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>
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>
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>
The native Windows HTTPS backend is based on Secure Channel which lets
the caller decide how to handle revocation checking problems caused by
missing information in the certificate or offline CRL distribution
points.
Unfortunately, cURL chose to handle these problems differently than
OpenSSL by default: while OpenSSL happily ignores those problems
(essentially saying "¯\_(ツ)_/¯"), the Secure Channel backend will error
out instead.
As a remedy, the "no revoke" mode was introduced, which turns off
revocation checking altogether. This is a bit heavy-handed. We support
this via the `http.schannelCheckRevoke` setting.
In https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/4981, we contributed an opt-in
"best effort" strategy that emulates what OpenSSL seems to do.
In Git for Windows, we actually want this to be the default. This patch
makes it so, introducing it as a new value for the
`http.schannelCheckRevoke" setting, which now becmes a tristate: it
accepts the values "false", "true" or "best-effort" (defaulting to the
last one).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.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>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Schneider <oliver@assarbad.net>
To set the default hash algorithm you can set the `GIT_DEFAULT_HASH`
environment variable. In the documentation this variable is named
`GIT_DEFAULT_HASH_ALGORITHM`, which is incorrect.
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The explanation of the `--show-pulls` option added in commit 8d049e182e
("revision: --show-pulls adds helpful merges", 2020-04-10) consists of
several paragraphs and we use "+" throughout to tie them together in one
long chain of list continuations. Only thing is, we're not in any kind
of list, so these pluses end up being rendered literally.
The preceding few paragraphs describe `--ancestry-path` and there we
*do* have a list, since we've started one with `--ancestry-path::`. In
fact, we have several such lists for all the various history-simplifying
options we're discussing earlier in this file.
Thus, we're missing a list both from a consistency point of view and
from a practical rendering standpoint.
Let's start a list for `--show-pulls` where we start actually discussing
the option, and keep the paragraphs preceding it out of that list. That
is, drop all those pluses before the new list we're adding here.
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When building with asciidoc-8.4.5 (as found on CentOS/Red Hat 6), the
period in the "[[files-in-.gitignore-are-tracked]]" anchor is not
properly parsed as a section:
WARNING: gitfaq.txt: line 245: missing [[files-in-.gitignore-are-tracked]] section
The resulting XML file fails to validate with xmlto:
xmlto: /git/Documentation/gitfaq.xml does not validate (status 3)
xmlto: Fix document syntax or use --skip-validation option
/git/Documentation/gitfaq.xml:3: element refentry: validity error :
Element refentry content does not follow the DTD, expecting
(beginpage? , indexterm* , refentryinfo? , refmeta? , (remark | link
| olink | ulink)* , refnamediv+ , refsynopsisdiv? , (refsect1+ |
refsection+)), got (refmeta refnamediv refsynopsisdiv refsect1
refsect1 refsect1 refsect1 variablelist refsect1 refsect1 )
Document /git/Documentation/gitfaq.xml does not validate
Let's avoid breaking users of platforms which ship an old version of
asciidoc, since the cost to do so is quite low.
Reported-by: Son Luong Ngoc <sluongng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various doc fixes.
* ma/doc-fixes:
git-sparse-checkout.txt: add missing '
git-credential.txt: use list continuation
git-commit-graph.txt: fix list rendering
git-commit-graph.txt: fix grammo
date-formats.txt: fix list continuation
Where we explain the 'reapply' command, we don't properly wrap it in
single quote marks like we do with the other commands: We omit the
closing mark ("'reapply") and this ends up being rendered literally as
"'reapply". Add the missing "'".
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use list continuation to avoid the second and third paragraphs
rendering with a different indentation from the first one where we
describe the "url" attribute.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first list item follows immediately on the paragraph where we
introduce the list. This makes the "*" render literally as part of one
huge paragraph. (With AsciiDoc, everything is fine after that, but with
Asciidoctor, we get some minor follow-on errors.) Add an empty line --
with a list continuation ("+") -- to make the first list item render ok.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's easy to mix up the possessive "its" and "it's" ("it is"). Correct
an instance of this.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The blank line before the lone "+" means it isn't detected as a list
continuation, but instead renders literally, at least with AsciiDoc.
Drop the empty line and, while at it, add a closing period to the
preceding paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The strftime(3) man page is outside of the Git suite. Refererence it as
we do other external man pages and avoid creating a broken link when
generating the HTML documentation.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code cleanup and typofixes
* ds/bloom-cleanup:
completion: offer '--(no-)patch' among 'git log' options
bloom: use num_changes not nr for limit detection
bloom: de-duplicate directory entries
Documentation: changed-path Bloom filters use byte words
bloom: parse commit before computing filters
test-bloom: fix usage typo
bloom: fix whitespace around tab length
Minor in-code comments and documentation updates around credential
API.
* cb/credential-doc-fixes:
credential: document protocol updates
credential: update gitcredentials documentation
credential: correct order of parameters for credential_match
credential: update description for credential_from_url_gently
In Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt, the definition
of the BIDX chunk specifies the length is a number of 8-byte words.
During development we discovered that using 8-byte words in the
Murmur3 hash algorithm causes issues with big-endian versus little-
endian machines. Thus, the hash algorithm was adapted to work on a
byte-by-byte basis. However, this caused a change in the definition
of a "word" in bloom.h. Now, a "word" is a single byte, which allows
filters to be as small as two bytes. These length-two filters are
demonstrated in t0095-bloom.sh, and a larger filter of length 25 is
demonstrated as well.
The original point of using 8-byte words was for alignment reasons.
It also presented opportunities for extremely sparse Bloom filters
when there were a small number of changes at a commit, creating a
very low false-positive rate. However, modifying the format at this
point is unlikely to be a valuable exercise. Also, this use of
single-byte granularity does present opportunities to save space.
It is unclear if 8-byte alignment of the filters would present any
meaningful performance benefits.
Modify the format document to reflect reality.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When selecting a batch of pack-files to repack in the "git
multi-pack-index repack" command, Git should respect the
repack.packKeptObjects config option. When false, this option says that
the pack-files with an associated ".keep" file should not be repacked.
This config value is "false" by default.
There are two cases for selecting a batch of objects. The first is the
case where the input batch-size is zero, which specifies "repack
everything". The second is with a non-zero batch size, which selects
pack-files using a greedy selection criteria. Both of these cases are
updated and tested.
Reported-by: Son Luong Ngoc <sluongng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git restore --staged --worktree" now defaults to take the contents
out of "HEAD", instead of erring out.
* es/restore-staged-from-head-by-default:
restore: default to HEAD when combining --staged and --worktree
The coding guideline for shell scripts instructed to refer to a
variable with dollar-sign inside arithmetic expansion to work
around a bug in old versions of dash, which is a thing of the past.
Now we are not forbidden from writing $((var+1)).
* jk/arith-expansion-coding-guidelines:
CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x"
The samples in the credential documentation has been updated to
make it clear that we depict what would appear in the .git/config
file, by adding appropriate quotes as needed..
* jk/credential-sample-update:
gitcredentials(7): make shell-snippet example more realistic
gitcredentials(7): clarify quoting of helper examples
With the recent tightening of the code that is used to parse
various parts of a URL for use in the credential subsystem, a
hand-edited credential-store file causes the credential helper to
die, which is a bit too harsh to the users. Demote the error
behaviour to just ignore and keep using well-formed lines instead.
* cb/credential-store-ignore-bogus-lines:
credential-store: ignore bogus lines from store file
credential-store: document the file format a bit more
Occasionally a failure a user is seeing may be related to a specific
hook which is being run, perhaps without the user realizing. While the
contents of hooks can be sensitive - containing user data or process
information specific to the user's organization - simply knowing that a
hook is being run at a certain stage can help us to understand whether
something is going wrong.
Without a definitive list of hook names within the code, we compile our
own list from the documentation. This is likely prone to bitrot, but
designing a single source of truth for acceptable hooks is too much
overhead for this small change to the bugreport tool.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document protocol changes after CVE-2020-11008, including the removal of
references to the override of attributes which is no longer recommended
after CVE-2020-5260 and that might be removed in the future.
While at it do some improvements for clarity and consistency.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify the expected effect of all attributes and how the helpers
are expected to handle them and the context where they operate.
While at it, space the descriptions for clarity, and add a paragraph
mentioning the early termination in the list processing of helpers,
to complement the one about the special "quit" attribute.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an issue in 'Common Issues' section which addresses the confusion
between performing a 'fetch' and a 'pull'.
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitcredentials(7) already mentions several possible invocations that one
can use as the value for credential.helper. However, many people are
not aware that there are other options than a simple credential helper
name, so let's place some explanatory text in the documentation for
credential.helper as well.
We still refer the user to gitcredential(7) for additional explanations
and helpful examples.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add issue in 'Common Issues' section which addresses the problem of
Git tracking files/paths mentioned in '.gitignore'.
Signed-off-by: Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In documentation pertaining to autostash behavior, we refer to the
"stash reflog". This description is too low-level as the reflog refers
to an implementation detail of how the stash works and, for end-users,
they do not need to be aware of this at all.
Change references of "stash reflog" to "stash list", which should
provide more accessible terminology for end-users.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
