In the codebase, there are many options which use OPTION_CALLBACK in a
plain ol' struct definition. However, we have the OPT_CALLBACK and
OPT_CALLBACK_F macros which are meant to abstract these plain struct
definitions away. These macros are useful as they semantically signal to
developers that these are just normal callback option with nothing fancy
happening.
Replace plain struct definitions of OPTION_CALLBACK with OPT_CALLBACK or
OPT_CALLBACK_F where applicable. The heavy lifting was done using the
following (disgusting) shell script:
#!/bin/sh
do_replacement () {
tr '\n' '\r' |
sed -e 's/{\s*OPTION_CALLBACK,\s*\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\s*0,\(\s*[^[:space:]}]*\)\s*}/OPT_CALLBACK(\1,\2,\3,\4,\5,\6)/g' |
sed -e 's/{\s*OPTION_CALLBACK,\s*\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\(\s*[^[:space:]}]*\)\s*}/OPT_CALLBACK_F(\1,\2,\3,\4,\5,\6,\7)/g' |
tr '\r' '\n'
}
for f in $(git ls-files \*.c)
do
do_replacement <"$f" >"$f.tmp"
mv "$f.tmp" "$f"
done
The result was manually inspected and then reformatted to match the
style of the surrounding code. Finally, using
`git grep OPTION_CALLBACK \*.c`, leftover results which were not handled
by the script were manually transformed.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We renamed the actual data structure in 910650d2f8 (Rename sha1_array to
oid_array, 2017-03-31), but the file is still called sha1-array. Besides
being slightly confusing, it makes it more annoying to grep for leftover
occurrences of "sha1" in various files, because the header is included
in so many places.
Let's complete the transition by renaming the source and header files
(and fixing up a few comment references).
I kept the "-" in the name, as that seems to be our style; cf.
fc1395f4a4 (sha1_file.c: rename to use dash in file name, 2018-04-10).
We also have oidmap.h and oidset.h without any punctuation, but those
are "struct oidmap" and "struct oidset" in the code. We _could_ make
this "oidarray" to match, but somehow it looks uglier to me because of
the length of "array" (plus it would be a very invasive patch for little
gain).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the Git pack protocol definition, an error packet may appear only in
a certain context. However, servers can face a runtime error (e.g. I/O
error) at an arbitrary timing. This patch changes the protocol to allow
an error packet to be sent instead of any packet.
Without this protocol spec change, when a server cannot process a
request, there's no way to tell that to a client. Since the server
cannot produce a valid response, it would be forced to cut a connection
without telling why. With this protocol spec change, the server can be
more gentle in this situation. An old client may see these error packets
as an unexpected packet, but this is not worse than having an unexpected
EOF.
Following this protocol spec change, the error packet handling code is
moved to pkt-line.c. Implementation wise, this implementation uses
pkt-line to communicate with a subprocess. Since this is not a part of
Git protocol, it's possible that a packet that is not supposed to be an
error packet is mistakenly parsed as an error packet. This error packet
handling is enabled only for the Git pack protocol parsing code
considering this.
Signed-off-by: Masaya Suzuki <masayasuzuki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git cmd -h" updates.
* rs/opt-updates:
parseopt: group literal string alternatives in argument help
remote: improve argument help for add --mirror
checkout-index: improve argument help for --stage
This formally clarifies that the "--option=" part is the same for all
alternatives.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The parse-options machinery learned to refrain from enclosing
placeholder string inside a "<bra" and "ket>" pair automatically
without PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP. Existing help text for option
arguments that are not formatted correctly have been identified and
fixed.
* rs/parse-opt-lithelp:
parse-options: automatically infer PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP
shortlog: correct option help for -w
send-pack: specify --force-with-lease argument help explicitly
pack-objects: specify --index-version argument help explicitly
difftool: remove angular brackets from argument help
add, update-index: fix --chmod argument help
push: use PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP instead of unbalanced brackets
Parseopt wraps argument help strings in a pair of angular brackets by
default, to tell users that they need to replace it with an actual
value. This is useful in most cases, because most option arguments
are indeed single values of a certain type. The option
PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP needs to be used in option definitions with
arguments that have multiple parts or are literal strings.
Stop adding these angular brackets if special characters are present,
as they indicate that we don't deal with a simple placeholder. This
simplifies the code a bit and makes defining special options slightly
easier.
Remove the flag PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP in the cases where the new
and more cautious handling suffices.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Wrap each part of the argument help string in angular brackets to show
that users need to replace them with actual values. Do that explicitly
to balance the pairs nicely in the code and avoid confusing casual
readers. Add the flag PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP to keep parseopt from
adding another pair.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git send-pack --signed" (hence "git push --signed" over the http
transport) did not read user ident from the config mechanism to
determine whom to sign the push certificate as, which has been
corrected.
* ms/send-pack-honor-config:
builtin/send-pack: populate the default configs
builtin/send-pack didn't call git_default_config, and because of this
git push --signed didn't respect the username and email in gitconfig in
the HTTP transport.
Signed-off-by: Masaya Suzuki <masayasuzuki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert 'match_push_refs()' to take a 'struct refspec' as a parameter
instead of an array of 'const char *'.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove 'transprot_verify_remote_names()' because all callers have
migrated to using 'struct refspec' which performs the same checks in
'parse_refspec()'.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert send-pack.c to store refspecs in a 'struct refspec' instead of
as an array of 'const char *'.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce protocol_v2, a new value for 'enum protocol_version'.
Subsequent patches will fill in the implementation of protocol_v2.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to prepare for the addition of protocol_v2 push the protocol
version discovery outside of 'get_remote_heads()'. This will allow for
keeping the logic for processing the reference advertisement for
protocol_v1 and protocol_v0 separate from the logic for protocol_v2.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up.
* ma/parse-maybe-bool:
parse_decoration_style: drop unused argument `var`
treewide: deprecate git_config_maybe_bool, use git_parse_maybe_bool
config: make git_{config,parse}_maybe_bool equivalent
config: introduce git_parse_maybe_bool_text
t5334: document that git push --signed=1 does not work
Doc/git-{push,send-pack}: correct --sign= to --signed=
The only difference between these is that the former takes an argument
`name` which it ignores completely. Still, the callers are quite careful
to provide reasonable values for it.
Once in-flight topics have landed, we should be able to remove
git_config_maybe_bool. In the meantime, document it as deprecated in the
technical documentation. While at it, document git_parse_maybe_bool.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Stop including config.h by default in cache.h. Instead only include
config.h in those files which require use of the config system.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Conversion from unsigned char [40] to struct object_id continues.
* bc/object-id:
Documentation: update and rename api-sha1-array.txt
Rename sha1_array to oid_array
Convert sha1_array_for_each_unique and for_each_abbrev to object_id
Convert sha1_array_lookup to take struct object_id
Convert remaining callers of sha1_array_lookup to object_id
Make sha1_array_append take a struct object_id *
sha1-array: convert internal storage for struct sha1_array to object_id
builtin/pull: convert to struct object_id
submodule: convert check_for_new_submodule_commits to object_id
sha1_name: convert disambiguate_hint_fn to take object_id
sha1_name: convert struct disambiguate_state to object_id
test-sha1-array: convert most code to struct object_id
parse-options-cb: convert sha1_array_append caller to struct object_id
fsck: convert init_skiplist to struct object_id
builtin/receive-pack: convert portions to struct object_id
builtin/pull: convert portions to struct object_id
builtin/diff: convert to struct object_id
Convert GIT_SHA1_RAWSZ used for allocation to GIT_MAX_RAWSZ
Convert GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ used for allocation to GIT_MAX_HEXSZ
Define new hash-size constants for allocating memory
Since this structure handles an array of object IDs, rename it to struct
oid_array. Also rename the accessor functions and the initialization
constant.
This commit was produced mechanically by providing non-Documentation
files to the following Perl one-liners:
perl -pi -E 's/struct sha1_array/struct oid_array/g'
perl -pi -E 's/\bsha1_array_/oid_array_/g'
perl -pi -E 's/SHA1_ARRAY_INIT/OID_ARRAY_INIT/g'
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach remote-curl to understand push options and to be able to convey
them across HTTP.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git send-pack --all <there>" was broken when its command line
option parsing was written in the 2.6 timeframe.
* sk/send-pack-all-fix:
git-send-pack: fix --all option when used with directory
When using git send-pack with --all option
and a target repository specification ([<host>:]<directory>),
usage message is being displayed instead of performing
the actual transmission.
The reason for this issue is that destination and refspecs are being set
in the same conditional and are populated from argv. When a target
repository is passed, refspecs is being populated as well with its value.
This makes the check for refspecs not being NULL to always return true,
which, in conjunction with the check for --all or --mirror options,
is always true as well and returns usage message instead of proceeding.
This ensures that send-pack will stop execution only when --all
or --mirror switch is used in conjunction with any refspecs passed.
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kolotinskiy <stanislav@assembla.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The strbuf_getline() interface allows a byte other than LF or NUL as
the line terminator, but this is only because I wrote these
codepaths anticipating that there might be a value other than NUL
and LF that could be useful when I introduced line_termination long
time ago. No useful caller that uses other value has emerged.
By now, it is clear that the interface is overly broad without a
good reason. Many codepaths have hardcoded preference to read
either LF terminated or NUL terminated records from their input, and
then call strbuf_getline() with LF or NUL as the third parameter.
This step introduces two thin wrappers around strbuf_getline(),
namely, strbuf_getline_lf() and strbuf_getline_nul(), and
mechanically rewrites these call sites to call either one of
them. The changes contained in this patch are:
* introduction of these two functions in strbuf.[ch]
* mechanical conversion of all callers to strbuf_getline() with
either '\n' or '\0' as the third parameter to instead call the
respective thin wrapper.
After this step, output from "git grep 'strbuf_getline('" would
become a lot smaller. An interim goal of this series is to make
this an empty set, so that we can have strbuf_getline_crlf() take
over the shorter name strbuf_getline().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new flag --sign=true (or --sign=false), which means the same
thing as the original --signed (or --no-signed). Give it a third
value --sign=if-asked to tell push and send-pack to send a push
certificate if and only if the server advertised a push cert nonce.
If not, warn the user that their push may not be as secure as they
thought.
Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old option parsing code in this plumbing command predates this
API, so option parsing was done more manually. Using the new API
brings send-pack more in line with push, and accepts new variants
like --no-* for negating options.
Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git-send-pack is exec'ed, as is done by git-remote-http, it
does not read the config, and configured value of user.signingkey is
ignored. Thus it was impossible to specify a signing key over HTTP,
other than the default key in the keyring having a User ID matching
the "Name <email>" format.
This patch at least partially fixes the problem by reading in the GPG
config from within send-pack. It does not address the related problem
of plumbing a value for this configuration option using
`git -c user.signingkey push ...`.
Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds support to send-pack to negotiate and use atomic pushes
iff the server supports it. Atomic pushes are activated by a new command
line flag --atomic.
In order to do this we also need to change the semantics for send_pack()
slightly. The existing send_pack() function actually doesn't send all the
refs back to the server when multiple refs are involved, for example
when using --all. Several of the failure modes for pushes can already be
detected locally in the send_pack client based on the information from the
initial server side list of all the refs as generated by receive-pack.
Any such refs that we thus know would fail to push are thus pruned from
the list of refs we send to the server to update.
For atomic pushes, we have to deal thus with both failures that are detected
locally as well as failures that are reported back from the server. In order
to do so we treat all local failures as push failures too.
We introduce a new status code REF_STATUS_ATOMIC_PUSH_FAILED so we can
flag all refs that we would normally have tried to push to the server
but we did not due to local failures. This is to improve the error message
back to the end user to flag that "these refs failed to update since the
atomic push operation failed."
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow "git push" request to be signed, so that it can be verified and
audited, using the GPG signature of the person who pushed, that the
tips of branches at a public repository really point the commits
the pusher wanted to, without having to "trust" the server.
* jc/push-cert: (24 commits)
receive-pack::hmac_sha1(): copy the entire SHA-1 hash out
signed push: allow stale nonce in stateless mode
signed push: teach smart-HTTP to pass "git push --signed" around
signed push: fortify against replay attacks
signed push: add "pushee" header to push certificate
signed push: remove duplicated protocol info
send-pack: send feature request on push-cert packet
receive-pack: GPG-validate push certificates
push: the beginning of "git push --signed"
pack-protocol doc: typofix for PKT-LINE
gpg-interface: move parse_signature() to where it should be
gpg-interface: move parse_gpg_output() to where it should be
send-pack: clarify that cmds_sent is a boolean
send-pack: refactor inspecting and resetting status and sending commands
send-pack: rename "new_refs" to "need_pack_data"
receive-pack: factor out capability string generation
send-pack: factor out capability string generation
send-pack: always send capabilities
send-pack: refactor decision to send update per ref
send-pack: move REF_STATUS_REJECT_NODELETE logic a bit higher
...
The "--signed" option received by "git push" is first passed to the
transport layer, which the native transport directly uses to notice
that a push certificate needs to be sent. When the transport-helper
is involved, however, the option needs to be told to the helper with
set_helper_option(), and the helper needs to take necessary action.
For the smart-HTTP helper, the "necessary action" involves spawning
the "git send-pack" subprocess with the "--signed" option.
Once the above all gets wired in, the smart-HTTP transport now can
use the push certificate mechanism to authenticate its pushes.
Add a test that is modeled after tests for the native transport in
t5534-push-signed.sh to t5541-http-push-smart.sh. Update the test
Apache configuration to pass GNUPGHOME environment variable through.
As PassEnv would trigger warnings for an environment variable that
is not set, export it from test-lib.sh set to a harmless value when
GnuPG is not being used in the tests.
Note that the added test is deliberately loose and does not check
the nonce in this step. This is because the stateless RPC mode is
inevitably flaky and a nonce that comes back in the actual push
processing is one issued by a different process; if the two
interactions with the server crossed a second boundary, the nonces
will not match and such a check will fail. A later patch in the
series will work around this shortcoming.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pushing a large number of refs works over most transports,
because we implement send-pack as an internal function.
However, it can sometimes fail when pushing over http,
because we have to spawn "git send-pack --stateless-rpc" to
do the heavy lifting, and we pass each refspec on the
command line. This can cause us to overflow the OS limits on
the size of the command line for a large push.
We can solve this by giving send-pack a --stdin option and
using it from remote-curl. We already dealt with this on
the fetch-pack side in 078b895 (fetch-pack: new --stdin
option to read refs from stdin, 2012-04-02). The stdin
option (and in particular, its use of packet-lines for
stateless-rpc input) is modeled after that solution.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fetching from a shallow-cloned repository used to be forbidden,
primarily because the codepaths involved were not carefully vetted
and we did not bother supporting such usage. This attempts to allow
object transfer out of a shallow-cloned repository in a controlled
way (i.e. the receiver become a shallow repository with truncated
history).
* nd/shallow-clone: (31 commits)
t5537: fix incorrect expectation in test case 10
shallow: remove unused code
send-pack.c: mark a file-local function static
git-clone.txt: remove shallow clone limitations
prune: clean .git/shallow after pruning objects
clone: use git protocol for cloning shallow repo locally
send-pack: support pushing from a shallow clone via http
receive-pack: support pushing to a shallow clone via http
smart-http: support shallow fetch/clone
remote-curl: pass ref SHA-1 to fetch-pack as well
send-pack: support pushing to a shallow clone
receive-pack: allow pushes that update .git/shallow
connected.c: add new variant that runs with --shallow-file
add GIT_SHALLOW_FILE to propagate --shallow-file to subprocesses
receive/send-pack: support pushing from a shallow clone
receive-pack: reorder some code in unpack()
fetch: add --update-shallow to accept refs that update .git/shallow
upload-pack: make sure deepening preserves shallow roots
fetch: support fetching from a shallow repository
clone: support remote shallow repository
...
No callers pass a non-empty pointer as shallow_points at this
stage. As a result, all clients still refuse to talk to shallow
repository on the other end.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
send-pack can send a pack with loose ends to the server. receive-pack
before 6d4bb38 (fetch: verify we have everything we need before
updating our ref - 2011-09-01) does not detect this and keeps the pack
anyway, which corrupts the repository, at least from fsck point of
view.
send-pack will learn to safely push from a shallow repository later.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The latter can do everything the former can and is used in many more
places.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any
new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace
existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API
functions.
The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this:
$ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c |
grep -v strbuf\\.c |
xargs perl -pi -e '
s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g;
s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g;
s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g;
s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g;
'
on the result of preparatory changes in this series.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The last argument for parse_push_cas_option() is if it is "unset"
(i.e. --no-force-with-lease), and we are parsing the option with an
explicit value here, so it has to be 0.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This teaches the deepest part of the callchain for "git push" (and
"git send-pack") to enforce "the old value of the ref must be this,
otherwise fail this push" (aka "compare-and-swap" / "--lockref").
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This plugs the push_cas_option data collected by the command line
option parser to the transport system with a new function
apply_push_cas(), which is called after match_push_refs() has
already been called.
At this point, we know which remote we are talking to, and what
remote refs we are going to update, so we can fill in the details
that may have been missing from the command line, such as
(1) what abbreviated refname the user gave us matches the actual
refname at the remote; and
(2) which remote-tracking branch in our local repository to read
the value of the object to expect at the remote.
to populate the old_sha1_expect[] field of each of the remote ref.
As stated in the documentation, the use of remote-tracking branch
as the default is a tentative one, and we may come up with a better
logic as we gain experience.
Still nobody uses this information, which is the topic of the next
patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update "git push" and "git send-pack" to parse this commnd line
option.
The intended sematics is:
* "--force-with-lease" alone, without specifying the details, will
protect _all_ remote refs that are going to be updated by
requiring their current value to be the same as some reasonable
default, unless otherwise specified;
* "--force-with-lease=refname", without specifying the expected
value, will protect that refname, if it is going to be updated,
by requiring its current value to be the same as some reasonable
default.
* "--force-with-lease=refname:value" will protect that refname, if
it is going to be updated, by requiring its current value to be
the same as the specified value; and
* "--no-force-with-lease" will cancel all the previous --force-with-lease on the
command line.
For now, "some reasonable default" is tentatively defined as "the
value of the remote-tracking branch we have for the ref of the
remote being updated", and it is an error if we do not have such a
remote-tracking branch. But this is known to be fragile, its use is
not yet recommended, and hopefully we will find more reasonable
default as we gain experience with this feature. The manual marks
the feature as experimental unless the expected value is specified
explicitly for this reason.
Because the command line options are parsed _before_ we know which
remote we are pushing to, there needs further processing to the
parsed data after we instantiate the transport object to:
* expand "refname" given by the user to a full refname to be
matched with the list of "struct ref" used in match_push_refs()
and set_ref_status_for_push(); and
* learning the actual local ref that is the remote-tracking branch
for the specified remote ref.
Further, some processing need to be deferred until we find the set
of remote refs and match_push_refs() returns in order to find the
ones that need to be checked after explicit ones have been processed
for "--force-with-lease" (no specific details).
These post-processing will be the topic of the next patch.
This option was originally called "cas" (for "compare and swap"),
the name which nobody liked because it was too technical. The
second attempt called it "lockref" (because it is conceptually like
pushing after taking a lock) but the word "lock" was hated because
it implied that it may reject push by others, which is not the way
this option works. This round calls it "force-with-lease". You
assume you took the lease on the ref when you fetched to decide what
the rebased history should be, and you can push back only if the
lease has not been broken.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The definition of "struct ref" in "cache.h", a header file so
central to the system, always confused me. This structure is not
about the local ref used by sha1-name API to name local objects.
It is what refspecs are expanded into, after finding out what refs
the other side has, to define what refs are updated after object
transfer succeeds to what values. It belongs to "remote.h" together
with "struct refspec".
While we are at it, also move the types and functions related to the
Git transport connection to a new header file connect.h
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that we can read packet data from memory as easily as a
descriptor, get_remote_heads can take either one as a
source. This will allow further refactoring in remote-curl.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is just write_or_die by another name. The one
distinction is that write_or_die will treat EPIPE specially
by suppressing error messages. That's fine, as we die by
SIGPIPE anyway (and in the off chance that it is disabled,
write_or_die will simulate it).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we push to update an existing ref, if:
* the object at the tip of the remote is not a commit; or
* the object we are pushing is not a commit,
it won't be correct to suggest to fetch, integrate and push again,
as the old and new objects will not "merge". We should explain that
the push must be forced when there is a non-committish object is
involved in such a case.
If we do not have the current object at the tip of the remote, we do
not even know that object, when fetched, is something that can be
merged. In such a case, suggesting to pull first just like
non-fast-forward case may not be technically correct, but in
practice, most such failures are seen when you try to push your work
to a branch without knowing that somebody else already pushed to
update the same branch since you forked, so "pull first" would work
as a suggestion most of the time. And if the object at the tip is
not a commit, "pull first" will fail, without making any permanent
damage. As a side effect, it also makes the error message the user
will get during the next "push" attempt easier to understand, now
the user is aware that a non-commit object is involved.
In these cases, the current code already rejects such a push on the
client end, but we used the same error and advice messages as the
ones used when rejecting a non-fast-forward push, i.e. pull from
there and integrate before pushing again.
Introduce new rejection reasons and reword the messages
appropriately.
[jc: with help by Peff on message details]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
References are allowed to update from one commit-ish to another if the
former is an ancestor of the latter. This behavior is oriented to
branches which are expected to move with commits. Tag references are
expected to be static in a repository, though, thus an update to
something under refs/tags/ should be rejected unless the update is
forced.
Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>