POSIX-to-Windows path mangling would make it fail. Symptoms:
++ init_git
++ rm -fr .git
++ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in [...]
++ git remote add svnsim testsvn::sim:///usr/src/git/wip5/t/t9154/svn.dump
++ git remote add svnfile testsvn::file:///usr/src/git/wip5/t/t9154/svn.dump
++ git fetch svnsim
progress Imported commit 1.
fatal: Write to frontend failed: Bad file descriptor
fast-import: dumping crash report to .git/fast_import_crash_23356
fatal: error while running fast-import
fatal: unexpected end of fast-import feedback
error: last command exited with $?=128
not ok 1 - simple fetch
Since the remote-svn project seems to be dormant at the moment (and not
complete enough to be used, which is a pity), let's just skip this test
on Windows.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
With the recent update in efee955 (gpg-interface: check gpg signature
creation status, 2016-06-17), we ask GPG to send all status updates to
stderr, and then catch the stderr in an strbuf.
But GPG might fail, and send error messages to stderr. And we simply
do not show them to the user.
Even worse: this swallows any interactive prompt for a passphrase. And
detaches stderr from the tty so that the passphrase cannot be read.
So while the first problem could be fixed (by printing the captured
stderr upon error), the second problem cannot be easily fixed, and
presents a major regression.
So let's just revert commit efee9553a4.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/871
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
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>
Original-test-by: Andrey Rogozhnikov <rogozhnikov.andrey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
There is a problem in the way 9ac3f0e5b3 (pack-objects: fix
performance issues on packing large deltas, 2018-07-22) initializes that
mutex in the `packing_data` struct. The problem manifests in a
segmentation fault on Windows, when a mutex (AKA critical section) is
accessed without being initialized. (With pthreads, you apparently do
not really have to initialize them?)
This was reported in https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1839.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This is retry of #1419.
I added flush_fscache macro to flush cached stats after disk writing
with tests for regression reported in #1438 and #1442.
git checkout checks each file path in sorted order, so cache flushing does not
make performance worse unless we have large number of modified files in
a directory containing many files.
Using chromium repository, I tested `git checkout .` performance when I
delete 10 files in different directories.
With this patch:
TotalSeconds: 4.307272
TotalSeconds: 4.4863595
TotalSeconds: 4.2975562
Avg: 4.36372923333333
Without this patch:
TotalSeconds: 20.9705431
TotalSeconds: 22.4867685
TotalSeconds: 18.8968292
Avg: 20.7847136
I confirmed this patch passed all tests in t/ with core_fscache=1.
Signed-off-by: Takuto Ikuta <tikuta@chromium.org>
This topic branch teaches `git clean` to respect NTFS junctions and Unix
bind mounts: it will now stop at those boundaries.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In Git for Windows, there is an option to mark the .git directory as
hidden. Our test cases verify this by using the system utility
`attrib.exe`.
This file name is unfortunately quite generic, and overlaps with a
Unix-y utility that might be hiding the system one in the `PATH`.
Let's specify explicitly which `attrib` to use.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When trying to stash part of the worktree changes by splitting a hunk
and then only partially accepting the split bits and pieces, the user
is presented with a rather cryptic error:
error: patch failed: <file>:<line>
error: test: patch does not apply
Cannot remove worktree changes
and the command would fail to stash the desired parts of the worktree
changes (even if the `stash` ref was actually updated correctly).
We even have a test case demonstrating that failure, carrying it for
four years already.
The explanation: when splitting a hunk, the changed lines are no longer
separated by more than 3 lines (which is the amount of context lines
Git's diffs use by default), but less than that. So when staging only
part of the diff hunk for stashing, the resulting diff that we want to
apply to the worktree in reverse will contain those changes to be
dropped surrounded by three context lines, but since the diff is
relative to HEAD rather than to the worktree, these context lines will
not match.
Example time. Let's assume that the file README contains these lines:
We
the
people
and the worktree added some lines so that it contains these lines
instead:
We
are
the
kind
people
and the user tries to stash the line containing "are", then the command
will internally stage this line to a temporary index file and try to
revert the diff between HEAD and that index file. The diff hunk that
`git stash` tries to revert will look somewhat like this:
@@ -1776,3 +1776,4
We
+are
the
people
It is obvious, now, that the trailing context lines overlap with the
part of the original diff hunk that the user did *not* want to stash.
Keeping in mind that context lines in diffs serve the primary purpose of
finding the exact location when the diff does not apply precisely (but
when the exact line number in the file to be patched differs from the
line number indicated in the diff), we work around this by reducing the
amount of context lines: the diff was just generated.
Note: this is not a *full* fix for the issue. Just as demonstrated in
t3701's 'add -p works with pathological context lines' test case, there
are ambiguities in the diff format. It is very rare in practice, of
course, to encounter such repeated lines.
The full solution for such cases would be to replace the approach of
generating a diff from the stash and then applying it in reverse by
emulating `git revert` (i.e. doing a 3-way merge). However, in `git
stash -p` it would not apply to `HEAD` but instead to the worktree,
which makes this non-trivial to implement as long as we also maintain a
scripted version of `add -i`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In 7e9e048661 (stash -p: demonstrate failure of split with mixed y/n,
2015-04-16), a regression test for a known breakage that was added to
the test script `t3904-stash-patch.sh` that demonstrated that splitting
a hunk and trying to stash only part of that split hunk fails (but
shouldn't).
As expected, it still fails, but for the wrong reason: once the bug is
fixed, we would expect stderr to show nothing, yet the regression test
expects stderr to show something.
Let's fix that by telling that regression test case to expect nothing to
be printed to stderr.
While at it, also drop the obvious left-over from debugging where the
regression test did not mind `git stash -p` to return a non-zero exit
status.
Of course, the regression test still fails, but this time for the
correct reason.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This topic branch allows us to specify absolute paths without the drive
prefix e.g. when cloning.
Example:
C:\Users\me> git clone https://github.com/git/git \upstream-git
This will clone into a new directory C:\upstream-git, in line with how
Windows interprets absolute paths.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Originally, we refrained from adding a regression test in 7b6c649637
(system_path(): Add prefix computation at runtime if RUNTIME_PREFIX set,
2008-08-10), and in 226c0ddd0d (exec_cmd: RUNTIME_PREFIX on some POSIX
systems, 2018-04-10).
The reason was that it was deemed too tricky to test.
Turns out that it is not tricky to test at all: we simply create a
pseudo-root, copy the `git` executable into the `git/` subdirectory of
that pseudo-root, then copy a script into the `libexec/git-core/`
directory and expect that to be picked up.
As long as the trash directory is in a location where binaries can be
executed, this works.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git for Windows wants to add `git.exe` to the users' `PATH`, without
cluttering the latter with unnecessary executables such as `wish.exe`.
To that end, it invented the concept of its "Git wrapper", i.e. a tiny
executable located in `C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe` (originally a
CMD script) whose sole purpose is to set up a couple of environment
variables and then spawn the _actual_ `git.exe` (which nowadays lives in
`C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git.exe` for 64-bit, and the obvious
equivalent for 32-bit installations).
Currently, the following environment variables are set unless already
initialized:
- `MSYSTEM`, to make sure that the MSYS2 Bash and the MSYS2 Perl
interpreter behave as expected, and
- `PLINK_PROTOCOL`, to force PuTTY's `plink.exe` to use the SSH
protocol instead of Telnet,
- `PATH`, to make sure that the `bin` folder in the user's home
directory, as well as the `/mingw64/bin` and the `/usr/bin`
directories are included. The trick here is that the `/mingw64/bin/`
and `/usr/bin/` directories are relative to the top-level installation
directory of Git for Windows (which the included Bash interprets as
`/`, i.e. as the MSYS pseudo root directory).
Using the absence of `MSYSTEM` as a tell-tale, we can detect in
`git.exe` whether these environment variables have been initialized
properly. Therefore we can call `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git`
in-place after this change, without having to call Git through the Git
wrapper.
Obviously, above-mentioned directories must be _prepended_ to the `PATH`
variable, otherwise we risk picking up executables from unrelated Git
installations. We do that by constructing the new `PATH` value from
scratch, appending `$HOME/bin` (if `HOME` is set), then the MSYS2 system
directories, and then appending the original `PATH`.
Side note: this modification of the `PATH` variable is independent of
the modification necessary to reach the executables and scripts in
`/mingw64/libexec/git-core/`, i.e. the `GIT_EXEC_PATH`. That
modification is still performed by Git, elsewhere, long after making the
changes described above.
While we _still_ cannot simply hard-link `mingw64\bin\git.exe` to `cmd`
(because the former depends on a couple of `.dll` files that are only in
`mingw64\bin`, i.e. calling `...\cmd\git.exe` would fail to load due to
missing dependencies), at least we can now avoid that extra process of
running the Git wrapper (which then has to wait for the spawned
`git.exe` to finish) by calling `...\mingw64\bin\git.exe` directly, via
its absolute path.
Testing this is in Git's test suite tricky: we set up a "new" MSYS
pseudo-root and copy the `git.exe` file into the appropriate location,
then verify that `MSYSTEM` is set properly, and also that the `PATH` is
modified so that scripts can be found in `$HOME/bin`, `/mingw64/bin/`
and `/usr/bin/`.
This addresses https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2283
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
There is a Win32 API function to resolve symbolic links, and we can use
that instead of resolving them manually. Even better, this function also
resolves NTFS junction points (which are somewhat similar to bind
mounts).
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2481.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
NTFS junctions are somewhat similar in spirit to Unix bind mounts: they
point to a different directory and are resolved by the filesystem
driver. As such, they appear to `lstat()` as if they are directories,
not as if they are symbolic links.
_Any_ user can create junctions, while symbolic links can only be
created by non-administrators in Developer Mode on Windows 10. Hence
NTFS junctions are much more common "in the wild" than NTFS symbolic
links.
It was reported in https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2481
that adding files via an absolute path that traverses an NTFS junction:
since 1e64d18 (mingw: do resolve symlinks in `getcwd()`), we resolve not
only symbolic links but also NTFS junctions when determining the
absolute path of the current directory. The same is not true for `git
add <file>`, where symbolic links are resolved in `<file>`, but not NTFS
junctions.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In 4dc42c6c18 (mingw: refuse paths containing reserved names,
2019-12-21), we started disallowing file names that are reserved, e.g.
`NUL`, `CONOUT$`, etc.
This included `COM<n>` where `<n>` is a digit. Unfortunately, this
includes `COM0` but only `COM1`, ..., `COM9` are reserved, according to
the official documentation, `COM0` is mentioned in the "NT Namespaces"
section but it is explicitly _omitted_ from the list of reserved names:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file#naming-conventions
Tests corroborate this: it is totally possible to write a file called
`com0.c` on Windows 10, but not `com1.c`.
So let's tighten the code to disallow only the reserved `COM<n>` file
names, but to allow `COM0` again.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2470.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Windows' equivalent to "bind mounts", NTFS junction points, can be
unlinked without affecting the mount target. This is clearly what users
expect to happen when they call `git clean -dfx` in a worktree that
contains NTFS junction points: the junction should be removed, and the
target directory of said junction should be left alone (unless it is
inside the worktree).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We should not actually expect the first `attrib.exe` in the PATH to
be the one we are looking for. Or that it is in the PATH, for that
matter.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
It seems to be not exactly rare on Windows to install NTFS junction
points (the equivalent of "bind mounts" on Linux/Unix) in worktrees,
e.g. to map some development tools into a subdirectory.
In such a scenario, it is pretty horrible if `git clean -dfx` traverses
into the mapped directory and starts to "clean up".
Let's just not do that. Let's make sure before we traverse into a
directory that it is not a mount point (or junction).
This addresses https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/607
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When specifying an absolute path without a drive prefix, we convert that
path internally. Let's make sure that we handle that case properly, too
;-)
This fixes the command
git clone https://github.com/git-for-windows/git \G4W
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Windows, there are several categories of absolute paths. One such
category starts with a backslash and is implicitly relative to the
drive associated with the current working directory. Example:
c:
git clone https://github.com/git-for-windows/git \G4W
should clone into C:\G4W.
There is currently a problem with that, in that mingw_mktemp() does not
expect the _wmktemp() function to prefix the absolute path with the
drive prefix, and as a consequence, the resulting path does not fit into
the originally-passed string buffer. The symptom is a "Result too large"
error.
Reported by Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This happens only when the corresponding commits are not exported in
the current fast-export run. This can happen either when the relevant
commit is already marked, or when the commit is explicitly marked
as UNINTERESTING with a negative ref by another argument.
This breaks fast-export basec remote helpers.
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
We recently switched to using Perl instead of `sed` in the httpd-based
tests. Let's reflect that in the label we give the corresponding commit
hashes.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Updates to the CI settings.
* js/ci-windows-update:
Azure Pipeline: switch to the latest agent pools
ci: prevent `perforce` from being quarantined
t/lib-httpd: avoid using macOS' sed
"git describe" in a repository with multiple root commits sometimes
gave up looking for the best tag to describe a given commit with
too early, which has been adjusted.
* be/describe-multiroot:
describe: don't abort too early when searching tags
"git clone --recurse-submodules --single-branch" now uses the same
single-branch option when cloning the submodules.
* es/recursive-single-branch-clone:
clone: pass --single-branch during --recurse-submodules
submodule--helper: use C99 named initializer
"git rebase BASE BRANCH" rebased/updated the tip of BRANCH and
checked it out, even when the BRANCH is checked out in a different
worktree. This has been corrected.
* es/do-not-let-rebase-switch-to-protected-branch:
rebase: refuse to switch to branch already checked out elsewhere
t3400: make test clean up after itself
"git push" should stop from updating a branch that is checked out
when receive.denyCurrentBranch configuration is set, but it failed
to pay attention to checkouts in secondary worktrees. This has
been corrected.
* hv/receive-denycurrent-everywhere:
t2402: test worktree path when called in .git directory
receive.denyCurrentBranch: respect all worktrees
t5509: use a bare repository for test push target
get_main_worktree(): allow it to be called in the Git directory
In rare cases "git worktree add <path>" could think that <path>
was already a registered worktree even when it wasn't and refuse
to add the new worktree. This has been corrected.
* es/worktree-avoid-duplication-fix:
worktree: don't allow "add" validation to be fooled by suffix matching
worktree: add utility to find worktree by pathname
worktree: improve find_worktree() documentation
A configuration element used for credential subsystem can now use
wildcard pattern to specify for which set of URLs the entry
applies.
* bc/wildcard-credential:
credential: allow wildcard patterns when matching config
credential: use the last matching username in the config
t0300: add tests for some additional cases
t1300: add test for urlmatch with multiple wildcards
mailmap: add an additional email address for brian m. carlson
"git sparse-checkout" learned a new "add" subcommand.
* ds/sparse-add:
sparse-checkout: allow one-character directories in cone mode
sparse-checkout: work with Windows paths
sparse-checkout: create 'add' subcommand
sparse-checkout: extract pattern update from 'set' subcommand
sparse-checkout: extract add_patterns_from_input()
The bug which reports an extra `/.git/.` in worktree path when called in
'.git' directory already has been fixed. But unfortunately, the regression
test to ensure this behavior has been forgotten.
Here is that test.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Hariom Verma <hariom18599@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix for a bug revealed by a recent change to make the protocol v2
the default.
* ds/partial-clone-fixes:
partial-clone: avoid fetching when looking for objects
partial-clone: demonstrate bugs in partial fetch
The merge-recursive machinery failed to refresh the cache entry for
a merge result in a couple of places, resulting in an unnecessary
merge failure, which has been fixed.
* en/t3433-rebase-stat-dirty-failure:
merge-recursive: fix the refresh logic in update_file_flags
t3433: new rebase testcase documenting a stat-dirty-like failure
"git rebase" has learned to use the merge backend (i.e. the
machinery that drives "rebase -i") by default, while allowing
"--apply" option to use the "apply" backend (e.g. the moral
equivalent of "format-patch piped to am"). The rebase.backend
configuration variable can be set to customize.
* en/rebase-backend:
rebase: rename the two primary rebase backends
rebase: change the default backend from "am" to "merge"
rebase: make the backend configurable via config setting
rebase tests: repeat some tests using the merge backend instead of am
rebase tests: mark tests specific to the am-backend with --am
rebase: drop '-i' from the reflog for interactive-based rebases
git-prompt: change the prompt for interactive-based rebases
rebase: add an --am option
rebase: move incompatibility checks between backend options a bit earlier
git-rebase.txt: add more details about behavioral differences of backends
rebase: allow more types of rebases to fast-forward
t3432: make these tests work with either am or merge backends
rebase: fix handling of restrict_revision
rebase: make sure to pass along the quiet flag to the sequencer
rebase, sequencer: remove the broken GIT_QUIET handling
t3406: simplify an already simple test
rebase (interactive-backend): fix handling of commits that become empty
rebase (interactive-backend): make --keep-empty the default
t3404: directly test the behavior of interest
git-rebase.txt: update description of --allow-empty-message
"git check-ignore" did not work when the given path is explicitly
marked as not ignored with a negative entry in the .gitignore file.
* en/check-ignore:
check-ignore: fix documentation and implementation to match
The object reachability bitmap machinery and the partial cloning
machinery were not prepared to work well together, because some
object-filtering criteria that partial clones use inherently rely
on object traversal, but the bitmap machinery is an optimization
to bypass that object traversal. There however are some cases
where they can work together, and they were taught about them.
* jk/object-filter-with-bitmap:
rev-list --count: comment on the use of count_right++
pack-objects: support filters with bitmaps
pack-bitmap: implement BLOB_LIMIT filtering
pack-bitmap: implement BLOB_NONE filtering
bitmap: add bitmap_unset() function
rev-list: use bitmap filters for traversal
pack-bitmap: basic noop bitmap filter infrastructure
rev-list: allow commit-only bitmap traversals
t5310: factor out bitmap traversal comparison
rev-list: allow bitmaps when counting objects
rev-list: make --count work with --objects
rev-list: factor out bitmap-optimized routines
pack-bitmap: refuse to do a bitmap traversal with pathspecs
rev-list: fallback to non-bitmap traversal when filtering
pack-bitmap: fix leak of haves/wants object lists
pack-bitmap: factor out type iterator initialization
Among other differences relative to GNU sed, macOS' sed always ends its
output with a trailing newline, even if the input did not have such a
trailing newline.
Surprisingly, this makes three httpd-based tests fail on macOS: t5616,
t5702 and t5703. ("Surprisingly" because those tests have been around
for some time, but apparently nobody runs them on macOS with a working
Apache2 setup.)
The reason is that we use `sed` in those tests to filter the response of
the web server. Apart from the fact that we use GNU constructs (such as
using a space after the `c` command instead of a backslash and a
newline), we have another problem: macOS' sed LF-only newlines while
webservers are supposed to use CR/LF ones.
Even worse, t5616 uses `sed` to replace a binary part of the response
with a new binary part (kind of hoping that the replaced binary part
does not contain a 0x0a byte which would be interpreted as a newline).
To that end, it calls on Perl to read the binary pack file and
hex-encode it, then calls on `sed` to prefix every hex digit pair with a
`\x` in order to construct the text that the `c` statement of the `sed`
invocation is supposed to insert. So we call Perl and sed to construct a
sed statement. The final nail in the coffin is that macOS' sed does not
even interpret those `\x<hex>` constructs.
Let's just replace all of that by Perl snippets. With Perl, at least, we
do not have to deal with GNU vs macOS semantics, we do not have to worry
about unwanted trailing newlines, and we do not have to spawn commands
to construct arguments for other commands to be spawned (i.e. we can
avoid a whole lot of shell scripting complexity).
The upshot is that this fixes t5616, t5702 and t5703 on macOS with
Apache2.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When searching the commit graph for tag candidates, `git-describe`
will stop as soon as there is only one active branch left and
it already found an annotated tag as a candidate.
This works well as long as all branches eventually connect back
to a common root, but if the tags are found across branches
with no common ancestor
B
o----.
\
o-----o---o----x
A
it can happen that the search on one branch terminates prematurely
because a tag was found on another, independent branch. This scenario
isn't quite as obscure as it sounds, since cloning with a limited
depth often introduces many independent "dead ends" into the commit
graph.
The help text of `git-describe` states pretty clearly that when
describing a commit D, the number appended to the emitted tag X should
correspond to the number of commits found by `git log X..D`.
Thus, this commit modifies the stopping condition to only abort
the search when only one branch is left to search *and* all current
best candidates are descendants from that branch.
For repositories with a single root, this condition is always
true: When the search is reduced to a single active branch, the
current commit must be an ancestor of *all* tag candidates. This
means that in the common case, this change will have no negative
performance impact since the same number of commits as before will
be traversed.
Signed-off-by: Benno Evers <benno@bmevers.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git remote rename X Y" needs to adjust configuration variables
(e.g. branch.<name>.remote) whose value used to be X to Y.
branch.<name>.pushRemote is now also updated.
* bw/remote-rename-update-config:
remote rename/remove: gently handle remote.pushDefault config
config: provide access to the current line number
remote rename/remove: handle branch.<name>.pushRemote config values
remote: clean-up config callback
remote: clean-up by returning early to avoid one indentation
pull --rebase/remote rename: document and honor single-letter abbreviations rebase types
