"git checkout --to" sets up a new working directory with a .git file
pointing to $GIT_DIR/worktrees/<id>. It then executes "git checkout"
again on the new worktree with the same arguments except "--to" is
taken out. The second checkout execution, which is not contaminated
with any info from the current repository, will actually check out and
everything that normal "git checkout" does.
Helped-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This variable is intended to support multiple working directories
attached to a repository. Such a repository may have a main working
directory, created by either "git init" or "git clone" and one or more
linked working directories. These working directories and the main
repository share the same repository directory.
In linked working directories, $GIT_COMMON_DIR must be defined to point
to the real repository directory and $GIT_DIR points to an unused
subdirectory inside $GIT_COMMON_DIR. File locations inside the
repository are reorganized from the linked worktree view point:
- worktree-specific such as HEAD, logs/HEAD, index, other top-level
refs and unrecognized files are from $GIT_DIR.
- the rest like objects, refs, info, hooks, packed-refs, shallow...
are from $GIT_COMMON_DIR (except info/sparse-checkout, but that's
a separate patch)
Scripts are supposed to retrieve paths in $GIT_DIR with "git rev-parse
--git-path", which will take care of "$GIT_DIR vs $GIT_COMMON_DIR"
business.
The redirection is done by git_path(), git_pathdup() and
strbuf_git_path(). The selected list of paths goes to $GIT_COMMON_DIR,
not the other way around in case a developer adds a new
worktree-specific file and it's accidentally promoted to be shared
across repositories (this includes unknown files added by third party
commands)
The list of known files that belong to $GIT_DIR are:
ADD_EDIT.patch BISECT_ANCESTORS_OK BISECT_EXPECTED_REV BISECT_LOG
BISECT_NAMES CHERRY_PICK_HEAD COMMIT_MSG FETCH_HEAD HEAD MERGE_HEAD
MERGE_MODE MERGE_RR NOTES_EDITMSG NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE ORIG_HEAD
REVERT_HEAD SQUASH_MSG TAG_EDITMSG fast_import_crash_* logs/HEAD
next-index-* rebase-apply rebase-merge rsync-refs-* sequencer/*
shallow_*
Path mapping is NOT done for git_path_submodule(). Multi-checkouts are
not supported as submodules.
Helped-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We allow the user to relocate certain paths out of $GIT_DIR via
environment variables, e.g. GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, GIT_INDEX_FILE and
GIT_GRAFT_FILE. Callers are not supposed to use git_path() or
git_pathdup() to get those paths. Instead they must use
get_object_directory(), get_index_file() and get_graft_file()
respectively. This is inconvenient and could be missed in review (for
example, there's git_path("objects/info/alternates") somewhere in
sha1_file.c).
This patch makes git_path() and git_pathdup() understand those
environment variables. So if you set GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY to /foo/bar,
git_path("objects/abc") should return /foo/bar/abc. The same is done
for the two remaining env variables.
"git rev-parse --git-path" is the wrapper for script use.
This patch kinda reverts a0279e1 (setup_git_env: use git_pathdup
instead of xmalloc + sprintf - 2014-06-19) because using git_pathdup
here would result in infinite recursion:
setup_git_env() -> git_pathdup("objects") -> .. -> adjust_git_path()
-> get_object_directory() -> oops, git_object_directory is NOT set
yet -> setup_git_env()
I wanted to make git_pathdup_literal() that skips adjust_git_path().
But that won't work because later on when $GIT_COMMON_DIR is
introduced, git_pathdup_literal("objects") needs adjust_git_path() to
replace $GIT_DIR with $GIT_COMMON_DIR.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The name vsnpath() gives an impression that this is general path
handling function. It's not. This is the underlying implementation of
git_path(), git_pathdup() and strbuf_git_path() which will prefix
$GIT_DIR in the result string.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the previous patch, git_snpath() is modified to allocate a new
strbuf buffer because vsnpath() needs that. But that makes it
awkward because git_snpath() receives a pre-allocated buffer from
outside and has to copy data back. Rename it to strbuf_git_path()
and make it receive strbuf directly.
Using git_path() in update_refs_for_switch() which used to call
git_snpath() is safe because that function and all of its callers do
not keep any pointer to the round-robin buffer pool allocated by
get_pathname().
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before the previous commit, get_pathname returns an array of PATH_MAX
length. Even if git_path() and similar functions does not use the
whole array, git_path() caller can, in theory.
After the commit, get_pathname() may return a buffer that has just
enough room for the returned string and git_path() caller should never
write beyond that.
Make git_path(), mkpath() and git_path_submodule() return a const
buffer to make sure callers do not write in it at all.
This could have been part of the previous commit, but the "const"
conversion is too much distraction from the core changes in path.c.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We've been avoiding PATH_MAX whenever possible. This patch makes
get_pathname() return a strbuf and updates the callers to take
advantage of this. The code is simplified as we no longer need to
worry about buffer overflow.
vsnpath() behavior is changed slightly: previously it always clears
the buffer before writing, now it just appends. Fortunately this is a
static function and all of its callers prepare the buffer properly:
git_path() gets the buffer from get_pathname() which resets the
buffer, the remaining call sites start with STRBUF_INIT'd buffer.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Start "git config --edit --global" from a skeletal per-user
configuration file contents, instead of a total blank, when the
user does not already have any. This immediately reduces the need
for a later "Have you forgotten setting core.user?" and we can add
more to the template as we gain more experience.
* mm/config-edit-global:
commit: advertise config --global --edit on guessed identity
home_config_paths(): let the caller ignore xdg path
config --global --edit: create a template file if needed
The caller can signal that it is not interested in learning
the location of $HOME/.gitconfig by passing global=NULL, but
there is no way to decline the path to the configuration
file based on $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
Allow the caller to pass xdg=NULL to signal that it is not
interested in the XDG location.
Commit-message-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* rs/code-cleaning:
remote-testsvn: use internal argv_array of struct child_process in cmd_import()
bundle: use internal argv_array of struct child_process in create_bundle()
fast-import: use hashcmp() for SHA1 hash comparison
transport: simplify fetch_objs_via_rsync() using argv_array
run-command: use internal argv_array of struct child_process in run_hook_ve()
use commit_list_count() to count the members of commit_lists
strbuf: use strbuf_addstr() for adding C strings
Use xmemdupz() to allocate the memory, copy the data and make sure to
NUL-terminate the result, all in one step. The resulting code is
shorter, doesn't contain the constants 1 and '\0', and avoids
duplicating function parameters.
For blame, the last copied byte (o->file.ptr[o->file.size]) is always
set to NUL by fake_working_tree_commit() or read_sha1_file(), so no
information is lost by the conversion to using xmemdupz().
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Avoid code duplication and let strbuf_addstr() call strlen() for us.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
[efl: moved MinGW-specific part to compat/]
[jes: fixed compilation on non-Windows]
Eric Sunshine fixed mingw_offset_1st_component() to return
consistently "foo" for UNC "//machine/share/foo", cf
http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit/browse_thread/thread/c0af578549b5dda0
Author: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Cezary Zawadka <czawadka@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
include.path variable (or any variable that expects a path that can
use ~username expansion) in the configuration file is not a boolean,
but the code failed to check it.
* jk/config-path-include-fix:
handle_path_include: don't look at NULL value
expand_user_path: do not look at NULL path
include.path variable (or any variable that expects a path that can
use ~username expansion) in the configuration file is not a
boolean, but the code failed to check it.
* jk/config-path-include-fix:
handle_path_include: don't look at NULL value
expand_user_path: do not look at NULL path
We explicitly check for and handle the case that the
incoming "path" variable is NULL, but before doing so we
call strchrnul on it, leading to a potential segfault.
We can fix this simply by moving the strchrnul call down; as
a bonus, we can tighten the scope on the associated
variable.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jx/relative-path-regression-fix:
Use simpler relative_path when set_git_dir
relative_path should honor dos-drive-prefix
test: use unambigous leading path (/foo) for MSYS
Using a relative_path as git_dir first appears in v1.5.6-1-g044bbbc.
It will make git_dir shorter only if git_dir is inside work_tree,
and this will increase performance. But my last refactor effort on
relative_path function (commit v1.8.3-rc2-12-ge02ca72) changed that.
Always use relative_path as git_dir may bring troubles like
$gmane/234434.
Because new relative_path is a combination of original relative_path
from path.c and original path_relative from quote.c, so in order to
restore the origin implementation, save the original relative_path
as remove_leading_path, and call it in setup.c.
Suggested-by: Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Tvangeste found that the "relative_path" function could not work
properly on Windows if "in" and "prefix" have DOS drive prefix
(such as "C:/windows"). ($gmane/234434)
E.g., When execute: test-path-utils relative_path "C:/a/b" "D:/x/y",
should return "C:/a/b", but returns "../../C:/a/b", which is wrong.
So make relative_path honor DOS drive prefix, and add test cases
for it in t0060.
Reported-by: Tvangeste <i.4m.l33t@yandex.ru>
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
"git mv A B" when moving a submodule A does "the right thing",
inclusing relocating its working tree and adjusting the paths in
the .gitmodules file.
* jl/submodule-mv: (53 commits)
rm: delete .gitmodules entry of submodules removed from the work tree
mv: update the path entry in .gitmodules for moved submodules
submodule.c: add .gitmodules staging helper functions
mv: move submodules using a gitfile
mv: move submodules together with their work trees
rm: do not set a variable twice without intermediate reading.
t6131 - skip tests if on case-insensitive file system
parse_pathspec: accept :(icase)path syntax
pathspec: support :(glob) syntax
pathspec: make --literal-pathspecs disable pathspec magic
pathspec: support :(literal) syntax for noglob pathspec
kill limit_pathspec_to_literal() as it's only used by parse_pathspec()
parse_pathspec: preserve prefix length via PATHSPEC_PREFIX_ORIGIN
parse_pathspec: make sure the prefix part is wildcard-free
rename field "raw" to "_raw" in struct pathspec
tree-diff: remove the use of pathspec's raw[] in follow-rename codepath
remove match_pathspec() in favor of match_pathspec_depth()
remove init_pathspec() in favor of parse_pathspec()
remove diff_tree_{setup,release}_paths
convert common_prefix() to use struct pathspec
...
Cygwin port added a "not quite correct but a lot faster and good
enough for many lstat() calls that are only used to see if the
working tree entity matches the index entry" lstat() emulation some
time ago, and it started biting us in places. This removes it and
uses the standard lstat() that comes with Cygwin.
Recent topic that uses lstat on packed-refs file is broken when
this cheating lstat is used, and this is a simplest fix that is
also the cleanest direction to go in the long run.
* rj/cygwin-clarify-use-of-cheating-lstat:
cygwin: Remove the Win32 l/stat() implementation
Commit adbc0b6b ("cygwin: Use native Win32 API for stat", 30-09-2008)
added a Win32 specific implementation of the stat functions. In order
to handle absolute paths, cygwin mount points and symbolic links, this
implementation may fall back on the standard cygwin l/stat() functions.
Also, the choice of cygwin or Win32 functions is made lazily (by the
first call(s) to l/stat) based on the state of some config variables.
Unfortunately, this "schizophrenic stat" implementation has been the
source of many problems ever since. For example, see commits 7faee6b8,
79748439, 452993c2, 085479e7, b8a97333, 924aaf3e, 05bab3ea and 0117c2f0.
In order to avoid further problems, such as the issue raised by the new
reference handling API, remove the Win32 l/stat() implementation.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepending prefix to pathspec is a trick to workaround the fact that
commands can be executed in a subdirectory, but all git commands run
at worktree's root. The prefix part should always be treated as
literal string. Make it so.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Original design of relative_path() is simple, just strip the prefix
(*base) from the absolute path (*abs).
In most cases, we need a real relative path, such as: ../foo,
../../bar. That's why there is another reimplementation
(path_relative()) in quote.c.
Borrow some codes from path_relative() in quote.c to refactor
relative_path() in path.c, so that it could return real relative
path, and user can reuse this function without reimplementing
his/her own. The function path_relative() in quote.c will be
substituted, and I would use the new relative_path() function when
implementing the interactive git-clean later.
Different results for relative_path() before and after this refactor:
abs path base path relative (original) relative (refactor)
======== ========= =================== ===================
/a/b /a/b . ./
/a/b/ /a/b . ./
/a /a/b/ /a ../
/ /a/b/ / ../../
/a/c /a/b/ /a/c ../c
/x/y /a/b/ /x/y ../../x/y
a/b/ a/b/ . ./
a/b/ a/b . ./
a a/b a ../
x/y a/b/ x/y ../../x/y
a/c a/b a/c ../c
(empty) (null) (empty) ./
(empty) (empty) (empty) ./
(empty) /a/b (empty) ./
(null) (null) (null) ./
(null) (empty) (null) ./
(null) /a/b (segfault) ./
You may notice that return value "." has been changed to "./".
It is because:
* Function quote_path_relative() in quote.c will show the relative
path as "./" if abs(in) and base(prefix) are the same.
* Function relative_path() is called only once (in setup.c), and
it will be OK for the return value as "./" instead of ".".
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes the chown() function is called even when not needed (This
can be provoked by running t1301, and adding some debug code).
Save a chmod from 400 to 400, or from 600 to 600 on these files:
.git/info/refs+
.git/objects/info/packs+
Save chmod on directories from 2770 to 2770:
.git/refs
.git/refs/heads
.git/refs/tags
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All calls to set_shared_perm() use mode == 0, so simplify the
function.
Because all callers use the macro adjust_shared_perm(path) from
cache.h to call this function, convert it to a proper function,
losing set_shared_perm().
Since path.c has much more functions than just mkpath() these days,
drop the stale comment about it.
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When core.sharedRepository is used, set_shared_perm() in path.c
needs lstat() to return the correct POSIX permissions.
The default for cygwin is core.ignoreCygwinFSTricks = false, which
means that the fast implementation in do_stat() is used instead of
lstat().
lstat() under cygwin uses the Windows security model to implement
POSIX-like permissions. The user, group or everyone bits can be set
individually.
do_stat() simplifes the file permission bits, and may return a wrong
value. The read-only attribute of a file is used to calculate the
permissions, resulting in either rw-r--r-- or r--r--r--
One effect of the simplified do_stat() is that t1301 fails.
Add a function cygwin_get_st_mode_bits() which returns the POSIX
permissions. When not compiling for cygwin, true_mode_bits() in
path.c is used.
Side note:
t1301 passes under cygwin 1.5.
The "user write" bit is synchronized with the "read only" attribute
of a file:
$ chmod 444 x
$ attrib x
A R C:\temp\pt\x
cygwin 1.7 would show
A C:\temp\pt\x
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the responsibility for normalizing prefixes from
longest_ancestor_length() to its callers. Use slightly different
normalizations at the two callers:
In setup_git_directory_gently_1(), use the old normalization, which
ignores paths that are not usable. In the next commit we will change
this caller to also resolve symlinks in the paths from
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES as part of the normalization.
In "test-path-utils longest_ancestor_length", use the old
normalization, but die() if any paths are unusable. Also change t0060
to only pass normalized paths to the test program (no empty entries or
non-absolute paths, strip trailing slashes from the paths, and remove
tests that thereby become redundant).
The point of this change is to reduce the scope of the ancestor_length
tests in t0060 from testing normalization+longest_prefix to testing
only mostly longest_prefix. This is necessary because when
setup_git_directory_gently_1() starts resolving symlinks as part of
its normalization, it will not be reasonable to do the same in the
test suite, because that would make the test results depend on the
contents of the root directory of the filesystem on which the test is
run. HOWEVER: under Windows, bash mangles arguments that look like
absolute POSIX paths into DOS paths. So we have to retain the level
of normalization done by normalize_path_copy() to convert the
bash-mangled DOS paths (which contain backslashes) into paths that use
forward slashes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Change longest_ancestor_length() to take the prefixes argument as a
string_list rather than as a colon-separated string. This will make
it easier for the caller to alter the entries before calling
longest_ancestor_length().
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The current implementation of git_path() is essentially the same as
that of vsnpath(), with two minor differences. First, git_path()
currently insists that the git directory path is no longer than
PATH_MAX-100 characters in length. However, vsnpath() does not
attempt this arbitrary 100 character reservation for the remaining
path components. Second, vsnpath() uses the "is_dir_sep()" macro,
rather than comparing directly to '/', to determine if the git_dir
path component ends with a path separator.
In order to benefit from the above improvements, along with increased
compatability with git_snpath() and git_pathdup(), we reimplement the
git_path() function using vsnpath().
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git_snpath() and git_pathdup() functions both use the (static)
function vsnpath() in their implementation. Also, they both discard
the return value of vsnpath(), which has the effect of ignoring the
side effect of calling cleanup_path() in the non-error return path.
In order to ensure that the required cleanup happens, we use the
pointer returned by vsnpath(), rather than the buffer passed into
vsnpath(), to derive the return value from git_snpath() and
git_pathdup().
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In particular, the git_vsnpath() function, despite the 'git_' prefix
suggesting otherwise, is (correctly) declared with file scope.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach git to read the "gitconfig" information from a new location,
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config; this allows the user to avoid
cluttering $HOME with many per-application configuration files.
In the order of reading, this file comes between the global
configuration file (typically $HOME/.gitconfig) and the system wide
configuration file (typically /etc/gitconfig).
We do not write to this new location (yet).
If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/config
will be used. This is in line with XDG specification.
If the new file does not exist, the behavior is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When you specify a local repository on the command line of
clone, ls-remote, upload-pack, receive-pack, or upload-archive,
or in a request to git-daemon, we perform a little bit of
lookup magic, doing things like looking in working trees for
.git directories and appending ".git" for bare repos.
For clone, this magic happens in get_repo_path. For
everything else, it happens in enter_repo. In both cases,
there are some ambiguous or confusing cases that aren't
handled well, and there is one case that is not handled the
same by both methods.
This patch tries to provide (and test!) standard, sensible
lookup rules for both code paths. The intended changes are:
1. When looking up "foo", we have always preferred
a working tree "foo" (containing "foo/.git" over the
bare "foo.git". But we did not prefer a bare "foo" over
"foo.git". With this patch, we do so.
2. We would select directories that existed but didn't
actually look like git repositories. With this patch,
we make sure a selected directory looks like a git
repo. Not only is this more sensible in general, but it
will help anybody who is negatively affected by change
(1) negatively (e.g., if they had "foo.git" next to its
separate work tree "foo", and expect to keep finding
"foo.git" when they reference "foo").
3. The enter_repo code path would, given "foo", look for
"foo.git/.git" (i.e., do the ".git" append magic even
for a repo with working tree). The clone code path did
not; with this patch, they now behave the same.
In the unlikely case of a working tree overlaying a bare
repo (i.e., a ".git" directory _inside_ a bare repo), we
continue to treat it as a working tree (prefering the
"inner" .git over the bare repo). This is mainly because the
combination seems nonsensical, and I'd rather stick with
existing behavior on the off chance that somebody is relying
on it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The enter_repo() function is used to navigate into a .git
directory. It knows how to find standard alternatives (DWIM) but
it doesn't handle gitfiles created by git init --separate-git-dir.
This means that git-fetch and others do not work with repositories
using the separate-git-dir mechanism.
Teach enter_repo() to deal with the gitfile mechanism by resolving
the path to the redirected path and continuing tests on that path
instead of the found file.
Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
entr_repo(..., 0) currently modifies the input to strip away
trailing slashes. This means that we some times need to copy the
input to keep the original.
Change it to unconditionally copy it into the used_path buffer so
we can safely use the input without having to copy it. Also store
a working copy in validated_path up-front before we start
resolving anything.
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function was not gentle at all to the callers and died without giving
them a chance to deal with possible errors. Rename it to read_gitfile(),
and update all the callers.
As no existing caller needs a true "gently" variant, we do not bother
adding one at this point.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename the make_*_path functions so it's clearer what they do, in
particlar make clear what the differnce between make_absolute_path and
make_nonrelative_path is by renaming them real_path and absolute_path
respectively. make_relative_path has an understandable name and is
renamed to relative_path to maintain the name convention.
The function calls have been replaced 1-to-1 in their usage.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git_mkstemp_mode and related functions do not require access to
specialized git machinery, unlike some other functions from
path.c (like set_shared_perm()). Move them to wrapper.c where
the wrapper xmkstemp_mode is defined.
This eliminates a dependency of wrapper.o on environment.o via
path.o. With typical linkers (e.g., gcc), that dependency makes
programs that use functions from wrapper.o and not environment.o
or path.o larger than they need to be.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* hv/submodule-find-ff-merge:
Implement automatic fast-forward merge for submodules
setup_revisions(): Allow walking history in a submodule
Teach ref iteration module about submodules
Conflicts:
submodule.c
If $HOME is unset (as in some automated build situations),
currently
git config --path path.home "~"
git config --path --get path.home
segfaults. Error out with
Failed to expand user dir in: '~/'
instead.
Reported-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We will use this in a later patch to extend setup_revisions() to
load revisions directly from a submodule.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mm/mkstemps-mode-for-packfiles:
Use git_mkstemp_mode instead of plain mkstemp to create object files
git_mkstemps_mode: don't set errno to EINVAL on exit.
Use git_mkstemp_mode and xmkstemp_mode in odb_mkstemp, not chmod later.
git_mkstemp_mode, xmkstemp_mode: variants of gitmkstemps with mode argument.
Move gitmkstemps to path.c
Add a testcase for ACL with restrictive umask.
* nd/root-git:
Add test for using Git at root of file system
Support working directory located at root
Move offset_1st_component() to path.c
init-db, rev-parse --git-dir: do not append redundant slash
make_absolute_path(): Do not append redundant slash
Conflicts:
setup.c
sha1_file.c
* mm/mkstemps-mode-for-packfiles:
Use git_mkstemp_mode instead of plain mkstemp to create object files
git_mkstemps_mode: don't set errno to EINVAL on exit.
Use git_mkstemp_mode and xmkstemp_mode in odb_mkstemp, not chmod later.
git_mkstemp_mode, xmkstemp_mode: variants of gitmkstemps with mode argument.
Move gitmkstemps to path.c
Add a testcase for ACL with restrictive umask.
When reaching the end of git_mkstemps_mode, at least one call to open()
has been done, and errno has been set accordingly. Setting errno is
therefore not necessary, and actually harmfull since callers can't
distinguish e.g. permanent failure from ENOENT, which can just mean that
we need to create the containing directory.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitmkstemps emulates the behavior of mkstemps, which is usually used
to create files in a shared directory like /tmp/, hence, it creates
files with permission 0600.
Add git_mkstemps_mode() that allows us to specify the desired mode, and
make git_mkstemps() a wrapper that always uses 0600 to call it. Later we
will use git_mkstemps_mode() when creating pack files.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function used to be only a compatibility function, but we're
going to extend it and actually use it, so make it part of Git.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The implementation is also lightly modified to use is_dir_sep()
instead of hardcoding '/'.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch converts the setenv() calls in path.c and setup.c. After
the call, git grep with a pager works again in bare repos.
It leaves the setenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT, ...) calls in git.c alone, as
they respond to command line switches that emulate the effect of setting
the environment variable directly.
The remaining site in environment.c is in set_git_dir() and is left
alone, too, of course. Finally, builtin-init-db.c is left changed
because the repo is still being carefully constructed when the
environment variable is set.
This fixes git shortlog when run inside a git directory, which had been
broken by abe549e1.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function takes two paths, an early part of abs is supposed to match
base; otherwise abs is not a path under base and the function returns the
full path of abs. The caller can easily confuse the implementation by
giving duplicated and needless slashes in these path arguments.
Credit for test script, motivation and initial patch goes to Thomas Rast.
A follow-up fix (squashed) is by Hannes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mm/config-pathname-tilde-expand:
Documentation: avoid xmlto input error
expand_user_path: expand ~ to $HOME, not to the actual homedir.
Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template
In 395de250d (Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template),
we introduced the mechanism. But expanding ~ using getpw is not what
people overriding $HOME would usually expect. In particular, git looks
for the user's .gitconfig using $HOME, so it's better to be consistent.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These config variables are parsed to substitute ~ and ~user with getpw
entries.
user_path() refactored into new function expand_user_path(), to allow
dynamically allocating the return buffer.
Original patch by Karl Chen, modified by Matthieu Moy, and further
amended by Junio C Hamano.
Signed-off-by: Karl Chen <quarl@quarl.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Eons ago HPA taught git-daemon how to protect itself from /../
attacks, which Junio brought back into service in d79374c7b5
("daemon.c and path.enter_repo(): revamp path validation").
I did not carry this into git-http-backend as originally we relied
only upon PATH_TRANSLATED, and assumed the HTTP server had done
its access control checks to validate the resolved path was within
a directory permitting access from the remote client. This would
usually be sufficient to protect a server from requests for its
/etc/passwd file by http://host/smart/../etc/passwd sorts of URLs.
However in 917adc0360 Mark Lodato added GIT_PROJECT_ROOT as an
additional method of configuring the CGI. When this environment
variable is used the web server does not generate the final access
path and therefore may blindly pass through "/../etc/passwd"
in PATH_INFO under the assumption that "/../" might have special
meaning to the invoked CGI.
Instead of permitting these sorts of malformed path requests, we
now reject them back at the client, with an error message for the
server log. This matches git-daemon behavior.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Naturally, prep_temp_blob() did not care about filenames.
As a result, GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and textconv generated
filenames such as ".diff_XXXXXX".
This modifies prep_temp_blob() to generate user-friendly
filenames when creating temporary files.
Diffing "name.ext" now generates "XXXXXX_name.ext".
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
adjust_shared_perm() first obtains the mode bits from lstat(2), expecting
to find what the result of applying user's umask is, and then tweaks it
as necessary. When the file to be adjusted is created with mkstemp(3),
however, the mode thusly obtained does not have anything to do with user's
umask, and we would need to start from 0444 in such a case and there is no
point running lstat(2) for such a path.
This introduces a new API set_shared_perm() to bypass the lstat(2) and
instead force setting the mode bits to the desired value directly.
adjust_shared_perm() becomes a thin wrapper to the function.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This fixes the behaviour of octal notation to how it is defined in the
documentation, while keeping the traditional "loosen only" semantics
intact for "group" and "everybody".
Three main points of this patch are:
- For an explicit octal notation, the internal shared_repository variable
is set to a negative value, so that we can tell "group" (which is to
"OR" in 0660) and 0660 (which is to "SET" to 0660);
- git-init did not set shared_repository variable early enough to affect
the initial creation of many files, notably copied templates and the
configuration. We set it very early when a command-line option
specifies a custom value.
- Many codepaths create files inside $GIT_DIR by various ways that all
involve mkstemp(), and then call move_temp_to_file() to rename it to
its final destination. We can add adjust_shared_perm() call here; for
the traditional "loosen-only", this would be a no-op for many codepaths
because the mode is already loose enough, but with the new behaviour it
makes a difference.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function strip_path_suffix() will try to strip a given suffix from
a given path. The suffix must start at a directory boundary (i.e. "core"
is not a path suffix of "libexec/git-core", but "git-core" is).
Arbitrary runs of directory separators ("slashes") are assumed identical.
Example:
strip_path_suffix("C:\\msysgit/\\libexec\\git-core",
"libexec///git-core", &prefix)
will set prefix to "C:\\msysgit" and return 0.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* js/maint-1.6.0-path-normalize:
Remove unused normalize_absolute_path()
Test and fix normalize_path_copy()
Fix GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES on Windows
Move sanitary_path_copy() to path.c and rename it to normalize_path_copy()
Make test-path-utils more robust against incorrect use
This function is now superseded by normalize_path_copy().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This changes the test-path-utils utility to invoke normalize_path_copy()
instead of normalize_absolute_path() because the latter is about to be
removed.
The test cases in t0060 are adjusted in two regards:
- normalize_path_copy() more often leaves a trailing slash in the result.
This has no negative side effects because the new user of this function,
longest_ancester_length(), already accounts for this behavior.
- The function can fail.
The tests uncover a flaw in normalize_path_copy(): If there are
sufficiently many '..' path components so that the root is reached, such as
in "/d1/s1/../../d2", then the leading slash was lost. This manifested
itself that (assuming there is a repository at /tmp/foo)
$ git add /d1/../tmp/foo/some-file
reported 'pathspec is outside repository'. This is now fixed.
Moreover, the test case descriptions of t0060 now include the test data and
expected outcome.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using git with GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES crashed on Windows due to a failed
assertion in normalize_absolute_path(): This function expects absolute
paths to start with a slash, while on Windows they can start with a drive
letter or a backslash.
This fixes it by using the alternative, normalize_path_copy() instead,
which can handle Windows-style paths just fine.
Secondly, the portability macro PATH_SEP is used instead of expecting
colons to be used as path list delimiter.
The test script t1504 is also changed to help MSYS's bash recognize some
program arguments as path list. (MSYS's bash must translate POSIX-style
path lists to Windows-style path lists, and the heuristic did not catch
some cases.)
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function and normalize_absolute_path() do almost the same thing. The
former already works on Windows, but the latter crashes.
In subsequent changes we will remove normalize_absolute_path(). Here we
make the replacement function reusable. On the way we rename it to reflect
that it does some path normalization. Apart from that this is only moving
around code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we are trying to determine whether a directory contains
a git repository, one of the tests we do is to check whether
HEAD is either a symlink or a symref into the "refs/"
hierarchy, or a detached HEAD.
We can tighten this a little more, though: a non-detached
HEAD should always point to a branch (since checking out
anything else should result in detachment), so it is safe to
check for "refs/heads/".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These were found using gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu11 with the warning:
warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
Incorporated suggestions from Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ar/maint-mksnpath:
Use git_pathdup instead of xstrdup(git_path(...))
git_pathdup: returns xstrdup-ed copy of the formatted path
Fix potentially dangerous use of git_path in ref.c
Add git_snpath: a .git path formatting routine with output buffer
Fix potentially dangerous uses of mkpath and git_path
Fix mkpath abuse in dwim_ref and dwim_log of sha1_name.c
Add mksnpath which allows you to specify the output buffer
Conflicts:
builtin-revert.c
rerere.c
The comments for normalize_absolute_path explicitly claim
that the source and destination buffers may be the same
(though they may not otherwise overlap). Thus the call to
memcpy may involve copying overlapping data, and memmove
should be used instead.
This fixes a valgrind error in t1504.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function's purpose is to replace git_path where the buffer of
formatted path may not be reused by subsequent calls of the function
or will be copied anyway.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is just vsnprintf's but additionally calls cleanup_path() on the
result. To be used as alternatives to mkpath() where the buffer for the
created path may not be reused by subsequent calls of the same formatting
function.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function had used make_absolute_path(); but this function dies if
the directory that contains the entry whose relative path was supplied in
the argument does not exist. This is a problem if the argument is, for
example, "../libexec/git-core", and that "../libexec" does not exist.
Since the resolution of symbolic links is not required for elements in
PATH, we can fall back to using make_nonrelative_path(), which simply
prepends $PWD to the path.
We have to move make_nonrelative_path() alongside make_absolute_path() in
abspath.c so that git-shell can be linked. See 5b8e6f85f.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
GIT 1.5.6.3
git-am: Do not exit silently if committer is unset
t0004: fix timing bug
git-mailinfo: document the -n option
Fix backwards-incompatible handling of core.sharedRepository
06cbe85 (Make core.sharedRepository more generic, 2008-04-16) broke the
traditional setting of core.sharedRepository to true, which was to make
the repository group writable: with umask 022, it would clear the
permission bits for 'other'. (umask 002 did not exhibit this behaviour
since pre-chmod() check in adjust_shared_perm() fails in that case.)
The call to adjust_shared_perm() should only loosen the permission.
If the user has umask like 022 or 002 that allow others to read, the
resulting files should be made readable and writable by group, without
restricting the readability by others.
This patch fixes the adjust_shared_perm() mode tweak based on Junio's
suggestion and adds the appropriate tests to t/t1301-shared-repo.sh.
Cc: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* dr/ceiling:
Eliminate an unnecessary chdir("..")
Add support for GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES
Fold test-absolute-path into test-path-utils
Implement normalize_absolute_path
Conflicts:
cache.h
setup.c
A lot of modules that have nothing to do with git-shell functionality
were linked in, bloating git-shell more than 8 times.
This patch cuts off redundant dependencies by:
1. providing stubs for three functions that make no sense for git-shell;
2. moving quote_path_fully from environment.c to quote.c to make the
later self sufficient;
3. moving make_absolute_path into a new separate file.
The following numbers have been received with the default optimization
settings on master using GCC 4.1.2:
Before:
text data bss dec hex filename
143915 1348 93168 238431 3a35f git-shell
After:
text data bss dec hex filename
17670 788 8232 26690 6842 git-shell
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Once we find the absolute paths for git_dir and work_tree, we can make
git_dir a relative path since we know pwd will be work_tree. This should
save the kernel some time traversing the path to work_tree all the time
if git_dir is inside work_tree.
Daniel's patch didn't apply for me as-is, so I recreated it with some
differences, and here are the numbers from ten runs each.
There is some IO for me - probably due to more-or-less random flushing of
the journal - so the variation is bigger than I'd like, but whatever:
Before:
real 0m8.135s
real 0m7.933s
real 0m8.080s
real 0m7.954s
real 0m7.949s
real 0m8.112s
real 0m7.934s
real 0m8.059s
real 0m7.979s
real 0m8.038s
After:
real 0m7.685s
real 0m7.968s
real 0m7.703s
real 0m7.850s
real 0m7.995s
real 0m7.817s
real 0m7.963s
real 0m7.955s
real 0m7.848s
real 0m7.969s
Now, going by "best of ten" (on the assumption that the longer numbers
are all due to IO), I'm saying a 7.933s -> 7.685s reduction, and it does
seem to be outside of the noise (ie the "after" case never broke 8s, while
the "before" case did so half the time).
So looks like about 3% to me.
Doing it for a slightly smaller test-case (just the "arch" subdirectory)
gets more stable numbers probably due to not filling the journal with
metadata updates, so we have:
Before:
real 0m1.633s
real 0m1.633s
real 0m1.633s
real 0m1.632s
real 0m1.632s
real 0m1.630s
real 0m1.634s
real 0m1.631s
real 0m1.632s
real 0m1.632s
After:
real 0m1.610s
real 0m1.609s
real 0m1.610s
real 0m1.608s
real 0m1.607s
real 0m1.610s
real 0m1.609s
real 0m1.611s
real 0m1.608s
real 0m1.611s
where I'ld just take the averages and say 1.632 vs 1.610, which is just
over 1% peformance improvement.
So it's not in the noise, but it's not as big as I initially thought and
measured.
(That said, it obviously depends on how deep the working directory path is
too, and whether it is behind NFS or something else that might need to
cause more work to look up).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Particularly for the "alternates" file, if one will be created, we
want a path that doesn't depend on the current directory, but we want
to retain any symlinks in the path as given and any in the user's view
of the current directory when the path was given.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make git recognize a new environment variable that prevents it from
chdir'ing up into specified directories when looking for a GIT_DIR.
Useful for avoiding slow network directories.
For example, I use git in an environment where homedirs are automounted
and "ls /home/nonexistent" takes about 9 seconds. Setting
GIT_CEILING_DIRS="/home" allows "git help -a" (for bash completion) and
"git symbolic-ref" (for my shell prompt) to run in a reasonable time.
Signed-off-by: David Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
normalize_absolute_path removes several oddities form absolute paths,
giving nice clean paths like "/dir/sub1/sub2". Also add a test case
for this utility, based on a new test program (in the style of test-sha1).
Signed-off-by: David Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
xread() and xwrite() return ssize_t values as their native POSIX
counterparts read(2) and write(2).
To be consistent, read_in_full() and write_in_full() should also return
ssize_t values.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git init --shared=0xxx, where '0xxx' is an octal number, will create
a repository with file modes set to '0xxx'. Users with a safe umask
value (0077) can use this option to force file modes. For example,
'0640' is a group-readable but not group-writable regardless of
user's umask value. Values compatible with old Git versions are written
as they were before, for compatibility reasons. That is, "1" for
"group" and "2" for "everybody".
"git config core.sharedRepository 0xxx" is also handled.
Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It does not allow changing the bit to a non-root user.
This fixes t1301-shared-repo.sh on the platform.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When passing "xyz" to make_absolute_path(), make_absolute_path()
erroneously tried to chdir("xyz"), and then append "/xyz". Instead,
skip the chdir() completely when no slash was found.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch adds convenience functions to work with absolute paths.
The function is_absolute_path() should help the efforts to integrate
the MinGW fork.
Note that make_absolute_path() returns a pointer to a static buffer.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If user's TMPDIR is insanely long, return negative after
setting errno to ENAMETOOLONG, pretending that the underlying
mkstemp() choked on a temporary file path that is too long.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There were places using "GIT_DIR" instead of GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT and
"GIT_CONFIG" instead of CONFIG_ENVIRONMENT. This makes it easier to
find all places touching an environment variable using git grep or
similar tools.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We shouldn't attempt to assign constant strings into char*, as the
string is not writable at runtime. Likewise we should always be
treating unsigned values as unsigned values, not as signed values.
Most of these are very straightforward. The only exception is the
(unnecessary) xstrdup/free in builtin-branch.c for the detached
head case. Since this is a user-level interactive type program
and that particular code path is executed no more than once, I feel
that the extra xstrdup call is well worth the easy elimination of
this warning.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* jc/detached-head:
git-checkout: handle local changes sanely when detaching HEAD
git-checkout: safety check for detached HEAD checks existing refs
git-checkout: fix branch name output from the command
git-checkout: safety when coming back from the detached HEAD state.
git-checkout: rewording comments regarding detached HEAD.
git-checkout: do not warn detaching HEAD when it is already detached.
Detached HEAD (experimental)
git-branch: show detached HEAD
git-status: show detached HEAD
We have a number of badly checked read() calls. Often we are
expecting read() to read exactly the size we requested or fail, this
fails to handle interrupts or short reads. Add a read_in_full()
providing those semantics. Otherwise we at a minimum need to check
for EINTR and EAGAIN, where this is appropriate use xread().
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows "git checkout v1.4.3" to dissociate the HEAD of
repository from any branch. After this point, "git branch"
starts reporting that you are not on any branch. You can go
back to an existing branch by saying "git checkout master", for
example.
This is still experimental. While I think it makes sense to
allow commits on top of detached HEAD, it is rather dangerous
unless you are careful in the current form. Next "git checkout
master" will obviously lose what you have done, so we might want
to require "git checkout -f" out of a detached HEAD if we find
that the HEAD commit is not an ancestor of any other branches.
There is no such safety valve implemented right now.
On the other hand, the reason the user did not start the ad-hoc
work on a new branch with "git checkout -b" was probably because
the work was of a throw-away nature, so the convenience of not
having that safety valve might be even better. The user, after
accumulating some commits on top of a detached HEAD, can always
create a new branch with "git checkout -b" not to lose useful
work done while the HEAD was detached.
We'll see.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Matthieu Moy
René Scharfe
Cezary Zawadka
Jeff King
Jiang Xin
Ramsay Jones
Torsten Bögershausen
Michael Haggerty
Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen
Phil Hord
Erik Faye-Lund
Carlos Martín Nieto
Jonathan Nieder
Heiko Voigt
René Scharfe
Shawn O. Pearce
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Petr Baudis
Dmitry Potapov
Linus Torvalds
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