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<updated>2024-12-06T11:20:02Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>global: mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`</title>
<updated>2024-12-06T11:20:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
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<published>2024-12-06T10:27:19Z</published>
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Mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`. This
allows for a structured approach to get rid of all such warnings over
time in a way that can be easily measured.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>refspec: store raw refspecs inside refspec_item</title>
<updated>2024-11-12T09:16:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff King</name>
<email>peff@peff.net</email>
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<published>2024-11-12T08:39:37Z</published>
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The refspec struct keeps two matched arrays: one for the refspec_item
structs and one for the original raw refspec strings. The main reason
for this is that there are other users of refspec_item that do not care
about the raw strings. But it does make managing the refspec struct
awkward, as we must keep the two arrays in sync. This has led to bugs in
the past (both leaks and double-frees).

Let's just store a copy of the raw refspec string directly in each
refspec_item struct. This simplifies the handling at a small cost:

  1. Direct callers of refspec_item_init() will now get an extra copy of
     the refspec string, even if they don't need it. This should be
     negligible, as the struct is already allocating two strings for the
     parsed src/dst values (and we tend to only do it sparingly anyway
     for things like the TAG_REFSPEC literal).

  2. Users of refspec_appendf() will now generate a temporary string,
     copy it, and then free the result (versus handing off ownership of
     the temporary string). We could get around this by having a "nodup"
     variant of refspec_item_init(), but it doesn't seem worth the extra
     complexity for something that is not remotely a hot code path.

Code which accesses refspec-&gt;raw now needs to look at refspec-&gt;item.raw.
Other callers which just use refspec_item directly can remain the same.
We'll free the allocated string in refspec_item_clear(), which they
should be calling anyway to free src/dst.

One subtle note: refspec_item_init() can return an error, in which case
we'll still have set its "raw" field. But that is also true of the "src"
and "dst" fields, so any caller which does not _clear() the failed item
is already potentially leaking. In practice most code just calls die()
on an error anyway, but you can see the exception in valid_fetch_refspec(),
which does correctly call _clear() even on error.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>refspec: drop separate raw_nr count</title>
<updated>2024-11-12T09:16:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff King</name>
<email>peff@peff.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-12T08:36:10Z</published>
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A refspec struct contains zero or more refspec_item structs, along with
matching "raw" strings. The items and raw strings are kept in separate
arrays, but those arrays will always have the same length (because we
write them only via refspec_append_nodup(), which grows both). This can
lead to bugs when manipulating the array, since the arrays and lengths
must be modified in lockstep. For example, the bug fixed in the previous
commit, which forgot to decrement raw_nr.

So let's get rid of "raw_nr" and have only "nr", making this kind of bug
impossible (and also making it clear that the two are always matched,
something that existing code already assumed but was not guaranteed by
the interface).

Even though we'd expect "alloc" and "raw_alloc" to likewise move in
lockstep, we still need to keep separate counts there if we want to
continue to use ALLOC_GROW() for both.

Conceptually this would all be simpler if refspec_item just held onto
its own raw string, and we had a single array. But there are callers
which use refspec_item outside of "struct refspec" (and so don't hold on
to a matching "raw" string at all), which we'd possibly need to adjust.
So let's not worry about refactoring that for now, and just get rid of
the redundant count variable. That is the first step on the road to
combining them anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fetch: free "raw" string when shrinking refspec</title>
<updated>2024-09-25T17:24:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff King</name>
<email>peff@peff.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-24T21:57:40Z</published>
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The "--prefetch" option to git-fetch modifies the default refspec,
including eliminating some entries entirely. When we drop an entry we
free the strings in the refspec_item, but we forgot to free the matching
string in the "raw" array of the refspec struct. There's no behavioral
bug here (since we correctly shrink the raw array, too), but we're
leaking the allocated string.

Let's add in the leak-fix, and while we're at it drop "const" from
the type of the raw string array. These strings are always allocated by
refspec_append(), etc, and this makes the memory ownership more clear.

This is all a bit more intimate with the refspec code than I'd like, and
I suspect it would be better if each refspec_item held on to its own raw
string, we had a single array, and we could use refspec_item_clear() to
clean up everything. But that's a non-trivial refactoring, since
refspec_item structs can be held outside of a "struct refspec", without
having a matching raw string at all. So let's leave that for now and
just fix the leak in the most immediate way.

This lets us mark t5582 as leak-free.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ps/use-the-repository'</title>
<updated>2024-07-02T16:59:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-02T16:59:00Z</published>
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A CPP macro USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE is introduced to help
transition the codebase to rely less on the availability of the
singleton the_repository instance.

* ps/use-the-repository:
  hex: guard declarations with `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE`
  t/helper: remove dependency on `the_repository` in "proc-receive"
  t/helper: fix segfault in "oid-array" command without repository
  t/helper: use correct object hash in partial-clone helper
  compat/fsmonitor: fix socket path in networked SHA256 repos
  replace-object: use hash algorithm from passed-in repository
  protocol-caps: use hash algorithm from passed-in repository
  oidset: pass hash algorithm when parsing file
  http-fetch: don't crash when parsing packfile without a repo
  hash-ll: merge with "hash.h"
  refs: avoid include cycle with "repository.h"
  global: introduce `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro
  hash: require hash algorithm in `empty_tree_oid_hex()`
  hash: require hash algorithm in `is_empty_{blob,tree}_oid()`
  hash: make `is_null_oid()` independent of `the_repository`
  hash: convert `oidcmp()` and `oideq()` to compare whole hash
  global: ensure that object IDs are always padded
  hash: require hash algorithm in `oidread()` and `oidclr()`
  hash: require hash algorithm in `hasheq()`, `hashcmp()` and `hashclr()`
  hash: drop (mostly) unused `is_empty_{blob,tree}_sha1()` functions
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<entry>
<title>global: introduce `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro</title>
<updated>2024-06-14T17:26:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-14T06:50:23Z</published>
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Use of the `the_repository` variable is deprecated nowadays, and we
slowly but steadily convert the codebase to not use it anymore. Instead,
callers should be passing down the repository to work on via parameters.

It is hard though to prove that a given code unit does not use this
variable anymore. The most trivial case, merely demonstrating that there
is no direct use of `the_repository`, is already a bit of a pain during
code reviews as the reviewer needs to manually verify claims made by the
patch author. The bigger problem though is that we have many interfaces
that implicitly rely on `the_repository`.

Introduce a new `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro that allows code
units to opt into usage of `the_repository`. The intent of this macro is
to demonstrate that a certain code unit does not use this variable
anymore, and to keep it from new dependencies on it in future changes,
be it explicit or implicit

For now, the macro only guards `the_repository` itself as well as
`the_hash_algo`. There are many more known interfaces where we have an
implicit dependency on `the_repository`, but those are not guarded at
the current point in time. Over time though, we should start to add
guards as required (or even better, just remove them).

Define the macro as required in our code units. As expected, most of our
code still relies on the global variable. Nearly all of our builtins
rely on the variable as there is no way yet to pass `the_repository` to
their entry point. For now, declare the macro in "biultin.h" to keep the
required changes at least a little bit more contained.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>refspec: remove global tag refspec structure</title>
<updated>2024-06-07T17:30:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-07T06:37:57Z</published>
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We have a global tag refspec structure that is used by both git-clone(1)
and git-fetch(1). Initialization of the structure will break once we
enable `-Wwrite-strings`, even though the breakage is harmless. While we
could just add casts, the structure isn't really required in the first
place as we can simply initialize the structures at the respective
callsites.

Refactor the code accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>git-compat-util: move alloc macros to git-compat-util.h</title>
<updated>2023-07-05T18:42:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Calvin Wan</name>
<email>calvinwan@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-05T17:09:24Z</published>
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alloc_nr, ALLOC_GROW, and ALLOC_GROW_BY are commonly used macros for
dynamic array allocation. Moving these macros to git-compat-util.h with
the other alloc macros focuses alloc.[ch] to allocation for Git objects
and additionally allows us to remove inclusions to alloc.h from files
that solely used the above macros.

Signed-off-by: Calvin Wan &lt;calvinwan@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>commit.h: reduce unnecessary includes</title>
<updated>2023-04-24T19:47:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Elijah Newren</name>
<email>newren@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-22T20:17:26Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren &lt;newren@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>hash-ll.h: split out of hash.h to remove dependency on repository.h</title>
<updated>2023-04-24T19:47:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Elijah Newren</name>
<email>newren@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-22T20:17:20Z</published>
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hash.h depends upon and includes repository.h, due to the definition and
use of the_hash_algo (defined as the_repository-&gt;hash_algo).  However,
most headers trying to include hash.h are only interested in the layout
of the structs like object_id.  Move the parts of hash.h that do not
depend upon repository.h into a new file hash-ll.h (the "low level"
parts of hash.h), and adjust other files to use this new header where
the convenience inline functions aren't needed.

This allows hash.h and object.h to be fairly small, minimal headers.  It
also exposes a lot of hidden dependencies on both path.h (which was
brought in by repository.h) and repository.h (which was previously
implicitly brought in by object.h), so also adjust other files to be
more explicit about what they depend upon.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren &lt;newren@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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