send-pack/receive-pack: allow errors to be reported back to pusher.
This updates the protocol between git-send-pack/git-receive-pack
in a backward compatible way to allow failures at the receiving
end to be propagated back to the sender. Most notably, versions
of git-push before this could not notice if the update hook on
the receiving end refused to update the ref for its own policy
reasons.
Makefile: use git-describe to mark the git version.
Note: with this commit, the GIT maintainer workflow must change.
GIT-VERSION-GEN is now the file to munge when the default
version needs to be changed, not Makefile. The tag needs to be
pushed into the repository to build the official tarball and
binary package beforehand.
git-describe: still prefer annotated tag under --all and --tags
Even though --all and --tags can be used to include non
annotated tags in the reference point candidates, prefer to use
annotated tags if there are more than one refs that name the
same commit.
Often there are references other than annotated tags under
refs/tags hierarchy that are used to "keep things just in case".
default to use annotated tags only, still leaving the option to
use any ref with --all flag.
It shows you the most recent tag that is reachable from a particular
commit is.
Maybe this is something that "git-name-rev" should be taught to do,
instead of having a separate command for it. Regardless, I find it useful.
What it does is to take any random commit, and "name" it by looking up the
most recent commit that is tagged and reachable from that commit. If the
match is exact, it will just print out that ref-name directly. Otherwise
it will print out the ref-name, followed by the 8-character "short SHA".
IOW, with something like Junios current tree, I get:
ie the current head of my "parent" branch (ie Junio) is based on v1.0.4,
but since it has a few commits on top of that, it has added the git hash
of the thing to the end: "-g" + 8-char shorthand for the commit 2414721b194453f058079d897d13c4e377f92dc6.
Doing a "git-describe" on a tag-name will just show the full tag path:
unless there are _other_ tags pointing to that commit, in which case it
will just choose one at random.
This is useful for two things:
- automatic version naming in Makefiles, for example. We could use it in
git itself: when doing "git --version", we could use this to give a
much more useful description of exactly what version was installed.
- for any random commit (say, you use "gitk <pathname>" or
"git-whatchanged" to look at what has changed in some file), you can
figure out what the last version of the repo was. Ie, say I find a bug
in commit 39ca371c45b04cd50d0974030ae051906fc516b6, I just do:
Starting from this one I won't be touching debian/ directory
since the official maintainer seems to be reasonably quick to
package up things. The packaging procedure used there seems to
be quite different from what I have, so I'd like to avoid
potential confusion and reduce work by the official maintainer
and myself.
This patch converts a stat() to an lstat() call, thereby fixing the case
when the date of a symlink was not the same as the one recorded in the
index. The included test case demonstrates this.
This is for the case that the symlink points to a non-existing file. If
the file exists, worse things than just an error message happen.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Johannes found that the test has 1/256 chance of falsely
producing an uncorrupted idx file, causing the check to detect
corruption fail. Now we have 1/2^160 chance of false failure
;-).
Avoid asking for zero bytes when that change simplifies overall
logic. Later we would change the wrapper to ask for 1 byte on
platforms that return NULL for zero byte request.
are set group writable (and g+s, since the git group may be not the primary
group of all users).
Since all files are written as lock files first, and then moved to
their destination, they do not have to be group writable. Indeed, if
this leads to problems you found a bug.
Note that -- as in my first attempt -- the config variable is set in the
function which checks the repository format. If this were done in
git_default_config instead, a lot of programs would need to be modified
to call git_config(git_default_config) first.
[jc: git variables should be in environment.c unless there is a
compelling reason to do otherwise.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We did not distinguish the case the user asked not to make a
commit with --no-commit flag and the automerge failed. Tell
these cases apart and phrase dying message differently.
. It simplifies the logic to handle the case in which no
refs are given on the command line, and fixes the bug
when only "--heads" is specified. Earlier we showed
them twice.
. It avoids to add the same ref twice.
. It sorts the glob result (e.g. "git show-branch
'tags/v1.0*'") according to a more version friendly
sort order.
Adjust to ls-tree --full-name when run from a subdirectory.
A proposed change to show cwd relative paths by default from
ls-tree when run from a subdirectory means we would need to
give --full-name option to it.
ls-tree: chomp leading directories when run from a subdirectory
When run from a subdirectory, even though we filtered the output
based on where we were using pathspec, we wrote out the
repository relative paths, not subtree relative paths. This
changes things so that it shows only the current subdirectory
relative paths.
For example, in Documentation subdirectory of git itself, this
used to be the case:
$ git-ls-tree --name-only HEAD | grep how
Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
Documentation/git-show-index.txt
Documentation/howto-index.sh
Documentation/howto
But now it does this instead:
$ git-ls-tree --name-only HEAD | grep how
git-show-branch.txt
git-show-index.txt
howto-index.sh
howto
There are two things to keep in mind.
1. This shows nothing.
$ git-ls-tree --name-only HEAD ../ppc/
This is to make things consistent with ls-files, which
refuses relative path that goes uplevel.
2. These show things in full repository relative paths. In this
case, paths outside the current subdirectory are also shown.
$ git-ls-tree --name-only --full-name HEAD | grep how
Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
Documentation/git-show-index.txt
Documentation/howto-index.sh
Documentation/howto
$ git-ls-tree --name-only --full-name HEAD ../ppc/
ppc/sha1.c
ppc/sha1.h
ppc/sha1ppc.S
The flag --full-name gives the same behaviour as 1.0, so it
ought to be the default if we really care about the backward
compatibility, but in practice no Porcelain runs ls-tree from a
subdirectory yet, and without --full-name is more human
friendly, so hopefully the default being not --full-name would
be acceptable.
We could of course chdir to top and do the whole-tree checkout
in git-checkout, but the point is the operation does not make
sense on a partial tree. The whole tree is checked out.
The other form is to update the index file and working tree file
selectively:
git-checkout <treeish> <file>... ;# out of tree to index and file
git-checkout -- <file>... ;# out of index to file
This form _does_ make sense to run from subdirectory; and I
myself often wish we supported this.
sha1_to_hex() returns a pointer to a static buffer. Some of its users
modify that buffer by appending a newline character. Other users rely
on the fact that you can call
printf("%s", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
Just to be on the safe side, terminate the SHA1 in sha1_to_hex().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We want to record the version of the tools the patch was generated with.
While these tools could be rebuilt, git-format-patch stayed the same and
report the wrong version.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Wnen refusing to push a head, we said cryptic "remote 'branch'
object X does not exist on local" or "remote ref 'branch' is not
a strict subset of local ref 'branch'". That was gittish.
Since the most likely reason this happens is because the pushed
head was not up-to-date, clarify the error message to say that
straight, and suggest pulling first.
First noticed by Johannes and seconded by Andreas.
This changes the way the case two branches rename the same path
to different paths is handled. Earlier, the code removed the
original path and added both destinations to the index at
stage0. This commit changes it to leave the original path at
stage1, and two destination paths at stage2 and stage3,
respectively.
[jc: I am not really sure if this makes much difference in the
real life merge situations. What should happen when our branch
renames A to B and M to N, while their branch renames A to M?
That is, M remains in our tree as is.]
HPA suggests it is simply silly to imitate Linux versioning
scheme where the leading "2" does not mean anything anymore, and
I tend to agree.
The first feature release after 1.0.0 will be 1.1.0, and the
development path leading to 1.1.0 will carry 1.0.GIT as the
version number from now on. Similarly, the third maintenance
release that follows 1.0.0 will not be 1.0.0c as planned, but
will be called 1.0.3. The "maint" branch will merge in fixes
and immediately tagged, so there is no need for 1.0.2.GIT that
is in between 1.0.2 (aka 1.0.0b) and 1.0.3.
- Avoid misleading success message on error (Johannes)
- objects/info/packs: work around bug in http-fetch.c::fetch_indices()
- http-fetch.c: fix objects/info/pack parsing.
- An off-by-one bug found by valgrind (Pavel)
objects/info/packs: work around bug in http-fetch.c::fetch_indices()
The code to fetch pack index files in deployed clients have a
bug that causes it to ignore the pack file on the last line of
objects/info/packs file, so append an empty line to work it
around.
The previous round caught the most trivial case well, but broke
down once index file is updated again. Smudge problematic
entries (they should be very few if any under normal interactive
workflow) before writing a new index file out.
This fixes the longstanding "Racy GIT" problem, which was pretty
much there from the beginning of time, but was first
demonstrated by Pasky in this message on October 24, 2005:
so that the second update to file "infocom" does not change
st_mtime, what is recorded as the stat information for the cache
entry "infocom" exactly matches what is on the filesystem
(owner, group, inum, mtime, ctime, mode, length). After this
sequence, we incorrectly think "infocom" file still has string
"frotz" in it, and get really confused. E.g. git-diff-files
would say there is no change, git-update-index --refresh would
not even look at the filesystem to correct the situation.
Some ways of working around this issue were already suggested by
Linus in the same thread on the same day, including waiting
until the next second before returning from update-index if a
cache entry written out has the current timestamp, but that
means we can make at most one commit per second, and given that
the e-mail patch workflow used by Linus needs to process at
least 5 commits per second, it is not an acceptable solution.
Linus notes that git-apply is primarily used to update the index
while processing e-mailed patches, which is true, and
git-apply's up-to-date check is fooled by the same problem but
luckily in the other direction, so it is not really a big issue,
but still it is disturbing.
The function ce_match_stat() is called to bypass the comparison
against filesystem data when the stat data recorded in the cache
entry matches what stat() returns from the filesystem. This
patch tackles the problem by changing it to actually go to the
filesystem data for cache entries that have the same mtime as
the index file itself. This works as long as the index file and
working tree files are on the filesystems that share the same
monotonic clock. Files on network mounted filesystems sometimes
get skewed timestamps compared to "date" output, but as long as
working tree files' timestamps are skewed the same way as the
index file's, this approach still works. The only problematic
files are the ones that have the same timestamp as the index
file's, because two file updates that sandwitch the index file
update must happen within the same second to trigger the
problem.
format-patch: make sure header and body are separated.
Since log message in a commit object is defined to be binary
blob, it could be something without an empty line between the
title line and the body text. Be careful to format such into
a form suitable for e-mail submission. There must be an empty
line between the headers and the body.
When I show transcripts to explain how something works, I often
find myself hand-editing the diff-raw output to shorten various
object names in the output.
This adds --abbrev option to the diff family, which shortens
diff-raw output and diff-tree commit id headers.
xread/xwrite: do not worry about EINTR at calling sites.
We had errno==EINTR check after read(2)/write(2) sprinkled all
over the places, always doing continue. Consolidate them into
xread()/xwrite() wrapper routines.
Credits for suggestion goes to HPA -- bugs are mine.
We still advertise "git resolve" as a standalone command, but never
"git octopus", so nobody should be using it and it is safe to
retire it. The functionality is still available as a strategy
backend.
rev-list --objects: fix object list without commit.
Earlier, "rev-list --objects <sha1>" for an object chain that
does not have any commit failed with a usage message. This
fixes "send-pack remote $tag" where tag points at a non-commit
(e.g. a blob).
This changes "pretty_print_string_list()" to show the git commands
alphabetically in column order, which is the normal one.
Ie instead of doing
git commands available in '/home/torvalds/bin'
----------------------------------------------
add am ...
applypatch archimport ...
cat-file check-ref-format ...
...
it does
git commands available in '/home/torvalds/bin'
----------------------------------------------
add diff-tree ...
am fetch ...
apply fetch-pack ...
...
where each column is sorted.
This is how "ls" sorts things too, and since visually the columns are much
more distinct than the rows, so it _looks_ more sorted.
The "ls" command has a "-x" option that lists entries by lines (the way
git.c used to): if somebody wants to do that, the new print-out logic
could be easily accomodated to that too. Matter of taste and preference, I
guess.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Currently the git "show commands" function will react to the environment
variable COLUMNS, or just default to a width of 80 characters.
That's just soo eighties. Nobody sane sets COLUMNS any more, unless they
need to support some stone-age software from before the age of steam
engines, SIGWINCH and TIOCGWINSZ.
So get with the new century, and use TIOCGWINSZ to get the terminal size.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Split out the functions that deal with the socketpair after
finishing git protocol handshake to receive the packed data into
a separate file, and use it in fetch-pack to keep/explode the
received pack data. We earlier had something like that on
clone-pack side once, but the list discussion resulted in the
decision that it makes sense to always keep the pack for
clone-pack, so unpacking option is not enabled on the clone-pack
side, but we later still could do so easily if we wanted to with
this change.
This removes the misguided attempt to refuse processing a branch
name xyzzy and insist it to be given as either heads/xyzzy or
tags/xyzzy when a tag xyzzy exists. There was no reason to do
so --- the search order was predictable and well defined, so if
the user says xyzzy we should have taken the tag xyzzy in such a
case without complaining.
This incidentally fixes another subtle bug related to this. If
such a duplicate branch/tag name happened to be a unique valid
prefix of an existing commit object name (say, "beef"), we did
not take the tag "beef" but after complaining used the commit
object whose name started with beef.
Another problem this fixes while introducing some confusion is
that there is no longer a reason to forbid a branch name HEAD
anymore. In other words, now "git pull . ref1:HEAD" would work
as expected, once we revert "We do not like HEAD branch" patch.
It creates "HEAD" branch under ${GIT_DIR-.git}/refs/heads (or
fast-forwards if already exists) using the tip of ref1 branch
from the current repository, and merges it into the current
branch.
git-am --skip does not unpack the next patch and ends up reapplying the
old patch, believing that it is the new patch in the sequence.
If the old patch applied successfully it will commit it with the
supposedly skipped log message and ends up dropping the following patch.
If the patch did not apply the user is left with the conflict he tried
to skip and has to unpack the next patch in the sequence by hand to get
git-am back on track.
By clearing the resume variable whenever skips bumps the sequence
counter we correctly unpack the next patch. I also added another
resume= in the case a patch file is missing from the sequence to
avoid the same problem when a file in the sequence was removed.
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Morten Welinder says examples of resetting is really about
recovering from botched commit/pulls. I agree that pointers
from commands that cause a reset to be needed in the first place
would be very helpful.
Also reset examples did not mention "pull/merge" cases.
"git show-branch bugs/*" shows all branches whose name match the
specified pattern, but in the order readdir() happened to
returned. Sort them to make the output more predictable.
When .git/refs/heads/frotz and .git/refs/tags/frotz existed, and
the object name stored in .git/refs/heads/frotz were corrupt, we
ended up picking tags/frotz without complaining. Worse yet, if
the corrupt .git/refs/heads/frotz was more than 40 bytes and
began with hexadecimal characters, it silently overwritten the
initial part of the returned result.
This commit adds a couple of tests to demonstrate these cases,
with a fix.
Now we detect that the SVN repo does not have new commits for us and exit
cleanly, removing the lockfile. With this, svnimport supports being run
on a cronjob to maintain a SVN2GIT gateway.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
clone-pack: make it usable for partial branch cloning.
clone-pack had some logic to accept subset of remote refs from
the command line and clone from there. However, it was never
used in practice and its problems were not found out so far.
This commit changes the command to output the object names of
refs to the standard output instead of making a clone of the
remote repository when explicit <head> parameters are given; the
output format is the same as fetch-pack.
The traditional behaviour of cloning the whole repository by
giving no explicit <head> parameters stays the same.