git/builtin/clone.c, branch v2.4.2

Merge branch 'jk/cleanup-failed-clone'

2015-03-25T19:54:24Z

An failure early in the "git clone" that started creating the working tree and repository could have resulted in some directories and files left without getting cleaned up. * jk/cleanup-failed-clone: clone: drop period from end of die_errno message clone: initialize atexit cleanup handler earlier

clone: drop period from end of die_errno message

2015-03-19T20:38:36Z

We do not usually end our errors with a full stop, but it looks especially bad when you use die_errno, which adds a colon, like: fatal: could not create work tree dir 'foo'.: No such file or directory Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

clone: initialize atexit cleanup handler earlier

2015-03-19T20:38:07Z

If clone fails, we generally try to clean up any directories we've created. We do this by installing an atexit handler, so that we don't have to manually trigger cleanup. However, since we install this after touching the filesystem, any errors between our initial mkdir() and our atexit() call will result in us leaving a crufty directory around. We can fix this by moving our atexit() call earlier. It's OK to do it before the junk_work_tree variable is set, because remove_junk makes sure the variable is initialized. This means we "activate" the handler by assigning to the junk_work_tree variable, which we now bump down to just after we call mkdir(). We probably do not want to do it before, because a plausible reason for mkdir() to fail is EEXIST (i.e., we are racing with another "git init"), and we would not want to remove their work. OTOH, this is probably not that big a deal; we will allow cloning into an empty directory (and skip the mkdir), which is already racy (i.e., one clone may see the other's empty dir and start writing into it). Still, it does not hurt to err on the side of caution here. Note that writing into junk_work_tree and junk_git_dir after installing the handler is also technically racy, as we call our handler on an async signal. Depending on the platform, we could see a sheared write to the variables. Traditionally we have not worried about this, and indeed we already do this later in the function. If we want to address that, it can come as a separate topic. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

standardize usage info string format

2015-01-14T17:32:04Z

This patch puts the usage info strings that were not already in docopt- like format into docopt-like format, which will be a litle easier for end users and a lot easier for translators. Changes include: - Placing angle brackets around fill-in-the-blank parameters - Putting dashes in multiword parameter names - Adding spaces to [-f|--foobar] to make [-f | --foobar] - Replacing * with [...] Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'jc/clone-borrow'

2015-01-07T20:42:13Z

Allow "git clone --reference" to be used more safely. * jc/clone-borrow: clone: --dissociate option to mark that reference is only temporary

Merge branch 'eb/no-pthreads'

2014-10-24T21:59:10Z

Allow us build with NO_PTHREADS=NoThanks compilation option. * eb/no-pthreads: Handle atexit list internaly for unthreaded builds pack-objects: set number of threads before checking and warning index-pack: fix compilation with NO_PTHREADS

Handle atexit list internaly for unthreaded builds

2014-10-19T22:38:30Z

Wrap atexit()s calls on unthreaded builds to handle callback list internally. This is needed because on unthreaded builds, asyncs inherits parent's atexit() list, that gets run as soon as the async exit()s (and again at the end of async's parent process). That led to remove temporary files too early. Also remove a by-atexit-callback guard against this kind of issue in clone.c, as this patch makes it redundant. Fixes test 5537 (temporary shallow file vanished before unpack-objects could open it) BTW remove an unused variable in shallow.c. Helped-by: Duy Nguyen Helped-by: Andreas Schwab Helped-by: Junio C Hamano Signed-off-by: Etienne Buira Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

clone: --dissociate option to mark that reference is only temporary

2014-10-15T21:34:45Z

While use of the --reference option to borrow objects from an existing local repository of the same project is an effective way to reduce traffic when cloning a project over the network, it makes the resulting "borrowing" repository dependent on the "borrowed" repository. After running git clone --reference=P $URL Q the resulting repository Q will be broken if the borrowed repository P disappears. The way to allow the borrowed repository to be removed is to repack the borrowing repository (i.e. run "git repack -a -d" in Q); while power users may know it very well, it is not easily discoverable. Teach a new "--dissociate" option to "git clone" to run this repacking for the user. Helped-by: Johannes Sixt Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

refs.c: change resolve_ref_unsafe reading argument to be a flags field

2014-10-15T17:47:24Z

resolve_ref_unsafe takes a boolean argument for reading (a nonexistent ref resolves successfully for writing but not for reading). Change this to be a flags field instead, and pass the new constant RESOLVE_REF_READING when we want this behaviour. While at it, swap two of the arguments in the function to put output arguments at the end. As a nice side effect, this ensures that we can catch callers that were unaware of the new API so they can be audited. Give the wrapper functions resolve_refdup and read_ref_full the same treatment for consistency. Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

lockfile.h: extract new header file for the functions in lockfile.c

2014-10-01T20:56:14Z

Move the interface declaration for the functions in lockfile.c from cache.h to a new file, lockfile.h. Add #includes where necessary (and remove some redundant includes of cache.h by files that already include builtin.h). Move the documentation of the lock_file state diagram from lockfile.c to the new header file. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano