The option is deprecated now, and we better make sure that keeps saying
so until we finally remove it.
Suggested by Kevin Willford.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
It was a bad idea to just remove that option from Git for Windows
v2.15.0, as early users of that (still experimental) option would have
been puzzled what they are supposed to do now.
So let's reintroduce the flag, but make sure to show the user good
advice how to fix this going forward.
We'll remove this option in a more orderly fashion either in v2.16.0 or
in v2.17.0.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When a third-party tool periodically runs `git status` in order to keep
track of the state of the working tree, it is a bad idea to lock the
index: it might interfere with interactive commands executed by the
user, e.g. when the user wants to commit files.
Git for Windows introduced the `--no-lock-index` option a long time ago
to fix that (it made it into Git for Windows v2.9.2(3)) by simply
avoiding to write that file.
The downside is that the periodic `git status` calls will be a little
bit more wasteful because they may have to refresh the index repeatedly,
only to throw away the updates when it exits. This cannot really be
helped, though, as tools wanting to get a periodic update of the status
have no way to predict when the user may want to lock the index herself.
Sadly, a competing approach was submitted (by somebody who apparently
has less work on their plate than this maintainer) that made it into
v2.15.0 but is *different*: instead of a `git status`-only option, it is
an option that comes *before* the Git command and is called differently,
too.
Let's give previous users a chance to upgrade to newer Git for Windows
versions by handling the `--no-lock-index` option, still, though with a
big fat warning.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In 2.28-rc0, we corrected a bug that some repository extensions are
honored by mistake even in a version 0 repositories (these
configuration variables in extensions.* namespace were supposed to
have special meaning in repositories whose version numbers are 1 or
higher), but this was a bit too big a change.
* jn/v0-with-extensions-fix:
repository: allow repository format upgrade with extensions
Revert "check_repository_format_gently(): refuse extensions for old repositories"
Now that we officially permit repository extensions in repository
format v0, permit upgrading a repository with extensions from v0 to v1
as well.
For example, this means a repository where the user has set
"extensions.preciousObjects" can use "git fetch --filter=blob:none
origin" to upgrade the repository to use v1 and the partial clone
extension.
To avoid mistakes, continue to forbid repository format upgrades in v0
repositories with an unrecognized extension. This way, a v0 user
using a misspelled extension field gets a chance to correct the
mistake before updating to the less forgiving v1 format.
While we're here, make the error message for failure to upgrade the
repository format a bit shorter, and present it as an error, not a
warning.
Reported-by: Huan Huan Chen <huanhuanchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit 14c7fa269e.
The core.repositoryFormatVersion field was introduced in ab9cb76f66
(Repository format version check., 2005-11-25), providing a welcome
bit of forward compatibility, thanks to some welcome analysis by
Martin Atukunda. The semantics are simple: a repository with
core.repositoryFormatVersion set to 0 should be comprehensible by all
Git implementations in active use; and Git implementations should
error out early instead of trying to act on Git repositories with
higher core.repositoryFormatVersion values representing new formats
that they do not understand.
A new repository format did not need to be defined until 00a09d57eb
(introduce "extensions" form of core.repositoryformatversion,
2015-06-23). This provided a finer-grained extension mechanism for
Git repositories. In a repository with core.repositoryFormatVersion
set to 1, Git implementations can act on "extensions.*" settings that
modify how a repository is interpreted. In repository format version
1, unrecognized extensions settings cause Git to error out.
What happens if a user sets an extension setting but forgets to
increase the repository format version to 1? The extension settings
were still recognized in that case; worse, unrecognized extensions
settings do *not* cause Git to error out. So combining repository
format version 0 with extensions settings produces in some sense the
worst of both worlds.
To improve that situation, since 14c7fa269e
(check_repository_format_gently(): refuse extensions for old
repositories, 2020-06-05) Git instead ignores extensions in v0 mode.
This way, v0 repositories get the historical (pre-2015) behavior and
maintain compatibility with Git implementations that do not know about
the v1 format. Unfortunately, users had been using this sort of
configuration and this behavior change came to many as a surprise:
- users of "git config --worktree" that had followed its advice
to enable extensions.worktreeConfig (without also increasing the
repository format version) would find their worktree configuration
no longer taking effect
- tools such as copybara[*] that had set extensions.partialClone in
existing repositories (without also increasing the repository format
version) would find that setting no longer taking effect
The behavior introduced in 14c7fa269e might be a good behavior if we
were traveling back in time to 2015, but we're far too late. For some
reason I thought that it was what had been originally implemented and
that it had regressed. Apologies for not doing my research when
14c7fa269e was under development.
Let's return to the behavior we've had since 2015: always act on
extensions.* settings, regardless of repository format version. While
we're here, include some tests to describe the effect on the "upgrade
repository version" code path.
[*] ca76c0b1e1
Reported-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix to the code to produce progress bar, which is new in the
upcoming release.
* tb/commit-graph-no-check-oids:
commit-graph: fix "Collecting commits from input" progress line
The code to produce progress output from "git commit-graph --write"
had a few breakages, which have been fixed.
* sg/commit-graph-progress-fix:
commit-graph: fix "Writing out commit graph" progress counter
commit-graph: fix progress of reachable commits
When an aliased command, whose output is piped to a pager by git,
gets killed by a signal, the pager got into a funny state, which
has been corrected (again).
* ta/wait-on-aliased-commands-upon-signal:
Wait for child on signal death for aliases to externals
Wait for child on signal death for aliases to builtins
To display a progress line while reading commits from standard input
and looking them up, 5b6653e523 (builtin/commit-graph.c: dereference
tags in builtin, 2020-05-13) should have added a pair of
start_delayed_progress() and stop_progress() calls around the loop
reading stdin. Alas, the stop_progress() call ended up at the wrong
place, after write_commit_graph(), which does all the commit-graph
computation and writing, and has several progress lines of its own.
Consequently, that new
Collecting commits from input: 1234
progress line is overwritten by the first progress line shown by
write_commit_graph(), and its final "done" line is shown last, after
everything is finished:
$ { sleep 3 ; git rev-list -3 HEAD ; sleep 1 ; } | ~/src/git/git commit-graph write --stdin-commits
Expanding reachable commits in commit graph: 873402, done.
Writing out commit graph in 4 passes: 100% (3493608/3493608), done.
Collecting commits from input: 3, done.
Furthermore, that stop_progress() call was added after the 'cleanup'
label, where that loop reading stdin jumps in case of an error. In
case of invalid input this then results in the "done" line shown after
the error message:
$ { sleep 3 ; git rev-list -3 HEAD ; echo junk ; } | ~/src/git/git commit-graph write --stdin-commits
error: unexpected non-hex object ID: junk
Collecting commits from input: 3, done.
Move that stop_progress() call to the right place.
While at it, drop the unnecessary 'if (progress)' condition protecting
the stop_progress() call, because that function is prepared to handle
a NULL progress struct.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of `git diff` goes through several different invocations
(numbering added by me):
1. git diff [<options>] [--] [<path>...]
2. git diff [<options>] --no-index [--] <path> <path>
3. git diff [<options>] --cached [<commit>] [--] [<path>...]
4. git diff [<options>] <commit> [--] [<path>...]
5. git diff [<options>] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...]
6. git diff [<options>] <commit>..<commit> [--] [<path>...]
7. git diff [<options>] <commit> <commit>... <commit> [--] [<path>...]
8. git diff [<options>] <commit>...<commit> [--] [<path>...]
It then goes on to say that "all of the <commit> in the above
description, except in the last two forms that use '..' notations, can
be any <tree>". The "last two" actually refers to 6 and 8. This got out
of sync in commit b7e10b2ca2 ("Documentation: usage for diff combined
commits", 2020-06-12) which added item 7 to the mix.
As a further complication, after b7e10b2ca2 we also have some potential
confusion around "the '..' notation". The "..[.]" in items 6 and 8 are
part of the rev notation, whereas the "..." in item 7 is manpage
language for "one or more".
Move item 6 down, i.e., to between 7 and 8, to restore the ordering.
Because 6 refers to 5 ("synonymous to the previous form") we need to
tweak the language a bit.
An added bonus of this commit is that we're trying to steer users away
from `git diff <commit>..<commit>` and moving it further down probably
doesn't hurt.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit b7e10b2ca2 ("Documentation: usage for diff combined commits",
2020-06-12) modified the synopsis by adding an optional "[<commit>...]"
to
'git diff' [<options>] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...]
to effectively add
'git diff' [<options>] <commit> <commit>... <commit> [--] [<path>...]
as another valid invocation. Which makes sense.
Further down, in the description, it left the existing entry for
'git diff' [<options>] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...]
intact and added a new entry on
'git diff' [<options>] <commit> [<commit>...] <commit> [--] [<path>...]
where it says that "[t]his form is to view the results of a merge
commit" and details how "the first listed commit must be the merge
itself". But one possible instantiation of this form is `git diff
<commit> <commit>` for which the added text doesn't really apply.
Remove the brackets so that we lose this overlap between the two
descriptions. We can still use the more compact representation in the
synopsis.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git often requests `strbuf_realpath(path + "/.git")`, where "./git" does
not yet exist on disk.
This causes the following to happen:
1. `mingw_strbuf_realpath()` fails
2. Non-mingw `strbuf_realpath()` does the work
3. Result of `strbuf_realpath()` is slightly different, for example it
will not normalize the case of disk/folder names
4. `needs_work_tree_config()` becomes confused by these differences
5. clone adds `core.worktree` setting
This in turn causes various problems, for example:
1. Repository folder can no longer be renamed/moved without breaking it
2. Using the repository on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) doesn't
work, because it has windows-style path saved
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2569
Co-Authored-By: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
This change enhances `git commit --cleanup=scissors` by detecting
scissors lines ending in either LF (UNIX-style) or CR/LF (DOS-style).
Regression tests are included to specifically test for trailing
comments after a CR/LF-terminated scissors line.
Signed-off-by: Luke Bonanomi <lbonanomi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
As of Git for Windows v2.27.0, there is an option to use Windows'
newly-introduced Pseudo Console support. When running an interactive add
operation with this support enabled, Git will receive CR/LF line
endings.
Therefore, let's not pretend that we are expecting Unix line endings.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2729
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/2637, we fixed a bug
where symbolic links' target path sizes were recorded incorrectly in the
index.
However, we did so only in `mingw_lstat()` but not in `fscache_lstat()`.
Meaning: in code paths where the FSCache feature is enabled, Git _still_
got the wrong idea if the symbolic link target's length.
Let's fix this.
Note: as the FSCache feature reads in whole swaths of directory entries
in batch mode, even if metadata for only one of them might be required,
we save the expensive `CreateFile()` call that is required to compute
the symbolic link target's length to the `fscache_lstat()` call.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2653.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/2637, we fixed a bug
where symbolic links' target path sizes were recorded incorrectly in the
index. The downside of this fix was that every user with tracked
symbolic links in their checkouts would see them as modified in `git
status`, but not in `git diff`, and only a `git add <path>` (or `git add
-u`) would "fix" this.
Let's do better than that: we can detect that situation and simply
pretend that a symbolic link with a known bad size (or a size that just
happens to be that bad size, a _very_ unlikely scenario because it would
overflow our buffers due to the trailing NUL byte) means that it needs
to be re-checked as if we had just checked it out.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This topic branch re-adds the deprecated --stdin/-z options to `git
reset`. Those patches were overridden by a different set of options in
the upstream Git project before we could propose `--stdin`.
We offered this in MinGit to applications that wanted a safer way to
pass lots of pathspecs to Git, and these applications will need to be
adjusted.
Instead of `--stdin`, `--pathspec-from-file=-` should be used, and
instead of `-z`, `--pathspec-file-nul`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This branch allows third-party tools to call `git status
--no-lock-index` to avoid lock contention with the interactive Git usage
of the actual human user.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We already avoid traversing NTFS junction points in `git clean -dfx`.
With this topic branch, we do that when the FSCache is enabled, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When updating the skip-worktree bits in the index to align with new
values in a sparse-checkout file, Git scans the entire working
directory with lstat() calls. In a sparse-checkout, many of these
lstat() calls are for paths that do not exist.
Enable the fscache feature during this scan.
In a local test of a repo with ~2.2 million paths, updating the index
with `git read-tree -m -u HEAD` with a sparse-checkout file containing
only `/.gitattributes` improved from 2-3 minutes to 15-20 seconds.
More work could be done to stop running lstat() calls when recursing
into directories that are known to not exist.
This brings substantial wins in performance because the FSCache is now
per-thread, being merged to the primary thread only at the end, so we do
not have to lock (except while merging).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>