We just introduced the command-line option
`--initial-branch=<branch-name>` to allow initializing a new repository
with a different initial branch than the hard-coded one.
To allow users to override the initial branch name more permanently
(i.e. without having to specify the name manually for each and every
`git init` invocation), let's introduce the `init.defaultBranch` config
setting.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Goodman-Wilson <don@goodman-wilson.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The low-level reference transactions used to update references are
currently completely opaque to the user. While certainly desirable in
most usecases, there are some which might want to hook into the
transaction to observe all queued reference updates as well as observing
the abortion or commit of a prepared transaction.
One such usecase would be to have a set of replicas of a given Git
repository, where we perform Git operations on all of the repositories
at once and expect the outcome to be the same in all of them. While
there exist hooks already for a certain subset of Git commands that
could be used to implement a voting mechanism for this, many others
currently don't have any mechanism for this.
The above scenario is the motivation for the new "reference-transaction"
hook that reaches directly into Git's reference transaction mechanism.
The hook receives as parameter the current state the transaction was
moved to ("prepared", "committed" or "aborted") and gets via its
standard input all queued reference updates. While the exit code gets
ignored in the "committed" and "aborted" states, a non-zero exit code in
the "prepared" state will cause the transaction to be aborted
prematurely.
Given the usecase described above, a voting mechanism can now be
implemented via this hook: as soon as it gets called, it will take all
of stdin and use it to cast a vote to a central service. When all
replicas of the repository agree, the hook will exit with zero,
otherwise it will abort the transaction by returning non-zero. The most
important upside is that this will catch _all_ commands writing
references at once, allowing to implement strong consistency for
reference updates via a single mechanism.
In order to test the impact on the case where we don't have any
"reference-transaction" hook installed in the repository, this commit
introduce two new performance tests for git-update-refs(1). Run against
an empty repository, it produces the following results:
Test origin/master HEAD
--------------------------------------------------------------------
1400.2: update-ref 2.70(2.10+0.71) 2.71(2.10+0.73) +0.4%
1400.3: update-ref --stdin 0.21(0.09+0.11) 0.21(0.07+0.14) +0.0%
The performance test p1400.2 creates, updates and deletes a branch a
thousand times, thus averaging runtime of git-update-refs over 3000
invocations. p1400.3 instead calls `git-update-refs --stdin` three times
and queues a thousand creations, updates and deletes respectively.
As expected, p1400.3 consistently shows no noticeable impact, as for
each batch of updates there's a single call to access(3P) for the
negative hook lookup. On the other hand, for p1400.2, one can see an
impact caused by this patchset. But doing five runs of the performance
tests where each one was run with GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=10, the overhead
ranged from -1.5% to +1.1%. These inconsistent performance numbers can
be explained by the overhead of spawning 3000 processes. This shows that
the overhead of assembling the hook path and executing access(3P) once
to check if it's there is mostly outweighed by the operating system's
overhead.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
14ba97f8 (alloc: allow arbitrary repositories for alloc functions,
2018-05-15) introduced parsed_object_pool->commit_count to keep count of
commits per repository and was used to assign commit->index.
However, commit-slab code requires commit->index values to be unique
and a global count would be correct, rather than a per-repo count.
Let's introduce a static counter variable, `parsed_commits_count` to
keep track of parsed commits so far.
As commit_count has no use anymore, let's also drop it from the struct.
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishekkumar8222@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ref_filter_match() method is defined in refs.h and implemented
in refs.c, but is only used by add_ref_decoration() in log-tree.c.
Move it into that file as a static helper method. The
match_ref_pattern() comes along for the ride.
While moving the code, also make a slight adjustment to have
ref_filter_match() take a struct decoration_filter pointer instead
of multiple string lists. This is non-functional, but will make a
later change be much cleaner.
The diff is easier to parse when using the --color-moved option.
Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gister@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "refs" pointer in a struct repository starts life as NULL, but then
is lazily initialized when it is accessed via get_main_ref_store().
However, it's easy for calling code to forget this and access it
directly, leading to code which works _some_ of the time, but fails if
it is called before anybody else accesses the refs.
This was the cause of the bug fixed by 5ff4b920eb (sha1-name: do not
assume that the ref store is initialized, 2020-04-09). In order to
prevent similar bugs, let's more clearly mark the "refs" field as
private.
In addition to helping future code, the name change will help us audit
any existing direct uses. Besides get_main_ref_store() itself, it turns
out there is only one. But we know it's OK as it is on the line directly
after the fix from 5ff4b920eb, which will have initialized the pointer.
However it's still a good idea for it to model the proper use of the
accessing function, so we'll convert it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Comments stating that "struct hashmap_entry" must be the first
member in a struct are no longer valid.
Suggested-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Another step in eliminating the requirement of hashmap_entry
being the first member of a struct.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update callers to use hashmap_get_entry, hashmap_get_entry_from_hash
or container_of as appropriate.
This is another step towards eliminating the requirement of
hashmap_entry being the first field in a struct.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is less error-prone than "void *" as the compiler now
detects invalid types being passed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
C compilers do type checking to make life easier for us. So
rely on that and update all hashmap_entry_init callers to take
"struct hashmap_entry *" to avoid future bugs while improving
safety and readability.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are no callers left of lookup_unknown_object() that aren't just
passing us the "hash" member of a "struct object_id". Let's take the
whole struct, which gets us closer to removing all raw sha1 variables.
It also matches the existing conversions of lookup_blob(), etc.
The conversions of callers were done by hand, but they're all mechanical
one-liners.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Worktree names are based on $(basename $GIT_WORK_TREE). They aren't
significant until 3a3b9d8cde (refs: new ref types to make per-worktree
refs visible to all worktrees - 2018-10-21), where worktree name could
be part of a refname and must follow refname rules.
Update 'worktree add' code to remove special characters to follow
these rules. In the future the user will be able to specify the
worktree name by themselves if they're not happy with this dumb
character substitution.
Reported-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The only remaining callers of has_sha1_file() actually have an object_id
already. They can use the "object" variant, rather than dereferencing
the hash themselves.
The code changes here were completely generated by the included
coccinelle patch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`--exclude` from rev-list and rev-parse fails to exclude references if
the next `--branches`, `--tags` or `--remotes` use the optional
inclusive glob because those options are implemented as particular cases
of `--glob=`, which itself requires that exclude patterns begin with
'refs/'.
But it makes sense for `--branches=glob` and friends to be aware that
exclusions patterns for them shouldn't be 'refs/<type>/' prefixed, the
same way exclude patterns for `--branches` and friends (without the
optional glob) already are.
Let's record in 'refs.c:struct ref_filter' which context the exclude
pattern is tied to, so refs.c:filter_refs() can decide if it should
ignore the prefix when trying to match.
Signed-off-by: Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of the problems with multiple worktree is accessing per-worktree
refs of one worktree from another worktree. This was sort of solved by
multiple ref store, where the code can open the ref store of another
worktree and has access to the ref space of that worktree.
The problem with this is reporting. "HEAD" in another ref space is
also called "HEAD" like in the current ref space. In order to
differentiate them, all the code must somehow carry the ref store
around and print something like "HEAD from this ref store".
But that is not feasible (or possible with a _lot_ of work). With the
current design, we pass a reference around as a string (so called
"refname"). Extending this design to pass a string _and_ a ref store
is a nightmare, especially when handling extended SHA-1 syntax.
So we do it another way. Instead of entering a separate ref space, we
make refs from other worktrees available in the current ref space. So
"HEAD" is always HEAD of the current worktree, but then we can have
"worktrees/blah/HEAD" to denote HEAD from a worktree named
"blah". This syntax coincidentally matches the underlying directory
structure which makes implementation a bit easier.
The main worktree has to be treated specially because well... it's
special from the beginning. So HEAD from the main worktree is
acccessible via the name "main-worktree/HEAD" instead of
"worktrees/main/HEAD" because "main" could be just another secondary
worktree.
This patch also makes it possible to specify refs from one worktree in
another one, e.g.
git log worktrees/foo/HEAD
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When multiple worktrees are used, we need rules to determine if
something belongs to one worktree or all of them. Instead of keeping
adding rules when new stuff comes (*), have a generic rule:
- Inside $GIT_DIR, which is per-worktree by default, add
$GIT_DIR/common which is always shared. New features that want to
share stuff should put stuff under this directory.
- Inside refs/, which is shared by default except refs/bisect, add
refs/worktree/ which is per-worktree. We may eventually move
refs/bisect to this new location and remove the exception in refs
code.
(*) And it may also include stuff from external commands which will
have no way to modify common/per-worktree rules.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is the flip side of the previous two patches: checking
for a non-zero oidcmp() can be more strictly expressed as
inequality. Like those patches, we write "!= 0" in the
coccinelle transformation, which covers by isomorphism the
more common:
if (oidcmp(E1, E2))
As with the previous two patches, this patch can be achieved
almost entirely by running "make coccicheck"; the only
differences are manual line-wrap fixes to match the original
code.
There is one thing to note for anybody replicating this,
though: coccinelle 1.0.4 seems to miss the case in
builtin/tag.c, even though it's basically the same as all
the others. Running with 1.0.7 does catch this, so
presumably it's just a coccinelle bug that was fixed in the
interim.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 60ce76d358 (refs: add repository argument to for_each_replace_ref,
2018-04-11) and 0d296c57ae (refs: allow for_each_replace_ref to handle
arbitrary repositories, 2018-04-11), for_each_replace_ref learned how
to iterate over refs by a given arbitrary repository.
New attempts in the object store conversion have shown that it is useful
to have the repository handle available that the refs iteration is
currently iterating over.
To achieve this goal we will need to add a repository argument to
each_ref_fn in refs.h. However as many callers rely on the signature
such a patch would be too large.
So convert the internals of the ref subsystem first to pass through a
repository argument without exposing the change to the user. Assume
the_repository for the passed through repository, although it is not
used anywhere yet.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When matching a non-wildcard LHS of a refspec against a list of
refs, find_ref_by_name_abbrev() returns the first ref that matches
using any DWIM rules used by refname_match() in refs.c, even if a
better match occurs later in the list of refs.
This causes unexpected behavior when (for example) fetching using
the refspec "refs/heads/s:<something>" from a remote with both
"refs/heads/refs/heads/s" and "refs/heads/s"; even if the former was
inadvertently created, one would still expect the latter to be
fetched. Similarly, when both a tag T and a branch T exist,
fetching T should favor the tag, just like how local refname
disambiguation rule works. But because the code walks over
ls-remote output from the remote, which happens to be sorted in
alphabetical order and has refs/heads/T before refs/tags/T, a
request to fetch T is (mis)interpreted as fetching refs/heads/T.
Update refname_match(), all of whose current callers care only if it
returns non-zero (i.e. matches) to see if an abbreviated name can
mean the full name being tested, so that it returns a positive
integer whose magnitude can be used to tell the precedence, and fix
the find_ref_by_name_abbrev() function not to stop at the first
match but find the match with the highest precedence.
This is based on an earlier work, which special cased only the exact
matches, by Jonathan Tan.
Helped-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many messages will be marked for translation in the following
commits. This commit updates some of them to be more consistent and
reduce diff noise in those commits. Changes are
- keep the first letter of die(), error() and warning() in lowercase
- no full stop in die(), error() or warning() if it's single sentence
messages
- indentation
- some messages are turned to BUG(), or prefixed with "BUG:" and will
not be marked for i18n
- some messages are improved to give more information
- some messages are broken down by sentence to be i18n friendly
(on the same token, combine multiple warning() into one big string)
- the trailing \n is converted to printf_ln if possible, or deleted
if not redundant
- errno_errno() is used instead of explicit strerror()
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since we don't care about how many bytes were written, simplify the return
value logic.
log_ref_write_fd() was written long before strbuf was fleshed out. Remove
the old manual buffer management code and replace it with strbuf(). Also
update copy_reflog_msg() which is called only by log_ref_write_fd() to use
strbuf as it keeps things consistent.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We convert the ref_rev_parse_rules array into scanf formats
on the fly, and use snprintf() to write into each string. We
should have enough memory to hold everything because of the
earlier total_len computation. Let's use xsnprintf() to
give runtime confirmation that this is the case, and to make
it easy for people auditing the code to know there's no
truncation bug.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we don't have a repository, then we can't initialize the
ref store. Prior to 64a741619d (refs: store the main ref
store inside the repository struct, 2018-04-11), we'd try to
access get_git_dir(), and outside a repository that would
trigger a BUG(). After that commit, though, we directly use
the_repository->git_dir; if it's NULL we'll just segfault.
Let's catch this case and restore the BUG() behavior.
Obviously we don't ever want to hit this code, but a BUG()
is a lot more helpful than a segfault if we do.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This should make these functions easier to find and cache.h less
overwhelming to read.
In particular, this moves:
- read_object_file
- oid_object_info
- write_object_file
As a result, most of the codebase needs to #include object-store.h.
In this patch the #include is only added to files that would fail to
compile otherwise. It would be better to #include wherever
identifiers from the header are used. That can happen later
when we have better tooling for it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
According to the documentation, it is possible to "specify 40 '0' or an
empty string as <oldvalue> to make sure that the ref you are creating
does not exist." But in the code for pseudorefs, we do not implement
this, as demonstrated by the failing tests added in the previous commit.
If we fail to read the old ref, we immediately die. But a failure to
read would actually be a good thing if we have been given the zero oid.
With the zero oid, allow -- and even require -- the ref-reading to fail.
This implements the "make sure that the ref ... does not exist" part of
the documentation and fixes both failing tests from the previous commit.
Since we have a `strbuf err` for collecting errors, let's use it and
signal an error to the caller instead of dying hard.
Reported-by: Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have two error messages that complain about the "sha1". Because we
are about to touch one of these sites and add some tests, let's first
modernize the messages to say "object ID" instead.
While at it, make the second one use `error()` instead of `warning()`.
After printing the message, we do not continue, but actually drop the
lock and return -1 without deleting the pseudoref.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After taking the lock we check whether we got it and die otherwise. But
since we take the lock using `LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR`, we would already have
died.
Considering the choice between dropping the dead code and dropping the
flag, let's go for option number three: Drop the flag, write an error
instead of dying, then return -1. This function already returns -1 for
another error, so the caller (or rather, its callers) should be able to
handle this. There is some inconsistency around how we handle errors in
this function and elsewhere in this file, but let's take this small step
towards gentle error-reporting now and leave the rest for another time.
While at it, make the lock non-static and reduce its scope. (Placing
`struct lock_file`s on the stack used to be a bad idea, because the
temp- and lockfile-machinery would keep a pointer into the struct. But
after 076aa2cbd (tempfile: auto-allocate tempfiles on heap, 2017-09-05),
we can safely have lockfiles on the stack.)
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we could not take the lock, we add an error to the `strbuf err` and
return. However, this code is dead. The reason is that we take the lock
using `LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR`. Drop the flag to allow our more gentle
error-handling to actually kick in.
We could instead just drop the dead code and die here. But everything is
prepared for gently propagating the error, so let's do that instead.
There is similar dead code in `delete_pseudoref()`, but let's save that
for the next patch.
While at it, make the lock non-static. (Placing `struct lock_file`s on
the stack used to be a bad idea, because the temp- and
lockfile-machinery would keep a pointer into the struct. But after
076aa2cbd (tempfile: auto-allocate tempfiles on heap, 2017-09-05), we
can safely have lockfiles on the stack.)
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In d8193743e0 (usage.c: add BUG() function, 2017-05-12), a new macro
was introduced to use for reporting bugs instead of die(). It was then
subsequently used to convert one single caller in 588a538ae5
(setup_git_env: convert die("BUG") to BUG(), 2017-05-12).
The cover letter of the patch series containing this patch
(cf 20170513032414.mfrwabt4hovujde2@sigill.intra.peff.net) is not
terribly clear why only one call site was converted, or what the plan
is for other, similar calls to die() to report bugs.
Let's just convert all remaining ones in one fell swoop.
This trick was performed by this invocation:
sed -i 's/die("BUG: /BUG("/g' $(git grep -l 'die("BUG' \*.c)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows for rebases to be run in parallel in separate worktrees
(think: interrupted in the middle of one rebase, being asked to perform
a different rebase, adding a separate worktree just for that job).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow the callers of oid_object_info
to be more specific about which repository to handle. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This moves the 'main_ref_store', which was a global variable in refs.c
into the repository struct.
This patch does not deal with the parts in the refs subsystem which deal
with the submodules there. A later patch needs to get rid of the submodule
exposure in the refs API, such as 'get_submodule_ref_store(path)'.
Acked-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow for_each_replace_ref callers to be
more specific about which repository to handle. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow the get_main_ref_store caller
to be more specific about which repository to handle. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Construct an argv_array of ref prefixes based on the patterns supplied
via the command line and pass them to 'transport_get_remote_refs()' to
be used when communicating protocol v2 so that the server can limit the
ref advertisement based on those prefixes.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert sha1_object_info and sha1_object_info_extended to take pointers
to struct object_id and rename them to use "oid" instead of "sha1" in
their names. Update the declaration and definition and apply the
following semantic patch, plus the standard object_id transforms:
@@
expression E1, E2;
@@
- sha1_object_info(E1.hash, E2)
+ oid_object_info(&E1, E2)
@@
expression E1, E2;
@@
- sha1_object_info(E1->hash, E2)
+ oid_object_info(E1, E2)
@@
expression E1, E2, E3;
@@
- sha1_object_info_extended(E1.hash, E2, E3)
+ oid_object_info_extended(&E1, E2, E3)
@@
expression E1, E2, E3;
@@
- sha1_object_info_extended(E1->hash, E2, E3)
+ oid_object_info_extended(E1, E2, E3)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When `log --decorate` is used, git will decorate commits with all
available refs. While in most cases this may give the desired effect,
under some conditions it can lead to excessively verbose output.
Introduce two command line options, `--decorate-refs=<pattern>` and
`--decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>` to allow the user to select which
refs are used in decoration.
When "--decorate-refs=<pattern>" is given, only the refs that match the
pattern are used in decoration. The refs that match the pattern when
"--decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>" is given, are never used in
decoration.
These options follow the same convention for mixing negative and
positive patterns across the system, assuming that the inclusive default
is to match all refs available.
(1) if there is no positive pattern given, pretend as if an
inclusive default positive pattern was given;
(2) for each candidate, reject it if it matches no positive
pattern, or if it matches any one of the negative patterns.
The rules for what is considered a match are slightly different from the
rules used elsewhere.
Commands like `log --glob` assume a trailing '/*' when glob chars are
not present in the pattern. This makes it difficult to specify a single
ref. On the other hand, commands like `describe --match --all` allow
specifying exact refs, but do not have the convenience of allowing
"shorthand refs" like 'refs/heads' or 'heads' to refer to
'refs/heads/*'.
The commands introduced in this patch consider a match if:
(a) the pattern contains globs chars,
and regular pattern matching returns a match.
(b) the pattern does not contain glob chars,
and ref '<pattern>' exists, or if ref exists under '<pattern>/'
This allows both behaviours (allowing single refs and shorthand refs)
yet remaining compatible with existent commands.
Helped-by: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Don Goodman-Wilson