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 job runs the test suite twice, once in regular mode, and once with
a whole slew of `GIT_TEST_*` variables set.
Now that the built-in version of `git add --interactive` is
feature-complete, let's also throw `GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX` into that
fray.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When `interactive.singlekey = true`, we react immediately to keystrokes,
even to Escape sequences (e.g. when pressing a cursor key).
The problem with Escape sequences is that we do not really know when
they are done, and as a heuristic we poll standard input for half a
second to make sure that we got all of it.
While waiting half a second is not asking for a whole lot, it can become
quite annoying over time, therefore with this patch, we read the
terminal capabilities (if available) and extract known Escape sequences
from there, then stop polling immediately when we detected that the user
pressed a key that generated such a known sequence.
This recapitulates the remaining part of b5cc003253 (add -i: ignore
terminal escape sequences, 2011-05-17).
Note: We do *not* query the terminal capabilities directly. That would
either require a lot of platform-specific code, or it would require
linking to a library such as ncurses.
Linking to a library in the built-ins is something we try very hard to
avoid (we even kicked the libcurl dependency to a non-built-in remote
helper, just to shave off a tiny fraction of a second from Git's startup
time). And the platform-specific code would be a maintenance nightmare.
Even worse: in Git for Windows' case, we would need to query MSYS2
pseudo terminals, which `git.exe` simply cannot do (because it is
intentionally *not* an MSYS2 program).
To address this, we simply spawn `infocmp -L -1` and parse its output
(which works even in Git for Windows, because that helper is included in
the end-user facing installations).
This is done only once, as in the Perl version, but it is done only when
the first Escape sequence is encountered, not upon startup of `git add
-i`; This saves on startup time, yet makes reacting to the first Escape
sequence slightly more sluggish. But it allows us to keep the
terminal-related code encapsulated in the `compat/terminal.c` file.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This recapitulates part of b5cc003253 (add -i: ignore terminal escape
sequences, 2011-05-17):
add -i: ignore terminal escape sequences
On the author's terminal, the up-arrow input sequence is ^[[A, and
thus fat-fingering an up-arrow into 'git checkout -p' is quite
dangerous: git-add--interactive.perl will ignore the ^[ and [
characters and happily treat A as "discard everything".
As a band-aid fix, use Term::Cap to get all terminal capabilities.
Then use the heuristic that any capability value that starts with ^[
(i.e., \e in perl) must be a key input sequence. Finally, given an
input that starts with ^[, read more characters until we have read a
full escape sequence, then return that to the caller. We use a
timeout of 0.5 seconds on the subsequent reads to avoid getting stuck
if the user actually input a lone ^[.
Since none of the currently recognized keys start with ^[, the net
result is that the sequence as a whole will be ignored and the help
displayed.
Note that we leave part for later which uses "Term::Cap to get all
terminal capabilities", for several reasons:
1. it is actually not really necessary, as the timeout of 0.5 seconds
should be plenty sufficient to catch Escape sequences,
2. it is cleaner to keep the change to special-case Escape sequences
separate from the change that reads all terminal capabilities to
speed things up, and
3. in practice, relying on the terminal capabilities is a bit overrated,
as the information could be incomplete, or plain wrong. For example,
in this developer's tmux sessions, the terminal capabilities claim
that the "cursor up" sequence is ^[M, but the actual sequence
produced by the "cursor up" key is ^[[A.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The Perl version of `git add -p` supports this config setting to allow
users to input commands via single characters (as opposed to having to
press the <Enter> key afterwards).
This is an opt-in feature because it requires Perl packages
(Term::ReadKey and Term::Cap, where it tries to handle an absence of the
latter package gracefully) to work. Note that at least on Ubuntu, that
Perl package is not installed by default (it needs to be installed via
`sudo apt-get install libterm-readkey-perl`), so this feature is
probably not used a whole lot.
In C, we obviously do not have these packages available, but we just
introduced `read_single_keystroke()` that is similar to what
Term::ReadKey provides, and we use that here.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Typically, input on the command-line is line-based. It is actually not
really easy to get single characters (or better put: keystrokes).
We provide two implementations here:
- One that handles `/dev/tty` based systems as well as native Windows.
The former uses the `tcsetattr()` function to put the terminal into
"raw mode", which allows us to read individual keystrokes, one by one.
The latter uses `stty.exe` to do the same, falling back to direct
Win32 Console access.
Thanks to the refactoring leading up to this commit, this is a single
function, with the platform-specific details hidden away in
conditionally-compiled code blocks.
- A fall-back which simply punts and reads back an entire line.
Note that the function writes the keystroke into an `strbuf` rather than
a `char`, in preparation for reading Escape sequences (e.g. when the
user hit an arrow key). This is also required for UTF-8 sequences in
case the keystroke corresponds to a non-ASCII letter.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git for Windows' Git Bash runs in MinTTY by default, which does not have
a Win32 Console instance, but uses MSYS2 pseudo terminals instead.
This is a problem, as Git for Windows does not want to use the MSYS2
emulation layer for Git itself, and therefore has no direct way to
interact with that pseudo terminal.
As a workaround, use the `stty` utility (which is included in Git for
Windows, and which *is* an MSYS2 program, so it knows how to deal with
the pseudo terminal).
Note: If Git runs in a regular CMD or PowerShell window, there *is* a
regular Win32 Console to work with. This is not a problem for the MSYS2
`stty`: it copes with this scenario just fine.
Also note that we introduce support for more bits than would be
necessary for a mere `disable_echo()` here, in preparation for the
upcoming `enable_non_canonical()` function.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We are about to introduce the function `enable_non_canonical()`, which
shares almost the complete code with `disable_echo()`.
Let's prepare for that, by refactoring out that shared code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The Perl version of `git add -p` reads the config setting
`diff.algorithm` and if set, uses it to generate the diff using the
specified algorithm.
This patch ports that functionality to the C version.
To make sure that this works as intended, we add a regression test case
that tries to specify a bogus diff algorithm and then verifies that `git
diff-files` produced the expected error message.
Note: In that new test case, we actually ignore the exit code of `git
add -p`. The reason is that the C version exits with failure (as one
might expect), but the Perl version does not.
In fact, the Perl version continues happily after the uncolored diff
failed, trying to generate the colored diff, still not catching the
problem, and then it pretends to have succeeded (with exit code 0).
This is arguably a bug in the Perl version, and fixing it is safely
outside the scope of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The Perl version supports post-processing the colored diff (that is
generated in addition to the uncolored diff, intended to offer a
prettier user experience) by a command configured via that config
setting, and now the built-in version does that, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The built-in `git add -i` machinery obviously has its `the_repository`
structure initialized at the point where `cmd_commit()` calls it, and
therefore does not look at the environment variable `GIT_INDEX_FILE`.
But when being called from `commit --interactive`, it has to, because
the index was already locked in that case, and we want to ask the
interactive add machinery to work on the `index.lock` file instead of
the `index` file.
Technically, we could teach `run_add_i()`, or for that matter
`run_add_p()`, to look specifically at that environment variable, but
the entire idea of passing in a parameter of type `struct repository *`
is to allow working on multiple repositories (and their index files)
independently.
So let's instead override the `index_file` field of that structure
temporarily.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This is a straight-forward port of 2f0896ec3a (restore: support
--patch, 2019-04-25) which added support for `git restore -p`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This patch teaches the built-in `git add -p` machinery all the tricks it
needs to know in order to act as the work horse for `git checkout -p`.
Apart from the minor changes (slightly reworded messages, different
`diff` and `apply --check` invocations), it requires a new function to
actually apply the changes, as `git checkout -p` is a bit special in
that respect: when the desired changes do not apply to the index, but
apply to the work tree, Git does not fail straight away, but asks the
user whether to apply the changes to the worktree at least.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The scripted version of `git stash` called directly into the Perl script
`git-add--interactive.perl`, and this was faithfully converted to C.
However, we have a much better way to do this now: call the internal API
directly, which will now incidentally also respect the
`add.interactive.useBuiltin` setting. Let's just do this.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
As `git add` traditionally did not expose the `--patch=<mode>` modes via
command-line options, the scripted version of `git stash` had to call
`git add--interactive` directly.
But this prevents the built-in `add -p` from kicking in, as
`add--interactive` is the scripted version (which does not have a
"fall-back" to the built-in version).
So let's introduce support for internal switch for `git add` that the
scripted `git stash` can use to call the appropriate backend (scripted
or built-in, depending on `add.interactive.useBuiltin`).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The `git stash` and `git reset` commands support a `--patch` option, and
both simply hand off to `git add -p` to perform that work. Let's teach
the built-in version of that command to be able to perform that work, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The Perl script backing `git add -p` is used not only for that command,
but also for `git stash -p`, `git reset -p` and `git checkout -p`.
In preparation for teaching the C version of `git add -p` to support
also the latter commands, let's abstract away what is "stage" specific
into a dedicated data structure describing the differences between the
patch modes.
Finally, please note that the Perl version tries to make sure that the
diffs are only generated for the modified files. This is not actually
necessary, as the calls to Git's diff machinery already perform that
work, and perform it well. This makes it unnecessary to port the
`FILTER` field of the `%patch_modes` struct, as well as the
`get_diff_reference()` function.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Technical details of the bundle format has been documented.
I think this is in a good enough shape.
* ms/doc-bundle-format:
doc: describe Git bundle format
"git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of
the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or
the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did. Now these
settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode.
* pb/do-not-recurse-grep-no-index:
grep: ignore --recurse-submodules if --no-index is given
Corner case bugs in "git clean" that stems from a (necessarily for
performance reasons) awkward calling convention in the directory
enumeration API has been corrected.
* en/fill-directory-fixes-more:
dir: point treat_leading_path() warning to the right place
dir: restructure in a way to avoid passing around a struct dirent
dir: treat_leading_path() and read_directory_recursive(), round 2
clean: demonstrate a bug with pathspecs
Clarify documentation on committer/author identities.
* bc/author-committer-doc:
doc: provide guidance on user.name format
docs: expand on possible and recommended user config options
doc: move author and committer information to git-commit(1)
Work around test breakages caused by custom regex engine used in
libasan, when address sanitizer is used with more recent versions
of gcc and clang.
* jk/asan-build-fix:
Makefile: use compat regex with SANITIZE=address
The code recently added in this release to move to the entry beyond
the ones in the same directory in the index in the sparse-cone mode
did not count the number of entries to skip over incorrectly, which
has been corrected.
* ds/sparse-cone:
.mailmap: fix GGG authoship screwup
unpack-trees: correctly compute result count
"git restore --staged" did not correctly update the cache-tree
structure, resulting in bogus trees to be written afterwards, which
has been corrected.
* nd/switch-and-restore:
restore: invalidate cache-tree when removing entries with --staged
Reduce unnecessary round-trip when running "ls-remote" over the
stateless RPC mechanism.
* jk/no-flush-upon-disconnecting-slrpc-transport:
transport: don't flush when disconnecting stateless-rpc helper
Complete an update to tutorial that encourages "git switch" over
"git checkout" that was done only half-way.
* hw/tutorial-favor-switch-over-checkout:
doc/gitcore-tutorial: fix prose to match example command
The code that tries to skip over the entries for the paths in a
single directory using the cache-tree was not careful enough
against corrupt index file.
* es/unpack-trees-oob-fix:
unpack-trees: watch for out-of-range index position
has_object_file() said "no" given an object registered to the
system via pretend_object_file(), making it inconsistent with
read_object_file(), causing lazy fetch to attempt fetching an
empty tree from promisor remotes.
* jt/sha1-file-remove-oi-skip-cached:
sha1-file: remove OBJECT_INFO_SKIP_CACHED
"git commit" gives output similar to "git status" when there is
nothing to commit, but without honoring the advise.statusHints
configuration variable, which has been corrected.
* hw/commit-advise-while-rejecting:
commit: honor advice.statusHints when rejecting an empty commit
This fix makes using Git credentials more friendly to Windows users. In
previous version it was unable to finish input correctly without
configuration changes (tested in PowerShell, CMD, Cygwin).
We know credential filling should be finished by empty input, but the
current implementation does not take into account CR/LF ending, and
hence instead of the empty string we get '\r', which is interpreted as
an incorrect string.
So this commit changes default reading function to a more Windows
compatible reading function.
Signed-off-by: Nikita Leonov <nykyta.leonov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
