Repeating the definition of a static variable seems to be valid in C.
Nevertheless, it is bad style because it can cause confusion, definitely
when it becomes necessary to change the type.
d64ec16 (git config: reorganize to use parseopt, 2009-02-21) added two
static variables near the top of the file config.c without removing the
definitions of the two variables that occurs later in the file.
The two variables were needed earlier in the file in the newly
introduced parseopt structure. These references were removed later in
d0e08d6 (config: fix parsing of "git config --get-color some.key -1",
2014-11-20).
Remove the redundant, younger, definitions near the top of the file and
keep the original definitions that occur later.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 9830534 (config --global --edit: create a template
file if needed, 2014-07-25), an edit of the global config
file will try to open() it with O_EXCL, and wants to handle
three cases:
1. We succeeded; the user has no config file, and we
should fill in the default template.
2. We got EEXIST; they have a file already, proceed as usual.
3. We got another error; we should complain.
However, the check for case 1 does "if (fd)", which will
generally _always_ be true (except for the oddball case that
somehow our stdin got closed and opening really did give us
a new descriptor 0).
So in the EEXIST case, we tried to write the default config
anyway! Fortunately, this turns out to be a noop, since we
just end up writing to and closing "-1", which does nothing.
But in case 3, we would fail to notice any other errors, and
just silently continue (given that we don't actually notice
write errors for the template either, it's probably not that
big a deal; we're about to spawn the editor, so it would
notice any problems. But the code is clearly _trying_ to hit
cover this case and failing).
We can fix it easily by using "fd >= 0" for case 1.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --get, --get-all and --get-regexp options to git-config exit with
status 1 if the key is not found but --get-urlmatch succeeds in this
case.
Change --get-urlmatch to behave in the same way as the other --get*
options so that all four are consistent. --get-color is a special case
because it accepts a default value to return and so should not return an
error if the key is not found.
Also clarify this behaviour in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is a pilot error to call `git config section.key value` outside of
any Git worktree. The message
error: could not lock config file .git/config: No such file or
directory
is not very helpful in that situation, though. Let's print a helpful
message instead.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The desired default behavior for `git_config_set` is to die
whenever an error occurs. Dying is the default for a lot of
internal functions when failures occur and is in this case the
right thing to do for most callers as otherwise we might run into
inconsistent repositories without noticing.
As some code may rely on the actual return values for
`git_config_set` we still require the ability to invoke these
functions without aborting. Rename the existing `git_config_set`
functions to `git_config_set_gently` to keep them available for
those callers.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If config values are queried using 'git config' (e.g. via --get,
--get-all, --get-regexp, or --list flag) then it is sometimes hard to
find the configuration file where the values were defined.
Teach 'git config' the '--show-origin' option to print the source
configuration file for every printed value.
Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We xmalloc a fixed-size buffer and sprintf into it; this is
OK because the size of our formatting types is finite, but
that's not immediately clear to a reader auditing sprintf
calls. Let's switch to xstrfmt, which is shorter and
obviously correct.
Note that just dropping the common xmalloc here causes gcc
to complain with -Wmaybe-uninitialized. That's because if
"types" does not match any of our known types, we never
write anything into the "normalized" pointer. With the
current code, gcc doesn't notice because we always return a
valid pointer (just one which might point to uninitialized
data, but the compiler doesn't know that). In other words,
the current code is potentially buggy if new types are added
without updating this spot.
So let's take this opportunity to clean up the function a
bit more. We can drop the "normalized" pointer entirely, and
just return directly from each code path. And then add an
assertion at the end in case we haven't covered any cases.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We create a strbuf only to insert a single string, pass the
resulting buffer to a function (which does not modify the
string), and then free it. We can just pass the original
string instead.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When formatting a config value into a strbuf, we may end
up stringifying it into a fixed-size buffer using sprintf,
and then copying that buffer into the strbuf. We can
eliminate the middle-man (and drop some calls to sprintf!)
by writing directly to the strbuf.
The reason it was written this way in the first place is
that we need to know before writing the value whether to
insert a delimiter. Instead of delaying the write of the
value, we speculatively write the delimiter, and roll it
back in the single case that cares.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's unusual for a function which writes to a passed-in
strbuf to call strbuf_init; that will throw away anything
already there, leaking memory. In this case, there are
exactly two callers; one relies on this initialization and
the other passes in an already-initialized buffer.
There's no leak, as the initialized buffer doesn't have
anything in it. But let's bump the strbuf_init out to the
one caller who needs it, making format_config more
idiomatic.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 578625fa91 (config: add '--name-only' option to list only
variable names, 2015-08-10) modified format_config() such that it
returned from the middle of the function when showing only keys,
resulting in ugly code structure.
Reorganize the if statements and dealing with the key-value delimiter to
make the function easier to read.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
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>
Since home_config_paths() combines distinct functionality already
implemented by expand_user_path() and xdg_config_home(), and hides the
home config file path ~/.gitconfig. Make the code more explicit by
replacing the use of home_config_paths() with expand_user_path() and
xdg_config_home().
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The die() / error() / warning() helpers put a fatal: / error: /
warning: prefix in front of the error message they print describing
the message's severity, which users are likely to be accustomed to
seeing these days.
This change will also be useful when marking the message for
translation: the argument to error() includes no newline at the end,
so it is less fussy for translators to translate without lines running
together in the translated output.
While we're here, start the error messages with a lowercase letter to
match the usual typography of error messages.
A quick web search and a code search at codesearch.debian.net finds no
scripts trying to parse these error messages, so this change should be
safe.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The name (not user) and email setting should be in config section
"user" and not in "core" as documented in Documentation/config.txt.
Signed-off-by: Ossi Herrala <oherrala@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch puts the usage info strings that were not already in docopt-
like format into docopt-like format, which will be a litle easier for
end users and a lot easier for translators. Changes include:
- Placing angle brackets around fill-in-the-blank parameters
- Putting dashes in multiword parameter names
- Adding spaces to [-f|--foobar] to make [-f | --foobar]
- Replacing <foobar>* with [<foobar>...]
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of git-config's command line options use OPT_BIT to
choose an action, and then parse the non-option arguments
in a context-dependent way. However, --get-color and
--get-colorbool are unlike the rest of the options, in that
they are OPT_STRING, taking the option name as a parameter.
This generally works, because we then use the presence of
those strings to set an action bit anyway. But it does mean
that the option-parser will continue looking for options
even after the key (because it is not a non-option; it is an
argument to an option). And running:
git config --get-color some.key -1
(to use "-1" as the default color spec) will barf, claiming
that "-1" is not an option. Instead, we should treat
--get-color and --get-colorbool as action bits, just like
--add, --get, and all the other actions, and then check that
the non-option arguments we got are sane. This fixes the
weirdness above, and makes those two options like all the
others.
This "fixes" a test in t4026, which checked that feeding
"-2" as a color should fail (it does fail, but prior to this
patch, because parseopt barfed, not because we actually ever
tried to parse the color).
This also catches other errors, like:
git config --get-color some.key black blue
which previously silently ignored "blue" (and now will
complain that you gave too many arguments).
There are some possible regressions, though. We now disallow
these, which currently do what you would expect:
# specifying other options after the action
git config --get-color some.key --file whatever
# using long-arg syntax
git config --get-color=some.key
However, we have never advertised these in the
documentation, and in fact they did not work in some older
versions of git. The behavior was apparently switched as an
accidental side effect of d64ec16 (git config: reorganize to
use parseopt, 2009-02-21).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The strings returned by git_path() are recycled after a while. Make
a copy of the config filename rather than holding onto the return
value from git_path().
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Originally the color-parsing function was used only for
config variables. It made sense to pass the variable name so
that the die() message could be something like:
$ git -c color.branch.plain=bogus branch
fatal: bad color value 'bogus' for variable 'color.branch.plain'
These days we call it in other contexts, and the resulting
error messages are a little confusing:
$ git log --pretty='%C(bogus)'
fatal: bad color value 'bogus' for variable '--pretty format'
$ git config --get-color foo.bar bogus
fatal: bad color value 'bogus' for variable 'command line'
This patch teaches color_parse to complain only about the
value, and then return an error code. Config callers can
then propagate that up to the config parser, which mentions
the variable name. Other callers can provide a custom
message. After this patch these three cases now look like:
$ git -c color.branch.plain=bogus branch
error: invalid color value: bogus
fatal: unable to parse 'color.branch.plain' from command-line config
$ git log --pretty='%C(bogus)'
error: invalid color value: bogus
fatal: unable to parse --pretty format
$ git config --get-color foo.bar bogus
error: invalid color value: bogus
fatal: unable to parse default color value
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce CONFIG_REGEX_NONE as a more explicit sentinel value to say
"we do not want to replace any existing entry" and use it in the
implementation of "git config --add".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently if we have a config file like,
[foo]
baz
bar =
and we try something like, "git config --add foo.baz roll", Git will
segfault. Moreover, for "git config --add foo.bar roll", it will
overwrite the original value instead of appending after the existing
empty value.
The problem lies with the regexp used for simulating --add in
`git_config_set_multivar_in_file()`, "^$", which in ideal case should
not match with any string but is true for empty strings. Instead use a
regexp like "a^" which can not be true for any string, empty or not.
For removing the segfault add a check for NULL values in `matches()` in
config.c.
Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the user has no ~/.gitconfig file, git config --global --edit used
to launch an editor on an nonexistant file name.
Instead, create a file with a default content before launching the
editor. The template contains only commented-out entries, to save a few
keystrokes for the user. If the values are guessed properly, the user
will only have to uncomment the entries.
Advanced users teaching newbies can create a minimalistic configuration
faster for newbies. Beginners reading a tutorial advising to run "git
config --global --edit" as a first step will be slightly more guided for
their first contact with Git.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have two implementations of the same function; let's drop
that to one. We take the name from daemon.c, but the
implementation (which is just slightly more efficient) from
the config code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The patch extends git config --file interface to allow read config from
stdin.
Editing stdin or setting value in stdin is an error.
Include by absolute path is allowed in stdin config, but not by relative
path.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We're going to have more options for config source.
Let's alter git_config_with_options() interface to accept struct with
all source options.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function will be reused to check for other conditions which prevent
write.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The release notes for Git 1.5.4 say that "git repo-config" will be
removed in the next feature release. Since Git 2.0 is nearly here,
remove it.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When you run "git config --int", the maximum size of integer
you get depends on how git was compiled, and what it
considers to be an "int".
This is almost useful, because your scripts calling "git
config" will behave similarly to git internally. But relying
on this is dubious; you have to actually know how git treats
each value internally (e.g., int versus unsigned long),
which is not documented and is subject to change. And even
if you know it is "unsigned long", we do not have a
git-config option to match that behavior.
Furthermore, you may simply be asking git to store a value
on your behalf (e.g., configuration for a hook). In that
case, the relevant range check has nothing at all to do with
git, but rather with whatever scripting tools you are using
(and git has no way of knowing what the appropriate range is
there).
Not only is the range check useless, but it is actively
harmful, as there is no way at all for scripts to look
at config variables with large values. For instance, one
cannot reliably get the value of pack.packSizeLimit via
git-config. On an LP64 system, git happily uses a 64-bit
"unsigned long" internally to represent the value, but the
script cannot read any value over 2G.
Ideally, the "--int" option would simply represent an
arbitrarily large integer. For practical purposes, however,
a 64-bit integer is large enough, and is much easier to
implement (and if somebody overflows it, we will still
notice the problem, and not simply return garbage).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Do not feed a random string as the first parameter to die(); use "%s"
as the format string instead.
Do the same for test-urlmatch-normalization.c while saving a single
pointer variable by turning a "const char *" constant string into
"const char []", which is sufficient to squelch compilation warning
(the compiler can see usage[] given to die() is a constant and will
never have conversion specifiers that cause trouble). But for a
good measure, give them the same "%s" treatment as well.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This task emerged from b04ba2bb (parse-options: deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN,
2011-09-27).
This commit introduces a change for the users, after this patch
you can pass one of the config level flags multiple times:
Before:
$ git config --global --global --list
error: only one config file at a time.
usage: ...
Afterwards this will work. This is due to the following check in the code:
if (use_global_config + use_system_config + use_local_config +
!!given_config_file + !!given_config_blob > 1) {
error("only one config file at a time.");
usage_with_options(builtin_config_usage, builtin_config_options);
}
With OPT_BOOL instead of OPT_BOOLEAN the variables use_global_config,
use_system_config, use_local_config will only have the value 0 if the
command line option was not passed or 1 no matter how often the
respective command line option was passed.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using the same urlmatch_config_entry() infrastructure, add a new
mode "--get-urlmatch" to the "git config" command, to learn values
for the "virtual" two-level variables customized for the specific
URL.
git config [--<type>] --get-urlmatch <section>[.<key>] <url>
With <section>.<key> fully specified, the configuration data for
<section>.<urlpattern>.<key> for <urlpattern> that best matches the
given <url> is sought (and if not found, <section>.<key> is used)
and reported. For example, with this configuration:
[http]
sslVerify
[http "https://weak.example.com"]
cookieFile = /tmp/cookie.txt
sslVerify = false
You would get
$ git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslVerify https://good.example.com
true
$ git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslVerify https://weak.example.com
false
With only <section> specified, you can get a list of all variables
in the section with their values that apply to the given URL. E.g
$ git config --get-urlmatch http https://weak.example.com
http.cookiefile /tmp/cookie.txt
http.sslverify false
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to reuse the logic to format the configuration value while
honouring the requested type, split this function into two.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This task emerged from b04ba2bb (parse-options: deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN,
2011-09-27). All occurrences of the respective variables have
been reviewed and none of them relied on the counting up mechanism,
but all of them were using the variable as a true boolean.
This patch does not change semantics of any command intentionally.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This can be used to read configuration values directly from git's
database. For example it is useful for reading to be checked out
.gitmodules files directly from the database.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most users seem to like having colors enabled, and colors can help
beginners to understand the output of some commands (e.g. notice
immediately the boundary between commits in the output of "git log").
Many tutorials tell the users to set color.ui=auto as a very first step,
which tend to indicate that color.ui=none is not the recommanded value,
hence should not be the default.
These tutorials would benefit from skipping this step and starting the
real Git manipulations earlier. Other beginners do not know about
color.ui=auto, and may not discover it by themselves, hence live with
black&white outputs while they may have preferred colors.
A few people (e.g. color-blind) prefer having no colors, but they can
easily set color.ui=never for this (and googling "disable colors in git"
already tells them how to do so), but this needs not occupy space in
beginner-oriented documentations.
A transition period with Git emitting a warning when color.ui is unset
would be possible, but the discomfort of having the warning seems
superior to the benefit: users may be surprised by the change, but not
harmed by it.
The default value is changed, and the documentation is reworded to
mention "color.ui=false" first, since the primary use of color.ui after
this change is to disable colors, not to enable it.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The meaning of get_colorbool_found and get_diff_color_found is "the
config value if found, and -1 otherwise", but get_color_ui_found had a
slightly different meaning, as it has the value 0 (which corresponds to
the default value from the user point of view) when color.ui is unset.
Make get_color_ui_found default to -1, and make it explicit that 0 is the
default value when nothing else is found.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The changes v1.7.12.1~2^2~4 (config: warn on inaccessible files,
2012-08-21) and v1.8.1.1~22^2~2 (config: treat user and xdg config
permission problems as errors, 2012-10-13) were intended to prevent
important configuration (think "[transfer] fsckobjects") from being
ignored when the configuration is unintentionally unreadable (for
example with EIO on a flaky filesystem, or with ENOMEM due to a DoS
attack). Usually ~/.gitconfig and ~/.config/git are readable by the
current user, and if they aren't then it would be easy to fix those
permissions, so the damage from adding this check should have been
minimal.
Unfortunately the access() check often trips when git is being run as
a server. A daemon (such as inetd or git-daemon) starts as "root",
creates a listening socket, and then drops privileges, meaning that
when git commands are invoked they cannot access $HOME and die with
fatal: unable to access '/root/.config/git/config': Permission denied
Any patch to fix this would have one of three problems:
1. We annoy sysadmins who need to take an extra step to handle HOME
when dropping privileges (the current behavior, or any other
proposal that they have to opt into).
2. We annoy sysadmins who want to set HOME when dropping privileges,
either by making what they want to do impossible, or making them
set an extra variable or option to accomplish what used to work
(e.g., a patch to git-daemon to set HOME when --user is passed).
3. We loosen the check, so some cases which might be noteworthy are
not caught.
This patch is of type (3).
Treat user and xdg configuration that are inaccessible due to
permissions (EACCES) as though no user configuration was provided at
all.
An alternative method would be to check if $HOME is readable, but that
would not help in cases where the user who dropped privileges had a
globally readable HOME with only .config or .gitconfig being private.
This does not change the behavior when /etc/gitconfig or .git/config
is unreadable (since those are more serious configuration errors),
nor when ~/.gitconfig or ~/.config/git is unreadable due to problems
other than permissions.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When given a variable without a value, such as '[section] var' and
asking git-config to treat it as a path, git_config_pathname returns
an error and doesn't modify its output parameter. show_config assumes
that the call is always successful and sets a variable to indicate
that vptr should be freed. In case of an error however, trying to do
this will cause the program to be killed, as it's pointing to memory
in the stack.
Detect the error and return immediately to avoid freeing or accessing
the uninitialed memory in the stack.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sparse issues an "Using plain integer as NULL pointer" warning while
checking a 'struct strbuf_list' initializer expression. The initial
field of the struct has pointer type, but the initializer expression
is given as '{0}'. In order to suppress the warning, we simply replace
the initializer with '{NULL}'.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The git-config command has always implemented its own file
lookup and parsing order. This was necessary because its
duplicate-entry handling did not match the way git's
internal callbacks worked. Now that this is no longer the
case, we are free to reuse the existing parsing code.
This saves us a few lines of code, but most importantly, it
means that the logic for which files are examined is
contained only in one place and cannot diverge.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
If git-config is asked for a single value, it will complain
and exit with an error if it finds multiple instances of
that value. This is unlike the usual internal config
parsing, however, which will generally overwrite previous
values, leaving only the final one. For example:
[set a multivar]
$ git config user.email one@example.com
$ git config --add user.email two@example.com
[use the internal parser to fetch it]
$ git var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT
Your Name <two@example.com> ...
[use git-config to fetch it]
$ git config user.email
one@example.com
error: More than one value for the key user.email: two@example.com
This overwriting behavior is critical for the regular
parser, which starts with the lowest-priority file (e.g.,
/etc/gitconfig) and proceeds to the highest-priority file
($GIT_DIR/config). Overwriting yields the highest priority
value at the end.
Git-config solves this problem by implementing its own
parsing. It goes from highest to lowest priorty, but does
not proceed to the next file if it has seen a value.
So in practice, this distinction never mattered much,
because it only triggered for values in the same file. And
there was not much point in doing that; the real value is in
overwriting values from lower-priority files.
However, this changed with the implementation of config
include files. Now we might see an include overriding a
value from the parent file, which is a sensible thing to do,
but git-config will flag as a duplication.
This patch drops the duplicate detection for git-config and
switches to a pure-overwrite model (for the single case;
--get-all can still be used if callers want to do something
more fancy).
As is shown by the modifications to the test suite, this is
a user-visible change in behavior. An alternative would be
to just change the include case, but this is much cleaner
for a few reasons:
1. If you change the include case, then to what? If you
just stop parsing includes after getting a value, then
you will get a _different_ answer than the regular
config parser (you'll get the first value instead of
the last value). So you'd want to implement overwrite
semantics anyway.
2. Even though it is a change in behavior for git-config,
it is bringing us in line with what the internal
parsers already do.
3. The file-order reimplementation is the only thing
keeping us from sharing more code with the internal
config parser, which will help keep differences to a
minimum.
Going under the assumption that the primary purpose of
git-config is to behave identically to how git's internal
parsing works, this change can be seen as a bug-fix.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
This is a refactor that will allow us to more easily tweak
the behavior for multi-valued variables, and it will
ultimately allow us to remove a lot git-config's custom code
in favor of the regular git_config code.
It does mean we're no longer streaming, and we're storing
more in memory for the --get-all case, but in practice it is
a tiny amount of data, and the results are instantaneous.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The get_value function has a goto label for cleaning up on
errors, but it only cleans up half of what the function
might allocate. Let's also clean up the key and regexp
variables there.
Note that we need to take special care when compiling the
regex fails to clean it up ourselves, since it is in a
half-constructed state (we would want to free it, but not
regfree it).
Similarly, we fix git_config_parse_key to return NULL when
it fails, not a pointer to some already-freed memory.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Before reading a config file, we check "!access(path, R_OK)"
to make sure that the file exists and is readable. If it's
not, then we silently ignore it.
For the case of ENOENT, this is fine, as the presence of the
file is optional. For other cases, though, it may indicate a
configuration error (e.g., not having permissions to read
the file). Let's print a warning in these cases to let the
user know.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We instead failed with an undocumented exit status 255.
Also define a "catch-all" status and document it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When $HOME is unset, home_config_paths fails and returns NULL pointers
for user_config and xdg_config. Valgrind complains with Syscall param
access(pathname) points to unaddressable byte(s).
Don't call blindly access() on these variables, but test them for
NULL-ness before.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach git to write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config if
- it already exists,
- $HOME/.gitconfig file doesn't, and
- The --global option is used.
Otherwise, write to $HOME/.gitconfig when the --global option is
given, as before.
If the user doesn't create $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config, there is
absolutely no change. Users can use this new file only if they want.
If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/config
will be used.
Advice for users who often come back to an old version of Git: you
shouldn't create this file.
Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Johannes Sixt