In the case where a program was not found, it was still the task of the
caller to report an error to the user. Usually, this is an interesting case
but only few callers actually reported a specific error (though many call
sites report a generic error message regardless of the cause).
With this change the error is reported by run_command, but since there is
one call site in git.c that does not want that, an option is added to
struct child_process, which is used to turn the error off.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The motivation for this change is that system call failures are serious
errors that should be reported to the user, but only few callers took the
burden to decode the error codes that the functions returned into error
messages.
If at all, then only an unspecific error message was given. A prominent
example is this:
$ git upload-pack . | :
fatal: unable to run 'git-upload-pack'
In this example, git-upload-pack, the external command invoked through the
git wrapper, dies due to SIGPIPE, but the git wrapper does not bother to
report the real cause. In fact, this very error message is copied to the
syslog if git-daemon's client aborts the connection early.
With this change, system call failures are reported immediately after the
failure and only a generic failure code is returned to the caller. In the
above example the error is now to the point:
$ git upload-pack . | :
error: git-upload-pack died of signal
Note that there is no error report if the invoked program terminated with
a non-zero exit code, because it is reasonable to expect that the invoked
program has already reported an error. (But many run_command call sites
nevertheless write a generic error message.)
There was one special return code that was used to identify the case where
run_command failed because the requested program could not be exec'd. This
special case is now treated like a system call failure with errno set to
ENOENT. No error is reported in this case, because the call site in git.c
expects this as a normal result. Therefore, the callers that carefully
decoded the return value still check for this condition.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As a general guideline, functions in git's code return zero to indicate
success and negative values to indicate failure. The run_command family of
functions followed this guideline. But there are actually two different
kinds of failure:
- failures of system calls;
- non-zero exit code of the program that was run.
Usually, a non-zero exit code of the program is a failure and means a
failure to the caller. Except that sometimes it does not. For example, the
exit code of merge programs (e.g. external merge drivers) conveys
information about how the merge failed, and not all exit calls are
actually failures.
Furthermore, the return value of run_command is sometimes used as exit
code by the caller.
This change arranges that the exit code of the program is returned as a
positive value, which can now be regarded as the "result" of the function.
System call failures continue to be reported as negative values.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For some reason, MinGW's bash cannot reliably detect failure of the child
process if a negative value is passed to exit(). This fixes it by
truncating the exit code in all calls of exit().
This issue was worked around in run_builtin() of git.c (2488df84 builtin
run_command: do not exit with -1, 2007-11-15). This workaround is no longer
necessary and is reverted.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When creating a new argv array from a configured alias and the supplied
command line arguments, the new argv was allocated with one element too
many. Since the first element of the original argv array is skipped when
copying it to the new_argv, the number of elements that are allocated
should be reduced by one. 'count' is the number of elements that new_argv
contains, and *argcp is the number of elements in the original argv array.
So the total allocation (including the terminating NULL entry) for the
new_argv array should be:
count + (*argcp - 1) + 1
Also, the explicit assignment of the NULL terminating entry can be avoided
by just copying it over from the original argv array.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
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>
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>
This patch implements a new "git bisect--helper" builtin plumbing
command that will be used to migrate "git-bisect.sh" to C.
We start by implementing only the "--next-vars" option that will
read bisect refs from "refs/bisect/", and then compute the next
bisect step, and output shell variables ready to be eval'ed by
the shell.
At this step, "git bisect--helper" ignores the paths that may
have been put in "$GIT_DIR/BISECT_NAMES". This will be fixed in a
later patch.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This can be used in GUIs to open installed HTML documentation in the
browser.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We used to simply try calling execvp(); if it succeeded, then we were done
and the new program was running. If it didn't, then we knew that it wasn't
a valid command.
Unfortunately, this interacted badly with the new pager handling. Now that
git remains the parent process and the pager is spawned, git has to hang
around until the pager is finished. We install an atexit handler to do
this, but that handler never gets called if we successfully run execvp.
You could see this behavior by running any dashed external using a pager
(e.g., "git -p stash list"). The command finishes running, but the pager
is still going. In the case of less, it then gets an error reading from
the terminal and exits, potentially leaving the terminal in a broken state
(and not showing the output).
This patch just uses run_command() to try running the dashed external. The
parent git process then waits for the external process to complete and
then handles the pager cleanup as it would for an internal command.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is a static function called run_command which
conflicts with the library function in run-command.c; this
isn't a problem currently, but prevents including
run-command.h in git.c.
This patch just renames the static function to something
more specific and non-conflicting.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This simplifies the calling code.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit moves the code that computes the dirname of argv[0]
from git.c's main() to git_set_argv0_path() and renames the function
to git_extract_argv0_path(). This makes the code in git.c's main
less cluttered, and we can use the dirname computation from other
main() functions too.
[ spr:
- split Steve's original commit and wrote new commit message.
- Integrated Johannes Schindelin's
cca1704897 while rebasing onto master.
]
Signed-off-by: Steve Haslam <shaslam@lastminute.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
LF at the end of format strings given to die() is redundant because
die already adds one on its own.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
help_unknown_cmd() is able to autocorrect a command to an alias, and not
only to internal or external commands. However, main() was not passing the
autocorrected command through handle_alias(), hence it failed if it was an
alias.
This commit makes the autocorrected command go through handle_alias(), once
handle_internal_command() and execv_dashed_external() have been tried. Since
this is done twice in main() now, moved that logic to a new run_argv()
function.
Also, print the same "Expansion of alias 'x' failed" message when the alias
was autocorrected, rather than a generic "Failed to run command 'x'".
Signed-off-by: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is not a good practice to prefer performance over readability in
something as performance uncritical as finding the trailing slash
of argv[0].
So avoid head-scratching by making the loop user-readable, and not
hyper-performance-optimized.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This comes from conversation at the GitTogether where we thought it would
be helpful to be able to teach people to 'stage' files because it tends
to cause confusion when told that they have to keep 'add'ing them.
This continues the movement to start referring to the index as a
staging area (eg: the --staged alias to 'git diff'). Also adds a
doc file for 'git stage' that basically points to the docs for
'git add'.
Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many call sites use strbuf_init(&foo, 0) to initialize local
strbuf variable "foo" which has not been accessed since its
declaration. These can be replaced with a static initialization
using the STRBUF_INIT macro which is just as readable, saves a
function call, and takes up fewer lines.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
As the testcase demonstrates, it's possible for split_cmdline to return -1 and
deallocate any memory it's allocated, if the config string is missing an end
quote. In both the cases below, which are the only calling sites, the return
isn't checked, and using the pointer causes a pretty immediate segfault.
Signed-off-by: Deskin Miller <deskinm@umich.edu>
Acked-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Some places use the standard malloc/strdup without checking if the
allocation was successful; they should use xmalloc/xstrdup that
check the memory allocation result.
Signed-off-by: Dotan Barak <dotanba@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is a good thing to do in general, but more importantly, transport
routines can only be used by built-ins, which is what I'll be adding next.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch introduces a modified Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm into
Git's code base, and uses it with the following penalties to show some
similar commands when an unknown command was encountered:
swap = 0, insertion = 1, substitution = 2, deletion = 4
A typical output would now look like this:
$ git sm
git: 'sm' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.
Did you mean one of these?
am
rm
The cut-off is at similarity rating 6, which was empirically determined
to give sensible results.
As a convenience, if there is only one candidate, Git continues under
the assumption that the user mistyped it. Example:
$ git reabse
WARNING: You called a Git program named 'reabse', which does
not exist.
Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'rebase'
[...]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This fixes "git diff", "git diff-files" and "git diff-index" to work
correctly under worktree setup. Because diff* family works in many modes
and not all of them require worktree, Junio made a nice summary
(with a little modification from me):
* diff-files is about comparing with work tree, so it obviously needs a
work tree;
* diff-index also does, except "diff-index --cached" or "diff --cached TREE"
* no-index is about random files outside git context, so it obviously
doesn't need any work tree;
* comparing two (or more) trees doesn't;
* comparing two blobs doesn't;
* comparing a blob with a random file doesn't;
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit daa0cc9a92.
It was a stupid idea to do this; when run as a log-in shell,
it is spawned with argv[0] set to "-git-shell", so the usual
name-based dispatch would not work to begin with.
This trivially makes "git-shell" a built-in. It makes the executable even
fatter, though.
And MinGW removed git-shell only because of the funny dependencies; there
is no reason to do so anymore.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tested-on-MinGW-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
We will need the command invocation path in system_path(). This path was
passed to setup_path(), but system_path() can be called earlier, for
example via:
main
commit_pager_choice
setup_pager
git_config
git_etc_gitconfig
system_path
Therefore, we introduce git_set_argv0_path() and call it as soon as
possible.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mentored-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is great debate over whether some commands should set
up a pager automatically. This patch allows individuals to
set their own pager preferences for each command, overriding
the default. For example, to disable the pager for git
status:
git config pager.status false
If "--pager" or "--no-pager" is specified on the command
line, it takes precedence over the config option.
There are two caveats:
- you can turn on the pager for plumbing commands.
Combined with "core.pager = always", this will probably
break a lot of things. Don't do it.
- This only works for builtin commands. The reason is
somewhat complex:
Calling git_config before we do setup_git_directory
has bad side effects, because it wants to know where
the git_dir is to find ".git/config". Unfortunately,
we cannot call setup_git_directory indiscriminately,
because some builtins (like "init") break if we do.
For builtins, this is OK, since we can just wait until
after we call setup_git_directory. But for aliases, we
don't know until we expand (recursively) which command
we're doing. This should not be a huge problem for
aliases, which can simply use "--pager" or "--no-pager"
in the alias as appropriate.
For external commands, however, we don't know we even
have an external command until we exec it, and by then
it is too late to check the config.
An alternative approach would be to have a config mode
where we don't bother looking at .git/config, but only
at the user and system config files. This would make the
behavior consistent across builtins, aliases, and
external commands, at the cost of not allowing per-repo
pager config for at all.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
split_cmdline() is currently used for aliases only, but later it can be
useful for other builtins as well. Move it to alias.c for now,
indicating that originally it's for aliases, but we'll have it in libgit
this way.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, execv_git_cmd() always try running the dashed form, which
means we cannot easily remove the git-foo hardlinks for built-in
commands. This updates the function to always exec "git foo" form, and
makes sure "git" potty does not infinitely recurse to itself.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before we can successfully parse a builtin command from the program name
we must strip off unneeded parts, that is, the file extension.
Furthermore, we must take Windows style path names into account when we
parse the program name.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Attributes can be specified at three different places: the internal
table of default values, the file $GIT_DIR/info/attributes and files
named .gitattributes in the work tree. Since bare repositories don't
have a work tree, git should ignore any .gitattributes files there.
This patch makes git do that, so the only way left for a user to specify
attributes in a bare repository is the file info/attributes (in addition
to changing the defaults and recompiling).
In addition, git-check-attr is now allowed to run without a work tree.
Like any user of the code in attr.c, it ignores the .gitattributes files
when run in a bare repository. It can still read from info/attributes.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git's main usage pages did not show "git help" as a way to get more
information on a specific subcommand. This patch adds an info line after
the list of git commands currently printed by "git", "git help", "git
--help" and "git help --all".
Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Being able to say "git diff A B" outside a git repository and getting a
colourful version of "diff -u A B" may be nice, but such a cute hack
should not give bogus results to scripts that want to give two paths,
either or both of which happen to have been removed from the work tree,
to "git diff-files".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thanks to Johannes Schindelin for various comments and improvements,
including supporting cloning full bundles.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
make git status act similar to git log and git diff by presenting long
output in a pager.
Signed-off-by: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
af05d67 (Always set *nongit_ok in setup_git_directory_gently(),
2008-03-25) had a change from the patch originally submitted that resulted
in disabling aliases outside a git repository.
It turns out that some people used "alias.fubar = diff --color-words" in
$HOME/.gitconfig to use non-index diff (or any command that do not need
git repository) outside git repositories, and this change broke them,
so this resurrects the support for such usage.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
setup_git_directory_gently() only modified the value of its *nongit_ok
argument if we were not in a git repository. Now it will always set it
to 0 when we are inside a repository.
Also remove now unnecessary initializations in the callers of this
function.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Once upon a time shortlog could be run from a non-git directory
and still do its job. Fix this regression and add a small test
for it.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This converts git_config_alias to the public alias_lookup
function. Because of the nature of our config parser, we
still have to rely on setting static data. However, that
interface is wrapped so that you can just say
value = alias_lookup(key);
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier commit e1b3a2c (Build-in merge-recursive) made the
subtree merge strategy backend unavailable. This resurrects
it.
A new test t6029 currently only tests the strategy is available,
but it should be enhanced to check the real "subtree" case.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The only differences in behavior should be:
- git checkout -m with non-trivial merging won't print out
merge-recursive messages (see the change in t7201-co.sh)
- git checkout -- paths... will give a sensible error message if
HEAD is invalid as a commit.
- some intermediate states which were written to disk in the shell
version (in particular, index states) are only kept in memory in
this version, and therefore these can no longer be revealed by
later write operations becoming impossible.
- when we change branches, we discard MERGE_MSG, SQUASH_MSG, and
rr-cache/MERGE_RR, like reset always has.
I'm not 100% sure I got the merge recursive setup exactly right; the
base for a non-trivial merge in the shell code doesn't seem
theoretically justified to me, but I tried to match it anyway, and the
tests all pass this way.
Other than these items, the results should be identical to the shell
version, so far as I can tell.
[jc: squashed lock-file fix from Dscho in]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes write_tree_from_memory(), which writes the active cache as
a tree and returns the struct tree for it, available to other code. It
also makes available merge_trees(), which does the internal merge of
two trees with a known base, and merge_recursive(), which does the
recursive internal merge of two commits with a list of common
ancestors.
The first two of these will be used by checkout -m, and the third is
presumably useful in general, although the implementation of checkout
-m which entirely matches the behavior of the shell version does not
use it (since it ignores the difference of ancestry between the old
branch and the new branch).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Now that str_buf takes care of all the allocations, there is
no more gain to pass an argument count.
So this patch removes the "count" argument from:
- "sq_quote_argv"
- "trace_argv_printf"
and all the callers.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Johannes Sixt