The new regexec_buf() function operates on buffers with an explicitly
specified length, rather than NUL-terminated strings.
We need to use this function whenever the buffer we want to pass to
regexec(3) may have been mmap(2)ed (and is hence not NUL-terminated).
Note: the original motivation for this patch was to fix a bug where
`git diff -G <regex>` would crash. This patch converts more callers,
though, some of which allocated to construct NUL-terminated strings,
or worse, modified buffers to temporarily insert NULs while calling
regexec(3). By converting them to use regexec_buf(), the code has
become much cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
regex: add regexec_buf() that can work on a non NUL-terminated string
We just introduced a test that demonstrates that our sloppy use of
regexec() on a mmap()ed area can result in incorrect results or even
hard crashes.
So what we need to fix this is a function that calls regexec() on a
length-delimited, rather than a NUL-terminated, string.
Happily, there is an extension to regexec() introduced by the NetBSD
project and present in all major regex implementation including
Linux', MacOSX' and the one Git includes in compat/regex/: by using
the (non-POSIX) REG_STARTEND flag, it is possible to tell the
regexec() function that it should only look at the offsets between
pmatch[0].rm_so and pmatch[0].rm_eo.
That is exactly what we need.
Since support for REG_STARTEND is so widespread by now, let's just
introduce a helper function that always uses it, and tell people
on a platform whose regex library does not support it to use the
one from our compat/regex/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
regex: -G<pattern> feeds a non NUL-terminated string to regexec() and fails
When our pickaxe code feeds file contents to regexec(), it implicitly
assumes that the file contents are read into implicitly NUL-terminated
buffers (i.e. that we overallocate by 1, appending a single '\0').
This is not so.
In particular when the file contents are simply mmap()ed, we can be
virtually certain that the buffer is preceding uninitialized bytes, or
invalid pages.
Note that the test we add here is known to be flakey: we simply cannot
know whether the byte following the mmap()ed ones is a NUL or not.
Typically, on Linux the test passes. On Windows, it fails virtually
every time due to an access violation (that's a segmentation fault for
you Unix-y people out there). And Windows would be correct: the
regexec() call wants to operate on a regular, NUL-terminated string,
there is no NUL in the mmap()ed memory range, and it is undefined
whether the next byte is even legal to access.
When run with --valgrind it demonstrates quite clearly the breakage, of
course.
Being marked with `test_expect_failure`, this test will sometimes be
declare "TODO fixed", even if it only passes by mistake.
This test case represents a Minimal, Complete and Verifiable Example of
a breakage reported by Chris Sidi.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed.
* tb/core-eol-fix:
convert.c: ident + core.autocrlf didn't work
t0027: test cases for combined attributes
convert: allow core.autocrlf=input and core.eol=crlf
t0027: make commit_chk_wrnNNO() reliable
Merge branch 'ar/diff-args-osx-precompose' into maint
Many commands normalize command line arguments from NFD to NFC
variant of UTF-8 on OSX, but commands in the "diff" family did
not, causing "git diff $path" to complain that no such path is
known to Git. They have been taught to do the normalization.
* ar/diff-args-osx-precompose:
diff: run arguments through precompose_argv
Correct faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit ." when
de-initialising all submodules, which would result in a strange
error message in a pathological corner case.
* sb/submodule-deinit-all:
submodule deinit: require '--all' instead of '.' for all submodules
Merge branch 'jk/test-send-sh-x-trace-elsewhere' into maint
Running tests with '-x' option to trace the individual command
executions is a useful way to debug test scripts, but some tests
that capture the standard error stream and check what the command
said can be broken with the trace output mixed in. When running
our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output
to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs
being tested intact.
* jk/test-send-sh-x-trace-elsewhere:
test-lib: set BASH_XTRACEFD automatically
Merge branch 'js/name-rev-use-oldest-ref' into maint
"git describe --contains" often made a hard-to-justify choice of
tag to give name to a given commit, because it tried to come up
with a name with smallest number of hops from a tag, causing an old
commit whose close descendant that is recently tagged were not
described with respect to an old tag but with a newer tag. It did
not help that its computation of "hop" count was further tweaked to
penalize being on a side branch of a merge. The logic has been
updated to favor using the tag with the oldest tagger date, which
is a lot easier to explain to the end users: "We describe a commit
in terms of the (chronologically) oldest tag that contains the
commit."
* js/name-rev-use-oldest-ref:
name-rev: include taggerdate in considering the best name
On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a
dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to
customize this behaviour.
Merge branch 'kf/gpg-sig-verification-doc' into maint
Documentation for "git merge --verify-signatures" has been updated
to clarify that the signature of only the commit at the tip is
verified. Also the phrasing used for signature and key validity is
adjusted to align with that used by OpenPGP.
* va/i18n-misc-updates:
i18n: unpack-trees: avoid substituting only a verb in sentences
i18n: builtin/pull.c: split strings marked for translation
i18n: builtin/pull.c: mark placeholders for translation
i18n: git-parse-remote.sh: mark strings for translation
i18n: branch: move comment for translators
i18n: branch: unmark string for translation
i18n: builtin/rm.c: remove a comma ',' from string
i18n: unpack-trees: mark strings for translation
i18n: builtin/branch.c: mark option for translation
i18n: index-pack: use plural string instead of normal one
mingw: make isatty() recognize MSYS2's pseudo terminals (/dev/pty*)
MSYS2 emulates pseudo terminals via named pipes, and isatty() returns 0
for such file descriptors. Therefore, some interactive functionality
(such as launching a pager, asking if a failed unlink should be repeated
etc.) doesn't work when run in a terminal emulator that uses MSYS2's
ptys (such as mintty).
However, MSYS2 uses special names for its pty pipes ('msys-*-pty*'),
which allows us to distinguish them from normal piped input / output.
On startup, check if stdin / stdout / stderr are connected to such pipes
using the NtQueryObject API from NTDll.dll. If the names match, adjust
the flags in MSVCRT's ioinfo structure accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit f2f0267 (archive-tar: use xsnprintf for trivial
formatting, 2015-09-24) converted cases of "sprintf" to
"xsnprintf", but accidentally left one as just "snprintf".
This meant that we could silently truncate the resulting
buffer instead of flagging an error.
In practice, this is impossible to achieve, as we are
formatting a ustar checksum, which can be at most 7
characters. But the point of xsnprintf is to document and
check for "should be impossible" conditions; this site was
just accidentally mis-converted during f2f0267.
Noticed-by: Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sb/misc-cleanups:
submodule-config: don't shadow `cache`
config.c: drop local variable
credential-cache, send_request: close fd when done
bundle: don't leak an fd in case of early return
abbrev_sha1_in_line: don't leak memory
notes: don't leak memory in git_config_get_notes_strategy
Recent update to Git LFS broke "git p4" by changing the output from
its "lfs pointer" subcommand.
* ls/p4-lfs:
git-p4: fix Git LFS pointer parsing
travis-ci: express Linux/OS X dependency versions more clearly
travis-ci: update Git-LFS and P4 to the latest version
Merge branch 'jk/push-client-deadlock-fix' into HEAD
Some Windows SDK lacks pthread_sigmask() implementation and fails
to compile the recently updated "git push" codepath that uses it.
* jk/push-client-deadlock-fix:
Windows: only add a no-op pthread_sigmask() when needed
Windows: add pthread_sigmask() that does nothing
t5504: drop sigpipe=ok from push tests
fetch-pack: isolate sigpipe in demuxer thread
send-pack: isolate sigpipe in demuxer thread
run-command: teach async threads to ignore SIGPIPE
send-pack: close demux pipe before finishing async process
The "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable makes it an error
if users do not explicitly set user.name and user.email. However,
its check was not done early enough and allowed another error to
trigger, reporting that the default value we guessed from the
system setting was unusable. This was a suboptimal end-user
experience as we want the users to set user.name/user.email without
relying on the auto-detection at all.
* da/user-useconfigonly:
ident: give "please tell me" message upon useConfigOnly error
ident: check for useConfigOnly before auto-detection of name/email
The test scripts for "git p4" (but not "git p4" implementation
itself) has been updated so that they would work even on a system
where the installed version of Python is python 3.
* ld/p4-test-py3:
git-p4 tests: time_in_seconds should use $PYTHON_PATH
git-p4 tests: work with python3 as well as python2
git-p4 tests: cd to / before running python
When files are unmerged they can show up as both unmerged and
modified in the output of `git diff --raw`. This causes
difftool's dir-diff to create filesystem entries for the same
path twice, which fails when it encounters a duplicate path.
Ensure that each worktree path is only processed once.
Add a test to demonstrate the breakage.
Reported-by: Jan Smets <jan@smets.cx> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running diff commands, a pathspec containing decomposed
unicode code points is not converted to precomposed unicode form
under Mac OS X, but we normalize the paths in the index and the
history to precomposed form on that platform. As a result, the
pathspec would not match and no diff is shown.
Unlike many builtin commands, the "diff" family of commands do
not use parse_options(), which is how other builtin commands
indirectly call precompose_argv() to normalize argv[] into
precomposed form on Mac OSX. Teach these commands to call
precompose_argv() themselves.
Note that precomopose_argv() normalizes not just paths but all
command line arguments, so things like "git diff -G $string"
when $string has the decomposed form would first be normalized
into the precomposed form and would stop hitting the same string
in the decomposed form in the diff output with this change.
It is not a problem per-se, as "log" family of commands already use
parse_options() and call precompose_argv()--we can think of this
change as making the "diff" family of commands behave in a similar
way as the commands in the "log" family.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Rinass <alex@fournova.com> Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify that "merge --verify-signatures" checks the signature on the
tip commit of the history being merged.
Uniformise the vocabulary used wrt. key/signature validity with OpenPGP:
- a signature is valid if made by a key with a valid uid;
- in the default trust-model, a uid is valid if signed by a trusted key;
- a key is trusted if the (local) user set a trust level for it.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Keller Fuchs <KellerFuchs@hashbang.sh> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
i18n: unpack-trees: avoid substituting only a verb in sentences
Instead of reusing the same set of message templates for checkout
and other actions and substituting the verb with "%s", prepare
separate message templates for each known action. That would make
it easier for translation into languages where the same verb may
conjugate differently depending on the message we are giving.
See gettext documentation for details:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Preparing-Strings.html
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Passing "-x" to a test script enables the shell's "set -x"
tracing, which can help with tracking down the command that
is causing a failure. Unfortunately, it can also _cause_
failures in some tests that redirect the stderr of a shell
function. Inside the function the shell continues to
respect "set -x", and the trace output is collected along
with whatever stderr is generated normally by the function.
You can see an example of this by running:
./t0040-parse-options.sh -x -i
which will fail immediately in the first test, as it
expects:
test_must_fail some-cmd 2>output.err
to leave output.err empty (but with "-x" it has our trace
output).
Unfortunately there isn't a portable or scalable solution to
this. We could teach test_must_fail to disable "set -x", but
that doesn't help any of the other functions or subshells.
However, we can work around it by pointing the "set -x"
output to our descriptor 4, which always points to the
original stderr of the test script. Unfortunately this only
works for bash, but it's better than nothing (and other
shells will just ignore the BASH_XTRACEFD variable).
The patch itself is a simple one-liner, but note the caveats
in the accompanying comments.
Automatic tests for our "-x" option may be a bit too meta
(and a pain, because they are bash-specific), but I did
confirm that it works correctly both with regular "-x" and
with "--verbose-only=1". This works because the latter flips
"set -x" off and on for particular tests (if it didn't, we
would get tracing for all tests, as going to descriptor 4
effectively circumvents the verbose flag).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Windows: only add a no-op pthread_sigmask() when needed
In f924b52 (Windows: add pthread_sigmask() that does nothing,
2016-05-01), we introduced a no-op for Windows. However, this breaks
building Git in Git for Windows' SDK because pthread_sigmask() is
already a no-op there, #define'd in the pthread_signal.h header in
/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/.
Let's wrap the definition of pthread_sigmask() in a guard that skips
it when compiling with MinGW-w64' headers.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For some reason, the definition of the MINGW version of
`mark_as_git_dir()` slipped into this developer's patch series to
support building Git for Windows.
As the `mark_as_git_dir()` function is not needed at all anymore (it was
used originally to support the core.hideDotFiles = gitDirOnly setting,
but we now use a different method to support that case), let's just
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On Unix (and Linux), files and directories whose names start with a dot
are usually not shown by default. This convention is used by Git: the
.git/ directory should be left alone by regular users, and only accessed
through Git itself.
On Windows, no such convention exists. Instead, there is an explicit flag
to mark files or directories as hidden.
In the early days, Git for Windows did not mark the .git/ directory (or
for that matter, any file or directory whose name starts with a dot)
hidden. This lead to quite a bit of confusion, and even loss of data.
Consequently, Git for Windows introduced the core.hideDotFiles setting,
with three possible values: true, false, and dotGitOnly, defaulting to
marking only the .git/ directory as hidden.
The rationale: users do not need to access .git/ directly, and indeed (as
was demonstrated) should not really see that directory, either. However,
not all dot files should be hidden by default, as e.g. Eclipse does not
show them (and the user would therefore be unable to see, say, a
.gitattributes file).
In over five years since the last attempt to bring this patch into core
Git, a slightly buggy version of this patch has served Git for Windows'
users well: no single report indicated problems with the hidden .git/
directory, and the stream of problems caused by the previously non-hidden
.git/ directory simply stopped. The bugs have been fixed during the
process of getting this patch upstream.
Note that there is a funny quirk we have to pay attention to when
creating hidden files: we use Win32's _wopen() function which
transmogrifies its arguments and hands off to Win32's CreateFile()
function. That latter function errors out with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED (the
equivalent of EACCES) when the equivalent of the O_CREAT flag was passed
and the file attributes (including the hidden flag) do not match an
existing file's. And _wopen() accepts no parameter that would be
transmogrified into said hidden flag. Therefore, we simply try again
without O_CREAT.
A slightly different method is required for our fopen()/freopen()
function as we cannot even *remove* the implicit O_CREAT flag.
Therefore, we briefly mark existing files as unhidden when opening them
via fopen()/freopen().
The ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED error can also be triggered by opening a file
that is marked as a system file (which is unlikely to be tracked in
Git), and by trying to create a file that has *just* been deleted and is
awaiting the last open handles to be released (which would be handled
better by the "Try again?" logic, a story for a different patch series,
though). In both cases, it does not matter much if we try again without
the O_CREAT flag, read: it does not hurt, either.
For details how ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED can be triggered, see
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363858
Original-patch-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> Initial-Test-By: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
rebase--interactive: avoid empty list in shell for-loop
The $strategy_opts variable contains a space-separated list
of strategy options, each individually shell-quoted. To loop
over each, we "unwrap" them by doing an eval like:
eval '
for opt in '"$strategy_opts"'
do
...
done
'
Note the quoting that means we expand $strategy_opts inline
in the code to be evaluated (which is the right thing
because we want the IFS-split and de-quoting). If the
variable is empty, however, we ask the shell to eval the
following code:
for opt in
do
...
done
without anything between "in" and "do". Most modern shells
are happy to treat that like a noop, but reportedly ksh88 on
AIX considers it a syntax error. So let's catch the case
that the variable is empty and skip the eval altogether
(since we know the loop would be a noop anyway).
Reported-by: Armin Kunaschik <megabreit@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even though a Git commit object is designed to be capable of storing
any binary data as its payload, in practice people use it to describe
the changes in textual form, and tools like "git log" are designed to
treat the payload as text.
Detect and warn when we see any commit object with a NUL byte in
it.
Note that a NUL byte in the header part is already detected as a
grave error. This change is purely about the message part.
There are a handful of incorrect "linkgit:<page>[<section>]"
instances in our documentation set.
* Some have an extra colon after "linkgit:"; fix them by removing
the extra colon;
* Some refer to a page outside the Git suite, namely curl(1); fix
them by using the `curl(1)` that already appears on the same page
for the same purpose of referring the readers to its manual page.
* Some spell the name of the page incorrectly, e.g. "rev-list" when
they mean "git-rev-list"; fix them.
* Some list the manual section incorrectly; fix them to make sure
they match what is at the top of the target of the link.
test-lib-functions.sh: rewrite test_seq without Perl
Rewrite the 'seq' imitation using only commands and features that
are typically found built into modern POSIX shells, instead of
relying on Perl to run a single-liner script.
88d50724 (am --skip: revert changes introduced by failed 3way merge,
2015-06-06), unlike all the other patches in the series, forgot to
quote the output from "$(git ls-files -u)" when using it as the
argument to "test -z", leading to a syntax error on platforms whose
test does not interpret "test -z" (no other arguments) as testing if
a string "-z" is the null string (which GNU test and test that is
built into bash and dash seem to do).
Note that $(git ls-files -u | wc -l) is deliberately left unquoted,
as some implementations of "wc -l" includes extra blank characters
in its output and cannot be compared as string, i.e. "test 0 = $(...)".
Signed-off-by: Armin Kunaschik <megabreit@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test-lib-functions.sh: remove misleading comment on test_seq
We never used the "letters" form since we came up with "test_seq" to
replace use of non-portable "seq" in our test script, which we
introduced it at d17cf5f3 (tests: Introduce test_seq, 2012-08-04).
We use this helper to either iterate for N times (i.e. the values on
the lines do not even matter), or just to get N distinct strings
(i.e. the values on the lines themselves do not really matter, but
we care that they are different from each other and reproducible).
Stop promising that we may allow using "letters"; this would open an
easier reimplementation that does not rely on $PERL, if somebody
later wants to.
The test uses the 'z' option, i.e. "compress the output while at
it", which is GNUism and not portable.
Reported-by: Armin Kunaschik <megabreit@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The test uses the 'z' option, i.e. "compress the output while at
it", which is GNUism and not portable.
Reported-by: Armin Kunaschik <megabreit@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge branch 'sb/submodule-path-misc-bugs' into maint
"git submodule" reports the paths of submodules the command
recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run
from the root level of the superproject.
* sb/submodule-path-misc-bugs:
t7407: make expectation as clear as possible
submodule update: test recursive path reporting from subdirectory
submodule update: align reporting path for custom command execution
submodule status: correct path handling in recursive submodules
submodule update --init: correct path handling in recursive submodules
submodule foreach: correct path display in recursive submodules
Merge branch 'ky/imap-send-openssl-1.1.0' into maint
Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation b updating a few APIs
we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change.
* ky/imap-send-openssl-1.1.0:
configure: remove checking for HMAC_CTX_cleanup
imap-send: avoid deprecated TLSv1_method()
imap-send: check NULL return of SSL_CTX_new()
imap-send: use HMAC() function provided by OpenSSL
typofix: assorted typofixes in comments, documentation and messages
Many instances of duplicate words (e.g. "the the path") and
a few typoes are fixed, originally in multiple patches.
wildmatch: fix duplicate words of "the"
t: fix duplicate words of "output"
transport-helper: fix duplicate words of "read"
Git.pm: fix duplicate words of "return"
path: fix duplicate words of "look"
pack-protocol.txt: fix duplicate words of "the"
precompose-utf8: fix typo of "sequences"
split-index: fix typo
worktree.c: fix typo
remote-ext: fix typo
utf8: fix duplicate words of "the"
git-cvsserver: fix duplicate words
Signed-off-by: Li Peng <lip@dtdream.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
remote.c: specify correct plural form in "commit diverge" message
We need to count both "ours" and "theirs" commits when selecting plural
form for this message. Note that even though in this block, both ours
and theirs must be positive (i.e. can't be in singular form), we still
keep Q_(singular, plural) because languages other than English may have
more than one plural form.
Reported-by: Alfonsogonzalez, Ernesto (GE Digital) <ernesto.alfonsogonzalez@ge.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
config: consistently format $variables in monospaced font
We don't consistently use `backticks` for formatting shell variables.
This patch improves the consistency on shell variables (and a few nearby
mentions of "gpg" commands), though it still doesn't straighten out the
use of "quotes."
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
submodule deinit: require '--all' instead of '.' for all submodules
The discussion in [1] pointed out that '.' is a faulty suggestion as
there is a corner case where it fails:
> "submodule deinit ." may have "worked" in the sense that you would
> have at least one path in your tree and avoided this "nothing
> matches" most of the time. It would have still failed with the
> exactly same error if run in an empty repository, i.e.
>
> $ E=/var/tmp/x/empty && rm -fr "$E" && mkdir -p "$E" && cd "$E"
> $ git init
> $ rungit v2.6.6 submodule deinit .
> error: pathspec '.' did not match any file(s) known to git.
> Did you forget to 'git add'?
> $ >file && git add file
> $ rungit v2.6.6 submodule deinit .
> $ echo $?
> 0
So instead of a pathspec add the '--all' option to deinit all submodules
and add a test to check for the corner case of an empty repository.
The code only needs to learn about the '--all' option and doesn't
require further changes as `git submodule--helper list "$@"` will list
all submodules when "$@" is empty.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have a dedicated section for various value-types used in the
configuration variables already, because we needed to describe how
booleans and scaled integers can be spelled, and the pathname type
would fit there.
Adjust the description of `include.path`, `core.excludesFile` and
`commit.template` variables slightly to clarify that these variables
are of this type.
Contributions-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Contributions-by: Stefan Tatschner <rumpelsepp@sevenbyte.org> Contributions-by: Simon P <simon.git@le-huit.fr> Contributions-by: Leander Hasty <leander@1stplayable.com> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The test runs `chmod 0` on a file to test a case where Git fails to
read it, but that would not work if it is run as root.
Reported-by: Jan Keromnes <janx@linux.com> Fix-proposed-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some multi-byte character encodings (such as Shift_JIS and GBK) have
characters whose final bytes is an ASCII '\' (0x5c), and they
will be displayed as funny-characters even if $fallback_encoding is
correct. This is because `highlight` command always expects UTF-8
encoded strings from STDIN.
On Cygwin, object creation uses the "create a temporary and then
rename it to the final name" pattern, not "create a temporary,
hardlink it to the final name and then unlink the temporary"
pattern.
This is necessary to use Git on Windows shared directories, and is
already enabled for the MinGW and plain Windows builds. It also
has been used in Cygwin packaged versions of Git for quite a while.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/291853
($gmane/275680, $gmane/291853).
"git config" had a codepath that tried to pass a NULL to
printf("%s"), which nobody seems to have noticed.
* jk/do-not-printf-NULL:
git_config_set_multivar_in_file: handle "unset" errors
git_config_set_multivar_in_file: all non-zero returns are errors
config: lower-case first word of error strings