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>
Newer versions of xsltproc can assign IDs in HTML documents it
generates in a consistent manner. Use the feature to help format
HTML version of the user manual reproducibly.
* ae/doc-reproducible-html:
doc: make HTML manual reproducible
The glossary described a branch as an "active" line of development,
which is misleading---a stale and non-moving branch is still a
branch.
* so/glossary-branch-is-not-necessarily-active:
glossary: improve "branch" definition
"git $cmd $args", when $cmd is not a recognised subcommand, by
default tries to see if $cmd is a typo of an existing subcommand
and optionally executes the corrected command if there is only one
possibility, depending on the setting of help.autocorrect; the
users can now disable the whole thing, including the cycles spent
to find a likely typo, by setting the configuration variable to
'never'.
* dd/help-autocorrect-never:
help.c: help.autocorrect=never means "do not compute suggestions"
Code clean-up.
* ma/grep-init-default:
MyFirstObjectWalk: drop `init_walken_defaults()`
grep: copy struct in one fell swoop
grep: use designated initializers for `grep_defaults`
grep: don't set up a "default" repo for grep
The transport layer was taught to optionally exchange the session
ID assigned by the trace2 subsystem during fetch/push transactions.
* js/trace2-session-id:
receive-pack: log received client session ID
send-pack: advertise session ID in capabilities
upload-pack, serve: log received client session ID
fetch-pack: advertise session ID in capabilities
transport: log received server session ID
serve: advertise session ID in v2 capabilities
receive-pack: advertise session ID in v0 capabilities
upload-pack: advertise session ID in v0 capabilities
trace2: add a public function for getting the SID
docs: new transfer.advertiseSID option
docs: new capability to advertise session IDs
Various subcommands of "git config" that takes value_regex
learn the "--literal-value" option to take the value_regex option
as a literal string.
* ds/config-literal-value:
config doc: value-pattern is not necessarily a regexp
config: implement --fixed-value with --get*
config: plumb --fixed-value into config API
config: add --fixed-value option, un-implemented
t1300: add test for --replace-all with value-pattern
t1300: test "set all" mode with value-pattern
config: replace 'value_regex' with 'value_pattern'
config: convert multi_replace to flags
"git update-ref --stdin" learns to take multiple transactions in a
single session.
* ps/update-ref-multi-transaction:
update-ref: disallow "start" for ongoing transactions
p1400: use `git-update-ref --stdin` to test multiple transactions
update-ref: allow creation of multiple transactions
t1400: avoid touching refs on filesystem
"git-parse-remote" shell script library outlived its usefulness.
* ab/retire-parse-remote:
submodule: fix fetch_in_submodule logic
parse-remote: remove this now-unused library
submodule: remove sh function in favor of helper
submodule: use "fetch" logic instead of custom remote discovery
Versions of docbook-xsl newer than 1.79.1 allows xsltproc to assign
IDs to nodes in the generated HTML consistently, to make the output
resulting from the same source stable and reproducible.
Pass the generate.consistent.ids parameter from the command line to
ask for this feature. Older versions of the tool simply ignores the
parameter and produces their output the same way as before this
change, so there is no need to check for toolchain version.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Engelen <arnout@bzzt.net>
Helped-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Helped-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old phrasing is at least questionable, if not wrong, as there are
a lot of branches out there that didn't see active development for
years, yet they are still branches, ready to become active again any
time.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Multiple "credential-store" backends can race to lock the same
file, causing everybody else but one to fail---reattempt locking
with some timeout to reduce the rate of the failure.
* sa/credential-store-timeout:
crendential-store: use timeout when locking file
Expectation for the original contributor after responding to a
review comment to use the explanation in a patch update has been
described.
* jc/do-not-just-explain-but-update-your-patch:
MyFirstContribition: answering questions is not the end of the story
Fix an option name in "gc" documentation.
* ab/gc-keep-base-option:
gc: rename keep_base_pack variable for --keep-largest-pack
gc docs: change --keep-base-pack to --keep-largest-pack
In a recent commit, we stopped calling `init_grep_defaults()` from this
function. Thus, by the end of the tutorial, we still haven't added any
contents to this function. Let's remove it for simplicity.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The introductory part of the "git config --help" mentions the
optional value-pattern argument, but give no hint that it can be
something other than a regular expression (worse, it just says
"POSIX regexp", which usually means BRE but the regexp the command
takes is ERE). Also, it needs to be documented that the '!' prefix
to negate the match, which is only mentioned in this part of the
document, works only with regexp and not with the --fixed-value.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'git config' builtin takes a 'value-pattern' parameter for several
actions. This can cause confusion when expecting exact value matches
instead of regex matches, especially when the input string contains
metacharacters. While callers can escape the patterns themselves, it
would be more friendly to allow an argument to disable the pattern
matching in favor of an exact string match.
Add a new '--fixed-value' option that does not currently change the
behavior. The implementation will be filled in by later changes for
each appropriate action. For now, check and test that --fixed-value
will abort the command when included with an incompatible action or
without a 'value-pattern' argument.
The name '--fixed-value' was chosen over something simpler like
'--fixed' because some commands allow regular expressions on the
key in addition to the value.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'value_regex' argument in the 'git config' builtin is poorly named,
especially related to an upcoming change that allows exact string
matches instead of ERE pattern matches.
Perform a mostly mechanical change of every instance of 'value_regex' to
'value_pattern' in the codebase. This is only critical for documentation
and error messages, but it is best to be consistent inside the codebase,
too.
For documentation, use 'value-pattern' which is better punctuation. This
affects Documentation/git-config.txt and the usage in builtin/config.c,
which was already mixed between 'value_regex' and 'value-regex'.
I gave some thought to leaving the value_regex variables inside config.c
that are regex_t pointers. However, it is probably best to keep the name
consistent with the rest of the variables.
This does not update the translations inside the po/ directory, as that
creates conflicts with ongoing work. The input strings should
automatically update through automation, and a few of the output strings
currently use "[value_regex]" directly.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While help.autocorrect can be set to 0 to decline auto-execution of
possibly mistyped commands, it still spends cycles to compute the
suggestions, and it wastes screen real estate.
Update help.autocorrect to accept the string "never" to just exit
with error upon mistyped commands to help users who prefer to never
see suggested corrections at all.
While at it, introduce "immediate" as a more readable way to
immediately execute the auto-corrected command, which can be done
with negative value.
Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When holding the lock for rewriting the credential file, use a timeout
to avoid race conditions when the credentials file needs to be updated
in parallel.
An example would be doing `fetch --all` on a repository with several
remotes that need credentials, using parallel fetching.
The timeout can be configured using "credentialStore.lockTimeoutMS",
defaulting to 1 second.
Signed-off-by: Simão Afonso <simao.afonso@powertools-tech.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Emit a trace2 error event whenever warning() is called, just like when
die(), error(), or usage() is called.
This helps debugging issues that would trigger warnings but not errors.
In particular, this might have helped debugging an issue I encountered
with commit graphs at $DAYJOB [1].
There is a tradeoff between including potentially relevant messages and
cluttering up the trace output produced. I think that warning() messages
should be included in traces, because by its nature, Git is used over
multiple invocations of the Git tool, and a failure (currently traced)
in a Git invocation might be caused by an unexpected interaction in a
previous Git invocation that only has a warning (currently untraced) as
a symptom - as is the case in [1].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200629220744.1054093-1-jonathantanmy@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A review exchange may begin with a reviewer asking "what did you
mean by this phrase in your log message (or here in the doc)?", the
author answering what was meant, and then the reviewer saying "ah,
that is what you meant---then the flow of the logic makes sense".
But that is not the happy end of the story. New contributors often
forget that the material that has been reviewed in the above exchange
is still unclear in the same way to the next person who reads it,
until it gets updated.
While we are in the vicinity, rephrase the verb "request" used to
refer to comments by reviewers to "suggest"---this matches the
contrast between "original" and "suggested" that appears later in
the same paragraph, and more importantly makes it clearer that it is
not like authors are to please reviewers' wishes but rather
reviewers are merely helping authors to polish their commits.
Reviewed-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rev-parse" learned the "--end-of-options" to help scripts to
safely take a parameter that is supposed to be a revision, e.g.
"git rev-parse --verify -q --end-of-options $rev".
* jk/rev-parse-end-of-options:
rev-parse: handle --end-of-options
rev-parse: put all options under the "-" check
rev-parse: don't accept options after dashdash
The maximum length of output filenames "git format-patch" creates
has become configurable (used to be capped at 64).
* jc/format-patch-name-max:
format-patch: make output filename configurable
In 15fabd1bbd ("builtin/grep.c: make configuration callback more
reusable", 2012-10-09), we learned to fill a `static struct grep_opt
grep_defaults` which we can use as a blueprint for other such structs.
At the time, we didn't consider designated initializers to be widely
useable, but these days, we do. (See, e.g., cbc0f81d96 ("strbuf: use
designated initializers in STRBUF_INIT", 2017-07-10).)
Use designated initializers to let the compiler set up the struct and so
that we don't need to remember to call `init_grep_defaults()`.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`init_grep_defaults()` fills a `static struct grep_opt grep_defaults`.
This struct is then used by `grep_init()` as a blueprint for other such
structs. Notably, `grep_init()` takes a `struct repo *` and assigns it
into the target struct.
As a result, it is unnecessary for us to take a `struct repo *` in
`init_grep_defaults()` as well. We assign it into the default struct and
never look at it again. And in light of how we return early if we have
already set up the default struct, it's not just unnecessary, but is
also a bit confusing: If we are called twice and with different repos,
is it a bug or a feature that we ignore the second repo?
Drop the repo parameter for `init_grep_defaults()`.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --keep-base-pack option never existed in git.git. It was the name
for the --keep-largest-pack option in earlier revisions of that series
before it landed as ae4e89e549 ("gc: add --keep-largest-pack option",
2018-04-15).
The later patches in that series[1][2] weren't changed to also refer
to --keep-largest-pack, so we've had this reference to a nonexisting
option ever since the feature initially landed.
1. 55dfe13df9 ("gc: add gc.bigPackThreshold config", 2018-04-15)
2. 9806f5a7bf ("gc --auto: exclude base pack if not enough mem to
"repack -ad"", 2018-04-15)
Reported-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git blame -L :funcname -- path" did not work well for a path for
which a userdiff driver is defined.
* pb/blame-funcname-range-userdiff:
blame: simplify 'setup_blame_bloom_data' interface
blame: simplify 'setup_scoreboard' interface
blame: enable funcname blaming with userdiff driver
line-log: mention both modes in 'blame' and 'log' short help
doc: add more pointers to gitattributes(5) for userdiff
blame-options.txt: also mention 'funcname' in '-L' description
doc: line-range: improve formatting
doc: log, gitk: move '-L' description to 'line-range-options.txt'
Parts of "git maintenance" to ease writing crontab entries (and
other scheduling system configuration) for it.
* ds/maintenance-part-3:
maintenance: add troubleshooting guide to docs
maintenance: use 'incremental' strategy by default
maintenance: create maintenance.strategy config
maintenance: add start/stop subcommands
maintenance: add [un]register subcommands
for-each-repo: run subcommands on configured repos
maintenance: add --schedule option and config
maintenance: optionally skip --auto process
While git-update-ref has recently grown commands which allow interactive
control of transactions in e48cf33b61 (update-ref: implement interactive
transaction handling, 2020-04-02), it is not yet possible to create
multiple transactions in a single session. To do so, one currently still
needs to invoke the executable multiple times.
This commit addresses this shortcoming by allowing the "start" command
to create a new transaction if the current transaction has already been
either committed or aborted.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous two commits removed the last use of a function in this
library, but most of it had been dead code for a while[1][2]. Only the
"get_default_remote" function was still being used.
Even though we had a manual page for this library it was never
intended (or I expect, actually) used outside of git.git. Let's just
remove it, if anyone still cares about a function here they can pull
them into their own project[3].
1. Last use of error_on_missing_default_upstream():
d03ebd411c ("rebase: remove the rebase.useBuiltin setting",
2019-03-18)
2. Last use of get_remote_merge_branch(): 49eb8d39c7 ("Remove
contrib/examples/*", 2018-03-25)
3. https://lore.kernel.org/git/87a6vmhdka.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document a new config option that allows users to determine whether or
not to advertise their session IDs to remote Git clients and servers.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In future patches, we will add the ability for Git servers and clients
to advertise unique session IDs via protocol capabilities. This
allows for easier debugging when both client and server logs are
available.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation on the "--abbrev=<n>" option did not say the
output may be longer than "<n>" hexdigits, which has been
clarified.
* jc/abbrev-doc:
doc: clarify that --abbrev=<n> is about the minimum length
