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<title>delta/git.git/refs, branch rs/run-command-use-alloc-array</title>
<subtitle>github.com: git/git.git
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<title>Merge branch 'mh/packed-ref-store-prep'</title>
<updated>2017-06-26T21:09:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-26T21:09:29+00:00</published>
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Bugfix for a topic that is (only) in 'master'.

* mh/packed-ref-store-prep:
  for_each_bisect_ref(): don't trim refnames
  lock_packed_refs(): fix cache validity check
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Bugfix for a topic that is (only) in 'master'.

* mh/packed-ref-store-prep:
  for_each_bisect_ref(): don't trim refnames
  lock_packed_refs(): fix cache validity check
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ab/free-and-null'</title>
<updated>2017-06-24T21:28:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-24T21:28:41+00:00</published>
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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
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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
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'bw/config-h'</title>
<updated>2017-06-24T21:28:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-24T21:28:40+00:00</published>
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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
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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
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<entry>
<title>*.[ch] refactoring: make use of the FREE_AND_NULL() macro</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T19:44:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason</name>
<email>avarab@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-15T23:15:49+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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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 &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>coccinelle: make use of the "type" FREE_AND_NULL() rule</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T19:44:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason</name>
<email>avarab@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-15T23:15:46+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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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 &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>config: don't include config.h by default</title>
<updated>2017-06-15T19:56:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brandon Williams</name>
<email>bmwill@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-14T18:07:36+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;bmwill@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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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 &lt;bmwill@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lock_packed_refs(): fix cache validity check</title>
<updated>2017-06-12T17:11:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Haggerty</name>
<email>mhagger@alum.mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-12T08:06:13+00:00</published>
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Commit 28ed9830b1 (get_packed_ref_cache(): assume "packed-refs" won't
change while locked, 2017-05-22) assumes that the "packed-refs" file
cannot change while we hold the lock. That assumption is
justified *if* the lock has been held the whole time since the
"packed-refs" file was last read.

But in `lock_packed_refs()`, we ourselves lock the "packed-refs" file
and then call `get_packed_ref_cache()` to ensure that the cache agrees
with the file. The intent is to guard against the possibility that
another process changed the "packed-refs" file the moment before we
locked it.

This check was defeated because `get_packed_ref_cache()` saw that the
file was locked, and therefore didn't do the `stat_validity_check()`
that we want.

The mistake was compounded with a misleading comment in
`lock_packed_refs()` claiming that it was doing the right thing. That
comment came from an earlier draft of the mh/packed-ref-store-prep
patch series when the commits were in a different order.

So instead:

* Extract a function `validate_packed_ref_cache()` that does the
  validity check independent of whether the lock is held.

* Change `get_packed_ref_cache()` to call the new function, but only
  if the lock *isn't* held.

* Change `lock_packed_refs()` to call the new function in any case
  before calling `get_packed_ref_cache()`.

* Fix the comment in `lock_packed_refs()`.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty &lt;mhagger@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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Commit 28ed9830b1 (get_packed_ref_cache(): assume "packed-refs" won't
change while locked, 2017-05-22) assumes that the "packed-refs" file
cannot change while we hold the lock. That assumption is
justified *if* the lock has been held the whole time since the
"packed-refs" file was last read.

But in `lock_packed_refs()`, we ourselves lock the "packed-refs" file
and then call `get_packed_ref_cache()` to ensure that the cache agrees
with the file. The intent is to guard against the possibility that
another process changed the "packed-refs" file the moment before we
locked it.

This check was defeated because `get_packed_ref_cache()` saw that the
file was locked, and therefore didn't do the `stat_validity_check()`
that we want.

The mistake was compounded with a misleading comment in
`lock_packed_refs()` claiming that it was doing the right thing. That
comment came from an earlier draft of the mh/packed-ref-store-prep
patch series when the commits were in a different order.

So instead:

* Extract a function `validate_packed_ref_cache()` that does the
  validity check independent of whether the lock is held.

* Change `get_packed_ref_cache()` to call the new function, but only
  if the lock *isn't* held.

* Change `lock_packed_refs()` to call the new function in any case
  before calling `get_packed_ref_cache()`.

* Fix the comment in `lock_packed_refs()`.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty &lt;mhagger@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cache_ref_iterator_begin(): avoid priming unneeded directories</title>
<updated>2017-05-24T12:21:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Haggerty</name>
<email>mhagger@alum.mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-22T14:17:55+00:00</published>
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When iterating over references, reference priming is used to make sure
that loose references are read into the ref-cache before packed
references, to avoid races. It used to be that the prefix passed to
reference iterators almost always ended in `/`, for example
`refs/heads/`. In that case, the priming code would read all loose
references under `find_containing_dir("refs/heads/")`, which is
"refs/heads/". That's just what we want.

But now that `ref-filter` knows how to pass refname prefixes to
`for_each_fullref_in()`, the prefix might come from user input; for
example,

    git for-each-ref refs/heads

Since the argument doesn't include a trailing slash, the reference
iteration code would prime all of the loose references under
`find_containing_dir("refs/heads")`, which is "refs/". Thus we would
unnecessarily read tags, remote-tracking references, etc., when the
user is only interested in branches.

It is a bit awkward to get around this problem. We can't just append a
slash to the argument, because we don't know ab initio whether an
argument like `refs/tags/release` corresponds to a single tag or to a
directory containing tags.

Moreover, until now a `prefix_ref_iterator` was used to make the final
decision about which references fall within the prefix (the
`cache_ref_iterator` only did a rough cut). This is also inefficient,
because the `prefix_ref_iterator` can't know, for example, that while
you are in a subdirectory that is completely within the prefix, you
don't have to do the prefix check.

So:

* Move the responsibility for doing the prefix check directly to
  `cache_ref_iterator`. This means that `cache_ref_iterator_begin()`
  never has to wrap its return value in a `prefix_ref_iterator`.

* Teach `cache_ref_iterator_begin()` (and `prime_ref_dir()`) to be
  stricter about what they iterate over and what directories they
  prime.

* Teach `cache_ref_iterator` to keep track of whether the current
  `cache_ref_iterator_level` is fully within the prefix. If so, skip
  the prefix checks entirely.

The main benefit of these optimizations is for loose references, since
packed references are always read all at once.

Note that after this change, `prefix_ref_iterator` is only ever used
for its trimming feature and not for its "prefix" feature. But I'm not
ripping out the latter yet, because it might be useful for another
patch series that I'm working on.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty &lt;mhagger@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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When iterating over references, reference priming is used to make sure
that loose references are read into the ref-cache before packed
references, to avoid races. It used to be that the prefix passed to
reference iterators almost always ended in `/`, for example
`refs/heads/`. In that case, the priming code would read all loose
references under `find_containing_dir("refs/heads/")`, which is
"refs/heads/". That's just what we want.

But now that `ref-filter` knows how to pass refname prefixes to
`for_each_fullref_in()`, the prefix might come from user input; for
example,

    git for-each-ref refs/heads

Since the argument doesn't include a trailing slash, the reference
iteration code would prime all of the loose references under
`find_containing_dir("refs/heads")`, which is "refs/". Thus we would
unnecessarily read tags, remote-tracking references, etc., when the
user is only interested in branches.

It is a bit awkward to get around this problem. We can't just append a
slash to the argument, because we don't know ab initio whether an
argument like `refs/tags/release` corresponds to a single tag or to a
directory containing tags.

Moreover, until now a `prefix_ref_iterator` was used to make the final
decision about which references fall within the prefix (the
`cache_ref_iterator` only did a rough cut). This is also inefficient,
because the `prefix_ref_iterator` can't know, for example, that while
you are in a subdirectory that is completely within the prefix, you
don't have to do the prefix check.

So:

* Move the responsibility for doing the prefix check directly to
  `cache_ref_iterator`. This means that `cache_ref_iterator_begin()`
  never has to wrap its return value in a `prefix_ref_iterator`.

* Teach `cache_ref_iterator_begin()` (and `prime_ref_dir()`) to be
  stricter about what they iterate over and what directories they
  prime.

* Teach `cache_ref_iterator` to keep track of whether the current
  `cache_ref_iterator_level` is fully within the prefix. If so, skip
  the prefix checks entirely.

The main benefit of these optimizations is for loose references, since
packed references are always read all at once.

Note that after this change, `prefix_ref_iterator` is only ever used
for its trimming feature and not for its "prefix" feature. But I'm not
ripping out the latter yet, because it might be useful for another
patch series that I'm working on.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty &lt;mhagger@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>create_ref_entry(): remove `check_name` option</title>
<updated>2017-05-23T05:29:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Haggerty</name>
<email>mhagger@alum.mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-22T14:17:53+00:00</published>
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Only one caller was using it, so move the check to that caller.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty &lt;mhagger@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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Only one caller was using it, so move the check to that caller.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty &lt;mhagger@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>refs_ref_iterator_begin(): handle `GIT_REF_PARANOIA`</title>
<updated>2017-05-23T05:29:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Haggerty</name>
<email>mhagger@alum.mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-22T14:17:52+00:00</published>
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Instead of handling `GIT_REF_PARANOIA` in
`files_ref_iterator_begin()`, handle it in
`refs_ref_iterator_begin()`, where it will cover all reference stores.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty &lt;mhagger@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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Instead of handling `GIT_REF_PARANOIA` in
`files_ref_iterator_begin()`, handle it in
`refs_ref_iterator_begin()`, where it will cover all reference stores.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty &lt;mhagger@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
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