config.c: avoid duplicated global static variables
Repeating the definition of a static variable seems to be valid in C.
Nevertheless, it is bad style because it can cause confusion, definitely
when it becomes necessary to change the type.
d64ec16 (git config: reorganize to use parseopt, 2009-02-21) added two
static variables near the top of the file config.c without removing the
definitions of the two variables that occurs later in the file.
The two variables were needed earlier in the file in the newly
introduced parseopt structure. These references were removed later in d0e08d6 (config: fix parsing of "git config --get-color some.key -1",
2014-11-20).
Remove the redundant, younger, definitions near the top of the file and
keep the original definitions that occur later.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The API documentation for hashmap was unclear if hashmap_entry
can be safely discarded without any other consideration. State
that it is safe to do so.
* jc/hashmap-doc-init:
hashmap: clarify that hashmap_entry can safely be discarded
The build procedure learned PAGER_ENV knob that lists what default
environment variable settings to export for popular pagers. This
mechanism is used to tweak the default settings to MORE on FreeBSD.
* ew/build-time-pager-tweaks:
pager: move pager-specific setup into the build
FreeBSD can lie when asked mtime of a directory, which made the
untracked cache code to fall back to a slow-path, which in turn
caused tests in t7063 to fail because it wanted to verify the
behaviour of the fast-path.
* nd/fbsd-lazy-mtime:
t7063: work around FreeBSD's lazy mtime update feature
An entry "git log --decorate" for the tip of the current branch is
shown as "HEAD -> name" (where "name" is the name of the branch);
paint the arrow in the same color as "HEAD", not in the color for
commits.
* nd/log-decorate-color-head-arrow:
log: decorate HEAD -> branch with the same color for arrow and HEAD
The t3700 test about "add --chmod=-x" have been made a bit more
robust and generally cleaned up.
* ib/t3700-add-chmod-x-updates:
t3700: add a test_mode_in_index helper function
t3700: merge two tests into one
t3700: remove unwanted leftover files before running new tests
"git pack-objects" has a few options that tell it not to pack
objects found in certain packfiles, which require it to scan .idx
files of all available packs. The codepaths involved in these
operations have been optimized for a common case of not having any
non-local pack and/or any .kept pack.
* jk/pack-objects-optim:
pack-objects: compute local/ignore_pack_keep early
pack-objects: break out of want_object loop early
find_pack_entry: replace last_found_pack with MRU cache
add generic most-recently-used list
sha1_file: drop free_pack_by_name
t/perf: add tests for many-pack scenarios
"git difftool <paths>..." started in a subdirectory failed to
interpret the paths relative to that directory, which has been
fixed.
* jk/difftool-in-subdir:
difftool: use Git::* functions instead of passing around state
difftool: avoid $GIT_DIR and $GIT_WORK_TREE
difftool: fix argument handling in subdirs
Tests for "git svn" have been taught to reuse the lib-httpd test
infrastructure when testing the subversion integration that
interacts with subversion repositories served over the http://
protocol.
* ew/git-svn-http-tests:
git svn: migrate tests to use lib-httpd
t/t91*: do not say how to avoid the tests
Merge branch 'rs/submodule-config-code-cleanup' into maint
Code cleanup.
* rs/submodule-config-code-cleanup:
submodule-config: fix test binary crashing when no arguments given
submodule-config: combine early return code into one goto
submodule-config: passing name reference for .gitmodule blobs
submodule-config: use explicit empty string instead of strbuf in config_from()
* nd/test-helpers:
t/test-lib.sh: fix running tests with --valgrind
Makefile: use VCSSVN_LIB to refer to svn library
Makefile: drop extra dependencies for test helpers
Merge branch 'ew/find-perl-on-freebsd-in-local' into maint
Recent FreeBSD stopped making perl available at /usr/bin/perl;
switch the default the built-in path to /usr/local/bin/perl on not
too ancient FreeBSD releases.
* ew/find-perl-on-freebsd-in-local:
config.mak.uname: correct perl path on FreeBSD
Merge branch 'ew/daemon-socket-keepalive' into maint
Recent update to "git daemon" tries to enable the socket-level
KEEPALIVE, but when it is spawned via inetd, the standard input
file descriptor may not necessarily be connected to a socket.
Suppress an ENOTSOCK error from setsockopt().
* ew/daemon-socket-keepalive:
Windows: add missing definition of ENOTSOCK
daemon: ignore ENOTSOCK from setsockopt
"git pack-objects" and "git index-pack" mostly operate with off_t
when talking about the offset of objects in a packfile, but there
were a handful of places that used "unsigned long" to hold that
value, leading to an unintended truncation.
* nd/pack-ofs-4gb-limit:
fsck: use streaming interface for large blobs in pack
pack-objects: do not truncate result in-pack object size on 32-bit systems
index-pack: correct "offset" type in unpack_entry_data()
index-pack: report correct bad object offsets even if they are large
index-pack: correct "len" type in unpack_data()
sha1_file.c: use type off_t* for object_info->disk_sizep
pack-objects: pass length to check_pack_crc() without truncation
Merge branch 'rs/notes-merge-no-toctou' into maint
"git notes merge" had a code to see if a path exists (and fails if
it does) and then open the path for writing (when it doesn't).
Replace it with open with O_EXCL.
* rs/notes-merge-no-toctou:
notes-merge: use O_EXCL to avoid overwriting existing files
"git add -N dir/file && git write-tree" produced an incorrect tree
when there are other paths in the same directory that sorts after
"file".
* nd/cache-tree-ita:
cache-tree: do not generate empty trees as a result of all i-t-a subentries
cache-tree.c: fix i-t-a entry skipping directory updates sometimes
test-lib.sh: introduce and use $EMPTY_BLOB
test-lib.sh: introduce and use $EMPTY_TREE
"git blame file" allowed the lineage of lines in the uncommitted,
unadded contents of "file" to be inspected, but it refused when
"file" did not appear in the current commit. When "file" was
created by renaming an existing file (but the change has not been
committed), this restriction was unnecessarily tight.
* mh/blame-worktree:
t/t8003-blame-corner-cases.sh: Use here documents
blame: allow to blame paths freshly added to the index
that state clearly regarding the 2nd parameter (called `new`):
If the `new` argument does not resolve to an existing directory
entry for a file of type directory and the `new` argument
contains at least one non- <slash> character and ends with one
or more trailing <slash> characters after all symbolic links
have been processed, `rename()` shall fail.
Of course, we would like `git mv dir non-existing-dir/` to succeed (and
rename the directory "dir" to "non-existing-dir"). Let's be extra
careful to remove the trailing slash in that case.
This lets t7001-mv.sh pass in Bash on Windows.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
use strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() for adding short hashes
Call strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() to add abbreviated hashes to strbufs
instead of taking detours through find_unique_abbrev() and its static
buffer. This is shorter and a bit more efficient.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function write_extended_header() only ever returns 0. Simplify
it and its caller by dropping its return value, like we did with
write_global_extended_header() earlier.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With GCC 6, the strdup() function is declared with the "nonnull"
attribute, stating that it is not allowed to pass a NULL value as
parameter.
In nedmalloc()'s reimplementation of strdup(), Postel's Law is heeded
and NULL parameters are handled gracefully. GCC 6 complains about that
now because it thinks that NULL cannot be passed to strdup() anyway.
Because the callers in this project of strdup() must be prepared to
call any implementation of strdup() supplied by the platform, so it
is pointless to pretend that it is OK to call it with NULL.
Remove the conditional based on NULL-ness of the input; this
squelches the warning. Check the return value of malloc() instead
to make sure we actually got the memory to write to.
See https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/porting_to.html for details.
Diagnosed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge: use string_list_split() in add_strategies()
Call string_list_split() for cutting a space separated list into pieces
instead of reimplementing it based on struct strategy. The attr member
of struct strategy was not used split_merge_strategies(); it was a pure
string operation. Also be nice and clean up once we're done splitting;
the old code didn't bother freeing any of the allocated memory.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Initialize a string_list right when it's defined. That's shorter, saves
a function call and makes it more obvious that we're using the NODUP
variant here.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
use strbuf_addstr() instead of strbuf_addf() with "%s"
Call strbuf_addstr() for adding a simple string to a strbuf instead of
using the heavier strbuf_addf(). This is shorter and documents the
intent more clearly.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the trace code cannot open a specified file, or does not
understand the contents of the GIT_TRACE variable, it falls
back to printing trace output to stderr.
This is an attempt to be helpful, but in practice it just
ends up annoying. The user was trying to get the output to
go somewhere else, so spewing it to stderr does not really
accomplish that. And as it's intended for debugging, they
can presumably re-run the command with their error
corrected.
So instead of falling back, this patch disables bogus trace
keys for the rest of the program, just as we do for write
errors. We can drop the "Defaulting to..." part of the error
message entirely; after seeing "cannot open '/foo'", the
user can assume that tracing is skipped.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function has no callers, and is not likely to gain any
because it's confusing to use.
It unconditionally complains to stderr, but _doesn't_ die.
Yet any caller which wants a "gentle" write would generally
want to suppress the error message, because presumably
they're going to write a better one, and/or try the
operation again.
And the check_pipe() call leads to confusing behaviors. It
means we die for EPIPE, but not for other errors, which is
confusing and pointless.
On top of all that, it has unusual error return semantics,
which makes it easy for callers to get it wrong.
Let's drop the function, and if somebody ever needs to
resurrect something like it, they can fix these warts.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we get a write error writing to a trace descriptor, the
error isn't likely to go away if we keep writing. Instead,
you'll just get the same error over and over. E.g., try:
GIT_TRACE_PACKET=42 git ls-remote >/dev/null
You don't really need to see:
warning: unable to write trace for GIT_TRACE_PACKET: Bad file descriptor
hundreds of times. We could fallback to tracing to stderr,
as we do in the error code-path for open(), but there's not
much point. If the user fed us a bogus descriptor, they're
probably better off fixing their invocation. And if they
didn't, and we saw a transient error (e.g., ENOSPC writing
to a file), it probably doesn't help anybody to have half of
the trace in a file, and half on stderr.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
trace: correct variable name in write() error message
Our error message for write() always mentions GIT_TRACE,
even though we may be writing for a different variable
entirely. It's also not quite accurate to say "fd given by
GIT_TRACE environment variable", as we may hit this error
based on a filename the user put in the variable (we do
complain and switch to stderr if the file cannot be opened,
but it's still possible to hit a write() error on the
descriptor later).
So let's fix those things, and switch to our more usual
"unable to do X: Y" format for the error.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The error messages for the trace code are often multi-line;
the first line gets a nice "warning:", but the rest are
left-aligned. Let's give them an indentation to make sure
they stand out as a unit.
While we're here, let's also downcase the first letter of
each error (our usual style), and break up a long line of
advice (since we're already using multiple lines, one more
doesn't hurt).
We also replace "What does 'foo' for GIT_TRACE mean?". While
cute, it's probably a good idea to give more context, and
follow our usual styles. So it's now "unknown trace value
for 'GIT_TRACE': foo".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Right now we just fprintf() straight to stderr, which can
make the output hard to distinguish. It would be helpful to
give it one of our usual prefixes like "error:", "warning:",
etc.
It doesn't make sense to use error() here, as the trace code
is "optional" debugging code. If something goes wrong, we
should warn the user, but saying "error" implies the actual
git operation had a problem. So warning() is the only sane
choice.
Note that this does end up calling warn_routine() to do the
formatting. This is probably a good thing, since they are
clearly trying to hook messages before they make it to
stderr. However, it also means that in theory somebody who
tries to trace from their warn_routine() could cause a loop.
This seems rather unlikely in practice (we've never even
overridden the default warn_builtin routine before, and
recent discussions to do so would just install a noop
routine).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allowing PAGER_ENV to be set at build-time allows us to move
pager-specific knowledge out of our build. This allows us to
set a better default for FreeBSD more(1), which pretends not to
understand ANSI color escapes if the MORE environment variable
is left empty, but accepts the same variables as less(1)
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
1. it checks for EPIPE and converts it into a signal death
2. it prints a message to stderr on error
The first thing does not help us, and actively hurts.
Generally we would simply die from SIGPIPE in this case,
unless somebody has taken the time to ignore SIGPIPE for the
whole process. And if they _did_ do that, it seems rather
silly for the trace code, which otherwise takes pains to
continue even in the face of errors (e.g., by not using
write_or_die!), to take down the whole process for one
specific type of error.
Nor does the second thing help us; it just makes it harder
to write our error message, because we have to feed bits of
it as an argument to write_or_whine_pipe(). Translators
never get to see the full message, and it's hard for us to
customize it.
Let's switch to just using write_in_full() and writing our
own error string. For now, the error is identical to what
write_or_whine_pipe() would say, but now that it's more
under our control, we can improve it in future patches.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some code in nedmalloc is indented in a funny way that could be
misinterpreted as if a line after a for loop was included in the loop
body, when it is not.
GCC 6 complains about this in DEVELOPER=YepSure mode.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The newly-added test case wants to commit a file "c.t" (note the lower
case) when a previous test case already committed a file "C.t". This
confuses Git to the point that it thinks "c.t" was not staged when "git
add c.t" was called.
Simply make the naming of the test commits consistent with the previous
test cases: use upper-case, and advance in the alphabet.
This came up in local work to rebase the Windows-specific patches to the
current `next` branch. An identical fix was suggested by John Keeping.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t7063: work around FreeBSD's lazy mtime update feature
Let's start with the commit message of [1] from freebsd.git [2]
Sync timestamp changes for inodes of special files to disk as late
as possible (when the inode is reclaimed). Temporarily only do
this if option UFS_LAZYMOD configured and softupdates aren't
enabled. UFS_LAZYMOD is intentionally left out of
/sys/conf/options.
This is mainly to avoid almost useless disk i/o on battery powered
machines. It's silly to write to disk (on the next sync or when
the inode becomes inactive) just because someone hit a key or
something wrote to the screen or /dev/null.
PR: 5577 [3]
The short version of that, in the context of t7063, is that when a
directory is updated, its mtime may be updated later, not
immediately. This can be shown with a simple command sequence
One would expect that the date shown in `ls` would be one second from
`date`, but it's 10 seconds later. If we put another `ls -lTd .` in
front of `sleep 10`, then the date of the last `ls` comes as
expected. The first `ls` somehow forces mtime to be updated.
t7063 is really sensitive to directory mtime. When mtime is too "new",
git code suspects racy timestamps and will not trigger the shortcut in
untracked cache, in t7063.24 and eventually be detected in t7063.27
We have two options thanks to this special FreeBSD feature:
1) Stop supporting untracked cache on FreeBSD. Skip t7063 entirely
when running on FreeBSD
2) Work around this problem (using the same 'ls' trick) and continue
to support untracked cache on FreeBSD
I initially wanted to go with 1) because I didn't know the exact
nature of this feature and feared that it would make untracked cache
work unreliably, using the cached version when it should not.
Since the behavior of this thing is clearer now. The picture is not
that bad. If this indeed happens often, untracked cache would assume
racy condition more often and _fall back_ to non-untracked cache code
paths. Which means it may be less effective, but it will not show
wrong things.
This patch goes with option 2.
PS. For those who want to look further in FreeBSD source code, this
flag is now called IN_LAZYMOD. I can see it's effective in ext2 and
ufs. zfs is not affected.
Gerrit has a "superproject subscription" feature[1], that triggers a
commit in a superproject that is subscribed to its submodules.
Conceptually this Gerrit feature can be done on the client side with
Git via (except for raciness, error handling etc):
while [ true ]; do
git -C <superproject> submodule update --remote --force
git -C <superproject> commit -a -m "Update submodules"
git -C <superproject> push
done
for each branch in the superproject. To ease the configuration in Gerrit
a special value of "." has been introduced for the submodule.<name>.branch
to mean the same branch as the superproject[2], such that you can create a
new branch on both superproject and the submodule and this feature
continues to work on that new branch.
Now we find projects in the wild with such a .gitmodules file.
The .gitmodules used in these Gerrit projects do not conform
to Gits understanding of how .gitmodules should look like.
This teaches Git to deal gracefully with this syntax as well.
The redefinition of "." does no harm to existing projects unaware of
this change, as "." is an invalid branch name in Git, so we do not
expect such projects to exist.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a later patch we want to enhance the logic for the branch selection.
Rewrite the current logic to be in C, so we can directly use C when
we enhance the logic.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is an optimization used in "git diff $treeA $treeB" to borrow
an already checked-out copy in the working tree when it is known to
be the same as the blob being compared, expecting that open/mmap of
such a file is faster than reading it from the object store, which
involves inflating and applying delta. This however kicked in even
when the checked-out copy needs to go through the convert-to-git
conversion (including the clean filter), which defeats the whole
point of the optimization. The optimization has been disabled when
the conversion is necessary.
* jk/diff-do-not-reuse-wtf-needs-cleaning:
diff: do not reuse worktree files that need "clean" conversion
* rs/submodule-config-code-cleanup:
submodule-config: fix test binary crashing when no arguments given
submodule-config: combine early return code into one goto
submodule-config: passing name reference for .gitmodule blobs
submodule-config: use explicit empty string instead of strbuf in config_from()
"git push" and "git clone" learned to give better progress meters
to the end user who is waiting on the terminal.
* jk/push-progress:
receive-pack: send keepalives during quiet periods
receive-pack: turn on connectivity progress
receive-pack: relay connectivity errors to sideband
receive-pack: turn on index-pack resolving progress
index-pack: add flag for showing delta-resolution progress
clone: use a real progress meter for connectivity check
check_connected: add progress flag
check_connected: relay errors to alternate descriptor
check_everything_connected: use a struct with named options
check_everything_connected: convert to argv_array
rev-list: add optional progress reporting
check_everything_connected: always pass --quiet to rev-list
"git fetch" exchanges batched have/ack messages between the sender
and the receiver, initially doubling every time and then falling
back to enlarge the window size linearly. The "smart http"
transport, being an half-duplex protocol, outgrows the preset limit
too quickly and becomes inefficient when interacting with a large
repository. The internal mechanism learned to grow the window size
more aggressively when working with the "smart http" transport.
* jt/fetch-large-handshake-window-on-http:
fetch-pack: grow stateless RPC windows exponentially
Users of the parse_options_concat() API function need to allocate
extra slots in advance and fill them with OPT_END() when they want
to decide the set of supported options dynamically, which makes the
code error-prone and hard to read. This has been corrected by tweaking
the API to allocate and return a new copy of "struct option" array.
* jk/parse-options-concat:
parse_options: allocate a new array when concatenating
Dumb http transport on the client side has been optimized.
* ew/http-walker:
list: avoid incompatibility with *BSD sys/queue.h
http-walker: reduce O(n) ops with doubly-linked list
http: avoid disconnecting on 404s for loose objects
http-walker: remove unused parameter from fetch_object
The build procedure for "git persistent-https" helper (in contrib/)
has been updated so that it can be built with more recent versions
of Go.
* pm/build-persistent-https-with-recent-go:
contrib/persistent-https: use Git version for build label
contrib/persistent-https: update ldflags syntax for Go 1.7+
"git merge" in Git v2.9 was taught to forbid merging an unrelated
lines of history by default, but that is exactly the kind of thing
the "--rejoin" mode of "git subtree" (in contrib/) wants to do.
"git subtree" has been taught to use the "--allow-unrelated-histories"
option to override the default.
Previously, we simply treated hard links as if they were plain files
with size 0, ignoring the link type "1" and hence the link target.
What we should do instead, of course, is to use the link target to get
at the import mark for the contents, even if we cannot recreate the hard
link per se, as Git has no concept of hard links.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This strdup was added as part of 58dbfa2 (blame: accept
multiple -L ranges, 2013-08-06) to be consistent with
parse_opt_string_list(), which appends to the same list.
But as of 7a7a517 (parse_opt_string_list: stop allocating
new strings, 2016-06-13), we should stop using strdup (to
match parse_opt_string_list, and for all the reasons
described in that commit; namely that it does nothing useful
and causes us to leak the memory).
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On Windows, it is already pretty expensive to try to recreate the stat()
data that Git assumes is cheap to obtain. To make things halfway decent
in performance, we even have to skip emulating the inode and to
determine the number of hard links.
This is not a huge problem, usually, as either the size or the mtime or
the ctime are tell-tale enough to say when a file has changed, and even
if not, those changes are typically made after the index file was
written, triggering a rehashing of the files' contents.
The t4130-apply-criss-cross-rename test case, however, requires the
inode to determine that files of equal size were swapped, as renaming
files does not update their mtime. Every once in a while, t4130 fails
on Windows because of this missing piece.
Equal file sizes are not crucial for the test cases, however. Hence,
generate files with different sizes so that there is some property that
the swapped files can be discovered reliably even on Windows.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
hashmap: clarify that hashmap_entry can safely be discarded
The API documentation said that the hashmap_entry structure to be
embedded in the caller's structure is to be treated as opaque, which
left the reader wondering if it can safely be discarded when it no
longer is necessary. If the hashmap_entry structure had references
to external resources such as allocated memory or an open file
descriptor, merely free(3)ing the containing structure (when the
caller's structure is on the heap) or letting it go out of scope
(when it is on the stack) would end up leaking the external
resource.
Document that there is no need for hashmap_entry_clear() that
corresponds to hashmap_entry_init() to give the API users a little
bit of peace of mind.
When we compute the date to go in author/committer lines of
commits, or tagger lines of tags, we get the current date
once and then cache it for the rest of the program. This is
a good thing in some cases, like "git commit", because it
means we do not racily assign different times to the
author/committer fields of a single commit object.
But as more programs start to make many commits in a single
process (e.g., the recently builtin "git am"), it means that
you'll get long strings of commits with identical committer
timestamps (whereas before, we invoked "git commit" many
times and got true timestamps).
This patch addresses it by letting callers reset the cached
time, which means they'll get a fresh time on their next
call to git_committer_info() or git_author_info(). The first
caller to do so is "git am", which resets the time for each
patch it applies.
It would be nice if we could just do this automatically
before filling in the ident fields of commit and tag
objects. Unfortunately, it's hard to know where a particular
logical operation begins and ends.
For instance, if commit_tree_extended() were to call
reset_ident_date() before getting the committer/author
ident, that doesn't quite work; sometimes the author info is
passed in to us as a parameter, and it may or may not have
come from a previous call to ident_default_date(). So in
those cases, we lose the property that the committer and the
author timestamp always match.
You could similarly put a date-reset at the end of
commit_tree_extended(). That actually works in the current
code base, but it's fragile. It makes the assumption that
after commit_tree_extended() finishes, the caller has no
other operations that would logically want to fall into the
same timestamp.
So instead we provide the tool to easily do the reset, and
let the high-level callers use it to annotate their own
logical operations.
There's no automated test, because it would be inherently
racy (it depends on whether the program takes multiple
seconds to run). But you can see the effect with something
like:
# make a fake 100-patch series
top=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
bottom=$(git rev-list --first-parent -100 HEAD | tail -n 1)
git log --format=email --reverse --first-parent \
--binary -m -p $bottom..$top >patch
# now apply it; this presumably takes multiple seconds
git checkout --detach $bottom
git am <patch
# now count the number of distinct committer times;
# prior to this patch, there would only be one, but
# now we'd typically see several.
git log --format=%ct $bottom.. | sort -u
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Helped-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
submodule update: respect depth in subsequent fetches
When depth is given the user may have a reasonable expectation that
any remote operation is using the given depth. Add a test to demonstrate
we still get the desired sha1 even if the depth is too short to
include the actual commit.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The prior hard coded depth was chosen to be exactly the length from the
recorded gitlink to the tip of the remote, so if you add more commits
to the remote before, this test will not test its intention any more.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>