The prompt_yesno function loops indefinitely waiting for a
"y" or "n" response. But it doesn't handle EOF, meaning
that we can end up in an infinite loop of reading EOF from
stdin. One way to simulate that is with:
echo e | GIT_EDITOR='echo corrupt >' git add -p
Let's break out of the loop and propagate the undef to the
caller. Without modifying the callers that effectively turns
it into a "no" response. This is reasonable for both of the
current callers, and it leaves room for any future caller to
check for undef explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When help.autoCorrect is enabled, an invalid git command prints a
warning and a continuation message, which differs depending on
whether or not the value of help.autoCorrect is positive or
negative.
With help.autoCorrect = 15:
WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'log'
in 1.5 seconds automatically...
With help.autoCorrect < 0:
WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'log'
The continuation message's phrasing is awkward. This commit cleans it up.
As a bonus, we now use full-sentence strings which make translation easier.
With help.autoCorrect = 15:
WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
Continuing in 1.5 seconds, assuming that you meant 'log'.
With help.autoCorrect < 0:
WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'log'.
Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We bumped the default in be4ca2905 (Increase
core.packedGitLimit, 2017-04-20) but never adjusted the
documentation to match.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the indentation from "\t " to "\t". This indenting issue was
introduced when the test was added in commit 1d2f393ac9
("status/commit: show staged submodules regardless of ignore
config", 2014-04-05).
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix an erroneously copy/pasted check for the pcre2_jit_stack variable
to check pcre2_match_context instead. The former was already checked
in the preceding "if" statement.
This is a trivial and obvious error introduced in my commit
94da9193a6 ("grep: add support for PCRE v2", 2017-06-01).
In practice if pcre2_match_context_create() returned NULL we were
likely in a situation where malloc() was returning NULL, and were thus
screwed anyway, but if only the pcre2_match_context_create() call
returned NULL (through some transitory bug) PCRE v2 would just
allocate and supply its own context object when matching, and we'd run
normally at the trivial expense of not getting a slight speedup by
sharing the context object between successive matches.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git $cmd -h" for builtin commands calls the implementation of the
command (i.e. cmd_$cmd() function) without doing any repository
set-up, and the commands that expect RUN_SETUP is done by the Git
potty needs to be prepared to show the help text without barfing.
* jk/consistent-h:
t0012: test "-h" with builtins
git: add hidden --list-builtins option
version: convert to parse-options
diff- and log- family: handle "git cmd -h" early
submodule--helper: show usage for "-h"
remote-{ext,fd}: print usage message on invalid arguments
upload-archive: handle "-h" option early
credential: handle invalid arguments earlier
When an existing repository is used for t/perf testing, we first
create bit-for-bit copy of it, which may grab a transient state of
the repository and freeze it into the repository used for testing,
which then may cause Git operations to fail. Single out "the index
being locked" case and forcibly drop the lock from the copy.
* ab/perf-remove-index-lock:
perf: work around the tested repo having an index.lock
Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.
* ab/pcre-v2:
grep: add support for PCRE v2
grep: un-break building with PCRE >= 8.32 without --enable-jit
grep: un-break building with PCRE < 8.20
grep: un-break building with PCRE < 8.32
grep: add support for the PCRE v1 JIT API
log: add -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp
grep: skip pthreads overhead when using one thread
grep: don't redundantly compile throwaway patterns under threading
The convention for a command line is to follow "git cmdname
--options" with revisions followed by an optional "--"
disambiguator and then finally pathspecs. When "--" is not there,
we make sure early ones are all interpretable as revs (and do not
look like paths) and later ones are the other way around. A
pathspec with "magic" (e.g. ":/p/a/t/h" that matches p/a/t/h from
the top-level of the working tree, no matter what subdirectory you
are working from) are conservatively judged as "not a path", which
required disambiguation more often. The command line parser
learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax
looks like so.
* jk/pathspec-magic-disambiguation:
verify_filename(): flip order of checks
verify_filename(): treat ":(magic)" as a pathspec
check_filename(): handle ":^" path magic
check_filename(): use skip_prefix
check_filename(): refactor ":/" handling
t4208: add check for ":/" without matching file
Introduce '--show-stash' and its configuration option 'status.showStash'
to allow git-status to show information about currently stashed entries.
Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of the time, a 'stash entry' is called a 'stash'. Lets try to make
this more consistent and use 'stash entry' instead.
Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`for_each_bisect_ref()` is called by `for_each_bad_bisect_ref()` with
a term "bad". This used to make it call `for_each_ref_in_submodule()`
with a prefix "refs/bisect/bad". But the latter is the name of the
reference that is being sought, so the empty string was being passed
to the callback as the trimmed refname. Moreover, this questionable
practice was turned into an error by
b9c8e7f2fb prefix_ref_iterator: don't trim too much, 2017-05-22
It makes more sense (and agrees better with the documentation of
`--bisect`) for the callers to receive the full reference names. So
* Add a new function, `for_each_fullref_in_submodule()`, to the refs
API. This plugs a gap in the existing functionality, analogous to
`for_each_fullref_in()` but accepting a `submodule` argument.
* Change `for_each_bad_bisect_ref()` to call the new function rather
than `for_each_ref_in_submodule()`.
* Add a test.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The macOS X fork of Meld[1] requires a "=" in the "--output"
argument, as it uses a wrapper[2] script that munges the
"--output" argument before calling into the common "meld"
script.
The macOS X wrapper script[2] accepts "--output=<filename>"
only, despite the fact that the underlying meld code accepts
both "--output <filename" and "--output=<filename>"[3].
All versions of meld which accept "--output" accept it in
the "--output=<filename>" form, so use "--output=<file>" for
maximum compatibility.
[1] https://github.com/yousseb/meld
[2] https://github.com/yousseb/meld/blob/master/osx/Meld
[3] https://github.com/yousseb/meld/issues/42
Reported-by: Matthew Groth <mgroth49@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace occurrences of `free(ptr); ptr = NULL` which weren't caught by
the coccinelle rule. These fall into two categories:
- free/NULL assignments one after the other which coccinelle all put
on one line, which is functionally equivalent code, but very ugly.
- manually spotted occurrences where the NULL assignment isn't right
after the free() call.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A follow-up to the existing "expression" rule added in an earlier
change. 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>
A follow-up to the existing "type" rule added in an earlier
change. This catches some occurrences that are missed by the previous
rule.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
A negated character class that does not include '/', e.g. [^a-z]:
- Should match '/' when doing "wildmatch"
- Should not match '/' when doing "pathmatch"
Add two tests to cover these cases.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a FREE_AND_NULL() wrapper marco for the common pattern of freeing
a pointer and assigning NULL to it right afterwards.
The implementation is similar to the (currently unused) XDL_PTRFREE
macro in xdiff/xmacros.h added in commit 3443546f6e ("Use a *real*
built-in diff generator", 2006-03-24). The only difference is that
free() is called unconditionally, see [1].
See [2] for a suggested alternative which does this via a function
instead of a macro. As covered in replies to that message, while it's
a viable approach, it would introduce caveats which this approach
doesn't have, so that potential change is left to a future follow-up
change.
This merely allows us to translate exactly what we're doing now to a
less verbose & idiomatic form using a macro, while guaranteeing that
we don't introduce any functional changes.
1. <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608301948310.129229@virtualbox>
(http://public-inbox.org/git/alpine.DEB.2.20.1608301948310.129229@virtualbox/)
2. <20170610032143.GA7880@starla>
(https://public-inbox.org/git/20170610032143.GA7880@starla/)
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we convert seconds-since-epochs timestamps into a
broken-down "struct tm", we do so by adjusting the timestamp
according to the known offset and then using gmtime() to
break down the result. This means that the resulting struct
"knows" that it's in GMT, even though the time it represents
is adjusted for a different zone. The fields where it stores
this data are not portably accessible, so we have no way to
override them to tell them the real zone info.
For the most part, this works. Our date-formatting routines
don't pay attention to these inaccessible fields, and use
the same tz info we provided for adjustment. The one
exception is when we call strftime(), whose %Z format
reveals this hidden timezone data.
We solved that by always showing the empty string for %Z.
This is allowed by POSIX, but not very helpful to the user.
We can't make this work in the general case, as there's no
portable function for setting an arbitrary timezone (and
anyway, we don't have the zone name for the author zones,
only their offsets).
But for the special case of the "-local" formats, we can
just skip the adjustment and use localtime() instead of
gmtime(). This makes --date=format-local:%Z work correctly,
showing the local timezone instead of an empty string.
The new test checks the result for "UTC", our default
test-lib value for $TZ. Using something like EST5 might be
more interesting, but the actual zone string is
system-dependent (for instance, on my system it expands to
just EST). Hopefully "UTC" is vanilla enough that every
system treats it the same.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already test that "%z" and "%Z" show the right thing, but
we don't actually check that the time we display is the
correct one. Let's add two new tests:
1. Test that "format:" shows the time in the author's
timezone, just like the other time formats.
2. Test that "format-local:" shows time in the local
timezone. We don't want to use our normal UTC for this,
because its offset is zero (so the result would be
"correct" even if the code forgot to apply the offset
or applied it in the wrong direction).
We'll use the EST5 zone, which is already used
elsewhere in the script (and so is assumed to be
available everywhere).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no portable way to pass timezone information to strftime. Add
parameters for timezone offset and name to strbuf_addftime and let it
handle the timezone-related format specifiers %z and %Z internally.
Callers can opt out for %Z by passing NULL as timezone name. %z is
always handled internally -- this helps on Windows, where strftime would
expand it to a timezone name (same as %Z), in violation of POSIX.
Modifiers are not handled, e.g. %Ez is still passed to strftime.
Use an empty string as timezone name in show_date (the only current
caller) for now because we only have the timezone offset in non-local
mode. POSIX allows %Z to resolve to an empty string in case of missing
information.
Helped-by: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Acked-by: Ben Peart <peartben@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We added an FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES Makefile knob long ago
in cba22528f (Add compat/fopen.c which returns NULL on
attempt to open directory, 2008-02-08) to handle systems
where reading from a directory returned garbage. This works
by catching the problem at the fopen() stage and returning
NULL.
More recently, we found that there is a class of systems
(including Linux) where fopen() succeeds but fread() fails.
Since the solution is the same (having fopen return NULL),
they use the same Makefile knob as of e2d90fd1c
(config.mak.uname: set FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES for Linux and
FreeBSD, 2017-05-03).
This works fine except for one thing: the autoconf test in
configure.ac to set FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES actually checks
whether fread succeeds. Which means that on Linux systems,
the knob isn't set (and we even override the config.mak.uname
default). t1308 catches the failure.
We can fix this by tweaking the autoconf test to cover both
cases. In theory we might care about the distinction between
the traditional "fread reads directories" case and the new
"fopen opens directories". But since our solution catches
the problem at the fopen stage either way, we don't actually
need to know the difference. The "fopen" case is a superset.
This does mean the FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES name is slightly
misleading. Probably FOPEN_OPENS_DIRECTORIES would be more
accurate. But it would be disruptive to simply change the
name (people's existing build configs would fail), and it's
not worth the complexity of handling both. Let's just add a
comment in the knob description.
Reported-by: Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git_config_with_options()' takes a 'config_options' struct which
contains feilds for 'git_dir' and 'commondir'. If those feilds happen
to be NULL the config machinery falls back to querying global repository
state. Let's change this and instead use these fields in the
'config_options' struct explicilty all the time. Since the API is
slightly changing to require these two fields to be set if callers want
the config machinery to load the repository's config, let's change the
name to 'config_with_optison()'. This allows the config machinery to
not implicitly rely on any global repository state.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Worktrees present an interesting problem when it comes to the config.
Historically we could assume that the per-repository config lives at
'gitdir/config', but since worktrees were introduced this isn't the case
anymore. There is currently no way to specify per-worktree
configuration, and as such the repository config is shared with all
worktrees and is located at 'commondir/config'.
Many users of the config machinery correctly set
'config_options.git_dir' with the repository's commondir, allowing the
config to be properly loaded when operating in a worktree. But other's,
like 'read_early_config()', set 'config_options.git_dir' with the
repository's gitdir which can be incorrect when using worktrees.
To fix this issue, and to make things less ambiguous, lets add a
'commondir' field to the 'config_options' struct and have all callers
properly set both the 'git_dir' and 'commondir' fields so that the
config machinery is able to properly find the repository's config.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently 'discover_git_directory' only looks at the gitdir to determine
if a git directory was discovered. This causes a problem in the event
that the gitdir which was discovered was in fact a per-worktree git
directory and not the common git directory. This is because the
repository config, which is checked to verify the repository's format,
is stored in the commondir and not in the per-worktree gitdir. Correct
this behavior by checking the config stored in the commondir.
It will also be of use for callers to have access to the commondir, so
lets also return that upon successfully discovering a git directory.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.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>
Since there is no implementation of the function 'git_config_iter',
let's stop exporting it and remove the prototype from config.h.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move all config related declarations from cache.h to a new config.h
header file. This makes cache.h smaller and allows for the opportunity
in a following patch to only include config.h when needed.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of discovering the .git/ directory, reading the config and then
trying to painstakingly reset all the global state if we did not find a
matching alias, let's use the early config machinery instead.
It may look like unnecessary work to discover the .git/ directory in the
early config machinery and then call setup_git_directory_gently() in the
case of a shell alias, repeating the very same discovery *again*.
However, we have to do this as the early config machinery takes pains
*not* to touch any global state, while shell aliases expect a possibly
changed working directory and at least the GIT_PREFIX and GIT_DIR
variables to be set.
This change also fixes a known issue where Git tried to read the pager
config from an incorrect path in a subdirectory of a Git worktree if an
alias expanded to a shell command.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When expanding aliases, the git_dir is set during the alias expansion
(by virtue of running setup_git_directory_gently()).
This git_dir may be relative to the current working directory, and
indeed often is simply ".git/".
When the alias expands to a shell command, we restore the original
working directory, though, yet we do not reset git_dir.
As a consequence, subsequent read_early_config() runs will mistake the
git_dir to be populated properly and not find the correct config.
Demonstrate this problem by adding a test case.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We are about to change the way aliases are expanded, to use the early
config machinery.
This machinery reports errors in a slightly different manner than the
cached config machinery.
Let's not get hung up by the precise wording of the message mentioning
the line number. It is really sufficient to verify that all the relevant
information is given to the user.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git has this feature which suggests similar commands (including aliases)
in case the user specified an unknown command.
This feature currently relies on a side effect of the way we expand
aliases right now: when a command is not a builtin, we use the regular
config machinery (meaning: discovering the .git/ directory and
initializing global state such as the config cache) to see whether the
command refers to an alias.
However, we will change the way aliases are expanded in the next
commits, to use the early config instead. That means that the
autocorrect feature can no longer discover the available aliases by
looking at the config cache (because it has not yet been initialized).
So let's just use the early config machinery instead.
This is slightly less performant than the previous way, as the early
config is used *twice*: once to see whether the command refers to an
alias, and then to see what aliases are most similar. However, this is
hardly a performance-critical code path, so performance is less important
here.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When get_value() parses a key/value pair, it is possible that the line
number is decreased (because the \n has been consumed already) before the
key/value pair is passed to the callback function, to allow for the
correct line to be attributed in case of an error.
However, when git_parse_source() asks get_value() to parse the key/value
pair, the error reporting is performed *after* get_value() returns.
Which means that we have to be careful not to increase the line number
in get_value() after the callback function returned an error.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When discovering a .git/ directory, we take pains to ensure that its
repository format version matches Git's expectations, and we return NULL
otherwise.
However, we still appended the invalid path to the strbuf passed as
argument.
Let's just reset the strbuf to the state before we appended the .git/
directory that was eventually rejected.
There is another early return path in that function, when
setup_git_directory_gently_1() returns GIT_DIR_NONE or an error. In that
case, the gitdir parameter has not been touched, therefore there is no
need for an equivalent change in that code path.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The diff-so-fancy project is also written in perl, and most
of its users pipe diffs through both diff-highlight and
diff-so-fancy. It would be nice if this could be done in a
single script. So let's pull most of diff-highlight's code
into its own module which can be used by diff-so-fancy.
In addition, we'll abstract a few basic items like reading
from stdio so that a script using the module can do more
processing before or after diff-highlight handles the lines.
See the README update for more details.
One small downside is that the diff-highlight script must
now be built using the Makefile. There are ways around this,
but it quickly gets into perl arcana. Let's go with the
simple solution. As a bonus, our Makefile now respects the
PERL_PATH variable if it is set.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
b9c6232138 (--format=pretty: avoid calculating expensive expansions
twice) optimized adding short hashes multiple times by using the
fact that the output strbuf was only ever simply appended to and
copying the added string from the previous run. That prerequisite
is no longer given; we now have modfiers like %< and %+ that can
cause the cache to lose track of the correct offsets. Remove it.
Reported-by: Michael Giuffrida <michaelpg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When illustrating how to normalize the line endings, the
documentation in gitattributes tells the user to `rm .git/index`.
This is incorrect for two reasons:
- Users shouldn't be instructed to mess around with the internal
implementation of Git using raw file system tools like `rm`.
- Within a submodule or an additional working tree `.git` is just a
file containing a `gitdir: <path>` pointer into the real `.git`
directory. Therefore `rm .git/index` does not work.
The purpose of the `rm .git/index` instruction is to remove all entries
from the index without touching the working tree. The way to do this
with Git is to use `read-tree --empty`.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some submodule tests do some setup outside of a test_expect
block. This is bad because we won't actually check the
outcome of those commands. But it's doubly so because "git
add submodule" now produces a warning to stderr, which is
not suppressed by the test scripts in non-verbose mode.
This patch does the minimal to fix the annoying warnings.
All three of these scripts could use more cleanup of related
setup.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's an easy mistake to add a repository inside another
repository, like:
git clone $url
git add .
The resulting entry is a gitlink, but there's no matching
.gitmodules entry. Trying to use "submodule init" (or clone
with --recursive) doesn't do anything useful. Prior to
v2.13, such an entry caused git-submodule to barf entirely.
In v2.13, the entry is considered "inactive" and quietly
ignored. Either way, no clone of your repository can do
anything useful with the gitlink without the user manually
adding the submodule config.
In most cases, the user probably meant to either add a real
submodule, or they forgot to put the embedded repository in
their .gitignore file.
Let's issue a warning when we see this case. There are a few
things to note:
- the warning will go in the git-add porcelain; anybody
wanting to do low-level manipulation of the index is
welcome to create whatever funny states they want.
- we detect the case by looking for a newly added gitlink;
updates via "git add submodule" are perfectly reasonable,
and this avoids us having to investigate .gitmodules
entirely
- there's a command-line option to suppress the warning.
This is needed for git-submodule itself (which adds the
entry before adding any submodule config), but also
provides a mechanism for other scripts doing
submodule-like things.
We could make this a hard error instead of a warning.
However, we do add lots of sub-repos in our test suite. It's
not _wrong_ to do so. It just creates a state where users
may be surprised. Pointing them in the right direction with
a gentle hint is probably the best option.
There is a config knob that can disable the (long) hint. But
I intentionally omitted a config knob to disable the warning
entirely. Whether the warning is sensible or not is
generally about context, not about the user's preferences.
If there's a tool or workflow that adds gitlinks without
matching .gitmodules, it should probably be taught about the
new command-line option, rather than blanket-disabling the
warning.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some options specific for `git svn commit-diff` where not documented
so far.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Jeff King
Marc Branchaud
Kaartic Sivaraam
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Junio C Hamano
Liam Beguin
Michael Haggerty
David Aguilar
SZEDER Gábor
René Scharfe
Christian Couder
Štěpán Němec
Brandon Williams
Johannes Schindelin
Andreas Heiduk