Documentation: what does "git log --indexed-objects" even mean?
4fe10219 (rev-list: add --indexed-objects option, 2014-10-16) adds
"--indexed-objects" option to "rev-list", and it is only useful in
the context of "git rev-list" and not "git log". There are other
object traversal options that do not make sense for "git log" that
are shown in the manual page.
Move the description of "--indexed-objects" to the object traversal
section so that it sits together with its friends "--objects",
"--objects-edge", etc. and then show them only in "git rev-list"
documentation.
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you use git-p4 with the "--prepare-p4-only" option, then
it prints the p4 command line to use. However, the command
line was incorrect: the changelist specification must be
supplied on standard input, not as an argument to p4.
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org> Acked-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
add -i: return from list_and_choose if there is no candidate
The list_and_choose() helper is given a prompt and a list, asks the
user to make selection from the list, and then returns a list of
items chosen. Even when it is given an empty list as the original
candidate set to choose from, it gave a prompt to the user, who can
only say "I am done choosing".
Return an empty result when the input is an empty list without
bothering the user. The existing caller must already have a logic
to say "Nothing to do" or an equivalent when the returned list is
empty (i.e. the user chose to select nothing) if it is necessary, so
no change to the callers is necessary.
This fixes the case where "add untracked" is asked in "git add -i"
and there is no untracked files in the working tree. We used to give
an empty list of files to choose from with a prompt, but with this
change, we no longer do.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Version numbers in asciidoc-generated content (such as man pages)
went missing as of da8a366 (Documentation: refactor common operations
into variables). Fix by putting the underscore back in the variable
name.
Signed-off-by: Sven van Haastregt <svenvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
apply: detect and mark whitespace errors in context lines when fixing
When the incoming patch has whitespace errors in a common context
line (i.e. a line that is expected to be found and is not modified
by the patch), "apply --whitespace=fix" corrects the whitespace
errors the line has, in addition to the whitespace error on a line
that is updated by the patch. However, we did not count and report
that we fixed whitespace errors on such lines.
[jc: This is iffy. What if the whitespace error has been fixed in
the target since the patch was written? A common context line we
see in the patch has errors, and it matches a line in the target
that has the errors already corrected, resulting in no change, which
we may not want to count after all. On the other hand, we are
reporting whitespace errors _in_ the incoming patch, so...]
Under --whitespace=fix option, match_fragment() function examines
the preimage (the common context and the removed lines in the patch)
and the file being patched and checks if they match after correcting
all whitespace errors. When they are found to match, the common
context lines in the preimage is replaced with the fixed copy,
because these lines will then be copied to the corresponding place
in the postimage by a later call to update_pre_post_images(). Lines
that are added in the postimage, under --whitespace=fix, have their
whitespace errors already fixed when apply_one_fragment() prepares
the preimage and the postimage, so in the end, application of the
patch can be done by replacing the block of text in the file being
patched that matched the preimage with what is in the postimage that
was updated by update_pre_post_images().
In the earlier days, fixing whitespace errors always resulted in
reduction of size, either collapsing runs of spaces in the indent to
a tab or removing the trailing whitespaces. These days, however,
some whitespace error fix results in extending the size.
250b3c6c (apply --whitespace=fix: avoid running over the postimage
buffer, 2013-03-22) tried to compute the final postimage size but
its math was flawed. It counted the size of the block of text in
the original being patched after fixing the whitespace errors on its
lines that correspond to the preimage. That number does not have
much to do with how big the final postimage would be.
Instead count (1) the added lines in the postimage, whose size is
the same as in the final patch result because their whitespace
errors have already been corrected, and (2) the fixed size of the
lines that are common.
apply: make update_pre_post_images() sanity check the given postlen
"git apply --whitespace=fix" used to be able to assume that fixing
errors will always reduce the size by e.g. stripping whitespaces at
the end of lines or collapsing runs of spaces into tabs at the
beginning of lines. An update to accomodate fixes that lengthens
the result by e.g. expanding leading tabs into spaces were made long
time ago but the logic miscounted the necessary space after such
whitespace fixes, leading to either under-allocation or over-usage
of already allocated space.
Illustrate this with a runtime sanity-check to protect us from
future breakage. The test was stolen from Kyle McKay who helped
to identify the problem.
Helped-by: "Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 908a3203632a02568df230c0fccf9a2cd8da24e6 introduced indentation
to here documents in t3301.sh. However in one place <<-EOF was missing
-, which broke this test when run with mksh-50d. This commit fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Kacper Kornet <draenog@pld-linux.org> Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
rebase -i: use full object name internally throughout the script
In earlier days, the abbreviated commit object name shown to the end
users were generated with hardcoded --abbrev=7; 56895038 (rebase
-i: respect core.abbrev, 2013-09-28) tried to make it honor the user
specified core.abbrev, but it missed the very initial invocation of
the editor.
These days, we try to use the full 40-hex object names internally to
avoid ambiguity that can arise after rebase starts running. Newly
created objects during the rebase may share the same prefix with
existing commits listed in the insn sheet. These object names are
shortened just before invoking the sequence editor to present the
insn sheet to the end user, and then expanded back to full object
names when the editor returns.
But the code still used the shortened names when preparing the insn
sheet for the very first time, resulting "7 hexdigits or more"
output to the user. Change the code to use full 40-hex commit
object names from the very beginning to make things more uniform.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
transport-helper: do not request symbolic refs to remote helpers
A typical remote helper will return a `list` of refs containing a symbolic
ref HEAD, pointing to, e.g. refs/heads/master. In the case of a clone, all
the refs are being requested through `fetch` or `import`, including the
symbolic ref.
While this works properly, in some cases of a fetch, like `git fetch url`
or `git fetch origin HEAD`, or any fetch command involving a symbolic ref
without also fetching the corresponding ref it points to, the fetch command
fails with:
(in the case the remote helper returned '?' values to the `list` command).
This is because there is only one ref given to fetch(), and it's not
further resolved to something at the end of fetch_with_import().
While this can be somehow handled in the remote helper itself, by adding
a refspec for the symbolic ref, and storing an explicit ref in a private
namespace, and then handling the `import` for that symbolic ref
specifically, very few existing remote helpers are actually doing that.
So, instead of requesting the exact list of wanted refs to remote helpers,
treat symbolic refs differently and request the ref they point to instead.
Then, resolve the symbolic refs values based on the pointed ref.
This assumes there is no more than one level of indirection (a symbolic
ref doesn't point to another symbolic ref).
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An indentation error was found right after we started l10n round 2, and
commit d6589d1 (show-branch: fix indentation of usage string) and this
update would fix it.
parse_color: fix return value for numeric color values 0-8
When commit 695d95d refactored the color parsing, it missed
a "return 0" when parsing literal numbers 0-8 (which
represent basic ANSI colors), leading us to report these
colors as an error.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The relationship between these makes more sense if you read
them as a group, which can help people who are looking for
the right function. Let's give them a single comment.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
strbuf.h: drop boilerplate descriptions of strbuf_split_*
The description of strbuf_split_buf says most of what
needs to be said for all of the split variants that take
strings, raw memory, etc. We have a boilerplate comment
above each that points to the first. This boilerplate
ends up making it harder to read, because it spaces out the
functions, which could otherwise be read as a group.
Let's drop the boilerplate completely, and mention the
variants in the top comment. This is perhaps slightly worse
for a hypothetical system which pulls the documentation for
each function out of the comment immediately preceding it.
But such a system does not yet exist, and anyway, the end
result of extracting the boilerplate comments would not lead
to a very easy-to-read result. We would do better in the
long run to teach the extraction system about groups of
related functions.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
strbuf.h: reorganize api function grouping headers
The original API doc had something like:
Functions
---------
* Life cycle
... some life-cycle functions ...
* Related to the contents of the buffer
... functions related to contents ....
etc
This grouping can be hard to read in the comment sources,
given the "*" in the comment lines, and the amount of text
between each section.
Instead, let's make a flat list of groupings, and underline
each as a section header. That makes them stand out, and
eliminates the weird half-phrase of "Related to...". Like:
Functions related to the contents of the buffer
-----------------------------------------------
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
strbuf.h: format asciidoc code blocks as 4-space indent
This is much easier to read when the whole thing is stuffed
inside a comment block. And there is precedent for this
convention in markdown (and just in general ascii text).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
strbuf.h: drop asciidoc list formatting from API docs
Using a hanging indent is much more readable. This means we
won't format as asciidoc anymore, but since we don't have a
working system for extracting these comments anyway, it's
probably more important to just make the source readable.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The prior patch uses "/**" to denote "documentation"
comments that we pulled from api-strbuf.txt. Let's use a
consistent style for similar comments that were already in
strbuf.h.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some of strbuf is documented as comments above functions,
and some is separate in Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt.
This makes it annoying to find the appropriate documentation.
We'd rather have it all in one place, which means all in the
text document, or all in the header.
Let's choose the header as that place. Even though the
formatting is not quite as pretty, this keeps the
documentation close to the related code. The hope is that
this makes it easier to find what you want (human-readable
comments are right next to the C declarations), and easier
for writers to keep the documentation up to date.
This is more or less a straight import of the text from
api-strbuf.txt into C comments, complete with asciidoc
formatting. The exceptions are:
1. All comments created in this way are started with "/**"
to indicate they are part of the API documentation. This
may help later with extracting the text to pretty-print
it.
2. Function descriptions do not repeat the function name,
as it is available in the context directly below. So:
`strbuf_add`::
Add data of given length to the buffer.
from api-strbuf.txt becomes:
/**
* Add data of given length to the buffer.
*/
void strbuf_add(struct strbuf *sb, const void *, size_t);
As a result, any block-continuation required in asciidoc
for that list item was dropped in favor of straight
blank-line paragraph (since it is not necessary when we
are not in a list item).
3. There is minor re-wording to integrate existing comments
and api-strbuf text. In each case, I took whichever
version was more descriptive, and eliminated any
redundancies. In one case, for strbuf_addstr, the api
documentation gave its inline definition; I eliminated
this as redundant with the actual definition, which can
be seen directly below the comment.
4. The functions in the header file are re-ordered to match
the ordering of the API documentation, under the
assumption that more thought went into the grouping
there.
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
POSIXPERM requires that a later call to stat(2) (hence "ls -l")
faithfully reproduces what an earlier chmod(2) did. Some
filesystems cannot satisify this.
SANITY requires that a file or a directory is indeed accessible (or
inaccessible) when its permission bits would say it ought to be
accessible (or inaccessible). Running tests as root would lose this
prerequisite for obvious reasons.
Fix a few tests that misuse POSIXPERM.
t0061-run-command.sh has two uses of POSIXPERM.
- One checks that an attempt to execute a file that is marked as
unexecutable results in a failure with EACCES; I do not think
having root-ness or any other capability that busts the
filesystem permission mode bits will make you run an unexecutable
file, so this should be left as-is. The test does not have
anything to do with SANITY.
- The other one expects 'git nitfol' runs the alias when an
alias.nitfol is defined and a directory on the PATH is marked as
unreadable and unsearchable. I _think_ the test tries to reject
the alternative expectation that we want to refuse to run the
alias because it would break "no alias may mask a command" rule
if a file 'git-nitfol' exists in the unreadable directory but we
cannot even determine if that is the case. Under !SANITY that
busts the permission bits, this test no longer checks that, so it
must be protected with SANITY.
t1509-root-worktree.sh expects to be run on a / that is writable by
the user and sees if Git behaves "sensibly" when /.git is the
repository to govern a worktree that is the whole filesystem, and
also if Git behaves "sensibly" when / itself is a bare repository
with refs, objects, and friends (I find the definition of "behaves
sensibly" under these conditions hard to fathom, but it is a
different matter).
The implementation of the test is very much problematic.
- It requires POSIXPERM, but it does not do chmod or checks modes
in any way.
- It runs "rm /*" and "rm -fr /refs /objects ..." in one of the
tests, and also does "cd / && git init --bare". If done on a
live system that takes advantages of the "feature" being tested,
these obviously will clobber the system. But there is no guard
against such a breakage.
- It uses "test $UID = 0" to see rootness, which now should be
spelled "! test_have_prereq NOT_ROOT"
The SANITY prerequisite is really about whether the
filesystem will respect the permissions we set, and being
root is only one part of that. But the httpd tests really
just care about not being root, as they are trying to avoid
weirdness in apache (see a1a3011 for details).
Let's switch out SANITY for a new NOT_ROOT prerequisite,
which will let us tweak SANITY more freely.
We implement NOT_ROOT by checking `id -u`, which is in POSIX
and seems to be available even on MSYS. Note that we cannot
just call this "ROOT" and ask for "!ROOT". The possible
outcomes are:
1. we know we are root
2. we know we are not root
3. we could not tell, because `id` was not available
We should conservatively treat (3) as "does not have the
prerequisite", which means that a naive negation would not
work.
Helped-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"log --pretty" documentation: do not forget "tformat:"
We forgot to list "tformat:<string>" when enumerating possible
values that "--pretty=<format>" can take. It was not described
that "--pretty='string with %s placeholder'" that is not understood
is DWIMmed as "--pretty=tformat:<that string>".
Further, it was unclear what "When omitted, defaults to 'medium'"
was meant. Is it "When --pretty=<something> was not given at all",
or is it "When --pretty is given without =<something>"? Clarify
that it is the latter.
Even though "advice.h" includes "git-compat-util.h", it is not
sensible to have it as the first #include and indirectly satisify
the "You must give git-compat-util.h a clean environment to set up
feature test macros before including any of the system headers are
included", which is the real requirement.
Because:
- A command that interacts with the object store, config subsystem,
the index, or the working tree cannot do anything without using
what is declared in "cache.h";
- A built-in command must be declared in "builtin.h", so anything
in builtin/*.c must include it;
- These two headers both include "git-compat-util.h" as the first
thing; and
- Almost all our *.c files (outside compat/ and borrowed files in
xdiff/) need some Git-ness from "cache.h" to do something
Git-ish.
let's explicitly specify that one of these three header files must
be the first thing that is included.
Any of our *.c file should include the header file that directly
declares what it uses, instead of relying on the fact that some *.h
file it includes happens to include another *.h file that declares
the necessary function or type. Spell it out as another guideline
item.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was whittled down to a compatibility wrapper around the more
flexible git_prompt() in 1cb0134f (refactor git_getpass into generic
prompt function, 2011-12-10), waiting for the final callers to go
away. That happened in 791643a8 (imap-send: use git-credential,
2014-04-28) when imap-send learned to use the credential interface.
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
http.c: make finish_active_slot() and handle_curl_result() static
They used to be used directly by remote-curl.c for the smart-http
protocol. But they got wrapped by run_one_slot() in beed336 (http:
never use curl_easy_perform, 2014-02-18). Any future users are
expected to follow that route.
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For some unknown reason, the dd on my Windows box segfaults randomly,
but since recently, it does so much more often than it used to, which
makes running the test suite burdensome.
Use printf to write large files instead of dd. To emphasize that three
of the large blobs are exact copies, use cp to allocate them.
The new code makes the files a bit smaller, and they are not sparse
anymore, but the tests do not depend on these properties. We do not want
to use test-genrandom here (which is used to generate large files
elsewhere in t1050), so that the files can be compressed well (which
keeps the run-time short).
The files are now large text files, not binary files. But since they
are larger than core.bigfilethreshold they are diagnosed as binary
by Git. For this reason, the 'git diff' tests that check the output
for "Binary files differ" still pass.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* rh/autoconf-rhel3:
configure.ac: check for HMAC_CTX_cleanup
configure.ac: check for clock_gettime and CLOCK_MONOTONIC
configure.ac: check 'tv_nsec' field in 'struct stat'
We try to see if "tput" gives a useful result before switching TERM
to dumb and moving HOME to point to our fake location for stability
of the tests, and then use the command when coloring the output
from the tests, but there is no guarantee "tput" works after
switching HOME.
* rh/test-color-avoid-terminfo-in-original-home:
test-lib.sh: do tests for color support after changing HOME
test-lib: use 'test ...' instead of '[ ... ]'
Using the exit status of the last command in the prompt, e.g.
PS1='$(__git_ps1) $? ', did not work well because the helper
function stomped on the exit status.
* tf/prompt-preserve-exit-status:
git-prompt: preserve value of $? in all cases
* rh/hide-prompt-in-ignored-directory:
git-prompt.sh: allow to hide prompt for ignored pwd
git-prompt.sh: if pc mode, immediately set PS1 to a plain prompt
Now imap-send learned to talk to the server using cURL library,
allow the same GIT_CURL_VERBOSE environment variable to control the
verbosity of the chattering.
* km/imap-send-libcurl-options:
imap-send.c: set CURLOPT_USE_SSL to CURLUSESSL_TRY
imap-send.c: support GIT_CURL_VERBOSE
"git remote add $name $URL" is now allowed when "url.$URL.insteadOf"
is already defined.
* js/remote-add-with-insteadof:
Add a regression test for 'git remote add <existing> <same-url>'
git remote: allow adding remotes agreeing with url.<...>.insteadOf
This was missing in 1b70fe5d3054 (2015-01-07, receive-pack.c: negotiate
atomic push support) as I squashed the option in very late in the patch
series.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
http-push: trim trailing newline from remote symref
When we fetch a symbolic ref file from the remote, we get
the whole string "ref: refs/heads/master\n", recognize it by
skipping past the "ref: ", and store the rest. We should
chomp the trailing newline.
This bug was introduced in ae021d8 (use skip_prefix to avoid
magic numbers, 2014-06-18), which did not notice that the
length computation fed to xmemdupz was quietly tweaked by 1
to account for this.
We can solve it by explicitly trimming the newline, which is
more obvious. Note that we use strbuf_rtrim here, which will
actually cut off any trailing whitespace, not just a single
newline. This is a good thing, though, as it makes our
parsing more liberal (and spaces are not valid in refnames
anyway).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Tested-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch puts the usage info strings that were not already in docopt-
like format into docopt-like format, which will be a litle easier for
end users and a lot easier for translators. Changes include:
- Placing angle brackets around fill-in-the-blank parameters
- Putting dashes in multiword parameter names
- Adding spaces to [-f|--foobar] to make [-f | --foobar]
- Replacing <foobar>* with [<foobar>...]
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In cat_one_file(), "type" and "size" variables are defined in the
function scope, and then two variables of the same name are defined
in a block in one of the if/else statement, hiding the definitions
in the outer scope.
Because the values of the outer variables before the control enters
this scope, however, do not have to be preserved, we can remove
useless definitions of variables from the inner scope safely without
breaking anything.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git log --grep=<string>" shows only commits with messages that
match the given string, but sometimes it is useful to be able to
show only commits that do *not* have certain messages (e.g. "show
me ones that are not FIXUP commits").
Originally, we had the invert-grep flag in grep_opt, but because
"git grep --invert-grep" does not make sense except in conjunction
with "--files-with-matches", which is already covered by
"--files-without-matches", it was moved it to revisions structure.
To have the flag there expresses the function to the feature better.
When the newly inserted two tests run, the history would have commits
with messages "initial", "second", "third", "fourth", "fifth", "sixth"
and "Second", committed in this order. The commits that does not match
either "th" or "Sec" is "second" and "initial". For the case insensitive
case only "initial" matches.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Junghans <ottxor@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The helper functions prepare_final() and prepare_initial() return a
pointer to a string that is a member of an object in the revs->pending
array. This array is later rebuilt when running prepare_revision_walk()
which potentially transforms the pointer target into a bogus string. Fix
this by maintaining a copy of the original string.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <git@cryptocrack.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
use xstrdup_or_null to replace ternary conditionals
This replaces "x ? xstrdup(x) : NULL" with xstrdup_or_null(x).
The change is fairly mechanical, with the exception of
resolve_refdup, which can eliminate a temporary variable.
There are still a few hits grepping for "?.*xstrdup", but
these are of slightly different forms and cannot be
converted (e.g., "x ? xstrdup(x->foo) : NULL").
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
builtin/commit.c: use xstrdup_or_null instead of envdup
The only reason for envdup to be its own function is that we
have to save the result in a temporary string. With
xstrdup_or_null, we can feed the result of getenv()
directly.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's a common idiom to duplicate a string if it is non-NULL,
or pass a literal NULL through. This is already a one-liner
in C, but you do have to repeat the name of the string
twice. So if there's a function call, you must write:
doc: core.ignoreStat update, and clarify the --assume-unchanged effect
The assume-unchanged bit, and consequently core.ignoreStat, can be
misunderstood. Be assertive about the expectation that file changes should
notified to Git.
Overhaul the general wording thus:
1. direct description of what is ignored given first.
2. example instruction of the user manual action required.
3. use sideways indirection for assume-unchanged and update-index
references.
4. add a 'normally' to give leeway for the change detection.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
for-each-ref: always check stat_tracking_info()'s return value
The code handling %(upstream:track) and %(upstream:trackshort)
assumed that it always had a valid branch that had been sanitized
earlier in populate_value(), and thus did not check the return value
of the call to stat_tracking_info().
While there is indeed some sanitization code that basically
corresponds to stat_tracking_info() returning 0 (no base branch
set), the function can also return -1 when the base branch did exist
but has since then been deleted.
In this case, num_ours and num_theirs had undefined values and a
call to `git for-each-ref --format="%(upstream:track)"` could print
spurious values such as
Verify stat_tracking_info()'s return value and do not print anything
if it returns -1. This behavior also matches the documentation ("has
no effect if the ref does not have tracking information associated
with it").
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Raphael Kubo da Costa <raphael.kubo.da.costa@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>