The SubmittingPatches document now refers folks to manpages
translation project.
* jc/doc-manpages-l10n:
SubmittingPatches: advertise git-manpages-l10n project a bit
Adjust jc/fix-2.45.1-and-friends-for-2.39 for more recent
maintenance track.
* jc/fix-2.45.1-and-friends-for-maint:
Revert "fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir"
Revert "Add a helper function to compare file contents"
clone: drop the protections where hooks aren't run
tests: verify that `clone -c core.hooksPath=/dev/null` works again
Revert "core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning"
init: use the correct path of the templates directory again
hook: plug a new memory leak
ci: stop installing "gcc-13" for osx-gcc
ci: avoid bare "gcc" for osx-gcc job
ci: drop mention of BREW_INSTALL_PACKAGES variable
send-email: avoid creating more than one Term::ReadLine object
send-email: drop FakeTerm hack
The knobs to tweak how reftable files are written have been made
available as configuration variables.
* ps/reftable-write-options:
refs/reftable: allow configuring geometric factor
reftable: make the compaction factor configurable
refs/reftable: allow disabling writing the object index
refs/reftable: allow configuring restart interval
reftable: use `uint16_t` to track restart interval
refs/reftable: allow configuring block size
reftable/dump: support dumping a table's block structure
reftable/writer: improve error when passed an invalid block size
reftable/writer: drop static variable used to initialize strbuf
reftable: pass opts as constant pointer
reftable: consistently refer to `reftable_write_options` as `opts`
The only todo commands that accept a merge commit are "merge" and
"reset". All the other commands like "pick" or "reword" fail when they
try to pick a a merge commit and print the message
error: commit abc123 is a merge but no -m option was given.
followed by a hint about the command being rescheduled. This message is
designed to help the user when they cherry-pick a merge and forget to
pass "-m". For users who are rebasing the message is confusing as there
is no way for rebase to cherry-pick the merge.
Improve the user experience by detecting the error and printing some
advice on how to fix it when the todo list is parsed rather than waiting
for the "pick" command to fail. The advice recommends "merge" rather
than "exec git cherry-pick -m ..." on the assumption that cherry-picking
merges is relatively rare and it is more likely that the user chose
"pick" by a mistake.
It would be possible to support cherry-picking merges by allowing the
user to pass "-m" to "pick" commands but that adds complexity to do
something that can already be achieved with
exec git cherry-pick -m1 abc123
Reported-by: Stefan Haller <lists@haller-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When safe.directory was introduced in v2.30.3 timeframe, 8959555c
(setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level
directory, 2022-03-02), it only allowed specific opt-out
directories. Immediately after an embargoed release that included
the change, 0f85c4a3 (setup: opt-out of check with safe.directory=*,
2022-04-13) was done as a response to loosen the check so that a
single '*' can be used to say "I trust all repositories" for folks
who host too many repositories to list individually.
Let's further loosen the check to allow people to say "everything
under this hierarchy is deemed safe" by specifying such a leading
directory with "/*" appended to it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The default "creation-factor" used by "git format-patch" has been
raised to make it more aggressively find matching commits.
* jc/format-patch-more-aggressive-range-diff:
format-patch: run range-diff with larger creation-factor
The documentation for "git diff --name-only" has been clarified
that it is about showing the names in the post-image tree.
* jc/doc-diff-name-only:
diff: document what --name-only shows
Terminology to call various ref-like things are getting
straightened out.
* ps/pseudo-ref-terminology:
refs: refuse to write pseudorefs
ref-filter: properly distinuish pseudo and root refs
refs: pseudorefs are no refs
refs: classify HEAD as a root ref
refs: do not check ref existence in `is_root_ref()`
refs: rename `is_special_ref()` to `is_pseudo_ref()`
refs: rename `is_pseudoref()` to `is_root_ref()`
Documentation/glossary: define root refs as refs
Documentation/glossary: clarify limitations of pseudorefs
Documentation/glossary: redefine pseudorefs as special refs
The SubmittingPatches document now refers folks to manpages
translation project.
* jc/doc-manpages-l10n:
SubmittingPatches: advertise git-manpages-l10n project a bit
There are a number of caveats when using aliases. Rather than
stuffing them all together in a paragraph, let's separate them out
into individual points to make it clearer what's going on.
Signed-off-by: Ian Wienand <iwienand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a configuration option to allow output from the promisor
fetching objects to be suppressed.
This allows us to stop commands like 'git blame' being swamped
with progress messages and gc notifications from the promisor
when used in a partial clone.
Signed-off-by: Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* fixes/2.45.1/2.44:
Revert "fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir"
Revert "Add a helper function to compare file contents"
clone: drop the protections where hooks aren't run
tests: verify that `clone -c core.hooksPath=/dev/null` works again
Revert "core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning"
init: use the correct path of the templates directory again
hook: plug a new memory leak
ci: stop installing "gcc-13" for osx-gcc
ci: avoid bare "gcc" for osx-gcc job
ci: drop mention of BREW_INSTALL_PACKAGES variable
send-email: avoid creating more than one Term::ReadLine object
send-email: drop FakeTerm hack
* fixes/2.45.1/2.43:
Revert "fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir"
Revert "Add a helper function to compare file contents"
clone: drop the protections where hooks aren't run
tests: verify that `clone -c core.hooksPath=/dev/null` works again
Revert "core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning"
init: use the correct path of the templates directory again
hook: plug a new memory leak
ci: stop installing "gcc-13" for osx-gcc
ci: avoid bare "gcc" for osx-gcc job
ci: drop mention of BREW_INSTALL_PACKAGES variable
send-email: avoid creating more than one Term::ReadLine object
send-email: drop FakeTerm hack
* fixes/2.45.1/2.42:
Revert "fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir"
Revert "Add a helper function to compare file contents"
clone: drop the protections where hooks aren't run
tests: verify that `clone -c core.hooksPath=/dev/null` works again
Revert "core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning"
init: use the correct path of the templates directory again
hook: plug a new memory leak
ci: stop installing "gcc-13" for osx-gcc
ci: avoid bare "gcc" for osx-gcc job
ci: drop mention of BREW_INSTALL_PACKAGES variable
send-email: avoid creating more than one Term::ReadLine object
send-email: drop FakeTerm hack
* fixes/2.45.1/2.41:
Revert "fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir"
Revert "Add a helper function to compare file contents"
clone: drop the protections where hooks aren't run
tests: verify that `clone -c core.hooksPath=/dev/null` works again
Revert "core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning"
init: use the correct path of the templates directory again
hook: plug a new memory leak
ci: stop installing "gcc-13" for osx-gcc
ci: avoid bare "gcc" for osx-gcc job
ci: drop mention of BREW_INSTALL_PACKAGES variable
send-email: avoid creating more than one Term::ReadLine object
send-email: drop FakeTerm hack
* fixes/2.45.1/2.40:
Revert "fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir"
Revert "Add a helper function to compare file contents"
clone: drop the protections where hooks aren't run
tests: verify that `clone -c core.hooksPath=/dev/null` works again
Revert "core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning"
init: use the correct path of the templates directory again
hook: plug a new memory leak
ci: stop installing "gcc-13" for osx-gcc
ci: avoid bare "gcc" for osx-gcc job
ci: drop mention of BREW_INSTALL_PACKAGES variable
send-email: avoid creating more than one Term::ReadLine object
send-email: drop FakeTerm hack
Revert overly aggressive "layered defence" that went into 2.45.1
and friends, which broke "git-lfs", "git-annex", and other use
cases, so that we can rebuild necessary counterparts in the open.
* jc/fix-2.45.1-and-friends-for-2.39:
Revert "fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir"
Revert "Add a helper function to compare file contents"
clone: drop the protections where hooks aren't run
tests: verify that `clone -c core.hooksPath=/dev/null` works again
Revert "core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning"
init: use the correct path of the templates directory again
hook: plug a new memory leak
ci: stop installing "gcc-13" for osx-gcc
ci: avoid bare "gcc" for osx-gcc job
ci: drop mention of BREW_INSTALL_PACKAGES variable
send-email: avoid creating more than one Term::ReadLine object
send-email: drop FakeTerm hack
Teach the new pseudo-merge machinery how to select non-bitmapped commits
for inclusion in different pseudo-merge group(s) based on a handful of
criteria.
Note that the selected pseudo-merge commits aren't actually used or
written anywhere yet. This will be done in the following commit.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepare to implement pseudo-merge bitmaps over the next several commits
by first describing the serialization format which will store the new
pseudo-merge bitmaps themselves.
This format is implemented as an optional extension within the bitmap v1
format, making it compatible with previous versions of Git, as well as
the original .bitmap implementation within JGit.
The format is described in detail in the patch contents below, but the
high-level description is as follows:
- An array of pseudo-merge bitmaps, each containing a pair of EWAH
bitmaps: one describing the set of pseudo-merge "parents", and
another describing the set of object(s) reachable from those
parents.
- A lookup table to determine which pseudo-merge(s) a given commit
appears in. An optional extended lookup table follows when there is
at least one commit which appears in multiple pseudo-merge groups.
- Trailing metadata, including the number of pseudo-merge(s), number
of unique parents, the offset within the .bitmap file for the
pseudo-merge commit lookup table, and the size of the optional
extension itself.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add some details to the gitpacking(7) manual page which motivate and
describe pseudo-merge bitmaps.
The exact on-disk format and many of the configuration knobs will be
described in subsequent commits.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new manual page, gitpacking(7) to collect useful information
about advanced packing concepts in Git.
In future commits in this series, this manual page will expand to
describe the new pseudo-merge bitmaps feature, as well as include
examples, relevant configuration bits, use-cases, and so on.
Outside of this series, this manual page may absorb similar pieces from
other parts of Git's documentation about packing.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* kn/ref-transaction-symref:
refs: remove `create_symref` and associated dead code
refs: rename `refs_create_symref()` to `refs_update_symref()`
refs: use transaction in `refs_create_symref()`
refs: add support for transactional symref updates
refs: move `original_update_refname` to 'refs.c'
refs: support symrefs in 'reference-transaction' hook
files-backend: extract out `create_symref_lock()`
refs: accept symref values in `ref_transaction_update()`
* ps/pseudo-ref-terminology:
refs: refuse to write pseudorefs
ref-filter: properly distinuish pseudo and root refs
refs: pseudorefs are no refs
refs: classify HEAD as a root ref
refs: do not check ref existence in `is_root_ref()`
refs: rename `is_special_ref()` to `is_pseudo_ref()`
refs: rename `is_pseudoref()` to `is_root_ref()`
Documentation/glossary: define root refs as refs
Documentation/glossary: clarify limitations of pseudorefs
Documentation/glossary: redefine pseudorefs as special refs
This reverts commit a33fea08 (fsck: warn about symlink pointing
inside a gitdir, 2024-04-10), which warns against symbolic links
commonly created by git-annex.
Updates to symbolic refs can now be made as a part of ref
transaction.
* kn/ref-transaction-symref:
refs: remove `create_symref` and associated dead code
refs: rename `refs_create_symref()` to `refs_update_symref()`
refs: use transaction in `refs_create_symref()`
refs: add support for transactional symref updates
refs: move `original_update_refname` to 'refs.c'
refs: support symrefs in 'reference-transaction' hook
files-backend: extract out `create_symref_lock()`
refs: accept symref values in `ref_transaction_update()`
The Git project currently operates according to an informal
consensus-building process, which is currently described in the
SubmittingPatches document. However, that focuses on small/medium-scale
patch series. For larger-scale decisions, the process is not as well
described. Document what to expect so that we have something concrete to
help inform newcomers to the project.
This document explicitly does not aim to impose a formal process to
decision-making, nor to change pre-existing norms. Its only aim is to
describe how the project currently operates today.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--name-only" option is about showing the name of each file in
the post-image tree that got changed and nothing else (like "was it
created?"). Unlike the "--name-status" option that tells how the
change happened (e.g., renamed with similarity), it does not give
anything else, like the name of the corresponding file in the old
tree.
For example, if you start from a clean checkout that has a file
whose name is COPYING, here is what you would see:
$ git mv COPYING RENAMING
$ git diff -M --name-only HEAD
RENAMING
$ git diff -M --name-status HEAD
R100 COPYING RENAMING
Lack of the description of this fact has confused readers in the
past. Even back when dda2d79a ([PATCH] Clean up diff option
descriptions., 2005-07-13) documented "--name-only", "git diff"
already supported the renames, so in a sense, from day one, this
should have been documented more clearly but it wasn't.
Belatedly clarify it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The project takes our AsciiDoc sources of documentation and actively
maintains the translations to various languages.
Let's give them enhanced visibility to help those who want to
volunteer find them.
Acked-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a section to explain how to work around other in-flight patches and
how to navigate conflicts which arise as a series is being iterated.
This provides the necessary steps that users can follow to reduce
friction with other ongoing topics and also provides guidelines on how
the users can also communicate this to the list efficiently.
Co-authored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new global "--no-advice" option can be used to disable all advice
messages, which is meant to be used only in scripts.
* jl/git-no-advice:
t0018: two small fixes
advice: add --no-advice global option
doc: add spacing around paginate options
doc: clean up usage documentation for --no-* opts
"git tag" learned the "--trailer" option to futz with the trailers
in the same way as "git commit" does.
* jp/tag-trailer:
builtin/tag: add --trailer option
builtin/commit: refactor --trailer logic
builtin/commit: use ARGV macro to collect trailers
Except for the pseudorefs MERGE_HEAD and FETCH_HEAD, all refs that live
in the root of the ref hierarchy behave the exact same as normal refs.
They can be symbolic refs or direct refs and can be read, iterated over
and written via normal tooling. All of these refs are stored in the ref
backends, which further demonstrates that they are just normal refs.
Extend the definition of "ref" to also cover such root refs. The only
additional restriction for root refs is that they must conform to a
specific naming schema.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify limitations that pseudorefs have:
- They can be read via git-rev-parse(1) and similar tools.
- They are not surfaced when iterating through refs, like when using
git-for-each-ref(1). They are not refs, so iterating through refs
should not surface them.
- They cannot be written via git-update-ref(1) and related commands.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Nowadays, Git knows about three different kinds of refs. As defined in
gitglossary(7):
- Regular refs that start with "refs/", like "refs/heads/main".
- Pseudorefs, which live in the root directory. These must have
all-caps names and must be a file that start with an object hash.
Consequently, symbolic refs are not pseudorefs because they do not
start with an object hash.
- Special refs, of which we only have "FETCH_HEAD" and "MERGE_HEAD".
This state is extremely confusing, and I would claim that most folks
don't fully understand what is what here. The current definitions also
have several problems:
- Where does "HEAD" fit in? It's not a pseudoref because it can be
a symbolic ref. It's not a regular ref because it does not start
with "refs/". And it's not a special ref, either.
- There is a strong overlap between pseudorefs and special refs. The
pseudoref section for example mentions "MERGE_HEAD", even though it
is a special ref. Is it thus both a pseudoref and a special ref?
- Why do we even need to distinguish refs that live in the root from
other refs when they behave just like a regular ref anyway?
In other words, the current state is quite a mess and leads to wild
inconsistencies without much of a good reason.
The original reason why pseudorefs were introduced is that there are
some refs that sometimes behave like a ref, even though they aren't a
ref. And we really only have two of these nowadays, namely "MERGE_HEAD"
and "FETCH_HEAD". Those files are never written via the ref backends,
but are instead written by git-fetch(1), git-pull(1) and git-merge(1).
They contain additional metadata that highlights where a ref has been
fetched from or the list of commits that have been merged.
This original intent in fact matches the definition of special refs that
we have recently introduced in 8df4c5d205 (Documentation: add "special
refs" to the glossary, 2024-01-19). Due to the introduction of the new
reftable backend we were forced to distinguish those refs more clearly
such that we don't ever try to read or write them via the reftable
backend. In the same series, we also addressed all the other cases where
we used to write those special refs via the filesystem directly, thus
circumventing the ref backend, to instead write them via the backends.
Consequently, there are no other refs left anymore which are special.
Let's address this mess and return the pseudoref terminology back to its
original intent: a ref that sometimes behave like a ref, but which isn't
really a ref because it gets written to the filesystem directly. Or in
other words, let's redefine pseudorefs to match the current definition
of special refs. As special refs and pseudorefs are now the same per
definition, we can drop the "special refs" term again. It's not exposed
to our users and thus they wouldn't ever encounter that term anyway.
Refs that live in the root of the ref hierarchy but which are not
pseudorefs will be further defined in a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Sync with Git 2.45.1
* tag 'v2.45.1': (42 commits)
Git 2.45.1
Git 2.44.1
Git 2.43.4
Git 2.42.2
Git 2.41.1
Git 2.40.2
Git 2.39.4
fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir
core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning
init.templateDir: consider this config setting protected
clone: prevent hooks from running during a clone
Add a helper function to compare file contents
init: refactor the template directory discovery into its own function
find_hook(): refactor the `STRIP_EXTENSION` logic
clone: when symbolic links collide with directories, keep the latter
entry: report more colliding paths
t5510: verify that D/F confusion cannot lead to an RCE
submodule: require the submodule path to contain directories only
clone_submodule: avoid using `access()` on directories
submodules: submodule paths must not contain symlinks
...
Allow configuring the geometric factor used by the auto-compaction
algorithm whenever a new table is appended to the stack of tables.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Besides the expected "ref" and "log" records, the reftable library also
writes "obj" records. These are basically a reverse mapping of object
IDs to their respective ref records so that it becomes efficient to
figure out which references point to a specific object. The motivation
for this data structure is the "uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant" config,
which allows a client to fetch any object by its hash that has a ref
pointing to it.
This reverse index is not used by Git at all though, and the expectation
is that most hosters nowadays use "uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant". It
may thus be preferable for many users to disable writing these optional
object indices altogether to safe some precious disk space.
Add a new config "reftable.indexObjects" that allows the user to disable
the object index altogether.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new option `reftable.restartInterval` that allows the user to
control the restart interval when writing reftable records used by the
reftable library.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new option `reftable.blockSize` that allows the user to control
the block size used by the reftable library.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 606e088d5d (update-index: add --show-index-version, 2023-09-12), we
added the new '--show-index-version' option to 'git-update-index' and
documented it, but forgot to add it to the synopsis section.
Add '--show-index-version' to the synopsis of 'git-update-index'.
Signed-off-by: Dov Murik <dov.murik@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Explain a full lifecycle of a patch series upfront, so that it is
clear when key decisions to "accept" a series is made and how a new
patch series becomes a part of a new release.
Fold the "you need to monitor the progress of your topic" section
into the primary "patch lifecycle" section, as that is one of the
things the patch submitter is responsible for. It is not like "I
sent a patch and responded to review messages, and now it is their
problem". They need to see their patch through the patch life
cycle.
Earlier versions of this document outlined a slightly different
patch flow in an idealized world, where the original submitter
gathered agreements from the participants of the discussion and sent
the final "we all agreed that this is the good version--please
apply" patches to the maintainer. In practice, this almost never
happened. Instead, describe what flow was used in practice for the
past decade that worked well for us.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before discussing the small details of how the patch gets sent, we'd
want to give people a larger picture first to set the expectation
straight. The existing patch-flow section covers materials that are
suitable for that purpose, so move it to the beginning of the
document. We'll update the contents of the section to clarify what
goal the patch submitter is working towards in the next step, which
will make it easier to understand the reason behind the individual
rules presented in latter parts of the document.
This step only moves two sections (patch-flow and patch-status)
without changing their contents, except that their section levels
are demoted from Level 1 to Level 2 to fit better in the document
structure at their new place.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The color parsing code learned to handle 12-bit RGB colors, spelled
as "#RGB" (in addition to "#RRGGBB" that is already supported).
* bb/rgb-12-bit-colors:
color: add support for 12-bit RGB colors
t/t4026-color: add test coverage for invalid RGB colors
t/t4026-color: remove an extra double quote character
The credential helper protocol, together with the HTTP layer, have
been enhanced to support authentication schemes different from
username & password pair, like Bearer and NTLM.
* bc/credential-scheme-enhancement:
credential: add method for querying capabilities
credential-cache: implement authtype capability
t: add credential tests for authtype
credential: add support for multistage credential rounds
t5563: refactor for multi-stage authentication
docs: set a limit on credential line length
credential: enable state capability
credential: add an argument to keep state
http: add support for authtype and credential
docs: indicate new credential protocol fields
credential: add a field called "ephemeral"
credential: gate new fields on capability
credential: add a field for pre-encoded credentials
http: use new headers for each object request
remote-curl: reset headers on new request
credential: add an authtype field
Add an entry in the 'merge-tree' builtin documentation for
-X/--strategy-option (added in 6a4c9e7b32 (merge-tree: add -X strategy
option, 2023-09-24)). The same option is documented for 'merge', 'rebase',
'revert', etc. in their respective Documentation/ files, so let's do the
same for 'merge-tree'.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-tag supports interpreting trailers from an annotated tag message,
using --list --format="%(trailers)". However, the available methods to
add a trailer to a tag message (namely -F or --editor) are not as
ergonomic.
In a previous patch, we moved git-commit's implementation of its
--trailer option to the trailer.h API. Let's use that new function to
teach git-tag the same --trailer option, emulating as much of
git-commit's behavior as much as possible.
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: John Passaro <john.a.passaro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'reference-transaction' hook runs whenever a reference update is
made to the system. In a previous commit, we added the `old_target` and
`new_target` fields to the `reference_transaction_update()`. In
following commits we'll also add the code to handle symref's in the
reference backends.
Support symrefs also in the 'reference-transaction' hook, by modifying
the current format:
<old-oid> SP <new-oid> SP <ref-name> LF
to be be:
<old-value> SP <new-value> SP <ref-name> LF
where for regular refs the output would not change and remain the same.
But when either 'old-value' or 'new-value' is a symref, we print the ref
as 'ref:<ref-target>'.
This does break backward compatibility, but the 'reference-transaction'
hook's documentation always stated that support for symbolic references
may be added in the future.
We do not add any tests in this commit since there is no git command
which activates this flow, in an upcoming commit, we'll start using
transaction based symref updates as the default, we'll add tests there
for the hook too.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The syntax for refspecs are explained in more detail in documention for
git-fetch and git-push. Give a hint to the user too look there more fore
information
Signed-off-by: Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We see too often that a range-diff added to format-patch output
shows too many "unmatched" patches. This is because the default
value for creation-factor is set to a relatively low value.
It may be justified for other uses (like you have a yet-to-be-sent
new iteration of your series, and compare it against the 'seen'
branch that has an older iteration, probably with the '--left-only'
option, to pick out only your patches while ignoring the others) of
"range-diff" command, but when the command is run as part of the
format-patch, the user _knows_ and expects that the patches in the
old and the new iterations roughly correspond to each other, so we
can and should use a much higher default.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new "edit" subcommand to git-config(1). Please refer to
preceding commits regarding the motivation behind this change.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new "remove-section" subcommand to git-config(1). Please
refer to preceding commits regarding the motivation behind this change.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new "rename-section" subcommand to git-config(1). Please
refer to preceding commits regarding the motivation behind this change.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new "unset" subcommand to git-config(1). Please refer to
preceding commits regarding the motivation behind this change.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new "set" subcommand to git-config(1). Please refer to
preceding commits regarding the motivation behind this change.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new "get" subcommand to git-config(1). Please refer to
preceding commits regarding the motivation behind this change.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While git-config(1) has several modes, those modes are not exposed with
subcommands but instead by specifying action flags like `--unset` or
`--list`. This user interface is not really in line with how our more
modern commands work, where it is a lot more customary to say e.g. `git
remote list`. Furthermore, to add to the confusion, git-config(1) also
allows the user to request modes implicitly by just specifying the
correct number of arguments. Thus, `git config foo.bar` will retrieve
the value of "foo.bar" while `git config foo.bar baz` will set it to
"baz".
Overall, this makes for a confusing interface that could really use a
makeover. It hurts discoverability of what you can do with git-config(1)
and is comparatively easy to get wrong. Converting the command to have
subcommands instead would go a long way to help address these issues.
One concern in this context is backwards compatibility. Luckily, we can
introduce subcommands without breaking backwards compatibility at all.
This is because all the implicit modes of git-config(1) require that the
first argument is a properly formatted config key. And as config keys
_must_ have a dot in their name, any value without a dot would have been
discarded by git-config(1) previous to this change. Thus, given that
none of the subcommands do have a dot, they are unambiguous.
Introduce the first such new subcommand, which is "git config list". To
retain backwards compatibility we only conditionally use subcommands and
will fall back to the old syntax in case no subcommand was detected.
This should help to transition to the new-style syntax until we
eventually deprecate and remove the old-style syntax.
Note that the way we handle this we're duplicating some functionality
across old and new syntax. While this isn't pretty, it helps us to
ensure that there really is no change in behaviour for the old syntax.
Amend tests such that we run them both with old and new style syntax.
As tests are now run twice, state from the first run may be still be
around in the second run and thus cause tests to fail. Add cleanup logic
as required to fix such tests.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Advice hints must be disabled individually by setting the relevant
advice.* variables to false in the Git configuration. For server-side
and scripted usages of Git where hints can be a hindrance, it can be
cumbersome to maintain configuration to ensure all advice hints are
disabled in perpetuity. This is a particular concern in tests, where
new or changed hints can result in failed assertions.
Add a --no-advice global option to disable all advice hints from being
displayed. This is independent of the toggles for individual advice
hints. Use an internal environment variable (GIT_ADVICE) to ensure this
configuration is propagated to the usage site, even if it executes in a
subprocess.
Signed-off-by: James Liu <james@jamesliu.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the documentation page consistent with the usage string printed by
"git help git" and consistent with the description of "[-v | --version]"
option.
Signed-off-by: James Liu <james@jamesliu.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We'll be adding another option to the --no-* class of options soon.
Clean up the existing options by grouping them together in the OPTIONS
section, and adding missing ones to the SYNOPSIS.
Signed-off-by: James Liu <james@jamesliu.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
RGB color parsing currently supports 24-bit values in the form #RRGGBB.
As in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS [1]), also allow to specify an RGB color
using only three digits with #RGB.
In this shortened form, each of the digits is – again, as in CSS –
duplicated to convert the color to 24 bits, e.g. #f1b specifies the same
color as #ff11bb.
In color.h, remove the '0x' prefix in the example to match the actual
syntax.
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hex-color
Signed-off-by: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git rev-parse" is run with the "--is-inside-work-tree" option
and friends outside a Git repository, the command exits with a
non-zero status and says "fatal: not a repository". While it is not
wrong per-se, in the sense that it is useless to learn if we are
inside or outside a working tree in the first place when we are not
even in a repository, it could be argued that they should emit
"false" and exit with status 0, as they cannot possibly be "true".
As the current behaviour has been with us for a decade or more
since it was introduced in Git 1.5.3 timeframe, it is too late to
change it.
And arguably, the current behaviour is easier to use if you want to
distinguish among three states, i.e.,
(1) the cwd is not controlled by Git at all
(2) the cwd is inside a working tree
(3) the cwd is not inside a working tree (e.g., .git/hooks/)
with a single invocation of the command by doing
if inout=$(git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree)
then
case "$inout" in
true) : in a working tree ;;
false) : not in a working tree ;;
esac
else
: not in a repository
fi
So, let's document clearly that the command will die() when run
outside a repository in general, unless in some special cases like
when the command is in the --parseopt mode.
While at it, update the introductory text that makes it sound as if
the primary operating mode is the only operating mode of the
command, which was written long before we added "--parseopt" and
"--sq-quote" modes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A scheduled "git maintenance" job is expected to work on all
repositories it knows about, but it stopped at the first one that
errored out. Now it keeps going.
* js/for-each-repo-keep-going:
maintenance: running maintenance should not stop on errors
for-each-repo: optionally keep going on an error
Advertise "git contacts", a tool for newcomers to find people to
ask review for their patches, a bit more in our developer
documentation.
* la/doc-use-of-contacts-when-contributing:
SubmittingPatches: demonstrate using git-contacts with git-send-email
SubmittingPatches: add heading for format-patch and send-email
SubmittingPatches: dedupe discussion of security patches
SubmittingPatches: discuss reviewers first
SubmittingPatches: quote commands
SubmittingPatches: mention GitGitGadget
SubmittingPatches: clarify 'git-contacts' location
MyFirstContribution: mention contrib/contacts/git-contacts
The "--rfc" option of "git format-patch" learned to take an
optional string value to be used in place of "RFC" to tweak the
"[PATCH]" on the subject header.
* jc/format-patch-rfc-more:
format-patch: "--rfc=-(WIP)" appends to produce [PATCH (WIP)]
format-patch: allow --rfc to optionally take a value, like --rfc=WIP
* maint-2.44: (41 commits)
Git 2.44.1
Git 2.43.4
Git 2.42.2
Git 2.41.1
Git 2.40.2
Git 2.39.4
fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir
core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning
init.templateDir: consider this config setting protected
clone: prevent hooks from running during a clone
Add a helper function to compare file contents
init: refactor the template directory discovery into its own function
find_hook(): refactor the `STRIP_EXTENSION` logic
clone: when symbolic links collide with directories, keep the latter
entry: report more colliding paths
t5510: verify that D/F confusion cannot lead to an RCE
submodule: require the submodule path to contain directories only
clone_submodule: avoid using `access()` on directories
submodules: submodule paths must not contain symlinks
clone: prevent clashing git dirs when cloning submodule in parallel
...
The `SubmittingPatches` documentation briefly mentions that related
patches should be grouped together in their own e-mail thread. Expand on
this to explicitly state that updated versions of a patch series should
also follow this. Also provide add a link to existing documentation from
`MyFirstContribution` that provides detailed instructions on how to do
this via `git-send-email(1)`.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In https://github.com/microsoft/git/issues/623, it was reported that
the regularly scheduled maintenance stops if one repo in the middle of
the list was found to be missing.
This is undesirable, and points out a gap in the design of `git
for-each-repo`: We need a mode where that command does not stop on an
error, but continues to try running the specified command with the other
repositories.
Imitating the `--keep-going` option of GNU make, this commit teaches
`for-each-repo` the same trick: to continue with the operation on all
the remaining repositories in case there was a problem with one
repository, still setting the exit code to indicate an error occurred.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "receive-pack" program (which responds to "git push") was not
converted to run "git maintenance --auto" when other codepaths that
used to run "git gc --auto" were updated, which has been corrected.
* ps/run-auto-maintenance-in-receive-pack:
builtin/receive-pack: convert to use git-maintenance(1)
run-command: introduce function to prepare auto-maintenance process
The way "git fast-import" handles paths described in its input has
been tightened up and more clearly documented.
* ta/fast-import-parse-path-fix:
fast-import: make comments more precise
fast-import: forbid escaped NUL in paths
fast-import: document C-style escapes for paths
fast-import: improve documentation for path quoting
fast-import: remove dead strbuf
fast-import: allow unquoted empty path for root
fast-import: directly use strbufs for paths
fast-import: tighten path unquoting
In the previous step, the "--rfc" option of "format-patch" learned
to take an optional string value to prepend to the subject prefix,
so that --rfc=WIP can give "[WIP PATCH]".
There may be cases in which the extra string wants to come after the
subject prefix. Extend the mechanism to allow "--rfc=-(WIP)" [*] to
signal that the extra string is to be appended instead of getting
prepended, resulting in "[PATCH (WIP)]".
In the documentation, discourage (ab)using "--rfc=-RFC" to say
"[PATCH RFC]" just to be different, when "[RFC PATCH]" is the norm.
[Footnote]
* The syntax takes inspiration from Perl's open syntax that opens
pipes "open fh, '|-', 'cmd'", where the dash signals "the other
stuff comes here".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the "--rfc" option, we can tweak the "[PATCH]" (or whatever
string specified with the "--subject-prefix" option, instead of
"PATCH") that we prefix the title of the commit with into "[RFC
PATCH]", but some projects may want "[rfc PATCH]". Adding a new
option, e.g., "--rfc-lowercase", to support such need every time
somebody wants to use different strings would lead to insanity of
accumulating unbounded number of such options.
Allow an optional value specified for the option, so that users can
use "--rfc=rfc" (think of "--rfc" without value as a short-hand for
"--rfc=RFC") if they wanted to.
This can of course be (ab)used to make the prefix "[WIP PATCH]" by
passing "--rfc=WIP". Passing an empty string, i.e., "--rfc=", is
the same as "--no-rfc" to override an option given earlier on the
same command line.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The changelog entry for the new `git pack-refs --auto` mode only says
that the new flag is useful, but doesn't really say what it does. Add
some more information.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-2.43: (40 commits)
Git 2.43.4
Git 2.42.2
Git 2.41.1
Git 2.40.2
Git 2.39.4
fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir
core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning
init.templateDir: consider this config setting protected
clone: prevent hooks from running during a clone
Add a helper function to compare file contents
init: refactor the template directory discovery into its own function
find_hook(): refactor the `STRIP_EXTENSION` logic
clone: when symbolic links collide with directories, keep the latter
entry: report more colliding paths
t5510: verify that D/F confusion cannot lead to an RCE
submodule: require the submodule path to contain directories only
clone_submodule: avoid using `access()` on directories
submodules: submodule paths must not contain symlinks
clone: prevent clashing git dirs when cloning submodule in parallel
t7423: add tests for symlinked submodule directories
...
* maint-2.42: (39 commits)
Git 2.42.2
Git 2.41.1
Git 2.40.2
Git 2.39.4
fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir
core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning
init.templateDir: consider this config setting protected
clone: prevent hooks from running during a clone
Add a helper function to compare file contents
init: refactor the template directory discovery into its own function
find_hook(): refactor the `STRIP_EXTENSION` logic
clone: when symbolic links collide with directories, keep the latter
entry: report more colliding paths
t5510: verify that D/F confusion cannot lead to an RCE
submodule: require the submodule path to contain directories only
clone_submodule: avoid using `access()` on directories
submodules: submodule paths must not contain symlinks
clone: prevent clashing git dirs when cloning submodule in parallel
t7423: add tests for symlinked submodule directories
has_dir_name(): do not get confused by characters < '/'
...
* maint-2.41: (38 commits)
Git 2.41.1
Git 2.40.2
Git 2.39.4
fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir
core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning
init.templateDir: consider this config setting protected
clone: prevent hooks from running during a clone
Add a helper function to compare file contents
init: refactor the template directory discovery into its own function
find_hook(): refactor the `STRIP_EXTENSION` logic
clone: when symbolic links collide with directories, keep the latter
entry: report more colliding paths
t5510: verify that D/F confusion cannot lead to an RCE
submodule: require the submodule path to contain directories only
clone_submodule: avoid using `access()` on directories
submodules: submodule paths must not contain symlinks
clone: prevent clashing git dirs when cloning submodule in parallel
t7423: add tests for symlinked submodule directories
has_dir_name(): do not get confused by characters < '/'
docs: document security issues around untrusted .git dirs
...
* maint-2.40: (39 commits)
Git 2.40.2
Git 2.39.4
fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir
core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning
init.templateDir: consider this config setting protected
clone: prevent hooks from running during a clone
Add a helper function to compare file contents
init: refactor the template directory discovery into its own function
find_hook(): refactor the `STRIP_EXTENSION` logic
clone: when symbolic links collide with directories, keep the latter
entry: report more colliding paths
t5510: verify that D/F confusion cannot lead to an RCE
submodule: require the submodule path to contain directories only
clone_submodule: avoid using `access()` on directories
submodules: submodule paths must not contain symlinks
clone: prevent clashing git dirs when cloning submodule in parallel
t7423: add tests for symlinked submodule directories
has_dir_name(): do not get confused by characters < '/'
docs: document security issues around untrusted .git dirs
upload-pack: disable lazy-fetching by default
...
* maint-2.39: (38 commits)
Git 2.39.4
fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir
core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning
init.templateDir: consider this config setting protected
clone: prevent hooks from running during a clone
Add a helper function to compare file contents
init: refactor the template directory discovery into its own function
find_hook(): refactor the `STRIP_EXTENSION` logic
clone: when symbolic links collide with directories, keep the latter
entry: report more colliding paths
t5510: verify that D/F confusion cannot lead to an RCE
submodule: require the submodule path to contain directories only
clone_submodule: avoid using `access()` on directories
submodules: submodule paths must not contain symlinks
clone: prevent clashing git dirs when cloning submodule in parallel
t7423: add tests for symlinked submodule directories
has_dir_name(): do not get confused by characters < '/'
docs: document security issues around untrusted .git dirs
upload-pack: disable lazy-fetching by default
fetch/clone: detect dubious ownership of local repositories
...
In the wake of fixing a vulnerability where `git clone` mistakenly
followed a symbolic link that it had just written while checking out
files, writing into a gitdir, let's add some defense-in-depth by
teaching `git fsck` to report symbolic links stored in its trees that
point inside `.git/`.
Even though the Git project never made any promises about the exact
shape of the `.git/` directory's contents, there are likely repositories
out there containing symbolic links that point inside the gitdir. For
that reason, let's only report these as warnings, not as errors.
Security-conscious users are encouraged to configure
`fsck.symlinkPointsToGitDir = error`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
No matter how well someone configures their email tooling, understanding
who to send the patches to is something that must always be considered.
So discuss it first instead of at the end.
In the following commit we will clean up the (now redundant) discussion
about sending security patches to the Git Security mailing list.
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use a dash ("git-contacts", not "git contacts") because the script is
not installed as part of "git" toolset. This also puts the script on
one line, which should make it easier to grep for with a loose search
query, such as
$ git grep git.contacts Documentation
Also add a footnote to describe where the script is located, to help
readers who may not be familiar with such "contrib" scripts (and how
they are not accessible with the usual "git <subcommand>" syntax).
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Although we've had this script since 4d06402b1b (contrib: add
git-contacts helper, 2013-07-21), we don't mention it in our
introductory docs. Do so now.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For a long time our general philosophy has been that it's unsafe to run
arbitrary Git commands if you don't trust the hooks or config in .git,
but that running upload-pack should be OK. E.g., see 1456b043fc (Remove
post-upload-hook, 2009-12-10), or the design of uploadpack.packObjectsHook.
But we never really documented this (and even the discussions that led
to 1456b043fc were not on the public list!). Let's try to make our
approach more clear, but also be realistic that even upload-pack carries
some risk.
Helped-by: Filip Hejsek <filip.hejsek@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The upload-pack command tries to avoid trusting the repository in which
it's run (e.g., by not running any hooks and not using any config that
contains arbitrary commands). But if the server side of a fetch or a
clone is a partial clone, then either upload-pack or its child
pack-objects may run a lazy "git fetch" under the hood. And it is very
easy to convince fetch to run arbitrary commands.
The "server" side can be a local repository owned by someone else, who
would be able to configure commands that are run during a clone with the
current user's permissions. This issue has been designated
CVE-2024-32004.
The fix in this commit's parent helps in this scenario, as well as in
related scenarios using SSH to clone, where the untrusted .git directory
is owned by a different user id. But if you received one as a zip file,
on a USB stick, etc, it may be owned by your user but still untrusted.
This has been designated CVE-2024-32465.
To mitigate the issue more completely, let's disable lazy fetching
entirely during `upload-pack`. While fetching from a partial repository
should be relatively rare, it is certainly not an unreasonable workflow.
And thus we need to provide an escape hatch.
This commit works by respecting a GIT_NO_LAZY_FETCH environment variable
(to skip the lazy-fetch), and setting it in upload-pack, but only when
the user has not already done so (which gives us the escape hatch).
The name of the variable is specifically chosen to match what has
already been added in 'master' via e6d5479e7a (git: extend
--no-lazy-fetch to work across subprocesses, 2024-02-27). Since we're
building this fix as a backport for older versions, we could cherry-pick
that patch and its earlier steps. However, we don't really need the
niceties (like a "--no-lazy-fetch" option) that it offers. By using the
same name, everything should just work when the two are eventually
merged, but here are a few notes:
- the blocking of the fetch in e6d5479e7a is incomplete! It sets
fetch_if_missing to 0 when we setup the repository variable, but
that isn't enough. pack-objects in particular will call
prefetch_to_pack() even if that variable is 0. This patch by
contrast checks the environment variable at the lowest level before
we call the lazy fetch, where we can be sure to catch all code
paths.
Possibly the setting of fetch_if_missing from e6d5479e7a can be
reverted, but it may be useful to have. For example, some code may
want to use that flag to change behavior before it gets to the point
of trying to start the fetch. At any rate, that's all outside the
scope of this patch.
- there's documentation for GIT_NO_LAZY_FETCH in e6d5479e7a. We can
live without that here, because for the most part the user shouldn't
need to set it themselves. The exception is if they do want to
override upload-pack's default, and that requires a separate
documentation section (which is added here)
- it would be nice to use the NO_LAZY_FETCH_ENVIRONMENT macro added by
e6d5479e7a, but those definitions have moved from cache.h to
environment.h between 2.39.3 and master. I just used the raw string
literals, and we can replace them with the macro once this topic is
merged to master.
At least with respect to CVE-2024-32004, this does render this commit's
parent commit somewhat redundant. However, it is worth retaining that
commit as defense in depth, and because it may help other issues (e.g.,
symlink/hardlink TOCTOU races, where zip files are not really an
interesting attack vector).
The tests in t0411 still pass, but now we have _two_ mechanisms ensuring
that the evil command is not run. Let's beef up the existing ones to
check that they failed for the expected reason, that we refused to run
upload-pack at all with an alternate user id. And add two new ones for
the same-user case that both the restriction and its escape hatch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In 850b6edefa (auto-gc: extract a reusable helper from "git fetch",
2020-05-06), we have introduced a helper function `run_auto_gc()` that
kicks off `git gc --auto`. The intent of this function was to pass down
the "--quiet" flag to git-gc(1) as required without duplicating this at
all callsites. In 7c3e9e8cfb (auto-gc: pass --quiet down from am,
commit, merge and rebase, 2020-05-06) we then converted callsites that
need to pass down this flag to use the new helper function. This has the
notable omission of git-receive-pack(1), which is the only remaining
user of `git gc --auto` that sets up the proccess manually. This is
probably because it unconditionally passes down the `--quiet` flag and
thus didn't benefit much from the new helper function.
In a95ce12430 (maintenance: replace run_auto_gc(), 2020-09-17) we then
replaced `run_auto_gc()` with `run_auto_maintenance()` which invokes
git-maintenance(1) instead of git-gc(1). This command is the modern
replacement for git-gc(1) and is both more thorough and also more
flexible because administrators can configure which tasks exactly to run
during maintenance.
But due to git-receive-pack(1) not using `run_auto_gc()` in the first
place it did not get converted to use git-maintenance(1) like we do
everywhere else now. Address this oversight and start to use the newly
introduced function `prepare_auto_maintenance()`. This will also make it
easier for us to adapt this code together with all the other callsites
that invoke auto-maintenance in the future.
This removes the last internal user of `git gc --auto`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Right now, there's no specific way to determine whether a credential
helper or git credential itself supports a given set of capabilities.
It would be helpful to have such a way, so let's let credential helpers
and git credential take an argument, "capability", which has it list the
capabilities and a version number on standard output.
Specifically choose a format that is slightly different from regular
credential output and assume that no capabilities are supported if a
non-zero exit status occurs or the data deviates from the format. It is
common for users to write small shell scripts as the argument to
credential.helper, which will almost never be designed to emit
capabilities. We want callers to gracefully handle this case by
assuming that they are not capable of extended support because that is
almost certainly the case, and specifying the error behavior up front
does this and preserves backwards compatibility in a graceful way.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Over HTTP, NTLM and Kerberos require two rounds of authentication on the
client side. It's possible that there are custom authentication schemes
that also implement this same approach. Since these are tricky schemes
to implement and the HTTP library in use may not always handle them
gracefully on all systems, it would be helpful to allow the credential
helper to implement them instead for increased portability and
robustness.
To allow this to happen, add a boolean flag, continue, that indicates
that instead of failing when we get a 401, we should retry another round
of authentication. However, this necessitates some changes in our
current credential code so that we can make this work.
Keep the state[] headers between iterations, but only use them to send
to the helper and only consider the new ones we read from the credential
helper to be valid on subsequent iterations. That avoids us passing
stale data when we finally approve or reject the credential. Similarly,
clear the multistage and wwwauth[] values appropriately so that we
don't pass stale data or think we're trying a multiround response when
we're not. Remove the credential values so that we can actually fill a
second time with new responses.
Limit the number of iterations of reauthentication we do to 3. This
means that if there's a problem, we'll terminate with an error message
instead of retrying indefinitely and not informing the user (and
possibly conducting a DoS on the server).
In our tests, handle creating multiple response output files from our
helper so we can verify that each of the messages sent is correct.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We recently introduced a way for credential helpers to add arbitrary
state as part of the protocol. Set some limits on line length to avoid
helpers passing extremely large amounts of data. While Git doesn't have
a fixed parsing length, there are other tools which support this
protocol and it's kind to allow them to use a reasonable fixed-size
buffer for parsing. In addition, we would like to be moderate in our
memory usage and imposing reasonable limits is helpful for that purpose.
In the event a credential helper is incapable of storing its serialized
state in 64 KiB, it can feel free to serialize it on disk and store a
reference instead.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Until now, our credential code has mostly deal with usernames and
passwords and we've let libcurl deal with the variant of authentication
to be used. However, now that we have the credential value, the
credential helper can take control of the authentication, so the value
provided might be something that's generated, such as a Digest hash
value.
In such a case, it would be helpful for a credential helper that gets an
erase or store command to be able to keep track of an identifier for the
original secret that went into the computation. Furthermore, some types
of authentication, such as NTLM and Kerberos, actually need two round
trips to authenticate, which will require that the credential helper
keep some state.
In order to allow for these use cases and others, allow storing state in
a field called "state[]". This value is passed back to the credential
helper that created it, which avoids confusion caused by parsing values
from different helpers.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that we have new fields (authtype and credential), let's document
them for users and credential helper implementers.
Indicate specifically what common values of authtype are and what values
are allowed. Note that, while common, digest and NTLM authentication
are insecure because they require unsalted, uniterated password hashes
to be stored.
Tell users that they can continue to use a username and password even if
the new capability is supported.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document and apply workaround for a buggy version of dash that
mishandles "local var=val" construct.
* jc/local-extern-shell-rules:
t1016: local VAR="VAL" fix
t0610: local VAR="VAL" fix
t: teach lint that RHS of 'local VAR=VAL' needs to be quoted
t: local VAR="VAL" (quote ${magic-reference})
t: local VAR="VAL" (quote command substitution)
t: local VAR="VAL" (quote positional parameters)
CodingGuidelines: quote assigned value in 'local var=$val'
CodingGuidelines: describe "export VAR=VAL" rule
In git-replay documentation, linkgit to git-rev-parse is missing the
man section, which breaks its rendering.
Add section number as done in other references to this command.
Signed-off-by: Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
NUL cannot appear in paths. Even disregarding filesystem path
limitations, the tree object format delimits with NUL, so such a path
cannot be encoded by Git.
When a quoted path is unquoted, it could possibly contain NUL from
"\000". Forbid it so it isn't truncated.
fast-import still has other issues with NUL, but those will be addressed
later.
Signed-off-by: Thalia Archibald <thalia@archibald.dev>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Simply saying “C-style” string quoting is imprecise, as only a subset of
C escapes are supported. Document the exact escapes.
Signed-off-by: Thalia Archibald <thalia@archibald.dev>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It describes what characters cannot be in an unquoted path, but not
their semantics. Reframe it as a definition of unquoted paths. From the
perspective of the parser, whether it starts with `"` is what defines
whether it will parse it as quoted or unquoted.
The restrictions on characters in unquoted paths (with starting-", LF,
and spaces) are explained in the quoted paragraph. Move it to the
unquoted paragraph and reword.
The restriction that the source paths of filecopy and filerename cannot
contain SP is only stated in their respective sections. Restate it in
the <path> section.
Signed-off-by: Thalia Archibald <thalia@archibald.dev>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit corrects a typographical error found in both
date-formats.txt and git-fast-import.txt documentation, where the term
`email format` was mistakenly used instead of `date format`.
Signed-off-by: Xing Xin <xingxin.xx@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano