When we switch to a new branch using checkout, we usually output a
message indicating what happened. However, when we switch from an unborn
branch to a new branch, we do not print anything, which may leave the
user wondering what happened.
The reason is that the unborn branch is a special case (see abe1998),
and does not follow the usual switch_branches code path. Let's add a
similar informational message to the special case to match the usual
code path.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
checkout operates in three different modes. On top of that it tries to
be smart by guessing the branch name for switching. This results in
messy option handling code. This patch reorders it so that
- cmd_checkout() is responsible for parsing, preparing input and
determining mode
- Code of each mode is in checkout_paths() and checkout_branch(),
where sanity checks are performed
Another slight improvement is always print branch name (or commit
name) when printing errors related ot them. This helps catch the case
where an option is mistaken as branch/commit.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This struct contains various switches to system and it feels somewhat
safer to have the compiler reassure us that nowhere else changes it.
One field that is changed, writeout_error, is split out and passed as
another argument.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff_setup_done() has historically returned an error code, but lost
the last nonzero return in 943d5b7 (allow diff.renamelimit to be set
regardless of -M/-C, 2006-08-09). The callers were in a pretty
confused state: some actually checked for the return code, and some
did not.
Let it return void, and patch all callers to take this into account.
This conveniently also gets rid of a handful of different(!) error
messages that could never be triggered anyway.
Note that the function can still die().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we are leaving a detached HEAD, we do a revision traversal to
check whether we are orphaning any commits, marking the commit we're
leaving as the start of the traversal, and all existing refs as
uninteresting.
Prior to commit 468224e5, we did so by calling for_each_ref, and
feeding each resulting refname to setup_revisions. Commit 468224e5
refactored this to simply mark the pending objects, saving an extra
lookup.
However, it confused the "flags" parameter to the each_ref_fn
clalback, which is about the flags we found while looking up the ref
with the object flag. Because REF_ISSYMREF ("this ref is a symbolic
ref, e.g. refs/remotes/origin/HEAD") happens to be the same bit
pattern as SEEN ("we have picked this object up from the pending
list and moved it to revs.commits list"), we incorrectly reported
that a commit previously at the detached HEAD will become
unreachable if the only ref that can reach the commit happens to be
pointed at by a symbolic ref.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Strip the name length from the ce_flags field and move it
into its own ce_namelen field in struct cache_entry. This
will both give us a tiny bit of a performance enhancement
when working with long pathnames and is a refactoring for
more readability of the code.
It enhances readability, by making it more clear what
is a flag, and where the length is stored and make it clear
which functions use stages in comparisions and which only
use the length.
It also makes CE_NAMEMASK private, so that users don't
mistakenly write the name length in the flags.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
abe199808c (git checkout -b: allow switching out of an unborn branch)
introduced a bug demonstrated by
git checkout --orphan foo
git checkout --detach
git symbolic-ref HEAD
which gives 'refs/heads/(null)'.
This happens because we strbuf_addf(&branch_ref, "refs/heads/%s",
opts->new_branch) when opts->new_branch can be NULL for --detach.
Catch and forbid this case, adding a test to t2017 to catch it in
future.
Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If stderr isn't a tty, we shouldn't be printing incremental progress
messages. In particular, this affects 'git checkout -f . >&logfile'
unless you provided -q. And git-new-workdir has no way to provide -q.
It would probably be better to have progress.c check isatty(2) all the time,
but that wouldn't allow things like 'git push --progress' to force progress
reporting to on, so I won't try to solve the general case right now.
Actual fix suggested by Jeff King.
Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In abe1998 ("git checkout -b: allow switching out of an unborn
branch"), a code-path overly-optimisticly assumed that a
branch-name was specified. This is not always the case, and as
a result a NULL-pointer was attempted printed to .git/HEAD.
This could lead to at least two different failure modes:
1) vsnprintf formated the NULL-string as something useful (e.g
"(null)")
2) vsnprintf crashed
Neither were very convenient for formatting a new HEAD-reference.
To fix this, reintroduce some strictness so we only take this
new codepath if a banch-name was specified.
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git checkout switches from a detached HEAD to any other commit, then
all orphaned commits were listed in a warning:
Warning: you are leaving 2 commits behind...:
a5e5396 another fixup
6aa1af6 fixup foo
But if the new commit is actually one from this list (6aa1af6 in this
example), then the list in the warning can be truncated at the new HEAD,
because history beginning at HEAD is not "left behind". This makes it so.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Like the "switched to..." message (which is already
suppressed by "-q"), this message is purely informational.
Let's silence it if the user asked us to be quiet.
This patch is slightly more than a one-liner, because we
have to teach create_branch to propagate the flag all the
way down to install_branch_config.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Running "git checkout -b another" immediately after "git init" when you do
not even have a commit on 'master' fails with:
$ git checkout -b another
fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born
This is unnecessary, if we redefine "git checkout -b $name" that does not
take any $start_point (which has to be a commit) as "I want to check out a
new branch $name from the state I am in".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gcc 4.6.2 (there may be others) does not realize that the variable "mode"
can never be used uninitialized in this function and issues a false warning
under -Wuninitialized option.
Squelch it with an unnecessary initialization; it is not like a single
assignment matters to the performance in this codepath that writes out
to the filesystem with checkout_entry() anyway.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The content level merge machinery ll_merge() is prepared to merge
correctly in "both sides added differently" case by using an empty blob as
if it were the common ancestor. "checkout -m" could do the same, but didn't
bother supporting it and instead insisted on having all three stages.
Reported-by: Pete Harlan
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
resolve_ref() may return a pointer to a static buffer. Callers that
use this value longer than a couple of statements should copy the
value to avoid some hidden resolve_ref() call that may change the
static buffer's value.
The bug found by Tony Wang <wwwjfy@gmail.com> in builtin/merge.c
demonstrates this. The first call is in cmd_merge()
branch = resolve_ref("HEAD", head_sha1, 0, &flag);
Then deep in lookup_commit_or_die() a few lines after, resolve_ref()
may be called again and destroy "branch".
lookup_commit_or_die
lookup_commit_reference
lookup_commit_reference_gently
parse_object
lookup_replace_object
do_lookup_replace_object
prepare_replace_object
for_each_replace_ref
do_for_each_ref
get_loose_refs
get_ref_dir
get_ref_dir
resolve_ref
All call sites are checked and made sure that xstrdup() is called if
the value should be saved.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When on master, "git checkout -B master <commit>" is a more natural way to
say "git reset --keep <commit>", which was originally invented for the
exact purpose of moving to the named commit while keeping the local changes
around.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ignored files usually are generated files (e.g. .o files) and can be
safely discarded. However sometimes users may have important files in
working directory, but still want a clean "git status", so they mark
them as ignored files. But in this case, these files should not be
overwritten without asking first.
Enable this use case with --no-overwrite-ignore, where git only sees
tracked and untracked files, no ignored files. Those who mix
discardable ignored files with important ones may have to sort it out
themselves.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Back in 1127148 (Loosen "working file will be lost" check in
Porcelain-ish - 2006-12-04), git-checkout.sh learned to quietly
overwrite ignored files. Howver the code only took .gitignore files
into account.
Standard ignored files include all specified in .gitignore files in
working directory _and_ $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. This patch makes sure
ignored files in info/exclude can also be overwritten automatically in
the spirit of the original patch.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
resolve_ref() may return a pointer to a static buffer, which is not
safe for long-term use because if another resolve_ref() call happens,
the buffer may be changed. Many call sites though do not care about
this buffer. They simply check if the return value is NULL or not.
Convert all these call sites to new wrappers to reduce resolve_ref()
calls from 57 to 34. If we change resolve_ref() prototype later on
to avoid passing static buffer out, this helps reduce changes.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change check_ref_format() to take a flags argument that indicates what
is acceptable in the reference name (analogous to "git
check-ref-format"'s "--allow-onelevel" and "--refspec-pattern"). This
is more convenient for callers and also fixes a failure in the test
suite (and likely elsewhere in the code) by enabling "onelevel" and
"refspec-pattern" to be allowed independently of each other.
Also rename check_ref_format() to check_refname_format() to make it
obvious that it deals with refnames rather than references themselves.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Factor out the code to clear the commit marks for a whole struct
object_array from builtin/checkout.c into its own exported function
clear_commit_marks_for_object_array and use it in bisect and bundle
as well. It handles tags and commits and ignores objects of any
other type.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of going through all the references again when we clear the
commit marks, do it like bisect and bundle and gain ownership of the
list of pending objects which we constructed from those references.
We simply copy the struct object_array that points to the list, set
the flag leak_pending and then prepare_revision_walk won't destroy
it and it's ours. We use it to clear the marks and free it at the
end.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of building a list of textual arguments for setup_revisions, use
add_pending_object and add_pending_sha1 to queue the objects directly.
This is both faster and simpler.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Checking paths out of a tree is (currently) defined to do:
- Grab the paths from the named tree that match the given pathspec,
and add them to the index;
- Check out the contents from the index for paths that match the
pathspec to the working tree; and while at it
- If the given pathspec did not match anything, suspect a typo from the
command line and error out without updating the index nor the working
tree.
Suppose that the branch you are working on has dir/myfile, and the "other"
branch has dir/other but not dir/myfile. Further imagine that you have
either modified or removed dir/myfile in your working tree, but you have
not run "git add dir/myfile" or "git rm dir/myfile" to tell Git about your
local change. Running
$ git checkout other dir
would add dir/other to the index with the contents taken out of the
"other" branch, and check out the paths from the index that match the
pathspec "dir", namely, "dir/other" and "dir/myfile", overwriting your
local changes to "dir/myfile", even though "other" branch does not even
know about that file.
Fix it by updating the working tree only with the index entries that
was read from the "other" tree.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "git branch" command, while not in listing mode, calls create_branch()
even when the target branch already exists, and it does so even when it is
not interested in updating the value of the branch (i.e. the name of the
commit object that sits at the tip of the existing branch). This happens
when the command is run with "--set-upstream" option.
The earlier safety-measure to prevent "git branch -f $branch $commit" from
updating the currently checked out branch did not take it into account,
and we no longer can update the tracking information of the current branch.
Minimally fix this regression by telling the validation code if it is
called to really update the value of a potentially existing branch, or if
the caller merely is interested in updating auxiliary aspects of a branch.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Jay Soffian
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We were using a similar ad-hoc rev_list_args structure, but
this saves some code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git branch -M <foo> <current-branch>" allows updating the current branch
which HEAD points, without the necessary house-keeping that git reset
normally does to make this operation sensible. It also leaves the reflog
in a confusing state (you would be warned when trying to read it).
"git checkout -B <current branch> <foo>" is also partly vulnerable to this
bug; due to inconsistent pre-flight checks it would perform half of its
task and then abort just before rewriting the branch. Again this
manifested itself as the index file getting out-of-sync with HEAD.
"git branch -f" already guarded against this problem, and aborts with
a fatal error.
Update "git branch -M", "git checkout -B" and "git branch -f" to share the
same check before allowing a branch to be created. These prevent you from
updating the current branch.
We considered suggesting the use of "git reset" in the failure message
but concluded that it was not possible to discern what the user was
actually trying to do.
Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The following sequence of commands reveals an issue with error
reporting of relative paths:
$ mkdir sub
$ cd sub
$ git ls-files --error-unmatch ../bbbbb
error: pathspec 'b' did not match any file(s) known to git.
$ git commit --error-unmatch ../bbbbb
error: pathspec 'b' did not match any file(s) known to git.
This bug is visible only if the normalized path (i.e., the relative
path from the repository root) is longer than the prefix.
Otherwise, the code skips over the normalized path and reads from
an unused memory location which still contains a leftover of the
original command line argument.
So instead, use the existing facilities to deal with relative paths
correctly.
Also fix inconsistency between "checkout" and "commit", e.g.
$ cd Documentation
$ git checkout nosuch.txt
error: pathspec 'Documentation/nosuch.txt' did not match...
$ git commit nosuch.txt
error: pathspec 'nosuch.txt' did not match...
by propagating the prefix down the codepath that reports the error.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When create a new branch, we fed "refs/heads/<proposed name>" as a string
to get_sha1() and expected it to fail when a branch already exists.
The right way to check if a ref exists is to check with resolve_ref().
A naïve solution that might appear attractive but does not work is to
forbid slashes in get_describe_name() but that will not work. A describe
name is is in the form of "ANYTHING-g<short sha1>", and that ANYTHING part
comes from a original tag name used in the repository the user ran the
describe command. A sick user could have a confusing hierarchical tag
whose name is "refs/heads/foobar" (stored as refs/tags/refs/heads/foobar")
to generate a describe name "refs/heads/foobar-6-g02ac983", and we should
be able to use that name to refer to the object whose name is 02ac983.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many callers don't actually care about the pretty print
context at all; let's just give them a simple way of
pretty-printing a commit without having to create a context
struct.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When switching away from a detached HEAD with "git checkout", we give a
listing of the commits about to be lost, and then tell how to resurrect
them since 8e2dc6a (commit: give final warning when reattaching HEAD to
leave commits behind, 2011-02-18).
This is a good safety measure for people who are not comfortable with the
detached HEAD state, but the advice on how to keep the state you just left
was given even to those who set advice.detachedHead to false.
Keep the warning and informational commit listing, but honor the setting
of advice.detachedHead to squelch the advice.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark the "Warning: you are leaving %d commit(s) behind" message added
in v1.7.5-rc0~74^2 (commit: give final warning when reattaching HEAD
to leave commits behind) by Junio C Hamano for translation.
This message requires the use of ngettext() features, and is the first
message to use the Q_() wrapper around ngettext().
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark messages added in v1.7.5-rc0~117^2~2 (checkout: introduce
--detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}") by Junio C Hamano
for translation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch changes behavior of the two functions. Previously it does
prefix matching only. Now it can also do wildcard matching.
All callers are updated. Some gain wildcard matching (archive,
checkout), others reset pathspec_item.has_wildcard to retain old
behavior (ls-files, ls-tree as they are plumbing).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When orphaning a commit on a detached HEAD, the warning
currently looks like:
Warning: you are leaving 3 commits behind, not connected to
any of your branches:
- commit subject 1
- commit subject 2
- commit subject 3
If you want to keep them by creating a new branch, this
may be a good time to do so with:
git branch new_branch_name 933a615ab0bc566dcfd8c01ec8af159f770d3fe5
Instead of using the "-" list, let's provide a more
traditional oneline format, with the abbreviated sha1 before
each subject. Users are accustomed to seeing commits in this
format, and having the sha1 of each commit can be useful if
you want to cherry-pick instead of creating a new branch.
The new format looks like:
Warning: you are leaving 3 commits behind, not connected to
any of your branches:
933a615 commit subject 1
824fcde commit subject 2
fa49b1a commit subject 3
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When leaving a detached HEAD, we do a revision walk to make
sure the commit we are leaving isn't being orphaned.
However, this leaves crufty marks in the commit objects
which can confuse later walkers, like the one in
stat_tracking_info.
Let's clean up after ourselves to prevent this conflict.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Split up the "Switched to and reset branch" and "Switched to a new
branch" messages to make them easier to translate.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Gettextize the "HEAD is now at" messages. Several tests in t7201-co.sh
explicitly checked for this message. Change them to skip under
GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Split up the "does not have our/their version" message to make it
easier to translate.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
You can detach the HEAD at an arbitrary commit in order to browse the
files in various points in the history or build older versions of the
software, without recording any new commit, and come back to an existing
branch. When used in this "sightseer" mode, detached HEAD is a perfectly
safe mechanism. It also is a useful state to experiment with throw-away
commits.
When coming back to an existing branch with "git checkout master",
however, the commits that were created on the detached HEAD will become
unreachable from anywhere but the reflog of the HEAD. Check if the commit
we are about to leave is connected to some ref, and give a final warning
otherwise to remind the user for safety.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Functions such as hashcmp that expect a binary SHA-1 value take
parameters of type "unsigned char *" to avoid accepting a textual
SHA-1 passed by mistake. Unfortunately, this means passing the string
literal EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN requires an ugly cast. Tweak the
definition of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN to produce a value of more
convenient type.
In the future the definition might change to
extern const unsigned char empty_tree_sha1_bin[20];
#define EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN empty_tree_sha1_bin
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Take care of simple, exceptional cases before the meat of the "check
out by branch name" code begins. After this change, the function
vaguely follows the following pseudocode:
if (-B or -b)
create branch;
if (plain "git checkout" or "git checkout HEAD")
;
else if (--detach or checking out by non-branch commit name)
detach HEAD;
else if (checking out by branch name)
attach HEAD;
One nice side benefit is to make it possible to remove handling of
the --detach option from outside switch_branches.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For example, one might use this when making a temporary merge to
test that two topics work well together.
Patch by Junio, with tests from Jeff King.
[jn: with some extra checks for bogus commandline usage]
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King