The recursive merge machinery accumulates its output in an output
buffer, to be flushed at the end of merge_recursive(). At this point,
we forgot to release the output buffer.
When calling merge_trees() (i.e. the non-recursive part of the recursive
merge) directly, the output buffer is never flushed because the caller
may be merge_recursive() which wants to flush the output itself.
For the same reason, merge_trees() cannot release the output buffer: it
may still be needed.
Forgetting to release the output buffer did not matter much when running
git-checkout, or git-merge-recursive, because we exited after the
operation anyway. Ever since cherry-pick learned to pick a commit range,
however, this memory leak had the potential of becoming a problem.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 66a155b (Enable output buffering in merge-recursive., 2007-01-14),
we already accumulate the output in a buffer. The idea was to avoid
interfering with the progress output that goes to stderr, which is
unbuffered, when we write to stdout, which is buffered.
We extend that buffering to allow the caller to handle the output
(possibly suppressing it). This will help us when extending the
sequencer to do rebase -i's brunt work: it does not want the picks to
print anything by default but instead determine itself whether to print
the output or not.
Note that we also redirect the error messages into the output buffer
when the caller asked not to flush the output buffer, for two reasons:
1) to retain the correct output order, and 2) to allow the caller to
suppress *all* output.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 66a155b (Enable output buffering in merge-recursive., 2007-01-14), we
changed the code such that it prints the output in one go, to avoid
interfering with the progress output.
Let's make sure that the same holds true when outputting the commit
title: previously, we used several printf() statements to stdout and
assumed that stdout's buffer is large enough to hold the entire
commit title.
Apart from making that speculation unnecessary, we change the code to
add the message to the output buffer before flushing for another reason:
the next commit will introduce a new level of output buffering, where
the caller can request the output not to be flushed, but to be retained
for further processing.
This latter feature will be needed when teaching the sequencer to do
rebase -i's brunt work: it wants to control the output of the
cherry-picks (i.e. recursive merges).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The data structure passed to the recursive merge machinery has a feature
where the caller can ask for the output to be buffered into a strbuf, by
setting the field 'buffer_output'.
Previously, we died without flushing, losing accumulated output. With
this patch, we show the output first, and only then print the error
message.
Currently, the only user of that buffering is merge_recursive() itself,
to avoid the progress output to interfere.
In the next patches, we will introduce a new buffer_output mode that
forces merge_recursive() to retain the output buffer for further
processing by the caller. If the caller asked for that, we will then
also write the error messages into the output buffer. This is necessary
to give the caller more control not only how to react in case of errors
but also control how/if to display the error messages.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Last October, we had to change this code to run `git merge-recursive`
in a child process: git-am wants to print some helpful advice when the
merge failed, but the code in question was not prepared to return, it
die()d instead.
We are finally at a point when the code *is* prepared to return errors,
and can avoid the child process again.
This reverts commit c63d4b2 (am -3: do not let failed merge from
completing the error codepath, 2015-10-09), with the necessary changes
to adjust for the fact that Git's source code changed in the meantime
(such as: using OIDs instead of hashes in the recursive merge, and a
removed gender bias).
Note: the code now calls merge_recursive_generic() again. Unlike
merge_trees() and merge_recursive(), this function returns 0 upon success,
as most of Git's functions. Therefore, the error value -1 naturally is
handled correctly, and we do not have to take care of it specifically.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The recursive merge machinery is supposed to be a library function, i.e.
it should return an error when it fails. Originally the functions were
part of the builtin "merge-recursive", though, where it was simpler to
call die() and be done with error handling.
The existing callers were already prepared to detect negative return
values to indicate errors and to behave as previously: exit with code 128
(which is the same thing that die() does, after printing the message).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We are about to libify the recursive merge machinery, where we only
die() in case of a bug or memory contention. To that end, we must heed
negative return values as indicating errors.
This requires our functions to be careful to pass through error
conditions in call chains, and for quite a few functions this means
that they have to return values to begin with.
The next step will be to convert the places where we currently die() to
return negative values (read: -1) instead.
Note that we ignore errors reported by make_room_for_path(), consistent
with the previous behavior (update_file_flags() used the return value of
make_room_for_path() only to indicate an early return, but not a fatal
error): if the error is really a fatal error, we will notice later; If
not, it was not that serious a problem to begin with. (Witnesses in
favor of this reasoning are t4151-am-abort and t7610-mergetool, which
would start failing if we stopped on errors reported by
make_room_for_path()).
Also note: while this patch makes the code slightly less readable in
update_file_flags() (we introduce a new "goto free_buf;" instead of
an explicit "free(buf); return;"), it is a preparatory change for
the next patch where we will convert all of the die() calls in the same
function to go through the free_buf return path instead.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is possible that a tree cannot be written (think: disk full). We
will want to give the caller a chance to clean up instead of letting
the program die() in such a case.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is technically allowed, as per C89, for functions' return type to
be complete structs (i.e. *not* just pointers to structs).
However, it was just an oversight of this developer when converting
Python code to C code in 6d297f8 (Status update on merge-recursive in
C, 2006-07-08) which introduced such a return type.
Besides, by converting this construct to pass in the struct, we can now
start returning a value that can indicate errors in future patches. This
will help the current effort to libify merge-recursive.c.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are a couple of places where return values never indicated errors
before, as we simply died instead of returning.
But now negative return values mean that there was an error and we have to
abort the operation. Let's do exactly that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, callers of merge_trees() or merge_recursive() expected that
code to die() with an error message. This used to be okay because we
called those commands from scripts, and had a chance to print out a
message in case the command failed fatally (read: with exit code 128).
As scripting incurs its own set of problems (portability, speed,
idiosyncrasies of different shells, limited data structures leading to
inefficient code), we are converting more and more of these scripts into
builtins, using library functions directly.
We already tried to use merge_recursive() directly in the builtin
git-am, for example. Unfortunately, we had to roll it back temporarily
because some of the code in merge-recursive.c still deemed it okay to
call die(), when the builtin am code really wanted to print out a useful
advice after the merge failed fatally. In the next commits, we want to
fix that.
The code touched by this commit expected merge_trees() to die() with
some useful message when there is an error condition, but merge_trees()
is going to be improved by converting all die() calls to return error()
instead (i.e. return value -1 after printing out the message as before),
so that the caller can react more flexibly.
This is a step to prepare for the version of merge_trees() that no
longer dies, even if we just imitate the previous behavior by calling
exit(128): this is what callers of e.g. `git merge` have come to expect.
Note that the callers of the sequencer (revert and cherry-pick) already
fail fast even for the return value -1; The only difference is that they
now get a chance to say "<command> failed".
A caller of merge_trees() might want handle error messages themselves
(or even suppress them). As this patch is already complex enough, we
leave that change for a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It can be puzzling to see that was_tracked() asks to get an index entry
by name, but does not take a negative return value for an answer.
The reason we have to do this is that cache_name_pos() only looks for
entries in stage 0, even if nobody asked for any stage in particular.
Let's rewrite the logic a little bit, to handle the easy case early: if
cache_name_pos() returned a non-negative position, we know it is a match,
and we do not even have to compare the name again (cache_name_pos() did
that for us already). We can say right away: yes, this file was tracked.
Only if there was no exact match do we need to look harder for any
matching entry in stage 2.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While working on the patch series that avoids die()ing in recursive
merges, the issue came up that bug reports (i.e. die("BUG: ...")
constructs) should never be translated, as the target audience is the
Git developer community, not necessarily the current user, and hence
a translated message would make it *harder* to address the problem.
So let's stop translating the obvious ones. As it is really, really
outside the purview of this patch series to see whether there are more
die() statements that report bugs and are currently translated, that
task is left for another day and patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The vast majority of error messages in Git's source code which report a
bug use the convention to prefix the message with "BUG:".
As part of cleaning up merge-recursive to stop die()ing except in case of
detected bugs, let's just make the remainder of the bug reports consistent
with the de facto rule.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was noticed by Brendan Forster last October that the builtin `git am`
regressed on that. Our hot fix reverted to spawning the recursive merge
instead of using it as a library function.
As we are about to revert that hot fix, after making the recursive merge a
true library function (i.e. a function that does not die() in case of
"normal" errors), let's add a test that verifies that we do not regress on
the same problem which made the hot fix necessary in the first place.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code cleanup.
* rs/use-strbuf-addbuf:
strbuf: avoid calling strbuf_grow() twice in strbuf_addbuf()
use strbuf_addbuf() for appending a strbuf to another
Existing autoconf generated test for the need to link with pthread
library did not check all the functions from pthread libraries;
recent FreeBSD has some functions in libc but not others, and we
mistakenly thought linking with libc is enough when it is not.
* ew/autoconf-pthread:
configure.ac: stronger test for pthread linkage
"git blame file" allowed the lineage of lines in the uncommitted,
unadded contents of "file" to be inspected, but it refused when
"file" did not appear in the current commit. When "file" was
created by renaming an existing file (but the change has not been
committed), this restriction was unnecessarily tight.
* mh/blame-worktree:
t/t8003-blame-corner-cases.sh: Use here documents
blame: allow to blame paths freshly added to the index
When "git fsck" reports a broken link (e.g. a tree object contains
a blob that does not exist), both containing object and the object
that is referred to were reported with their 40-hex object names.
The command learned the "--name-objects" option to show the path to
the containing object from existing refs (e.g. "HEAD~24^2:file.txt").
* js/fsck-name-object:
fsck: optionally show more helpful info for broken links
fsck: give the error function a chance to see the fsck_options
fsck_walk(): optionally name objects on the go
fsck: refactor how to describe objects
"git add -N dir/file && git write-tree" produced an incorrect tree
when there are other paths in the same directory that sorts after
"file".
* nd/cache-tree-ita:
cache-tree: do not generate empty trees as a result of all i-t-a subentries
cache-tree.c: fix i-t-a entry skipping directory updates sometimes
test-lib.sh: introduce and use $EMPTY_BLOB
test-lib.sh: introduce and use $EMPTY_TREE
"git fetch http://user:pass@host/repo..." scrubbed the userinfo
part, but "git push" didn't.
* jk/push-scrub-url:
t5541: fix url scrubbing test when GPG is not set
push: anonymize URL in status output
Build clean-up.
* nd/test-helpers:
t/test-lib.sh: fix running tests with --valgrind
Makefile: use VCSSVN_LIB to refer to svn library
Makefile: drop extra dependencies for test helpers
"git merge" with renormalization did not work well with
merge-recursive, due to "safer crlf" conversion kicking in when it
shouldn't.
* jc/renormalize-merge-kill-safer-crlf:
merge: avoid "safer crlf" during recording of merge results
convert: unify the "auto" handling of CRLF
The use of strbuf in "git rm" to build filename to remove was a bit
suboptimal, which has been fixed.
* rs/rm-strbuf-optim:
rm: reuse strbuf for all remove_dir_recursively() calls
Makefile assumed that -lrt is always available on platforms that
want to use clock_gettime() and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, which is not a
case for recent Mac OS X. The necessary symbols are often found in
libc on many modern systems and having -lrt on the command line, as
long as the library exists, had no effect, but when the platform
removes librt.a that is a different matter--having -lrt will break
the linkage.
This change could be seen as a regression for those who do need to
specify -lrt, as they now specifically ask for NEEDS_LIBRT when
building. Hopefully they are in the minority these days.
* rw/make-needs-librt:
config.mak.uname: define NEEDS_LIBRT under Linux, for now
Makefile: add NEEDS_LIBRT to optionally link with librt
An age old bug that caused "git diff --ignore-space-at-eol"
misbehave has been fixed.
* js/ignore-space-at-eol:
diff: fix a double off-by-one with --ignore-space-at-eol
diff: demonstrate a bug with --patience and --ignore-space-at-eol
The API to iterate over all the refs (i.e. for_each_ref(), etc.)
has been revamped.
* mh/ref-iterators:
for_each_reflog(): reimplement using iterators
dir_iterator: new API for iterating over a directory tree
for_each_reflog(): don't abort for bad references
do_for_each_ref(): reimplement using reference iteration
refs: introduce an iterator interface
ref_resolves_to_object(): new function
entry_resolves_to_object(): rename function from ref_resolves_to_object()
get_ref_cache(): only create an instance if there is a submodule
remote rm: handle symbolic refs correctly
delete_refs(): add a flags argument
refs: use name "prefix" consistently
do_for_each_ref(): move docstring to the header file
refs: remove unnecessary "extern" keywords
Error handling in the codepaths that updates refs has been
improved.
* mh/update-ref-errors:
lock_ref_for_update(): avoid a symref resolution
lock_ref_for_update(): make error handling more uniform
t1404: add more tests of update-ref error handling
t1404: document function test_update_rejected
t1404: remove "prefix" argument to test_update_rejected
t1404: rename file to t1404-update-ref-errors.sh
Further preparatory work on the refs API before the pluggable
backend series can land.
* mh/split-under-lock: (33 commits)
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): only handle REF_NODEREF mode
commit_ref_update(): remove the flags parameter
lock_ref_for_update(): don't resolve symrefs
lock_ref_for_update(): don't re-read non-symbolic references
refs: resolve symbolic refs first
ref_transaction_update(): check refname_is_safe() at a minimum
unlock_ref(): move definition higher in the file
lock_ref_for_update(): new function
add_update(): initialize the whole ref_update
verify_refname_available(): adjust constness in declaration
refs: don't dereference on rename
refs: allow log-only updates
delete_branches(): use resolve_refdup()
ref_transaction_commit(): correctly report close_ref() failure
ref_transaction_create(): disallow recursive pruning
refs: make error messages more consistent
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): remove unneeded local variable
read_raw_ref(): move docstring to header file
read_raw_ref(): improve docstring
read_raw_ref(): rename symref argument to referent
...
Implement strbuf_addbuf() as a normal function in order to avoid calling
strbuf_grow() twice, with the second callinside strbud_add() being a
no-op. This is slightly faster and also reduces the text size a bit.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the GPG prereq is not set, we do not run test 34. That
test changes the directory of the test script as a side
effect (something we usually frown on, but which matches the
style of the rest of this script). When test 35 (the
url-scrubbing test) runs, it expects to be in the directory
from test 34. If it's not, the test fails; we are in a
different sub-repo, our test-commit is built on a different
history, and the push becomes a non-fast-forward.
We can fix this by unconditionally moving to the directory
we expect (again, against our usual style but matching how
the rest of the script operates).
As an additional protection, let's also switch from "make a
new commit and push to master" to just "push to a new
branch". We don't care about the branch name; we just want
_some_ ref update to trigger the status output. Pushing to a
new branch is less likely to run into problems with
force-updates, changing the checked-out branch, etc.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git p4" used a location outside $GIT_DIR/refs/ to place its
temporary branches, which has been moved to refs/git-p4-tmp/.
* ls/p4-tmp-refs:
git-p4: place temporary refs used for branch import under refs/git-p4-tmp
One part of "git am" had an oddball helper function that called
stuff from outside "his" as opposed to calling what we have "ours",
which was not gender-neutral and also inconsistent with the rest of
the system where outside stuff is usuall called "theirs" in
contrast to "ours".
* js/am-call-theirs-theirs-in-fallback-3way:
am: counteract gender bias
General code clean-up around a helper function to write a
single-liner to a file.
* jk/write-file:
branch: use write_file_buf instead of write_file
use write_file_buf where applicable
write_file: add format attribute
write_file: add pointer+len variant
write_file: use xopen
write_file: drop "gently" form
branch: use non-gentle write_file for branch description
am: ignore return value of write_file()
config: fix bogus fd check when setting up default config
Code clean-up to avoid using a variable string that compilers may
feel untrustable as printf-style format given to write_file()
helper function.
* jk/printf-format:
commit.c: remove print_commit_list()
avoid using sha1_to_hex output as printf format
walker: let walker_say take arbitrary formats
The .c/.h sources are marked as such in our .gitattributes file so
that "git diff -W" and friends would work better.
* rs/help-c-source-with-gitattributes:
.gitattributes: set file type for C files
Improve the look of the way "git fetch" reports what happened to
each ref that was fetched.
* nd/fetch-ref-summary:
fetch: reduce duplicate in ref update status lines with placeholder
fetch: align all "remote -> local" output
fetch: change flag code for displaying tag update and deleted ref
fetch: refactor ref update status formatting code
git-fetch.txt: document fetch output
The test framework learned a new helper test_match_signal to
check an exit code from getting killed by an expected signal.
* jk/test-match-signal:
t/lib-git-daemon: use test_match_signal
test_must_fail: use test_match_signal
t0005: use test_match_signal as appropriate
tests: factor portable signal check out of t0005
There are certain house-keeping tasks that need to be performed at
the very beginning of any Git program, and programs that are not
built-in commands had to do them exactly the same way as "git"
potty does. It was easy to make mistakes in one-off standalone
programs (like test helpers). A common "main()" function that
calls cmd_main() of individual program has been introduced to
make it harder to make mistakes.
* jk/common-main:
mingw: declare main()'s argv as const
common-main: call git_setup_gettext()
common-main: call restore_sigpipe_to_default()
common-main: call sanitize_stdfds()
common-main: call git_extract_argv0_path()
add an extra level of indirection to main()
A test that unconditionally used "mktemp" learned that the command
is not necessarily available everywhere.
* ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp:
t7610: test for mktemp before test execution
"git grep -i" has been taught to fold case in non-ascii locales
correctly.
* nd/icase:
grep.c: reuse "icase" variable
diffcore-pickaxe: support case insensitive match on non-ascii
diffcore-pickaxe: Add regcomp_or_die()
grep/pcre: support utf-8
gettext: add is_utf8_locale()
grep/pcre: prepare locale-dependent tables for icase matching
grep: rewrite an if/else condition to avoid duplicate expression
grep/icase: avoid kwsset when -F is specified
grep/icase: avoid kwsset on literal non-ascii strings
test-regex: expose full regcomp() to the command line
test-regex: isolate the bug test code
grep: break down an "if" stmt in preparation for next changes
The commands in the "log/diff" family have had an FILE* pointer in the
data structure they pass around for a long time, but some codepaths
used to always write to the standard output. As a preparatory step
to make "git format-patch" available to the internal callers, these
codepaths have been updated to consistently write into that FILE*
instead.
* js/log-to-diffopt-file:
mingw: fix the shortlog --output=<file> test
diff: do not color output when --color=auto and --output=<file> is given
t4211: ensure that log respects --output=<file>
shortlog: respect the --output=<file> setting
format-patch: use stdout directly
format-patch: avoid freopen()
format-patch: explicitly switch off color when writing to files
shortlog: support outputting to streams other than stdout
graph: respect the diffopt.file setting
line-log: respect diffopt's configured output file stream
log-tree: respect diffopt's configured output file stream
log: prepare log/log-tree to reuse the diffopt.close_file attribute
Fix recently introduced codepaths that are involved in parallel
submodule operations, which gave up on reading too early, and
could have wasted CPU while attempting to write under a corner
case condition.
* sb/submodule-parallel-fetch:
hoist out handle_nonblock function for xread and xwrite
xwrite: poll on non-blocking FDs
xread: retry after poll on EAGAIN/EWOULDBLOCK
Johannes Schindelin