ident: report passwd errors with a more friendly message
When getpwuid fails, we give a cute but cryptic message.
While it makes sense if you know that getpwuid or identity
functions are being called, this code is triggered behind
the scenes by quite a few git commands these days (e.g.,
receive-pack on a remote server might use it for a reflog;
the current message is hard to distinguish from an
authentication error). Let's switch to something that gives
a little more context.
While we're at it, we can factor out all of the
cut-and-pastes of the "you don't exist" message into a
wrapper function. Rather than provide xgetpwuid, let's make
it even more specific to just getting the passwd entry for
the current uid. That's the only way we use getpwuid anyway,
and it lets us make an even more specific error message.
The current message also fails to mention errno. While the
usual cause for getpwuid failing is that the user does not
exist, mentioning errno makes it easier to diagnose these
problems. Note that POSIX specifies that errno remain
untouched if the passwd entry does not exist (but will be
set on actual errors), whereas some systems will return
ENOENT or similar for a missing entry. We handle both cases
in our wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
drop length limitations on gecos-derived names and emails
When we pull the user's name from the GECOS field of the
passwd file (or generate an email address based on their
username and hostname), we put the result into a
static buffer. While it's extremely unlikely that anybody
ever hit these limits (after all, in such a case their
parents must have hated them), we still had to deal with the
error cases in our code.
Converting these static buffers to strbufs lets us simplify
the code and drop some error messages from the documentation
that have confused some users.
The conversion is mostly mechanical: replace string copies
with strbuf equivalents, and access the strbuf.buf directly.
There are a few exceptions:
- copy_gecos and copy_email are the big winners in code
reduction (since they no longer have to manage the
string length manually)
- git_ident_config wants to replace old versions of
the default name (e.g., if we read the config multiple
times), so it must reset+add to the strbuf instead of
just adding
Note that there is still one length limitation: the
gethostname interface requires us to provide a static
buffer, so we arbitrarily choose 1024 bytes for the
hostname.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
ident: don't write fallback username into git_default_name
The fmt_ident function gets a flag that tells us whether to
die if the name field is blank. If it is blank and we don't
die, then we fall back to the username from the passwd file.
The current code writes the value into git_default_name.
However, that's not necessarily correct, as the empty value
might have come from git_default_name, or it might have been
passed in. This leads to two potential problems:
1. If we are overriding an empty name in the passed-in
value, then we may be overwriting a perfectly good name
(from gitconfig or gecos) in the git_default_name
buffer. Later calls to fmt_ident will end up using the
fallback name, even though a better name was available.
2. If we override an empty gecos name, we end up with the
fallback name in git_default_name. A later call that
uses IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME will see the fallback name
and think that it is a good name, instead of producing
an error. In other words, a blank gecos name would
cause an error with this code:
because in the latter case, the first call has polluted
the name buffer.
Instead, let's make the fallback a per-invocation variable.
We can just use the pw->pw_name string directly, since it
only needs to persist through the rest of the function (and
we don't do any other getpwent calls).
Note that while this solves (1) for future invocations of
fmt_indent, the current invocation might use the fallback
when it could in theory load a better value from
git_default_name. However, by not passing
IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME, the caller is indicating that it
does not care too much about the name, anyway, so we don't
bother; this is primarily about protecting future callers
who do care.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
format-patch: use default email for generating message ids
We try to generate a sane message id for cover letters and
threading by appending some changing bits to the front of
the user's email address. The current code parses the email
out of the results of git_committer_info, but we can do this
much more easily by just calling ident_default_email
ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We use fgets to read the /etc/mailname file, which means we
will typically end up with an extra newline in our
git_default_email. Most of the time this doesn't matter, as
fmt_ident will skip it as cruft, but there is one code path
that accesses it directly (in http-push.c:lock_remote).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's no reason anybody outside of ident.c should access
these directly (they should use the new accessors which make
sure the variables are initialized), so we can make them
file-scope statics.
While we're at it, move user_ident_explicitly_given into
ident.c; while still globally visible, it makes more sense
to reside with the ident code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's no reason for this to be in config, except that once
upon a time all of the config parsing was there. It makes
more sense to keep the ident code together.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fmt-merge-msg: don't use static buffer in record_person
The record_person function just parses out the "name" field
of the person line in a commit and adds it to a string_list.
The only reason we need an extra buffer is that the
string_list functions require a NUL-terminated string.
Instead of the static buffer, we can just allocate a
temporary NUL-terminated copy. In addition to removing a
useless limit, this removes the only user of MAX_GITNAME
outside of ident.c.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function sets up the default name, email, and date, and
is not publicly available. Let's split it into three public
functions so that callers can get just the parts they need.
While we're at it, let's change the interface to simple
accessors. The original function was called only by fmt_ident,
and contained logic for "if we already have some other
value, don't load the default" which properly belongs in
fmt_ident.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When reading patterns from a file, we pass the lines as allocated string
buffers to append_grep_pat() and never free them. That's not a problem
because they are needed until the program ends anyway.
However, now that the function duplicates the pattern string, we can
reuse the strbuf after calling that function. This simplifies the code
a bit and plugs a minor memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By Jens Lehmann (1) and Johannes Sixt (1)
* maint:
Consistently use "superproject" instead of "supermodule"
t3404: begin "exchange commits with -p" test with correct preconditions
Currently, patterns that contain newline characters don't match anything
when given to git grep. Regular grep(1) interprets patterns as lists of
newline separated search strings instead.
Implement this functionality by creating and inserting extra grep_pat
structures for patterns consisting of multiple lines when appending to
the pattern lists. For simplicity, all pattern strings are duplicated.
The original pattern is truncated in place to make it contain only the
first line.
Requested-by: Torne (Richard Coles) <torne@google.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Consistently use "superproject" instead of "supermodule"
We fairly consistently say "superproject" and never "supermodule" these
days. But there are seven occurrences of "supermodule" left in the current
work tree. Three appear in Release Notes for 1.5.3 and 1.7.7, three in
test names and one in a C-code comment.
Replace all occurrences of "supermodule" outside of the Release Notes
(which shouldn't be changed after the fact) with "superproject" for
consistency.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t3404: begin "exchange commits with -p" test with correct preconditions
The test case shows a bug in 'rebase -p', but even if the bug were fixed
the test would fail because it did not ensure that the preconditions match
the postconditions that were checked. Insert the suitable 'git checkout'.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
completion: add support for backwards compatibility
Some people might be relying on _git and _gitk to define custom aliases,
unfortunately, commit 6b179ad (completion: add new __git_complete
helper) broke that support.
"bash: [: 1: unary operator expected"
This can be easily fixed by using __git_complete, but it's not meant to
be public.
Although _git and _gitk are probably not meant to be public, it's easy
to keep having support for them by having a wrapper to the proper
new function that is fully functional.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t/Makefile: retain cache t/.prove across prove runs
prove(1) can write a summary of its test results and timings into a
cache file, t/.prove, then use this information during later runs for
various purposes. But deleting t/.prove after every test run defeats
this purpose. So do not delete t/.prove as part of "make
DEFAILT_TEST_TARGET=prove test". (Continue to delete the file on
"make clean".)
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
pack-objects: refactor write_object() into helper functions
The function first decides if we want to copy data taken from existing
pack verbatim or we want to encode the data ourselves for the packfile
we are creating and then carries out the decision. Separate the latter
phase into two helper functions, one for the case the data is reused,
the other for the case the data is produced anew.
A little twist is that it can later turn out that we cannot reuse the
data after we initially decide to do so; in such a case, the "reuse"
helper makes a call to "generate" helper. It is easier to follow than
the current fallback code that uses "goto" inside a single large
function.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The test intends to rebase a branchy history onto a later commit, but it
forgot to reset HEAD back to an earlier commit before it set up the side
branches. In the end, every "rebased" commit was only a fast-forward and
the 'rebase -p' did not change the commit graph at all. Insert the missing
checkout that moves to an earlier commit.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
rev-parse doc: --git-dir does not always show a relative path
The description was misleading because it lead the reader to believe
that --git-dir would always show a relative path when, in fact, the
actual behaviour does not guarantee this.
Rather, it was intended that the advice be given that if a relative
path is shown, then the path is relative to the current working
directory and not some other directory (for example, the root of the
working tree).
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no need to build a copy of the relevant part of the string just
to make sure we have a NUL-terminated string. We can simply pass the
length of the interesting part to dwim_ref() instead.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Text from "git cmd --help" are getting prepared for i18n.
By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
* nd/i18n-parseopt:
i18n: apply: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: parseopt: lookup help and argument translations when showing usage
Simplifies the interface between the implementation of "blame" and
underlying xdiff engine, and removes a lot of unused or unnecessary code
from the latter.
By René Scharfe (6) and Ramsay Jones (1)
* rs/xdiff-lose-emit-func:
builtin/blame.c: Fix a "Using plain integer as NULL pointer" warning
xdiff: remove unused functions
xdiff: remove emit_func() and xdi_diff_hunks()
blame: factor out helper for calling xdi_diff()
blame: use hunk_func(), part 2
blame: use hunk_func(), part 1
xdiff: add hunk_func()
By Luke Diamand
* ld/git-p4-tags-and-labels:
git p4: fix bug when enabling tag import/export via config variables
git p4: fix bug when verbose enabled with tag export
git p4: add test for tag import/export enabled via config
When git svn rebase is performed after an unpushed merge, the
rebase operation follows both parents and replays both the user's
local commits and those from the merged branch. This is usually
not the intended behavior.
This patch adds support for the --preserve-merges/-p flag which
allows for a better workflow by re-applying merge commits as merges.
[ew: fixed a minor syntax error]
Signed-off-by: Avishay Lavie <avishay.lavie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
queue_diff uses two strbufs, and at the end of the function
strbuf_reset was called. This only reset the length of the buffer -
any allocated memory was leaked. Using strbuf_release fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --no-index: reset temporary buffer lengths on directory iteration
Commit 875b91b (diff --no-index: use strbuf for temporary pathnames,
2012-04-25) introduced a regression when using diff --no-index with
directories. When iterating through a directory, the switch to strbuf
from heap-allocated char arrays caused paths to form like 'dir/file1',
'dir/file1file2', rather than 'dir/file1', 'dir/file2' as expected.
Avoid this by resetting the paths variables to their original length
before each iteration.
Signed-off-by: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-sh-setup: define workaround wrappers before they are used
Recently we tweaked this scriptlet to let mingw port redefine "pwd" to
always return Windows-style path, but the code to do so came after the
first use of "pwd" to set up $GIT_DIR shell variable.
Move the block to define these workaround wrappers, so that everything
everything that executes when the scriptlet is dot-sourced uses the
replacements.
Noticed-by: Ramsay Jones Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Enables threading in index-pack to resolve base data in parallel.
By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (3) and Ramsay Jones (1)
* nd/threaded-index-pack:
index-pack: disable threading if NO_PREAD is defined
index-pack: support multithreaded delta resolving
index-pack: restructure pack processing into three main functions
compat/win32/pthread.h: Add an pthread_key_delete() implementation
Merge branch 'master' of git://github.com/git-l10n/git-po
By Ralf Thielow (6) and others
via Jiang Xin (3) and Ralf Thielow (1)
* 'master' of git://github.com/git-l10n/git-po:
l10n: zh_CN.po: translate 1 new message
l10n: de.po: translate one new message
l10n: de.po: unify translation of "ahead" and "behind"
l10n: de.po: collection of improvements
l10n: de.po: translate "remote" as "extern"
l10n: de.po: translate "track" as "beobachten"
l10n: add new members to German translation team
l10n: de.po: collection of suggestions
l10n: de.po: translate "bad" as "ungültig" ("invalid")
l10n: de.po: hopefully uncontroversial fixes
l10n: de.po: translate "bare" as "bloß"
l10n: Update git.pot (275 new, 15 removed messages)
l10n: Update git.pot (1 new messages)
Merge branch 'maint' of git://github.com/git-l10n/git-po into maint
By Ralf Thielow (6) and others
via Jiang Xin
* 'maint' of git://github.com/git-l10n/git-po:
l10n: zh_CN.po: translate 1 new message
l10n: de.po: translate one new message
l10n: de.po: unify translation of "ahead" and "behind"
l10n: de.po: collection of improvements
l10n: de.po: translate "remote" as "extern"
l10n: de.po: translate "track" as "beobachten"
l10n: add new members to German translation team
l10n: de.po: collection of suggestions
l10n: de.po: translate "bad" as "ungültig" ("invalid")
l10n: de.po: hopefully uncontroversial fixes
l10n: de.po: translate "bare" as "bloß"
l10n: Update git.pot (1 new messages)
Merge branch 'jk/maint-reflog-walk-count-vs-time' into maint
Gives a better DWIM behaviour for --pretty=format:%gd, "stash list", and
"log -g", depending on how the starting point ("master" vs "master@{0}" vs
"master@{now}") and date formatting options (e.g. "--date=iso") are given
on the command line.
By Jeff King (4) and Junio C Hamano (1)
* jk/maint-reflog-walk-count-vs-time:
reflog-walk: tell explicit --date=default from not having --date at all
reflog-walk: always make HEAD@{0} show indexed selectors
reflog-walk: clean up "flag" field of commit_reflog struct
log: respect date_mode_explicit with --format:%gd
t1411: add more selector index/date tests
By Jan Krüger (1) and Junio C Hamano (1)
* jk/maint-tformat-with-z:
log-tree: the previous one is still not quite right
log-tree: use custom line terminator in line termination mode
Merge branch 'js/checkout-detach-count' into maint
When checking out another commit from an already detached state, we used
to report all commits that are not reachable from any of the refs as
lossage, but some of them might be reachable from the new HEAD, and there
is no need to warn about them.
By Johannes Sixt
* js/checkout-detach-count:
checkout (detached): truncate list of orphaned commits at the new HEAD
t2020-checkout-detach: check for the number of orphaned commits
Merge branch 'ef/maint-clone-progress-fix' into maint
Some time ago, "git clone" lost the progress output for its "checkout"
phase; when run without any "--quiet" option, it should give progress to
the lengthy operation.
By Erik Faye-Lund
* ef/maint-clone-progress-fix:
clone: fix progress-regression
pack-protocol: fix first-want separator in the examples
When sending the "want" list, the capabilities list is separated from
the obj-id by a SP instead of NUL as in the ref advertisement. The
text is correct, but the examples wrongly show the separator as
NUL. Fix the example so it uses SP.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that read_directory_recursive() (reached through read_directory())
respects the string length limit we provide, we don't need to create a
NUL-limited copy of the common prefix anymore.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
dir: respect string length argument of read_directory_recursive()
A directory name is passed to read_directory_recursive() as a
length-limited string, through the parameters base and baselen.
Suprisingly, base must be a NUL-terminated string as well, as it is
passed to opendir(), ignoring baselen.
Fix this by postponing the call to opendir() until the length-limted
string is added to a strbuf, which provides a NUL in the right place.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Gives a better DWIM behaviour for --pretty=format:%gd, "stash list", and
"log -g", depending on how the starting point ("master" vs "master@{0}" vs
"master@{now}") and date formatting options (e.g. "--date=iso") are given
on the command line.
By Jeff King (4) and Junio C Hamano (1)
* jk/maint-reflog-walk-count-vs-time:
reflog-walk: tell explicit --date=default from not having --date at all
reflog-walk: always make HEAD@{0} show indexed selectors
reflog-walk: clean up "flag" field of commit_reflog struct
log: respect date_mode_explicit with --format:%gd
t1411: add more selector index/date tests
The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three
categories; each case is given a separate advise message.
By Christopher Tiwald (2) and Jeff King (1)
* ct/advise-push-default:
Fix httpd tests that broke when non-ff push advice changed
clean up struct ref's nonfastforward field
push: Provide situational hints for non-fast-forward errors
Merge branch 'jk/repack-no-explode-objects-from-old-pack' into maint
"git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects
when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned
due to its age.
By Jeff King
* jk/repack-no-explode-objects-from-old-pack:
gc: use argv-array for sub-commands
argv-array: add a new "pushl" method
argv-array: refactor empty_argv initialization
gc: do not explode objects which will be immediately pruned
document submdule.$name.update=none option for gitmodules
This option was not yet described in the gitmodules documentation. We
only described it in the 'git submodule' command documentation but
gitmodules is the more natural place to look.
A short reference in the 'git submodule' documentation should be
sufficient since the details can now be found in the documentation to
gitmodules.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake. The output
for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not terminate the
record for the current branch name with NUL as asked.
By Jeff King
via Jeff King
* jk/status-porcelain-z-b:
status: refactor colopts handling
status: respect "-b" for porcelain format
status: fix null termination with "-b"
status: refactor null_termination option
commit: refactor option parsing
Some time ago, "git clone" lost the progress output for its "checkout"
phase; when run without any "--quiet" option, it should give progress to
the lengthy operation.
By Erik Faye-Lund
* ef/maint-clone-progress-fix:
clone: fix progress-regression
When checking out another commit from an already detached state, we used
to report all commits that are not reachable from any of the refs as
lossage, but some of them might be reachable from the new HEAD, and there
is no need to warn about them.
By Johannes Sixt
* js/checkout-detach-count:
checkout (detached): truncate list of orphaned commits at the new HEAD
t2020-checkout-detach: check for the number of orphaned commits
Your build platform may support hardlinks but you may prefer not to use
them, e.g. when installing to DESTDIR to make a tarball and untarring on
a filesystem that has poor support for hardlinks.
The Makefile in git-gui project may need to learn to honor the same
setting; it unconditionally creates git-citool by hardlinking git-gui.
Stream large blobs directly out to archive files without slurping
everything in memory first.
By René Scharfe (6) and Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (4)
* nd/stream-to-archive:
t5000: rationalize unzip tests
archive-zip: streaming for deflated files
archive-zip: streaming for stored files
archive-zip: factor out helpers for writing sizes and CRC
archive-zip: remove uncompressed_size
archive-tar: stream large blobs to tar file
archive: delegate blob reading to backend
archive-tar: unindent write_tar_entry by one level
archive-tar: turn write_tar_entry into blob-writing only
streaming: void pointer instead of char pointer
Refs API is updated to lazily read sub-hierarchies of refs/ namespace,
so that we do not have to grab everything from the filesystem when we
are only interested in listing branches, for example.
By Michael Haggerty (17) and Junio C Hamano (1)
* mh/ref-api-lazy-loose:
refs: fix find_containing_dir() regression
refs: read loose references lazily
read_loose_refs(): eliminate ref_cache argument
struct ref_dir: store a reference to the enclosing ref_cache
search_for_subdir(): return (ref_dir *) instead of (ref_entry *)
get_ref_dir(): add function for getting a ref_dir from a ref_entry
read_loose_refs(): rename function from get_ref_dir()
refs: wrap top-level ref_dirs in ref_entries
find_containing_dir(): use strbuf in implementation of this function
bisect: copy filename string obtained from git_path()
do_for_each_reflog(): use a strbuf to hold logfile name
do_for_each_reflog(): return early on error
get_ref_dir(): take the containing directory as argument
refs.c: extract function search_for_subdir()
get_ref_dir(): require that the dirname argument ends in '/'
get_ref_dir(): rename "base" parameter to "dirname"
get_ref_dir(): use a strbuf to hold refname
get_ref_dir(): return early if directory cannot be read