git/environment.c, branch v2.12.2

real_pathdup(): fix callsites that wanted it to die on error

2017-03-08T22:38:41Z

In 4ac9006f832 (real_path: have callers use real_pathdup and strbuf_realpath, 2016-12-12), we changed the xstrdup(real_path()) pattern to use real_pathdup() directly. The problem with this change is that real_path() calls strbuf_realpath() with die_on_error = 1 while real_pathdup() calls it with die_on_error = 0. Meaning that in cases where real_path() causes Git to die() with an error message, real_pathdup() is silent and returns NULL instead. The callers, however, are ill-prepared for that change, as they expect the return value to be non-NULL (and otherwise the function died with an appropriate error message). Fix this by extending real_pathdup()'s signature to accept the die_on_error flag and simply pass it through to strbuf_realpath(), and then adjust all callers after a careful audit whether they would handle NULLs well. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

refs: add option core.logAllRefUpdates = always

2017-01-31T18:01:24Z

When core.logallrefupdates is true, we only create a new reflog for refs that are under certain well-known hierarchies. The reason is that we know that some hierarchies (like refs/tags) are not meant to change, and that unknown hierarchies might not want reflogs at all (e.g., a hypothetical refs/foo might be meant to change often and drop old history immediately). However, sometimes it is useful to override this decision and simply log for all refs, because the safety and audit trail is more important than the performance implications of keeping the log around. This patch introduces a new "always" mode for the core.logallrefupdates option which will log updates to everything under refs/, regardless where in the hierarchy it is (we still will not log things like ORIG_HEAD and FETCH_HEAD, which are known to be transient). Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Cornelius Weig Reviewed-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'bw/grep-recurse-submodules'

2017-01-18T23:12:11Z

"git grep" has been taught to optionally recurse into submodules. * bw/grep-recurse-submodules: grep: search history of moved submodules grep: enable recurse-submodules to work on objects grep: optionally recurse into submodules grep: add submodules as a grep source type submodules: load gitmodules file from commit sha1 submodules: add helper to determine if a submodule is initialized submodules: add helper to determine if a submodule is populated real_path: canonicalize directory separators in root parts real_path: have callers use real_pathdup and strbuf_realpath real_path: create real_pathdup real_path: convert real_path_internal to strbuf_realpath real_path: resolve symlinks by hand

real_path: have callers use real_pathdup and strbuf_realpath

2016-12-12T23:22:32Z

Migrate callers of real_path() who duplicate the retern value to use real_pathdup or strbuf_realpath. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

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