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config: restructure format_config() for better control... SZEDER Gábor Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:14:22 +0000 (16:14 +0200)

config: restructure format_config() for better control flow

Commit 578625fa91 (config: add '--name-only' option to list only
variable names, 2015-08-10) modified format_config() such that it
returned from the middle of the function when showing only keys,
resulting in ugly code structure.

Reorganize the if statements and dealing with the key-value delimiter to
make the function easier to read.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

completion: list variable names reliably with 'git... SZEDER Gábor Mon, 10 Aug 2015 09:46:07 +0000 (11:46 +0200)

completion: list variable names reliably with 'git config --name-only'

Recenty I created a multi-line branch description with '.' and '='
characters on one of the lines, and noticed that fragments of that line
show up when completing set variable names for 'git config', e.g.:

$ git config --get branch.b.description
Branch description to fool the completion script with a
second line containing dot . and equals = characters.
$ git config --unset <TAB>
...
second line containing dot . and equals
...

The completion script runs 'git config --list' and processes its output
to strip the values and keep only the variable names. It does so by
looking for lines containing '.' and '=' and outputting everything
before the '=', which was fooled by my multi-line branch description.

A similar issue exists with aliases and pretty format aliases with
multi-line values, but in that case 'git config --get-regexp' is run and
lines in its output are simply stripped after the first space, so
subsequent lines don't even have to contain '.' and '=' to fool the
completion script.

Use the new '--name-only' option added in the previous commit to list
config variable names reliably in both cases, without error-prone post
processing.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

config: add '--name-only' option to list only variable... SZEDER Gábor Mon, 10 Aug 2015 09:46:06 +0000 (11:46 +0200)

config: add '--name-only' option to list only variable names

'git config' can only show values or name-value pairs, so if a shell
script needs the names of set config variables it has to run 'git config
--list' or '--get-regexp' and parse the output to separate config
variable names from their values. However, such a parsing can't cope
with multi-line values. Though 'git config' can produce null-terminated
output for newline-safe parsing, that's of no use in such a case, becase
shells can't cope with null characters.

Even our own bash completion script suffers from these issues.

Help the completion script, and shell scripts in general, by introducing
the '--name-only' option to modify the output of '--list' and
'--get-regexp' to list only the names of config variables, so they don't
have to perform error-prone post processing to separate variable names
from their values anymore.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'nd/untracked-cache'Junio C Hamano Wed, 27 May 2015 20:14:38 +0000 (13:14 -0700)

Merge branch 'nd/untracked-cache'

* nd/untracked-cache:
t7063: hide stderr from setup inside prereq

t7063: hide stderr from setup inside prereqJeff King Wed, 27 May 2015 09:34:58 +0000 (05:34 -0400)

t7063: hide stderr from setup inside prereq

When t7063 starts, it runs "update-index --untracked-cache"
to see if we support the untracked cache. Its output goes
straight to stderr, even if the test is not run with "-v".
Let's wrap it in a prereq that will hide the output by
default, but show it with "-v".

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Sync with 2.4.2Junio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:50:39 +0000 (13:50 -0700)

Sync with 2.4.2

Git 2.4.2 v2.4.2Junio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:49:59 +0000 (13:49 -0700)

Git 2.4.2

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'jk/still-interesting' into maintJunio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:49:26 +0000 (13:49 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/still-interesting' into maint

"git rev-list --objects $old --not --all" to see if everything that
is reachable from $old is already connected to the existing refs
was very inefficient.

* jk/still-interesting:
limit_list: avoid quadratic behavior from still_interesting

Merge branch 'jc/hash-object' into maintJunio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:49:24 +0000 (13:49 -0700)

Merge branch 'jc/hash-object' into maint

"hash-object --literally" introduced in v2.2 was not prepared to
take a really long object type name.

* jc/hash-object:
write_sha1_file(): do not use a separate sha1[] array
t1007: add hash-object --literally tests
hash-object --literally: fix buffer overrun with extra-long object type
git-hash-object.txt: document --literally option

Merge branch 'jk/rebase-quiet-noop' into maintJunio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:49:23 +0000 (13:49 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/rebase-quiet-noop' into maint

"git rebase --quiet" was not quite quiet when there is nothing to
do.

* jk/rebase-quiet-noop:
rebase: silence "git checkout" for noop rebase

Merge branch 'sg/complete-decorate-full-not-long' into... Junio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:49:22 +0000 (13:49 -0700)

Merge branch 'sg/complete-decorate-full-not-long' into maint

The completion for "log --decorate=" parameter value was incorrect.

* sg/complete-decorate-full-not-long:
completion: fix and update 'git log --decorate=' options

Merge branch 'jk/filter-branch-use-of-sed-on-incomplete... Junio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:49:20 +0000 (13:49 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/filter-branch-use-of-sed-on-incomplete-line' into maint

"filter-branch" corrupted commit log message that ends with an
incomplete line on platforms with some "sed" implementations that
munge such a line. Work it around by avoiding to use "sed".

* jk/filter-branch-use-of-sed-on-incomplete-line:
filter-branch: avoid passing commit message through sed

Merge branch 'jc/daemon-no-ipv6-for-2.4.1' into maintJunio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:49:19 +0000 (13:49 -0700)

Merge branch 'jc/daemon-no-ipv6-for-2.4.1' into maint

"git daemon" fails to build from the source under NO_IPV6
configuration (regression in 2.4).

* jc/daemon-no-ipv6-for-2.4.1:
daemon: unbreak NO_IPV6 build regression

Merge branch 'jk/stash-require-clean-index' into maintJunio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:49:19 +0000 (13:49 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/stash-require-clean-index' into maint

"git stash pop/apply" forgot to make sure that not just the working
tree is clean but also the index is clean. The latter is important
as a stash application can conflict and the index will be used for
conflict resolution.

* jk/stash-require-clean-index:
stash: require a clean index to apply
t3903: avoid applying onto dirty index
t3903: stop hard-coding commit sha1s

Merge branch 'jk/git-no-more-argv0-path-munging' into... Junio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:49:18 +0000 (13:49 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/git-no-more-argv0-path-munging' into maint

We have prepended $GIT_EXEC_PATH and the path "git" is installed in
(typically "/usr/bin") to $PATH when invoking subprograms and hooks
for almost eternity, but the original use case the latter tried to
support was semi-bogus (i.e. install git to /opt/foo/git and run it
without having /opt/foo on $PATH), and more importantly it has
become less and less relevant as Git grew more mainstream (i.e. the
users would _want_ to have it on their $PATH). Stop prepending the
path in which "git" is installed to users' $PATH, as that would
interfere the command search order people depend on (e.g. they may
not like versions of programs that are unrelated to Git in /usr/bin
and want to override them by having different ones in /usr/local/bin
and have the latter directory earlier in their $PATH).

* jk/git-no-more-argv0-path-munging:
stop putting argv[0] dirname at front of PATH

Fifth batch for 2.5 cycleJunio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:33:35 +0000 (13:33 -0700)

Fifth batch for 2.5 cycle

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'nd/untracked-cache'Junio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:24:45 +0000 (13:24 -0700)

Merge branch 'nd/untracked-cache'

Teach the index to optionally remember already seen untracked files
to speed up "git status" in a working tree with tons of cruft.

* nd/untracked-cache: (24 commits)
git-status.txt: advertisement for untracked cache
untracked cache: guard and disable on system changes
mingw32: add uname()
t7063: tests for untracked cache
update-index: test the system before enabling untracked cache
update-index: manually enable or disable untracked cache
status: enable untracked cache
untracked-cache: temporarily disable with $GIT_DISABLE_UNTRACKED_CACHE
untracked cache: mark index dirty if untracked cache is updated
untracked cache: print stats with $GIT_TRACE_UNTRACKED_STATS
untracked cache: avoid racy timestamps
read-cache.c: split racy stat test to a separate function
untracked cache: invalidate at index addition or removal
untracked cache: load from UNTR index extension
untracked cache: save to an index extension
ewah: add convenient wrapper ewah_serialize_strbuf()
untracked cache: don't open non-existent .gitignore
untracked cache: mark what dirs should be recursed/saved
untracked cache: record/validate dir mtime and reuse cached output
untracked cache: make a wrapper around {open,read,close}dir()
...

Merge branch 'rs/plug-leak-in-pack-bitmaps'Junio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:24:44 +0000 (13:24 -0700)

Merge branch 'rs/plug-leak-in-pack-bitmaps'

The code to read pack-bitmap wanted to allocate a few hundred
pointers to a structure, but by mistake allocated and leaked memory
enough to hold that many actual structures. Correct the allocation
size and also have it on stack, as it is small enough.

* rs/plug-leak-in-pack-bitmaps:
pack-bitmaps: plug memory leak, fix allocation size for recent_bitmaps

Merge branch 'pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff'Junio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:24:43 +0000 (13:24 -0700)

Merge branch 'pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff'

The pull.ff configuration was supposed to override the merge.ff
configuration, but it didn't.

* pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff:
pull: parse pull.ff as a bool or string
pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ff

Merge branch 'pt/pull-log-n'Junio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:24:43 +0000 (13:24 -0700)

Merge branch 'pt/pull-log-n'

"git pull --log" and "git pull --no-log" worked as expected, but
"git pull --log=20" did not.

* pt/pull-log-n:
pull: handle --log=<n>

Merge branch 'jk/rerere-forget-check-enabled'Junio C Hamano Tue, 26 May 2015 20:24:42 +0000 (13:24 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/rerere-forget-check-enabled'

"git rerere forget" in a repository without rerere enabled gave a
cryptic error message; it should be a silent no-op instead.

* jk/rerere-forget-check-enabled:
rerere: exit silently on "forget" when rerere is disabled

Fourth batch for 2.5 cycleJunio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:53:21 +0000 (12:53 -0700)

Fourth batch for 2.5 cycle

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:42:00 +0000 (12:42 -0700)

Merge branch 'ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file'

Doc consistency updates.

* ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file:
doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
pack-protocol.txt: fix insconsistent spelling of "packfile"
git-unpack-objects.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"

Merge branch 'sb/t1020-cleanup'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:59 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'sb/t1020-cleanup'

There was a commented-out (instead of being marked to expect
failure) test that documented a breakage that was fixed since the
test was written; turn it into a proper test.

* sb/t1020-cleanup:
subdirectory tests: code cleanup, uncomment test

Merge branch 'lm/squelch-bg-progress'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:58 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'lm/squelch-bg-progress'

The controlling tty-based heuristics to squelch progress output did
not consider that the process may not be talking to a tty at all
(e.g. sending the progress to sideband #2). This is a finishing
touch to a topic that is already in 'master'.

* lm/squelch-bg-progress:
progress: treat "no terminal" as being in the foreground

Merge branch 'jc/ignore-epipe-in-filter'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:57 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'jc/ignore-epipe-in-filter'

Filter scripts were run with SIGPIPE disabled on the Git side,
expecting that they may not read what Git feeds them to filter.
We however treated a filter that does not read its input fully
before exiting as an error.

This changes semantics, but arguably in a good way. If a filter
can produce its output without consuming its input using whatever
magic, we now let it do so, instead of diagnosing it as a
programming error.

* jc/ignore-epipe-in-filter:
filter_buffer_or_fd(): ignore EPIPE
copy.c: make copy_fd() report its status silently

Merge branch 'mh/clone-verbosity-fix'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:56 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'mh/clone-verbosity-fix'

Git 2.4 broke setting verbosity and progress levels on "git clone"
with native transports.

* mh/clone-verbosity-fix:
clone: call transport_set_verbosity before anything else on the newly created transport

Merge branch 'pt/pull-tags-error-diag'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:56 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'pt/pull-tags-error-diag'

There was a dead code that used to handle "git pull --tags" and
show special-cased error message, which was made irrelevant when
the semantics of the option changed back in Git 1.9 days.

* pt/pull-tags-error-diag:
pull: remove --tags error in no merge candidates case

Merge branch 'mh/lockfile-retry'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:55 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'mh/lockfile-retry'

Instead of dying immediately upon failing to obtain a lock, retry
after a short while with backoff.

* mh/lockfile-retry:
lock_packed_refs(): allow retries when acquiring the packed-refs lock
lockfile: allow file locking to be retried with a timeout

Merge branch 'jk/add-e-kill-editor'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:55 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/add-e-kill-editor'

"git add -e" did not allow the user to abort the operation by
killing the editor.

* jk/add-e-kill-editor:
add: check return value of launch_editor

Merge branch 'sg/completion-config'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:53 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'sg/completion-config'

Code clean-up for completion script (in contrib/).

* sg/completion-config:
completion: simplify query for config variables
completion: add a helper function to get config variables

Merge branch 'mh/ref-directory-file'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:53 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'mh/ref-directory-file'

The ref API did not handle cases where 'refs/heads/xyzzy/frotz' is
removed at the same time as 'refs/heads/xyzzy' is added (or vice
versa) very well.

* mh/ref-directory-file:
reflog_expire(): integrate lock_ref_sha1_basic() errors into ours
ref_transaction_commit(): delete extra "the" from error message
ref_transaction_commit(): provide better error messages
rename_ref(): integrate lock_ref_sha1_basic() errors into ours
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): improve diagnostics for ref D/F conflicts
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): report errors via a "struct strbuf *err"
verify_refname_available(): report errors via a "struct strbuf *err"
verify_refname_available(): rename function
refs: check for D/F conflicts among refs created in a transaction
ref_transaction_commit(): use a string_list for detecting duplicates
is_refname_available(): use dirname in first loop
struct nonmatching_ref_data: store a refname instead of a ref_entry
report_refname_conflict(): inline function
entry_matches(): inline function
is_refname_available(): convert local variable "dirname" to strbuf
is_refname_available(): avoid shadowing "dir" variable
is_refname_available(): revamp the comments
t1404: new tests of ref D/F conflicts within transactions

Merge branch 'mh/write-refs-sooner-2.4'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:52 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'mh/write-refs-sooner-2.4'

Multi-ref transaction support we merged a few releases ago
unnecessarily kept many file descriptors open, risking to fail with
resource exhaustion. This is for 2.4.x track.

* mh/write-refs-sooner-2.4:
ref_transaction_commit(): fix atomicity and avoid fd exhaustion
ref_transaction_commit(): remove the local flags variable
ref_transaction_commit(): inline call to write_ref_sha1()
rename_ref(): inline calls to write_ref_sha1() from this function
commit_ref_update(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
write_ref_to_lockfile(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
t7004: rename ULIMIT test prerequisite to ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE
update-ref: test handling large transactions properly
ref_transaction_commit(): fix atomicity and avoid fd exhaustion
ref_transaction_commit(): remove the local flags variable
ref_transaction_commit(): inline call to write_ref_sha1()
rename_ref(): inline calls to write_ref_sha1() from this function
commit_ref_update(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
write_ref_to_lockfile(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
t7004: rename ULIMIT test prerequisite to ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE
update-ref: test handling large transactions properly

Merge branch 'mg/log-decorate-HEAD'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:51 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'mg/log-decorate-HEAD'

The "log --decorate" enhancement in Git 2.4 that shows the commit
at the tip of the current branch e.g. "HEAD -> master", did not
work with --decorate=full.

* mg/log-decorate-HEAD:
log: do not shorten decoration names too early
log: decorate HEAD with branch name under --decorate=full, too

Merge branch 'jk/asciidoc-markup-fix'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:50 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/asciidoc-markup-fix'

Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more
consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative
formatter) happier.

* jk/asciidoc-markup-fix:
doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]
doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks
doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces
doc: convert \--option to --option
doc/add: reformat `--edit` option
doc: fix length of underlined section-title
doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation
doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}"
doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'

Merge branch 'jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:49 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix'

A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to
delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's
AsciiDoc renderer.

* jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix:
doc: fix unmatched code fences in git-stripspace

Merge branch 'ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:48 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix'

A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to
delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's
AsciiDoc renderer.

* ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix:
doc: fix unmatched code fences

Merge branch 'sg/help-subcommands'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:47 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'sg/help-subcommands'

A preparatory clean-up step.

* sg/help-subcommands:
command-list.txt: fix whitespace inconsistency

Merge branch 'ps/bundle-verify-arg'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:46 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'ps/bundle-verify-arg'

"git bundle verify" did not diagnose extra parameters on the
command line.

* ps/bundle-verify-arg:
bundle: verify arguments more strictly

Merge branch 'ls/http-ssl-cipher-list'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:45 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'ls/http-ssl-cipher-list'

Introduce http.<url>.SSLCipherList configuration variable to tweak
the list of cipher suite to be used with libcURL when talking with
https:// sites.

* ls/http-ssl-cipher-list:
http: add support for specifying an SSL cipher list

Merge branch 'dl/subtree-avoid-tricky-echo'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:45 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'dl/subtree-avoid-tricky-echo'

"git subtree" script (in contrib/) used "echo -n" to produce
progress messages in a non-portable way.

* dl/subtree-avoid-tricky-echo:
contrib/subtree: portability fix for string printing

Merge branch 'jk/skip-http-tests-under-no-curl'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:44 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/skip-http-tests-under-no-curl'

Test clean-up.

* jk/skip-http-tests-under-no-curl:
tests: skip dav http-push tests under NO_EXPAT=NoThanks
t/lib-httpd.sh: skip tests if NO_CURL is defined

Merge branch 'dl/subtree-push-no-squash'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:43 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'dl/subtree-push-no-squash'

"git subtree" script (in contrib/) does not have --squash option
when pushing, but the documentation and help text pretended as if
it did.

* dl/subtree-push-no-squash:
contrib/subtree: there's no push --squash

Merge branch 'sg/completion-omit-credential-helpers'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:42 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'sg/completion-omit-credential-helpers'

The Git subcommand completion (in contrib/) listed credential
helpers among candidates, which is not something the end user would
invoke interatively.

* sg/completion-omit-credential-helpers:
completion: remove credential helpers from porcelain commands

Merge branch 'dl/branch-error-message'Junio C Hamano Fri, 22 May 2015 19:41:41 +0000 (12:41 -0700)

Merge branch 'dl/branch-error-message'

Error messages from "git branch" called remote-tracking branches as
"remote branches".

* dl/branch-error-message:
branch: do not call a "remote-tracking branch" a "remote branch"

doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"Patrick Steinhardt Fri, 22 May 2015 06:22:04 +0000 (08:22 +0200)

doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"

Fix remaining instances where "pack-file" is used instead of
"packfile". Some places remain where we still use "pack-file",
This is the case when we explicitly refer to a file with a
".pack" extension as opposed to a data source providing a pack
data stream.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

filter_buffer_or_fd(): ignore EPIPEJunio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 18:08:23 +0000 (11:08 -0700)

filter_buffer_or_fd(): ignore EPIPE

We are explicitly ignoring SIGPIPE, as we fully expect that the
filter program may not read our output fully. Ignore EPIPE that
may come from writing to it as well.

A new test was stolen from Jeff's suggestion.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

copy.c: make copy_fd() report its status silentlyJunio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 17:55:16 +0000 (10:55 -0700)

copy.c: make copy_fd() report its status silently

When copy_fd() function encounters errors, it emits error messages
itself, which makes it impossible for callers to take responsibility
for reporting errors, especially when they want to ignore certain
errors.

Move the error reporting to its callers in preparation.

- copy_file() and copy_file_with_time() by indirection get their
own calls to error().

- hold_lock_file_for_append(), when told to die on error, used to
exit(128) relying on the error message from copy_fd(), but now it
does its own die() instead. Note that the callers that do not
pass LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR need to be adjusted for this change, but
fortunately there is none ;-)

- filter_buffer_or_fd() has its own error() already, in addition to
the message from copy_fd(), so this will change the output but
arguably in a better way.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Third batch for 2.5 cycleJunio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 20:24:08 +0000 (13:24 -0700)

Third batch for 2.5 cycle

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'sb/ref-lock-lose-lock-fd'Junio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 20:17:59 +0000 (13:17 -0700)

Merge branch 'sb/ref-lock-lose-lock-fd'

The refs API uses ref_lock struct which had its own "int fd", even
though the same file descriptor was in the lock struct it contains.
Clean-up the code to lose this redundant field.

* sb/ref-lock-lose-lock-fd:
refs.c: remove lock_fd from struct ref_lock

Merge branch 'kn/cat-file-literally'Junio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 20:17:58 +0000 (13:17 -0700)

Merge branch 'kn/cat-file-literally'

Add the "--allow-unknown-type" option to "cat-file" to allow
inspecting loose objects of an experimental or a broken type.

* kn/cat-file-literally:
t1006: add tests for git cat-file --allow-unknown-type
cat-file: teach cat-file a '--allow-unknown-type' option
cat-file: make the options mutually exclusive
sha1_file: support reading from a loose object of unknown type

Merge branch 'nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs'Junio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 20:17:57 +0000 (13:17 -0700)

Merge branch 'nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs'

A heuristic to help the "git <cmd> <revs> <pathspec>" command line
convention to catch mistyped paths is to make sure all the non-rev
parameters in the later part of the command line are names of the
files in the working tree, but that means "git grep $str -- \*.c"
must always be disambiguated with "--", because nobody sane will
create a file whose name literally is asterisk-dot-see. Loosen the
heuristic to declare that with a wildcard string the user likely
meant to give us a pathspec.

* nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs:
pathspec: avoid the need of "--" when wildcard is used

Merge branch 'jc/merge'Junio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 20:17:57 +0000 (13:17 -0700)

Merge branch 'jc/merge'

"git merge FETCH_HEAD" learned that the previous "git fetch" could
be to create an Octopus merge, i.e. recording multiple branches
that are not marked as "not-for-merge"; this allows us to lose an
old style invocation "git merge <msg> HEAD $commits..." in the
implementation of "git pull" script; the old style syntax can now
be deprecated.

* jc/merge:
merge: deprecate 'git merge <message> HEAD <commit>' syntax
merge: handle FETCH_HEAD internally
merge: decide if we auto-generate the message early in collect_parents()
merge: make collect_parents() auto-generate the merge message
merge: extract prepare_merge_message() logic out
merge: narrow scope of merge_names
merge: split reduce_parents() out of collect_parents()
merge: clarify collect_parents() logic
merge: small leakfix and code simplification
merge: do not check argc to determine number of remote heads
merge: clarify "pulling into void" special case
t5520: test pulling an octopus into an unborn branch
t5520: style fixes
merge: simplify code flow
merge: test the top-level merge driver

Merge branch 'ph/rebase-i-redo'Junio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 20:17:56 +0000 (13:17 -0700)

Merge branch 'ph/rebase-i-redo'

"git rebase -i" moved the "current" command from "todo" to "done" a
bit too prematurely, losing a step when a "pick" did not even start.

* ph/rebase-i-redo:
rebase -i: redo tasks that die during cherry-pick

Merge branch 'jc/test-prereq-validate'Junio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 20:17:55 +0000 (13:17 -0700)

Merge branch 'jc/test-prereq-validate'

Help us to find broken test script that splits the body part of the
test by mistaken use of wrong kind of quotes.

* jc/test-prereq-validate:
test: validate prerequistes syntax

Merge branch 'bc/connect-plink'Junio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 20:17:54 +0000 (13:17 -0700)

Merge branch 'bc/connect-plink'

The connection initiation code for "ssh" transport tried to absorb
differences between the stock "ssh" and Putty-supplied "plink" and
its derivatives, but the logic to tell that we are using "plink"
variants were too loose and falsely triggered when "plink" appeared
anywhere in the path (e.g. "/home/me/bin/uplink/ssh").

* bc/connect-plink:
connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives
t5601: fix quotation error leading to skipped tests
connect: simplify SSH connection code path

Merge branch 'jk/test-chain-lint'Junio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 20:17:54 +0000 (13:17 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/test-chain-lint'

Developer support to automatically detect broken &&-chain in the
test scripts is now turned on by default.

* jk/test-chain-lint:
test-lib: turn on GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT by default
t7502-commit.sh: fix a broken and-chain

Merge branch 'fg/document-commit-message-stripping'Junio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 20:17:53 +0000 (13:17 -0700)

Merge branch 'fg/document-commit-message-stripping'

* fg/document-commit-message-stripping:
Documentation: clarify how "git commit" cleans up the edited log message

Merge branch 'jk/stash-require-clean-index'Junio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 20:17:52 +0000 (13:17 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/stash-require-clean-index'

"git stash pop/apply" forgot to make sure that not just the working
tree is clean but also the index is clean. The latter is important
as a stash application can conflict and the index will be used for
conflict resolution.

* jk/stash-require-clean-index:
stash: require a clean index to apply
t3903: avoid applying onto dirty index
t3903: stop hard-coding commit sha1s

Merge branch 'jk/git-no-more-argv0-path-munging'Junio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 20:17:52 +0000 (13:17 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/git-no-more-argv0-path-munging'

We have prepended $GIT_EXEC_PATH and the path "git" is installed in
(typically "/usr/bin") to $PATH when invoking subprograms and hooks
for almost eternity, but the original use case the latter tried to
support was semi-bogus (i.e. install git to /opt/foo/git and run it
without having /opt/foo on $PATH), and more importantly it has
become less and less relevant as Git grew more mainstream (i.e. the
users would _want_ to have it on their $PATH). Stop prepending the
path in which "git" is installed to users' $PATH, as that would
interfere the command search order people depend on (e.g. they may
not like versions of programs that are unrelated to Git in /usr/bin
and want to override them by having different ones in /usr/local/bin
and have the latter directory earlier in their $PATH).

* jk/git-no-more-argv0-path-munging:
stop putting argv[0] dirname at front of PATH

Merge branch 'jc/gitignore-precedence'Junio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 20:17:50 +0000 (13:17 -0700)

Merge branch 'jc/gitignore-precedence'

core.excludesfile (defaulting to $XDG_HOME/git/ignore) is supposed
to be overridden by repository-specific .git/info/exclude file, but
the order was swapped from the beginning. This belatedly fixes it.

* jc/gitignore-precedence:
ignore: info/exclude should trump core.excludesfile

Merge branch 'nd/diff-i-t-a'Junio C Hamano Tue, 19 May 2015 20:17:49 +0000 (13:17 -0700)

Merge branch 'nd/diff-i-t-a'

After "git add -N", the path appeared in output of "git diff HEAD"
and "git diff --cached HEAD", leading "git status" to classify it
as "Changes to be committed". Such a path, however, is not yet to
be scheduled to be committed. "git diff" showed the change to the
path as modification, not as a "new file", in the header of its
output.

Treat such paths as "yet to be added to the index but Git already
know about them"; "git diff HEAD" and "git diff --cached HEAD"
should not talk about them, and "git diff" should show them as new
files yet to be added to the index.

* nd/diff-i-t-a:
diff-lib.c: adjust position of i-t-a entries in diff

progress: treat "no terminal" as being in the foregroundJeff King Tue, 19 May 2015 05:24:57 +0000 (01:24 -0400)

progress: treat "no terminal" as being in the foreground

progress: treat "no terminal" as being in the foreground

Commit 85cb890 (progress: no progress in background,
2015-04-13) avoids sending progress from background
processes by checking that the process group id of the
current process is the same as that of the controlling
terminal.

If we don't have a terminal, however, this check never
succeeds, and we print no progress at all (until the final
"done" message). This can be seen when cloning a large
repository; instead of getting progress updates for
"counting objects", it will appear to hang then print the
final count.

We can fix this by treating an error return from tcgetpgrp()
as a signal to show the progress.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

pack-bitmaps: plug memory leak, fix allocation size... René Scharfe Mon, 18 May 2015 23:24:09 +0000 (01:24 +0200)

pack-bitmaps: plug memory leak, fix allocation size for recent_bitmaps

Use an automatic variable for recent_bitmaps, an array of pointers.
This way we don't allocate too much and don't have to free the memory
at the end. The old code over-allocated because it reserved enough
memory to store all of the structs it is only pointing to and never
freed it. 160 64-bit pointers take up 1280 bytes, which is not too
much to be placed on the stack.

MAX_XOR_OFFSET is turned into a preprocessor constant to make it
constant enough for use in an non-variable array declaration.

Noticed-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com>
Suggested-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>

clone: call transport_set_verbosity before anything... Mike Hommey Tue, 12 May 2015 04:30:16 +0000 (13:30 +0900)

clone: call transport_set_verbosity before anything else on the newly created transport

Commit 2879bc3 made the progress and verbosity options sent to remote helper
earlier than they previously were. But nothing else after that would send
updates if the value is changed later on with transport_set_verbosity.

While for fetch and push, transport_set_verbosity is the first thing that
is done after creating the transport, it was not the case for clone. So
commit 2879bc3 broke changing progress and verbosity for clone, for urls
requiring a remote helper only (so, not git:// urls, for instance).

Moving transport_set_verbosity to just after the transport is created
works around the issue.

Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

subdirectory tests: code cleanup, uncomment testStefan Beller Mon, 18 May 2015 21:10:26 +0000 (14:10 -0700)

subdirectory tests: code cleanup, uncomment test

Back when these tests were written, we wanted to make sure that Git
notices it is in a bare repository and "git show -s HEAD" would
refrain from complaining that HEAD might mean a file it sees in its
current working directory (because it does not). But the version of
Git back then didn't behave well, without (doubly) being told that
it is inside a bare repository by exporting "GIT_DIR=.". The form
of the test we originally wanted to have was left commented out as
a reminder.

Nowadays the test as originally intended works, so add it to the
test suite. We'll keep the old test that explicitly sets GIT_DIR=.
to make sure that use case will not regress.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

pull: parse pull.ff as a bool or stringPaul Tan Mon, 18 May 2015 13:45:42 +0000 (21:45 +0800)

pull: parse pull.ff as a bool or string

Since b814da8 (pull: add pull.ff configuration, 2014-01-15) git-pull
supported setting --(no-)ff via the pull.ff configuration value.
However, as it only matches the string values of "true" and "false", it
does not support other boolean aliases such as "on", "off", "1", "0".
This is inconsistent with the merge.ff setting, which supports these
aliases.

Fix this by using the bool_or_string_config function to retrieve the
value of pull.ff.

Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ffPaul Tan Mon, 18 May 2015 13:45:41 +0000 (21:45 +0800)

pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ff

Since b814da8 (pull: add pull.ff configuration, 2014-01-15), running
git-pull with the configuration pull.ff=false or pull.ff=only is
equivalent to passing --no-ff and --ff-only to git-merge. However, if
pull.ff=true, no switch is passed to git-merge. This leads to the
confusing behavior where pull.ff=false or pull.ff=only is able to
override merge.ff, while pull.ff=true is unable to.

Fix this by adding the --ff switch if pull.ff=true, and add a test to
catch future regressions.

Furthermore, clarify in the documentation that pull.ff overrides
merge.ff.

Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

pull: handle --log=<n>Paul Tan Mon, 18 May 2015 13:39:56 +0000 (21:39 +0800)

pull: handle --log=<n>

Since efb779f (merge, pull: add '--(no-)log' command line option,
2008-04-06) git-pull supported the (--no-)log switch and would pass it
to git-merge.

96e9420 (merge: Make '--log' an integer option for number of shortlog
entries, 2010-09-08) implemented support for the --log=<n> switch, which
would explicitly set the number of shortlog entries. However, git-pull
does not recognize this option, and will instead pass it to git-fetch,
leading to "unknown option" errors.

Fix this by matching --log=* in addition to --log and --no-log.

Implement a test for this use case.

Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

pack-protocol.txt: fix insconsistent spelling of "packfile"Patrick Steinhardt Sun, 17 May 2015 06:56:54 +0000 (08:56 +0200)

pack-protocol.txt: fix insconsistent spelling of "packfile"

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

git-unpack-objects.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of... Patrick Steinhardt Sun, 17 May 2015 06:56:53 +0000 (08:56 +0200)

git-unpack-objects.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of ... Patrick Steinhardt Sun, 17 May 2015 06:56:52 +0000 (08:56 +0200)

git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

lock_packed_refs(): allow retries when acquiring the... Michael Haggerty Mon, 11 May 2015 10:35:26 +0000 (12:35 +0200)

lock_packed_refs(): allow retries when acquiring the packed-refs lock

Currently, there is only one attempt to acquire any lockfile, and if
the lock is held by another process, the locking attempt fails
immediately.

This is not such a limitation for loose reference files. First, they
don't take long to rewrite. Second, most reference updates have a
known "old" value, so if another process is updating a reference at
the same moment that we are trying to lock it, then probably the
expected "old" value will not longer be valid, and the update will
fail anyway.

But these arguments do not hold for packed-refs:

* The packed-refs file can be large and take significant time to
rewrite.

* Many references are stored in a single packed-refs file, so it could
be that the other process was changing a different reference than
the one that we are interested in.

Therefore, it is much more likely for there to be spurious lock
conflicts in connection to the packed-refs file, resulting in
unnecessary command failures.

So, if the first attempt to lock the packed-refs file fails, continue
retrying for a configurable length of time before giving up. The
default timeout is 1 second.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

lockfile: allow file locking to be retried with a timeoutMichael Haggerty Mon, 11 May 2015 10:35:25 +0000 (12:35 +0200)

lockfile: allow file locking to be retried with a timeout

Currently, there is only one attempt to lock a file. If it fails, the
whole operation fails.

But it might sometimes be advantageous to try acquiring a file lock a
few times before giving up. So add a new function,
hold_lock_file_for_update_timeout(), that allows a timeout to be
specified. Make hold_lock_file_for_update() a thin wrapper around the
new function.

If timeout_ms is positive, then retry for at least that many
milliseconds to acquire the lock. On each failed attempt, use select()
to wait for a backoff time that increases quadratically (capped at 1
second) and has a random component to prevent two processes from
getting synchronized. If timeout_ms is negative, retry indefinitely.

In a moment we will switch to using the new function when locking
packed-refs.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

rerere: exit silently on "forget" when rerere is disabledJeff King Thu, 14 May 2015 19:20:52 +0000 (15:20 -0400)

rerere: exit silently on "forget" when rerere is disabled

If you run "git rerere forget foo" in a repository that does
not have rerere enabled, git hits an internal error:

$ git init -q
$ git rerere forget foo
fatal: BUG: attempt to commit unlocked object

The problem is that setup_rerere() will not actually take
the lock if the rerere system is disabled. We should notice
this and return early. We can return with a success code
here, because we know there is nothing to forget.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

pull: remove --tags error in no merge candidates casePaul Tan Wed, 13 May 2015 10:06:47 +0000 (18:06 +0800)

pull: remove --tags error in no merge candidates case

Since 441ed41 ("git pull --tags": error out with a better message.,
2007-12-28), git pull --tags would print a different error message if
git-fetch did not return any merge candidates:

It doesn't make sense to pull all tags; you probably meant:
git fetch --tags

This is because at that time, git-fetch --tags would override any
configured refspecs, and thus there would be no merge candidates. The
error message was thus introduced to prevent confusion.

However, since c5a84e9 (fetch --tags: fetch tags *in addition to*
other stuff, 2013-10-30), git fetch --tags would fetch tags in addition
to any configured refspecs. Hence, if any no merge candidates situation
occurs, it is not because --tags was set. As such, this special error
message is now irrelevant.

To prevent confusion, remove this error message.

Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]Jeff King Thu, 14 May 2015 04:34:48 +0000 (00:34 -0400)

doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]

The former seems to just be syntactic sugar for the latter.
And as it's sugar that AsciiDoctor doesn't understand, it
would be nice to avoid it. Since there are only two spots,
and the resulting source is not significantly harder to
read, it's worth doing.

Note that this does slightly affect the generated HTML (it
has an extra newline), but the rendered result for both HTML
and docbook should be the same (since the newline is not
syntactically significant there).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Sync with 2.4.1Junio C Hamano Wed, 13 May 2015 21:34:46 +0000 (14:34 -0700)

Sync with 2.4.1

* maint:
Git 2.4.1

Git 2.4.1 v2.4.1Junio C Hamano Wed, 13 May 2015 21:11:43 +0000 (14:11 -0700)

Git 2.4.1

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'sb/line-log-plug-pairdiff-leak' into... Junio C Hamano Wed, 13 May 2015 21:05:56 +0000 (14:05 -0700)

Merge branch 'sb/line-log-plug-pairdiff-leak' into maint

* sb/line-log-plug-pairdiff-leak:
line-log.c: fix a memleak

Merge branch 'sb/test-bitmap-free-at-end' into maintJunio C Hamano Wed, 13 May 2015 21:05:55 +0000 (14:05 -0700)

Merge branch 'sb/test-bitmap-free-at-end' into maint

* sb/test-bitmap-free-at-end:
pack-bitmap.c: fix a memleak

Merge branch 'nd/t1509-chroot-test' into maintJunio C Hamano Wed, 13 May 2015 21:05:55 +0000 (14:05 -0700)

Merge branch 'nd/t1509-chroot-test' into maint

Correct test bitrot.

* nd/t1509-chroot-test:
t1509: update prepare script to be able to run t1509 in chroot again

Merge branch 'jk/type-from-string-gently' into maintJunio C Hamano Wed, 13 May 2015 21:05:54 +0000 (14:05 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/type-from-string-gently' into maint

"git cat-file bl $blob" failed to barf even though there is no
object type that is "bl".

* jk/type-from-string-gently:
type_from_string_gently: make sure length matches

Merge branch 'ep/fix-test-lib-functions-report' into... Junio C Hamano Wed, 13 May 2015 21:05:52 +0000 (14:05 -0700)

Merge branch 'ep/fix-test-lib-functions-report' into maint

* ep/fix-test-lib-functions-report:
test-lib-functions.sh: fix the second argument to some helper functions

Merge branch 'cn/bom-in-gitignore' into maintJunio C Hamano Wed, 13 May 2015 21:05:51 +0000 (14:05 -0700)

Merge branch 'cn/bom-in-gitignore' into maint

Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files
that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the
beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration
files already.

* cn/bom-in-gitignore:
attr: skip UTF8 BOM at the beginning of the input file
config: use utf8_bom[] from utf.[ch] in git_parse_source()
utf8-bom: introduce skip_utf8_bom() helper
add_excludes_from_file: clarify the bom skipping logic
dir: allow a BOM at the beginning of exclude files

Merge branch 'jk/prune-mtime' into maintJunio C Hamano Wed, 13 May 2015 21:05:50 +0000 (14:05 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/prune-mtime' into maint

Access to objects in repositories that borrow from another one on a
slow NFS server unnecessarily got more expensive due to recent code
becoming more cautious in a naive way not to lose objects to pruning.

* jk/prune-mtime:
sha1_file: only freshen packs once per run
sha1_file: freshen pack objects before loose
reachable: only mark local objects as recent

Merge branch 'jk/init-core-worktree-at-root' into maintJunio C Hamano Wed, 13 May 2015 21:05:49 +0000 (14:05 -0700)

Merge branch 'jk/init-core-worktree-at-root' into maint

We avoid setting core.worktree when the repository location is the
".git" directory directly at the top level of the working tree, but
the code misdetected the case in which the working tree is at the
root level of the filesystem (which arguably is a silly thing to
do, but still valid).

* jk/init-core-worktree-at-root:
init: don't set core.worktree when initializing /.git

log: do not shorten decoration names too earlyJunio C Hamano Wed, 13 May 2015 19:40:35 +0000 (12:40 -0700)

log: do not shorten decoration names too early

The DECORATE_SHORT_REFS option given to load_ref_decorations()
affects the way a copy of the refname is stored for each decorated
commit, and this forces later steps like current_pointed_by_HEAD()
to adjust their behaviour based on this initial settings.

Instead, we can always store the full refname and then shorten them
when producing the output.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

log: decorate HEAD with branch name under --decorate... Junio C Hamano Wed, 13 May 2015 17:25:18 +0000 (10:25 -0700)

log: decorate HEAD with branch name under --decorate=full, too

The previous step to teach "log --decorate" to show "HEAD -> master"
instead of "HEAD, master" when showing the commit at the tip of the
'master' branch, when the 'master' branch is checked out, did not
work for "log --decorate=full".

The commands in the "log" family prepare commit decorations for all
refs upfront, and the actual string used in a decoration depends on
how load_ref_decorations() is called very early in the process. By
default, "git log --decorate" stores names with common prefixes such
as "refs/heads" stripped; "git log --decorate=full" stores the full
refnames.

When the current_pointed_by_HEAD() function has to decide if "HEAD"
points at the branch a decoration describes, however, what was
passed to load_ref_decorations() to decide to strip (or keep) such a
common prefix is long lost. This makes it impossible to reliably
tell if a decoration that stores "refs/heads/master", for example,
is the 'master' branch (under "--decorate" with prefix omitted) or
'refs/heads/master' branch (under "--decorate=full").

Keep what was passed to load_ref_decorations() in a global next to
the global variable name_decoration, and use that to decide how to
match what was read from "HEAD" and what is in a decoration.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticksJeff King Wed, 13 May 2015 05:06:21 +0000 (01:06 -0400)

doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks

This makes sure that AsciiDoc does not turn them into links.
Regular AsciiDoc does not catch these cases, but AsciiDoctor
does treat them as links.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly bracesJeff King Wed, 13 May 2015 05:02:22 +0000 (01:02 -0400)

doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces

Text like "{foo}" triggers an AsciiDoc attribute; we have to
write "\{foo}" to suppress this. But when the "foo" is not a
syntactically valid attribute, we can skip the quoting. This
makes the source nicer to read, and looks better under
Asciidoctor. With AsciiDoc itself, this patch produces no
changes.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

doc: convert \--option to --optionJeff King Wed, 13 May 2015 05:01:38 +0000 (01:01 -0400)

doc: convert \--option to --option

Older versions of AsciiDoc would convert the "--" in
"--option" into an emdash. According to 565e135
(Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc, 2011-06-29),
this is fixed in AsciiDoc 8.3.0. According to bf17126, we
don't support anything older than 8.4.1 anyway, so we no
longer need to worry about quoting.

Even though this does not change the output at all, there
are a few good reasons to drop the quoting:

1. It makes the source prettier to read.

2. We don't quote consistently, which may be confusing when
reading the source.

3. Asciidoctor does not like the quoting, and renders a
literal backslash.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

doc/add: reformat `--edit` optionJeff King Wed, 13 May 2015 04:58:51 +0000 (00:58 -0400)

doc/add: reformat `--edit` option

All of the other options in the list put short and long as
two separate headings.

We can also drop the backslashing of `--`. It isn't used
elsewhere and is unnecessary for modern asciidoc (plus it
confuses asciidoctor).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

doc: fix length of underlined section-titleJeff King Wed, 13 May 2015 04:58:29 +0000 (00:58 -0400)

doc: fix length of underlined section-title

In AsciiDoc, it is OK to say:

this is my title
-------------------------

but AsciiDoctor is more strict. Let's match the underline to
the title (which also makes the source prettier to read).
The output from AsciiDoc is the same either way.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

doc: fix hanging "+"-continuationJeff King Wed, 13 May 2015 04:58:16 +0000 (00:58 -0400)

doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation

In list content that wants to continue to a second
paragraph, the "+" continuation and subsequent paragraph
need to be left-aligned. Otherwise AsciiDoc seems to insert
only a linebreak.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}"Jeff King Wed, 13 May 2015 04:58:06 +0000 (00:58 -0400)

doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}"

Curly braces open an "attribute" in AsciiDoc; if there's no
such attribute, strange things may happen. In this case, the
unquoted "{type}" causes AsciiDoc to omit an entire line of
text from the output. We can fix it by putting the whole
phrase inside literal backticks (which also lets us get rid
of ugly backslash escaping).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'Jeff King Wed, 13 May 2015 04:57:54 +0000 (00:57 -0400)

doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'

AsciiDoc misparses some text that contains a `literal`
word followed by a fancy `single quote' word, and treats
everything from the start of the literal to the end of the
quote as a single-quoted phrase.

We can work around this by switching the latter to be a
literal, as well. In the first case, this is perhaps what
was intended anyway, as it makes us consistent with the the
earlier literals in the same paragraph. In the second, the
output is arguably better, as we will format our commit
references as <code> blocks.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

doc: fix unmatched code fences in git-stripspaceJeff King Wed, 13 May 2015 02:15:56 +0000 (22:15 -0400)

doc: fix unmatched code fences in git-stripspace

The asciidoctor renderer is more picky than classic asciidoc,
and insists that the start and end of a code fence be the
same size.

Found with this hacky perl script:

foreach my $fn (@ARGV) {
open(my $fh, '<', $fn);
my ($fence, $fence_lineno, $prev);
while (<$fh>) {
chomp;
if (/^----+$/) {
if ($fence_lineno) {
if ($_ ne $fence) {
print "$fn:$fence_lineno:mismatched fence: ",
length($fence), " != ", length($_), "\n";
}
$fence_lineno = undef;
}
# hacky check to avoid title-underlining
elsif ($prev eq '' || $prev eq '+') {
$fence = $_;
$fence_lineno = $.;
}
}
$prev = $_;
}
}

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Merge branch 'mh/write-refs-sooner-2.3' into mh/write... Junio C Hamano Wed, 13 May 2015 04:28:54 +0000 (21:28 -0700)

Merge branch 'mh/write-refs-sooner-2.3' into mh/write-refs-sooner-2.4

* mh/write-refs-sooner-2.3:
ref_transaction_commit(): fix atomicity and avoid fd exhaustion
ref_transaction_commit(): remove the local flags variable
ref_transaction_commit(): inline call to write_ref_sha1()
rename_ref(): inline calls to write_ref_sha1() from this function
commit_ref_update(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
write_ref_to_lockfile(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
t7004: rename ULIMIT test prerequisite to ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE
update-ref: test handling large transactions properly

ref_transaction_commit(): fix atomicity and avoid fd... Michael Haggerty Fri, 24 Apr 2015 11:35:49 +0000 (13:35 +0200)

ref_transaction_commit(): fix atomicity and avoid fd exhaustion

The old code was roughly

for update in updates:
acquire locks and check old_sha
for update in updates:
if changing value:
write_ref_to_lockfile()
commit_ref_update()
for update in updates:
if deleting value:
unlink()
rewrite packed-refs file
for update in updates:
if reference still locked:
unlock_ref()

This has two problems.

Non-atomic updates
==================

The atomicity of the reference transaction depends on all pre-checks
being done in the first loop, before any changes have started being
committed in the second loop. The problem is that
write_ref_to_lockfile() (previously part of write_ref_sha1()), which
is called from the second loop, contains two more checks:

* It verifies that new_sha1 is a valid object

* If the reference being updated is a branch, it verifies that
new_sha1 points at a commit object (as opposed to a tag, tree, or
blob).

If either of these checks fails, the "transaction" is aborted during
the second loop. But this might happen after some reference updates
have already been permanently committed. In other words, the
all-or-nothing promise of "git update-ref --stdin" could be violated.

So these checks have to be moved to the first loop.

File descriptor exhaustion
==========================

The old code locked all of the references in the first loop, leaving
all of the lockfiles open until later loops. Since we might be
updating a lot of references, this could result in file descriptor
exhaustion.

The solution
============

After this patch, the code looks like

for update in updates:
acquire locks and check old_sha
if changing value:
write_ref_to_lockfile()
else:
close_ref()
for update in updates:
if changing value:
commit_ref_update()
for update in updates:
if deleting value:
unlink()
rewrite packed-refs file
for update in updates:
if reference still locked:
unlock_ref()

This fixes both problems:

1. The pre-checks in write_ref_to_lockfile() are now done in the first
loop, before any changes have been committed. If any of the checks
fails, the whole transaction can now be rolled back correctly.

2. All lockfiles are closed in the first loop immediately after they
are created (either by write_ref_to_lockfile() or by close_ref()).
This means that there is never more than one open lockfile at a
time, preventing file descriptor exhaustion.

To simplify the bookkeeping across loops, add a new REF_NEEDS_COMMIT
bit to update->flags, which keeps track of whether the corresponding
lockfile needs to be committed, as opposed to just unlocked. (Since
"struct ref_update" is internal to the refs module, this change is not
visible to external callers.)

This change fixes two tests in t1400.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>