subprocess_read_status() reads "status=<key>" packets up to a flush with
packet_read_line_gently(), which is gentle only about EOF. A malformed
length header still dies inside pkt-line, and an empty packet is
indistinguishable from the flush that ends the section. A protocol
violation in a status section therefore either kills the whole command
or silently truncates the section. That posture fits the filter
protocol's callers, which treat their process as required
infrastructure; the diff process consult added later in this series
treats its process as optional, and any protocol error must degrade to
the builtin diff rather than abort the command.
Add subprocess_read_status_gently(): the same status loop, reading
through packet_read_with_status() with the gentle options, returning
-1 on a truncated or malformed packet and on an empty packet where a
status line or the terminating flush belongs. subprocess_read_status()
and its callers are unchanged.
The handshake has its gentle counterpart in 061a68e443 (sub-process:
use gentle handshake to avoid die() on startup failure, 2026-06-01),
which turned truncated handshake reads into error returns for every
caller. This series' base includes that commit, so a process that
dies during the handshake feeds the same non-fatal fallback as a
status failure here, and an optional diff process degrades to the
builtin diff on either kind of protocol error.
Signed-off-by: Michael Montalbo <mmontalbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
subprocess_start() and subprocess_stop() couple two concerns: managing a
child process (setup, handshake, teardown) and managing a hashmap that
indexes running processes by command string. The hashmap suits callers
like convert.c where many files may share one filter process looked up
by name, but callers that manage process membership under their own
rules do not need the coupled operations.
Extract subprocess_start_command() and subprocess_stop_command() so
callers can reuse the child process setup and handshake machinery
without the map operations. subprocess_start() and subprocess_stop()
become thin wrappers that add hashmap operations on top.
The diff process support added later in this series keeps its processes
in a pool owned by a per-repository provider object, and an entry for a
failed command must stay behind there so the command is not retried.
That membership follows rules subprocess_start() and subprocess_stop()
do not know. The pool therefore uses the _command variants for process
lifecycle and manages its own map.
Signed-off-by: Michael Montalbo <mmontalbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The .txt extensions were changed to .adoc in 1f010d6 (doc: use .adoc
extension for AsciiDoc files, 2025-01-20). References to the renamed
files were not updated yet.
Signed-off-by: Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For sanity, we should probably do one of the following:
(a) make C and header files both depend upon everything they need
(b) consistently exclude git-compat-util.h from headers and require it
be the first include in C files
Currently, we have some of the headers following (a) and others
following (b), which makes things messy. In the past I was pushed
towards (b), as per [1] and [2]. Further, during this series I
discovered that this mixture empirically will mean that we end up with C
files that do not directly include git-compat-util.h, and do include
headers that don't include git-compat-util.h, with the result that we
likely have headers included before an indirect inclusion of
git-compat-util.h. Since git-compat-util.h has tricky platform-specific
stuff that is meant to be included before everything else, this state of
affairs is risky and may lead to things breaking in subtle ways (and
only on some platforms) as per [1] and [2].
Since including git-compat-util.h in existing header files makes it
harder for us to catch C files that are missing that include, let's
switch to (b) to make the enforcement of this rule easier. Remove the
inclusion of git-compat-util.h from header files other than the ones
that have been approved as alternate first includes.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20180811173406.GA9119@sigill.intra.peff.net/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20180811174301.GA9287@sigill.intra.peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
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>
In previous patches, extern was mechanically removed from function
declarations without care to formatting, causing parameter lists to be
misaligned. Manually format changed sections such that the parameter
lists should be realigned.
Viewing this patch with 'git diff -w' should produce no output.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There has been a push to remove extern from function declarations.
Remove some instances of "extern" for function declarations which are
caught by Coccinelle. Note that Coccinelle has some difficulty with
processing functions with `__attribute__` or varargs so some `extern`
declarations are left behind to be dealt with in a future patch.
This was the Coccinelle patch used:
@@
type T;
identifier f;
@@
- extern
T f(...);
and it was run with:
$ git ls-files \*.{c,h} |
grep -v ^compat/ |
xargs spatch --sp-file contrib/coccinelle/noextern.cocci --in-place
Files under `compat/` are intentionally excluded as some are directly
copied from external sources and we should avoid churning them as much
as possible.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Separating out the implementation of the handshake when starting a
long-running subprocess (for example, as is done for a clean/smudge
filter) was done in commit fa64a2fdbe ("sub-process: refactor
handshake to common function", 2017-07-26), but its documentation still
resides in gitattributes. Split out the documentation as well.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Refactor, into a common function, the version and capability negotiation
done when invoking a long-running process as a clean or smudge filter.
This will be useful for other Git code that needs to interact similarly
with a long-running process.
As you can see in the change to t0021, this commit changes the error
message reported when the long-running process does not introduce itself
with the expected "server"-terminated line. Originally, the error
message reports that the filter "does not support filter protocol
version 2", differentiating between the old single-file filter protocol
and the new multi-file filter protocol - I have updated it to something
more generic and useful.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the documentation for the sub-process API from a separate txt file
to its header file.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using the hashmap a common need is to have access to caller provided
data in the compare function. A couple of times we abuse the keydata field
to pass in the data needed. This happens for example in patch-ids.c.
This patch changes the function signature of the compare function
to have one more void pointer available. The pointer given for each
invocation of the compare function must be defined in the init function
of the hashmap and is just passed through.
Documentation of this new feature is deferred to a later patch.
This is a rather mechanical conversion, just adding the new pass-through
parameter. However while at it improve the naming of the fields of all
compare functions used by hashmaps by ensuring unused parameters are
prefixed with 'unused_' and naming the parameters what they are (instead
of 'unused' make it 'unused_keydata').
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Acked-by: Ben Peart <peartben@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Enable sub-processes to gracefully handle when the process dies by
updating subprocess_read_status to return an error on EOF instead of
dying.
Update apply_multi_file_filter to take advantage of the revised
subprocess_read_status.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the sub-proces functions into sub-process.h/c. Add documentation
for the new module in Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Michael Montalbo