In some situations it is useful to know if the given repository
is a submodule of another repository.
Add the flag --show-superproject-working-tree to git-rev-parse
to make it easy to find out if there is a superproject. When no
superproject exists, the output will be empty.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Authentication fails with svn branch while svn rebase and
svn dcommit work fine without authentication failures.
$ git svn branch v7_3
Copying https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx at r27519
to https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/v7_3...
Can't create session: Unable to connect to a repository at URL
'https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx': No more
credentials or we tried too many times.
Authentication failed at
C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-svn line 1200.
We add auth configuration to SVN::Client->new() to fix the issue.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shirosaki <h.shirosaki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
"git remote rm X", when a branch has remote X configured as the
value of its branch.*.remote, tried to remove branch.*.remote and
branch.*.merge and failed if either is unset.
* rl/remote-allow-missing-branch-name-merge:
remote: ignore failure to remove missing branch.<name>.merge
"git update-ref -d" and other operations to delete references did
not leave any entry in HEAD's reflog when the reference being
deleted was the current branch. This is not a problem in practice
because you do not want to delete the branch you are currently on,
but caused renaming of the current branch to something else not to
be logged in a useful way.
* km/delete-ref-reflog-message:
branch: record creation of renamed branch in HEAD's log
rename_ref: replace empty message in HEAD's log
update-ref: pass reflog message to delete_ref()
delete_ref: accept a reflog message argument
A caller of tempfile API that uses stdio interface to write to
files may ignore errors while writing, which is detected when
tempfile is closed (with a call to ferror()). By that time, the
original errno that may have told us what went wrong is likely to
be long gone and was overwritten by an irrelevant value.
close_tempfile() now resets errno to EIO to make errno at least
predictable.
* jk/tempfile-ferror-fclose-confusion:
tempfile: set errno to a known value before calling ferror()
The "--git-path", "--git-common-dir", and "--shared-index-path"
options of "git rev-parse" did not produce usable output. They are
now updated to show the path to the correct file, relative to where
the caller is.
* js/git-path-in-subdir:
rev-parse: fix several options when running in a subdirectory
rev-parse tests: add tests executed from a subdirectory
"git show-branch" expected there were only very short branch names
in the repository and used a fixed-length buffer to hold them
without checking for overflow.
* jk/show-branch-lift-name-len-limit:
show-branch: use skip_prefix to drop magic numbers
show-branch: store resolved head in heap buffer
show-branch: drop head_len variable
"git ls-remote" and "git archive --remote" are designed to work
without being in a directory under Git's control. However, recent
updates revealed that we randomly look into a directory called
.git/ without actually doing necessary set-up when working in a
repository. Stop doing so.
* jn/remote-helpers-with-git-dir:
remote helpers: avoid blind fall-back to ".git" when setting GIT_DIR
remote: avoid reading $GIT_DIR config in non-repo
The code to parse the command line "git grep <patterns>... <rev>
[[--] <pathspec>...]" has been cleaned up, and a handful of bugs
have been fixed (e.g. we used to check "--" if it is a rev).
* jk/grep-no-index-fix:
grep: treat revs the same for --untracked as for --no-index
grep: do not diagnose misspelt revs with --no-index
grep: avoid resolving revision names in --no-index case
grep: fix "--" rev/pathspec disambiguation
grep: re-order rev-parsing loop
grep: do not unnecessarily query repo for "--"
grep: move thread initialization a little lower
A "gc.log" file left by a backgrounded "gc --auto" disables further
automatic gc; it has been taught to run at least once a day (by
default) by ignoring a stale "gc.log" file that is too old.
* dt/gc-ignore-old-gc-logs:
gc: ignore old gc.log files
* mh/submodule-hash:
read_loose_refs(): read refs using resolve_ref_recursively()
files_ref_store::submodule: use NULL for the main repository
base_ref_store_init(): remove submodule argument
refs: push the submodule attribute down
refs: store submodule ref stores in a hashmap
register_ref_store(): new function
refs: remove some unnecessary handling of submodule == ""
refs: make some ref_store lookup functions private
refs: reorder some function definitions
The command line options for ssh invocation needs to be tweaked for
some implementations of SSH (e.g. PuTTY plink wants "-P <port>"
while OpenSSH wants "-p <port>" to specify port to connect to), and
the variant was guessed when GIT_SSH environment variable is used
to specify it. The logic to guess now applies to the command
specified by the newer GIT_SSH_COMMAND and also core.sshcommand
configuration variable, and comes with an escape hatch for users to
deal with misdetected cases.
* sf/putty-w-args:
connect.c: stop conflating ssh command names and overrides
connect: Add the envvar GIT_SSH_VARIANT and ssh.variant config
git_connect(): factor out SSH variant handling
connect: rename tortoiseplink and putty variables
connect: handle putty/plink also in GIT_SSH_COMMAND
The gitattributes machinery is being taught to work better in a
multi-threaded environment.
* bw/attr: (27 commits)
attr: reformat git_attr_set_direction() function
attr: push the bare repo check into read_attr()
attr: store attribute stack in attr_check structure
attr: tighten const correctness with git_attr and match_attr
attr: remove maybe-real, maybe-macro from git_attr
attr: eliminate global check_all_attr array
attr: use hashmap for attribute dictionary
attr: change validity check for attribute names to use positive logic
attr: pass struct attr_check to collect_some_attrs
attr: retire git_check_attrs() API
attr: convert git_check_attrs() callers to use the new API
attr: convert git_all_attrs() to use "struct attr_check"
attr: (re)introduce git_check_attr() and struct attr_check
attr: rename function and struct related to checking attributes
attr.c: outline the future plans by heavily commenting
Documentation: fix a typo
attr.c: add push_stack() helper
attr: support quoting pathname patterns in C style
attr.c: plug small leak in parse_attr_line()
attr.c: tighten constness around "git_attr" structure
...
Clean-up and updates to command line completion (in contrib/).
* sg/completion: (22 commits)
completion: restore removed line continuating backslash
completion: cache the path to the repository
completion: extract repository discovery from __gitdir()
completion: don't guard git executions with __gitdir()
completion: consolidate silencing errors from git commands
completion: don't use __gitdir() for git commands
completion: respect 'git -C <path>'
rev-parse: add '--absolute-git-dir' option
completion: fix completion after 'git -C <path>'
completion: don't offer commands when 'git --opt' needs an argument
completion: list short refs from a remote given as a URL
completion: don't list 'HEAD' when trying refs completion outside of a repo
completion: list refs from remote when remote's name matches a directory
completion: respect 'git --git-dir=<path>' when listing remote refs
completion: fix most spots not respecting 'git --git-dir=<path>'
completion: ensure that the repository path given on the command line exists
completion tests: add tests for the __git_refs() helper function
completion tests: check __gitdir()'s output in the error cases
completion tests: consolidate getting path of current working directory
completion tests: make the $cur variable local to the test helper functions
...
The "negative" pathspec feature was somewhat more cumbersome to use
than necessary in that its short-hand used "!" which needed to be
escaped from shells, and it required "exclude from what?" specified.
* lt/pathspec-negative:
pathspec: don't error out on all-exclusionary pathspec patterns
pathspec magic: add '^' as alias for '!'
"git tag" did not leave useful message when adding a new entry to
reflog; this was left unnoticed for a long time because refs/tags/*
doesn't keep reflog by default.
Optimizes resource usage while enumerating refs from alternate
object store, to help receiving end of "push" that hosts a
repository with many "forks".
* jk/alternate-ref-optim:
receive-pack: avoid duplicates between our refs and alternates
receive-pack: treat namespace .have lines like alternates
receive-pack: fix misleading namespace/.have comment
receive-pack: use oidset to de-duplicate .have lines
add oidset API
fetch-pack: cache results of for_each_alternate_ref
for_each_alternate_ref: replace transport code with for-each-ref
for_each_alternate_ref: pass name/oid instead of ref struct
for_each_alternate_ref: use strbuf for path allocation
for_each_alternate_ref: stop trimming trailing slashes
for_each_alternate_ref: handle failure from real_pathdup()
The code to list branches in "git branch" has been consolidated
with the more generic ref-filter API.
* kn/ref-filter-branch-list: (21 commits)
ref-filter: resurrect "strip" as a synonym to "lstrip"
branch: implement '--format' option
branch: use ref-filter printing APIs
branch, tag: use porcelain output
ref-filter: allow porcelain to translate messages in the output
ref-filter: add an 'rstrip=<N>' option to atoms which deal with refnames
ref-filter: modify the 'lstrip=<N>' option to work with negative '<N>'
ref-filter: Do not abruptly die when using the 'lstrip=<N>' option
ref-filter: rename the 'strip' option to 'lstrip'
ref-filter: make remote_ref_atom_parser() use refname_atom_parser_internal()
ref-filter: introduce refname_atom_parser()
ref-filter: introduce refname_atom_parser_internal()
ref-filter: make "%(symref)" atom work with the ':short' modifier
ref-filter: add support for %(upstream:track,nobracket)
ref-filter: make %(upstream:track) prints "[gone]" for invalid upstreams
ref-filter: introduce format_ref_array_item()
ref-filter: move get_head_description() from branch.c
ref-filter: modify "%(objectname:short)" to take length
ref-filter: implement %(if:equals=<string>) and %(if:notequals=<string>)
ref-filter: include reference to 'used_atom' within 'atom_value'
...
The <url> part in "http.<url>.<variable>" configuration variable
can now be spelled with '*' that serves as wildcard.
E.g. "http.https://*.example.com.proxy" can be used to specify the
proxy used for https://a.example.com, https://b.example.com, etc.,
i.e. any host in the example.com domain.
* ps/urlmatch-wildcard:
urlmatch: allow globbing for the URL host part
urlmatch: include host in urlmatch ranking
urlmatch: split host and port fields in `struct url_info`
urlmatch: enable normalization of URLs with globs
mailmap: add Patrick Steinhardt's work address
When "git merge" detects a path that is renamed in one history
while the other history deleted (or modified) it, it now reports
both paths to help the user understand what is going on in the two
histories being merged.
* mm/merge-rename-delete-message:
merge-recursive: make "CONFLICT (rename/delete)" message show both paths
Deletion of a branch "foo/bar" could remove .git/refs/heads/foo
once there no longer is any other branch whose name begins with
"foo/", but we didn't do so so far. Now we do.
* mh/ref-remove-empty-directory: (23 commits)
files_transaction_commit(): clean up empty directories
try_remove_empty_parents(): teach to remove parents of reflogs, too
try_remove_empty_parents(): don't trash argument contents
try_remove_empty_parents(): rename parameter "name" -> "refname"
delete_ref_loose(): inline function
delete_ref_loose(): derive loose reference path from lock
log_ref_write_1(): inline function
log_ref_setup(): manage the name of the reflog file internally
log_ref_write_1(): don't depend on logfile argument
log_ref_setup(): pass the open file descriptor back to the caller
log_ref_setup(): improve robustness against races
log_ref_setup(): separate code for create vs non-create
log_ref_write(): inline function
rename_tmp_log(): improve error reporting
rename_tmp_log(): use raceproof_create_file()
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): use raceproof_create_file()
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): inline constant
raceproof_create_file(): new function
safe_create_leading_directories(): set errno on SCLD_EXISTS
safe_create_leading_directories_const(): preserve errno
...
"git describe" and "git name-rev" have been taught to take more
than one refname patterns to restrict the set of refs to base their
naming output on, and also learned to take negative patterns to
name refs not to be used for naming via their "--exclude" option.
* jk/describe-omit-some-refs:
describe: teach describe negative pattern matches
describe: teach --match to accept multiple patterns
name-rev: add support to exclude refs by pattern match
name-rev: extend --refs to accept multiple patterns
doc: add documentation for OPT_STRING_LIST
docs/git-gc: fix default value for `--aggressiveDepth`
In commit 07e7dbf0d (gc: default aggressive depth to 50, 2016-08-11),
the default aggressive depth of git-gc has been changed to 50. While
git-config(1) has been updated to represent the new default value,
git-gc(1) still mentions the old value. This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git add -i: replace \t with blanks in the help message
Within the help message of 'git add -i', the 'diff' command uses one
tab character and blanks to create the space between the name and the
description while the others use blanks only. So if the tab size is
not at 4 characters, this description will not be in range.
Replace the tab character with blanks.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation: use brackets for optional arguments
The documentation for git blame used vertical bars for optional
arguments to -M and -C, which is unusual and potentially confusing.
Since most man pages use brackets for optional items, and that's
consistent with how we document the same options for git diff and
friends, use brackets here, too.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option is “--detach”, but we accidentally spelled it “--detached” at
one point in the man page.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Reported-by: Casey Rodarmor <casey@rodarmor.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
remote: ignore failure to remove missing branch.<name>.merge
It is not all too unusual for a branch to use "branch.<name>.remote"
without "branch.<name>.merge". You may be using the 'push.default'
configuration set to 'current', for example, and do
However, "git remote rm" to remove the remote used in such a manner
fails with
"fatal: could not unset 'branch.<name>.merge'"
because it assumes that a branch that has .remote defined must also
have .merge defined. Detect the "cannot unset because it is not set
to begin with" case and ignore it.
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
branch: record creation of renamed branch in HEAD's log
Renaming the current branch adds an event to the current branch's log
and to HEAD's log. However, the logged entries differ. The entry in
the branch's log represents the entire renaming operation (the old and
new hash are identical), whereas the entry in HEAD's log represents
the deletion only (the new sha1 is null).
Extend replace_each_worktree_head_symref(), whose only caller is
branch_rename(), to take a reflog message argument. This allows the
creation of the new ref to be recorded in HEAD's log. As a result,
the renaming event is represented by two entries (a deletion and a
creation entry) in HEAD's log.
It's a bit unfortunate that the branch's log and HEAD's log now
represent the renaming event in different ways. Given that the
renaming operation is not atomic, the two-entry form is a more
accurate representation of the operation and is more useful for
debugging purposes if a failure occurs between the deletion and
creation events. It would make sense to move the branch's log to the
two-entry form, but this would involve changes to how the rename is
carried out and to how the update flags and reflogs are processed for
deletions, so it may not be worth the effort.
Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the current branch is renamed, the deletion of the old ref is
recorded in HEAD's log with an empty message. Now that delete_ref()
accepts a reflog message, provide a more descriptive message by
passing along the log message that is given to rename_ref().
The next step will be to extend HEAD's log to also include the second
part of the rename, the creation of the new branch.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the current branch is renamed with 'git branch -m/-M' or deleted
with 'git update-ref -m<msg> -d', the event is recorded in HEAD's log
with an empty message. In preparation for adding a more meaningful
message to HEAD's log in these cases, update delete_ref() to take a
message argument and pass it along to ref_transaction_delete().
Modify all callers to pass NULL for the new message argument; no
change in behavior is intended.
Note that this is relevant for HEAD's log but not for the deleted
ref's log, which is currently deleted along with the ref. Even if it
were not, an entry for the deletion wouldn't be present in the deleted
ref's log. files_transaction_commit() writes to the log if
REF_NEEDS_COMMIT or REF_LOG_ONLY are set, but lock_ref_for_update()
doesn't set REF_NEEDS_COMMIT for the deleted ref because REF_DELETING
is set. In contrast, the update for HEAD has REF_LOG_ONLY set by
split_head_update(), resulting in the deletion being logged.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
init: document dotfiles exclusion on template copy
Not just . and .., but any path that begins with dot is not copied
when copying the template directory to a new repository. You can
customize the template directory, copying some dotfiles might make
sense, but it's actually a good thing not to, because you would not
want to have your git directory copied in every git directory that
is created should you decide to put your template directory under
version control, for example. Plus, it might be used as a feature
by people who would want to exclude some files.
Signed-off-by: Grégoire Paris <postmaster@greg0ire.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
tempfile: set errno to a known value before calling ferror()
In close_tempfile(), we return an error if ferror()
indicated a previous failure, or if fclose() failed. In the
latter case, errno is set and it is useful for callers to
report it.
However, if _only_ ferror() triggers, then the value of
errno is based on whatever syscall happened to last fail,
which may not be related to our filehandle at all. A caller
cannot tell the difference between the two cases, and may
use "die_errno()" or similar to report a nonsense errno value.
One solution would be to actually pass back separate return
values for the two cases, so a caller can write a more
appropriate message for each case. But that makes the
interface clunky.
Instead, let's just set errno to the generic EIO in this case.
That's not as descriptive as we'd like, but at least it's
predictable. So it's better than the status quo in all cases
but one: when the last syscall really did involve a failure
on our filehandle, we'll be wiping that out. But that's a
fragile thing for us to rely on.
In any case, we'll let the errno result from fclose() take
precedence over our value, as we know that's recent and
accurate (and many I/O errors will persist through the
fclose anyway).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
rev-parse: fix several options when running in a subdirectory
In addition to making git_path() aware of certain file names that need
to be handled differently e.g. when running in worktrees, the commit 557bd833bb (git_path(): be aware of file relocation in $GIT_DIR,
2014-11-30) also snuck in a new option for `git rev-parse`:
`--git-path`.
On the face of it, there is no obvious bug in that commit's diff: it
faithfully calls git_path() on the argument and prints it out, i.e. `git
rev-parse --git-path <filename>` has the same precise behavior as
calling `git_path("<filename>")` in C.
The problem lies deeper, much deeper. In hindsight (which is always
unfair), implementing the .git/ directory discovery in
`setup_git_directory()` by changing the working directory may have
allowed us to avoid passing around a struct that contains information
about the current repository, but it bought us many, many problems.
In this case, when being called in a subdirectory, `git rev-parse`
changes the working directory to the top-level directory before calling
`git_path()`. In the new working directory, the result is correct. But
in the working directory of the calling script, it is incorrect.
Example: when calling `git rev-parse --git-path HEAD` in, say, the
Documentation/ subdirectory of Git's own source code, the string
`.git/HEAD` is printed.
Side note: that bug is hidden when running in a subdirectory of a
worktree that was added by the `git worktree` command: in that case, the
(correct) absolute path of the `HEAD` file is printed.
In the interest of time, this patch does not go the "correct" route to
introduce a struct with repository information (and removing global
state in the process), instead this patch chooses to detect when the
command was called in a subdirectory and forces the result to be an
absolute path.
While at it, we are also fixing the output of --git-common-dir and
--shared-index-path.
Lastly, please note that we reuse the same strbuf for all of the
relative_path() calls; this avoids frequent allocation (and duplicated
code), and it does not risk memory leaks, for two reasons: 1) the
cmd_rev_parse() function does not return anywhere between the use of
the new strbuf instance and its final release, and 2) git-rev-parse is
one of these "one-shot" programs in Git, i.e. it exits after running
for a very short time, meaning that all allocated memory is released
with the exit() call anyway.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
rev-parse tests: add tests executed from a subdirectory
t2027-worktree-list has an incorrect expectation for --git-common-dir
which has been adjusted and marked to expect failure.
Some of the tests added have been marked to expect failure. These
demonstrate a problem with the way that some options to git rev-parse
behave when executed from a subdirectory of the main worktree.
[jes: fixed incorrect assumption that objects/ lives in the
worktree-specific git-dir (it lives in the common dir instead). Also
adjusted t1700 so that the test case does not *need* to be the last
one in that script.]
Signed-off-by: Michael Rappazzo <rappazzo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git p4" imports changelist that removes paths, it failed to
convert pathnames when the p4 used encoding different from the one
used on the Git side. This has been corrected.
* ls/p4-path-encoding:
git-p4: fix git-p4.pathEncoding for removed files
The current code wants to record an error condition from
either ferror() or fclose(), but makes sure that we always
call both functions. So it can't use logical-OR "||", which
would short-circuit when ferror() is true. Instead, it uses
bitwise-OR "|" to evaluate both functions and set one or
more bits in the "err" flag if they reported a failure.
Unlike logical-OR, though, bitwise-OR does not introduce a
sequence point, and the order of evaluation for its operands
is unspecified. So a compiler would be free to generate code
which calls fclose() first, and then ferror() on the
now-freed filehandle.
There's no indication that this has happened in practice,
but let's write it out in a way that follows the standard.
Noticed-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
config.txt: fix formatting of submodule.alternateErrorStrategy section
Add missing `::` after the title.
Signed-off-by: David Pursehouse <dpursehouse@collab.net> Acked-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
reset: add an example of how to split a commit into two
It is often useful to break a commit into multiple parts that are more
logical separations. This can be tricky to learn how to do without the
brute-force method if re-writing code or commit messages from scratch.
Add a section to the git-reset documentation which shows an example
process for how to use git add -p and git commit -c HEAD@{1} to
interactively break a commit apart and re-use the original commit
message as a starting point when making the new commit message.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git can't run bisect between 2048+ commits if use russian
translation, because the translated string is too long for the fixed
buffer it uses (this can be reproduced "LANG=ru_RU.UTF8 git bisect
start v4.9 v4.8" on linux sources).
Use xstrfmt() to format the message string to sufficiently sized
buffer instead to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Moseychuk <franchesko.salias.hudro.pedros@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation explained what "git stash" does to the working
tree (after stashing away the local changes) in terms of "reset
--hard", which was exposing an unnecessary implementation detail.
* tg/stash-doc-cleanup:
Documentation/stash: remove mention of git reset --hard
show-branch: use skip_prefix to drop magic numbers
We make several starts_with() calls, only to advance
pointers. This is exactly what skip_prefix() is for, which
lets us avoid manually-counted magic numbers.
Helped-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The push-options given via the "--push-options" option were not
passed through to external remote helpers such as "smart HTTP" that
are invoked via the transport helper.
* sb/push-options-via-transport:
push options: pass push options to the transport helper
grep: treat revs the same for --untracked as for --no-index
git-grep has always disallowed grepping in a tree (as
opposed to the working directory) with both --untracked
and --no-index. But we traditionally did so by first
collecting the revs, and then complaining when any were
provided.
The --no-index option recently learned to detect revs
much earlier. This has two user-visible effects:
- we don't bother to resolve revision names at all. So
when there's a rev/path ambiguity, we always choose to
treat it as a path.
- likewise, when you do specify a revision without "--",
the error you get is "no such path" and not "--untracked
cannot be used with revs".
The rationale for doing this with --no-index is that it is
meant to be used outside a repository, and so parsing revs
at all does not make sense.
This patch gives --untracked the same treatment. While it
_is_ meant to be used in a repository, it is explicitly
about grepping the non-repository contents. Telling the user
"we found a rev, but you are not allowed to use revs" is
not really helpful compared to "we treated your argument as
a path, and could not find it".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
remote helpers: avoid blind fall-back to ".git" when setting GIT_DIR
To push from or fetch to the current repository, remote helpers need
to know what repository that is. Accordingly, Git sets the GIT_DIR
environment variable to the path to the current repository when
invoking remote helpers.
There is a special case it does not handle: "git ls-remote" and "git
archive --remote" can be run to inspect a remote repository without
being run from any local repository. GIT_DIR is not useful in this
scenario:
- if we are not in a repository, we don't need to set GIT_DIR to
override an existing GIT_DIR value from the environment. If GIT_DIR
is present then we would be in a repository if it were valid and
would have called die() if it weren't.
- not setting GIT_DIR may cause a helper to do the usual discovery
walk to find the repository. But we know we're not in one, or we
would have found it ourselves. So in the worst case it may expend
a little extra effort to try to find a repository and fail (for
example, remote-curl would do this to try to find repository-level
configuration).
So leave GIT_DIR unset in this case. This makes GIT_DIR easier to
understand for remote helper authors and makes transport code less of
a special case for repository discovery.
Noticed using b1ef400e (setup_git_env: avoid blind fall-back to
".git", 2016-10-20) from 'next':
$ cd /tmp
$ git ls-remote https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
fatal: BUG: setup_git_env called without repository
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>