The clean/smudge interface did not work well when filtering an
empty contents (failed and then passed the empty input through).
It can be argued that a filter that produces anything but empty for
an empty input is nonsense, but if the user wants to do strange
things, then why not?
* jh/filter-empty-contents:
sha1_file: pass empty buffer to index empty file
Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can
lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request.
Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a
request first into core (to a reasonable limit).
* jk/http-backend-deadlock:
http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
t5551: factor out tag creation
http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
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>
"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
"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/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 '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 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
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()
...
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.
Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3' into jk/http-backend-deadlock
* jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3:
http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
t5551: factor out tag creation
http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.2' into jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3
* jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.2:
http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
t5551: factor out tag creation
http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
When http-backend spawns "upload-pack" to do ref
negotiation, it streams the http request body to
upload-pack, who then streams the http response back to the
client as it reads. In theory, git can go full-duplex; the
client can consume our response while it is still sending
the request. In practice, however, HTTP is a half-duplex
protocol. Even if our client is ready to read and write
simultaneously, we may have other HTTP infrastructure in the
way, including the webserver that spawns our CGI, or any
intermediate proxies.
In at least one documented case[1], this leads to deadlock
when trying a fetch over http. What happens is basically:
1. Apache proxies the request to the CGI, http-backend.
2. http-backend gzip-inflates the data and sends
the result to upload-pack.
3. upload-pack acts on the data and generates output over
the pipe back to Apache. Apache isn't reading because
it's busy writing (step 1).
This works fine most of the time, because the upload-pack
output ends up in a system pipe buffer, and Apache reads
it as soon as it finishes writing. But if both the request
and the response exceed the system pipe buffer size, then we
deadlock (Apache blocks writing to http-backend,
http-backend blocks writing to upload-pack, and upload-pack
blocks writing to Apache).
We need to break the deadlock by spooling either the input
or the output. In this case, it's ideal to spool the input,
because Apache does not start reading either stdout _or_
stderr until we have consumed all of the input. So until we
do so, we cannot even get an error message out to the
client.
The solution is fairly straight-forward: we read the request
body into an in-memory buffer in http-backend, freeing up
Apache, and then feed the data ourselves to upload-pack. But
there are a few important things to note:
1. We limit the in-memory buffer to prevent an obvious
denial-of-service attack. This is a new hard limit on
requests, but it's unlikely to come into play. The
default value is 10MB, which covers even the ridiculous
100,000-ref negotation in the included test (that
actually caps out just over 5MB). But it's configurable
on the off chance that you don't mind spending some
extra memory to make even ridiculous requests work.
2. We must take care only to buffer when we have to. For
pushes, the incoming packfile may be of arbitrary
size, and we should connect the input directly to
receive-pack. There's no deadlock problem here, though,
because we do not produce any output until the whole
packfile has been read.
For upload-pack's initial ref advertisement, we
similarly do not need to buffer. Even though we may
generate a lot of output, there is no request body at
all (i.e., it is a GET, not a POST).
Test-adapted-from: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'
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>
If you run "git stash --help", you get the help for stash
(this magic is done by the git wrapper itself). But if you
run "git stash drop --help", you get an error. We
cannot show help specific to "stash drop", of course, but we
can at least give the user the normal stash manpage.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option parser for git-stash stuffs unknown flags into
the $FLAGS variable, where they can be accessed by the
individual commands. However, most commands do not even look
at these extra flags, leading to unexpected results like
this:
We should notice the extra flags and bail. Rather than
annotate each command to reject a non-empty $FLAGS variable,
we can notice that "stash show" is the only command that
actually _wants_ arbitrary flags. So we switch the default
mode to reject unknown flags, and let stash_show() opt into
the feature.
Reported-by: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Helped-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
mergetool--lib: set IFS for difftool and mergetool
git-sh-setup sets IFS but it is not used by git-difftool--helper.
Set IFS in git-mergetool--lib so that the mergetool scriptlets,
difftool, and mergetool do not need to do so.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of our tests in t5551 creates a large number of tags,
and jumps through some hoops to do it efficiently. Let's
factor that out into a function so we can make other similar
tests.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
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.
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
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
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
"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
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
"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
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
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
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 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 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 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>
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>
Even though "git clean" takes pathspec to limit the part of the
working tree to be cleaned, it checked the paths it encounters
during its directory traversal with lstat(2), before checking if
the path is within the pathspec.
Ignore paths outside pathspec and proceed without checking with
lstat(2). Even if such a path is unreadable due to e.g. EPERM,
"git clean" should not care.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
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>
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>
`git add` of an empty file with a filter pops complaints from
`copy_fd` about a bad file descriptor.
This traces back to these lines in sha1_file.c:index_core:
if (!size) {
ret = index_mem(sha1, NULL, size, type, path, flags);
The problem here is that content to be added to the index can be
supplied from an fd, or from a memory buffer, or from a pathname. This
call is supplying a NULL buffer pointer and a zero size.
Downstream logic takes the complete absence of a buffer to mean the
data is to be found elsewhere -- for instance, these, from convert.c:
~If there's a buffer, write from that, otherwise the data must be coming
from an open fd.~
Perfectly reasonable logic in a routine that's going to write from
either a buffer or an fd.
So change `index_core` to supply an empty buffer when indexing an empty
file.
There's a patch out there that instead changes the logic quoted above to
take a `-1` fd to mean "use the buffer", but it seems to me that the
distinction between a missing buffer and an empty one carries intrinsic
semantics, where the logic change is adapting the code to handle
incorrect arguments.
Signed-off-by: Jim Hill <gjthill@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
When we die() in http-backend, we call a custom handler that
writes an HTTP 500 response to stdout, then reports the
error to stderr. Our routines for writing out the HTTP
response may themselves die, leading to us entering die()
again.
When it was originally written, that was OK; our custom
handler keeps a variable to notice this and does not
recurse. However, since cd163d4 (usage.c: detect recursion
in die routines and bail out immediately, 2012-11-14), the
main die() implementation detects recursion before we even
get to our custom handler, and bails without printing
anything useful.
We can handle this case by doing two things:
1. Installing a custom die_is_recursing handler that
allows us to enter up to one level of recursion. Only
the first call to our custom handler will try to write
out the error response. So if we die again, that is OK.
If we end up dying more than that, it is a sign that we
are in an infinite recursion.
2. Reporting the error to stderr before trying to write
out the HTTP response. In the current code, if we do
die() trying to write out the response, we'll exit
immediately from this second die(), and never get a
chance to output the original error (which is almost
certainly the more interesting one; the second die is
just going to be along the lines of "I tried to write
to stdout but it was closed").
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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 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>
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 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>
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>