.9Junio C Hamano Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:31:02 +0000 (11:31 -0800)

Git 1.7.9

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

INSTALL: warn about recent Fedora breakageJunio C Hamano Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:48:33 +0000 (21:48 -0800)

INSTALL: warn about recent Fedora breakage

Recent releases of Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package
with some core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/)
against the upstream Perl5 people's wishes. The Time::HiRes module used by
gitweb one of them.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

git-completion: workaround zsh COMPREPLY bugFelipe Contreras Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:37:02 +0000 (03:37 +0200)

git-completion: workaround zsh COMPREPLY bug

zsh adds a backslash (foo\ ) for each item in the COMPREPLY array if IFS
doesn't contain spaces. This issue has been reported[1], but there is no
solution yet.

This wasn't a problem due to another bug[2], which was fixed in zsh
version 4.3.12. After this change, 'git checkout ma<tab>' would resolve
to 'git checkout master\ '.

Aditionally, the introduction of __gitcomp_nl in commit a31e626
(completion: optimize refs completion) in git also made the problem
apparent, as Matthieu Moy reported.

The simplest and most generic solution is to hide all the changes we do
to IFS, so that "foo \nbar " is recognized by zsh as "foo bar". This
works on versions of git before and after the introduction of
__gitcomp_nl (a31e626), and versions of zsh before and after 4.3.12.

Once zsh is fixed, we should conditionally disable this workaround to
have the same benefits as bash users.

[1] http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2012/msg00053.html
[2] http://zsh.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=zsh/zsh;a=commitdiff;h=2e25dfb8fd38dbef0a306282ffab1d343ce3ad8d

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

docs: minor grammar fixes for v1.7.9 release notesJeff King Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:20:03 +0000 (17:20 -0500)

docs: minor grammar fixes for v1.7.9 release notes

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Fix typo in 1.7.9 release notesMichael Haggerty Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:09:58 +0000 (13:09 +0100)

Fix typo in 1.7.9 release notes

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Git 1.7.9-rc2 v1.7.9-rc2Junio C Hamano Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:53:35 +0000 (15:53 -0800)

Git 1.7.9-rc2

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:52:08 +0000 (15:52 -0800)

Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
Git 1.7.8.4
Git 1.7.7.6
diff-index: enable recursive pathspec matching in unpack_trees

Conflicts:
GIT-VERSION-GEN

Git 1.7.8.4 v1.7.8.4Junio C Hamano Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:51:00 +0000 (15:51 -0800)

Git 1.7.8.4

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maintJunio C Hamano Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:48:46 +0000 (15:48 -0800)

Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maint

* maint-1.7.7:
Git 1.7.7.6
diff-index: enable recursive pathspec matching in unpack_trees

Conflicts:
GIT-VERSION-GEN

Git 1.7.7.6 v1.7.7.6Junio C Hamano Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:46:31 +0000 (15:46 -0800)

Git 1.7.7.6

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff-index: enable recursive pathspec matching in unpac... Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:03:27 +0000 (17:03 +0700)

diff-index: enable recursive pathspec matching in unpack_trees

The pathspec structure has a few bits of data to drive various operation
modes after we unified the pathspec matching logic in various codepaths.
For example, max_depth field is there so that "git grep" can limit the
output for files found in limited depth of tree traversal. Also in order
to show just the surface level differences in "git diff-tree", recursive
field stops us from descending into deeper level of the tree structure
when it is set to false, and this also affects pathspec matching when
we have wildcards in the pathspec.

The diff-index has always wanted the recursive behaviour, and wanted to
match pathspecs without any depth limit. But we forgot to do so when we
updated tree_entry_interesting() logic to unify the pathspec matching
logic.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'jc/pull-signed-tag-doc'Junio C Hamano Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:18:02 +0000 (15:18 -0800)

Merge branch 'jc/pull-signed-tag-doc'

* jc/pull-signed-tag-doc:
pulling signed tag: add howto document

pulling signed tag: add howto documentJunio C Hamano Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:52:24 +0000 (14:52 -0800)

pulling signed tag: add howto document

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'jk/credentials'Junio C Hamano Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:16:53 +0000 (15:16 -0800)

Merge branch 'jk/credentials'

* jk/credentials:
credential-cache: ignore "connection refused" errors
unix-socket: do not let close() or chdir() clobber errno during cleanup
credential-cache: report more daemon connection errors
unix-socket: handle long socket pathnames

Merge branch 'nd/pathspec-recursion-cleanup'Junio C Hamano Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:16:43 +0000 (15:16 -0800)

Merge branch 'nd/pathspec-recursion-cleanup'

* nd/pathspec-recursion-cleanup:
diff-index: enable recursive pathspec matching in unpack_trees
Document limited recursion pathspec matching with wildcards

Merge branch 'mh/maint-show-ref-doc'Junio C Hamano Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:16:23 +0000 (15:16 -0800)

Merge branch 'mh/maint-show-ref-doc'

* mh/maint-show-ref-doc:
git-show-ref doc: typeset regexp in fixed width font
git-show-ref: fix escaping in asciidoc source

Merge branch 'tr/maint-word-diff-incomplete-line'Junio C Hamano Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:16:19 +0000 (15:16 -0800)

Merge branch 'tr/maint-word-diff-incomplete-line'

* tr/maint-word-diff-incomplete-line:
word-diff: ignore '\ No newline at eof' marker

credential-cache: ignore "connection refused" errorsJeff King Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:02:32 +0000 (01:02 -0500)

credential-cache: ignore "connection refused" errors

The credential-cache helper will try to connect to its
daemon over a unix socket. Originally, a failure to do so
was silently ignored, and we would either give up (if
performing a "get" or "erase" operation), or spawn a new
daemon (for a "store" operation).

But since 8ec6c8d, we try to report more errors. We detect a
missing daemon by checking for ENOENT on our connection
attempt. If the daemon is missing, we continue as before
(giving up or spawning a new daemon). For any other error,
we die and report the problem.

However, checking for ENOENT is not sufficient for a missing
daemon. We might also get ECONNREFUSED if a dead daemon
process left a stale socket. This generally shouldn't
happen, as the daemon cleans up after itself, but the daemon
may not always be given a chance to do so (e.g., power loss,
"kill -9").

The resulting state is annoying not just because the helper
outputs an extra useless message, but because it actually
blocks the helper from spawning a new daemon to replace the
stale socket.

Fix it by checking for ECONNREFUSED.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'jn/maint-gitweb-grep-fix'Junio C Hamano Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:45:56 +0000 (16:45 -0800)

Merge branch 'jn/maint-gitweb-grep-fix'

* jn/maint-gitweb-grep-fix:
gitweb: Harden "grep" search against filenames with ':'
gitweb: Fix file links in "grep" search

diff-index: enable recursive pathspec matching in unpac... Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:03:27 +0000 (17:03 +0700)

diff-index: enable recursive pathspec matching in unpack_trees

The pathspec structure has a few bits of data to drive various operation
modes after we unified the pathspec matching logic in various codepaths.
For example, max_depth field is there so that "git grep" can limit the
output for files found in limited depth of tree traversal. Also in order
to show just the surface level differences in "git diff-tree", recursive
field stops us from descending into deeper level of the tree structure
when it is set to false, and this also affects pathspec matching when
we have wildcards in the pathspec.

The diff-index has always wanted the recursive behaviour, and wanted to
match pathspecs without any depth limit. But we forgot to do so when we
updated tree_entry_interesting() logic to unify the pathspec matching
logic.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Document limited recursion pathspec matching with wildcardsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:23:22 +0000 (16:23 +0700)

Document limited recursion pathspec matching with wildcards

It's actually unlimited recursion if wildcards are active regardless
--max-depth

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

git-show-ref doc: typeset regexp in fixed width fontMichael Haggerty Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:39:16 +0000 (17:39 +0100)

git-show-ref doc: typeset regexp in fixed width font

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

git-show-ref: fix escaping in asciidoc sourceMichael Haggerty Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:39:15 +0000 (17:39 +0100)

git-show-ref: fix escaping in asciidoc source

Two "^" characters were incorrectly being interpreted as markup for
superscripting. Fix them by writing them as attribute references
"{caret}".

Although a single "^" character in a paragraph cannot be
misinterpreted in this way, also write other "^" characters as
"{caret}" in the interest of good hygiene (unless they are in literal
paragraphs, of course, in which context attribute references are not
recognized).

Spell "{}" consistently, namely *not* quoted as "\{\}". Since the
braces are empty, they cannot be interpreted as an attribute
reference, and either spelling is OK. So arbitrarily choose one
variation and use it consistently.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Git 1.7.9-rc1 v1.7.9-rc1Junio C Hamano Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:43:28 +0000 (23:43 -0800)

Git 1.7.9-rc1

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'jc/request-pull-show-head-4'Junio C Hamano Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:34:30 +0000 (23:34 -0800)

Merge branch 'jc/request-pull-show-head-4'

* jc/request-pull-show-head-4:
request-pull: use the real fork point when preparing the message

Merge branch 'tr/maint-mailinfo'Junio C Hamano Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:34:26 +0000 (23:34 -0800)

Merge branch 'tr/maint-mailinfo'

* tr/maint-mailinfo:
mailinfo documentation: accurately describe non -k case

Merge branch 'ss/maint-msys-cvsexportcommit'Junio C Hamano Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:34:21 +0000 (23:34 -0800)

Merge branch 'ss/maint-msys-cvsexportcommit'

* ss/maint-msys-cvsexportcommit:
git-cvsexportcommit: Fix calling Perl's rel2abs() on MSYS
t9200: On MSYS, do not pass Windows-style paths to CVS

Merge branch 'jk/maint-upload-archive'Junio C Hamano Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:34:17 +0000 (23:34 -0800)

Merge branch 'jk/maint-upload-archive'

* jk/maint-upload-archive:
archive: re-allow HEAD:Documentation on a remote invocation

Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:33:39 +0000 (23:33 -0800)

Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
Update draft release notes to 1.7.8.4
Update draft release notes to 1.7.7.6
Update draft release notes to 1.7.6.6
thin-pack: try harder to use preferred base objects as base

Update draft release notes to 1.7.8.4Junio C Hamano Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:33:29 +0000 (23:33 -0800)

Update draft release notes to 1.7.8.4

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maintJunio C Hamano Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:31:46 +0000 (23:31 -0800)

Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maint

* maint-1.7.7:
Update draft release notes to 1.7.7.6
Update draft release notes to 1.7.6.6
thin-pack: try harder to use preferred base objects as base

Update draft release notes to 1.7.7.6Junio C Hamano Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:31:41 +0000 (23:31 -0800)

Update draft release notes to 1.7.7.6

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint-1.7.7Junio C Hamano Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:31:05 +0000 (23:31 -0800)

Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint-1.7.7

* maint-1.7.6:
Update draft release notes to 1.7.6.6
thin-pack: try harder to use preferred base objects as base

Update draft release notes to 1.7.6.6Junio C Hamano Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:30:53 +0000 (23:30 -0800)

Update draft release notes to 1.7.6.6

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

thin-pack: try harder to use preferred base objects... Jeff King Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:32:34 +0000 (17:32 -0500)

thin-pack: try harder to use preferred base objects as base

When creating a pack using objects that reside in existing packs, we try
to avoid recomputing futile delta between an object (trg) and a candidate
for its base object (src) if they are stored in the same packfile, and trg
is not recorded as a delta already. This heuristics makes sense because it
is likely that we tried to express trg as a delta based on src but it did
not produce a good delta when we created the existing pack.

As the pack heuristics prefer producing delta to remove data, and Linus's
law dictates that the size of a file grows over time, we tend to record
the newest version of the file as inflated, and older ones as delta
against it.

When creating a thin-pack to transfer recent history, it is likely that we
will try to send an object that is recorded in full, as it is newer. But
the heuristics to avoid recomputing futile delta effectively forbids us
from attempting to express such an object as a delta based on another
object. Sending an object in full is often more expensive than sending a
suboptimal delta based on other objects, and it is even more so if we
could use an object we know the receiving end already has (i.e. preferred
base object) as the delta base.

Tweak the recomputation avoidance logic, so that we do not punt on
computing delta against a preferred base object.

The effect of this change can be seen on two simulated upload-pack
workloads. The first is based on 44 reflog entries from my git.git
origin/master reflog, and represents the packs that kernel.org sent me git
updates for the past month or two. The second workload represents much
larger fetches, going from git's v1.0.0 tag to v1.1.0, then v1.1.0 to
v1.2.0, and so on.

The table below shows the average generated pack size and the average CPU
time consumed for each dataset, both before and after the patch:

dataset
| reflog | tags
---------------------------------
before | 53358 | 2750977
size after | 32398 | 2668479
change | -39% | -3%
---------------------------------
before | 0.18 | 1.12
CPU after | 0.18 | 1.15
change | +0% | +3%

This patch makes a much bigger difference for packs with a shorter slice
of history (since its effect is seen at the boundaries of the pack) though
it has some benefit even for larger packs.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

word-diff: ignore '\ No newline at eof' markerThomas Rast Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:15:33 +0000 (12:15 +0100)

word-diff: ignore '\ No newline at eof' marker

The word-diff logic accumulates + and - lines until another line type
appears (normally [ @\]), at which point it generates the word diff.
This is usually correct, but it breaks when the preimage does not have
a newline at EOF:

$ printf "%s" "a a a" >a
$ printf "%s\n" "a ab a" >b
$ git diff --no-index --word-diff a b
diff --git 1/a 2/b
index 9f68e94..6a7c02f 100644
--- 1/a
+++ 2/b
@@ -1 +1 @@
[-a a a-]
No newline at end of file
{+a ab a+}

Because of the order of the lines in a unified diff

@@ -1 +1 @@
-a a a
\ No newline at end of file
+a ab a

the '\' line flushed the buffers, and the - and + lines were never
matched with each other.

A proper fix would defer such markers until the end of the hunk.
However, word-diff is inherently whitespace-ignoring, so as a cheap
fix simply ignore the marker (and hide it from the output).

We use a prefix match for '\ ' to parallel the logic in
apply.c:parse_fragment(). We currently do not localize this string
(just accept other variants of it in git-apply), but this should be
future-proof.

Noticed-by: Ivan Shirokoff <shirokoff@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

archive: re-allow HEAD:Documentation on a remote invocationCarlos Martín Nieto Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:12:38 +0000 (13:12 +0100)

archive: re-allow HEAD:Documentation on a remote invocation

The tightening done in (ee27ca4a: archive: don't let remote clients
get unreachable commits, 2011-11-17) went too far and disallowed
HEAD:Documentation as it would try to find "HEAD:Documentation" as a
ref.

Only DWIM the "HEAD" part to see if it exists as a ref. Once we're
sure that we've been given a valid ref, we follow the normal code
path. This still disallows attempts to access commits which are not
branch tips.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:11:28 +0000 (19:11 -0800)

Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
attr: fix leak in free_attr_elem
t2203: fix wrong commit command

Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maintJunio C Hamano Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:11:13 +0000 (19:11 -0800)

Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maint

* maint-1.7.7:
attr: fix leak in free_attr_elem
t2203: fix wrong commit command

Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint-1.7.7Junio C Hamano Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:11:00 +0000 (19:11 -0800)

Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint-1.7.7

* maint-1.7.6:
attr: fix leak in free_attr_elem
t2203: fix wrong commit command

attr: fix leak in free_attr_elemJeff King Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:05:03 +0000 (22:05 -0500)

attr: fix leak in free_attr_elem

This function frees the individual "struct match_attr"s we
have allocated, but forgot to free the array holding their
pointers, leading to a minor memory leak (but it can add up
after checking attributes for paths in many directories).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

git-cvsexportcommit: Fix calling Perl's rel2abs() on... Sebastian Schuberth Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:21:10 +0000 (10:21 +0100)

git-cvsexportcommit: Fix calling Perl's rel2abs() on MSYS

Due to MSYS path mangling GIT_DIR contains a Windows-style path when
checked inside a Perl script even if GIT_DIR was previously set to an
MSYS-style path in a shell script. So explicitly convert to an MSYS-style
path before calling Perl's rel2abs() to make it work.

This fix was inspired by a very similar patch in WebKit:

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/76255/trunk/Tools/Scripts/commit-log-editor

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

t9200: On MSYS, do not pass Windows-style paths to CVSSebastian Schuberth Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:20:14 +0000 (10:20 +0100)

t9200: On MSYS, do not pass Windows-style paths to CVS

For details, see the commit message of 4114156ae9. Note that while using
$PWD as part of GIT_DIR is not required here, it does no harm and it is
more consistent. In addition, on MSYS using an environment variable should
be slightly faster than spawning an external executable.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

unix-socket: do not let close() or chdir() clobber... Jonathan Nieder Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:50:10 +0000 (17:50 -0600)

unix-socket: do not let close() or chdir() clobber errno during cleanup

unix_stream_connect and unix_stream_listen return -1 on error, with
errno set by the failing underlying call to allow the caller to write
a useful diagnosis.

Unfortunately the error path involves a few system calls itself, such
as close(), that can themselves touch errno.

This is not as worrisome as it might sound. If close() fails, this
just means substituting one meaningful error message for another,
which is perfectly fine. However, when the call _succeeds_, it is
allowed to (and sometimes might) clobber errno along the way with some
undefined value, so it is good higiene to save errno and restore it
immediately before returning to the caller. Do so.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

mailinfo documentation: accurately describe non -k... Thomas Rast Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:13:42 +0000 (21:13 +0100)

mailinfo documentation: accurately describe non -k case

Since its very first description of -k, the documentation for
git-mailinfo claimed that (in the case without -k) after cleaning up
bracketed strings [blah], it would insert [PATCH].

It doesn't; on the contrary, one of the important jobs of mailinfo is
to remove those strings.

Since we're already there, rewrite the paragraph to give a complete
enumeration of all the transformations. Specifically, it was missing
the whitespace normalization (run of isspace(c) -> ' ') and the
removal of leading ':'.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

t2203: fix wrong commit commandNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:21:38 +0000 (10:21 +0700)

t2203: fix wrong commit command

Add commit message to avoid commit's aborting due to the lack of
commit message, not because there are INTENT_TO_ADD entries in index.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

request-pull: use the real fork point when preparing... Junio C Hamano Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:45:52 +0000 (21:45 -0800)

request-pull: use the real fork point when preparing the message

The command takes the "start" argument and computes the merge base
between it and the commit to be pulled so that we can show the diffstat,
but uses the "start" argument as-is when composing the message

The following changes since commit $X are available

to tell the integrator which commit the work is based on. Giving "origin"
(most of the time it resolves to refs/remotes/origin/master) as the start
argument is often convenient, but it is usually not the fork point, and
does not help the integrator at all.

Use the real fork point, which is the merge base we already compute, when
composing that part of the message.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'bw/maint-t8006-sed-incomplete-line'Junio C Hamano Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:46:52 +0000 (14:46 -0800)

Merge branch 'bw/maint-t8006-sed-incomplete-line'

* bw/maint-t8006-sed-incomplete-line:
Use perl instead of sed for t8006-blame-textconv test

Sync with maintJunio C Hamano Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:46:22 +0000 (14:46 -0800)

Sync with maint

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Prepare for 1.7.8.4Junio C Hamano Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:27:14 +0000 (14:27 -0800)

Prepare for 1.7.8.4

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge the attributes fix in from maint-1.6.7 branchJunio C Hamano Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:24:01 +0000 (14:24 -0800)

Merge the attributes fix in from maint-1.6.7 branch

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Prepare for 1.7.7.6Junio C Hamano Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:16:49 +0000 (14:16 -0800)

Prepare for 1.7.7.6

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge the attributes fix in from maint-1.6.6 branchJunio C Hamano Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:14:26 +0000 (14:14 -0800)

Merge the attributes fix in from maint-1.6.6 branch

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Prepare for 1.7.6.6Junio C Hamano Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:11:03 +0000 (13:11 -0800)

Prepare for 1.7.6.6

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Documentation: rerere's rr-cache auto-creation and... Junio C Hamano Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:57:27 +0000 (15:57 +0100)

Documentation: rerere's rr-cache auto-creation and rerere.enabled

The description of rerere.enabled left the user in the dark as to who
might create an rr-cache directory. Add a note that simply invoking
rerere does this.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

attr.c: clarify the logic to pop attr_stackJunio C Hamano Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:28:38 +0000 (12:28 -0800)

attr.c: clarify the logic to pop attr_stack

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

attr.c: make bootstrap_attr_stack() leave earlyJunio C Hamano Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:27:37 +0000 (12:27 -0800)

attr.c: make bootstrap_attr_stack() leave early

Thas would de-dent the body of a function that has grown rather large over
time, making it a bit easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

attr: drop misguided defensive codingJeff King Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:32:06 +0000 (14:32 -0500)

attr: drop misguided defensive coding

In prepare_attr_stack, we pop the old elements of the stack
(which were left from a previous lookup and may or may not
be useful to us). Our loop to do so checks that we never
reach the top of the stack. However, the code immediately
afterwards will segfault if we did actually reach the top of
the stack.

Fortunately, this is not an actual bug, since we will never
pop all of the stack elements (we will always keep the root
gitattributes, as well as the builtin ones). So the extra
check in the loop condition simply clutters the code and
makes the intent less clear. Let's get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

attr: don't confuse prefixes with leading directoriesJeff King Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:08:21 +0000 (13:08 -0500)

attr: don't confuse prefixes with leading directories

When we prepare the attribute stack for a lookup on a path,
we start with the cached stack from the previous lookup
(because it is common to do several lookups in the same
directory hierarchy). So the first thing we must do in
preparing the stack is to pop any entries that point to
directories we are no longer interested in.

For example, if our stack contains gitattributes for:

foo/bar/baz
foo/bar
foo

but we want to do a lookup in "foo/bar/bleep", then we want
to pop the top element, but retain the others.

To do this we walk down the stack from the top, popping
elements that do not match our lookup directory. However,
the test do this simply checked strncmp, meaning we would
mistake "foo/bar/baz" as a leading directory of
"foo/bar/baz_plus". We must also check that the character
after our match is '/', meaning we matched the whole path
component.

There are two special cases to consider:

1. The top of our attr stack has the empty path. So we
must not check for '/', but rather special-case the
empty path, which always matches.

2. Typically when matching paths in this way, you would
also need to check for a full string match (i.e., the
character after is '\0'). We don't need to do so in
this case, though, because our path string is actually
just the directory component of the path to a file
(i.e., we know that it terminates with "/", because the
filename comes after that).

Helped-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

credential-cache: report more daemon connection errorsJeff King Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:57:33 +0000 (23:57 -0500)

credential-cache: report more daemon connection errors

Originally, this code remained relatively silent when we
failed to connect to the cache. The idea was that it was
simply a cache, and we didn't want to bother the user with
temporary failures (the worst case is that we would simply
ask their password again).

However, if you have a configuration failure or other
problem, it is helpful for the daemon to report those
problems. Git will happily ignore the failed error code, but
the extra information to stderr can help the user diagnose
the problem.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

unix-socket: handle long socket pathnamesJeff King Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:44:30 +0000 (23:44 -0500)

unix-socket: handle long socket pathnames

On many systems, the sockaddr_un.sun_path field is quite
small. Even on Linux, it is only 108 characters. A user of
the credential-cache daemon can easily surpass this,
especially if their home directory is in a deep directory
tree (since the default location expands ~/.git-credentials).

We can hack around this in the unix-socket.[ch] code by
doing a chdir() to the enclosing directory, feeding the
relative basename to the socket functions, and then
restoring the working directory.

This introduces several new possible error cases for
creating a socket, including an irrecoverable one in the
case that we can't restore the working directory. In the
case of the credential-cache code, we could perhaps get away
with simply chdir()-ing to the socket directory and never
coming back. However, I'd rather do it at the lower level
for a few reasons:

1. It keeps the hackery behind an opaque interface instead
of polluting the main program logic.

2. A hack in credential-cache won't help any unix-socket
users who come along later.

3. The chdir trickery isn't that likely to fail (basically
it's only a problem if your cwd is missing or goes away
while you're running). And because we only enable the
hack when we get a too-long name, it can only fail in
cases that would have failed under the previous code
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Use perl instead of sed for t8006-blame-textconv testBen Walton Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:47:33 +0000 (21:47 -0500)

Use perl instead of sed for t8006-blame-textconv test

In test 'blame --textconv with local changes' of t8006-blame-textconv,
using /usr/xpg4/bin/sed (as set by SANE_TOOL_PATH), an additional
newline was added to the output from the 'helper' script.

This was noted by sed with a message such as:
sed: Missing newline at end of file zero.bin.

Sed then exits with status 2 causing the helper script to also exit
with status 2.

In turn, this was triggering a fatal error from git blame:
fatal: unable to read files to diff

To work around this difference in sed behaviour, use perl -p instead
of sed -e as it exits cleanly and does not insert the additional
newline.

Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'jk/credentials'Junio C Hamano Mon, 9 Jan 2012 23:58:47 +0000 (15:58 -0800)

Merge branch 'jk/credentials'

* jk/credentials:
credentials: unable to connect to cache daemon

Merge branch 'mh/ref-api-less-extra-refs'Junio C Hamano Mon, 9 Jan 2012 23:58:43 +0000 (15:58 -0800)

Merge branch 'mh/ref-api-less-extra-refs'

* mh/ref-api-less-extra-refs:
write_head_info(): handle "extra refs" locally
show_ref(): remove unused "flag" and "cb_data" arguments
receive-pack: move more work into write_head_info()

Merge branch 'mm/maint-gitweb-project-maxdepth'Junio C Hamano Mon, 9 Jan 2012 23:58:30 +0000 (15:58 -0800)

Merge branch 'mm/maint-gitweb-project-maxdepth'

* mm/maint-gitweb-project-maxdepth:
gitweb: accept trailing "/" in $project_list

Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano Mon, 9 Jan 2012 23:56:58 +0000 (15:56 -0800)

Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
send-email: multiedit is a boolean config option

send-email: multiedit is a boolean config optionJeff King Mon, 9 Jan 2012 22:55:42 +0000 (17:55 -0500)

send-email: multiedit is a boolean config option

The sendemail.multiedit variable is meant to be a boolean.
However, it is not marked as such in the code, which means
we store its value literally. Thus in the do_edit function,
perl ends up coercing it to a boolean value according to
perl rules, not git rules. This works for "0", but "false",
"no", or "off" will erroneously be interpreted as true.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

dashed externals: kill children on exitClemens Buchacher Sun, 8 Jan 2012 20:41:09 +0000 (21:41 +0100)

dashed externals: kill children on exit

Several git commands are so-called dashed externals, that is commands
executed as a child process of the git wrapper command. If the git
wrapper is killed by a signal, the child process will continue to run.
This is different from internal commands, which always die with the git
wrapper command.

Enable the recently introduced cleanup mechanism for child processes in
order to make dashed externals act more in line with internal commands.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

run-command: optionally kill children on exitJeff King Sat, 7 Jan 2012 11:42:43 +0000 (12:42 +0100)

run-command: optionally kill children on exit

When we spawn a helper process, it should generally be done
and finish_command called before we exit. However, if we
exit abnormally due to an early return or a signal, the
helper may continue to run in our absence.

In the best case, this may simply be wasted CPU cycles or a
few stray messages on a terminal. But it could also mean a
process that the user thought was aborted continues to run
to completion (e.g., a push's pack-objects helper will
complete the push, even though you killed the push process).

This patch provides infrastructure for run-command to keep
track of PIDs to be killed, and clean them on signal
reception or input, just as we do with tempfiles. PIDs can
be added in two ways:

1. If NO_PTHREADS is defined, async helper processes are
automatically marked. By definition this code must be
ready to die when the parent dies, since it may be
implemented as a thread of the parent process.

2. If the run-command caller specifies the "clean_on_exit"
option. This is not the default, as there are cases
where it is OK for the child to outlive us (e.g., when
spawning a pager).

PIDs are cleared from the kill-list automatically during
wait_or_whine, which is called from finish_command and
finish_async.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

credentials: unable to connect to cache daemonClemens Buchacher Sat, 7 Jan 2012 11:54:36 +0000 (12:54 +0100)

credentials: unable to connect to cache daemon

Error out if we just spawned the daemon and yet we cannot connect.

And always release the string buffer.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Git 1.7.9-rc0 v1.7.9-rc0Junio C Hamano Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:48:17 +0000 (12:48 -0800)

Git 1.7.9-rc0

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'jc/show-sig'Junio C Hamano Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:44:07 +0000 (12:44 -0800)

Merge branch 'jc/show-sig'

* jc/show-sig:
log --show-signature: reword the common two-head merge case
log-tree: show mergetag in log --show-signature output
log-tree.c: small refactor in show_signature()
commit --amend -S: strip existing gpgsig headers
verify_signed_buffer: fix stale comment
gpg-interface: allow use of a custom GPG binary
pretty: %G[?GS] placeholders
test "commit -S" and "log --show-signature"
log: --show-signature
commit: teach --gpg-sign option

Conflicts:
builtin/commit-tree.c
builtin/commit.c
builtin/merge.c
notes-cache.c
pretty.c

Merge branch 'jm/stash-diff-disambiguate'Junio C Hamano Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:44:03 +0000 (12:44 -0800)

Merge branch 'jm/stash-diff-disambiguate'

* jm/stash-diff-disambiguate:
stash: Don't fail if work dir contains file named 'HEAD'

Merge branch 'jh/fetch-head-update'Junio C Hamano Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:44:01 +0000 (12:44 -0800)

Merge branch 'jh/fetch-head-update'

* jh/fetch-head-update:
write first for-merge ref to FETCH_HEAD first

Merge branch 'pw/p4-view-updates'Junio C Hamano Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:43:59 +0000 (12:43 -0800)

Merge branch 'pw/p4-view-updates'

* pw/p4-view-updates:
git-p4: view spec documentation
git-p4: rewrite view handling
git-p4: support single file p4 client view maps
git-p4: sort client views by reverse View number
git-p4: fix test for unsupported P4 Client Views
git-p4: test client view handling

Sync with 1.7.8.3Junio C Hamano Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:42:48 +0000 (12:42 -0800)

Sync with 1.7.8.3

Git 1.7.8.3 v1.7.8.3Junio C Hamano Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:41:39 +0000 (12:41 -0800)

Git 1.7.8.3

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'jn/maint-gitweb-utf8-fix' into maintJunio C Hamano Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:36:43 +0000 (12:36 -0800)

Merge branch 'jn/maint-gitweb-utf8-fix' into maint

* jn/maint-gitweb-utf8-fix:
gitweb: Fix fallback mode of to_utf8 subroutine
gitweb: Output valid utf8 in git_blame_common('data')
gitweb: esc_html() site name for title in OPML
gitweb: Call to_utf8() on input string in chop_and_escape_str()

Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maintJunio C Hamano Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:35:12 +0000 (12:35 -0800)

Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maint

* maint-1.7.7:
Documentation: rerere.enabled is the primary way to configure rerere

Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint-1.7.7Junio C Hamano Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:35:05 +0000 (12:35 -0800)

Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint-1.7.7

* maint-1.7.6:
Documentation: rerere.enabled is the primary way to configure rerere

Documentation: rerere.enabled is the primary way to... Thomas Rast Fri, 6 Jan 2012 13:08:02 +0000 (14:08 +0100)

Documentation: rerere.enabled is the primary way to configure rerere

The wording seems to suggest that creating the directory is needed and the
setting of rerere.enabled is only for disabling the feature by setting it
to 'false'. But the configuration is meant to be the primary control and
setting it to 'true' will enable it; the rr-cache directory will be
created as necessary and the user does not have to create it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

write_head_info(): handle "extra refs" locallyMichael Haggerty Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:12:33 +0000 (15:12 +0100)

write_head_info(): handle "extra refs" locally

The old code basically did:

generate array of SHA1s for alternate refs
for each unique SHA1 in array:
add_extra_ref(".have", sha1)
for each ref (including real refs and extra refs):
show_ref(refname, sha1)

But there is no need to stuff the alternate refs in extra_refs; we can
call show_ref() directly when iterating over the array, then handle
real refs separately. So change the code to:

generate array of SHA1s for alternate refs
for each unique SHA1 in array:
show_ref(".have", sha1)
for each ref (this now only includes real refs):
show_ref(refname, sha1)

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

show_ref(): remove unused "flag" and "cb_data" argumentsMichael Haggerty Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:12:32 +0000 (15:12 +0100)

show_ref(): remove unused "flag" and "cb_data" arguments

The function is not used as a callback, so it doesn't need these
arguments. Also change its return type to void.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

receive-pack: move more work into write_head_info()Michael Haggerty Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:12:31 +0000 (15:12 +0100)

receive-pack: move more work into write_head_info()

Move some more code from the calling site into write_head_info(), and
inline add_alternate_refs() there. (Some more simplification is
coming, and it is easier if all this code is in the same place.)

Move some helper functions to avoid the need for forward declarations.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

gitweb: Harden "grep" search against filenames with ':'Jakub Narebski Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:32:56 +0000 (21:32 +0100)

gitweb: Harden "grep" search against filenames with ':'

Run "git grep" in "grep" search with '-z' option, to be able to parse
response also for files with filename containing ':' character. The
':' character is otherwise (without '-z') used to separate filename
from line number and from matched line.

Note that this does not protect files with filename containing
embedded newline. This would be hard but doable for text files, and
harder or even currently impossible with binary files: git does not
quote filename in

"Binary file <foo> matches"

message, but new `--break` and/or `--header` options to git-grep could
help here.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

gitweb: Fix file links in "grep" searchJakub Narebski Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:26:48 +0000 (21:26 +0100)

gitweb: Fix file links in "grep" search

There were two bugs in generating file links (links to "blob" view),
one hidden by the other. The correct way of generating file link is

href(action=>"blob", hash_base=>$co{'id'},
file_name=>$file);

It was $co{'hash'} (this key does not exist, and therefore this is
undef), and 'hash' instead of 'hash_base'.

To have this fix applied in single place, this commit also reduces
code duplication by saving file link (which is used for line links) in
$file_href.

Reported-by: Thomas Perl <th.perl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

log --show-signature: reword the common two-head merge... Junio C Hamano Thu, 5 Jan 2012 00:23:12 +0000 (16:23 -0800)

log --show-signature: reword the common two-head merge case

While identifying the commit merged to our history as "parent #2" is
technically correct, we will never say "parent #1" (as that is the tip of
our history before the merge is made), and we rarely would say "parent #3"
(which would mean the merge is an octopus), especially when responding to
a request to pull a signed tag.

Treat the most common case to merge a single commit specially, and just
say "merged tag '<tagname>'" instead.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

log-tree: show mergetag in log --show-signature outputJunio C Hamano Wed, 4 Jan 2012 21:51:28 +0000 (13:51 -0800)

log-tree: show mergetag in log --show-signature output

A commit object that merges a signed tag records the "mergetag" extended
header. Check the validity of the GPG signature on it, and show it in a
way similar to how "gpgsig" extended header is shown.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

log-tree.c: small refactor in show_signature()Junio C Hamano Wed, 4 Jan 2012 21:48:45 +0000 (13:48 -0800)

log-tree.c: small refactor in show_signature()

The next patch needs to show the result of signature verification on a
mergetag extended header in a way similar to how embedded signature for
the commit object itself is shown. Separate out the logic to go through
the message lines and show them in the "error" color (highlighted) or the
"correct" color (dim).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

commit --amend -S: strip existing gpgsig headersJunio C Hamano Thu, 5 Jan 2012 18:54:14 +0000 (10:54 -0800)

commit --amend -S: strip existing gpgsig headers

Any existing commit signature was made against the contents of the old
commit, including its committer date that is about to change, and will
become invalid by amending it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

verify_signed_buffer: fix stale commentJunio C Hamano Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:43:02 +0000 (12:43 -0800)

verify_signed_buffer: fix stale comment

The function used to take an integer flag to specify where the output
should go, but these days we supply a strbuf to receive it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'jc/signed-commit' and 'jc/pull-signed... Junio C Hamano Thu, 5 Jan 2012 19:00:38 +0000 (11:00 -0800)

Merge branch 'jc/signed-commit' and 'jc/pull-signed-tag'

They both use the extended headers in commit objects, and the former has
necessary infrastructure to show them that is useful to view the result of
the latter.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:21:42 +0000 (11:21 -0800)

Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
t5550: repack everything into one file
Catch invalid --depth option passed to clone or fetch

t5550: repack everything into one fileClemens Buchacher Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:55:34 +0000 (16:55 +0100)

t5550: repack everything into one file

Subsequently we assume that there is only one pack. Currently this is
true only by accident. Pass '-a -d' to repack in order to guarantee that
assumption to hold true.

The prune-packed command is now redundant since repack -d already calls
it.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

gitweb: accept trailing "/" in $project_listMatthieu Moy Wed, 4 Jan 2012 10:07:45 +0000 (11:07 +0100)

gitweb: accept trailing "/" in $project_list

The current code is removing the trailing "/", but computing the string
length on the previous value, i.e. with the trailing "/". Later in the
code, we do

my $path = substr($File::Find::name, $pfxlen + 1);

And the "$pfxlen + 1" is supposed to mean "the length of the prefix, plus
1 for the / separating the prefix and the path", but with an incorrect
$pfxlen, this basically eats the first character of the path, and yields
"404 - No projects found".

While we're there, also fix $pfxdepth to use $dir, although a change of 1
in the depth shouldn't really matter.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'nd/maint-parse-depth' into maintJunio C Hamano Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:43:26 +0000 (09:43 -0800)

Merge branch 'nd/maint-parse-depth' into maint

* nd/maint-parse-depth:
Catch invalid --depth option passed to clone or fetch

Catch invalid --depth option passed to clone or fetchNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Wed, 4 Jan 2012 10:01:55 +0000 (17:01 +0700)

Catch invalid --depth option passed to clone or fetch

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

write first for-merge ref to FETCH_HEAD firstJoey Hess Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:16:56 +0000 (12:16 -0400)

write first for-merge ref to FETCH_HEAD first

The FETCH_HEAD refname is supposed to refer to the ref that was fetched
and should be merged. However all fetched refs are written to
.git/FETCH_HEAD in an arbitrary order, and resolve_ref_unsafe simply
takes the first ref as the FETCH_HEAD, which is often the wrong one,
when other branches were also fetched.

The solution is to write the for-merge ref(s) to FETCH_HEAD first.
Then, unless --append is used, the FETCH_HEAD refname behaves as intended.
If the user uses --append, they presumably are doing so in order to
preserve the old FETCH_HEAD.

While we are at it, update an old example in the read-tree documentation
that implied that each entry in FETCH_HEAD only has the object name, which
is not true for quite a while.

[jc: adjusted tests]

Signed-off-by: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

git-p4: view spec documentationPete Wyckoff Mon, 2 Jan 2012 23:05:54 +0000 (18:05 -0500)

git-p4: view spec documentation

Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>