Our HTTP client code used to advertise that we accept gzip encoding
from the other side; instead, just let cURL library to advertise
and negotiate the best one.
* bw/remote-curl-compressed-responses:
remote-curl: accept compressed responses with protocol v2
remote-curl: accept all encodings supported by curl
* ma/unpack-trees-free-msgs:
unpack_trees_options: free messages when done
argv-array: return the pushed string from argv_push*()
merge-recursive: provide pair of `unpack_trees_{start,finish}()`
merge: setup `opts` later in `checkout_fast_forward()`
Many tests hardcode the raw object names, which would change once
we migrate away from SHA-1. While some of them must test against
exact object names, most of them do not have to use hardcoded
constants in the test. The latter kind of tests have been updated
to test the moral equivalent of the original without hardcoding the
actual object names.
Avoid unchecked snprintf() to make future code auditing easier.
* jk/snprintf-truncation:
fmt_with_err: add a comment that truncation is OK
shorten_unambiguous_ref: use xsnprintf
fsmonitor: use internal argv_array of struct child_process
log_write_email_headers: use strbufs
http: use strbufs instead of fixed buffers
By code restructuring of submodule merge in merge-recursive,
informational messages from the codepath are now given using the
same mechanism as other output, and honor the merge.verbosity
configuration. The code also learned to give a few new messages
when a submodule three-way merge resolves cleanly when one side
records a descendant of the commit chosen by the other side.
* sb/submodule-merge-in-merge-recursive:
merge-recursive: give notice when submodule commit gets fast-forwarded
merge-recursive: i18n submodule merge output and respect verbosity
submodule.c: move submodule merging to merge-recursive.c
"git fetch $there $refspec" that talks over protocol v2 can take
advantage of server-side ref filtering; the code has been extended
so that this mechanism triggers also when fetching with configured
refspec.
* bw/ref-prefix-for-configured-refspec: (38 commits)
fetch: generate ref-prefixes when using a configured refspec
refspec: consolidate ref-prefix generation logic
submodule: convert push_unpushed_submodules to take a struct refspec
remote: convert check_push_refs to take a struct refspec
remote: convert match_push_refs to take a struct refspec
http-push: store refspecs in a struct refspec
transport: remove transport_verify_remote_names
send-pack: store refspecs in a struct refspec
transport: convert transport_push to take a struct refspec
push: convert to use struct refspec
push: check for errors earlier
remote: convert match_explicit_refs to take a struct refspec
remote: convert get_ref_match to take a struct refspec
remote: convert query_refspecs to take a struct refspec
remote: convert apply_refspecs to take a struct refspec
remote: convert get_stale_heads to take a struct refspec
fetch: convert prune_refs to take a struct refspec
fetch: convert get_ref_map to take a struct refspec
fetch: convert do_fetch to take a struct refspec
refspec: remove the deprecated functions
...
Error behaviour of "git grep" when it cannot read the index was
inconsistent with other commands that uses the index, which has
been corrected to error out early.
* sb/grep-die-on-unreadable-index:
grep: handle corrupt index files early
"git submodule update" attempts two different kinds of "git fetch"
against the upstream repository to grab a commit bound at the
submodule's path, but it incorrectly gave up if the first kind
(i.e. a normal fetch) failed, making the second "last resort" one
(i.e. fetching an exact commit object by object name) ineffective.
This has been corrected.
* sb/submodule-update-try-harder:
git-submodule.sh: try harder to fetch a submodule
When a short hexadecimal string is used to name an object but there
are multiple objects that share the string as the prefix of their
names, the code lists these ambiguous candidates in a help message.
These object names are now sorted according to their types for
easier eyeballing.
* ab/get-short-oid:
get_short_oid: sort ambiguous objects by type, then SHA-1
sha1-name.c: move around the collect_ambiguous() function
git-p4: change "commitish" typo to "committish"
sha1-array.h: align function arguments
sha1-name.c: remove stray newline
Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
* bc/object-id: (42 commits)
merge-one-file: compute empty blob object ID
add--interactive: compute the empty tree value
Update shell scripts to compute empty tree object ID
sha1_file: only expose empty object constants through git_hash_algo
dir: use the_hash_algo for empty blob object ID
sequencer: use the_hash_algo for empty tree object ID
cache-tree: use is_empty_tree_oid
sha1_file: convert cached object code to struct object_id
builtin/reset: convert use of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN
builtin/receive-pack: convert one use of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_HEX
wt-status: convert two uses of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_HEX
submodule: convert several uses of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_HEX
sequencer: convert one use of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_HEX
merge: convert empty tree constant to the_hash_algo
builtin/merge: switch tree functions to use object_id
builtin/am: convert uses of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN to the_hash_algo
sha1-file: add functions for hex empty tree and blob OIDs
builtin/receive-pack: avoid hard-coded constants for push certs
diff: specify abbreviation size in terms of the_hash_algo
upload-pack: replace use of several hard-coded constants
...
"git blame" learns to unhighlight uninteresting metadata from the
originating commit on lines that are the same as the previous one,
and also paint lines in different colors depending on the age of
the commit.
* sb/blame-color:
builtin/blame: add new coloring scheme config
builtin/blame: highlight recently changed lines
builtin/blame: dim uninteresting metadata lines
"git submodule update" and "git submodule add" supported the
"--reference" option to borrow objects from a neighbouring local
repository like "git clone" does, but lacked the more recent
invention "--dissociate". Also "git submodule add" has been taught
to take the "--progress" option.
* cf/submodule-progress-dissociate:
submodule: add --dissociate option to add/update commands
submodule: add --progress option to add command
submodule: clean up substitutions in script
Command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete pathnames
for various commands better.
* sg/complete-paths:
t9902-completion: exercise __git_complete_index_file() directly
completion: don't return with error from __gitcomp_file_direct()
completion: fill COMPREPLY directly when completing paths
completion: improve handling quoted paths in 'git ls-files's output
completion: remove repeated dirnames with 'awk' during path completion
t9902-completion: ignore COMPREPLY element order in some tests
completion: use 'awk' to strip trailing path components
completion: let 'ls-files' and 'diff-index' filter matching paths
completion: improve handling quoted paths on the command line
completion: support completing non-ASCII pathnames
completion: simplify prefix path component handling during path completion
completion: move __git_complete_index_file() next to its helpers
t9902-completion: add tests demonstrating issues with quoted pathnames
"git update-ref A B" is supposed to ensure that ref A does not yet
exist when B is a NULL OID, but this check was not done correctly
for pseudo-refs outside refs/ hierarchy, e.g. MERGE_HEAD.
* ma/create-pseudoref-with-null-old-oid:
refs: handle zero oid for pseudorefs
t1400: add tests around adding/deleting pseudorefs
refs.c: refer to "object ID", not "sha1", in error messages
Code clean-up to turn history traversal more robust in a
semi-corrupt repository.
* jk/unavailable-can-be-missing:
mark_parents_uninteresting(): avoid most allocation
mark_parents_uninteresting(): replace list with stack
mark_parents_uninteresting(): drop missing object check
mark_tree_contents_uninteresting(): drop missing object check
"git status" learned to honor a new status.renames configuration to
skip rename detection, which could be useful for those who want to
do so without disabling the default rename detection done by the
"git diff" command.
* bp/status-rename-config:
add status config and command line options for rename detection
Developer support update, by using BUG() macro instead of die() to
mark codepaths that should not happen more clearly.
* js/use-bug-macro:
BUG_exit_code: fix sparse "symbol not declared" warning
Convert remaining die*(BUG) messages
Replace all die("BUG: ...") calls by BUG() ones
run-command: use BUG() to report bugs, not die()
test-tool: help verifying BUG() code paths
Code clean-up to adjust to a more recent lockfile API convention that
allows lockfile instances kept on the stack.
* ma/lockfile-cleanup:
lock_file: move static locks into functions
lock_file: make function-local locks non-static
refs.c: do not die if locking fails in `delete_pseudoref()`
refs.c: do not die if locking fails in `write_pseudoref()`
t/helper/test-write-cache: clean up lock-handling
With merge.renames configuration set to false, the recursive merge
strategy can be told not to spend cycles trying to find renamed
paths and merge them accordingly.
* bp/merge-rename-config:
merge: pass aggressive when rename detection is turned off
merge: add merge.renames config setting
merge: update documentation for {merge,diff}.renameLimit
The implementation of "git rebase -i --root" has been updated to use
the sequencer machinery more.
* js/sequencer-and-root-commits:
rebase --rebase-merges: root commits can be cousins, too
rebase --rebase-merges: a "merge" into a new root is a fast-forward
sequencer: allow introducing new root commits
rebase -i --root: let the sequencer handle even the initial part
sequencer: learn about the special "fake root commit" handling
sequencer: extract helper to update active_cache_tree
"git send-email" can sometimes offer confirmation dialog "Send this
email?" with choices 'Yes', 'No', 'Quit', and 'All'. A new action
'Edit' has been added to this dialog's choice.
* dd/send-email-reedit:
git-send-email: allow re-editing of message
The command line completion mechanism (in contrib/) learned to load
custom completion file for "git $command" where $command is a
custom "git-$command" that the end user has on the $PATH when using
newer version of bash.
* fg/completion-external:
completion: load completion file for external subcommand
Asciidoctor gives a reasonable imitation for AsciiDoc, but does not
render illustration in a literal block correctly when indented with
HT by default. The problem is fixed by forcing 8-space tabs.
* bc/asciidoctor-tab-width:
Documentation: render revisions correctly under Asciidoctor
Documentation: use 8-space tabs with Asciidoctor
* ah/misc-doc-updates:
doc: normalize [--options] to [options] in git-diff
doc: add note about shell quoting to revision.txt
git-svn: remove ''--add-author-from' for 'commit-diff'
doc: add '-d' and '-o' for 'git push'
doc: clarify ignore rules for git ls-files
doc: align 'diff --no-index' in text and synopsis
doc: improve formatting in githooks.txt
"git format-patch --cover --attach" created a broken MIME multipart
message for the cover letter, which has been fixed by keeping the
cover letter as plain text file.
* bc/format-patch-cover-no-attach:
format-patch: make cover letters always text/plain
A test to see if the filesystem normalizes UTF-8 filename has been
updated to check what we need to know in a more direct way, i.e. a
path created in NFC form can be accessed with NFD form (or vice
versa) to cope with APFS as well as HFS.
* tb/test-apfs-utf8-normalization:
test: correct detection of UTF8_NFD_TO_NFC for APFS
"git rebase" learned "--rebase-merges" to transplant the whole
topology of commit graph elsewhere.
* js/rebase-recreate-merge:
rebase -i --rebase-merges: add a section to the man page
rebase -i: introduce --rebase-merges=[no-]rebase-cousins
pull: accept --rebase=merges to recreate the branch topology
rebase --rebase-merges: avoid "empty merges"
sequencer: handle post-rewrite for merge commands
sequencer: make refs generated by the `label` command worktree-local
rebase --rebase-merges: add test for --keep-empty
rebase: introduce the --rebase-merges option
rebase-helper --make-script: introduce a flag to rebase merges
sequencer: fast-forward `merge` commands, if possible
sequencer: introduce the `merge` command
sequencer: introduce new commands to reset the revision
git-rebase--interactive: clarify arguments
sequencer: offer helpful advice when a command was rescheduled
sequencer: refactor how original todo list lines are accessed
sequencer: make rearrange_squash() a bit more obvious
sequencer: avoid using errno clobbered by rollback_lock_file()
"git pack-objects" needs to allocate tons of "struct object_entry"
while doing its work, and shrinking its size helps the performance
quite a bit.
* nd/pack-objects-pack-struct:
ci: exercise the whole test suite with uncommon code in pack-objects
pack-objects: reorder members to shrink struct object_entry
pack-objects: shrink delta_size field in struct object_entry
pack-objects: shrink size field in struct object_entry
pack-objects: clarify the use of object_entry::size
pack-objects: don't check size when the object is bad
pack-objects: shrink z_delta_size field in struct object_entry
pack-objects: refer to delta objects by index instead of pointer
pack-objects: move in_pack out of struct object_entry
pack-objects: move in_pack_pos out of struct object_entry
pack-objects: use bitfield for object_entry::depth
pack-objects: use bitfield for object_entry::dfs_state
pack-objects: turn type and in_pack_type to bitfields
pack-objects: a bit of document about struct object_entry
read-cache.c: make $GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX boolean
Rename detection logic in "diff" family that is used in "merge" has
learned to guess when all of x/a, x/b and x/c have moved to z/a,
z/b and z/c, it is likely that x/d added in the meantime would also
want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory
'x' moved to 'z'. A bug causing dirty files involved in a rename
to be overwritten during merge has also been fixed as part of this
work. Incidentally, this also avoids updating a file in the
working tree after a (non-trivial) merge whose result matches what
our side originally had.
* en/rename-directory-detection-reboot: (36 commits)
merge-recursive: fix check for skipability of working tree updates
merge-recursive: make "Auto-merging" comment show for other merges
merge-recursive: fix remainder of was_dirty() to use original index
merge-recursive: fix was_tracked() to quit lying with some renamed paths
t6046: testcases checking whether updates can be skipped in a merge
merge-recursive: avoid triggering add_cacheinfo error with dirty mod
merge-recursive: move more is_dirty handling to merge_content
merge-recursive: improve add_cacheinfo error handling
merge-recursive: avoid spurious rename/rename conflict from dir renames
directory rename detection: new testcases showcasing a pair of bugs
merge-recursive: fix remaining directory rename + dirty overwrite cases
merge-recursive: fix overwriting dirty files involved in renames
merge-recursive: avoid clobbering untracked files with directory renames
merge-recursive: apply necessary modifications for directory renames
merge-recursive: when comparing files, don't include trees
merge-recursive: check for file level conflicts then get new name
merge-recursive: add computation of collisions due to dir rename & merging
merge-recursive: check for directory level conflicts
merge-recursive: add get_directory_renames()
merge-recursive: make a helper function for cleanup for handle_renames
...
"git rebase -i" sometimes left intermediate "# This is a
combination of N commits" message meant for the human consumption
inside an editor in the final result in certain corner cases, which
has been fixed.
* js/rebase-i-clean-msg-after-fixup-continue:
rebase --skip: clean up commit message after a failed fixup/squash
sequencer: always commit without editing when asked for
rebase -i: Handle "combination of <n> commits" with GETTEXT_POISON
rebase -i: demonstrate bugs with fixup!/squash! commit messages
"git worktree add" learned to check out an existing branch.
* tg/worktree-add-existing-branch:
worktree: teach "add" to check out existing branches
worktree: factor out dwim_branch function
worktree: improve message when creating a new worktree
worktree: remove extra members from struct add_opts
The functionality of "$GIT_DIR/info/grafts" has been superseded by
the "refs/replace/" mechanism for some time now, but the internal
code had support for it in many places, which has been cleaned up
in order to drop support of the "grafts" mechanism.
* js/deprecate-grafts:
Remove obsolete script to convert grafts to replace refs
technical/shallow: describe why shallow cannot use replace refs
technical/shallow: stop referring to grafts
filter-branch: stop suggesting to use grafts
Deprecate support for .git/info/grafts
Add a test for `git replace --convert-graft-file`
replace: introduce --convert-graft-file
replace: prepare create_graft() for converting graft files wholesale
replace: "libify" create_graft() and callees
replace: avoid using die() to indicate a bug
commit: Let the callback of for_each_mergetag return on error
argv_array: offer to split a string by whitespace
We learned that our source files with ".pl" and ".py" extensions
are Perl and Python files respectively and changes to them are
better viewed as such with appropriate diff drivers.
* ab/perl-python-attrs:
.gitattributes: add a diff driver for Python
.gitattributes: use the "perl" differ for Perl
.gitattributes: add *.pl extension for Perl
The codepath around object-info API has been taught to take the
repository object (which in turn tells the API which object store
the objects are to be located).
* sb/oid-object-info:
cache.h: allow oid_object_info to handle arbitrary repositories
packfile: add repository argument to cache_or_unpack_entry
packfile: add repository argument to unpack_entry
packfile: add repository argument to read_object
packfile: add repository argument to packed_object_info
packfile: add repository argument to packed_to_object_type
packfile: add repository argument to retry_bad_packed_offset
cache.h: add repository argument to oid_object_info
cache.h: add repository argument to oid_object_info_extended
The transport protocol v2 is getting updated further.
* bw/server-options:
fetch: send server options when using protocol v2
ls-remote: send server options when using protocol v2
serve: introduce the server-option capability
"git gc" in a large repository takes a lot of time as it considers
to repack all objects into one pack by default. The command has
been taught to pretend as if the largest existing packfile is
marked with ".keep" so that it is left untouched while objects in
other packs and loose ones are repacked.
* nd/repack-keep-pack:
pack-objects: show some progress when counting kept objects
gc --auto: exclude base pack if not enough mem to "repack -ad"
gc: handle a corner case in gc.bigPackThreshold
gc: add gc.bigPackThreshold config
gc: add --keep-largest-pack option
repack: add --keep-pack option
t7700: have closing quote of a test at the beginning of line
The code has been taught to use the duplicated information stored
in the commit-graph file to learn the tree object name for a commit
to avoid opening and parsing the commit object when it makes sense
to do so.
* ds/lazy-load-trees:
coccinelle: avoid wrong transformation suggestions from commit.cocci
commit-graph: lazy-load trees for commits
treewide: replace maybe_tree with accessor methods
commit: create get_commit_tree() method
treewide: rename tree to maybe_tree
The code did not propagate the terminal width to subprocesses via
COLUMNS environment variable, which it now does. This caused
trouble to "git column" helper subprocess when "git tag --column=row"
tried to list the existing tags on a display with non-default width.
* nd/term-columns:
column: fix off-by-one default width
pager: set COLUMNS to term_columns()
* sb/object-store-replace:
get_main_ref_store: BUG() when outside a repository
object.c: clear replace map before freeing it
replace-object.c: remove the_repository from prepare_replace_object
object.c: free replace map in raw_object_store_clear
remote-curl: accept compressed responses with protocol v2
Configure curl to accept compressed responses when using protocol v2 by
setting `CURLOPT_ENCODING` to "", which indicates that curl should send
an "Accept-Encoding" header with all supported compression encodings.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
remote-curl: accept all encodings supported by curl
Configure curl to accept all encodings which curl supports instead of
only accepting gzip responses.
This fixes an issue when using an installation of curl which is built
without the "zlib" feature. Since aa90b9697 (Enable info/refs gzip
decompression in HTTP client, 2012-09-19) we end up requesting "gzip"
encoding anyway despite libcurl not being able to decode it. Worse,
instead of getting a clear error message indicating so, we end up
falling back to "dumb" http, producing a confusing and difficult to
debug result.
Since curl doesn't do any checking to verify that it supports the a
requested encoding, instead set the curl option `CURLOPT_ENCODING` with
an empty string indicating that curl should send an "Accept-Encoding"
header containing only the encodings supported by curl.
Reported-by: Anton Golubev <anton.golubev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-2.16:
Git 2.16.4
Git 2.15.2
Git 2.14.4
Git 2.13.7
verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules
update-index: stat updated files earlier
verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment
verify_path: drop clever fallthrough
skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant
is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests
is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string
submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
* maint-2.15:
Git 2.15.2
Git 2.14.4
Git 2.13.7
verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules
update-index: stat updated files earlier
verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment
verify_path: drop clever fallthrough
skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant
is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests
is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string
submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
* maint-2.14:
Git 2.14.4
Git 2.13.7
verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules
update-index: stat updated files earlier
verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment
verify_path: drop clever fallthrough
skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant
is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests
is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string
submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
* maint-2.13:
Git 2.13.7
verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules
update-index: stat updated files earlier
verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment
verify_path: drop clever fallthrough
skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant
is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests
is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string
submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
Merge branch 'jk/submodule-fix-loose' into maint-2.13
* jk/submodule-fix-loose:
verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules
update-index: stat updated files earlier
verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment
verify_path: drop clever fallthrough
skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant
is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests
is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string
submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
We've recently forbidden .gitmodules to be a symlink in
verify_path(). And it's an easy way to circumvent our fsck
checks for .gitmodules content. So let's complain when we
see it.
Now that the internal fsck code has all of the plumbing we
need, we can start checking incoming .gitmodules files.
Naively, it seems like we would just need to add a call to
fsck_finish() after we've processed all of the objects. And
that would be enough to cover the initial test included
here. But there are two extra bits:
1. We currently don't bother calling fsck_object() at all
for blobs, since it has traditionally been a noop. We'd
actually catch these blobs in fsck_finish() at the end,
but it's more efficient to check them when we already
have the object loaded in memory.
2. The second pass done by fsck_finish() needs to access
the objects, but we're actually indexing the pack in
this process. In theory we could give the fsck code a
special callback for accessing the in-pack data, but
it's actually quite tricky:
a. We don't have an internal efficient index mapping
oids to packfile offsets. We only generate it on
the fly as part of writing out the .idx file.
b. We'd still have to reconstruct deltas, which means
we'd basically have to replicate all of the
reading logic in packfile.c.
Instead, let's avoid running fsck_finish() until after
we've written out the .idx file, and then just add it
to our internal packed_git list.
This does mean that the objects are "in the repository"
before we finish our fsck checks. But unpack-objects
already exhibits this same behavior, and it's an
acceptable tradeoff here for the same reason: the
quarantine mechanism means that pushes will be
fully protected.
In addition to a basic push test in t7415, we add a sneaky
pack that reverses the usual object order in the pack,
requiring that index-pack access the tree and blob during
the "finish" step.
This already works for unpack-objects (since it will have
written out loose objects), but we'll check it with this
sneaky pack for good measure.
unpack-objects: call fsck_finish() after fscking objects
As with the previous commit, we must call fsck's "finish"
function in order to catch any queued objects for
.gitmodules checks.
This second pass will be able to access any incoming
objects, because we will have exploded them to loose objects
by now.
This isn't quite ideal, because it means that bad objects
may have been written to the object database (and a
subsequent operation could then reference them, even if the
other side doesn't send the objects again). However, this is
sufficient when used with receive.fsckObjects, since those
loose objects will all be placed in a temporary quarantine
area that will get wiped if we find any problems.
Now that the internal fsck code is capable of checking
.gitmodules files, we just need to teach its callers to use
the "finish" function to check any queued objects.
With this, we can now catch the malicious case in t7415 with
git-fsck.
This patch detects and blocks submodule names which do not
match the policy set forth in submodule-config. These should
already be caught by the submodule code itself, but putting
the check here means that newer versions of Git can protect
older ones from malicious entries (e.g., a server with
receive.fsckObjects will block the objects, protecting
clients which fetch from it).
As a side effect, this means fsck will also complain about
.gitmodules files that cannot be parsed (or were larger than
core.bigFileThreshold).
fsck: handle promisor objects in .gitmodules check
If we have a tree that points to a .gitmodules blob but
don't have that blob, we can't check its contents. This
produces an fsck error when we encounter it.
But in the case of a promisor object, this absence is
expected, and we must not complain. Note that this can
technically circumvent our transfer.fsckObjects check.
Imagine a client fetches a tree, but not the matching
.gitmodules blob. An fsck of the incoming objects will show
that we don't have enough information. Later, we do fetch
the actual blob. But we have no idea that it's a .gitmodules
file.
The only ways to get around this would be to re-scan all of
the existing trees whenever new ones enter (which is
expensive), or to somehow persist the gitmodules_found set
between fsck runs (which is complicated).
In practice, it's probably OK to ignore the problem. Any
repository which has all of the objects (including the one
serving the promisor packs) can perform the checks. Since
promisor packs are inherently about a hierarchical topology
in which clients rely on upstream repositories, those
upstream repositories can protect all of their downstream
clients from broken objects.
In preparation for performing fsck checks on .gitmodules
files, this commit plumbs in the actual detection of the
files. Note that unlike most other fsck checks, this cannot
be a property of a single object: we must know that the
object is found at a ".gitmodules" path at the root tree of
a commit.
Since the fsck code only sees one object at a time, we have
to mark the related objects to fit the puzzle together. When
we see a commit we mark its tree as a root tree, and when
we see a root tree with a .gitmodules file, we mark the
corresponding blob to be checked.
In an ideal world, we'd check the objects in topological
order: commits followed by trees followed by blobs. In that
case we can avoid ever loading an object twice, since all
markings would be complete by the time we get to the marked
objects. And indeed, if we are checking a single packfile,
this is the order in which Git will generally write the
objects. But we can't count on that:
1. git-fsck may show us the objects in arbitrary order
(loose objects are fed in sha1 order, but we may also
have multiple packs, and we process each pack fully in
sequence).
2. The type ordering is just what git-pack-objects happens
to write now. The pack format does not require a
specific order, and it's possible that future versions
of Git (or a custom version trying to fool official
Git's fsck checks!) may order it differently.
3. We may not even be fscking all of the relevant objects
at once. Consider pushing with transfer.fsckObjects,
where one push adds a blob at path "foo", and then a
second push adds the same blob at path ".gitmodules".
The blob is not part of the second push at all, but we
need to mark and check it.
So in the general case, we need to make up to three passes
over the objects: once to make sure we've seen all commits,
then once to cover any trees we might have missed, and then
a final pass to cover any .gitmodules blobs we found in the
second pass.
We can simplify things a bit by loosening the requirement
that we find .gitmodules only at root trees. Technically
a file like "subdir/.gitmodules" is not parsed by Git, but
it's not unreasonable for us to declare that Git is aware of
all ".gitmodules" files and make them eligible for checking.
That lets us drop the root-tree requirement, which
eliminates one pass entirely. And it makes our worst case
much better: instead of potentially queueing every root tree
to be re-examined, the worst case is that we queue each
unique .gitmodules blob for a second look.
This patch just adds the boilerplate to find .gitmodules
files. The actual content checks will come in a subsequent
commit.
Because fscking a blob has always been a noop, we didn't
bother passing around the blob data. In preparation for
content-level checks, let's fix up a few things:
1. The fsck_object() function just returns success for any
blob. Let's a noop fsck_blob(), which we can fill in
with actual logic later.
2. The fsck_loose() function in builtin/fsck.c
just threw away blob content after loading it. Let's
hold onto it until after we've called fsck_object().
The easiest way to do this is to just drop the
parse_loose_object() helper entirely. Incidentally,
this also fixes a memory leak: if we successfully
loaded the object data but did not parse it, we would
have left the function without freeing it.
3. When fsck_loose() loads the object data, it
does so with a custom read_loose_object() helper. This
function streams any blobs, regardless of size, under
the assumption that we're only checking the sha1.
Instead, let's actually load blobs smaller than
big_file_threshold, as the normal object-reading
code-paths would do. This lets us fsck small files, and
a NULL return is an indication that the blob was so big
that it needed to be streamed, and we can pass that
information along to fsck_blob().
There's no need for us to manually check for ".git"; it's a
subset of the other filesystem-specific tests. Dropping it
makes our code slightly shorter. More importantly, the
existing code may make a reader wonder why ".GIT" is not
covered here, and whether that is a bug (it isn't, as it's
also covered in the filesystem-specific tests).
If fsck reports an error, we say only "Error in object".
This isn't quite as bad as it might seem, since the fsck
code would have dumped some errors to stderr already. But it
might help to give a little more context. The earlier output
would not have even mentioned "fsck", and that may be a clue
that the "fsck.*" or "*.fsckObjects" config may be relevant.
Merge branch 'jk/submodule-name-verify-fix' into jk/submodule-name-verify-fsck
* jk/submodule-name-verify-fix:
verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules
update-index: stat updated files earlier
verify_path: drop clever fallthrough
skip_prefix: add icase-insensitive variant
is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests
path: match NTFS short names for more .git files
is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string
submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
Note that this includes two bits of evil-merge:
- there's a new call to verify_path() that doesn't actually
have a mode available. It should be OK to pass "0" here,
since we're just manipulating the untracked cache, not an
actual index entry.
- the lstat() in builtin/update-index.c:update_one() needs
to be updated to handle the fsmonitor case (without this
it still behaves correctly, but does an unnecessary
lstat).
There are a few reasons it's not a good idea to make
.gitmodules a symlink, including:
1. It won't be portable to systems without symlinks.
2. It may behave inconsistently, since Git may look at
this file in the index or a tree without bothering to
resolve any symbolic links. We don't do this _yet_, but
the config infrastructure is there and it's planned for
the future.
With some clever code, we could make (2) work. And some
people may not care about (1) if they only work on one
platform. But there are a few security reasons to simply
disallow it:
a. A symlinked .gitmodules file may circumvent any fsck
checks of the content.
b. Git may read and write from the on-disk file without
sanity checking the symlink target. So for example, if
you link ".gitmodules" to "../oops" and run "git
submodule add", we'll write to the file "oops" outside
the repository.
Again, both of those are problems that _could_ be solved
with sufficient code, but given the complications in (1) and
(2), we're better off just outlawing it explicitly.
Note the slightly tricky call to verify_path() in
update-index's update_one(). There we may not have a mode if
we're not updating from the filesystem (e.g., we might just
be removing the file). Passing "0" as the mode there works
fine; since it's not a symlink, we'll just skip the extra
checks.
In the update_one(), we check verify_path() on the proposed
path before doing anything else. In preparation for having
verify_path() look at the file mode, let's stat the file
earlier, so we can check the mode accurately.
This is made a bit trickier by the fact that this function
only does an lstat in a few code paths (the ones that flow
down through process_path()). So we can speculatively do the
lstat() here and pass the results down, and just use a dummy
mode for cases where we won't actually be updating the index
from the filesystem.