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* Merge branch 'tz/notes-error-to-stderr' into maintJunio C Hamano2017-12-061-4/+4
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "git notes" sent its error message to its standard output stream, which was corrected. * tz/notes-error-to-stderr: notes: send "Automatic notes merge failed" messages to stderr
| * notes: send "Automatic notes merge failed" messages to stderrtz/notes-error-to-stderrTodd Zullinger2017-11-151-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All other error messages from notes use stderr. Do the same when alerting users of an unresolved notes merge. Fix the output redirection in t3310 and t3320 as well. Previously, the tests directed output to a file, but stderr was either not captured or not sent to the file due to the order of the redirection operators. Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Merge branch 'sw/pull-ipv46-passthru' into maintJunio C Hamano2017-12-061-0/+12
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Contrary to the documentation, "git pull -4/-6 other-args" did not ask the underlying "git fetch" to go over IPv4/IPv6, which has been corrected. * sw/pull-ipv46-passthru: pull: pass -4/-6 option to 'git fetch'
| * | pull: pass -4/-6 option to 'git fetch'sw/pull-ipv46-passthruShuyu Wei2017-11-211-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The -4/-6 option should be passed through to 'git fetch' to be consistent with the man page. Signed-off-by: Wei Shuyu <wsy@dogben.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | Merge branch 'ma/reduce-heads-leakfix' into maintJunio C Hamano2017-11-275-22/+28
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Leak fixes. * ma/reduce-heads-leakfix: reduce_heads: fix memory leaks builtin/merge-base: free commit lists
| * | | reduce_heads: fix memory leaksma/reduce-heads-leakfixMartin Ã…gren2017-11-085-5/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We currently have seven callers of `reduce_heads(foo)`. Six of them do not use the original list `foo` again, and actually, all six of those end up leaking it. Introduce and use `reduce_heads_replace(&foo)` as a leak-free version of `foo = reduce_heads(foo)` to fix several of these. Fix the remaining leaks using `free_commit_list()`. While we're here, document `reduce_heads()` and mark it as `extern`. Signed-off-by: Martin Ã…gren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | builtin/merge-base: free commit listsMartin Ã…gren2017-11-081-18/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In several functions, we iterate through a commit list by assigning `result = result->next`. As a consequence, we lose the original pointer and eventually leak the list. Rewrite the loops so that we keep the original pointers, then call `free_commit_list()`. Various alternatives were considered: 1) Use `UNLEAK(result)` before the loop. Simple change, but not very pretty. These would definitely be new lows among our usages of UNLEAK. 2) Use `pop_commit()` when looping. Slightly less simple change, but it feels slightly preferable to first display the list, then free it. 3) As in this patch, but with `UNLEAK()` instead of freeing. We'd still go through all the trouble of refactoring the loop, and because it's not super-obvious that we're about to exit, let's just free the lists -- it probably doesn't affect the runtime much. In `handle_independent()` we can drop `result` while we're here and reuse the `revs`-variable instead. That matches several other users of `reduce_heads()`. The memory-leak that this hides will be addressed in the next commit. Signed-off-by: Martin Ã…gren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | Merge branch 'ma/bisect-leakfix' into maintJunio C Hamano2017-11-271-2/+1
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Leak fixes. * ma/bisect-leakfix: bisect: fix memory leak when returning best element bisect: fix off-by-one error in `best_bisection_sorted()` bisect: fix memory leak in `find_bisection()` bisect: change calling-convention of `find_bisection()`
| * | | | bisect: change calling-convention of `find_bisection()`Martin Ã…gren2017-11-061-2/+1
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This function takes a commit list and returns a commit list. The returned list is built by modifying the original list. Thus the caller should not use the original list again (and after the next commit fixes a memory leak, it must not). Change the function signature so that it takes a **list and has void return type. That should make it harder to misuse this function. While we're here, document this function. Signed-off-by: Martin Ã…gren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | Merge branch 'jc/check-ref-format-oor' into maintJunio C Hamano2017-11-151-2/+4
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names. * jc/check-ref-format-oor: check-ref-format doc: --branch validates and expands <branch> check-ref-format --branch: strip refs/heads/ using skip_prefix check-ref-format --branch: do not expand @{...} outside repository
| * | | | check-ref-format --branch: strip refs/heads/ using skip_prefixJunio C Hamano2017-10-181-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The expansion returned from strbuf_check_branch_ref always starts with "refs/heads/" by construction, but there is nothing about its name or advertised API making that obvious. This command is used to process human-supplied input from the command line and is usually not the inner loop, so we can spare some cycles to be more defensive. Instead of hard-coding the offset strlen("refs/heads/") to skip, verify that the expansion actually starts with refs/heads/. [jn: split out from a larger patch, added explanation] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | Merge branch 'bw/grep-recurse-submodules' into maintJunio C Hamano2017-11-151-0/+2
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A broken access to object databases in recent update to "git grep --recurse-submodules" has been fixed. * bw/grep-recurse-submodules: grep: take the read-lock when adding a submodule
| * | | | | grep: take the read-lock when adding a submodulebw/grep-recurse-submodulesMartin Ã…gren2017-11-021-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With --recurse-submodules, we add each submodule that we encounter to the list of alternate object databases. With threading, our changes to the list are not protected against races. Indeed, ThreadSanitizer reports a race when we call `add_to_alternates_memory()` around the same time that another thread is reading in the list through `read_sha1_file()`. Take the grep read-lock while adding the submodule. The lock is used to serialize uses of non-thread-safe parts of Git's API, including `read_sha1_file()`. Helped-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Ã…gren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Acked-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'ao/check-resolve-ref-unsafe-result' into maintJunio C Hamano2017-11-151-0/+2
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "git commit", after making a commit, did not check for errors when asking on what branch it made the commit, which has been correted. * ao/check-resolve-ref-unsafe-result: commit: check result of resolve_ref_unsafe
| * | | | | | commit: check result of resolve_ref_unsafeao/check-resolve-ref-unsafe-resultAndrey Okoshkin2017-10-211-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add check of the resolved HEAD reference while printing of a commit summary. resolve_ref_unsafe() may return NULL pointer if underlying calls of lstat() or open() fail in files_read_raw_ref(). Such situation can be caused by race: file becomes inaccessible to this moment. Signed-off-by: Andrey Okoshkin <a.okoshkin@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | | Merge branch 'jk/ref-filter-colors-fix' into maintJunio C Hamano2017-10-186-5/+8
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is the "theoretically more correct" approach of simply stepping back to the state before plumbing commands started paying attention to "color.ui" configuration variable. * jk/ref-filter-colors-fix: tag: respect color.ui config Revert "color: check color.ui in git_default_config()" Revert "t6006: drop "always" color config tests" Revert "color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config" color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config provide --color option for all ref-filter users t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always t3203: drop "always" color test t6006: drop "always" color config tests t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test t7508: use test_terminal for color output t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
| * \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'sb/branch-avoid-repeated-strbuf-release' into maintJunio C Hamano2017-10-181-2/+3
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * sb/branch-avoid-repeated-strbuf-release: branch: reset instead of release a strbuf
| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'mg/timestamp-t-fix' into maintJunio C Hamano2017-10-181-1/+1
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A mismerge fix. * mg/timestamp-t-fix: name-rev: change ULONG_MAX to TIME_MAX
| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'jk/diff-blob' into maintJunio C Hamano2017-10-181-2/+2
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "git cat-file --textconv" started segfaulting recently, which has been corrected. * jk/diff-blob: cat-file: handle NULL object_context.path
| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'jk/describe-omit-some-refs' into maintJunio C Hamano2017-10-181-3/+6
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "git describe --match" learned to take multiple patterns in v2.13 series, but the feature ignored the patterns after the first one and did not work at all. This has been fixed. * jk/describe-omit-some-refs: describe: fix matching to actually match all patterns
| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'aw/gc-lockfile-fscanf-fix' into maintJunio C Hamano2017-10-181-1/+1
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "git gc" tries to avoid running two instances at the same time by reading and writing pid/host from and to a lock file; it used to use an incorrect fscanf() format when reading, which has been corrected. * aw/gc-lockfile-fscanf-fix: gc: call fscanf() with %<len>s, not %<len>c, when reading hostname
| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'rk/commit-tree-make-F-verbatim' into maintJunio C Hamano2017-10-181-1/+0
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unlike "git commit-tree < file", "git commit-tree -F file" did not pass the contents of the file verbatim and instead completed an incomplete line at the end, if exists. The latter has been updated to match the behaviour of the former. * rk/commit-tree-make-F-verbatim: commit-tree: do not complete line in -F input
| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'mh/packed-ref-store-prep' into maintJunio C Hamano2017-10-181-2/+2
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix regression to "gitk --bisect" by a recent update. * mh/packed-ref-store-prep: rev-parse: don't trim bisect refnames
* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | remote: handle broken symrefsJeff King2017-10-211-1/+1
| |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|/ / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's possible for resolve_ref_unsafe() to return NULL with a REF_ISSYMREF flag if a symref points to a broken ref. In this case, the read_remote_branches() function will segfault passing the name to xstrdup(). This is hard to trigger in practice, since this function is used as a callback to for_each_ref(), which will skip broken refs in the first place (so it would have to be broken racily, or for us to see a transient filesystem error). If we see such a racy broken outcome let's treat it as "not a symref". This is exactly the same thing that would happen in the non-racy case (our function would not be called at all, as for_each_ref would skip the broken symref). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'jk/ref-filter-colors-fix'Junio C Hamano2017-10-185-5/+6
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|/ / / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is the "theoretically more correct" approach of simply stepping back to the state before plumbing commands started paying attention to "color.ui" configuration variable. Let's run with this one. * jk/ref-filter-colors-fix: tag: respect color.ui config Revert "color: check color.ui in git_default_config()" Revert "t6006: drop "always" color config tests" Revert "color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config"
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | tag: respect color.ui configjk/ref-filter-colors-fixJeff King2017-10-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since 11b087adfd (ref-filter: consult want_color() before emitting colors, 2017-07-13), we expect that setting "color.ui" to "always" will enable color tag formats even without a tty. As that commit was built on top of 136c8c8b8f (color: check color.ui in git_default_config(), 2017-07-13) from the same series, we didn't need to touch tag's config parsing at all. However, since we reverted 136c8c8b8f, we now need to explicitly call git_color_default_config() to make this work. Let's do so, and also restore the test dropped in 0c88bf5050 (provide --color option for all ref-filter users, 2017-10-03). That commit swapped out our "color.ui=always" test for "--color" in preparation for "always" going away. But since it is here to stay, we should test both cases. Note that for-each-ref also lost its color.ui support as part of reverting 136c8c8b8f. But as a plumbing command, it should _not_ respect the color.ui config. Since it also gained a --color option in 0c88bf5050, that's the correct way to ask it for color. We'll continue to test that, and confirm that "color.ui" is not respected. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | Revert "color: check color.ui in git_default_config()"Jeff King2017-10-174-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 136c8c8b8fa39f1315713248473dececf20f8fe7. That commit was trying to address a bug caused by 4c7f1819b3 (make color.ui default to 'auto', 2013-06-10), in which plumbing like diff-tree defaulted to "auto" color, but did not respect a "color.ui" directive to disable it. But it also meant that we started respecting "color.ui" set to "always". This was a known problem, but 4c7f1819b3 argued that nobody ought to be doing that. However, that turned out to be wrong, and we got a number of bug reports related to "add -p" regressing in v2.14.2. Let's revert 136c8c8b8, fixing the regression to "add -p". This leaves the problem from 4c7f1819b3 unfixed, but: 1. It's a pretty obscure problem in the first place. I only noticed it while working on the color code, and we haven't got a single bug report or complaint about it. 2. We can make a more moderate fix on top by respecting "never" but not "always" for plumbing commands. This is just the minimal fix to go back to the working state we had before v2.14.2. Note that this isn't a pure revert. We now have a test in t3701 which shows off the "add -p" regression. This can be flipped to success. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint' (early part) into ↵Junio C Hamano2017-10-172-0/+2
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | |/ / / / / / / / / / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | jk/ref-filter-colors-fix-maint * 'jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint' (early part): color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config provide --color option for all ref-filter users t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always t3203: drop "always" color test t6006: drop "always" color config tests t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test t7508: use test_terminal for color output t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
* | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'ds/avoid-overflow-in-midpoint-computation'Junio C Hamano2017-10-113-4/+4
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code clean-up. * ds/avoid-overflow-in-midpoint-computation: cleanup: fix possible overflow errors in binary search
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | cleanup: fix possible overflow errors in binary searchds/avoid-overflow-in-midpoint-computationDerrick Stolee2017-10-103-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A common mistake when writing binary search is to allow possible integer overflow by using the simple average: mid = (min + max) / 2; Instead, use the overflow-safe version: mid = min + (max - min) / 2; This translation is safe since the operation occurs inside a loop conditioned on "min < max". The included changes were found using the following git grep: git grep '/ *2;' '*.c' Making this cleanup will prevent future review friction when a new binary search is contructed based on existing code. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'ks/branch-tweak-error-message-for-extra-args'Junio C Hamano2017-10-071-3/+3
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Error message tweak. * ks/branch-tweak-error-message-for-extra-args: branch: change the error messages to be more meaningful
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | branch: change the error messages to be more meaningfulks/branch-tweak-error-message-for-extra-argsKaartic Sivaraam2017-10-041-3/+3
| | |/ / / / / / / / / / / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The error messages shown when the branch command is misused by supplying it wrong number of parameters wasn't meaningful. That's because it used the the phrase "too many branches" assuming all parameters to be "valid" branch names. It's not always the case as exemplified below, $ git branch foo * master $ git branch -m foo foo old fatal: too many branches for a rename operation Change the messages to be more general thus making no assumptions about the "parameters". Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'jk/ui-color-always-to-auto'Junio C Hamano2017-10-072-0/+2
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix regression of "git add -p" for users with "color.ui = always" in their configuration, by merging the topic below and adjusting it for the 'master' front. * jk/ui-color-always-to-auto: t7301: use test_terminal to check color t4015: use --color with --color-moved color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config provide --color option for all ref-filter users t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always t3203: drop "always" color test t6006: drop "always" color config tests t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test t7508: use test_terminal for color output t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint' into jk/ui-color-always-to-autojk/ui-color-always-to-autoJunio C Hamano2017-10-042-0/+2
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | |_|/ / / / / / / / / / / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint: color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config provide --color option for all ref-filter users t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always t3203: drop "always" color test t6006: drop "always" color config tests t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test t7508: use test_terminal for color output t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
| | * | | | | | | | | | | | | | provide --color option for all ref-filter usersJeff King2017-10-042-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When ref-filter learned about want_color() in 11b087adfd (ref-filter: consult want_color() before emitting colors, 2017-07-13), it became useful to be able to turn colors off and on for specific commands. For git-branch, you can do so with --color/--no-color. But for git-for-each-ref and git-tag, the other users of ref-filter, you have no option except to tweak the "color.ui" config setting. Let's give both of these commands the usual color command-line options. This is a bit more obvious as a method for overriding the config. And it also prepares us for the behavior of "always" changing (so that we are still left with a way of forcing color when our output goes to a non-terminal). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'ma/builtin-unleak'Junio C Hamano2017-10-075-4/+11
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many variables that points at a region of memory that will live throughout the life of the program have been marked with UNLEAK marker to help the leak checkers concentrate on real leaks.. * ma/builtin-unleak: builtin/: add UNLEAKs
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | builtin/: add UNLEAKsma/builtin-unleakMartin Ã…gren2017-10-025-4/+11
| | |_|/ / / / / / / / / / / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add some UNLEAKs where we are about to return from `cmd_*`. UNLEAK the variables in the same order as we've declared them. While addressing `msg` in builtin/tag.c, convert the existing `strbuf_release()` calls as well. Signed-off-by: Martin Ã…gren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'sb/branch-avoid-repeated-strbuf-release'Junio C Hamano2017-10-071-2/+3
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | |_|_|_|/ / / / / / / / / / / / |/| | | | | | | | | | / / / / / | | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|/ / / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | * sb/branch-avoid-repeated-strbuf-release: branch: reset instead of release a strbuf
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | branch: reset instead of release a strbufsb/branch-avoid-repeated-strbuf-releaseStefan Beller2017-10-041-2/+3
| |/ / / / / / / / / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Our documentation advises to not re-use a strbuf, after strbuf_release has been called on it. Use the proper reset instead. Currently 'strbuf_release' releases and re-initializes the strbuf, so it is safe, but slow. 'strbuf_reset' only resets the internal length variable, such that this could also be accounted for as a micro-optimization. Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'rs/cleanup-strbuf-users'Junio C Hamano2017-10-051-1/+1
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code clean-up. * rs/cleanup-strbuf-users: graph: use strbuf_addchars() to add spaces use strbuf_addstr() for adding strings to strbufs path: use strbuf_add_real_path()
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | use strbuf_addstr() for adding strings to strbufsRené Scharfe2017-10-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use strbuf_addstr() instead of strbuf_addf() for adding strings. That's simpler and makes the intent clearer. Patch generated by Coccinelle and contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci; adjusted indentation in refs/packed-backend.c manually. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'rs/resolve-ref-optional-result'Junio C Hamano2017-10-052-4/+2
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | |_|_|/ / / / / / / / / / / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code clean-up. * rs/resolve-ref-optional-result: refs: pass NULL to resolve_refdup() if hash is not needed refs: pass NULL to refs_resolve_refdup() if hash is not needed
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | refs: pass NULL to resolve_refdup() if hash is not neededrs/resolve-ref-optional-resultRené Scharfe2017-10-012-4/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows us to get rid of several write-only variables. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'jk/read-in-full'Junio C Hamano2017-10-032-5/+25
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code clean-up to prevent future mistakes by copying and pasting code that checks the result of read_in_full() function. * jk/read-in-full: worktree: check the result of read_in_full() worktree: use xsize_t to access file size distinguish error versus short read from read_in_full() avoid looking at errno for short read_in_full() returns prefer "!=" when checking read_in_full() result notes-merge: drop dead zero-write code files-backend: prefer "0" for write_in_full() error check
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | worktree: check the result of read_in_full()jk/read-in-fullJeff King2017-09-271-1/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We try to read "len" bytes into a buffer and just assume that it happened correctly. In practice this should usually be the case, since we just stat'd the file to get the length. But we could be fooled by transient errors or by other processes racily truncating the file. Let's be more careful. There's a slim chance this could catch a real error, but it also prevents people and tools from getting worried while reading the code. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | worktree: use xsize_t to access file sizeJeff King2017-09-271-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To read the "gitdir" file into memory, we stat the file and allocate a buffer. But we store the size in an "int", which may be truncated. We should use a size_t and xsize_t(), which will detect truncation. An overflow is unlikely for a "gitdir" file, but it's a good practice to model. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | distinguish error versus short read from read_in_full()Jeff King2017-09-271-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many callers of read_in_full() expect to see the exact number of bytes requested, but their error handling lumps together true read errors and short reads due to unexpected EOF. We can give more specific error messages by separating these cases (showing errno when appropriate, and otherwise describing the short read). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | prefer "!=" when checking read_in_full() resultJeff King2017-09-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Comparing the result of read_in_full() using less-than is potentially dangerous, as a negative return value may be converted to an unsigned type and be considered a success. This is discussed further in 561598cfcf (read_pack_header: handle signed/unsigned comparison in read result, 2017-09-13). Each of these instances is actually fine in practice: - in get-tar-commit-id, the HEADERSIZE macro expands to a signed integer. If it were switched to an unsigned type (e.g., a size_t), then it would be a bug. - the other two callers check for a short read only after handling a negative return separately. This is a fine practice, but we'd prefer to model "!=" as a general rule. So all of these cases can be considered cleanups and not actual bugfixes. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'jk/no-optional-locks'Junio C Hamano2017-10-031-1/+4
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some commands (most notably "git status") makes an opportunistic update when performing a read-only operation to help optimize later operations in the same repository. The new "--no-optional-locks" option can be passed to Git to disable them. * jk/no-optional-locks: git: add --no-optional-locks option
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git: add --no-optional-locks optionJeff King2017-09-271-1/+4
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Some of these commands may refresh the index and write out the result in an opportunistic way: if they can get the index lock, then they update the on-disk index with any updates they find. And if not, then their in-core refresh is lost and just has to be recomputed by the next caller. But taking the index lock may conflict with other operations in the repository. Especially ones that the user is doing themselves, which _aren't_ opportunistic. In other words, "git status" knows how to back off when somebody else is holding the lock, but other commands don't know that status would be happy to drop the lock if somebody else wanted it. There are a couple possible solutions: 1. Have some kind of "pseudo-lock" that allows other commands to tell status that they want the lock. This is likely to be complicated and error-prone to implement (and maybe even impossible with just dotlocks to work from, as it requires some inter-process communication). 2. Avoid background runs of commands like "git status" that want to do opportunistic updates, preferring instead plumbing like diff-files, etc. This is awkward for a couple of reasons. One is that "status --porcelain" reports a lot more about the repository state than is available from individual plumbing commands. And two is that we actually _do_ want to see the refreshed index. We just don't want to take a lock or write out the result. Whereas commands like diff-files expect us to refresh the index separately and write it to disk so that they can depend on the result. But that write is exactly what we're trying to avoid. 3. Ask "status" not to lock or write the index. This is easy to implement. The big downside is that any work done in refreshing the index for such a call is lost when the process exits. So a background process may end up re-hashing a changed file multiple times until the user runs a command that does an index refresh themselves. This patch implements the option 3. The idea (and the test) is largely stolen from a Git for Windows patch by Johannes Schindelin, 67e5ce7f63 (status: offer *not* to lock the index and update it, 2016-08-12). The twist here is that instead of making this an option to "git status", it becomes a "git" option and matching environment variable. The reason there is two-fold: 1. An environment variable is carried through to sub-processes. And whether an invocation is a background process or not should apply to the whole process tree. So you could do "git --no-optional-locks foo", and if "foo" is a script or alias that calls "status", you'll still get the effect. 2. There may be other programs that want the same treatment. I've punted here on finding more callers to convert, since "status" is the obvious one to call as a repeated background job. But "git diff"'s opportunistic refresh of the index may be a good candidate. The test is taken from 67e5ce7f63, and it's worth repeating Johannes's explanation: Note that the regression test added in this commit does not *really* verify that no index.lock file was written; that test is not possible in a portable way. Instead, we verify that .git/index is rewritten *only* when `git status` is run without `--no-optional-locks`. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>