As we walk the directory tree, if we see an ignored path, we
want to add it to the ignored list only if it matches any
pathspec that we were given. We used to check for the
pathspec to appear explicitly. E.g., if we see "subdir/file"
and it is excluded, we check to see if we have "subdir/file"
in our pathspec.
However, this interacts badly with the optimization to avoid
recursing into ignored subdirectories. If "subdir" as a
whole is ignored, then we never recurse, and consider only
whether "subdir" itself is in our pathspec. It would not
match a pathspec of "subdir/file" explicitly, even though it
is the reason that subdir/file would be excluded.
This manifests itself to the user as "git add subdir/file"
failing to correctly note that the pathspec was ignored.
This patch extends the in_pathspec logic to include prefix
directory case.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we remove a path in a/deep/subdirectory, we should try to
remove as many trailing components as possible (i.e.,
subdirectory, then deep, then a). However, the test for the
return value of rmdir was reversed, so we only ever deleted
at most one level.
The fix is in remove_path, so "apply" and "merge-recursive"
also are fixed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit b5041c5 (Avoid writing to buffer in add_excludes_from_file_1())
tried not to append '\n' at the end because the next commit
may return a buffer that does not have extra space for that.
Unfortunately it left this assignment in the loop:
buf[i - (i && buf[i-1] == '\r')] = 0;
that can corrupt memory if "buf" is not '\n' terminated. But even if
it does not corrupt memory, the last line would not be
NULL-terminated, leading to errors later inside add_exclude().
This patch fixes it by reverting the faulty commit and make
sure "buf" is always \n terminated.
While at it, free unused memory properly.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Given pathspecs that share a common prefix, ls-files optimized its call
into recursive directory reader by starting at the common prefix
directory.
If you have a directory "t" with an untracked file "t/junk" in it, but the
top-level .gitignore file told us to ignore "t/", this resulted in:
$ git ls-files -o --exclude-standard
$ git ls-files -o --exclude-standard t/
t/junk
$ git ls-files -o --exclude-standard t/junk
t/junk
$ cd t && git ls-files -o --exclude-standard
junk
We could argue that you are overriding the ignore file by giving a
patchspec that matches or being in that directory, but it is somewhat
unexpected. Worse yet, these behave differently:
$ git ls-files -o --exclude-standard t/ .
$ git ls-files -o --exclude-standard t/
t/junk
This patch changes the optimization so that it notices when the common
prefix directory that it starts reading from is an ignored one.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The next caller I'll be adding won't have an access to struct dirent
because it won't be reading from a directory stream. Split the main
part of the function further into a separate function to make it usable
by a caller without passing a dirent as long as it knows what type is
feeding the function.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Primarily because I want to reuse it in a separate function later,
but this de-dents a huge function by one tabstop which by itself is
an improvement as well.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These functions are used to handle .gitignore. They are now exported
so that sparse checkout can reuse.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Index does not really have "directories", attempts to match "foo/"
against index will fail unless someone tries to reconstruct directories
from a list of file.
Observing that dtype in this function can never be NULL (otherwise
it would segfault), dtype NULL will be used to say "hey.. you are
matching against index" and behave properly.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds index as a prerequisite for directory listing (with
exclude). At the moment directory listing is used by "git clean",
"git add", "git ls-files" and "git status"/"git commit" and
unpack_trees()-related commands. These commands have been
checked/modified to populate index before doing directory listing.
add_excludes_from_file() does not enable this feature, because it
is used to read .git/info/exclude and some explicit files specified
by "git ls-files".
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the next patch, the buffer that is being used within
add_excludes_from_file_1() comes from another function and does not
have extra space to put \n at the end.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When you have an embedded git work tree in your work tree (be it
an orphaned submodule, or an independent checkout of an unrelated
project), "git clean -d -f" blindly descended into it and removed
everything. This is rarely what the user wants.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we have an up-to-date index entry for a file in that directory, we
can know that the directories leading up to that file must be
directories. No need to do an lstat() on the directory.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On filesystems without d_type, we can look at the cache entry first.
Doing an lstat() can be expensive.
Reported by Dmitry Potapov for Cygwin.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Stop the insanity with separate 'path' and 'base' arguments that must
match. We don't need that crazy interface any more, since we cleaned up
handling of 'path' in commit da4b3e8c28.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of the users of "read_directory()" actually want a much simpler
interface than the whole complex (but rather powerful) one.
In fact 'git add' had already largely abstracted out the core interface
issues into a private "fill_directory()" function that was largely
applicable almost as-is to a number of callers. Yes, 'git add' wants to
do some extra work of its own, specific to the add semantics, but we can
easily split that out, and use the core as a generic function.
This function does exactly that, and now that much simplified
'fill_directory()' function can be shared with a number of callers,
while also ensuring that the rather more complex calling conventions of
read_directory() are used by fewer call-sites.
This also makes the 'common_prefix()' helper function private to dir.c,
since all callers are now in that file.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change calls to die(..., strerror(errno)) to use the new die_errno().
In the process, also make slight style adjustments: at least state
_something_ about the function that failed (instead of just printing
the pathname), and put paths in single quotes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a path F that matches ignore pattern has a conflict, "git add F"
insisted the -f option be given, which did not make sense. It would have
required -f when the path was originally added, but when resolving a
conflict, it already is tracked.
So this should work (and does):
$ echo file >.gitignore
$ echo content >file
$ git add -f file ;# need -f because we are adding new path
$ echo more content >>file
$ git add file ;# don't need -f; it is not actually an "other" file
This is handled under the hood by the COLLECT_IGNORED option to
read_directory. When that code finds an ignored file, it checks the
index to make sure it is not actually a tracked file. However, the test
it uses does not take into account unmerged entries, and considers them
to still be ignored. "git ls-files" uses a more elaborate test and gets
the right answer and the same test should be used here.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Right now we pass two different pathnames ('path' and 'base') down to
read_directory_recursive(), and the only real reason for that is that we
want to allow an empty 'base' parameter, but when we do so, we need the
pathname to "opendir()" to be "." rather than the empty string.
And rather than handle that confusion in the caller, we can just fix
read_directory_recursive() to handle the case of an empty path itself,
by just passing opendir() a "." ourselves if the path is empty.
This would allow us to then drop one of the pathnames entirely from the
calling convention, but rather than do that, we'll start separating them
out as a "filesystem pathname" (the one we use for filesystem accesses)
and a "git internal base name" (which is the name that we use for git
internally).
That will eventually allow us to do things like handle different
encodings (eg the filesystem pathnames might be Latin1, while git itself
would use UTF-8 for filename information).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Essentially; s/type* /type */ as per the coding guidelines.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By having flags represented as bits in the new member variable 'flags',
it will be easier to use parse_options when dir_struct is involved.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"\" was treated differently in exclude rules depending on whether a
wildcard match was done. For wildcard rules, "\" was de-escaped in
fnmatch, but this was not done for other rules since they used strcmp
instead. A file named "#foo" would not be excluded by "\#foo", but would
be excluded by "\#foo*".
We now treat all rules with "\" as wildcard rules.
Another solution could be to de-escape all non-wildcard rules as we
read them, but we would have to do the de-escaping exactly as fnmatch
does it to avoid inconsistencies.
Signed-off-by: Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Swap function argument pair (length, string) into (string, length) to
conform with the commonly used order inside the GIT source code.
Also, add a note about this fact into the coding guidelines.
Signed-off-by: Kjetil Barvik <barvik@broadpark.no>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace isspecial() by the new macro is_glob_special(), which is more,
well, specialized. The former included the NUL char in its character
class, while the letter only included characters that are special to
file name globbing.
The new name contains underscores because they enhance readability
considerably now that it's made up of three words. Renaming the
function is necessary to document its changed scope.
The call sites of isspecial() are updated to check explicitly for NUL.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both versions have the same functionality. This removes any
redundancy.
This also adds makes two extensions to match_pathspec:
- If pathspec is NULL, return 1. This reflects the behavior of git
commands, for which no paths usually means "match all paths".
- If seen is NULL, do not use it.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If pathspec already matched exactly, it cannot match any more.
Originally, we had to continue anyways, because we did not
differentiate between exact, recursive and globbing matches.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The die() message updated accordingly.
The previous behaviour was to only allow cloning when the destination
directory doesn't exist.
[jc: added trivial tests]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new inline function is_dot_or_dotdot is used to check if the
directory name is either "." or "..". It returns a non-zero value if
the given string is "." or "..". It's applicable to a lot of Git
source code.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These functions are not used by any other file.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The function has two potential users which both managed to get wrong
their implementations (the one in builtin-rm.c one has a memleak, and
builtin-merge-recursive.c scribles over its const argument).
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The following syntax:
char foo[] = {
[0] = 1,
[7] = 2,
[15] = 3
};
is a c99 construct which some compilers do not support even though they
support other c99 constructs. This construct can be avoided by folding
these 'special' test cases into the sane_ctype array and making use of
the related infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
match_one implements an optimized pathspec match where it only uses
fnmatch if it detects glob special characters in the pattern. Unfortunately
it didn't treat \ as a special character, so attempts to escape a glob
special character would fail even though fnmatch() supports it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is the same fix for the issue of adding "sym/path" when "sym" is a
symblic link that points at a directory "dir" with "path" in it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git add *" is actually fundamentally different from "git add .", and
yeah, you should generally use the latter.
The reason? The argument list is actually something different from what
you think it is. For git, it's a "pathspec", so what actualy happens is
that in *both* cases, it will really traverse the whole tree, and then
match every file it finds against the pathspec.
So think of the arguments not as a file list, but as a random bunch of
patterns to match against the files you have!
Which is why the cost is actually approximately O(n*m), where "n" is the
size of the working tree, and "m" is the number of pathspecs.
So the reason "git add ." is fast is actually that "m" in that case is
just 1 (just one trivial pattern), and then "git add *" is slow because
"m" is large (lots of complicated patterns). In both cases, 'n' is the
same (== the whole set of files in your working tree).
Anyway, here's a trivial patch that doesn't change this fundamental fact,
but that avoids doing anything *expensive* until we've done some cheap
initial tests. It may or may not help your test-case, but it's pretty
simple and it matches the other git optimizations in this area (ie
"conceptually handle the general case, but optimize the simple cases where
we can exit early")
Notice how this patch doesn' actually change the fundamental O(n^2)
behaviour, but it makes it much cheaper by generally avoiding the
expensive 'fnmatch' and 'strlen/strncmp' when they are obviously not
needed.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git clean is run from a subdirectory it should follow the normal
policy and only remove directories if they are passed in as a pathspec,
or -d is specified.
The fix is to send len which could be shorter than ent->len because we
have stripped the trailing '/' that read_directory adds. Additionaly
match_one() was modified to allow a name[] that is not NUL terminated.
This allows us to check if the name matched the pathspec exactly
instead of recursively.
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
..and start using it for directory entry traversal (ie "git status" will
not consider entries that match an existing entry case-insensitively to
be a new file)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Right now nobody uses it, but "index_name_exists()" gets a flag so
you can enable it on a case-by-case basis.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change removes all obvious useless if-before-free tests.
E.g., it replaces code like this:
if (some_expression)
free (some_expression);
with the now-equivalent:
free (some_expression);
It is equivalent not just because POSIX has required free(NULL)
to work for a long time, but simply because it has worked for
so long that no reasonable porting target fails the test.
Here's some evidence from nearly 1.5 years ago:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2006-October/031544.html
FYI, the change below was prepared by running the following:
git ls-files -z | xargs -0 \
perl -0x3b -pi -e \
's/\bif\s*\(\s*(\S+?)(?:\s*!=\s*NULL)?\s*\)\s+(free\s*\(\s*\1\s*\))/$2/s'
Note however, that it doesn't handle brace-enclosed blocks like
"if (x) { free (x); }". But that's ok, since there were none like
that in git sources.
Beware: if you do use the above snippet, note that it can
produce syntactically invalid C code. That happens when the
affected "if"-statement has a matching "else".
E.g., it would transform this
if (x)
free (x);
else
foo ();
into this:
free (x);
else
foo ();
There were none of those here, either.
If you're interested in automating detection of the useless
tests, you might like the useless-if-before-free script in gnulib:
[it *does* detect brace-enclosed free statements, and has a --name=S
option to make it detect free-like functions with different names]
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=build-aux/useless-if-before-free
Addendum:
Remove one more (in imap-send.c), spotted by Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we process "foo/" entries in gitignore files on a system
that does not have d_type member in "struct dirent", the earlier
implementation ran lstat(2) separately when matching with
entries that came from the command line, in-tree .gitignore
files, and $GIT_DIR/info/excludes file.
This optimizes it by delaying the lstat(2) call until it becomes
absolutely necessary.
The initial idea for this change was by Jeff King, but I
optimized it further to pass pointers to around.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A pattern "foo/" in the exclude list did not match directory
"foo", but a pattern "foo" did. This attempts to extend the
exclude mechanism so that it would while not matching a regular
file or a symbolic link "foo". In order to differentiate a
directory and non directory, this passes down the type of path
being checked to excluded() function.
A downside is that the recursive directory walk may need to run
lstat(2) more often on systems whose "struct dirent" do not give
the type of the entry; earlier it did not have to do so for an
excluded path, but we now need to figure out if a path is a
directory before deciding to exclude it. This is especially bad
because an idea similar to the earlier CE_UPTODATE optimization
to reduce number of lstat(2) calls would by definition not apply
to the codepaths involved, as (1) directories will not be
registered in the index, and (2) excluded paths will not be in
the index anyway.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This creates a hash index of every single file added to the index.
Right now that hash index isn't actually used for much: I implemented a
"cache_name_exists()" function that uses it to efficiently look up a
filename in the index without having to do the O(logn) binary search,
but quite frankly, that's not why this patch is interesting.
No, the whole and only reason to create the hash of the filenames in the
index is that by modifying the hash function, you can fairly easily do
things like making it always hash equivalent names into the same bucket.
That, in turn, means that suddenly questions like "does this name exist
in the index under an _equivalent_ name?" becomes much much cheaper.
Guiding principles behind this patch:
- it shouldn't be too costly. In fact, my primary goal here was to
actually speed up "git commit" with a fully populated kernel tree, by
being faster at checking whether a file already existed in the index. I
did succeed, but only barely:
Best before:
[torvalds@woody linux]$ time git commit > /dev/null
real 0m0.255s
user 0m0.168s
sys 0m0.088s
Best after:
[torvalds@woody linux]$ time ~/git/git commit > /dev/null
real 0m0.233s
user 0m0.144s
sys 0m0.088s
so some things are actually faster (~8%).
Caveat: that's really the best case. Other things are invariably going
to be slightly slower, since we populate that index cache, and quite
frankly, few things really use it to look things up.
That said, the cost is really quite small. The worst case is probably
doing a "git ls-files", which will do very little except puopulate the
index, and never actually looks anything up in it, just lists it.
Before:
[torvalds@woody linux]$ time git ls-files > /dev/null
real 0m0.016s
user 0m0.016s
sys 0m0.000s
After:
[torvalds@woody linux]$ time ~/git/git ls-files > /dev/null
real 0m0.021s
user 0m0.012s
sys 0m0.008s
and while the thing has really gotten relatively much slower, we're
still talking about something almost unmeasurable (eg 5ms). And that
really should be pretty much the worst case.
So we lose 5ms on one "benchmark", but win 22ms on another. Pick your
poison - this patch has the advantage that it will _likely_ speed up
the cases that are complex and expensive more than it slows down the
cases that are already so fast that nobody cares. But if you look at
relative speedups/slowdowns, it doesn't look so good.
- It should be simple and clean
The code may be a bit subtle (the reasons I do hash removal the way I
do etc), but it re-uses the existing hash.c files, so it really is
fairly small and straightforward apart from a few odd details.
Now, this patch on its own doesn't really do much, but I think it's worth
looking at, if only because if done correctly, the name hashing really can
make an improvement to the whole issue of "do we have a filename that
looks like this in the index already". And at least it gets real testing
by being used even by default (ie there is a real use-case for it even
without any insane filesystems).
NOTE NOTE NOTE! The current hash is a joke. I'm ashamed of it, I'm just
not ashamed of it enough to really care. I took all the numbers out of my
nether regions - I'm sure it's good enough that it works in practice, but
the whole point was that you can make a really much fancier hash that
hashes characters not directly, but by their upper-case value or something
like that, and thus you get a case-insensitive hash, while still keeping
the name and the index itself totally case sensitive.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This converts the index explicitly on read and write to its on-disk
format, allowing the in-core format to contain more flags, and be
simpler.
In particular, the in-core format is now host-endian (as opposed to the
on-disk one that is network endian in order to be able to be shared
across machines) and as a result we can dispense with all the
htonl/ntohl on accesses to the cache_entry fields.
This will make it easier to make use of various temporary flags that do
not exist in the on-disk format.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Operations that walk directories or trees, which potentially need to
consult the .gitignore files, used to always try to open the .gitignore
file every time they entered a new directory, even when they ended up
not needing to call excluded() function to see if a path in the
directory is ignored. This was done by push/pop exclude_per_directory()
functions that managed the data in a stack.
This changes the directory walking API to remove the need to call these
two functions. Instead, the directory walk data structure caches the
data used by excluded() function the last time, and lazily reuses it as
much as possible. Among the data the last check used, the ones from
deeper directories that the path we are checking is outside are
discarded, data from the common leading directories are reused, and then
the directories between the common directory and the directory the path
being checked is in are checked for .gitignore file. This is very
similar to the way gitattributes are handled.
This API change also fixes "ls-files -c -i", which called excluded()
without setting up the gitignore data via the old push/pop functions.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function is used to see if a path given by the user does exist
on the filesystem. A symbolic link that does not point anywhere does
exist but running stat() on it would yield an error, and it incorrectly
said it does not exist.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In "dir_struct", each exclusion element in the exclusion stack records a
base string (pointer to the beginning with length) so that we can tell
where it came from, but this pointer is just pointing at the parameter
that is given by the caller to the push_exclude_per_directory()
function.
While read_directory_recursive() runs, calls to excluded() makes use
the data in the exclusion elements, including this base string. The
caller of read_directory_recursive() is not supposed to free the
buffer it gave to push_exclude_per_directory() earlier, until it
returns.
The test case Bruce Stephens gave in the mailing list discussion
was simplified and added to the t3700 test.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are inconsistencies in the way commands currently handle
the core.excludesfile configuration variable. The problem is
the variable is too new to be noticed by anything other than
git-add and git-status.
* git-ls-files does not notice any of the "ignore" files by
default, as it predates the standardized set of ignore files.
The calling scripts established the convention to use
.git/info/exclude, .gitignore, and later core.excludesfile.
* git-add and git-status know about it because they call
add_excludes_from_file() directly with their own notion of
which standard set of ignore files to use. This is just a
stupid duplication of code that need to be updated every time
the definition of the standard set of ignore files is
changed.
* git-read-tree takes --exclude-per-directory=<gitignore>,
not because the flexibility was needed. Again, this was
because the option predates the standardization of the ignore
files.
* git-merge-recursive uses hardcoded per-directory .gitignore
and nothing else. git-clean (scripted version) does not
honor core.* because its call to underlying ls-files does not
know about it. git-clean in C (parked in 'pu') doesn't either.
We probably could change git-ls-files to use the standard set
when no excludes are specified on the command line and ignore
processing was asked, or something like that, but that will be a
change in semantics and might break people's scripts in a subtle
way. I am somewhat reluctant to make such a change.
On the other hand, I think it makes perfect sense to fix
git-read-tree, git-merge-recursive and git-clean to follow the
same rule as other commands. I do not think of a valid use case
to give an exclude-per-directory that is nonstandard to
read-tree command, outside a "negative" test in the t1004 test
script.
This patch is the first step to untangle this mess.
The next step would be to teach read-tree, merge-recursive and
clean (in C) to use setup_standard_excludes().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In "dir_struct", each exclusion element in the exclusion stack records a
base string (pointer to the beginning with length) so that we can tell
where it came from, but this pointer is just pointing at the parameter
that is given by the caller to the push_exclude_per_directory()
function.
While read_directory_recursive() runs, calls to excluded() makes use
the data in the exclusion elements, including this base string. The
caller of read_directory_recursive() is not supposed to free the
buffer it gave to push_exclude_per_directory() earlier, until it
returns.
The test case Bruce Stephens gave in the mailing list discussion
was simplified and added to the t3700 test.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are inconsistencies in the way commands currently handle
the core.excludesfile configuration variable. The problem is
the variable is too new to be noticed by anything other than
git-add and git-status.
* git-ls-files does not notice any of the "ignore" files by
default, as it predates the standardized set of ignore files.
The calling scripts established the convention to use
.git/info/exclude, .gitignore, and later core.excludesfile.
* git-add and git-status know about it because they call
add_excludes_from_file() directly with their own notion of
which standard set of ignore files to use. This is just a
stupid duplication of code that need to be updated every time
the definition of the standard set of ignore files is
changed.
* git-read-tree takes --exclude-per-directory=<gitignore>,
not because the flexibility was needed. Again, this was
because the option predates the standardization of the ignore
files.
* git-merge-recursive uses hardcoded per-directory .gitignore
and nothing else. git-clean (scripted version) does not
honor core.* because its call to underlying ls-files does not
know about it. git-clean in C (parked in 'pu') doesn't either.
We probably could change git-ls-files to use the standard set
when no excludes are specified on the command line and ignore
processing was asked, or something like that, but that will be a
change in semantics and might break people's scripts in a subtle
way. I am somewhat reluctant to make such a change.
On the other hand, I think it makes perfect sense to fix
git-read-tree, git-merge-recursive and git-clean to follow the
same rule as other commands. I do not think of a valid use case
to give an exclude-per-directory that is nonstandard to
read-tree command, outside a "negative" test in the t1004 test
script.
This patch is the first step to untangle this mess.
The next step would be to teach read-tree, merge-recursive and
clean (in C) to use setup_standard_excludes().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King