On Windows, symbolic links have a type: a "file symlink" must point at
a file, and a "directory symlink" must point at a directory. If the
type of symlink does not match its target, it doesn't work.
Git does not record the type of symlink in the index or in a tree. On
checkout it'll guess the type, which only works if the target exists
at the time the symlink is created. This may often not be the case,
for example when the link points at a directory inside a submodule.
By specifying `symlink=file` or `symlink=dir` the user can specify what
type of symlink Git should create, so Git doesn't have to rely on
unreliable heuristics.
Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
A '+' is not a valid part of a filename with Windows file systems (it is
reserved because the '+' operator meant file concatenation back in the
DOS days).
Let's just not use it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Windows paths are typically limited to MAX_PATH = 260 characters, even
though the underlying NTFS file system supports paths up to 32,767 chars.
This limitation is also evident in Windows Explorer, cmd.exe and many
other applications (including IDEs).
Particularly annoying is that most Windows APIs return bogus error codes
if a relative path only barely exceeds MAX_PATH in conjunction with the
current directory, e.g. ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND / ENOENT instead of the
infinitely more helpful ERROR_FILENAME_EXCED_RANGE / ENAMETOOLONG.
Many Windows wide char APIs support longer than MAX_PATH paths through the
file namespace prefix ('\\?\' or '\\?\UNC\') followed by an absolute path.
Notable exceptions include functions dealing with executables and the
current directory (CreateProcess, LoadLibrary, Get/SetCurrentDirectory) as
well as the entire shell API (ShellExecute, SHGetSpecialFolderPath...).
Introduce a handle_long_path function to check the length of a specified
path properly (and fail with ENAMETOOLONG), and to optionally expand long
paths using the '\\?\' file namespace prefix. Short paths will not be
modified, so we don't need to worry about device names (NUL, CON, AUX).
Contrary to MSDN docs, the GetFullPathNameW function doesn't seem to be
limited to MAX_PATH (at least not on Win7), so we can use it to do the
heavy lifting of the conversion (translate '/' to '\', eliminate '.' and
'..', and make an absolute path).
Add long path error checking to xutftowcs_path for APIs with hard MAX_PATH
limit.
Add a new MAX_LONG_PATH constant and xutftowcs_long_path function for APIs
that support long paths.
While improved error checking is always active, long paths support must be
explicitly enabled via 'core.longpaths' option. This is to prevent end
users to shoot themselves in the foot by checking out files that Windows
Explorer, cmd/bash or their favorite IDE cannot handle.
Test suite:
Test the case is when the full pathname length of a dir is close
to 260 (MAX_PATH).
Bug report and an original reproducer by Andrey Rogozhnikov:
https://github.com/msysgit/git/pull/122#issuecomment-43604199
[jes: adjusted test number to avoid conflicts, added support for
chdir(), etc]
Thanks-to: Martin W. Kirst <maki@bitkings.de>
Thanks-to: Doug Kelly <dougk.ff7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Original-test-by: Andrey Rogozhnikov <rogozhnikov.andrey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Add a macro to mark code sections that only read from the file system,
along with a config option and documentation.
This facilitates implementation of relatively simple file system level
caches without the need to synchronize with the file system.
Enable read-only sections for 'git status' and preload_index.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Since commit 0c499ea60f the send-pack builtin uses the side-band-64k
capability if advertised by the server.
Unfortunately this breaks pushing over the dump git protocol if used
over a network connection.
The detailed reasons for this breakage are (by courtesy of Jeff Preshing,
quoted from ttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/msysgit/at8D7J-h7mw/eaLujILGUWoJ):
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
MinGW wraps Windows sockets in CRT file descriptors in order to mimic the
functionality of POSIX sockets. This causes msvcrt.dll to treat sockets as
Installable File System (IFS) handles, calling ReadFile, WriteFile,
DuplicateHandle and CloseHandle on them. This approach works well in simple
cases on recent versions of Windows, but does not support all usage patterns.
In particular, using this approach, any attempt to read & write concurrently
on the same socket (from one or more processes) will deadlock in a scenario
where the read waits for a response from the server which is only invoked after
the write. This is what send_pack currently attempts to do in the use_sideband
codepath.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The new config option "sendpack.sideband" allows to override the side-band-64k
capability of the server, and thus makes the dump git protocol work.
Other transportation methods like ssh and http/https still benefit from
the sideband channel, therefore the default value of "sendpack.sideband"
is still true.
[jes: split out the documentation into Documentation/config/]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@byte-physics.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Just like with other Git commands, this option makes it read the paths
from the standard input. It comes in handy when resetting many, many
paths at once and wildcards are not an option (e.g. when the paths are
generated by a tool).
Note: we first parse the entire list and perform the actual reset action
only in a second phase. Not only does this make things simpler, it also
helps performance, as do_diff_cache() traverses the index and the
(sorted) pathspecs in simultaneously to avoid unnecessary lookups.
This feature is marked experimental because it is still under review in
the upstream Git project.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The recently merged "rebase in C" has an escape hatch to use the
scripted version when necessary, but it hasn't been documented,
which has been corrected.
* ab/rebase-in-c-escape-hatch:
tests: add a special setup where rebase.useBuiltin is off
rebase doc: document rebase.useBuiltin
The "--no-patch" option, which can be used to get a high-level
overview without the actual line-by-line patch difference shown, of
the "range-diff" command was earlier broken, which has been
corrected.
* ab/range-diff-no-patch:
range-diff: make diff option behavior (e.g. --stat) consistent
range-diff: fix regression in passing along diff options
range-diff doc: add a section about output stability
Various functions have been audited for "-Wunused-parameter" warnings
and bugs in them got fixed.
* jk/unused-parameter-fixes:
midx: double-check large object write loop
assert NOARG/NONEG behavior of parse-options callbacks
parse-options: drop OPT_DATE()
apply: return -1 from option callback instead of calling exit(1)
cat-file: report an error on multiple --batch options
tag: mark "--message" option with NONEG
show-branch: mark --reflog option as NONEG
format-patch: mark "--no-numbered" option with NONEG
status: mark --find-renames option with NONEG
cat-file: mark batch options with NONEG
pack-objects: mark index-version option as NONEG
ls-files: mark exclude options as NONEG
am: handle --no-patch-format option
apply: mark include/exclude options as NONEG
The rebase.useBuiltin variable introduced in 55071ea248 ("rebase:
start implementing it as a builtin", 2018-08-07) was turned on by
default in 5541bd5b8f ("rebase: default to using the builtin rebase",
2018-08-08), but had no documentation.
Let's document it so that users who run into any stability issues with
the C rewrite know there's an escape hatch[1], and make it clear that
needing to turn off builtin rebase means you've found a bug in git.
1. https://public-inbox.org/git/87y39w1wc2.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All config extensions are described in technical/repository-version.txt.
I made a mistake of adding it in config.txt instead. This patch moves
it back to where it belongs.
Since repository-version.txt is not part of officially generated
documents (it's not even part of DOC_HTML target), it's only visible
to developers who read plain .txt files. Let's include it in
gitrepository-layout.5 for more visibility. Some minor asciidoc fixes
are required in repository-version.txt to make this happen.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code to traverse objects for reachability, used to decide what
objects are unreferenced and expendable, have been taught to also
consider per-worktree refs of other worktrees as starting points to
prevent data loss.
* nd/per-worktree-ref-iteration:
git-worktree.txt: correct linkgit command name
reflog expire: cover reflog from all worktrees
fsck: check HEAD and reflog from other worktrees
fsck: move fsck_head_link() to get_default_heads() to avoid some globals
revision.c: better error reporting on ref from different worktrees
revision.c: correct a parameter name
refs: new ref types to make per-worktree refs visible to all worktrees
Add a place for (not) sharing stuff between worktrees
refs.c: indent with tabs, not spaces
A pattern with '**' that does not have a slash on either side used
to be an invalid one, but the code now treats such double-asterisks
the same way as two normal asterisks that happen to be adjacent to
each other.
* nd/wildmatch-double-asterisk:
wildmatch: change behavior of "foo**bar" in WM_PATHNAME mode
A fourth class of configuration files (in addition to the
traditional "system wide", "per user in the $HOME directory" and
"per repository in the $GIT_DIR/config") has been introduced so
that different worktrees that share the same repository (hence the
same $GIT_DIR/config file) can use different customization.
* nd/per-worktree-config:
worktree: add per-worktree config files
t1300: extract and use test_cmp_config()
Split the overly large Documentation/config.txt file into million
little pieces. This potentially allows each individual piece
included into the manual page of the command it affects more easily.
* nd/config-split: (81 commits)
config.txt: remove config/dummy.txt
config.txt: move worktree.* to a separate file
config.txt: move web.* to a separate file
config.txt: move versionsort.* to a separate file
config.txt: move user.* to a separate file
config.txt: move url.* to a separate file
config.txt: move uploadpack.* to a separate file
config.txt: move uploadarchive.* to a separate file
config.txt: move transfer.* to a separate file
config.txt: move tag.* to a separate file
config.txt: move submodule.* to a separate file
config.txt: move stash.* to a separate file
config.txt: move status.* to a separate file
config.txt: move splitIndex.* to a separate file
config.txt: move showBranch.* to a separate file
config.txt: move sequencer.* to a separate file
config.txt: move sendemail-config.txt to config/
config.txt: move reset.* to a separate file
config.txt: move rerere.* to a separate file
config.txt: move repack.* to a separate file
...
The range-diff command is already advertised as porcelain, but let's
make it really clear that the output is completely subject to change,
particularly when it comes to diff options such as --stat. Right now
that option doesn't work, but fixing that is the subject of a later
change.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Operations on promisor objects make sense in the context of only a
small subset of the commands that internally use the revisions
machinery, but the "--exclude-promisor-objects" option were taken
and led to nonsense results by commands like "log", to which it
didn't make much sense. This has been corrected.
* md/exclude-promisor-objects-fix:
exclude-promisor-objects: declare when option is allowed
Documentation/git-log.txt: do not show --exclude-promisor-objects
"git send-email" learned to disable SMTP authentication via the
"--smtp-auth=none" option, even when the smtp username is given
(which turns the authentication on by default).
* jw/send-email-no-auth:
send-email: explicitly disable authentication
There are no users of OPT_DATE except for test-parse-options; its
only caller went away in 27ec394a97 (prune: introduce OPT_EXPIRY_DATE()
and use it, 2013-04-25).
It also has a bug: it does not specify PARSE_OPT_NONEG, but its callback
does not respect the "unset" flag, and will feed NULL to approxidate()
and segfault. Probably this should be marked with NONEG, or the callback
should set the timestamp to some sentinel value (e.g,. "0", or
"(time_t)-1").
But since there are no callers, deleting it means we don't even have to
think about what the right behavior should be.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On platforms with recent cURL library, http.sslBackend configuration
variable can be used to choose a different SSL backend at runtime.
The Windows port uses this mechanism to switch between OpenSSL and
Secure Channel while talking over the HTTPS protocol.
* js/mingw-http-ssl:
http: when using Secure Channel, ignore sslCAInfo by default
http: add support for disabling SSL revocation checks in cURL
http: add support for selecting SSL backends at runtime
New "--pretty=format:" placeholders %GF and %GP that show the GPG
key fingerprints have been invented.
* mg/gpg-fingerprint:
gpg-interface.c: obtain primary key fingerprint as well
gpg-interface.c: support getting key fingerprint via %GF format
gpg-interface.c: use flags to determine key/signer info presence
"git rebase -i" learned a new insn, 'break', that the user can
insert in the to-do list. Upon hitting it, the command returns
control back to the user.
* js/rebase-i-break:
rebase -i: introduce the 'break' command
rebase -i: clarify what happens on a failed `exec`
Git for Windows ships with its own Perl interpreter, and insists on
using it, so it will most likely wreak havoc if PERL5LIB is set before
launching Git.
Let's just unset that environment variables when spawning processes.
To make this feature extensible (and overrideable), there is a new
config setting `core.unsetenvvars` that allows specifying a
comma-separated list of names to unset before spawning processes.
Reported by Gabriel Fuhrmann.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Belated documentation update to adjust to a new world order that
happened a yew years ago.
* uk/merge-subtree-doc-update:
howto/using-merge-subtree: mention --allow-unrelated-histories
"git mergetool" learned to take the "--[no-]gui" option, just like
"git difftool" does.
* dl/mergetool-gui-option:
doc: document diff/merge.guitool config keys
completion: support `git mergetool --[no-]gui`
mergetool: accept -g/--[no-]gui as arguments
"git send-email" learned to grab address-looking string on any
trailer whose name ends with "-by"; --suppress-cc=misc-by on the
command line, or setting sendemail.suppresscc configuration
variable to "misc-by", can be used to disable this behaviour.
This is a backward-incompatible change that may surprise existing
users.
* rv/send-email-cc-misc-by:
send-email: also pick up cc addresses from -by trailers
send-email: only consider lines containing @ or <> for automatic Cc'ing
Documentation/git-send-email.txt: style fixes
The "rev-list --filter" feature learned to exclude all trees via
"tree:0" filter.
* md/filter-trees:
list-objects: support for skipping tree traversal
filter-trees: code clean-up of tests
list-objects-filter: implement filter tree:0
list-objects-filter-options: do not over-strbuf_init
list-objects-filter: use BUG rather than die
revision: mark non-user-given objects instead
rev-list: handle missing tree objects properly
list-objects: always parse trees gently
list-objects: refactor to process_tree_contents
list-objects: store common func args in struct
In WM_PATHNAME mode (or FNM_PATHNAME), '*' does not match '/' and '**'
can but only in three patterns:
- '**/' matches zero or more leading directories
- '/**/' matches zero or more directories in between
- '/**' matches zero or more trailing directories/files
When '**' is present but not in one of these patterns, the current
behavior is consider the pattern invalid and stop matching. In other
words, 'foo**bar' never matches anything, whatever you throw at it.
This behavior is arguably a bit confusing partly because we can't
really tell the user their pattern is invalid so that they can fix
it. So instead, tolerate it and make '**' act like two regular '*'s
(which is essentially the same as a single asterisk). This behavior
seems more predictable.
Noticed-by: dana <dana@dana.is>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This file was only needed when config directory was empty. Now that
the directory is fully populated, it can be deleted.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
