It does not make sense to make ".gitattributes", ".gitignore" and
".mailmap" symlinks, as they are supposed to be usable from the
object store (think: bare repositories where HEAD:.mailmap etc. are
used). When these files are symbolic links, we used to read the
contents of the files pointed by them by mistake, which has been
corrected.
* jk/open-dotgitx-with-nofollow:
mailmap: do not respect symlinks for in-tree .mailmap
exclude: do not respect symlinks for in-tree .gitignore
attr: do not respect symlinks for in-tree .gitattributes
exclude: add flags parameter to add_patterns()
attr: convert "macro_ok" into a flags field
add open_nofollow() helper
Add and apply a semantic patch for converting code that open-codes
CALLOC_ARRAY to use it instead. It shortens the code and infers the
element size automatically.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The attributes system may sometimes read in-tree files from the
filesystem, and sometimes from the index. In the latter case, we do not
resolve symbolic links (and are not likely to ever start doing so).
Let's open filesystem links with O_NOFOLLOW so that the two cases behave
consistently.
As a bonus, this means that git will not follow such symlinks to read
and parse out-of-tree paths. In some cases this could have security
implications, as a malicious repository can cause Git to open and read
arbitrary files. It could already feed arbitrary content to the parser,
but in certain setups it might be able to exfiltrate data from those
paths (e.g., if an automated service operating on the malicious repo
reveals its stderr to an attacker).
Note that O_NOFOLLOW only prevents following links for the path itself,
not intermediate directories in the path. At first glance, it seems
like
ln -s /some/path in-repo
might still look at "in-repo/.gitattributes", following the symlink to
"/some/path/.gitattributes". However, if "in-repo" is a symbolic link,
then we know that it has no git paths below it, and will never look at
its .gitattributes file.
We will continue to support out-of-tree symbolic links (e.g., in
$GIT_DIR/info/attributes); this just affects in-tree links. When a
symbolic link is encountered, the contents are ignored and a warning is
printed. POSIX specifies ELOOP in this case, so the user would generally
see something like:
warning: unable to access '.gitattributes': Too many levels of symbolic links
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The attribute code can have a rather deep callstack, through
which we have to pass the "macro_ok" flag. In anticipation
of adding other flags, let's convert this to a generic
bit-field.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that hashamp has lazy initialization and a HASHMAP_INIT macro,
hashmaps allocated on the stack can be initialized without a call to
hashmap_init() and in some cases makes the code a bit shorter. Convert
some callsites over to take advantage of this.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt
to attr.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.
Also documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Comments stating that "struct hashmap_entry" must be the first
member in a struct are no longer valid.
Suggested-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since these macros already take a `keyvar' pointer of a known type,
we can rely on OFFSETOF_VAR to get the correct offset without
relying on non-portable `__typeof__' and `offsetof'.
Argument order is also rearranged, so `keyvar' and `member' are
sequential as they are used as: `keyvar->member'
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While we cannot rely on a `__typeof__' operator being portable
to use with `offsetof'; we can calculate the pointer offset
using an existing pointer and the address of a member using
pointer arithmetic for compilers without `__typeof__'.
This allows us to simplify usage of hashmap iterator macros
by not having to specify a type when a pointer of that type
is already given.
In the future, list iterator macros (e.g. list_for_each_entry)
may also be implemented using OFFSETOF_VAR to save hackers the
trouble of using container_of/list_entry macros and without
relying on non-portable `__typeof__'.
v3: use `__typeof__' to avoid clang warnings
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Inspired by list_for_each_entry in the Linux kernel.
Once again, these are somewhat compromised usability-wise
by compilers lacking __typeof__ support.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Another step in eliminating the requirement of hashmap_entry
being the first member of a struct.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update callers to use hashmap_get_entry, hashmap_get_entry_from_hash
or container_of as appropriate.
This is another step towards eliminating the requirement of
hashmap_entry being the first field in a struct.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is less error-prone than "const void *" as the compiler
now detects invalid types being passed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is less error-prone than "void *" as the compiler now
detects invalid types being passed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
C compilers do type checking to make life easier for us. So
rely on that and update all hashmap_entry_init callers to take
"struct hashmap_entry *" to avoid future bugs while improving
safety and readability.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first consumer of pattern-matching filenames was the
.gitignore feature. In that context, storing a list of patterns
as a 'struct exclude_list' makes sense. However, the
sparse-checkout feature then adopted these structures and methods,
but with the opposite meaning: these patterns match the files
that should be included!
It would be clearer to rename this entire library as a "pattern
matching" library, and the callers apply exclusion/inclusion
logic accordingly based on their needs.
This commit renames several methods defined in dir.h to make
more sense with the renamed 'struct exclude_list' to 'struct
pattern_list' and 'struct exclude' to 'struct path_pattern':
* last_exclude_matching() -> last_matching_pattern()
* parse_exclude() -> parse_path_pattern()
In addition, the word 'exclude' was replaced with 'pattern'
in the methods below:
* add_exclude_list()
* add_excludes_from_file_to_list()
* add_excludes_from_file()
* add_excludes_from_blob_to_list()
* add_exclude()
* clear_exclude_list()
A few methods with the word "exclude" remain. These will
be handled seperately. In particular, the method
"is_excluded()" is concretely about the .gitignore file
relative to a specific directory. This is the important
boundary between library and consumer: is_excluded() cares
about .gitignore, but is_excluded() calls
last_matching_pattern() to make that decision.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first consumer of pattern-matching filenames was the
.gitignore feature. In that context, storing a list of patterns
as a 'struct exclude_list' makes sense. However, the
sparse-checkout feature then adopted these structures and methods,
but with the opposite meaning: these patterns match the files
that should be included!
It would be clearer to rename this entire library as a "pattern
matching" library, and the callers apply exclusion/inclusion
logic accordingly based on their needs.
This commit replaces 'EXCL_FLAG_' to 'PATTERN_FLAG_' in the
names of the flags used on 'struct path_pattern'.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Correct misspelled ".gitattribute" in comments only, so no functional
change.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The assumption to work on the single "in-core index" instance has
been reduced from the library-ish part of the codebase.
* nd/the-index-final:
cache.h: flip NO_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS switch
read-cache.c: remove the_* from index_has_changes()
merge-recursive.c: remove implicit dependency on the_repository
merge-recursive.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
sha1-name.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
read-cache.c: replace update_index_if_able with repo_&
read-cache.c: kill read_index()
checkout: avoid the_index when possible
repository.c: replace hold_locked_index() with repo_hold_locked_index()
notes-utils.c: remove the_repository references
grep: use grep_opt->repo instead of explict repo argument
Asking "git check-attr" about a macro (e.g. "binary") on a specific
path did not work correctly, even though "git check-attr -a" listed
such a macro correctly. This has been corrected.
* jk/attr-macro-fix:
attr: do not mark queried macros as unset
By default, index compat macros are off from now on, because they
could hide the_index dependency.
Only those in builtin can use it.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 60a12722ac (attr: remove maybe-real, maybe-macro from git_attr,
2017-01-27), we will always mark an attribute macro (e.g., "binary")
that is specifically queried for as "unspecified", even though listing
_all_ attributes would display it at set. E.g.:
$ echo "* binary" >.gitattributes
$ git check-attr -a file
file: binary: set
file: diff: unset
file: merge: unset
file: text: unset
$ git check-attr binary file
file: binary: unspecified
The problem stems from an incorrect conversion of the optimization from
06a604e670 (attr: avoid heavy work when we know the specified attr is
not defined, 2014-12-28). There we tried in collect_some_attrs() to
avoid even looking at the attr_stack when the user has asked for "foo"
and we know that "foo" did not ever appear in any .gitattributes file.
It used a flag "maybe_real" in each attribute struct, where "real" meant
that the attribute appeared in an actual file (we have to make this
distinction because we also create an attribute struct for any names
that are being queried). But as explained in that commit message, the
meaning of "real" was tangled with some special cases around macros.
When 60a12722ac later refactored the macro code, it dropped maybe_real
entirely. This missed the fact that "maybe_real" could be unset for two
reasons: because of a macro, or because it was never found during
parsing. This had two results:
- the optimization in collect_some_attrs() ceased doing anything
meaningful, since it no longer kept track of "was it found during
parsing"
- worse, it actually kicked in when the caller _did_ ask about a macro
by name, causing us to mark it as unspecified
It should be possible to salvage this optimization, but let's start with
just removing the remnants. It hasn't been doing anything (except
creating bugs) since 60a12722ac, and nobody seems to have noticed the
performance regression. It's more important to fix the correctness
problem clearly first.
I've added two tests here. The second one actually shows off the bug.
The test of "check-attr -a" is not strictly necessary, but we currently
do not test attribute macros much, and the builtin "binary" not at all.
So this increases our general test coverage, as well as making sure we
didn't mess up this related case.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
More _("i18n") markings.
* nd/i18n:
fsck: mark strings for translation
fsck: reduce word legos to help i18n
parse-options.c: mark more strings for translation
parse-options.c: turn some die() to BUG()
parse-options: replace opterror() with optname()
repack: mark more strings for translation
remote.c: mark messages for translation
remote.c: turn some error() or die() to BUG()
reflog: mark strings for translation
read-cache.c: add missing colon separators
read-cache.c: mark more strings for translation
read-cache.c: turn die("internal error") to BUG()
attr.c: mark more string for translation
archive.c: mark more strings for translation
alias.c: mark split_cmdline_strerror() strings for translation
git.c: mark more strings for translation
git_check_attr() returns always 0.
Remove all the error handling code of the callers, which is never executed.
Change git_check_attr() to be a void function.
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since attr checking API now take the index, there's no need to set an
index in advance with this call. Most call sites are straightforward
because they either pass the_index or NULL (which defaults back to
the_index previously). There's only one suspicious call site in
unpack-trees.c where it sets a different index.
This code in unpack-trees is about to check out entries from the
new/temporary index after merging is done in it. The attributes will
be used by entry.c code to do crlf conversion if needed. entry.c now
respects struct checkout's istate field, and this field is correctly
set in unpack-trees.c, there should be no regression from this change.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the attr API take an index_state instead of assuming the_index in
attr code. All call sites are converted blindly to keep the patch
simple and retain current behavior. Individual call sites may receive
further updates to use the right index instead of the_index.
There is one ugly temporary workaround added in attr.c that needs some
more explanation.
Commit c24f3abace (apply: file commited with CRLF should roundtrip
diff and apply - 2017-08-19) forces one convert_to_git() call to NOT
read the index at all. But what do you know, we read it anyway by
falling back to the_index. When "istate" from convert_to_git is now
propagated down to read_attr_from_array() we will hit segfault
somewhere inside read_blob_data_from_index.
The right way of dealing with this is to kill "use_index" variable and
only follow "istate" but at this stage we are not ready for that:
while most git_attr_set_direction() calls just passes the_index to be
assigned to use_index, unpack-trees passes a different one which is
used by entry.c code, which has no way to know what index to use if we
delete use_index. So this has to be done later.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In d8193743e0 (usage.c: add BUG() function, 2017-05-12), a new macro
was introduced to use for reporting bugs instead of die(). It was then
subsequently used to convert one single caller in 588a538ae5
(setup_git_env: convert die("BUG") to BUG(), 2017-05-12).
The cover letter of the patch series containing this patch
(cf 20170513032414.mfrwabt4hovujde2@sigill.intra.peff.net) is not
terribly clear why only one call site was converted, or what the plan
is for other, similar calls to die() to report bugs.
Let's just convert all remaining ones in one fell swoop.
This trick was performed by this invocation:
sed -i 's/die("BUG: /BUG("/g' $(git grep -l 'die("BUG' \*.c)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is more consistent with the project style. The majority of Git's
source files use dashes in preference to underscores in their file names.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
This is to address concerns raised by ThreadSanitizer on the mailing list
about threaded unprotected R/W access to map.size with my previous "disallow
rehash" change (0607e10009).
See:
https://public-inbox.org/git/adb37b70139fd1e2bac18bfd22c8b96683ae18eb.1502780344.git.martin.agren@gmail.com/
Add API to hashmap to disable item counting and thus automatic rehashing.
Also include API to later re-enable them.
When item counting is disabled, the map.size field is invalid. So to
prevent accidents, the field has been renamed and an accessor function
hashmap_get_size() has been added. All direct references to this
field have been been updated. And the name of the field changed
to map.private_size to communicate this.
Here is the relevant output from ThreadSanitizer showing the problem:
WARNING: ThreadSanitizer: data race (pid=10554)
Read of size 4 at 0x00000082d488 by thread T2 (mutexes: write M16):
#0 hashmap_add hashmap.c:209
#1 hash_dir_entry_with_parent_and_prefix name-hash.c:302
#2 handle_range_dir name-hash.c:347
#3 handle_range_1 name-hash.c:415
#4 lazy_dir_thread_proc name-hash.c:471
#5 <null> <null>
Previous write of size 4 at 0x00000082d488 by thread T1 (mutexes: write M31):
#0 hashmap_add hashmap.c:209
#1 hash_dir_entry_with_parent_and_prefix name-hash.c:302
#2 handle_range_dir name-hash.c:347
#3 handle_range_1 name-hash.c:415
#4 handle_range_dir name-hash.c:380
#5 handle_range_1 name-hash.c:415
#6 lazy_dir_thread_proc name-hash.c:471
#7 <null> <null>
Martin gives instructions for running TSan on test t3008 in this post:
https://public-inbox.org/git/CAN0heSoJDL9pWELD6ciLTmWf-a=oyxe4EXXOmCKvsG5MSuzxsA@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
MAke the code more readable and less error prone by avoiding the cast
of the compare function pointer in hashmap_init, but instead have the
correctly named void pointers to casted to the specific data structure.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using the hashmap a common need is to have access to caller provided
data in the compare function. A couple of times we abuse the keydata field
to pass in the data needed. This happens for example in patch-ids.c.
This patch changes the function signature of the compare function
to have one more void pointer available. The pointer given for each
invocation of the compare function must be defined in the init function
of the hashmap and is just passed through.
Documentation of this new feature is deferred to a later patch.
This is a rather mechanical conversion, just adding the new pass-through
parameter. However while at it improve the naming of the fields of all
compare functions used by hashmaps by ensuring unused parameters are
prefixed with 'unused_' and naming the parameters what they are (instead
of 'unused' make it 'unused_keydata').
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the
pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new
FREE_AND_NULL() macro.
* ab/free-and-null:
*.[ch] refactoring: make use of the FREE_AND_NULL() macro
coccinelle: make use of the "expression" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
coccinelle: add a rule to make "expression" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
coccinelle: make use of the "type" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
coccinelle: add a rule to make "type" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
git-compat-util: add a FREE_AND_NULL() wrapper around free(ptr); ptr = NULL
Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir
that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API
into its own header file.
* bw/config-h:
config: don't implicitly use gitdir or commondir
config: respect commondir
setup: teach discover_git_directory to respect the commondir
config: don't include config.h by default
config: remove git_config_iter
config: create config.h
Apply the result of the just-added coccinelle rule. This manually
excludes a few occurrences, mostly things that resulted in many
FREE_AND_NULL() on one line, that'll be manually fixed in a subsequent
change.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@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>
When fopen() returns NULL, it could be because the given path does not
exist, but it could also be some other errors and the caller has to
check. Add a wrapper so we don't have to repeat the same error check
everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pathspec mechanism is extended via the new
":(attr:eol=input)pattern/to/match" syntax to filter paths so that it
requires paths to not just match the given pattern but also have the
specified attrs attached for them to be chosen.
Based on a patch by Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the 'git_attr_set_direction()' up to be closer to the variables
that it modifies as well as a small formatting by renaming the variable
'new' to 'new_direction' so that it is more descriptive.
Update the comment about how 'direction' is used to read the state of
the world. It should be noted that callers of
'git_attr_set_direction()' should ensure that other threads are not
making calls into the attribute system until after the call to
'git_attr_set_direction()' completes. This function essentially acts as
reset button for the attribute system and should be handled with care.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Push the bare repository check into the 'read_attr()' function. This
avoids needing to have extra logic which creates an empty stack frame
when inside a bare repo as a similar bit of logic already exists in the
'read_attr()' function.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The last big hurdle towards a thread-safe API for the attribute system
is the reliance on a global attribute stack that is modified during each
call into the attribute system.
This patch removes this global stack and instead a stack is stored
locally in each attr_check instance. This opens up the opportunity for
future optimizations to customize the attribute stack for the attributes
that a particular attr_check struct is interested in.
One caveat with pushing the attribute stack into the attr_check
structure is that the attribute system now needs to keep track of all
active attr_check instances. Due to the direction mechanism the stack
needs to be dropped when the direction is switched. In order to ensure
correctness when the direction is changed the attribute system needs to
iterate through all active attr_check instances and drop each of their
stacks.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Whether or not a git attribute is real or a macro isn't a property of
the attribute but rather it depends on the attribute stack (which
.gitattribute files were read).
This patch removes the 'maybe_real' and 'maybe_macro' fields in a
git_attr and instead adds the 'macro' field to a attr_check_item. The
'macro' indicates (if non-NULL) that a particular attribute is a macro
for the given attribute stack. It's populated, through a quick scan of
the attribute stack, with the match_attr that corresponds to the macro's
definition. This way the attribute stack only needs to be scanned a
single time prior to attribute collection instead of each time a macro
needs to be expanded.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently there is a reliance on 'check_all_attr' which is a global
array of 'attr_check_item' items which is used to store the value of
each attribute during the collection process.
This patch eliminates this global and instead creates an array per
'attr_check' instance which is then used in the attribute collection
process. This brings the attribute system one step closer to being
thread-safe.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current implementation of the attribute dictionary uses a custom
hashtable. This modernizes the dictionary by converting it to the builtin
'hashmap' structure.
Also, in order to enable a threaded API in the future add an
accompanying mutex which must be acquired prior to accessing the
dictionary of interned attributes.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert 'invalid_attr_name()' to 'attr_name_valid()' and use positive
logic for the return value. In addition create a helper function that
prints out an error message when an invalid attribute name is used.
We could later update the message to exactly spell out what the
rules for a good attribute name are, etc.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old callchain used to take an array of attr_check_item items.
Instead pass the 'attr_check' container object to 'collect_some_attrs()'
and access the fields in the data structure directly.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>