git/environment.c, branch v2.11.2

compression: unify pack.compression configuration parsing

2016-11-16T05:16:22Z

There are three codepaths that use a variable whose name is pack_compression_level to affect how objects and deltas sent to a packfile is compressed. Unlike zlib_compression_level that controls the loose object compression, however, this variable was static to each of these codepaths. Two of them read the pack.compression configuration variable, using core.compression as the default, and one of them also allowed overriding it from the command line. The other codepath in bulk-checkin did not pay any attention to the configuration. Unify the configuration parsing to git_default_config(), where we implement the parsing of core.loosecompression and core.compression and make the former override the latter, by moving code to parse pack.compression and also allow core.compression to give default to this variable. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'lt/abbrev-auto'

2016-10-27T21:58:47Z

Allow the default abbreviation length, which has historically been 7, to scale as the repository grows. The logic suggests to use 12 hexdigits for the Linux kernel, and 9 to 10 for Git itself. * lt/abbrev-auto: abbrev: auto size the default abbreviation abbrev: prepare for new world order abbrev: add FALLBACK_DEFAULT_ABBREV to prepare for auto sizing

Merge branch 'bw/ls-files-recurse-submodules'

2016-10-26T20:14:44Z

"git ls-files" learned "--recurse-submodules" option that can be used to get a listing of tracked files across submodules (i.e. this only works with "--cached" option, not for listing untracked or ignored files). This would be a useful tool to sit on the upstream side of a pipe that is read with xargs to work on all working tree files from the top-level superproject. * bw/ls-files-recurse-submodules: ls-files: add pathspec matching for submodules ls-files: pass through safe options for --recurse-submodules ls-files: optionally recurse into submodules git: make super-prefix option

git: make super-prefix option

2016-10-10T19:14:58Z

Add a super-prefix environment variable 'GIT_INTERNAL_SUPER_PREFIX' which can be used to specify a path from above a repository down to its root. When such a super-prefix is specified, the paths reported by Git are prefixed with it to make them relative to that directory "above". The paths given by the user on the command line (e.g. "git subcmd --output-file=path/to/a/file" and pathspecs) are taken relative to the directory "above" to match. The immediate use of this option is by commands which have a --recurse-submodule option in order to give context to submodules about how they were invoked. This option is currently only allowed for builtins which support a super-prefix. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

abbrev: auto size the default abbreviation

2016-10-03T19:54:29Z

In fairly early days we somehow decided to abbreviate object names down to 7-hexdigits, but as projects grow, it is becoming more and more likely to see such a short object names made in earlier days and recorded in the log messages no longer unique. Currently the Linux kernel project needs 11 to 12 hexdigits, while Git itself needs 10 hexdigits to uniquely identify the objects they have, while many smaller projects may still be fine with the original 7-hexdigit default. One-size does not fit all projects. Introduce a mechanism, where we estimate the number of objects in the repository upon the first request to abbreviate an object name with the default setting and come up with a sane default for the repository. Based on the expectation that we would see collision in a repository with 2^(2N) objects when using object names shortened to first N bits, use sufficient number of hexdigits to cover the number of objects in the repository. Each hexdigit (4-bits) we add to the shortened name allows us to have four times (2-bits) as many objects in the repository. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

abbrev: add FALLBACK_DEFAULT_ABBREV to prepare for auto sizing

2016-10-03T19:54:21Z

We'll be introducing a new way to decide the default abbreviation length by initialising DEFAULT_ABBREV to -1 to signal the first call to "find unique abbreviation" codepath to compute a reasonable value based on the number of objects we have to avoid collisions. We have long relied on DEFAULT_ABBREV being a positive concrete value that is used as the abbreviation length when no extra configuration or command line option has overridden it. Some codepaths wants to use such a positive concrete default value even before making their first request to actually trigger the computation for the auto sized default. Introduce FALLBACK_DEFAULT_ABBREV and use it to the code that attempts to align the report from "git fetch". For now, this macro is also used to initialize the default_abbrev variable, but the auto-sizing code will use -1 and then use the value of FALLBACK_DEFAULT_ABBREV as the starting point of auto-sizing. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'jk/setup-sequence-update'

2016-09-21T22:15:24Z

There were numerous corner cases in which the configuration files are read and used or not read at all depending on the directory a Git command was run, leading to inconsistent behaviour. The code to set-up repository access at the beginning of a Git process has been updated to fix them. * jk/setup-sequence-update: t1007: factor out repeated setup init: reset cached config when entering new repo init: expand comments explaining config trickery config: only read .git/config from configured repos test-config: setup git directory t1302: use "git -C" pager: handle early config pager: use callbacks instead of configset pager: make pager_program a file-local static pager: stop loading git_default_config() pager: remove obsolete comment diff: always try to set up the repository diff: handle --no-index prefixes consistently diff: skip implicit no-index check when given --no-index patch-id: use RUN_SETUP_GENTLY hash-object: always try to set up the git repository

init: reset cached config when entering new repo

2016-09-13T22:45:45Z

After we copy the templates into place, we re-read the config in case we copied in a default config file. But since git_config() is backed by a cache these days, it's possible that the call will not actually touch the filesystem at all; we need to tell it that something has changed behind the scenes. Note that we also need to reset the shared_repository config. At first glance, it seems like this should probably just be folded into git_config_clear(). But unfortunately that is not quite right. The shared repository value may come from config, _or_ it may have been set manually. So only the caller who knows whether or not they set it is the one who can clear it (and indeed, if you _do_ put it into git_config_clear(), then many tests fail, as we have to clear the config cache any time we set a new config variable). There are three tests here. The first two actually pass already, though it's largely luck: they just don't happen to actually read any config before we enter the new repo. But the third one does fail without this patch; we look at core.sharedrepository while creating the directory, but need to make sure the value from the template config overrides it. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

config: only read .git/config from configured repos

2016-09-13T22:45:45Z

When git_config() runs, it looks in the system, user-wide, and repo-level config files. It gets the latter by calling git_pathdup(), which in turn calls get_git_dir(). If we haven't set up the git repository yet, this may simply return ".git", and we will look at ".git/config". This seems like it would be helpful (presumably we haven't set up the repository yet, so it tries to find it), but it turns out to be a bad idea for a few reasons: - it's not sufficient, and therefore hides bugs in a confusing way. Config will be respected if commands are run from the top-level of the working tree, but not from a subdirectory. - it's not always true that we haven't set up the repository _yet_; we may not want to do it at all. For instance, if you run "git init /some/path" from inside another repository, it should not load config from the existing repository. - there might be a path ".git/config", but it is not the actual repository we would find via setup_git_directory(). This may happen, e.g., if you are storing a git repository inside another git repository, but have munged one of the files in such a way that the inner repository is not valid (e.g., by removing HEAD). We have at least two bugs of the second type in git-init, introduced by ae5f677 (lazily load core.sharedrepository, 2016-03-11). It causes init to use git_configset(), which loads all of the config, including values from the current repo (if any). This shows up in two ways: 1. If we happen to be in an existing repository directory, we'll read and respect core.sharedrepository from it, even though it should have no bearing on the new repository. A new test in t1301 covers this. 2. Similarly, if we're in an existing repo that sets core.logallrefupdates, that will cause init to fail to set it in a newly created repository (because it thinks that the user's templates already did so). A new test in t0001 covers this. We also need to adjust an existing test in t1302, which gives another example of why this patch is an improvement. That test creates an embedded repository with a bogus core.repositoryformatversion of "99". It wants to make sure that we actually stop at the bogus repo rather than continuing upward to find the outer repo. So it checks that "git config core.repositoryformatversion" returns 99. But that only works because we blindly read ".git/config", even though we _know_ we're in a repository whose vintage we do not understand. After this patch, we avoid reading config from the unknown vintage repository at all, which is a safer choice. But we need to tweak the test, since core.repositoryformatversion will not return 99; it will claim that it could not find the variable at all. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

pager: make pager_program a file-local static

2016-09-13T22:45:45Z

This variable is only ever used by the routines in pager.c, and other parts of the code should always use those routines (like git_pager()) to make decisions about which pager to use. Let's reduce its scope to prevent accidents. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano