The prompt string "remove?" used when "git clean -i" asks the user
if a path should be removed was localizable, but the code always
expects a substring of "yes" to tell it to go ahead. Always show
[y/N] as part of this prompt to hint that the answer is not (yet)
localized.
* ja/clean-confirm-i18n:
Add hint interactive cleaning
"git diff --shortstat --dirstat=changes" showed a dirstat based on
lines that was never asked by the end user in addition to the
dirstat that the user asked for.
"git remote add" mentioned "--tags" and "--no-tags" and was not
clear that fetch from the remote in the future will use the default
behaviour when neither is given to override it.
* mg/doc-remote-tags-or-not:
git-remote.txt: describe behavior without --tags and --no-tags
* rs/simple-cleanups:
sha1_name: use strlcpy() to copy strings
pretty: use starts_with() to check for a prefix
for-each-ref: use skip_prefix() to avoid duplicate string comparison
connect: use strcmp() for string comparison
Merge branch 'km/send-email-getopt-long-workarounds' into maint
Even though we officially haven't dropped Perl 5.8 support, the
Getopt::Long package that came with it does not support "--no-"
prefix to negate a boolean option; manually add support to help
people with older Getopt::Long package.
* km/send-email-getopt-long-workarounds:
git-send-email.perl: support no- prefix with older GetOptions
The __git_remotes() helper function lists the remotes from the config
file by processing the output of a 'git config' query. A simple 'git
remote' produces the exact same output, so run that instead.
Remotes under '$GIT_DIR/remotes' are still listed by running 'ls -1',
because 'git remote' unfortunately ignores them.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
97f05f43 (Show number of TODO items for interactive rebase, 2014-12-10)
taught rebase-interactive to display an item count in the instruction
list comments:
# Rebase 46640c6..5568fd5 onto 46640c6 (4 TODO item(s))
#
# Commands:
# p, pick = use commit
# ...
However, with the exception of the --edit-todo option, "TODO" is a
one-off term, never presented to the user by rebase-interactive in
any other context. The item count is in fact the number of commands
("pick", "edit", etc.) remaining on the instruction sheet, and the
comment immediately following it talks about "Commands". Consequently,
replace "(# TODO item(s))" with the more accurate and meaningful
"(# command(s))".
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
97f05f43 (Show number of TODO items for interactive rebase, 2014-12-10)
taught rebase-interactive to compute an item count with 'wc -l' and
display it in the instruction list comments:
'was_alias' variable does not need to store it's value on each
iteration in the loop; this variable gets assigned the result
of run_argv() every time in the loop before being used.
'done_help' variable does not need to be static variable too if
we move it out the loop.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git status" carefully names a detached HEAD "at" resp. "from" a rev or
ref depending on whether the detached HEAD has moved since. "git branch"
always uses "from", which can be confusing, because a status-aware user
would interpret this as moved detached HEAD.
Make "git branch" use the same logic and wording.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
wt_status_print() is the only caller of wt_status_get_detached_from().
The latter performs most of the analysis of a detached HEAD, including
finding state->detached_from; the caller checks whether the detached
HEAD is still at state->detached_from or has moved away.
Move that last bit of analysis to wt_status_get_detached_from(), too,
and store the boolean result in state->detached_at.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
sequencer calls "commit" with default options, which implies
"--cleanup=default" unless the user specified something else in their
config. This leads to cherry-picked commits getting a cleaned up commit
message, which is usually not an intended side-effect.
Make the sequencer use "--cleanup=verbatim" so that it preserves commit
messages independent of the default, unless the user has set config for "commit"
or the message is amended with -s or -x.
Reported-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
commit/status: show the index-worktree diff with -v -v
git commit and git status in long format show the diff between HEAD
and the index when given -v. This allows previewing a commit to be made.
They also list tracked files with unstaged changes, but without a diff.
Introduce '-v -v' which shows the diff between the index and the
worktree in addition to the HEAD index diff. This allows a review of unstaged
changes which might be missing from the commit.
In the case of '-v -v', additonal header lines
Changes to be committed:
and
Changes not staged for commit:
are inserted before the diffs, which are equal to those in the status
part; the latter preceded by 50*"-" to make it stick out more.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These files are used to observe the behaviour of the 'status'
command and if there weren't any such observer, the expected
output from 'status' wouldn't even mention them.
Place them in .gitignore to unclutter the output expected by the
tests. An added benefit is that future tests can add such files
that are purely for use by the observer, i.e. the tests themselves,
by naming them as expect-foo and/or output-bar.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Set the text flag for ZIP archive entries that look like text files so
that unzip -a can be used to perform end-of-line conversions. Info-ZIP
zip does the same.
Detect binary files the same way as git diff and git grep do, namely by
checking for the attribute "diff" and its negation "-diff", and if none
is found by falling back to checking for the presence of NUL bytes in
the first few bytes of the file contents.
7-Zip, Windows' built-in ZIP functionality and Info-ZIP unzip without
the switch -a are not affected by the change and still extract text
files without doing any end-of-line conversions.
NB: The actual end-of-line style used in the archive entries doesn't
matter to unzip -a, as it converts any CR, CRLF and LF to the line end
characters appropriate for the platform it is running on.
Suggested-by: Ulrike Fischer <luatex@nililand.de> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge branch 'es/squelch-openssl-warnings-on-macosx' into maint
An earlier workaround to squelch unhelpful deprecation warnings
from the complier on Mac OSX unnecessarily set minimum required
version of the OS, which the user might want to raise (or lower)
for other reasons.
* es/squelch-openssl-warnings-on-macosx:
git-compat-util: do not step on MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED
Longstanding configuration variable naming rules has been added to
the documentation.
* jc/conf-var-doc:
CodingGuidelines: describe naming rules for configuration variables
config.txt: mark deprecated variables more prominently
config.txt: clarify that add.ignore-errors is deprecated
Clarify in the documentation that "remote.<nick>.pushURL" and
"remote.<nick>.URL" are there to name the same repository accessed
via different transports, not two separate repositories.
* jc/remote-set-url-doc:
Documentation/git-remote.txt: stress that set-url is not for triangular
The tests that wanted to see that file becomes unreadable after
running "chmod a-r file", and the tests that wanted to make sure it
is not run as root, we used "can we write into the / directory?" as
a cheap substitute, but on some platforms that is not a good
heuristics. The tests and their prerequisites have been updated to
check what they really require.
* jk/sanity:
test-lib.sh: set prerequisite SANITY by testing what we really need
tests: correct misuses of POSIXPERM
t/lib-httpd: switch SANITY check for NOT_ROOT
We did not parse username followed by literal IPv6 address in SSH
transport URLs, e.g. ssh://user@[2001:db8::1]:22/repo.git
correctly.
* tb/connect-ipv6-parse-fix:
t5500: show user name and host in diag-url
t5601: add more test cases for IPV6
connect.c: allow ssh://user@[2001:db8::1]/repo.git
* jc/diff-test-updates:
test_ln_s_add: refresh stat info of fake symbolic links
t4008: modernise style
t/diff-lib: check exact object names in compare_diff_raw
tests: do not borrow from COPYING and README from the real source
t4010: correct expected object names
t9300: correct expected object names
t4008: correct stale comments
* rs/simple-cleanups:
sha1_name: use strlcpy() to copy strings
pretty: use starts_with() to check for a prefix
for-each-ref: use skip_prefix() to avoid duplicate string comparison
connect: use strcmp() for string comparison
Simplify the ref transaction API around how "the ref should be
pointing at this object" is specified.
* mh/refs-have-new:
refs.h: remove duplication in function docstrings
update_ref(): improve documentation
ref_transaction_verify(): new function to check a reference's value
ref_transaction_delete(): check that old_sha1 is not null_sha1
ref_transaction_create(): check that new_sha1 is valid
commit: avoid race when creating orphan commits
commit: add tests of commit races
ref_transaction_delete(): remove "have_old" parameter
ref_transaction_update(): remove "have_old" parameter
struct ref_update: move "have_old" into "flags"
refs.c: change some "flags" to "unsigned int"
refs: remove the gap in the REF_* constant values
refs: move REF_DELETING to refs.c
reflog_expire(): never update a reference to null_sha1
Currently, if --updateref is specified and the very last reflog entry
is expired or deleted, the reference's value is set to 0{40}. This is
an invalid state of the repository, and breaks, for example, "git
fsck" and "git for-each-ref".
The only place we use --updateref in our own code is when dropping
stash entries. In that code, the very next step is to check if the
reflog has been made empty, and if so, delete the "refs/stash"
reference entirely. Thus that code path ultimately leaves the
repository in a valid state.
But we don't want to the repository in an invalid state even
temporarily, and we don't want to leave an invalid state if other
callers of "git reflog expire|delete --updateref" don't think to do
the extra cleanup step.
So, if "git reflog expire|delete" leaves no more entries in the
reflog, just leave the reference unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
reflog_expire(): ignore --updateref for symbolic references
If we are expiring reflog entries for a symbolic reference, then how
should --updateref be handled if the newest reflog entry is expired?
Option 1: Update the referred-to reference. (This is what the current
code does.) This doesn't make sense, because the referred-to reference
has its own reflog, which hasn't been rewritten.
Option 2: Update the symbolic reference itself (as in, REF_NODEREF).
This would convert the symbolic reference into a non-symbolic
reference (e.g., detaching HEAD), which is surely not what a user
would expect.
Option 3: Error out. This is plausible, but it would make the
following usage impossible:
git reflog expire ... --updateref --all
Option 4: Ignore --updateref for symbolic references.
We choose to implement option 4.
Note: another problem in this code will be fixed in a moment.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Revamp the "git reflog" usage documentation in the manpage and the
command help to match the current reality and improve its clarity:
* Add documentation for some options that had been left out.
* Group the subcommands and options more logically and move more
common subcommands/options higher.
* Improve some explanations.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Edited-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): do not set force_write for missing references
If a reference is missing, its SHA-1 will be null_sha1, which can't
possibly match a new value that ref_transaction_commit() is trying to
update it to. So there is no need to set force_write in this scenario.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
write_ref_sha1(): move write elision test to callers
write_ref_sha1() previously skipped the write if the reference already
had the desired value, unless lock->force_write was set. Instead,
perform that test at the callers.
Two of the callers (in rename_ref()) unconditionally set force_write
just before calling write_ref_sha1(), so they don't need the extra
check at all. Nor do they need to set force_write anymore.
The last caller, in ref_transaction_commit(), still needs the test.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
None of the callers pass NULL to this function, and there doesn't seem
to be any usefulness to allowing them to do so.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
where "commit ... (" is painted in color.diff.commit, "HEAD" in
color.decorate.head, ", " in color.diff.commit, the branch name in
color.decorate.branch and then closing ")" in color.diff.commit.
If you wanted to paint the HEAD and local branch name in the same
color as the body text (perhaps because cyan and green are too faint
on a black-on-white terminal to be readable), you would not want to
have to say
[color "decorate"]
head = black
branch = black
because that you would not be able to reuse same configuration on a
white-on-black terminal. You would naively expect
[color "decorate"]
head = normal
branch = normal
to work, but unfortunately it does not. It paints the string "HEAD"
and the branch name in the same color as the opening parenthesis or
comma between the decoration elements. This is because the code
forgets to reset the color after printing the "prefix" in its own
color.
It theoretically is possible that some people were expecting and
relying on that the attribute set as the "diff.commit" color, which
is used to draw these opening parenthesis and inter-item comma, is
inherited by the drawing of branch names, but it is not how the
coloring works everywhere else.
Documentation/config.txt: have a separate "Values" section
The various types of values set to the configuration variables
deserve more than a brief footnote mention in the syntax section,
and it will be more so after the later steps of this clean up
effort.
Move the mention of booleans from the syntax section to this new
section, and describe how human-readble integers can be spelled with
scaling there.
Documentation/config.txt: describe the structure first and then meaning
A line can be continued via a backquote-LF and can be chomped at a
comment character. But that is not specific to string-typed values.
It is common to all, just like unquoted leading and trailing
whitespaces are stripped and inter-word spacing are retained.
Move the description around and desribe these structural rules
first, then introduce the double-quote facility as a way to override
them, and finally mention various types of values.
Note that these structural rules only apply to the value part of the
configuration file. E.g.
[aSection] \
name \
= value
does not work, because the rules kick in only after seeing "name =".
Both the original and the updated text are phrased in an awkward way
by singling out the "value" part of the line because of this.
Documentation/config.txt: explain multi-valued variables once
The syntax section repeats what the preamble explained already.
That a variable can have multiple values is more about what a
variable is than the syntax of the file.
Section names and variable names are both case-insensitive, but one
is described as "not case sensitive". Use "case-insensitive" for
both.
Instead of saying "... have to be escaped" without telling what that
escaping achieves, state it in a more positive way, i.e. "... can be
included by escaping".
The "interpolated-path" option of "git daemon" inserted any string
client declared on the "host=" capability request without checking.
Sanitize and limit %H and %CH to a saner and a valid DNS name.
* jk/daemon-interpolate:
daemon: sanitize incoming virtual hostname
t5570: test git-daemon's --interpolated-path option
git_connect: let user override virtual-host we send to daemon
Even though we officially haven't dropped Perl 5.8 support, the
Getopt::Long package that came with it does not support "--no-"
prefix to negate a boolean option; manually add support to help
people with older Getopt::Long package.
* km/send-email-getopt-long-workarounds:
git-send-email.perl: support no- prefix with older GetOptions
"git apply" was not very careful about reading from, removing,
updating and creating paths outside the working tree (under
--index/--cached) or the current directory (when used as a
replacement for GNU patch).
* jc/apply-beyond-symlink:
apply: do not touch a file beyond a symbolic link
apply: do not read from beyond a symbolic link
apply: do not read from the filesystem under --index
apply: reject input that touches outside the working area
submodule: improve documentation of update subcommand
The documentation of 'git submodule update' has several problems:
1) It mentions that value 'none' of submodule.$name.update can be
overridden by --checkout, but other combinations of configuration
values and command line options are not mentioned.
2) The documentation of submodule.$name.update is scattered across three
places, which is confusing.
3) The documentation of submodule.$name.update in gitmodules.txt is
incorrect, because the code always uses the value from .git/config
and never from .gitmodules.
4) Documentation of --force was incomplete, because it is only effective
in case of checkout method of update.
Fix all these problems by documenting submodule.*.update in
git-submodule.txt and make everybody else refer to it.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
kwset: use unsigned char to store values with high-bit set
Sun Studio on Solaris issues warnings about improper initialization
values being used when defining tolower_trans_tbl[] in ctype.c. The
array wants to store values with high-bit set and treat them as
values between 128 to 255. Unlike the rest of the Git codebase
where we explicitly specify 'unsigned char' for such variables and
arrays, however, kwset code we borrowed from elsewhere uses 'char'
for this and other variables.
Fix the declarations to explicitly use 'unsigned char' where
necessary to bring it in line with the rest of the Git.
Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When --shortstat is used in conjunction with --dirstat=changes, git diff will
output the dirstat information twice: first as calculated by the 'lines'
algorithm, then as calculated by the 'changes' algorithm:
gitk: Enable mouse horizontal scrolling in diff pane
Currently it's required to hold Shift and scroll up and down to move
horizontally. Listen to Button-6 and Button-7 events too to make
horizontal scrolling handier with touchpads and some mice.
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The rename code cannot handle an input where we have
duplicate destinations (i.e., more than one diff_filepair in
the queue with the same string in its pair->two->path). We
end up allocating only one slot in the rename_dst mapping.
If we fill in the diff_filepair for that slot, when we
re-queue the results, we may queue that filepair multiple
times. When the diff is finally flushed, the filepair is
processed and free()d multiple times, leading to heap
corruption.
This situation should only happen when a tree diff sees
duplicates in one of the trees (see the added test for a
detailed example). Rather than handle it, the sanest thing
is just to turn off rename detection altogether for the
diff.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diffcore-rename: split locate_rename_dst into two functions
This function manages the mapping of destination pathnames
to filepairs, and it handles both insertion and lookup. This
makes the return value a bit confusing, as we return a newly
created entry (even though no caller cares), and have no
room to indicate to the caller that an entry already
existed.
Instead, let's break this up into two distinct functions,
both backed by a common binary search. The binary search
will use our normal "return the index if we found something,
or negative index minus one to show where it would have
gone" semantics.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current help string is about --no-exclude-standard. But "git grep -h"
would show --exclude-standard instead. Flip the string. See 0a93fb8
(grep: teach --untracked and --exclude-standard options - 2011-09-27)
for more info about these options.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gettext.c: move get_preferred_languages() from http.c
Calling setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, ...) directly from http.c, without
including <locale.h>, was causing compilation warnings. Move the
helper function to gettext.c that already includes the header and
where locale-related issues are handled.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since b19138b (git-svn: Make it incrementally faster by minimizing temp
files, v1.6.0), git-svn has been using the Git.pm temp_acquire and
temp_release mechanism to avoid unnecessary temp file churn and provide
a speed boost.
However, that change introduced a call to temp_acquire inside the
Git::SVN::Fetcher::close_file function for an 'svn_hash' temp file.
Because an SVN::Pool is active at the time this function is called, if
the Git::temp_acquire function ends up actually creating a new
FileHandle for the temp file (which it will the first time it's called
with the name 'svn_hash') that FileHandle will end up in the SVN::Pool
and should that pool have SVN::Pool::clear called on it that FileHandle
will be closed out from under Git::temp_acquire.
Since the only call site to Git::temp_acquire with the name 'svn_hash'
is inside the close_file function, if an 'svn_hash' temp file is ever
created its FileHandle is guaranteed to be created in the active
SVN::Pool.
This has not been a problem in the past because the SVN::Pool was not
being cleared. However, since dfa72fdb (git-svn: reload RA every
log-window-size, v2.2.0) the pool has been getting cleared periodically
at which point the FileHandle for the 'svn_hash' temp file gets closed.
Any subsequent calls to Git::temp_acquire for 'svn_hash', however,
succeed without creating/opening a new temporary file since it still has
the now invalid FileHandle in its cache. Callers that then attempt to
use that FileHandle fail with an error.
We avoid this problem by making sure the 'svn_hash' temp file is created
in the same place the 'svn_delta_...' and 'git_blob_...' temp files are
(and then temp_release'd) so that it can be safely used inside the
close_file function without having its FileHandle end up in an SVN::Pool
that gets cleared.
Additionally the Git.pm cat_blob function creates a bidirectional pipe
FileHandle using the IPC::Open2::open2 function. If that handle is
created too late, it also gets caught up in the SVN::Pool and incorrectly
closed by the SVN::Pool::clear call. But this only seems to happen with
more recent versions of Perl and svn.
To avoid this problem we add an explicit call to _open_cat_blob_if_needed
before the first call to SVN::Pool->new_default to make sure the open2
handle does not end up in the SVN::Pool.
Signed-off-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-svn: fix localtime=true on non-glibc environments
git svn uses POSIX::strftime('%s', $sec, $min, ...) to make unix epoch time.
But lowercase %s formatting character is a GNU extention. This causes problem
in git svn fetch --localtime on non-glibc systems, such as msys or cygwin.
Using Time::Local::timelocal($sec, $min, ...) fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Ryuichi Kokubo <ryu1kkb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Notes:
lowercase %s format character in strftime is a GNU extension and not widely supported.
POSIX::strftime affected by underlying crt's strftime because POSIX::strftime just calls crt's one.
Time::Local is good function to replace POSIX::strftime because it's a perl core module function.
Document about Time::Local.
http://perldoc.perl.org/Time/Local.html
These are specifications of strftime.
The GNU C Library Reference Manual.
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Formatting-Calendar-Time.html
perl POSIX module's strftime document. It does not have '%s'.
http://perldoc.perl.org/POSIX.html
strftime document of Microsort Windows C Run-Time library.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fe06s4ak.aspx
The Open Group's old specification does not have '%s' too.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html
On my environment, following problems happened.
- msys : git svn fetch does not progress at all with perl.exe consuming CPU.
- cygwin : git svn fetch progresses but time stamp information is dropped.
Every commits have unix epoch timestamp.
I would like to thank git developer and contibutors.
git helps me so much everyday.
Thank you.
We can delay loading some modules until we need them for uncommon
code paths. For example, persistent memoization is not often
needed, so we can avoid loading the modules for it until we
encounter svn::mergeinfo during fetch.
This gives a tiny reduction in syscalls (from 15641 to 15305) when
running "git svn info" and counting via "strace -fc". Further,
more invasive work will be needed to noticeably improve performance.