An interchange format for stash entries is defined, and subcommand
of "git stash" to import/export has been added.
* bc/stash-export-import:
builtin/stash: provide a way to import stashes from a ref
builtin/stash: provide a way to export stashes to a ref
builtin/stash: factor out revision parsing into a function
object-name: make get_oid quietly return an error
"git stash" recorded a wrong branch name when submodules are
present in the current checkout, which has been corrected.
* kj/stash-onbranch-submodule-fix:
stash: fix incorrect branch name in stash message
Now that we have a way to export stashes to a ref, let's provide a way
to import them from such a ref back to the stash. This works much the
way the export code does, except that we strip off the first parent
chain commit and then store each resulting commit back to the stash.
We don't clear the stash first and instead add the specified stashes to
the top of the stash. This is because users may want to export just a
few stashes, such as to share a small amount of work in progress with a
colleague, and it would be undesirable for the receiving user to lose
all of their data. For users who do want to replace the stash, it's
easy to do to: simply run "git stash clear" first.
We specifically rely on the fact that we'll produce identical stash
commits on both sides in our tests. This provides a cheap,
straightforward check for our tests and also makes it easy for users to
see if they already have the same data in both repositories.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A common user problem is how to sync in-progress work to another
machine. Users currently must use some sort of transfer of the working
tree, which poses security risks and also necessarily causes the index
to become dirty. The experience is suboptimal and frustrating for
users.
A reasonable idea is to use the stash for this purpose, but the stash is
stored in the reflog, not in a ref, and as such it cannot be pushed or
pulled. This also means that it cannot be saved into a bundle or
preserved elsewhere, which is a problem when using throwaway development
environments.
In addition, users often want to replicate stashes across machines, such
as when they must use multiple machines or when they use throwaway dev
environments, such as those based on the Devcontainer spec, where they
might otherwise lose various in-progress work.
Let's solve this problem by allowing the user to export the stash to a
ref (or, to just write it into the repository and print the hash, à la
git commit-tree). Introduce git stash export, which writes a chain of
commits where the first parent is always a chain to the previous stash,
or to a single, empty commit (for the final item) and the second is the
stash commit normally written to the reflog.
Iterate over each stash from top to bottom, looking up the data for each
one, and then create the chain from the single empty commit back up in
reverse order. Generate a predictable empty commit so our behavior is
reproducible. Create a useful commit message, preserving the author and
committer information, to help users identify stash commits when viewing
them as normal commits.
If the user has specified specific stashes they'd like to export
instead, use those instead of iterating over all of the stashes.
As part of this, specifically request quiet behavior when looking up the
OID for a revision because we will eventually hit a revision that
doesn't exist and we don't want to die when that occurs.
When exporting stashes, be sure to verify that they look like valid
stashes and don't contain invalid data. This will help avoid failures
on import or problems due to attempting to export invalid refs that are
not stashes.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We allow several special forms of stash names in this code. In the
future, we'll want to allow these same forms without parsing a stash
commit, so let's refactor this code out into a function for reuse.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When creating a stash, Git uses the current branch name
of the superproject to construct the stash commit message.
However, in repositories with submodules,
the message may mistakenly display the submodule branch name instead.
This is because `refs_resolve_ref_unsafe()` returns a pointer to a static buffer.
Subsequent calls to the same function overwrite the buffer,
corrupting the originally fetched `branch_name` used for the stash message.
Use `xstrdup()` to duplicate the branch name immediately after resolving it,
so that later buffer overwrites do not affect the stash message.
Signed-off-by: K Jayatheerth <jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The support for assuming "push" when "-p" is given introduced in
9e140909f6 (stash: allow pathspecs in the no verb form, 2017-02-28) is
very narrow, neither "git stash -m <message> -p <pathspec>" nor "git
stash --patch <pathspec>" imply "push" and die instead. Relax this by
passing PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION when push is being assumed and then
setting "force_assume" if "--patch" was present. This means "git stash
<pathspec> -p" still dies so that it does not assume the user meant
"push" if they mistype a subcommand name but "git stash -m <message> -p
<pathspec>" will now succeed. The test added in the last commit is
adjusted to check that push is still assumed when "--patch" comes after
other options on the command-line.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Historically "git stash [<options>]" was assumed to mean "git stash save
[<options>]". Since 1ada5020b3 (stash: use stash_push for no verb form,
2017-02-28) it is assumed to mean "git stash push [<options>]". As the
push subcommand supports pathspecs, 9e140909f6 (stash: allow pathspecs
in the no verb form, 2017-02-28) allowed "git stash -p <pathspec>" to
mean "git stash push -p <pathspec>". This was broken in 8c3713cede
(stash: eliminate crude option parsing, 2020-02-17) which failed to
account for "push" being added to the start of argv in cmd_stash()
before it calls push_stash() and kept looking in argv[0] for "-p" after
moving the code to push_stash().
Fix this by regression by checking argv[1] instead of argv[0] and add a
couple of tests to prevent future regressions.
Helped-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
stash was modified to use merge_ort_nonrecursive() instead of
merge_recursive_generic() back in commit 874cf2a604 (stash: apply
stash using 'merge_ort_nonrecursive()', 2022-05-10). That makes the
inclusion of merge-recursive.h unnecessary. In preparation for the
removal of merge-recursive.h, remove the unnecessary include.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have a bunch of loops which iterate up to an unsigned boundary using
a signed index, which generates warnigs because we compare a signed and
unsigned value in the loop condition. Address these sites for trivial
cases and enable `-Wsign-compare` warnings for these code units.
This patch only adapts those code units where we can drop the
`DISABLE_SIGN_COMPARE_WARNINGS` macro in the same step.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`. This
allows for a structured approach to get rid of all such warnings over
time in a way that can be easily measured.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 9b1cb5070f (builtin: add a repository parameter for builtin
functions, 2024-09-13) the repository was passed down to all builtin
commands. This allowed the repository to be passed down to lower layers
without depending on the global `the_repository` variable.
Continue this work by also passing down the repository parameter from
the command to sub-commands. This will help pass down the repository to
other subsystems and cleanup usage of global variables like
'the_repository' and 'the_hash_algo'.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `OPT_PATHSPEC_FROM_FILE()` option maps to `OPT_FILENAME()`, which we
know will always allocate memory when passed. We never free the memory
though, causing a memory leak. Plug it.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The convention to calling into built-in command implementation has
been updated to pass the repository, if known, together with the
prefix value.
* jc/pass-repo-to-builtins:
add: pass in repo variable instead of global the_repository
builtin: remove USE_THE_REPOSITORY for those without the_repository
builtin: remove USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE from builtin.h
builtin: add a repository parameter for builtin functions
Code clean-up.
* ps/environ-wo-the-repository: (21 commits)
environment: stop storing "core.notesRef" globally
environment: stop storing "core.warnAmbiguousRefs" globally
environment: stop storing "core.preferSymlinkRefs" globally
environment: stop storing "core.logAllRefUpdates" globally
refs: stop modifying global `log_all_ref_updates` variable
branch: stop modifying `log_all_ref_updates` variable
repo-settings: track defaults close to `struct repo_settings`
repo-settings: split out declarations into a standalone header
environment: guard state depending on a repository
environment: reorder header to split out `the_repository`-free section
environment: move `set_git_dir()` and related into setup layer
environment: make `get_git_namespace()` self-contained
environment: move object database functions into object layer
config: make dependency on repo in `read_early_config()` explicit
config: document `read_early_config()` and `read_very_early_config()`
environment: make `get_git_work_tree()` accept a repository
environment: make `get_graft_file()` accept a repository
environment: make `get_index_file()` accept a repository
environment: make `get_object_directory()` accept a repository
environment: make `get_git_common_dir()` accept a repository
...
Code clean-up.
* jc/range-diff-lazy-setup:
remerge-diff: clean up temporary objdir at a central place
remerge-diff: lazily prepare temporary objdir on demand
Instead of including USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE by default on every
builtin, remove it from builtin.h and add it to all the builtins that
include builtin.h (by definition, that means all builtins/*.c).
Also, remove the include statement for repository.h since it gets
brought in through builtin.h.
The next step will be to migrate each builtin
from having to use the_repository.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to reduce the usage of the global the_repository, add a
parameter to builtin functions that will get passed a repository
variable.
This commit uses UNUSED on most of the builtin functions, as subsequent
commits will modify the actual builtins to pass the repository parameter
down.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `get_git_work_tree()` function retrieves the path of the work tree
of `the_repository`. Make it accept a `struct repository` such that it
can work on arbitrary repositories and make it part of the repository
subsystem. This reduces our reliance on `the_repository` and clarifies
scope.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `get_index_file()` function retrieves the path to the index file
of `the_repository`. Make it accept a `struct repository` such that it
can work on arbitrary repositories and make it part of the repository
subsystem. This reduces our reliance on `the_repository` and clarifies
scope.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `get_git_dir()` function retrieves the path to the Git directory for
`the_repository`. Make it accept a `struct repository` such that it can
work on arbitrary repositories and make it part of the repository
subsystem. This reduces our reliance on `the_repository` and clarifies
scope.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our error reporting routines append a trailing newline, and the strings
we pass to them should not include them (otherwise we get an extra blank
line after the message).
These cases were all found by looking at the results of:
git grep -P '[^_](error|error_errno|warning|die|die_errno)\(.*\\n"[,)]' '*.c'
Note that we _do_ sometimes include a newline in the middle of such
messages, to create multiline output (hence our grep matching "," or ")"
after we see the newline, so we know we're at the end of the string).
It's possible that one or more of these cases could intentionally be
including a blank line at the end, but having looked at them all
manually, I think these are all just mistakes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was reported that creating a stash with `--keep-index
--include-untracked` causes an error when HEAD points to a commit whose
tree is empty:
$ git stash push --keep-index --include-untracked
error: pathspec ':/' did not match any file(s) known to git
This error comes from `git checkout --no-overlay $i_tree -- :/`, which
we execute to reset the working tree to the state in our index. As the
tree generated from the index is empty in our case, ':/' does not match
any files and thus causes git-checkout(1) to error out.
Fix the issue by skipping the checkout when the index tree is empty. As
explained in the in-code comment, this should be the correct thing to do
as there is nothing that we'd have to reset in the first place.
Reported-by: Piotr Siupa <piotrsiupa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After running a diff between two things, or a series of diffs while
walking the history, the diff computation is concluded by a call to
diff_result_code() to extract the exit status of the diff machinery.
The function can work on "struct diffopt", but all the callers
historically and currently pass "struct diffopt" that is embedded in
the "struct rev_info" that is used to hold the remerge_diff bit and
the remerge_objdir variable that points at the temporary object
directory in use.
Redefine diff_result_code() to take the whole "struct rev_info" to
give it an access to these members related to remerge-diff, so that
it can get rid of the temporary object directory for any and all
callers that used the feature. We can lose the equivalent code to
do so from the code paths for individual commands, diff-tree, diff,
and log.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are multiple trivial memory leaks in git-stash(1). Fix those.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation claims that "recursive defaults to the diff.algorithm
config setting", but this is currently not the case. This fixes it,
ensuring that diff.algorithm is used when -Xdiff-algorithm is not
supplied. This affects the following porcelain commands: "merge",
"rebase", "cherry-pick", "pull", "stash", "log", "am" and "checkout".
It also affects the "merge-tree" ancillary interrogator.
This change refactors the initialization of merge options to introduce
two functions, "init_merge_ui_options" and "init_merge_basic_options"
instead of just one "init_merge_options". This design follows the
approach used in diff.c, providing initialization methods for
porcelain and plumbing commands respectively. Thanks to that, the
"replay" and "merge-recursive" plumbing commands remain unaffected by
diff.algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Antonin Delpeuch <antonin@delpeuch.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When creating commits via `commit_tree_extended()`, the caller passes in
a string list of parents. This call implicitly transfers ownership of
that list to the function, which is quite surprising to begin with. But
to make matters worse, `commit_tree_extended()` doesn't even bother to
free the list of parents in error cases. The result is a memory leak,
and one that the caller cannot fix by themselves because they do not
know whether parts of the string list have already been released.
Refactor the code such that callers can keep ownership of the list of
parents, which is getting indicated by parameter being a constant
pointer now. Free the lists at the calling site and add a common exit
path to those sites as required.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While it is documented in `struct object_context::path` that this
variable needs to be released by the caller, this fact is rather easy to
miss given that we do not ever provide a function to release the object
context. And of course, while some callers dutifully release the path,
many others don't.
Introduce a new `object_context_release()` function that releases the
path. Convert callsites that used to free the path to use that new
function and add missing calls to callsites that were leaking memory.
Refactor those callsites as required to have a single return path, only.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The refs API lost functions that implicitly assumes to work on the
primary ref_store by forcing the callers to pass a ref_store as an
argument.
* ps/refs-without-the-repository:
refs: remove functions without ref store
cocci: apply rules to rewrite callers of "refs" interfaces
cocci: introduce rules to transform "refs" to pass ref store
refs: add `exclude_patterns` parameter to `for_each_fullref_in()`
refs: introduce missing functions that accept a `struct ref_store`
The singleton index_state instance "the_index" has been eliminated
by always instantiating "the_repository" and replacing references
to "the_index" with references to its .index member.
* ps/the-index-is-no-more:
repository: drop `initialize_the_repository()`
repository: drop `the_index` variable
builtin/clone: stop using `the_index`
repository: initialize index in `repo_init()`
builtin: stop using `the_index`
t/helper: stop using `the_index`
Apply the rules that rewrite callers of "refs" interfaces to explicitly
pass `struct ref_store`. The resulting patch has been applied with the
`--whitespace=fix` option.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git stash --staged" errors out when given binary files, after saving the
stash.
This behaviour dates back to the addition of the feature in 41a28eb6c1
(stash: implement '--staged' option for 'push' and 'save', 2021-10-18).
Adding the "--binary" option of "diff-tree" fixes this. The "diff-tree" call
in stash_patch() also omits "--binary", but that is fine since binary files
cannot be selected interactively.
Helped-By: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-By: Randall S. Becker <randall.becker@nexbridge.ca>
Signed-off-by: Adam Johnson <me@adamj.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert builtins to use `the_repository->index` instead of `the_index`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Work to support a repository that work with both SHA-1 and SHA-256
hash algorithms has started.
* eb/hash-transition: (30 commits)
t1016-compatObjectFormat: add tests to verify the conversion between objects
t1006: test oid compatibility with cat-file
t1006: rename sha1 to oid
test-lib: compute the compatibility hash so tests may use it
builtin/ls-tree: let the oid determine the output algorithm
object-file: handle compat objects in check_object_signature
tree-walk: init_tree_desc take an oid to get the hash algorithm
builtin/cat-file: let the oid determine the output algorithm
rev-parse: add an --output-object-format parameter
repository: implement extensions.compatObjectFormat
object-file: update object_info_extended to reencode objects
object-file-convert: convert commits that embed signed tags
object-file-convert: convert commit objects when writing
object-file-convert: don't leak when converting tag objects
object-file-convert: convert tag objects when writing
object-file-convert: add a function to convert trees between algorithms
object: factor out parse_mode out of fast-import and tree-walk into in object.h
cache: add a function to read an OID of a specific algorithm
tag: sign both hashes
commit: export add_header_signature to support handling signatures on tags
...
"git stash" sometimes was silent even when it failed due to
unwritable index file, which has been corrected.
* ps/report-failure-from-git-stash:
builtin/stash: report failure to write to index
"git stash" sometimes was silent even when it failed due to
unwritable index file, which has been corrected.
* ps/report-failure-from-git-stash:
builtin/stash: report failure to write to index
The git-stash(1) command needs to write to the index for many of its
operations. When the index is locked by a concurrent writer it will thus
fail to operate, which is expected. What is not expected though is that
we do not print any error message at all in this case. The user can thus
easily miss the fact that the command didn't do what they expected it to
do and would be left wondering why that is.
Fix this bug and report failures to write to the index. Add tests for
the subcommands which hit the respective code paths.
While at it, unify error messages when writing to the index fails. The
chosen error message is already used in "builtin/stash.c".
Reported-by: moti sd <motisd8@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Each of these were checked with
gcc -E -I. ${SOURCE_FILE} | grep ${HEADER_FILE}
to ensure that removing the direct inclusion of the header actually
resulted in that header no longer being included at all (i.e. that
no other header pulled it in transitively).
...except for a few cases where we verified that although the header
was brought in transitively, nothing from it was directly used in
that source file. These cases were:
* builtin/credential-cache.c
* builtin/pull.c
* builtin/send-pack.c
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Feeding "git stash store" with a random commit that was not created
by "git stash create" now errors out.
* jc/fail-stash-to-store-non-stash:
stash: be careful what we store
"git stash store" is meant to store what "git stash create"
produces, as these two are implementation details of the end-user
facing "git stash save" command. Even though it is clearly
documented as such, users would try silly things like "git stash
store HEAD" to render their stash unusable.
Worse yet, because "git stash drop" does not allow such a stash
entry to be removed, "git stash clear" would be the only way to
recover from such a mishap. Reuse the logic that allows "drop" to
refrain from working on such a stash entry to teach "store" to avoid
storing an object that is not a stash entry in the first place.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To make it possible for git ls-tree to display the tree encoded
in the hash algorithm of the oid specified to git ls-tree, update
init_tree_desc to take as a parameter the oid of the tree object.
Update all callers of init_tree_desc and init_tree_desc_gently
to pass the oid of the tree object.
Use the oid of the tree object to discover the hash algorithm
of the oid and store that hash algorithm in struct tree_desc.
Use the hash algorithm in decode_tree_entry and
update_tree_entry_internal to handle reading a tree object encoded in
a hash algorithm that differs from the repositories hash algorithm.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unused parameters to functions are marked as such, and/or removed,
in order to bring us closer to -Wunused-parameter clean.
* jk/unused-post-2.42: (22 commits)
update-ref: mark unused parameter in parser callbacks
gc: mark unused descriptors in scheduler callbacks
bundle-uri: mark unused parameters in callbacks
fetch: mark unused parameter in ref_transaction callback
credential: mark unused parameter in urlmatch callback
grep: mark unused parmaeters in pcre fallbacks
imap-send: mark unused parameters with NO_OPENSSL
worktree: mark unused parameters in noop repair callback
negotiator/noop: mark unused callback parameters
add-interactive: mark unused callback parameters
grep: mark unused parameter in output function
test-trace2: mark unused argv/argc parameters
trace2: mark unused config callback parameter
trace2: mark unused us_elapsed_absolute parameters
stash: mark unused parameter in diff callback
ls-tree: mark unused parameter in callback
commit-graph: mark unused data parameters in generation callbacks
worktree: mark unused parameters in each_ref_fn callback
pack-bitmap: mark unused parameters in show_object callback
ref-filter: mark unused parameters in parser callbacks
...
This is similar to the cases in 61bdc7c5d8 (diff: mark unused parameters
in callbacks, 2022-12-13), but I missed it when making that commit.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many programs use diff_result_code() to get a user-visible program exit
code from a diff result (e.g., checking opts.found_changes if
--exit-code was requested).
This function also takes a "status" parameter, which seems at first
glance that it could be used to propagate an error encountered when
computing the diff. But it doesn't work that way:
- negative values are passed through as-is, but are not appropriate as
program exit codes
- when --exit-code or --check is in effect, we _ignore_ the passed-in
status completely. So a failed diff which did not have a chance to
set opts.found_changes would erroneously report "success, no
changes" instead of propagating the error.
After recent cleanups, neither of these bugs is possible to trigger, as
every caller just passes in "0". So rather than fixing them, we can
simply drop the useless parameter instead.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Neither of these functions ever returns a value other than zero.
Instead, they expect unrecoverable errors to exit immediately, and
things like "--exit-code" are stored inside the diff_options struct to
be handled later via diff_result_code().
Some callers do check the return values, but many don't bother. Let's
drop the useless return values, which are misleading callers about how
the functions work. This could be seen as a step in the wrong direction,
as we might want to eventually "lib-ify" these to more cleanly return
errors up the stack, in which case we'd have to add the return values
back in. But there are some benefits to doing this now:
1. In the current code, somebody could accidentally add a "return -1"
to one of the functions, which would be erroneously ignored by many
callers. By removing the return code, the compiler can notice the
mismatch and force the developer to decide what to do.
Obviously the other option here is that we could start consistently
checking the error code in every caller. But it would be dead code,
and we wouldn't get any compile-time help in catching new cases.
2. It communicates the situation to callers, who may want to choose a
different function. These functions are really thin wrappers for
doing git-diff-files and git-diff-index within the process. But
callers who care about recovering from an error here are probably
better off using the underlying library functions, many of
which do return errors.
If somebody eventually wants to teach these functions to propagate
errors, they'll have to switch back to returning a value, effectively
reverting this patch. But at least then they will be starting with a
level playing field: they know that they will need to inspect each
caller to see how it should handle the error.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many callers of run_diff_index() passed literal "1" for the option
flag word, which should better be spelled out as DIFF_INDEX_CACHED
for readablity. Everybody else passes "0" that can stay as-is.
The other bit in the option flag word is DIFF_INDEX_MERGE_BASE, but
curiously there is only one caller that can pass it, which is "git
diff-index --merge-base" itself---no internal callers uses the
feature.
A bit tricky call to the function is in builtin/submodule--helper.c
where the .cached member in a private struct is set/reset as a plain
Boolean flag, which happens to be "1" and happens to match the value
of DIFF_INDEX_CACHED.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano