t/lib-git-svn.sh: improve svnserve tests with parallel make test
Setting SVNSERVE_PORT enables several tests which require a local
svnserve daemon to be run (in t9113 & t9126). The tests share setup of
the local svnserve via `start_svnserve()`. The function uses svnserve's
`--listen-once` option, which causes svnserve to accept one connection
on the port, serve it, and exit. When running the tests in parallel
this fails if one test tries to start svnserve while the other is still
running.
Use the test number as the svnserve port (similar to httpd tests) to
avoid port conflicts. Developers can set GIT_TEST_SVNSERVE to any value
other than 'false' or 'auto' to enable these tests.
Acked-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Merge branch 'sb/test-cherry-pick-submodule-getting-in-a-way' into maint
The three-way merge performed by "git cherry-pick" was confused
when a new submodule was added in the meantime, which has been
fixed (or "papered over").
* sb/test-cherry-pick-submodule-getting-in-a-way:
merge-recursive: handle addition of submodule on our side of history
t/3512: demonstrate unrelated submodule/file conflict as cherry-pick failure
Merge branch 'pw/sequencer-recover-from-unlockable-index' into maint
The sequencer machinery (used by "git cherry-pick A..B", and "git
rebase -i", among other things) would have lost a commit if stopped
due to an unlockable index file, which has been fixed.
* pw/sequencer-recover-from-unlockable-index:
sequencer: reschedule pick if index can't be locked
When "git rebase" prepared an mailbox of changes and fed it to "git
am" to replay them, it was confused when a stray "From " happened
to be in the log message of one of the replayed changes. This has
been corrected.
* ew/rebase-mboxrd:
rebase: use mboxrd format to avoid split errors
Merge branch 'mh/avoid-rewriting-packed-refs' into maint
Recent update to the refs infrastructure implementation started
rewriting packed-refs file more often than before; this has been
optimized again for most trivial cases.
* mh/avoid-rewriting-packed-refs:
files-backend: don't rewrite the `packed-refs` file unnecessarily
t1409: check that `packed-refs` is not rewritten unnecessarily
* ma/bisect-leakfix:
bisect: fix memory leak when returning best element
bisect: fix off-by-one error in `best_bisection_sorted()`
bisect: fix memory leak in `find_bisection()`
bisect: change calling-convention of `find_bisection()`
Merge branch 'rs/sequencer-rewrite-file-cleanup' into maint
Code cleanup.
* rs/sequencer-rewrite-file-cleanup:
sequencer.c: check return value of close() in rewrite_file()
sequencer: use O_TRUNC to truncate files
sequencer: factor out rewrite_file()
d9bd4cbb9cc (config: flip return value of store_write_*()) made
write_section() follow the convention of write(2) to return -1 on error
and the number of written bytes on success. 3b48045c6c7 (Merge branch
'sd/branch-copy') changed it back to returning 0 on error and 1 on
success, but left its callers still checking for negative values.
Let write_section() follow the convention of write(2) again to meet the
expectations of its callers.
Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some diff implementations don't report missing newlines at the end of
files. Applying such a patch can cause a newline character to be
added inadvertently. The option --inaccurate-eof of git apply can be
used to remove trailing newlines if needed.
apply_one_fragment() cuts it off from the buffers for preimage and
postimage. Before it does, it builds an array with the lengths of each
line for both. Make sure to update the length of the last line in
these line info structures as well to keep them consistent with their
respective buffer.
Without this fix the added test fails; git apply dies and reports:
In 52d59cc645 (branch: add a --copy (-c) option to go with --move (-m),
2017-06-18), `git branch` learned a `--copy` option. Include it when
providing command completions.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
sequencer: reschedule pick if index can't be locked
If the index cannot be locked in do_recursive_merge(), issue an
error message and go on to the error recovery codepath, instead of
dying. When the commit cannot be picked, it needs to be rescheduled
when performing an interactive rebase, but just dying there won't
allow that to happen, and when the user runs 'git rebase --continue'
rather than 'git rebase --abort', the commit gets silently dropped.
As explained in commit 06f46f237 (avoid "write_in_full(fd, buf, len)
!= len" pattern, 2017–09–13) the return value of write_in_full() is
either -1 or the requested number of bytes. As such comparing the
return value to an unsigned value such as strbuf.len will fail to
catch errors. Change the code to use the preferred '< 0' check.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge-recursive: handle addition of submodule on our side of history
The code for a newly added path assumed that the path was a normal file,
and thus checked for there being a directory still being in the way of
the file. Note that since unpack_trees() does path-in-the-way checks
already, the only way for there to be a directory in the way at this
point in the code, is if there is some kind of D/F conflict in the merge.
For a submodule addition on HEAD's side of history, the submodule would
have already been present. This means that we do expect there to be a
directory present but should not consider it to be "in the way"; instead,
it's the expected submodule. So, when there's a submodule addition from
HEAD's side, don't bother checking the working copy for a directory in
the way.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge branch 'js/mingw-redirect-std-handles' into maint
MinGW updates.
* js/mingw-redirect-std-handles:
mingw: document the standard handle redirection
mingw: optionally redirect stderr/stdout via the same handle
mingw: add experimental feature to redirect standard handles
Merge branch 'dk/libsecret-unlock-to-load-fix' into maint
The credential helper for libsecret (in contrib/) has been improved
to allow possibly prompting the end user to unlock secrets that are
currently locked (otherwise the secrets may not be loaded).
"git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run
outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation
and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in
such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names.
* jc/check-ref-format-oor:
check-ref-format doc: --branch validates and expands <branch>
check-ref-format --branch: strip refs/heads/ using skip_prefix
check-ref-format --branch: do not expand @{...} outside repository
Merge branch 'js/submodule-in-excluded' into maint
"git status --ignored -u" did not stop at a working tree of a
separate project that is embedded in an ignored directory and
listed files in that other project, instead of just showing the
directory itself as ignored.
* js/submodule-in-excluded:
status: do not get confused by submodules in excluded directories
Merge branch 'sb/diff-color-moved-use-xdl-recmatch' into maint
Instead of using custom line comparison and hashing functions to
implement "moved lines" coloring in the diff output, use the pair
of these functions from lower-layer xdiff/ code.
* sb/diff-color-moved-use-xdl-recmatch:
diff.c: get rid of duplicate implementation
xdiff-interface: export comparing and hashing strings
The experimental "color moved lines differently in diff output"
feature was buggy around "ignore whitespace changes" edges, whihch
has been corrected.
* jk/diff-color-moved-fix:
diff: handle NULs in get_string_hash()
diff: fix whitespace-skipping with --color-moved
t4015: test the output of "diff --color-moved -b"
t4015: check "negative" case for "-w --color-moved"
t4015: refactor --color-moved whitespace test
Merge branch 'kd/auto-col-with-pager-fix' into maint
"auto" as a value for the columnar output configuration ought to
judge "is the output consumed by humans?" with the same criteria as
"auto" for coloured output configuration, i.e. either the standard
output stream is going to tty, or a pager is in use. We forgot the
latter, which has been fixed.
* kd/auto-col-with-pager-fix:
column: do not include pager.c
column: show auto columns when pager is active
notes: send "Automatic notes merge failed" messages to stderr
All other error messages from notes use stderr. Do the same when
alerting users of an unresolved notes merge.
Fix the output redirection in t3310 and t3320 as well. Previously, the
tests directed output to a file, but stderr was either not captured or
not sent to the file due to the order of the redirection operators.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The intention is to ignore all output from the 'git stash apply' call.
Adjust the order of the redirection to ensure that both stdout and
stderr are redirected to /dev/null.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t/lib-gpg: fix gpgconf stderr redirect to /dev/null
In 29ff1f8f74 (t: lib-gpg: flush gpg agent on startup, 2017-07-20), a
call to gpgconf was added to kill the gpg-agent. The intention was to
ignore all output from the call, but the order of the redirection needs
to be switched to ensure that both stdout and stderr are redirected to
/dev/null. Without this, gpgconf from gnupg-2.0 releases would output
'gpgconf: invalid option "--kill"' each time it was called.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If an empty string is passed to link_alt_odb_entries(), our
loop finds no entries and we link nothing. But we still do
some preparatory work to normalize the object directory
path, even though we'll never look at the result. This
triggers in basically every git process, since we feed the
usually-empty ALTERNATE_DB_ENVIRONMENT to the function.
Let's detect early that there's nothing to do and return.
While we're at it, let's treat NULL the same as an empty
string as a favor to our callers. That saves
prepare_alt_odb() from having to cover this case.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation: convert SubmittingPatches to AsciiDoc
The SubmittingPatches document is often cited by outside parties as an
example of good practices to follow, including logical, independent
commits; patch sign-offs; and sending patches to a mailing list.
Currently, people who want to cite a particular section tend to either
refer to it by name and let the interested party search through the
document to find it, or link to a given line number on GitHub and hope
the file doesn't change.
Instead, convert the document to AsciiDoc. Build it as part of the
technical documentation, since it is likely of interest to the same
group of people. Provide stable links to the sections which outside
parties are likely to want to link to. Make some minor structural
changes to organize it so that it can be formatted sanely.
Since the makefile needs a .txt extension in order to build with the
rest of the documentation, simply copy the file. Ignore the temporary
file so it doesn't get checked in accidentally, and remove it as part of
the clean process. Do this instead of renaming the file so that people
who have already linked to the documentation (who we're trying to help)
don't find their links broken. Avoid symlinking since Windows will not
like that.
This allows us to render the document as part of the website for the
benefit of others who wish to link to it as well as providing a more
nicely formatted display for our community and potential contributors.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you have a pcre1 library which is compiled with JIT enabled then
PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE will be defined whether or not the
NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT configuration is set.
This means that we enable JIT functionality when calling pcre_study
even if NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT has been explicitly set and we just use plain
pcre_exec later.
Fix this by using own macro (GIT_PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE) which we set to
PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE only if NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT is not set and define to
0 otherwise, as before.
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t4201: make use of abbreviation in the test more robust
The test for '--abbrev' in t4201-shortlog.sh assumes that the commits
generated in the test can always be uniquely abbreviated to 5 hex digits
but this is not always the case. If you were unlucky and happened to run
the test at (say) Thu Jun 22 03:04:49 2017 +0000, you would find that
the first commit generated would collide with a tree object created
later in the same test.
This can be simulated in the version of t4201-shortlog.sh prior to this
commit by setting GIT_COMMITTER_DATE and GIT_AUTHOR_DATE to 1498100689
after sourcing test-lib.sh.
Change the test to test --abbrev=35 instead of --abbrev=5 to almost
completely avoid the possibility of a partial collision and add a call
to test_tick in the setup to make the test repeatable (the latter alone
is sufficient to make it robust enough).
Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <cbailey32@bloomberg.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
apply: avoid out-of-bounds access in fuzzy_matchlines()
fuzzy_matchlines() uses a pointers to the first and last characters of
two lines to keep track while matching them. This makes it impossible
to deal with empty strings. It accesses characters before the start of
empty lines. It can also access characters after the end when checking
for trailing whitespace in the main loop.
Avoid that by using pointers to the first character and the one *after*
the last one. This is well-defined as long as the latter is not
dereferenced. Basically rewrite the function based on that premise; it
becomes much simpler as a result. There is no need to check for
leading whitespace outside of the main loop anymore.
Reported-by: Mahmoud Al-Qudsi <mqudsi@neosmart.net> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The examples and common practice for adding markers such as "RFC" or
"v2" to the subject of patch emails is to have them within the same
brackets as the "PATCH" text, not after the closing bracket. Further,
the practice of `git format-patch` and the like, as well as what appears
to be the more common pratice on the mailing list, is to use "[RFC
PATCH]", not "[PATCH/RFC]".
Update the SubmittingPatches article to match and to reference the
`format-patch` helper arguments, and also make some minor text
clarifications in the area.
Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace Free Software Foundation address in license notices
The mailing address for the FSF has changed over the years. Rather than
updating the address across all files, refer readers to gnu.org, as the
GNU GPL documentation now suggests for license notices. The mailing
address is retained in the full license files (COPYING and LGPL-2.1).
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace Free Software Foundation address in license notices
The mailing address for the FSF has changed over the years. Rather than
updating the address across all files, refer readers to gnu.org, as the
GNU GPL documentation now suggests for license notices. The mailing
address is retained in the full license files (COPYING and LGPL-2.1).
The old address is still present in t/diff-lib/COPYING. This is
intentional, as the file is used in tests and the contents are not
expected to change.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge-base --fork-point doc: clarify the example and failure modes
The illustrated history used to explain the `--fork-point` mode
named three keypoint commits B3, B2 and B1 from the oldest to the
newest, which was hard to read. Relabel them to B0, B1, B2. Also
illustrate the history after the rebase using the `--fork-point`
facility was made.
The text already mentions use of reflog, but the description is not
clear what benefit we are trying to gain by using reflog. Clarify
that it is to find the commits that were known to be at the tip of
the remote-tracking branch. This in turn necessitates users to know
the ramifications of the underlying assumptions, namely, expiry of
reflog entries will make it impossible to determine which commits
were at the tip of the remote-tracking branches and we fail when in
doubt (instead of giving a random and incorrect result without even
warning). Another limitation is that it won't be useful if you did
not fork from the tip of a remote-tracking branch but from in the
middle.
We currently have seven callers of `reduce_heads(foo)`. Six of them do
not use the original list `foo` again, and actually, all six of those
end up leaking it.
Introduce and use `reduce_heads_replace(&foo)` as a leak-free version of
`foo = reduce_heads(foo)` to fix several of these. Fix the remaining
leaks using `free_commit_list()`.
While we're here, document `reduce_heads()` and mark it as `extern`.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In several functions, we iterate through a commit list by assigning
`result = result->next`. As a consequence, we lose the original pointer
and eventually leak the list.
Rewrite the loops so that we keep the original pointers, then call
`free_commit_list()`. Various alternatives were considered:
1) Use `UNLEAK(result)` before the loop. Simple change, but not very
pretty. These would definitely be new lows among our usages of UNLEAK.
2) Use `pop_commit()` when looping. Slightly less simple change, but it
feels slightly preferable to first display the list, then free it.
3) As in this patch, but with `UNLEAK()` instead of freeing. We'd still
go through all the trouble of refactoring the loop, and because it's not
super-obvious that we're about to exit, let's just free the lists -- it
probably doesn't affect the runtime much.
In `handle_independent()` we can drop `result` while we're here and
reuse the `revs`-variable instead. That matches several other users of
`reduce_heads()`. The memory-leak that this hides will be addressed in
the next commit.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
wt-status: actually ignore submodules when requested
Since ff6f1f564 (submodule-config: lazy-load a repository's .gitmodules
file, 2017-08-03) rebase interactive fails if there are any submodules
with unstaged changes which have been configured with a value for
'submodule.<name>.ignore' in the repository's config.
This is due to how configured values of 'submodule.<name>.ignore' are
handled in addition to a change in how the submodule config is loaded.
When the diff machinery hits a submodule (gitlink as well as a
corresponding entry in the submodule subsystem) it will read the value
of 'submodule.<name>.ignore' stored in the repository's config and if
the config is present it will clear the 'IGNORE_SUBMODULES' (which is
the flag explicitly requested by rebase interactive),
'IGNORE_UNTRACKED_IN_SUBMODULES', and 'IGNORE_DIRTY_SUBMODULES' diff
flags and then set one of them based on the configured value.
Historically this wasn't a problem because the submodule subsystem
wasn't initialized because the .gitmodules file wasn't explicitly loaded
by the rebase interactive command. So when the diff machinery hit a
submodule it would skip over reading any configured values of
'submodule.<name>.ignore'.
In order to preserve the behavior of submodules being ignored by rebase
interactive, also set the 'OVERRIDE_SUBMODULE_CONFIG' diff flag when
submodules are requested to be ignored when checking for unstaged
changes.
Reported-by: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
wrapper.c: consistently quote filenames in error messages
All other error messages in the file use quotes around the file name.
This change removes two translations as "could not write to '%s'" and
"could not close '%s'" are already translated and these two are the only
occurrences without quotes.
Signed-off-by: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
[jc: adjusted tests I noticed were broken by the change] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
bisect: fix off-by-one error in `best_bisection_sorted()`
After we have sorted the `cnt`-many commits that we have selected, we
place them into the commit list. We then set `p->next` to NULL, but as
we do so, `p` is already pointing one beyond item number `cnt`. Indeed,
we check whether `p` is NULL before dereferencing it.
This only matters if there are TREESAME-commits. Since they should be
skipped, they are not included in `cnt` and we will hit the situation
where we set `p->next` to NULL. As a result, the list will be one longer
than it should be. The last commit in the list will be one which occurs
earlier, or which shouldn't be included.
Do not update `p` the very last round in the loop. This ensures that
after the loop, `p->next` points to the remainder of the list, and we
can set it to NULL. While we're here, free that remainder to fix a
memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`find_bisection()` rebuilds the commit list it is given by reversing it
and skipping uninteresting commits. The uninteresting list entries are
leaked. Free them to fix the leak.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
bisect: change calling-convention of `find_bisection()`
This function takes a commit list and returns a commit list. The
returned list is built by modifying the original list. Thus the caller
should not use the original list again (and after the next commit fixes
a memory leak, it must not).
Change the function signature so that it takes a **list and has void
return type. That should make it harder to misuse this function.
While we're here, document this function.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The options are currently only referenced by the git-blame man page,
also explain them in git-config, which is the canonical page to
contain all config options.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Credentials exposed by the secret service DBUS interface may be locked.
Setting the SECRET_SEARCH_UNLOCK flag will make the secret service
unlock these secrets, possibly prompting the user for credentials to do
so. Without this flag, the secret is simply not loaded.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Andrew Baumann reported that when called outside of any Git worktree,
`git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree` eventually tries to access
`//HEAD`, i.e. any `HEAD` file in the root directory, but with a double
slash.
This double slash is not only unintentional, but is allowed by the POSIX
standard to have a special meaning. And most notably on Windows, it
does, where it refers to a UNC path of the form `//server/share/`.
As a consequence, afore-mentioned `rev-parse` call not only looks for
the wrong thing, but it also causes serious delays, as Windows will try
to access a server called `HEAD`. Let's simply avoid the unintended
double slash.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Response codes are optional. Exit parse_response_code() early if it's
passed a NULL string, indicating that we reached the end of the reply.
This avoids dereferencing said NULL pointer.
Noticed-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
next_arg() returns NULL if it runs out of arguments. Most call sites
already handle that gracefully. Check in the remaining cases as well.
Replace the NULL pointer with an empty string at the bottom of
get_cmd_result() -- it's nicely reported as an unexpected response a
few lines down. Error out explicitly at the remaining sites.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This feature has been in Git for Windows since v2.11.0(2), as an
experimental option. Now it is considered mature, and it is high time to
document it properly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
mingw: optionally redirect stderr/stdout via the same handle
The "2>&1" notation in Powershell and in Unix shells implies that stderr
is redirected to the same handle into which stdout is already written.
Let's use this special value to allow the same trick with
GIT_REDIRECT_STDERR and GIT_REDIRECT_STDOUT: if the former's value is
`2>&1`, then stderr will simply be written to the same handle as stdout.
The functionality was suggested by Jeff Hostetler.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
mingw: add experimental feature to redirect standard handles
Particularly when calling Git from applications, such as Visual Studio's
Team Explorer, it is important that stdin/stdout/stderr are closed
properly. However, when spawning processes on Windows, those handles
must be marked as inheritable if we want to use them, but that flag is a
global flag and may very well be used by other spawned processes which
then do not know to close those handles.
Let's introduce a set of environment variables (GIT_REDIRECT_STDIN and
friends) that specify paths to files, or even better, named pipes (which
are similar to Unix sockets) and that are used by the spawned Git
process. This helps work around above-mentioned issue: those named
pipes will be opened in a non-inheritable way upon startup, and no
handles are passed around (and therefore no inherited handles need to be
closed by any spawned child).
This feature shipped with Git for Windows (marked as experimental) since
v2.11.0(2), so it has seen some serious testing in the meantime.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>