When not looking for a regression during a bisect but for a fix or a
change in another given property, it can be confusing to use 'good'
and 'bad'.
This patch introduce `git bisect new` and `git bisect old` as an
alternative to 'bad' and good': the commits which have a certain
property must be marked as `new` and the ones which do not as `old`.
The output will be the first commit after the change in the property.
During a new/old bisect session you cannot use bad/good commands and
vice-versa.
Some commands are still not available for old/new:
* git rev-list --bisect does not treat the revs/bisect/new and
revs/bisect/old-SHA1 files.
Old discussions:
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86063
introduced bisect fix unfixed to find fix.
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/182398
discussion around bisect yes/no or old/new.
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/199758
last discussion and reviews
New discussions:
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/271320
( v2 1/7-4/7 )
- http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/271343
( v2 5/7-7/7 )
Signed-off-by: Antoine Delaite <antoine.delaite@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Louis Stuber <stuberl@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is currently only a defensive check since the only terms are
bad/good and new/old, which pass it, but this is a preparation step for
accepting user-supplied terms.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
bisect: don't mix option parsing and non-trivial code
As-is, the revisions that appear on the command-line are processed in
order. This would mix badly with code that changes the configuration
(e.g. change $TERM_GOOD and $TERM_BAD) while processing the options.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We create a file BISECT_TERMS in the repository .git to be read during a
bisection. There's no user-interface yet, but "git bisect" works if terms
other than old/new or bad/good are set in .git/BISECT_TERMS. The
fonctions to be changed if we add new terms are quite few.
In git-bisect.sh:
check_and_set_terms
bisect_voc
Co-authored-by: Louis Stuber <stuberl@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> Tweaked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Antoine Delaite <antoine.delaite@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Louis Stuber <stuberl@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thoroughly revise the "git bisect" manpage, including:
* Beef up the "Description" section.
* Make the first long example less specific to kernel development.
* De-emphasize implementation details in a couple of places.
* Add "(roughly N steps)" in the places where example output is shown.
* Properly markup code within the prose.
* Lots of wordsmithing.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Antoine Delaite <antoine.delaite@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock' into maint
Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can
lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request.
Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a
request first into core (to a reasonable limit).
* jk/http-backend-deadlock:
http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
t5551: factor out tag creation
http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
Merge branch 'jh/filter-empty-contents' into maint
The clean/smudge interface did not work well when filtering an
empty contents (failed and then passed the empty input through).
It can be argued that a filter that produces anything but empty for
an empty input is nonsense, but if the user wants to do strange
things, then why not?
* jh/filter-empty-contents:
sha1_file: pass empty buffer to index empty file
* jk/make-fix-dependencies:
Makefile: silence perl/PM.stamp recipe
Makefile: avoid timestamp updates to GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
Makefile: drop dependency between git-instaweb and gitweb
l10n: de.po: change error message from "sagen" to "Meinten Sie"
We should not use "sagen" if someone has written something wrong.
Although it's "say" in English, we should not use it in German
and instead use our normal error message.
Recent "git prune" traverses young unreachable objects to safekeep
old objects in the reachability chain from them, which sometimes
caused error messages that are unnecessarily alarming.
* jk/squelch-missing-link-warning-for-unreachable:
suppress errors on missing UNINTERESTING links
silence broken link warnings with revs->ignore_missing_links
add quieter versions of parse_{tree,commit}
* pt/pull-tests:
t5520: check reflog action in fast-forward merge
t5521: test --dry-run does not make any changes
t5520: test --rebase failure on unborn branch with index
t5520: test --rebase with multiple branches
t5520: test work tree fast-forward when fetch updates head
t5520: test for failure if index has unresolved entries
t5520: test no merge candidates cases
t5520: prevent field splitting in content comparisons
The configuration reader/writer uses mmap(2) interface to access
the files; when we find a directory, it barfed with "Out of memory?".
* jk/diagnose-config-mmap-failure:
xmmap(): drop "Out of memory?"
config.c: rewrite ENODEV into EISDIR when mmap fails
config.c: avoid xmmap error messages
config.c: fix mmap leak when writing config
read-cache.c: drop PROT_WRITE from mmap of index
Bring consistency to error reporting mechanism used in "refs" API.
* mh/verify-lock-error-report:
ref_transaction_commit(): do not capitalize error messages
verify_lock(): do not capitalize error messages
verify_lock(): report errors via a strbuf
verify_lock(): on errors, let the caller unlock the lock
verify_lock(): return 0/-1 rather than struct ref_lock *
Allow whitespace breakages in deleted and context lines to be also
painted in the output.
* jc/diff-ws-error-highlight:
diff.c: --ws-error-highlight=<kind> option
diff.c: add emit_del_line() and emit_context_line()
t4015: separate common setup and per-test expectation
t4015: modernise style
Unlike "$EDITOR" and "$GIT_EDITOR" that can hold the path to the
command and initial options (e.g. "/path/to/emacs -nw"), 'git p4'
did not let the shell interpolate the contents of the environment
variable that name the editor "$P4EDITOR" (and "$EDITOR", too).
Make it in line with the rest of Git, as well as with Perforce.
* ld/p4-editor-multi-words:
git-p4: tests: use test-chmtime in place of touch
git-p4: fix handling of multi-word P4EDITOR
git-p4: add failing test for P4EDITOR handling
for_each_ref() callback functions were taught to name the objects
not with "unsigned char sha1[20]" but with "struct object_id".
* bc/object-id: (56 commits)
struct ref_lock: convert old_sha1 member to object_id
warn_if_dangling_symref(): convert local variable "junk" to object_id
each_ref_fn_adapter(): remove adapter
rev_list_insert_ref(): remove unneeded arguments
rev_list_insert_ref_oid(): new function, taking an object_oid
mark_complete(): remove unneeded arguments
mark_complete_oid(): new function, taking an object_oid
clear_marks(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
mark_complete(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
send_ref(): convert local variable "peeled" to object_id
upload-pack: rewrite functions to take object_id arguments
find_symref(): convert local variable "unused" to object_id
find_symref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
write_one_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
write_refs_to_temp_dir(): convert local variable sha1 to object_id
submodule: rewrite to take an object_id argument
shallow: rewrite functions to take object_id arguments
handle_one_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
add_info_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
handle_one_reflog(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
...
Introduce <branch>@{push} short-hand to denote the remote-tracking
branch that tracks the branch at the remote the <branch> would be
pushed to.
* jk/at-push-sha1:
for-each-ref: accept "%(push)" format
for-each-ref: use skip_prefix instead of starts_with
sha1_name: implement @{push} shorthand
sha1_name: refactor interpret_upstream_mark
sha1_name: refactor upstream_mark
remote.c: add branch_get_push
remote.c: return upstream name from stat_tracking_info
remote.c: untangle error logic in branch_get_upstream
remote.c: report specific errors from branch_get_upstream
remote.c: introduce branch_get_upstream helper
remote.c: hoist read_config into remote_get_1
remote.c: provide per-branch pushremote name
remote.c: hoist branch.*.remote lookup out of remote_get_1
remote.c: drop "remote" pointer from "struct branch"
remote.c: refactor setup of branch->merge list
remote.c: drop default_remote_name variable
Merge branch 'rs/plug-leak-in-pack-bitmaps' into maint
The code to read pack-bitmap wanted to allocate a few hundred
pointers to a structure, but by mistake allocated and leaked memory
enough to hold that many actual structures. Correct the allocation
size and also have it on stack, as it is small enough.
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more
consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative
formatter) happier.
* jk/asciidoc-markup-fix:
doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]
doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks
doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces
doc: convert \--option to --option
doc/add: reformat `--edit` option
doc: fix length of underlined section-title
doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation
doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}"
doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
Merge branch 'mh/write-refs-sooner-2.4' into maint
Multi-ref transaction support we merged a few releases ago
unnecessarily kept many file descriptors open, risking to fail with
resource exhaustion. This is for 2.4.x track.
* mh/write-refs-sooner-2.4:
ref_transaction_commit(): fix atomicity and avoid fd exhaustion
ref_transaction_commit(): remove the local flags variable
ref_transaction_commit(): inline call to write_ref_sha1()
rename_ref(): inline calls to write_ref_sha1() from this function
commit_ref_update(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
write_ref_to_lockfile(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
t7004: rename ULIMIT test prerequisite to ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE
update-ref: test handling large transactions properly
ref_transaction_commit(): fix atomicity and avoid fd exhaustion
ref_transaction_commit(): remove the local flags variable
ref_transaction_commit(): inline call to write_ref_sha1()
rename_ref(): inline calls to write_ref_sha1() from this function
commit_ref_update(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
write_ref_to_lockfile(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
t7004: rename ULIMIT test prerequisite to ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE
update-ref: test handling large transactions properly
The ref API did not handle cases where 'refs/heads/xyzzy/frotz' is
removed at the same time as 'refs/heads/xyzzy' is added (or vice
versa) very well.
* mh/ref-directory-file:
reflog_expire(): integrate lock_ref_sha1_basic() errors into ours
ref_transaction_commit(): delete extra "the" from error message
ref_transaction_commit(): provide better error messages
rename_ref(): integrate lock_ref_sha1_basic() errors into ours
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): improve diagnostics for ref D/F conflicts
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): report errors via a "struct strbuf *err"
verify_refname_available(): report errors via a "struct strbuf *err"
verify_refname_available(): rename function
refs: check for D/F conflicts among refs created in a transaction
ref_transaction_commit(): use a string_list for detecting duplicates
is_refname_available(): use dirname in first loop
struct nonmatching_ref_data: store a refname instead of a ref_entry
report_refname_conflict(): inline function
entry_matches(): inline function
is_refname_available(): convert local variable "dirname" to strbuf
is_refname_available(): avoid shadowing "dir" variable
is_refname_available(): revamp the comments
t1404: new tests of ref D/F conflicts within transactions
The "log --decorate" enhancement in Git 2.4 that shows the commit
at the tip of the current branch e.g. "HEAD -> master", did not
work with --decorate=full.
* mg/log-decorate-HEAD:
log: do not shorten decoration names too early
log: decorate HEAD with branch name under --decorate=full, too
There was a commented-out (instead of being marked to expect
failure) test that documented a breakage that was fixed since the
test was written; turn it into a proper test.
* sb/t1020-cleanup:
subdirectory tests: code cleanup, uncomment test
core.excludesfile (defaulting to $XDG_HOME/git/ignore) is supposed
to be overridden by repository-specific .git/info/exclude file, but
the order was swapped from the beginning. This belatedly fixes it.
* jc/gitignore-precedence:
ignore: info/exclude should trump core.excludesfile
The connection initiation code for "ssh" transport tried to absorb
differences between the stock "ssh" and Putty-supplied "plink" and
its derivatives, but the logic to tell that we are using "plink"
variants were too loose and falsely triggered when "plink" appeared
anywhere in the path (e.g. "/home/me/bin/uplink/ssh").
* bc/connect-plink:
connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives
t5601: fix quotation error leading to skipped tests
connect: simplify SSH connection code path
Merge branch 'tb/blame-resurrect-convert-to-git' into maint
Some time ago, "git blame" (incorrectly) lost the convert_to_git()
call when synthesizing a fake "tip" commit that represents the
state in the working tree, which broke folks who record the history
with LF line ending to make their project portabile across
platforms while terminating lines in their working tree files with
CRLF for their platform.
* tb/blame-resurrect-convert-to-git:
blame: CRLF in the working tree and LF in the repo
* pt/xdg-config-path:
path.c: remove home_config_paths()
git-config: replace use of home_config_paths()
git-commit: replace use of home_config_paths()
credential-store.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
dir.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
attr.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
path.c: implement xdg_config_home()
t0302: "unreadable" test needs POSIXPERM
t0302: test credential-store support for XDG_CONFIG_HOME
git-credential-store: support XDG_CONFIG_HOME
git-credential-store: support multiple credential files
Commit c6458e6 (index-pack: kill union delta_base to save
memory, 2015-04-18) refactored the comparison functions used
in sorting and binary searching our delta list. The
resulting code does something like:
int cmp_offsets(off_t a, off_t b)
{
return a - b;
}
This works most of the time, but produces nonsensical
results when the difference between the two offsets is
larger than what can be stored in an "int". This can lead to
unresolved deltas if the packsize is larger than 2G (even on
64-bit systems, an int is still typically 32 bits):
We can fix it by doing direct comparisons between the
offsets and returning constants; the callers only care about
the sign of the comparison, not the magnitude.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rebase -i" fired post-rewrite hook when it shouldn't (namely,
when it was told to stop sequencing with 'exec' insn).
* mm/rebase-i-post-rewrite-exec:
t5407: use <<- to align the expected output
rebase -i: fix post-rewrite hook with failed exec command
rebase -i: demonstrate incorrect behavior of post-rewrite
"git upload-pack" that serves "git fetch" can be told to serve
commits that are not at the tip of any ref, as long as they are
reachable from a ref, with uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant
configuration variable.
* fm/fetch-raw-sha1:
upload-pack: optionally allow fetching reachable sha1
upload-pack: prepare to extend allow-tip-sha1-in-want
config.txt: clarify allowTipSHA1InWant with camelCase
Group list of commands shown by "git help" along the workflow
elements to help early learners.
* sg/help-group:
help: respect new common command grouping
command-list.txt: drop the "common" tag
generate-cmdlist: parse common group commands
command-list.txt: add the common groups block
command-list: prepare machinery for upcoming "common groups" section
"git cat-file --batch(-check)" learned the "--follow-symlinks"
option that follows an in-tree symbolic link when asked about an
object via extended SHA-1 syntax, e.g. HEAD:RelNotes that points at
Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt. With the new option, the command
behaves as if HEAD:Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt was given as
input instead.
* dt/cat-file-follow-symlinks:
cat-file: add --follow-symlinks to --batch
sha1_name: get_sha1_with_context learns to follow symlinks
tree-walk: learn get_tree_entry_follow_symlinks
The clean/smudge interface did not work well when filtering an
empty contents (failed and then passed the empty input through).
It can be argued that a filter that produces anything but empty for
an empty input is nonsense, but if the user wants to do strange
things, then why not?
* jh/filter-empty-contents:
sha1_file: pass empty buffer to index empty file
Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can
lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request.
Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a
request first into core (to a reasonable limit).
* jk/http-backend-deadlock:
http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
t5551: factor out tag creation
http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
When we are traversing commit parents along the
UNINTERESTING side of a revision walk, we do not care if
the parent turns out to be missing. That lets us limit
traversals using unreachable and possibly incomplete
sections of history. However, we do still print error
messages about the missing commits; this patch suppresses
the error, as well.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
silence broken link warnings with revs->ignore_missing_links
We set revs->ignore_missing_links to instruct the
revision-walking machinery that we know the history graph
may be incomplete. For example, we use it when walking
unreachable but recent objects; we want to add what we can,
but it's OK if the history is incomplete.
However, we still print error messages for the missing
objects, which can be confusing. This is not an error, but
just a normal situation when transitioning from a repository
last pruned by an older git (which can leave broken segments
of history) to a more recent one (where we try to preserve
whole reachable segments).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>