In the previous behavior, "git-rm --cached" (without -f) had the same
restriction as "git-rm". This forced the user to use the -f flag in
situations which weren't actually dangerous, like:
$ git add foo # oops, I didn't want this
$ git rm --cached foo # back to initial situation
Previously, the index had to match the file *and* the HEAD. With
--cached, the index must now match the file *or* the HEAD. The behavior
without --cached is unchanged, but provides better error messages.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When defined, this allows plumbing commands that update the
index (add, apply, checkout-index, merge-recursive, mv,
read-tree, rm, update-index, and write-tree) to write their
resulting index to an alternative index file while holding a
lock to the original index file. With this, git-commit that
jumps the index does not have to make an extra copy of the index
file, and more importantly, it can do the update while holding
the lock on the index.
However, I think the interface to let an environment variable
specify the output is a mistake, as shown in the documentation.
If a curious user has the environment variable set to something
other than the file GIT_INDEX_FILE points at, almost everything
will break. This should instead be a command line parameter to
tell these plumbing commands to write the result in the named
file, to prevent stupid mistakes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Given this set of commands:
$ echo "newly added file" >new
$ git add new
$ git rm new
the file "new" was previously removed from the working
directory and the index. Because it was not in HEAD, it is
available only by searching for unreachable objects.
Instead, we now err on the safe side and refuse to remove
a file which is not referenced by HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Often the user would do "/bin/rm foo" before telling git, but
then want to tell git about it. "git rm foo" however would fail
because it cannot unlink(2) foo.
Treat ENOENT error return from unlink(2) as if a successful
removal happened.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This updates the "git rm" command with saner semantics suggested
on the list earlier with:
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The command still validates that the given paths all talk about
sensible paths to avoid mistakes (e.g. "git rm fiel" when file
"fiel" does not exist would error out -- user meant to remove
"file"), and it has further safety checks described next. The
biggest difference is that the paths are removed from both index
and from the working tree (if you have an exotic need to remove
paths only from the index, you can use the --cached option).
The command refuses to remove if the copy on the working tree
does not match the index, or if the index and the HEAD does not
match. You can defeat this check with -f option.
This safety check has two exceptions: if the working tree file
does not exist to begin with, that technically does not match
the index but it is allowed. This is to allow this CVS style
command sequence:
rm <path> && git rm <path>
Also if the index is unmerged at the <path>, you can use "git rm
<path>" to declare that the result of the merge loses that path,
and the above safety check does not trigger; requiring the file
to match the index in this case forces the user to do "git
update-index file && git rm file", which is just crazy.
To recursively remove all contents from a directory, you need to
pass -r option, not just the directory name as the <path>.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Like xmalloc and xrealloc xstrdup dies with a useful message if
the native strdup() implementation returns NULL rather than a
valid pointer.
I just tried to use xstrdup in new code and found it to be missing.
However I expected it to be present as xmalloc and xrealloc are
already commonly used throughout the code.
[jc: removed the part that deals with last_XXX, which I am
finding more and more dubious these days.]
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Most of the callers except the one in refs.c use the function to
update the index file. Among the index writers, everybody
except write-tree dies if they cannot open it for writing.
This gives the function an extra argument, to tell it to die
when it cannot create a new file as the lockfile.
The only caller that does not have to die is write-tree, because
updating the index for the cache-tree part is optional and not
being able to do so does not affect the correctness. I think we
do not have to be so careful and make the failure into die() the
same way as other callers, but that would be a different patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This hopefully finishes the clean-up Ramsay started with recent
commit 15e593e4d3 and commit
8cdf33643d.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The only change in behaviour should be having a "usage: " prefix
on the output string rather than "fatal: ", and an exit code of
129 rather than 128.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Allan Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This changes the calling convention of built-in commands and
passes the "prefix" (i.e. pathname of $PWD relative to the
project root level) down to them.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The only visible change is that git-blame doesn't understand
"--compability" anymore, but it does accept "--compatibility" instead,
which is already documented.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Even when invoked with -n flag, git-rm removed the matching
paths anyway. Also includes the missing check spotted by
SungHyun Nam, which caused it to segfault. Now we refuse to run
without any paths.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The framework to create lockfiles that are removed at exit is
first used to reliably write the index file, but it is
applicable to other things, so stop calling it "cache_file".
This also rewords a few remaining error message that called the
index file "cache file".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This commit is what this branch is all about. It records the
evil merge needed to adjust built-in git-add and git-rm for
the cache-tree extension.
* lt/dirwalk:
Add builtin "git rm" command
Move pathspec matching from builtin-add.c into dir.c
Prevent bogus paths from being added to the index.
builtin-add: fix unmatched pathspec warnings.
Remove old "git-add.sh" remnants
builtin-add: warn on unmatched pathspecs
Do "git add" as a builtin
Clean up git-ls-file directory walking library interface
libify git-ls-files directory traversal
Conflicts:
Makefile
builtin.h
git.c
update-index.c
This changes semantics very subtly, because it adds a new atomicity
guarantee.
In particular, if you "git rm" several files, it will now do all or
nothing. The old shell-script really looped over the removed files one by
one, and would basically randomly fail in the middle if "-f" was used and
one of the files didn't exist in the working directory.
This C builtin one will not re-write the index after each remove, but
instead remove all files at once. However, that means that if "-f" is used
(to also force removal of the file from the working directory), and some
files have already been removed from the workspace, it won't stop in the
middle in some half-way state like the old one did.
So what happens is that if the _first_ file fails to be removed with "-f",
we abort the whole "git rm". But once we've started removing, we don't
leave anything half done. If some of the other files don't exist, we'll
just ignore errors of removal from the working tree.
This is only an issue with "-f", of course.
I think the new behaviour is strictly an improvement, but perhaps more
importantly, it is _different_. As a special case, the semantics are
identical for the single-file case (which is the only one our test-suite
seems to test).
The other question is what to do with leading directories. The old "git
rm" script didn't do anything, which is somewhat inconsistent. This one
will actually clean up directories that have become empty as a result of
removing the last file, but maybe we want to have a flag to decide the
behaviour?
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Matthieu Moy
Steven Grimm
Junio C Hamano
Jeff King
Shawn Pearce
Ramsay Allan Jones
Linus Torvalds
Peter Eriksen
Pavel Roskin
Johannes Schindelin