* ta/glossary:
glossary: improve definitions of refspec and pathspec
The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"
glossary: improve description of SHA-1 related topics
glossary: remove outdated/misleading/irrelevant entries
Improve documentation to illustrate "push authenticated, fetch
anonymous" configuration for smart HTTP servers.
* jk/doc-http-backend:
doc/http-backend: match query-string in apache half-auth example
doc/http-backend: give some lighttpd config examples
doc/http-backend: clarify "half-auth" repo configuration
git fast-import expects an extra newline after the commit message data,
but we are adding it only on hg-git compat mode, which is why the
bidirectionality tests pass.
We should add it unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
help.c: add a compatibility comment to cmd_version()
External projects have been known to parse the output of
"git version". Help prevent future authors from changing
its format by adding a comment to its implementation.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
glossary: improve definitions of refspec and pathspec
The exact definition of "refspec" can be found in git-fetch and
git-push manpages. So don't duplicate this here in the glossary.
Actually the definition of "pathspec" should be moved to a separate
file akin to the way it's done with "refspec". But this will only be
wortwhile when there's more to say about it. So for the time being
just improve the first sentence a little bit; fix the indentation of
the first paragraph after the bullet list and remove the one-item
list of magic signatures with its - for the user - unnecessary
introduction of "magic word 'top'".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
glossary: improve description of SHA-1 related topics
The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1".
Also to people who look up "object name" in the glossary,
the details of which hash function is applied on what to
compute "object name" is not important but the fact that the
name is meant to be an unique identifier for the contents
stored in the object is.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The $test variable is used as an interim buffer for
constructing $TRASH_DIRECTORY, and is almost compatible with
it (the exception being that $test has not been converted to
an absolute path). Let's get rid of it entirely so that
later code does not accidentally use it, thinking the two
are interchangeable.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After the location of $TRASH_DIRECTORY is adjusted by
$TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY, we go on to use the $test variable to make the
trash directory and cd into it. This means that when
$TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY is not "." and an absolute --root has not been
specified, we do not remove the trash directory once the tests are
complete (remove_trash is set to $TRASH_DIRECTORY).
Fix this by always referring to the trash directory as $TRASH_DIRECTORY.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
doc/http-backend: match query-string in apache half-auth example
When setting up a "half-auth" repository in which reads can
be done anonymously but writes require authentication, it is
best if the server can require authentication for both the
ref advertisement and the actual receive-pack POSTs. This
alleviates the need for the admin to set http.receivepack in
the repositories, and means that the client is challenged
for credentials immediately, instead of partway through the
push process (and git clients older than v1.7.11.7 had
trouble handling these challenges).
Since detecting a push during the ref advertisement requires
matching the query string, and this is non-trivial to do in
Apache, we have traditionally punted and instructed users to
just protect "/git-receive-pack$". This patch provides the
mod_rewrite recipe to actually match the ref advertisement,
which is preferred.
While we're at it, let's add the recipe to our test scripts
so that we can be sure that it works, and doesn't get broken
(either by our changes or by changes in Apache).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Acked-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge branch 'rr/send-email-perl-critique' into maint
* rr/send-email-perl-critique:
send-email: use the three-arg form of open in recipients_cmd
send-email: drop misleading function prototype
send-email: use "return;" not "return undef;" on error codepaths
Most of these were found using Lucas De Marchi's codespell tool.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
doc: clarify that "git daemon --user=<user>" option does not export HOME=~user
The fact that we don't set $HOME may confuse admins who expect
~<user>/.gitconfig to be used, because that is not what we try to
read. And worse, since 96b9e0e3, a git-daemon started by root is
likely to fail to run at all, as the user we switch to generally
cannot read ~root.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Helped-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation: distinguish between ref and offset deltas in pack-format
eb32d236 introduced the OBJ_OFS_DELTA object that uses a relative offset to
identify the base object instead of the 20-byte SHA1 reference. The pack file
documentation only mentions the SHA1 based reference in its description of the
deltified object entry.
Update the pack format documentation to clarify that the deltified object
representation refers to its base using either a relative negative offset or
the absolute SHA1 identifier.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Saasen <ssaasen@atlassian.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The advice (consider use of -u when read_directory takes too long) is
separated into 3 different status_printf_ln() calls, and which brings
trouble for translators.
Since status_vprintf() called by status_printf_ln() can handle eol in
buffer, we could simply join these lines into one paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
archive: clarify explanation of --worktree-attributes
Make it a bit clearer that --worktree-attributes is about files in the
working tree (checked out files, possibly changed) and not the current
working directory ($PWD). Link to the ATTRIBUTES section, which has
more details.
Reported-by: Amit Bakshi <ambakshi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
doc/http-backend: give some lighttpd config examples
The examples in the documentation are all for Apache. Let's
at least cover the basics: an anonymous server, an
authenticated server, and a "half auth" server with
anonymous read and authenticated write.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the http-backend is set up to allow anonymous read but
authenticated write, the http-backend manual suggests
catching only the "/git-receive-pack" POST of the packfile,
not the initial "info/refs?service=git-receive-pack" GET in
which we advertise refs.
This does work and is secure, as we do not allow any write
during the info/refs request, and the information in the ref
advertisement is the same that you would get from a fetch.
However, the configuration required by the server is
slightly more complex. The default `http.receivepack`
setting is to allow pushes if the webserver tells us that
the user authenticated, and otherwise to return a 403
("Forbidden"). That works fine if authentication is turned
on completely; the initial request requires authentication,
and http-backend realizes it is OK to do a push.
But for this "half-auth" state, no authentication has
occurred during the initial ref advertisement. The
http-backend CGI therefore does not think that pushing
should be enabled, and responds with a 403. The client
cannot continue, even though the server would have allowed
it to run if it had provided credentials.
It would be much better if the server responded with a 401,
asking for credentials during the initial contact. But
git-http-backend does not know about the server's auth
configuration (so a 401 would be confusing in the case of a
true anonymous server). Unfortunately, configuring Apache to
recognize the query string and apply the auth appropriately
to receive-pack (but not upload-pack) initial requests is
non-trivial.
The site admin can work around this by just turning on
http.receivepack explicitly in its repositories. Let's
document this workaround.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
bundle: Accept prerequisites without commit messages
While explicitly stating that the commit message in a prerequisite
line is optional, we required all lines with 40 or more characters
to contain a space after the object name, bailing out if a line
consisted of an object name only. This was to allow bundling a
history to a commit without an message, but the code forgot that it
already called rtrim() to remove that whitespace.
As a workaround, only check for SP when the line has more than 40
characters.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <git@cryptocrack.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge branch 'jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix' into maint-1.8.1
A pattern "dir" (without trailing slash) in the attributes file
stopped matching a directory "dir" by mistake with an earlier change
that wanted to allow pattern "dir/" to also match.
* jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix:
t: check that a pattern without trailing slash matches a directory
dir.c::match_pathname(): pay attention to the length of string parameters
dir.c::match_pathname(): adjust patternlen when shifting pattern
dir.c::match_basename(): pay attention to the length of string parameters
attr.c::path_matches(): special case paths that end with a slash
attr.c::path_matches(): the basename is part of the pathname
When we generate relative names (e.g., "master~20^2"), we
format the name into a static buffer, then xstrdup the
result to attach it to the commit. Since the first thing we
add into the static buffer is the already-computed name of
the child commit, the names may get longer and longer as
the traversal gets deeper, and we may eventually overflow
the fixed-size buffer.
Fix this by converting the fixed-size buffer into a dynamic
strbuf. The performance implications should be minimal, as
we end up allocating a heap copy of the name anyway (and now
we can just detach the heap copy from the strbuf).
Reported-by: Eric Roman <eroman@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we introduced the concept of "detached HEAD", we made sure that
commands that operate on the history of the current branch "just
work" in that state. They update the HEAD to point at the new
history without affecting any branch when the HEAD is detached, just
like they update the tip of the "current branch" to point at the new
history when HEAD points at a specific branch.
As this is done as the natural extension for these commands, we did
not, we still do not, and we do not want to repeat "A detached HEAD
is updated without affecting any branch" when describing what each
and every one of these commands that operates "on the current branch"
does.
Add a blanket description to the glossary to cover them instead.
The general principle is that operations to update the branch work
on and affect the HEAD, while operations to update the information
about a branch do not.
Much like the previous patch, this triggered an unrelated bug.
Closing STDERR is not worth it anyway, as we risk writing die() and
such to random files that happen to be subsequently opened on FD 2.
Don't do it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
perl: redirect stderr to /dev/null instead of closing
On my system, t9100.1 triggers the following warning:
==352== Syscall param write(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
==352== at 0x57119C0: __write_nocancel (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56AC1D2: _IO_file_write@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56AC0B1: new_do_write (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56AD3B4: _IO_do_write@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56AD6FE: _IO_file_overflow@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56AE3D8: _IO_default_xsputn (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56ACAA2: _IO_file_xsputn@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x5682133: buffered_vfprintf (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x567CE9D: vfprintf (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x5687096: fprintf (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x4E7AC5: vreportf (usage.c:15)
==352== by 0x4E7B14: die_builtin (usage.c:38)
The actual complaint appears to be a bug in the underlying
implementation. What's interesting here is that it is apparently
_triggered_ by closing stderr, which results in (from strace)
Closing stderr is a bad idea anyway: there is a very real chance that
we print fatal error messages to some other file that just happens to
be opened on the now-free FD 2. So let's not do that.
As pointed out by Eric Wong (thanks), the initial close needs to go:
die() would again write nowhere if we close STDERR beforehand.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/peel-ref:
upload-pack: load non-tip "want" objects from disk
upload-pack: make sure "want" objects are parsed
upload-pack: drop lookup-before-parse optimization
rerere forget: do not segfault if not all stages are present
The loop that fills in the buffers that are later passed to the merge
driver exits early when not all stages of a path are present in the index.
But since the buffer pointers are not initialized in advance, the
subsequent accesses are undefined.
Initialize buffer pointers in advance to avoid undefined behavior later.
That is not sufficient, though, to get correct operation of handle_cache().
The function replays a conflicted merge to extract the part inside the
conflict markers. As written, the loop exits early when a stage is missing.
Consequently, the buffers for later stages that would be present in the
index are not filled in and the merge is replayed with incomplete data.
Fix it by investigating all stages of the given path.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge branch 'mg/gpg-interface-using-status' into maint
Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C
or en/US locale.
* mg/gpg-interface-using-status:
pretty: make %GK output the signing key for signed commits
pretty: parse the gpg status lines rather than the output
gpg_interface: allow to request status return
log-tree: rely upon the check in the gpg_interface
gpg-interface: check good signature in a reliable way
Merge branch 'bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option' into maint
'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when
$msg already ended with one.
* bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option:
Documentation/git-commit.txt: rework the --cleanup section
git-commit: only append a newline to -m mesg if necessary
t7502: demonstrate breakage with a commit message with trailing newlines
t/t7502: compare entire commit message with what was expected
The "--match=<pattern>" option of "git describe", when used with
"--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be used as a
base of description, did not restrict the output from the command to
those that match the given pattern.
* jc/describe:
describe: --match=<pattern> must limit the refs even when used with --all
An aliased command spawned from a bare repository that does not say
it is bare with "core.bare = yes" is treated as non-bare by mistake.
* jk/alias-in-bare:
setup: suppress implicit "." work-tree for bare repos
environment: add GIT_PREFIX to local_repo_env
cache.h: drop LOCAL_REPO_ENV_SIZE
"git archive" reports a failure when asked to create an archive out
of an empty tree. It would be more intuitive to give an empty
archive back in such a case.
* jk/empty-archive:
archive: handle commits with an empty tree
test-lib: factor out $GIT_UNZIP setup
* maint-1.8.1:
Start preparing for 1.8.1.6
git-tag(1): we tag HEAD by default
Fix revision walk for commits with the same dates
t2003: work around path mangling issue on Windows
pack-refs: add fully-peeled trait
pack-refs: write peeled entry for non-tags
use parse_object_or_die instead of die("bad object")
avoid segfaults on parse_object failure
entry: fix filter lookup
t2003: modernize style
name-hash.c: fix endless loop with core.ignorecase=true
Merge branch 'ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap' into maint-1.8.1
* ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap:
tests: make sure rename pretty print works
diff: prevent pprint_rename from underrunning input
diff: Fix rename pretty-print when suffix and prefix overlap
The <commit>|<object> argument is actually not explained anywhere
(except implicitly in the description of an unannotated tag). Write a
little explanation, in particular to cover the default.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
filter-branch: return to original dir after filtering
The first thing filter-branch does is to create a temporary
directory, either ".git-rewrite" in the current directory
(which may be the working tree or the repository if bare),
or in a directory specified by "-d". We then chdir to
$tempdir/t as our temporary working directory in which to run
tree filters.
After finishing the filter, we then attempt to go back to
the original directory with "cd ../..". This works in the
.git-rewrite case, but if "-d" is used, we end up in a
random directory. The only thing we do after this chdir is
to run git-read-tree, but that means that:
1. The working directory is not updated to reflect the
filtered history.
2. We dump random files into "$tempdir/.." (e.g., if you
use "-d /tmp/foo", we dump junk into /tmp).
Fix it by recording the full path to the original directory
and returning there explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using 'git rerere forget .' after a merge that involved binary files
runs into an infinite loop if the binary file contains a zero byte.
Replace a strchrnul by memchr because the former does not make progress
as soon as the NUL is encountered.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge branch 'ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap' into maint
* ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap:
tests: make sure rename pretty print works
diff: prevent pprint_rename from underrunning input
diff: Fix rename pretty-print when suffix and prefix overlap