The synopsys text and the usage string of subcommands that read list
of things from the standard input are often shown like this:
git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes>
This is problematic in a number of ways:
* The way to use these commands is more often to feed them the
output from another command, not feed them from a file.
* Manual pages outside Git, commands that operate on the data read
from the standard input, e.g "sort", "grep", "sed", etc., are not
described with such a "< redirection-from-file" in their synopsys
text. Our doing so introduces inconsistency.
* We do not insist on where the output should go, by saying
git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes> > <output>
* As it is our convention to enclose placeholders inside <braket>,
the redirection operator followed by a placeholder filename
becomes very hard to read, both in the documentation and in the
help text.
Let's clean them all up, after making sure that the documentation
clearly describes the modes that take information from the standard
input and what kind of things are expected on the input.
[jc: stole example for fmt-merge-msg from Jonathan]
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"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
"hash-object" learned in 5ba9a93 (hash-object: add --literally
option, 2014-09-11) to allow crafting a corrupt/broken object of
unknown type.
When the user-provided type is particularly long, however, it can
overflow the relatively small stack-based character array handed to
write_sha1_file_prepare() by hash_sha1_file() and write_sha1_file(),
leading to stack corruption (and crash). Introduce a custom helper
to allow arbitrarily long typenames just for "hash-object --literally".
[jc: Eric's original used a strbuf in the more common codepaths, and
I rewrote it to avoid penalizing the non-literally code. Bugs are mine]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch puts the usage info strings that were not already in docopt-
like format into docopt-like format, which will be a litle easier for
end users and a lot easier for translators. Changes include:
- Placing angle brackets around fill-in-the-blank parameters
- Putting dashes in multiword parameter names
- Adding spaces to [-f|--foobar] to make [-f | --foobar]
- Replacing <foobar>* with [<foobar>...]
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows "hash-object --stdin" to just hash any garbage into a
"loose object" that may not pass the standard object parsing check
or fsck, so that different kind of corrupt objects we may encounter
in the field can be imitated in our test suite. That would in turn
allow us to test features that catch these corrupt objects.
Note that "cat-file" may need to learn "--literally" option to allow
us peek into a truly broken object.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of forcing callers of lower level functions write
(write_object ? HASH_WRITE_OBJECT : 0), prepare the flag to be
passed down in the callchain from the command line parser.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of the knobs that affect helper functions called from
cmd_hash_object() were passed to them as parameters already, and the
only effect of having them as file-scope statics was to make the
reader wonder if the parameters are hiding the file-scope global
values by accident. Adjust their initialisation and make them
function-local variables.
The only exception was no_filters hash_stdin_paths() peeked from the
file-scope global, which was converted to a parameter to the helper
function.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This task emerged from b04ba2bb (parse-options: deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN,
2011-09-27). hash-object is a plumbing layer command, so better
not change the input/output behavior for now.
Unfortunately we have these lines relying on the count up mechanism of
OPT_BOOLEAN:
if (hashstdin > 1)
errstr = "Multiple --stdin arguments are not supported";
Using OPT_BOOL will make "git hash-object --stdin --stdin" the same
as "git hash-object --stdin", resulting in just one object, which
will surprise users with an expectation to see two objects hashed.
Because it is not good to silently succeed and give an unexpected
result, even when the expectation is unrealistic, we use COUNTUP to
explicitly catch such an error.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This task emerged from b04ba2bb (parse-options: deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN,
2011-09-27). All occurrences of the respective variables have
been reviewed and none of them relied on the counting up mechanism,
but all of them were using the variable as a true boolean.
This patch does not change semantics of any command intentionally.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "format_check" parameter tucked after the existing parameters is too
ugly an afterthought to live in any reasonable API.
Combine it with the other boolean parameter "write_object" into a single
"flags" parameter.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix warnings from 'make check'.
- These files don't include 'builtin.h' causing sparse to complain that
cmd_* isn't declared:
builtin/clone.c:364, builtin/fetch-pack.c:797,
builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c:34, builtin/hash-object.c:78,
builtin/merge-index.c:69, builtin/merge-recursive.c:22
builtin/merge-tree.c:341, builtin/mktag.c:156, builtin/notes.c:426
builtin/notes.c:822, builtin/pack-redundant.c:596,
builtin/pack-refs.c:10, builtin/patch-id.c:60, builtin/patch-id.c:149,
builtin/remote.c:1512, builtin/remote-ext.c:240,
builtin/remote-fd.c:53, builtin/reset.c:236, builtin/send-pack.c:384,
builtin/unpack-file.c:25, builtin/var.c:75
- These files have symbols which should be marked static since they're
only file scope:
submodule.c:12, diff.c:631, replace_object.c:92, submodule.c:13,
submodule.c:14, trace.c:78, transport.c:195, transport-helper.c:79,
unpack-trees.c:19, url.c:3, url.c:18, url.c:104, url.c:117, url.c:123,
url.c:129, url.c:136, thread-utils.c:21, thread-utils.c:48
- These files redeclare symbols to be different types:
builtin/index-pack.c:210, parse-options.c:564, parse-options.c:571,
usage.c:49, usage.c:58, usage.c:63, usage.c:72
- These files use a literal integer 0 when they really should use a NULL
pointer:
daemon.c:663, fast-import.c:2942, imap-send.c:1072, notes-merge.c:362
While we're in the area, clean up some unused #includes in builtin files
(mostly exec_cmd.h).
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commits, trees and tags have structure. Don't let users feed git
with malformed ones. Sooner or later git will die() when
encountering them.
Note that this patch does not check semantics. A tree that points
to non-existent objects is perfectly OK (and should be so, users
may choose to add commit first, then its associated tree for example).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This shrinks the top-level directory a bit, and makes it much more
pleasant to use auto-completion on the thing. Instead of
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab>
Display all 180 possibilities? (y or n)
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-sh
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-show-branch.c builtin-show-ref.c
builtin-shortlog.o builtin-show-branch.o builtin-show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shor<tab>
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shortlog.c
you get
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab> [type]
builtin/ builtin.h
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sh<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o show-branch.c show-branch.o show-ref.c show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sho [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shor<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shortlog.c
which doesn't seem all that different, but not having that annoying
break in "Display all 180 possibilities?" is quite a relief.
NOTE! If you do this in a clean tree (no object files etc), or using an
editor that has auto-completion rules that ignores '*.o' files, you
won't see that annoying 'Display all 180 possibilities?' message - it
will just show the choices instead. I think bash has some cut-off
around 100 choices or something.
So the reason I see this is that I'm using an odd editory, and thus
don't have the rules to cut down on auto-completion. But you can
simulate that by using 'ls' instead, or something similar.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano
Eric Sunshine
Alex Henrie
Stefan Beller
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Stephen Boyd
Linus Torvalds