Three "missing reference" tests in 't5500-fetch-pack.sh' fail when the
test script is run with '-x' tracing (and using a shell other than a
Bash version supporting BASH_XTRACEFD). The reason for those failures
is that the tests check a subshell's stderr, which includes the trace
of executing commands in that subshell as well, throwing off the
comparison with the expected output.
Save the stderr of 'git fetch-pack' only instead of the whole
subshell, so it remains free from tracing output.
After this change t5500 passes with '-x', even when running with
/bin/sh.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach fetch to support filters. This is only allowed for the remote
configured in extensions.partialcloneremote.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Created tests to verify fetch-pack and upload-pack support
for excluding large blobs using --filter=blobs:limit=<n>
parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fetch-pack, when fetching a literal SHA-1 from a server that is not
configured with uploadpack.allowtipsha1inwant (or similar), always
returns an error message of the form "Server does not allow request for
unadvertised object %s". However, it is sometimes the case that such
object is advertised. This situation would occur, for example, if a user
or a script was provided a SHA-1 instead of a branch or tag name for
fetching, and wanted to invoke "git fetch" or "git fetch-pack" using
that SHA-1.
Teach fetch-pack to also check the SHA-1s of the refs in the received
ref advertisement if a literal SHA-1 was given by the user.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepare to reuse this code in transport.c for "git fetch".
While we're here, internationalize the existing error message.
Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In git-fetch, --depth argument is always relative with the latest
remote refs. This makes it a bit difficult to cover this use case,
where the user wants to make the shallow history, say 3 levels
deeper. It would work if remote refs have not moved yet, but nobody
can guarantee that, especially when that use case is performed a
couple months after the last clone or "git fetch --depth". Also,
modifying shallow boundary using --depth does not work well with
clones created by --since or --not.
This patch fixes that. A new argument --deepen=<N> will add <N> more (*)
parent commits to the current history regardless of where remote refs
are.
Have/Want negotiation is still respected. So if remote refs move, the
server will send two chunks: one between "have" and "want" and another
to extend shallow history. In theory, the client could send no "want"s
in order to get the second chunk only. But the protocol does not allow
that. Either you send no want lines, which means ls-remote; or you
have to send at least one want line that carries deep-relative to the
server..
The main work was done by Dongcan Jiang. I fixed it up here and there.
And of course all the bugs belong to me.
(*) We could even support --deepen=<N> where <N> is negative. In that
case we can cut some history from the shallow clone. This operation
(and --depth=<shorter depth>) does not require interaction with remote
side (and more complicated to implement as a result).
Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongcan Jiang <dongcan.jiang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In t5500::check_prot_host_port_path(), diagport is not a variable
used elsewhere and the function is not recursively called so this
can simply lose the "local", which may not be supported by shell
(besides, the function liberally clobbers other variables without
making them "local").
t7403::reset_submodule_urls() overrides the "root" variable used
in the test framework for no good reason; its use is not about
temporarily relocating where the test repositories are created.
This assignment can be made not to clobber the variable by moving
them into the subshells it already uses. Its value is always
$TRASH_DIRECTORY, so we could use it instead there, and this
function that is called only once and its two subshells may not be
necessary (instead, the caller can use "git -C $there config" and
set a value that is derived from $TRASH_DIRECTORY), but this is a
minimum fix that is needed to lose "local".
Helped-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While it makes sense to allow merging unrelated histories of two
projects that started independently into one, in the way "gitk" was
merged to "git" itself aka "the coolest merge ever", such a merge is
still an unusual event. Worse, if somebody creates an independent
history by starting from a tarball of an established project and
sends a pull request to the original project, "git merge" however
happily creates such a merge without any sign of something unusual
is happening.
Teach "git merge" to refuse to create such a merge by default,
unless the user passes a new "--allow-unrelated-histories" option to
tell it that the user is aware that two unrelated projects are
merged.
Because such a "two project merge" is a rare event, a configuration
option to always allow such a merge is not added.
We could add the same option to "git pull" and have it passed
through to underlying "git merge". I do not have a fundamental
opposition against such a feature, but this commit does not do so
and instead leaves it as low-hanging fruit for others, because such
a "two project merge" would be done after fetching the other project
into some location in the working tree of an existing project and
making sure how well they fit together, it is sufficient to allow a
local merge without such an option pass-through from "git pull" to
"git merge". Many tests that are updated by this patch does the
pass-through manually by turning:
git pull something
into its equivalent:
git fetch something &&
git merge --allow-unrelated-histories FETCH_HEAD
If somebody is inclined to add such an option, updated tests in this
change need to be adjusted back to:
git pull --allow-unrelated-histories something
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 58f2ed0 (remote-curl: pass ref SHA-1 to fetch-pack as well,
2013-12-05) added support for specifying a SHA-1 as well as a ref name.
Add support for specifying just a SHA-1 and set the ref name to the same
value in this case.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Souza Franco <gabrielfrancosouza@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ignore an extra ':' at the end of the hostname in URL's like
"ssh://example.com:/path/to/repo"
The colon is meant to separate a port number from the hostname.
If the port is empty, the colon should be ignored, see RFC 3986.
It had been working for URLs with ssh:// scheme, but was unintentionally
broken in 86ceb3, "allow ssh://user@[2001:db8::1]/repo.git"
Reported-by: Reid Woodbury Jr. <reidw@rawsound.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These are tests which are missing a link in their &&-chain,
but during a setup phase. We may fail to notice failure in
commands that build the test environment, but these are
typically not expected to fail at all (but it's still good
to double-check that our test environment is what we
expect).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The URL for ssh may have include a username before the hostname,
like ssh://user@host/repo.
When literal IPV6 addresses are used together with a username,
the substring "user@[::1]" must be converted into "user@::1".
Make that conversion visible for the user, and write userandhost
in the diagnostics
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the function is_local() in transport.c public, rename it into
url_is_local_not_ssh() and use it in both transport.c and connect.c
Use a protocol "local" for URLs for the local file system.
One note about using file:// under Windows:
The (absolute) path on Unix like system typically starts with "/".
When the host is empty, it can be omitted, so that a shell scriptlet
url=file://$pwd
will give a URL like "file:///home/user/repo".
Windows does not have the same concept of a root directory located in "/".
When parsing the URL allow "file://C:/user/repo"
(even if RFC1738 indicates that "file:///C:/user/repo" should be used).
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use get_host_and_port() even for ssh.
Remove the variable port git_connect(), and simplify parse_connect_url()
Use only one return point in git_connect(), doing the free() and return conn.
t5601 had 2 corner test cases which now pass.
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation (in urls.txt) says that
"ssh://host:/~repo",
"host:/~repo" or
"host:~repo"
specify the repository "repo" in the home directory at "host".
This has not been working for "host:/~repo".
Before commit 356bec "Support [address] in URLs", the comparison
"url != hostname" could be used to determine if the URL had a scheme
or not: "ssh://host/host" != "host".
However, after 356bec "[::1]" was converted into "::1", yielding
url != hostname as well. To fix this regression, don't use
"if (url != hostname)", but look at the separator instead.
Rename the variable "c" into "separator" to make it easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add test cases using git fetch-pack --diag-url:
- parse out host and path for URLs with a scheme (git:// file:// ssh://)
- parse host names embedded by [] correctly
- extract the port number, if present
- separate URLs like "file" (which are local)
from URLs like "host:repo" which should use ssh
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a testcase that checks for a problem where, during a specific
shallow fetch where the client does not have any commits that are a
successor of the new shallow root (i.e., the fetch creates a new
detached piece of history), the server would simply send over _all_
objects, instead of taking into account the objects already present in
the client.
The actual problem was fixed by a recent patch series by Nguyễn Thái
Ngọc Duy already.
Signed-off-by: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fetch_pack() can remove .git/shallow file when a shallow repository
becomes a full one again. This behavior is triggered incorrectly when
tags are also fetched because fetch_pack() will be called twice. At
the first fetch_pack() call:
- shallow_lock is set up
- alternate_shallow_file points to shallow_lock.filename, which is
"shallow.lock"
- commit_lock_file is called, which sets shallow_lock.filename to "".
alternate_shallow_file also becomes "" because it points to the
same memory.
At the second call, setup_alternate_shallow() is not called and
alternate_shallow_file remains "". It's mistaken as unshallow case and
.git/shallow is removed. The end result is a broken repository.
Fix this by always initializing alternate_shallow_file when
fetch_pack() is called. As an extra measure, check if args->depth > 0
before commit/rollback shallow file.
Reported-by: Kacper Kornet <kornet@camk.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
index-pack --strict looks up and follows parent commits. If shallow
information is not ready by the time index-pack is run, index-pack may
be led to non-existent objects. Make fetch-pack save shallow file to
disk before invoking index-pack.
git learns new global option --shallow-file to pass on the alternate
shallow file path. Undocumented (and not even support --shallow-file=
syntax) because it's unlikely to be used again elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the client sends a 'shallow' line for an object that the server does
not have, the server should just ignore it and let the client keep that
unknown shallow boundary.
Signed-off-by: Michael Heemskerk <mheemskerk@atlassian.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When upload-pack receives a "want" line from the client, it
adds it to an object array. We call lookup_object to find
the actual object, which will only check for objects already
in memory. This works because we are expecting to find
objects that we already loaded during the ref advertisement.
We use the resulting object structs for a variety of
purposes. Some of them care only about the object flags, but
others care about the type of the object (e.g.,
ok_to_give_up), or even feed them to the revision parser
(when --depth is used), which assumes that objects it
receives are fully parsed.
Once upon a time, this was OK; any object we loaded into
memory would also have been parsed. But since 435c833
(upload-pack: use peel_ref for ref advertisements,
2012-10-04), we try to avoid parsing objects during the ref
advertisement. This means that lookup_object may return an
object with a type of OBJ_NONE. The resulting mess depends
on the exact set of objects, but can include the revision
parser barfing, or the shallow code sending the wrong set of
objects.
This patch teaches upload-pack to parse each "want" object
as we receive it. We do not replace the lookup_object call
with parse_object, as the current code is careful not to let
just any object appear on a "want" line, but rather only one
we have previously advertised (whereas parse_object would
actually load any arbitrary object from disk).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
get_shallow_commits() is used to determine the cut points at a given
depth (i.e. the number of commits in a chain that the user likes to
get). However we count current depth up to the commit "commit" but we
do the cutting at its parents (i.e. current depth + 1). This makes
upload-pack always return one commit more than requested. This patch
fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The user can do --depth=2147483647 (*) for restoring complete repo
now. But it's hard to remember. Any other numbers larger than the
longest commit chain in the repository would also do, but some
guessing may be involved. Make easy-to-remember --unshallow an alias
for --depth=2147483647.
Make upload-pack recognize this special number as infinite depth. The
effect is essentially the same as before, except that upload-pack is
more efficient because it does not have to traverse to the bottom
anymore.
The chance of a user actually wanting exactly 2147483647 commits
depth, not infinite, on a repository with a history that long, is
probably too small to consider. The client can learn to add or
subtract one commit to avoid the special treatment when that actually
happens.
(*) This is the largest positive number a 32-bit signed integer can
contain. JGit and older C Git store depth as "int" so both are OK
with this number. Dulwich does not support shallow clone.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It used to be that if "--all", "--depth", and also explicit references
were sought, then the explicit references were not handled correctly
in filter_refs() because the "--all --depth" code took precedence over
the explicit reference handling, and the explicit references were
never noted as having been found. So check for explicitly sought
references before proceeding to the "--all --depth" logic.
This fixes two test cases in t5500.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fetch_pack() removes duplicates from the "sought" list, thereby
shrinking the list. But previously, the caller was not informed about
the shrinkage. This would cause a spurious error message to be
emitted by cmd_fetch_pack() if "git fetch-pack" is called with
duplicate refnames.
Instead, remove duplicates using string_list_remove_duplicates(),
which adjusts sought->nr to reflect the new length of the list.
The last test of t5500 inexplicably *required* "git fetch-pack" to
fail when fetching a list of references that contains duplicates;
i.e., it insisted on the buggy behavior. So change the test to expect
the correct behavior.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document some bugs in "git fetch-pack":
1. If "git fetch-pack" is called with "--all", "--depth", and an
explicit existing non-tag reference to fetch, then it falsely reports
that the reference was not found, even though it was fetched
correctly.
2. If "git fetch-pack" is called with "--all", "--depth", and an
explicit existing tag reference to fetch, then it segfaults in
filter_refs() because return_refs is used without having been
initialized.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If "git fetch-pack" is called with reference names that do not exist
on the remote, then it should emit an error message
error: no such remote ref refs/heads/xyzzy
This is currently broken if *only* missing references are passed to
"git fetch-pack".
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- do not fetch HEAD
- do not also fetch refs following "xxx"
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These test cases focus only on testing the parsing of refs on stdin,
without bothering with the rest of the fetch-pack machinery. We pass in
the refs using different combinations of command line and stdin and then
we watch fetch-pack's stdout to see whether it prints all the refs we
specified (but we ignore their order).
Signed-off-by: Ivan Todoroski <grnch@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Because a tag ref cannot be put to HEAD, HEAD will become detached.
This is consistent with "git checkout <tag>".
This is mostly useful in shallow clone, where it allows you to clone a
tag in addtion to branches.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's possible that users make a typo in the branch name. Stop and let
users recheck. Falling back to remote's HEAD is not documented any
way.
Except when using remote helper, the pack has not been transferred at
this stage yet so we don't waste much bandwidth.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When --single-branch is given, only one branch, either HEAD or one
specified by --branch, will be fetched. Also only tags that point to
the downloaded history are fetched.
This helps most in shallow clones, where it can reduce the download to
minimum and that is why it is enabled by default when --depth is given.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The fetch-pack documentation is very clear that refs given
on the command line are to be full refs:
<refs>...::
The remote heads to update from. This is relative to
$GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When
unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
and this has been the case since fetch-pack was originally documented in
8b3d9dc ([PATCH] Documentation: clone/fetch/upload., 2005-07-14).
Let's follow our own documentation to set a good example,
and to avoid breaking when this restriction is enforced in
the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Breaks in a test assertion's && chain can potentially hide
failures from earlier commands in the chain.
Commands intended to fail should be marked with !, test_must_fail, or
test_might_fail. The examples in this patch do not require that.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If all refs sent by the remote repo during a fetch are reachable
locally, then no further conversation is performed with the remote. This
check is skipped when the --depth argument is provided to allow the
deepening of a shallow clone which corresponding remote repo has no
changed.
However, some additional filtering was added in commit c29727d5 to
remove those refs which are equal on both sides. If the remote repo has
not changed, then the list of refs to give the remote process becomes
empty and simply attempting to deepen a shallow repo always fails.
Let's stop being smart in that case and simply send the whole list over
when that condition is met. The remote will do the right thing anyways.
Test cases for this issue are also provided.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code outside of the test harness was emitting "Initializing..." from
git-init. Fixup this test to be more modern:
- test_expect_object_count() and count_objects() are unused
- use grep directly instead of test "..." = $(grep ...)
- end the test_expect_success line with a single-quote and put the
test on a new line
- put as much code inside the test harness as possible
- no_strict_count_check is unused and duplicates the test
"new object count"
- use && whenever possible to catch errors early
- use test_tick instead of GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=$sec
- remove debugging aid log.txt
- use subshells instead of cd-ing around
Also merge the pull test into one large test.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adds the total pack size (including indexes) the verbose count-objects
output, floored to the nearest kilobyte.
Updates documentation to match this addition.
Signed-off-by: Marcus Griep <marcus@griep.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch changes every occurrence of "! git" -- with the meaning
that a git call has to gracefully fail -- into "test_must_fail git".
This is useful to
- make sure the test does not fail because of a signal,
e.g. SIGSEGV, and
- advertise the use of "test_must_fail" for new tests.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This fixes the remainder of the issues where the test script itself is at
fault for failing when the git checkout path contains whitespace or other
shell metacharacters.
The majority of git svn tests used the idiom
test_expect_success "title" "test script using $svnrepo"
These were changed to have the test script in single-quotes:
test_expect_success "title" 'test script using "$svnrepo"'
which unfortunately makes the patch appear larger than it really is.
One consequence of this change is that in the verbose test output the
value of $svnrepo (and in some cases other variables, too) is no
longer expanded, i.e. previously we saw
* expecting success:
test script using /path/to/git/t/trash/svnrepo
but now it is:
* expecting success:
test script using "$svnrepo"
Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@fushizen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This form is not portable across all shells, so replace instances of:
export FOO=bar
with:
FOO=bar
export FOO
Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@fushizen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Originally, test_expect_failure was designed to be the opposite
of test_expect_success, but this was a bad decision. Most tests
run a series of commands that leads to the single command that
needs to be tested, like this:
test_expect_{success,failure} 'test title' '
setup1 &&
setup2 &&
setup3 &&
what is to be tested
'
And expecting a failure exit from the whole sequence misses the
point of writing tests. Your setup$N that are supposed to
succeed may have failed without even reaching what you are
trying to test. The only valid use of test_expect_failure is to
check a trivial single command that is expected to fail, which
is a minority in tests of Porcelain-ish commands.
This large-ish patch rewrites all uses of test_expect_failure to
use test_expect_success and rewrites the condition of what is
tested, like this:
test_expect_success 'test title' '
setup1 &&
setup2 &&
setup3 &&
! this command should fail
'
test_expect_failure is redefined to serve as a reminder that
that test *should* succeed but due to a known breakage in git it
currently does not pass. So if git-foo command should create a
file 'bar' but you discovered a bug that it doesn't, you can
write a test like this:
test_expect_failure 'git-foo should create bar' '
rm -f bar &&
git foo &&
test -f bar
'
This construct acts similar to test_expect_success, but instead
of reporting "ok/FAIL" like test_expect_success does, the
outcome is reported as "FIXED/still broken".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This changes the behaviour of cloning from a repository on the
local machine, by defaulting to "-l" (use hardlinks to share
files under .git/objects) and making "-l" a no-op. A new
option, --no-hardlinks, is also added to cause file-level copy
of files under .git/objects while still avoiding the normal
"pack to pipe, then receive and index pack" network transfer
overhead. The old behaviour of local cloning without -l nor -s
is availble by specifying the source repository with the newly
introduced file:///path/to/repo.git/ syntax (i.e. "same as
network" cloning).
* With --no-hardlinks (i.e. have all .git/objects/ copied via
cpio) would not catch the source repository corruption, and
also risks corrupted recipient repository if an
alpha-particle hits memory cell while indexing and resolving
deltas. As long as the recipient is created uncorrupted, you
have a good back-up.
* same-as-network is expensive, but it would catch the breakage
of the source repository. It still risks corrupted recipient
repository due to hardware failure. As long as the recipient
is created uncorrupted, you have a good back-up.
* The new default on the same filesystem, as long as the source
repository is healthy, it is very likely that the recipient
would be, too. Also it is very cheap. You do not get any
back-up benefit, though.
None of the method is resilient against the source repository
corruption, so let's discount that from the comparison. Then
the difference with and without --no-hardlinks matters primarily
if you value the back-up benefit or not. If you want to use the
cloned repository as a back-up, then it is cheaper to do a clone
with --no-hardlinks and two git-fsck (source before clone,
recipient after clone) than same-as-network clone, especially as
you are likely to do a git-fsck on the recipient if you are so
paranoid anyway.
Which leads me to believe that being able to use file:/// is
probably a good idea, if only for testability, but probably of
little practical value. We default to hardlinked clone for
everyday use, and paranoids can use --no-hardlinks as a way to
make a back-up.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
SZEDER Gábor