The gitmodules API accessed from the C code learned to cache stuff
lazily.
* hv/submodule-config:
submodule: allow erroneous values for the fetchRecurseSubmodules option
submodule: use new config API for worktree configurations
submodule: extract functions for config set and lookup
submodule: implement a config API for lookup of .gitmodules values
"git config --list" output was hard to parse when values consist of
multiple lines. "--name-only" option is added to help this.
* sg/config-name-only:
get_urlmatch: avoid useless strbuf write
format_config: simplify buffer handling
format_config: don't init strbuf
config: restructure format_config() for better control flow
completion: list variable names reliably with 'git config --name-only'
config: add '--name-only' option to list only variable names
"interpret-trailers" helper mistook a single-liner log message that
has a colon as the end of existing trailer.
* cc/trailers-corner-case-fix:
trailer: retitle a test and correct an in-comment message
trailer: ignore first line of message
The experimental untracked-cache feature were buggy when paths with
a few levels of subdirectories are involved.
* dt/untracked-subdir:
untracked cache: fix entry invalidation
untracked-cache: fix subdirectory handling
"git am" that was recently reimplemented in C had a performance
regression in "git am --abort" that goes back to the version before
an attempted (and failed) patch application.
* pt/am-builtin-abort-fix:
am --skip/--abort: merge HEAD/ORIG_HEAD tree into index
After "git am --opt1" stops, running "git am --opt2" pays attention
to "--opt2" only for the patch that caused the original invocation
to stop.
* pt/am-builtin-options:
am: let --signoff override --no-signoff
am: let command-line options override saved options
test_terminal: redirect child process' stdin to a pty
When linked worktree is used, simultaneous "notes merge" instances
for the same ref in refs/notes/* are prevented from stomping on
each other.
* dt/notes-multiple:
notes: handle multiple worktrees
worktrees: add find_shared_symref
When looking for the start of the trailers in the message
we are passed, we should ignore the first line of the message.
The reason is that if we are passed a patch or commit message
then the first line should be the patch title.
If we are passed only trailers we can expect that they start
with an empty line that can be ignored too.
This way we can properly process commit messages that have
only one line with something that looks like a trailer, for
example like "area of code: change we made".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git_path() and mkpath() are handy helper functions but it is easy
to misuse, as the callers need to be careful to keep the number of
active results below 4. Their uses have been reduced.
* jk/git-path:
memoize common git-path "constant" files
get_repo_path: refactor path-allocation
find_hook: keep our own static buffer
refs.c: remove_empty_directories can take a strbuf
refs.c: avoid git_path assignment in lock_ref_sha1_basic
refs.c: avoid repeated git_path calls in rename_tmp_log
refs.c: simplify strbufs in reflog setup and writing
path.c: drop git_path_submodule
refs.c: remove extra git_path calls from read_loose_refs
remote.c: drop extraneous local variable from migrate_file
prefer mkpathdup to mkpath in assignments
prefer git_pathdup to git_path in some possibly-dangerous cases
add_to_alternates_file: don't add duplicate entries
t5700: modernize style
cache.h: complete set of git_path_submodule helpers
cache.h: clarify documentation for git_path, et al
"git clone $URL", when cloning from a site whose sole purpose is to
host a single repository (hence, no path after <scheme>://<site>/),
tried to use the site name as the new repository name, but did not
remove username or password when <site> part was of the form
<user>@<pass>:<host>. The code is taught to redact these.
* ps/guess-repo-name-at-root:
clone: abort if no dir name could be guessed
clone: do not use port number as dir name
clone: do not include authentication data in guessed dir
"git clone $URL" in recent releases of Git contains a regression in
the code that invents a new repository name incorrectly based on
the $URL. This has been corrected.
* jk/guess-repo-name-regression-fix:
clone: use computed length in guess_dir_name
clone: add tests for output directory
A negative !ref entry in multi-value transfer.hideRefs
configuration can be used to say "don't hide this one".
* jk/negative-hiderefs:
refs: support negative transfer.hideRefs
docs/config.txt: reorder hideRefs config
Running tests with the "-x" option to make them verbose had some
unpleasant interactions with other features of the test suite.
* jk/test-with-x:
test-lib: disable trace when test is not verbose
test-lib: turn off "-x" tracing during chain-lint check
t1509 test that requires a dedicated VM environment had some
bitrot, which has been corrected.
* ps/t1509-chroot-test-fixup:
tests: fix cleanup after tests in t1509-root-worktree
tests: fix broken && chains in t1509-root-worktree
We should not die when reading the submodule config cache since the
user might not be able to get out of that situation when the
configuration is part of the history.
We should handle this condition later when the value is about to be
used.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We remove the extracted functions and directly parse into and read out
of the cache. This allows us to have one unified way of accessing
submodule configuration values specific to single submodules. Regardless
whether we need to access a configuration from history or from the
worktree.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a superproject some commands need to interact with submodules. They
need to query values from the .gitmodules file either from the worktree
of from certain revisions. At the moment this is quite hard since a
caller would need to read the .gitmodules file from the history and then
parse the values. We want to provide an API for this so we have one
place to get values from .gitmodules from any revision (including the
worktree).
The API is realized as a cache which allows us to lazily read
.gitmodules configurations by commit into a runtime cache which can then
be used to easily lookup values from it. Currently only the values for
path or name are stored but it can be extended for any value needed.
It is expected that .gitmodules files do not change often between
commits. Thats why we lookup the .gitmodules sha1 from a commit and then
either lookup an already parsed configuration or parse and cache an
unknown one for each sha1. The cache is lazily build on demand for each
requested commit.
This cache can be used for all purposes which need knowledge about
submodule configurations. Example use cases are:
* Recursive submodule checkout needs to lookup a submodule name from
its path when a submodule first appears. This needs be done before
this configuration exists in the worktree.
* The implementation of submodule support for 'git archive' needs to
lookup the submodule name to generate the archive when given a
revision that is not checked out.
* 'git fetch' when given the --recurse-submodules=on-demand option (or
configuration) needs to lookup submodule names by path from the
database rather than reading from the worktree. For new submodule it
needs to lookup the name from its path to allow cloning new
submodules into the .git folder so they can be checked out without
any network interaction when the user does a checkout of that
revision.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After running "git am --abort", and then running "git reset --hard",
files that were not modified would still be re-checked out.
This is because clean_index() in builtin/am.c mistakenly called the
read_tree() function, which overwrites all entries in the index,
including the stat info.
"git am --skip" did not seem to have this issue because am_skip() called
am_run(), which called refresh_cache() to update the stat info. However,
there's still a performance penalty as the lack of stat info meant that
refresh_cache() would have to scan all files for changes.
Fix this by using unpack_trees() instead to merge the tree into the
index, so that the stat info from the index is kept.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
First, the current code in untracked_cache_invalidate_path() is wrong
because it can only handle paths "a" or "a/b", not "a/b/c" because
lookup_untracked() only looks for entries directly under the given
directory. In the last case, it will look for the entry "b/c" in
directory "a" instead. This means if you delete or add an entry in a
subdirectory, untracked cache may become out of date because it does not
invalidate properly. This is noticed by David Turner.
The second problem is about invalidation inside a fully untracked/excluded
directory. In this case we may have to invalidate back to root. See the
comment block for detail.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, some calls lookup_untracked would pass a full path. But
lookup_untracked assumes that the portion of the path up to and
including to the untracked_cache_dir has been removed. So
lookup_untracked would be looking in the untracked_cache for 'foo' for
'foo/bar' (instead of just looking for 'bar'). This would cause
untracked cache corruption.
Instead, treat_directory learns to track the base length of the parent
directory, so that only the last path component is passed to
lookup_untracked.
Helped-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When in the middle of t7063, we are sure untracked cache is supported,
so we can use --force-untracked-cache to skip the support detection
phase and save a few seconds. It's also good that --force-untracked-cache
is exercised in the test suite.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow untracked cache (experimental) to be used when sparse
checkout (experimental) is also in use.
* dt/untracked-sparse:
untracked-cache: support sparse checkout
"git pull --rebase" has been taught to pay attention to
rebase.autostash configuration.
* kd/pull-rebase-autostash:
pull: allow dirty tree when rebase.autostash enabled
The code to perform multi-tree merges has been taught to repopulate
the cache-tree upon a successful merge into the index, so that
subsequent "diff-index --cached" (hence "status") and "write-tree"
(hence "commit") will go faster.
The same logic in "git checkout" may now be removed, but that is a
separate issue.
* dt/unpack-trees-cache-tree-revalidate:
unpack-trees: populate cache-tree on successful merge
Tests that assume how reflogs are represented on the filesystem too
much have been corrected.
* dt/reflog-tests:
tests: remove some direct access to .git/logs
t/t7509: remove unnecessary manipulation of reflog
The "new-worktree-mode" hack in "checkout" that was added in
nd/multiple-work-trees topic has been removed by updating the
implementation of new "worktree add".
* es/worktree-add-cleanup: (25 commits)
Documentation/git-worktree: fix duplicated 'from'
Documentation/config: mention "now" and "never" for 'expire' settings
Documentation/git-worktree: fix broken 'linkgit' invocation
checkout: drop intimate knowledge of newly created worktree
worktree: populate via "git reset --hard" rather than "git checkout"
worktree: avoid resolving HEAD unnecessarily
worktree: make setup of new HEAD distinct from worktree population
worktree: detect branch-name/detached and error conditions locally
worktree: add_worktree: construct worktree-population command locally
worktree: elucidate environment variables intended for child processes
worktree: make branch creation distinct from worktree population
worktree: add: suppress auto-vivication with --detach and no <branch>
worktree: make --detach mutually exclusive with -b/-B
worktree: introduce options container
worktree: simplify new branch (-b/-B) option checking
worktree: improve worktree setup message
branch: publish die_if_checked_out()
checkout: teach check_linked_checkout() about symbolic link HEAD
checkout: check_linked_checkout: simplify symref parsing
checkout: check_linked_checkout: improve "already checked out" aesthetic
...
Code and documentation clean-up to "git bisect".
* ad/bisect-cleanup:
bisect: don't mix option parsing and non-trivial code
bisect: simplify the addition of new bisect terms
bisect: replace hardcoded "bad|good" by variables
Documentation/bisect: revise overall content
Documentation/bisect: move getting help section to the end
bisect: correction of typo
After resolving a conflicting patch, a user may wish to sign off the
patch to declare that the patch has been modified. As such, the user
will expect that running "git am --signoff --continue" will append the
signoff to the commit message.
However, the --signoff option is only taken into account during the
mail-parsing stage. If the --signoff option is set, then the signoff
will be appended to the commit message. Since the mail-parsing stage
comes before the patch application stage, the --signoff option, if
provided on the command-line when resuming, will have no effect at all.
We cannot move the append_signoff() call to the patch application stage
as the applypatch-msg hook and interactive mode, which run before patch
application, may expect the signoff to be there.
Fix this by taking note if the user explictly set the --signoff option
on the command-line, and append the signoff to the commit message when
resuming if so.
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When resuming, git-am mistakenly ignores command-line options.
For instance, when a patch fails to apply with "git am patch",
subsequently running "git am --3way" would not cause git-am to fall
back on attempting a threeway merge. This occurs because by default
the --3way option is saved as "false", and the saved am options are
loaded after the command-line options are parsed, thus overwriting
the command-line options when resuming.
Fix this by moving the am_load() function call before parse_options(),
so that command-line options will override the saved am options.
The purpose of supporting this use case is to enable users to "wiggle"
that one conflicting patch. As such, it is expected that the
command-line options do not affect subsequent applied patches. Implement
this by calling am_load() once we apply the conflicting patch
successfully.
Noticed-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When resuming, git-am detects if we are trying to feed it patches or not
by checking if stdin is a TTY.
However, the test library redirects stdin to /dev/null. This makes it
difficult, for instance, to test the behavior of "git am -3" when
resuming, as git-am will think we are trying to feed it patches and
error out.
Support this use case by extending test-terminal.perl to create a
pseudo-tty for the child process' standard input as well.
Note that due to the way the code is structured, the child's stdin
pseudo-tty will be closed when we finish reading from our stdin. This
means that in the common case, where our stdin is attached to /dev/null,
the child's stdin pseudo-tty will be closed immediately. Some operations
like isatty(), which git-am uses, require the file descriptor to be
open, and hence if the success of the command depends on such functions,
test_terminal's stdin should be redirected to a source with large amount
of data to ensure that the child's stdin is not closed, e.g.
test_terminal git am --3way </dev/zero
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A test case introduced by ae454f61 (Add tests for wildcard "path vs ref"
disambiguation) allocates a file named '*.c'. This does not work on
Windows, because the OS forbids file names containing wildcard
characters. The test case fails where the shell attempts to allocate the
file. Skip the test on Windows.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A test case introduced by 91479b9c (t7300: add tests to document
behavior of clean and nested git) uses 'chmod 0' to verify that a
subdirectory that has an unreadable .git file is not removed. This can
work only when the system pays attention to the permissions set with
'chmod'. Therefore, set the POSIXPERM prerequisite on the test case.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before creating NOTES_MERGE_REF, check NOTES_MERGE_REF using
find_shared_symref and die if we find one. This prevents simultaneous
merges to the same notes branch from different worktrees.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Reviewed-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The add_to_alternates_file function blindly uses
hold_lock_file_for_append to copy the existing contents, and
then adds the new line to it. This has two minor problems:
1. We might add duplicate entries, which are ugly and
inefficient.
2. We do not check that the file ends with a newline, in
which case we would bogusly append to the final line.
This is quite unlikely in practice, though, as we call
this function only from git-clone, so presumably we are
the only writers of the file (and we always add a
newline).
Instead of using hold_lock_file_for_append, let's copy the
file line by line, which ensures all records are properly
terminated. If we see an extra line, we can simply abort the
update (there is no point in even copying the rest, as we
know that it would be identical to the original).
As a bonus, we also get rid of some calls to the
static-buffer mkpath and git_path functions.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The early part of this test is rather old, and does not
follow our usual style guidelines. In particular:
- the tests liberally chdir, and expect out-of-test "cd"
commands to return them to a sane state
- test commands aren't indented at all
- there are a lot of minor formatting nits, like the
opening quote of the test block on the wrong line,
spaces after ">", etc
This patch fixes the style issues, and uses a few helper
functions, along with subshells and "git -C", to avoid
changing the cwd of the main script.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the URI contains a port number and the URI's path component is
empty we fail to guess a sensible directory name. E.g. cloning a
repository 'ssh://example.com:2222/' we guess a directory name
'2222' where we would want the hostname only, e.g. 'example.com'.
We need to take care to not drop trailing port-like numbers in
certain cases. E.g. when cloning a repository 'foo/bar:2222.git'
we want to guess the directory name '2222' instead of 'bar'.
Thus, we have to first check the stripped URI for path separators
and only strip port numbers if there are path separators present.
This heuristic breaks when cloning a repository 'bar:2222.git',
though.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the URI contains authentication data and the URI's path
component is empty, we fail to guess a sensible directory name.
E.g. cloning a repository 'ssh://user:password@example.com/' we
guess a directory name 'password@example.com' where we would want
the hostname only, e.g. 'example.com'.
The naive way of just adding '@' as a path separator would break
cloning repositories like 'foo/bar@baz.git' (which would
currently become 'bar@baz' but would then become 'baz' only).
Instead fix this by first dropping the scheme and then greedily
scanning for an '@' sign until we find the first path separator.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 7e837c6 (clone: simplify string handling in
guess_dir_name(), 2015-07-09) changed clone to use
strip_suffix instead of hand-rolled pointer manipulation.
However, strip_suffix will strip from the end of a
NUL-terminated string, and we may have already stripped some
characters (like directory separators, or "/.git"). This
leads to commands like:
git clone host:foo.git/
failing to strip the ".git".
We must instead convert our pointer arithmetic into a
computed length and feed that to strip_suffix_mem, which will
then reduce the length further for us.
It would be nicer if we could drop the pointer manipulation
entirely, and just continually strip using strip_suffix. But
that doesn't quite work for two reasons:
1. The early suffixes we're stripping are not constant; we
need to look for is_dir_sep, which could be one of
several characters.
2. Mid-way through the stripping we compute the pointer
"start", which shows us the beginning of the pathname.
Which really give us two lengths to work with: the
offset from the start of the string, and from the start
of the path. By using pointers for the early part, we
can just compute the length from "start" when we need
it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we run "git clone $url", clone guesses from the $url
what to name the local output directory. We don't have any
test coverage of this, so let's add some basic tests.
This reveals a few problems:
- cloning "foo.git/" does not properly remove the ".git";
this is a recent regression from 7e837c6 (clone:
simplify string handling in guess_dir_name(), 2015-07-09)
- likewise, cloning foo/.git does not seem to handle the
bare case (we should end up in foo.git, but we try to
use foo/.git on the local end), which also comes from
7e837c6.
- cloning the root is not very smart about URL parsing,
and usernames and port numbers may end up in the
directory name
All of these tests are marked as failures.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git config' can only show values or name-value pairs, so if a shell
script needs the names of set config variables it has to run 'git config
--list' or '--get-regexp' and parse the output to separate config
variable names from their values. However, such a parsing can't cope
with multi-line values. Though 'git config' can produce null-terminated
output for newline-safe parsing, that's of no use in such a case, becase
shells can't cope with null characters.
Even our own bash completion script suffers from these issues.
Help the completion script, and shell scripts in general, by introducing
the '--name-only' option to modify the output of '--list' and
'--get-regexp' to list only the names of config variables, so they don't
have to perform error-prone post processing to separate variable names
from their values anymore.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "-x" test-script option turns on the shell's "-x"
tracing, which can help show why a particular test is
failing. Unfortunately, this can create false negatives in
some tests if they invoke a shell function with its stderr
redirected. t5512.10 is such a test, as it does:
test_must_fail git ls-remote refs*master >actual 2>&1 &&
test_cmp exp actual
The "actual" file gets the "-x" trace for the test_must_fail
function, which prevents it from matching the expected
output.
There's no way to avoid this without managing the
trace flag inside each sub-function, which isn't really a
workable solution. But unless you specifically care about
t5512.10, we can work around it by enabling tracing only for
the specific tests we want.
You can already do:
./t5512-ls-remote.sh -x --verbose-only=16
to see the trace only for a specific test. But that doesn't
_disable_ the tracing in the other tests; it just sends it
to /dev/null. However, there's no point in generating a
trace that the user won't see, so we can simply disable
tracing whenever it doesn't have a matching verbose flag.
The normal case of just "./t5512-ls-remote.sh -x" stays the
same, as "-x" already implies "--verbose" (and
"--verbose-only" overrides "--verbose", which is why this
works at all). And for our test, we need only check
$verbose, as maybe_setup_verbose will have already
set that flag based on the $verbose_only list).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT is on by default, running:
./t0000-basic.sh -x --verbose-only=1
starts with:
expecting success:
find .git/objects -type f -print >should-be-empty &&
test_line_count = 0 should-be-empty
+ exit 117
error: last command exited with $?=117
+ find .git/objects -type f -print
+ test_line_count = 0 should-be-empty
+ test 3 != 3
+ wc -l
+ test 0 = 0
ok 1 - .git/objects should be empty after git init in an empty repo
This is confusing, as the "exit 117" line and the error line
(which is printed in red, no less!) are not part of the test
at all, but are rather in the separate chain-lint test_eval.
Let's unset the "trace" variable when eval-ing the chain
lint check, which avoids this.
Note that we cannot just do a one-shot variable like:
trace= test_eval ...
as the behavior of one-shot variables for function calls
is not portable.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you hide a hierarchy of refs using the transfer.hideRefs
config, there is no way to later override that config to
"unhide" it. This patch implements a "negative" hide which
causes matches to immediately be marked as unhidden, even if
another match would hide it. We take care to apply the
matches in reverse-order from how they are fed to us by the
config machinery, as that lets our usual "last one wins"
config precedence work (and entries in .git/config, for
example, will override /etc/gitconfig).
So you can now do:
$ git config --system transfer.hideRefs refs/secret
$ git config transfer.hideRefs '!refs/secret/not-so-secret'
to hide refs/secret in all repos, except for one public bit
in one specific repo. Or you can even do:
$ git clone \
-u "git -c transfer.hiderefs="!refs/foo" upload-pack" \
remote:repo.git
to clone remote:repo.git, overriding any hiding it has
configured.
There are two alternatives that were considered and
rejected:
1. A generic config mechanism for removing an item from a
list. E.g.: (e.g., "[transfer] hideRefs -= refs/foo").
This is nice because it could apply to other
multi-valued config, as well. But it is not nearly as
flexible. There is no way to say:
[transfer]
hideRefs = refs/secret
hideRefs = refs/secret/not-so-secret
Having explicit negative specifications means we can
override previous entries, even if they are not the
same literal string.
2. Adding another variable to override some parts of
hideRefs (e.g., "exposeRefs").
This solves the problem from alternative (1), but it
cannot easily obey the normal config precedence,
because it would use two separate lists. For example:
[transfer]
hideRefs = refs/secret
exposeRefs = refs/secret/not-so-secret
hideRefs = refs/secret/not-so-secret/no-really-its-secret
With two lists, we have to apply the "expose" rules
first, and only then apply the "hide" rules. But that
does not match what the above config intends.
Of course we could internally parse that to a single
list, respecting the ordering, which saves us having to
invent the new "!" syntax. But using a single name
communicates to the user that the ordering _is_
important. And "!" is well-known for negation, and
should not appear at the beginning of a ref (it is
actually valid in a ref-name, but all entries here
should be fully-qualified, starting with "refs/").
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano