When receiving an invalid pack stream that records the same object
twice, multiple threads got confused due to a race. We should
reject or correct such a stream upon receiving, but that will be a
larger change.
* jk/index-pack-threading-races:
index-pack: fix race condition with duplicate bases
* jk/commit-author-parsing:
determine_author_info(): copy getenv output
determine_author_info(): reuse parsing functions
date: use strbufs in date-formatting functions
record_author_date(): use find_commit_header()
record_author_date(): fix memory leak on malformed commit
commit: provide a function to find a header in a buffer
"log --date=iso" uses a slight variant of ISO 8601 format that is
made more human readable. A new "--date=iso-strict" option gives
datetime output that is more strictly conformant.
* bb/date-iso-strict:
pretty: provide a strict ISO 8601 date format
Sometimes users want to report a bug they experience on their
repository, but they are not at liberty to share the contents of
the repository. "fast-export" was taught an "--anonymize" option
to replace blob contents, names of people and paths and log
messages with bland and simple strings to help them.
* jk/fast-export-anonymize:
docs/fast-export: explain --anonymize more completely
teach fast-export an --anonymize option
The number of refs that can be pushed at once over smart HTTP was
limited by the command line length. The limitation has been lifted
by passing these refs from the standard input of send-pack.
* jk/send-pack-many-refspecs:
send-pack: take refspecs over stdin
On my Debian 7 system, this fixes annoying warnings when the output
of "git svn" commands are redirected:
Unable to get Terminal Size. The TIOCGWINSZ ioctl didn't work.
The COLUMNS and LINES environment variables didn't work. The
resize program didn't work.
git svn: find-rev allows short switches for near matches
Allow -B and -A to act as short aliases for --before and --after
options respectively. This reduces typing and hopefully allows
reuse of muscle memory for grep(1) users.
Git no longer seems to use these flags or their associated config keys;
when they are present, git-svn outputs a message indicating that they
are being ignored.
Signed-off-by: Lawrence Velázquez <vq@larryv.me> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Calling "git svn info $(pwd)" would hit:
"Reading from filehandle failed at ..."
errors due to improper prefixing and canonicalization.
Strip the toplevel path from absolute filesystem paths to ensure
downstream canonicalization routines are only exposed to paths
tracked in git (or SVN).
v2:
Thanks to Andrej Manduch for originally noticing the issue
and fixing my original version of this to handle
more corner cases such as "/path/to/top/../top" and
"/path/to/top/../top/file" as shown in the new test cases.
v3:
Fix pathname portability problems pointed out by Johannes Sixt
with a hint from brian m. carlson.
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Cc: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Andrej Manduch <amanduch@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
git-svn: branch: avoid systematic prompt for cert/pass
Commands such as "git svn init/fetch/dcommit" do not prompt for client
certificate/password if they are stored in SVN config file. Make
"git svn branch" consistent with the other commands, as SVN::Client is
capable of building its own authentication baton from information in the
SVN config directory.
Signed-off-by: Monard Vong <travelingsoul86@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
The API to allocate the structure to keep track of commit
decoration was cumbersome to use, inviting lazy code to
overallocate memory.
* jk/name-decoration-alloc:
log-tree: use FLEX_ARRAY in name_decoration
log-tree: make name_decoration hash static
log-tree: make add_name_decoration a public function
"git checkout -m" did not switch to another branch while carrying
the local changes forward when a path was deleted from the index.
* jn/unpack-trees-checkout-m-carry-deletion:
checkout -m: attempt merge when deletion of path was staged
unpack-trees: use 'cuddled' style for if-else cascade
unpack-trees: simplify 'all other failures' case
Teach a few codepaths to punt (instead of dying) when large blobs
that would not fit in core are involved in the operation.
* nd/large-blobs:
diff: shortcut for diff'ing two binary SHA-1 objects
diff --stat: mark any file larger than core.bigfilethreshold binary
diff.c: allow to pass more flags to diff_populate_filespec
sha1_file.c: do not die failing to malloc in unpack_compressed_entry
wrapper.c: introduce gentle xmallocz that does not die()
Add a few more places in "commit" and "checkout" that make sure
that the cache-tree is fully populated in the index.
* dt/cache-tree-repair:
cache-tree: do not try to use an invalidated subtree info to build a tree
cache-tree: Write updated cache-tree after commit
cache-tree: subdirectory tests
test-dump-cache-tree: invalid trees are not errors
cache-tree: create/update cache-tree on checkout
The second batch of the transactional ref update series.
* rs/ref-transaction-1: (22 commits)
update-ref --stdin: pass transaction around explicitly
update-ref --stdin: narrow scope of err strbuf
refs.c: make delete_ref use a transaction
refs.c: make prune_ref use a transaction to delete the ref
refs.c: remove lock_ref_sha1
refs.c: remove the update_ref_write function
refs.c: remove the update_ref_lock function
refs.c: make lock_ref_sha1 static
walker.c: use ref transaction for ref updates
fast-import.c: use a ref transaction when dumping tags
receive-pack.c: use a reference transaction for updating the refs
refs.c: change update_ref to use a transaction
branch.c: use ref transaction for all ref updates
fast-import.c: change update_branch to use ref transactions
sequencer.c: use ref transactions for all ref updates
commit.c: use ref transactions for updates
replace.c: use the ref transaction functions for updates
tag.c: use ref transactions when doing updates
refs.c: add transaction.status and track OPEN/CLOSED
refs.c: make ref_transaction_begin take an err argument
...
* nd/mv-code-cleaning:
mv: no SP between function name and the first opening parenthese
mv: combine two if(s)
mv: unindent one level for directory move code
mv: move index search code out
mv: remove an "if" that's always true
mv: split submodule move preparation code out
mv: flatten error handling code block
mv: mark strings for translations
Admit that keeping LIB_H up-to-date, only for those that do not use
the automatically generated dependencies, is a losing battle, and
make it conservative by making everything depend on anything.
* jk/make-simplify-dependencies:
Makefile: drop CHECK_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES code
Makefile: use `find` to determine static header dependencies
i18n: treat "make pot" as an explicitly-invoked target
Update git_config() users with callback functions for a very narrow
scope with calls to config-set API that lets us query a single
variable.
* ta/config-set-2:
builtin/apply.c: replace `git_config()` with `git_config_get_string_const()`
merge-recursive.c: replace `git_config()` with `git_config_get_int()`
ll-merge.c: refactor `read_merge_config()` to use `git_config_string()`
fast-import.c: replace `git_config()` with `git_config_get_*()` family
branch.c: replace `git_config()` with `git_config_get_string()
alias.c: replace `git_config()` with `git_config_get_string()`
imap-send.c: replace `git_config()` with `git_config_get_*()` family
pager.c: replace `git_config()` with `git_config_get_value()`
builtin/gc.c: replace `git_config()` with `git_config_get_*()` family
rerere.c: replace `git_config()` with `git_config_get_*()` family
fetchpack.c: replace `git_config()` with `git_config_get_*()` family
archive.c: replace `git_config()` with `git_config_get_bool()` family
read-cache.c: replace `git_config()` with `git_config_get_*()` family
http-backend.c: replace `git_config()` with `git_config_get_bool()` family
daemon.c: replace `git_config()` with `git_config_get_bool()` family
Use the new caching config-set API in git_config() calls.
* ta/config-set-1:
add tests for `git_config_get_string_const()`
add a test for semantic errors in config files
rewrite git_config() to use the config-set API
config: add `git_die_config()` to the config-set API
change `git_config()` return value to void
add line number and file name info to `config_set`
config.c: fix accuracy of line number in errors
config.c: mark error and warnings strings for translation
* jc/config-mak-document-darwin-vs-macosx:
config.mak.uname: add hint on uname_R for MacOS X
config.mak.uname: set NO_APPLE_COMMON_CRYPTO on older systems
Teach "git stash list -p" to show the difference between the base
commit version and the working tree version, which is in line with
what "git show" gives.
* jk/stash-list-p:
stash: default listing to working-tree diff
Applying a patch not generated by Git in a subdirectory used to
check the whitespace breakage using the attributes for incorrect
paths. Also whitespace checks were performed even for paths
excluded via "git apply --exclude=<path>" mechanism.
* jc/apply-ws-prefix:
apply: omit ws check for excluded paths
apply: hoist use_patch() helper for path exclusion up
apply: use the right attribute for paths in non-Git patches
"git -c section.var command" and "git -c section.var= command"
should pass the configuration differently (the former should be
a boolean true, the latter should be an empty string).
* jk/command-line-config-empty-string:
config: teach "git -c" to recognize an empty string
We have been using NOT_{MINGW,CYGWIN} test prerequisites long
before Peff invented support for negated prerequisites e.g. !MINGW
and we still add more uses of the former. Convert them to the
latter to avoid confusion.
* jc/not-mingw-cygwin:
test prerequisites: enumerate with commas
test prerequisites: eradicate NOT_FOO
cache-tree: do not try to use an invalidated subtree info to build a tree
We punt from repairing the cache-tree during a branch switching if
it involves having to create a new tree object that does not yet
exist in the object store. "mkdir dir && >dir/file && git add dir"
followed by "git checkout" is one example, when a tree that records
the state of such "dir/" is not in the object store.
However, after discovering that we do not have a tree object that
records the state of "dir/", the caller failed to remember the fact
that it noticed the cache-tree entry it received for "dir/" is
invalidated, it already knows it should not be populating the level
that has "dir/" as its immediate subdirectory, and it is not an
error at all for the sublevel cache-tree entry gave it a bogus
object name it shouldn't even look at.
This led the caller to detect and report a non-existent error. The
end result was the same and we avoided stuffing a non-existent tree
to the cache-tree, but we shouldn't have issued an alarming error
message to the user.
update-ref --stdin: pass transaction around explicitly
This makes it more obvious at a glance where the output of functions
parsing the --stdin stream goes.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Making the strbuf local in each function that needs to print errors
saves the reader from having to think about action at a distance,
such as
* errors piling up and being concatenated with no newline between
them
* errors unhandled in one function, to be later handled in another
* concurrency issues, if this code starts using threads some day
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change delete_ref to use a ref transaction for the deletion. At the same time
since we no longer have any callers of repack_without_ref we can now delete
this function.
Change delete_ref to return 0 on success and 1 on failure instead of the
previous 0 on success either 1 or -1 on failure.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
refs.c: make prune_ref use a transaction to delete the ref
Change prune_ref to delete the ref using a ref transaction. To do this we also
need to add a new flag REF_ISPRUNING that will tell the transaction that we
do not want to delete this ref from the packed refs. This flag is private to
refs.c and not exposed to external callers.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
lock_ref_sha1 was only called from one place in refs.c and only provided
a check that the refname was sane before adding back the initial "refs/"
part of the ref path name, the initial "refs/" that this caller had already
stripped off before calling lock_ref_sha1.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since we only call update_ref_write from a single place and we only call it
with onerr==QUIET_ON_ERR we can just as well get rid of it and just call
write_ref_sha1 directly. This changes the return status for _commit from
1 to -1 on failures when writing to the ref. Eventually we will want
_commit to start returning more detailed error conditions than the current
simple success/failure.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since we now only call update_ref_lock with onerr==QUIET_ON_ERR we no longer
need this function and can replace it with just calling lock_any_ref_for_update
directly.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
No external callers reference lock_ref_sha1 any more so let's declare it
static.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Switch to using ref transactions in walker_fetch(). As part of the refactoring
to use ref transactions we also fix a potential memory leak where in the
original code if write_ref_sha1() would fail we would end up returning from
the function without free()ing the msg string.
Note that this function is only called when fetching from a remote HTTP
repository onto the local (most of the time single-user) repository which
likely means that the type of collisions that the previous locking would
protect against and cause the fetch to fail for are even more rare.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fast-import.c: use a ref transaction when dumping tags
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
receive-pack.c: use a reference transaction for updating the refs
Wrap all the ref updates inside a transaction.
In the new API there is no distinction between failure to lock and
failure to write a ref. Both can be permanent (e.g., a ref
"refs/heads/topic" is blocking creation of the lock file
"refs/heads/topic/1.lock") or transient (e.g., file system full) and
there's no clear difference in how the client should respond, so
replace the two statuses "failed to lock" and "failed to write" with
a single status "failed to update ref". In both cases a more
detailed message is sent by sideband to diagnose the problem.
Example, before:
error: there are still refs under 'refs/heads/topic'
remote: error: failed to lock refs/heads/topic
To foo
! [remote rejected] HEAD -> topic (failed to lock)
After:
error: there are still refs under 'refs/heads/topic'
remote: error: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/heads/topic'.
To foo
! [remote rejected] HEAD -> topic (failed to update ref)
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the update_ref helper function to use a ref transaction internally.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change create_branch to use a ref transaction when creating the new branch.
This also fixes a race condition in the old code where two concurrent
create_branch could race since the lock_any_ref_for_update/write_ref_sha1
did not protect against the ref already existing. I.e. one thread could end up
overwriting a branch even if the forcing flag is false.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fast-import.c: change update_branch to use ref transactions
Change update_branch() to use ref transactions for updates.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
sequencer.c: use ref transactions for all ref updates
Change to use ref transactions for all updates to refs.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change commit.c to use ref transactions for all ref updates.
Make sure we pass a NULL pointer to ref_transaction_update if have_old
is false.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
replace.c: use the ref transaction functions for updates
Update replace.c to use ref transactions for updates.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change tag.c to use ref transactions for all ref updates.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
refs.c: add transaction.status and track OPEN/CLOSED
Track the state of a transaction in a new state field. Check the field for
sanity, i.e. that state must be OPEN when _commit/_create/_delete or
_update is called or else die(BUG:...)
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
refs.c: make ref_transaction_begin take an err argument
Add an err argument to _begin so that on non-fatal failures in future ref
backends we can report a nice error back to the caller.
While _begin can currently never fail for other reasons than OOM, in which
case we die() anyway, we may add other types of backends in the future.
For example, a hypothetical MySQL backend could fail in _begin with
"Can not connect to MySQL server. No route to host".
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
refs.c: update ref_transaction_delete to check for error and return status
Change ref_transaction_delete() to do basic error checking and return
non-zero on error. Update all callers to check the return for
ref_transaction_delete(). There are currently no conditions in _delete that
will return error but there will be in the future. Add an err argument that
will be updated on failure.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
refs.c: change ref_transaction_create to do error checking and return status
Do basic error checking in ref_transaction_create() and make it return
non-zero on error. Update all callers to check the result of
ref_transaction_create(). There are currently no conditions in _create that
will return error but there will be in the future. Add an err argument that
will be updated on failure.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reduce the use of fixed sized buffer passed to getcwd() calls
by introducing xgetcwd() helper.
* rs/strbuf-getcwd:
use strbuf_add_absolute_path() to add absolute paths
abspath: convert absolute_path() to strbuf
use xgetcwd() to set $GIT_DIR
use xgetcwd() to get the current directory or die
wrapper: add xgetcwd()
abspath: convert real_path_internal() to strbuf
abspath: use strbuf_getcwd() to remember original working directory
setup: convert setup_git_directory_gently_1 et al. to strbuf
unix-sockets: use strbuf_getcwd()
strbuf: add strbuf_getcwd()
Implementations of "tar" that do not understand an extended pax
header would extract the contents of it in a regular file; make
sure the permission bits of this file follows the same tar.umask
configuration setting.
* bc/archive-pax-header-mode:
archive: honor tar.umask even for pax headers
"git log --pretty/format=" with an empty format string did not mean
the more obvious "No output whatsoever" but "Use default format",
which was counterintuitive.
* jk/pretty-empty-format:
pretty: make empty userformats truly empty
pretty: treat "--format=" as an empty userformat
revision: drop useless string offset when parsing "--pretty"
Start "git config --edit --global" from a skeletal per-user
configuration file contents, instead of a total blank, when the
user does not already have any. This immediately reduces the need
for a later "Have you forgotten setting core.user?" and we can add
more to the template as we gain more experience.
* mm/config-edit-global:
commit: advertise config --global --edit on guessed identity
home_config_paths(): let the caller ignore xdg path
config --global --edit: create a template file if needed
There are cases where you lock and open to write a file, close it to
show the updated contents to external processes, and then have to
update the file again while still holding the lock, but the lockfile
API lacked support for such an access pattern.
* jc/reopen-lock-file:
lockfile: allow reopening a closed but still locked file
index-pack: fix race condition with duplicate bases
When we are resolving deltas in an indexed pack, we do it by
first selecting a potential base (either one stored in full
in the pack, or one created by resolving another delta), and
then resolving any deltas that use that base. When we
resolve a particular delta, we flip its "real_type" field
from OBJ_{REF,OFS}_DELTA to whatever the real type is.
We assume that traversing the objects this way will visit
each delta only once. This is correct for most packs; we
visit the delta only when we process its base, and each
object (and thus each base) appears only once. However, if a
base object appears multiple times in the pack, we will try
to resolve any deltas based on it once for each instance.
We can detect this case by noting that a delta we are about
to resolve has already had its real_type field flipped, and
we already do so with an assert(). However, if multiple
threads are in use, we may race with another thread on
comparing and flipping the field. We need to synchronize the
access.
The right mechanism for doing this is a compare-and-swap (we
atomically "claim" the delta for our own and find out
whether our claim was successful). We can implement this
in C by using a pthread mutex to protect the operation. This
is not the fastest way of doing a compare-and-swap; many
processors provide instructions for this, and gcc and other
compilers provide builtins to access them. However, some
experiments showed that lock contention does not cause a
significant slowdown here. Adding c-a-s support for many
compilers would increase the maintenance burden (and we
would still end up including the pthread version as a
fallback).
Note that we only need to touch the OBJ_REF_DELTA codepath
here. An OBJ_OFS_DELTA object points to its base using an
offset, and therefore has only one base, even if another
copy of that base object appears in the pack (we do still
touch it briefly because the setting of real_type is
factored out of resolve_data).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git's "ISO" date format does not really conform to the ISO 8601
standard due to small differences, and it cannot be parsed by ISO
8601-only parsers, e.g. those of XML toolchains.
The output from "--date=iso" deviates from ISO 8601 in these ways:
- a space instead of the `T` date/time delimiter
- a space between time and time zone
- no colon between hours and minutes of the time zone
Add a strict ISO 8601 date format for displaying committer and
author dates. Use the '%aI' and '%cI' format specifiers and add
'--date=iso-strict' or '--date=iso8601-strict' date format names.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/255879 and
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/52414/focus=52585
for discussion.
Signed-off-by: Beat Bolli <bbolli@ewanet.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When figuring out the author name for a commit, we may end
up either pointing to const storage from getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_*"),
or to newly allocated storage based on an existing commit or
the --author option.
Using const pointers to getenv's return has two problems:
1. It is not guaranteed that the return value from getenv
remains valid across multiple calls.
2. We do not know whether to free the values at the end,
so we just leak them.
We can solve both by duplicating the string returned by
getenv().
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rather than parsing the header manually to find the "author"
field, and then parsing its sub-parts, let's use
find_commit_header and split_ident_line. This is shorter and
easier to read, and should do a more careful parsing job.
For example, the current parser could find the end-of-email
right-bracket across a newline (for a malformed commit), and
calculate a bogus gigantic length for the date (by using
"eol - rb").
As a bonus, this also plugs a memory leak when we pull the
date field from an existing commit (we still leak the name
and email buffers, which will be fixed in a later commit).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>