The bug was noticed when writing the previous patch; a fix for this bug
is not easy though: If we choose to ignore the case of the subsection
(and revert most of the code of the previous patch, just keeping
s/strncasecmp/strcmp/), then we'd introduce new sections using the
new syntax, such that
--------
[section.subsection]
key = value1
--------
git config section.Subsection.key value2
would result in
--------
[section.subsection]
key = value1
[section.Subsection]
key = value2
--------
which is even more confusing. A proper fix would replace the first
occurrence of 'key'. As the syntax is deprecated, let's prefer to not
spend time on fixing the behavior and just document it instead.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A user reported a submodule issue regarding a section mix-up,
but it could be boiled down to the following test case:
$ git init test && cd test
$ git config foo."Bar".key test
$ git config foo."bar".key test
$ tail -n 3 .git/config
[foo "Bar"]
key = test
key = test
Sub sections are case sensitive and we have a test for correctly reading
them. However we do not have a test for writing out config correctly with
case sensitive subsection names, which is why this went unnoticed in
6ae996f2ac (git_config_set: make use of the config parser's event
stream, 2018-04-09)
Unfortunately we have to make a distinction between old style configuration
that looks like
[foo.Bar]
key = test
and the new quoted style as seen above. The old style is documented as
case-agnostic, hence we need to keep 'strncasecmp'; although the
resulting setting for the old style config differs from the configuration.
That will be fixed in a follow up patch.
Reported-by: JP Sugarbroad <jpsugar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This documents current behavior of the config machinery, when changing
the value of some settings. This patch just serves to provide a baseline
for the follow up that will fix some issues with the current behavior.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was pointed out by Jeff King while the empty-config-section-fix
patch series was cooking, and was not addressed in time for that patch
series to advance to `master`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It can happen quite easily that the last setting in a config section is
removed, and to avoid confusion when there are comments in the config
about that section, we keep a lone section header, i.e. an empty
section.
Now that we use the `event_fn` callback, it is easy to add support for
re-using empty sections, so let's do that.
Note: t5512-ls-remote requires that this change is applied *after* the
patch "git config --unset: remove empty sections (in the common case)":
without that patch, there would be empty `transfer` and `uploadpack`
sections ready for reuse, but in the *wrong* order (and sconsequently,
t5512's "overrides work between mixed transfer/upload-pack hideRefs"
would fail).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The original reasoning for not removing section headers upon removal of
the last entry went like this: the user could have added comments about
the section, or about the entries therein, and if there were other
comments there, we would not know whether we should remove them.
In particular, a concocted example was presented that looked like this
(and was added to t1300):
# some generic comment on the configuration file itself
# a comment specific to this "section" section.
[section]
# some intervening lines
# that should also be dropped
key = value
# please be careful when you update the above variable
The ideal thing for `git config --unset section.key` in this case would
be to leave only the first line behind, because all the other comments
are now obsolete.
However, this is unfeasible, short of adding a complete Natural Language
Processing module to Git, which seems not only a lot of work, but a
totally unreasonable feature (for little benefit to most users).
Now, the real kicker about this problem is: most users do not edit their
config files at all! In their use case, the config looks like this
instead:
[section]
key = value
... and it is totally obvious what should happen if the entry is
removed: the entire section should vanish.
Let's generalize this observation to this conservative strategy: if we
are removing the last entry from a section, and there are no comments
inside that section nor surrounding it, then remove the entire section.
Otherwise behave as before: leave the now-empty section (including those
comments, even ones about the now-deleted entry).
We have to be extra careful to handle the case where more than one entry
is removed: any subset of them might be the last entries of their
respective sections (and if there are no comments in or around that
section, the section should be removed, too).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the recent commit with the title "config: introduce an optional event
stream while parsing", we introduced an optional callback to keep track
of the config parser's events "comment", "white-space", "section header"
and "entry".
One motivation for this feature was to make use of it in the code that
edits the config. And this commit makes it so.
Note: this patch changes the meaning of the `seen` array that records
whether we saw the config entry that is to be edited: previously, it
contained the end offset of the found entry. Now, we introduce a new
array `parsed` that keeps a record of *all* config parser events (with
begin/end offsets), and the items in the `seen` array now point into the
`parsed` array.
There are two reasons why we do it this way:
1. To keep the implementation simple, the config parser's event stream
reports the event only after the config callback was called, so we
would not receive the begin offset otherwise.
2. In the following patches, we will re-use the `parsed` array to fix two
long-standing bugs related to empty sections.
Note that this also makes the code more robust with respect to finding the
begin offset of the part(s) of the config file to be edited, as we no
longer back-track to find the beginning of the line.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While a neat theoretical construct, state machines are hard to read. In
this instance, it does not even make a whole lot of sense because we are
more interested in flags, anyway: has the section been seen? Has the key
been seen? Does the current section match the key we are looking for?
Besides, the state `SECTION_SEEN` was named in a misleading way: it did
not indicate that we saw the section matching the key we are looking
for, but it instead indicated that we are *currently* in that section.
Let's just replace the state machine logic by clear and obvious flags.
This will also make it easier to review the upcoming patches to use the
newly-introduced `event_fn` callback of the config parser.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `seen` field is the actual length of the `offset` array, and the
`offset_alloc` field records what was allocated (to avoid resizing
wherever `seen` has to be incremented).
Elsewhere, we use the convention `name` for the array, where `name` is
descriptive enough to guess its purpose, `name_nr` for the actual length
and `name_alloc` to record the maximum length without needing to resize.
Let's make the names of the fields in question consistent with that
convention.
This will also help with the next steps where we will let the
git_config_set() machinery use the config event stream that we just
introduced.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is much easier to reason about, when the config code to set/unset
variables or to remove/rename sections does not rely on a global (or
file-local) variable.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This extends our config parser so that it can optionally produce an event
stream via callback function, where it reports e.g. when a comment was
parsed, or a section header, etc.
This parser will be used subsequently to handle the scenarios better where
removing config entries would make sections empty, or where a new entry
could be added to an already-existing, empty section.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already have a test demonstrating that removing the last entry from a
config section fails to remove the section header of the now-empty
section.
The same can happen, of course, if we remove the last entries in one fell
swoop. This is *also* a bug, and should be fixed at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
During the review of the first iteration of the patch series to remove
sections that become empty upon --unset or --unset-all, Jeff King
identified a couple of problematic cases with the backtracking approach
that was still used then to "look backwards for the section header":
https://public-inbox.org/git/20180329213229.GG2939@sigill.intra.peff.net/
This patch adds a couple of concocted examples designed to fool a
backtracking parser.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In https://public-inbox.org/git/7vvc8alzat.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org/
a reasonable patch was made quite a bit less so by changing a test case
demonstrating a bug to a test case that demonstrates that we ask for too
much: the test case 'unsetting the last key in a section removes header'
now expects a future bug fix to be able to determine whether a free-form
comment above a section header refers to said section or not.
Rather than shooting for the stars (and not even getting off the
ground), let's start shooting for something obtainable and be reasonably
confident that we *can* get it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The test case 'unset with cont. lines' relied on a bug that is about to
be fixed: it tests *explicitly* that removing the last entry from a
config section leaves an *empty* section behind.
Let's fix this test case not to rely on that behavior, simply by
preventing the section from becoming empty.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When replacing multiple config entries at once, we did not re-set the
flag that indicates whether we need to insert a new-line before the new
entry. As a consequence, an extra new-line was inserted under certain
circumstances.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, we are slightly overzealous When removing an entry from a
config file of this form:
[abc]a
[xyz]
key = value
When calling `git config --unset abc.a` on this file, it leaves this
(invalid) config behind:
[
[xyz]
key = value
The reason is that we try to search for the beginning of the line (or
for the end of the preceding section header on the same line) that
defines abc.a, but as an optimization, we subtract 2 from the offset
pointing just after the definition before we call
find_beginning_of_line(). That function, however, *also* performs that
optimization and promptly fails to find the section header correctly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Hotfix for a recent topic.
* tg/worktree-create-tracking:
git-worktree.txt: fix indentation of example and text of 'add' command
git-worktree.txt: fix missing ")" typo
Code clean-up.
* nd/shared-index-fix:
read-cache: don't write index twice if we can't write shared index
read-cache.c: move tempfile creation/cleanup out of write_shared_index
read-cache.c: change type of "temp" in write_shared_index()
Doc updates.
* ks/submodule-doc-updates:
Doc/git-submodule: improve readability and grammar of a sentence
Doc/gitsubmodules: make some changes to improve readability and syntax
Test fixes.
* sg/test-i18ngrep:
t: make 'test_i18ngrep' more informative on failure
t: validate 'test_i18ngrep's parameters
t: move 'test_i18ncmp' and 'test_i18ngrep' to 'test-lib-functions.sh'
t5536: let 'test_i18ngrep' read the file without redirection
t5510: consolidate 'grep' and 'test_i18ngrep' patterns
t4001: don't run 'git status' upstream of a pipe
t6022: don't run 'git merge' upstream of a pipe
t5812: add 'test_i18ngrep's missing filename parameter
t5541: add 'test_i18ngrep's missing filename parameter
Completion of "git merge -s<strategy>" (in contrib/) did not work
well in non-C locale.
* nd/list-merge-strategy:
completion: fix completing merge strategies on non-C locales
The split-index mode had a few corner case bugs fixed.
* tg/split-index-fixes:
travis: run tests with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX
split-index: don't write cache tree with null oid entries
read-cache: fix reading the shared index for other repos
Crash fix for a corner case where an error codepath tried to unlock
what it did not acquire lock on.
* mr/packed-ref-store-fix:
files_initial_transaction_commit(): only unlock if locked
Stefan Beller