Before 82dce99 (attr: more matching optimizations from .gitignore,
2012-10-15), .gitattributes did not have any special treatment of a
leading '!'. The docs, however, always said
The rules how the pattern matches paths are the same as in
`.gitignore` files; see linkgit:gitignore[5].
By those rules, leading '!' means pattern negation. So 82dce99
correctly determined that this kind of line makes no sense and should
be disallowed.
However, users who actually had a rule for files starting with a '!'
are in a bad position: before 82dce99 '!' matched that literal
character, so it is conceivable that users have .gitattributes with
such lines in them. After 82dce99 the unescaped version was
disallowed in such a way that git outright refuses to run(!) most
commands in the presence of such a .gitattributes. It therefore
becomes very hard to fix, let alone work with, such repositories.
Let's at least allow the users to fix their repos: change the fatal
error into a warning.
Reported-by: mathstuf@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
.gitattributes and .gitignore share the same pattern syntax but has
separate matching implementation. Over the years, ignore's
implementation accumulates more optimizations while attr's stays the
same.
This patch reuses the core matching functions that are also used by
excluded_from_list. excluded_from_list and path_matches can't be
merged due to differences in exclude and attr, for example:
* "!pattern" syntax is forbidden in .gitattributes. As an attribute
can be unset (i.e. set to a special value "false") or made back to
unspecified (i.e. not even set to "false"), "!pattern attr" is unclear
which one it means.
* we support attaching attributes to directories, but git-core
internally does not currently make use of attributes on
directories.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Case insensitivity plays a role in several tests and is tested in several
tests. Therefore, move the test from t003 into the test lib and use the
prerequisite in t0003.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we prepare the attribute stack for a lookup on a path,
we start with the cached stack from the previous lookup
(because it is common to do several lookups in the same
directory hierarchy). So the first thing we must do in
preparing the stack is to pop any entries that point to
directories we are no longer interested in.
For example, if our stack contains gitattributes for:
foo/bar/baz
foo/bar
foo
but we want to do a lookup in "foo/bar/bleep", then we want
to pop the top element, but retain the others.
To do this we walk down the stack from the top, popping
elements that do not match our lookup directory. However,
the test do this simply checked strncmp, meaning we would
mistake "foo/bar/baz" as a leading directory of
"foo/bar/baz_plus". We must also check that the character
after our match is '/', meaning we matched the whole path
component.
There are two special cases to consider:
1. The top of our attr stack has the empty path. So we
must not check for '/', but rather special-case the
empty path, which always matches.
2. Typically when matching paths in this way, you would
also need to check for a full string match (i.e., the
character after is '\0'). We don't need to do so in
this case, though, because our path string is actually
just the directory component of the path to a file
(i.e., we know that it terminates with "/", because the
filename comes after that).
Helped-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When core.ignorecase is true, the file globs configured in the
.gitattributes file should be matched case-insensitively against the paths
in the working directory. Let's do so.
Plus, add some tests.
The last set of tests is performed only on a case-insensitive filesystem.
Those tests make sure that git handles the case where the .gitignore file
resides in a subdirectory and the user supplies a path that does not match
the case in the filesystem. In that case^H^H^H^Hsituation, part of the
path supplied by the user is effectively interpreted case-insensitively,
and part of it is dependent on the setting of core.ignorecase. git will
currently only match the portion of the path below the directory holding
the .gitignore file according to the setting of core.ignorecase.
This is also partly future-proofing. Currently, git builds the attr stack
based on the path supplied by the user, so we don't have to do anything
special (like use strcmp_icase) to handle the parts of that path that don't
match the filesystem with respect to case. If git instead built the attr
stack by scanning the repository, then the paths in the origin field would
not necessarily match the paths supplied by the user. If someone makes a
change like that in the future, these tests will notice.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option causes check-attr to consider .gitattributes only from
the index, ignoring .gitattributes from the working tree. This allows
the command to be used in situations where a working tree does not exist.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Normalize the path arguments (relative to the working tree root, if
applicable) before looking up their attributes. This requires passing
the prefix down the call chain.
This fixes two test cases for different reasons:
* "unnormalized paths" is fixed because the .gitattribute-file-seeking
code is not confused into reading the top-level file twice.
* "relative paths" is fixed because the canonical pathnames are passed
to get_check_attr() or get_all_attrs(), allowing them to match the
pathname patterns as expected.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
According to the git-check-attr synopsis, if the '--stdin' option is
used then no pathnames are expected on the command line. Change the
behavior to match this description; namely, if '--stdin' is used but
not '--', then treat all command-line arguments as attribute names.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add new usage patterns
git check-attr [-a | --all] [--] pathname...
git check-attr --stdin [-a | --all] < <list-of-paths>
which display all attributes associated with the specified file(s).
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If no pathnames are passed as command-line arguments and the --stdin
option is not specified, fail with the error message "No file
specified". Add tests of this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, it was possible to have a line like "file.txt =foo" in a
.gitattribute file, after which an invocation like "git check-attr ''
-- file.txt" would succeed. This patch disallows both constructs.
Please note that any existing .gitattributes file that tries to set an
empty attribute will now trigger the error message "error: : not a
valid attribute name" whereas previously the nonsense was allowed
through.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
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>
6df42ab (Add global and system-wide gitattributes, 2010-09-01) forgot
to quote one instance of $HOME in the tests. This would be valid
according to POSIX, but bash 4 helpfully declines to execute the
command in question with an "ambiguous redirection" error.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow gitattributes to be set globally and system wide. This way, settings
for particular file types can be set in one place and apply for all user's
repositories.
The location of system-wide attributes file is $(prefix)/etc/gitattributes.
The location of the global file can be configured by setting
core.attributesfile.
Some parts of the code were copied from the implementation of the same
functionality in config.c.
Signed-off-by: Petr Onderka <gsvick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using macros it is otherwise hard to know whether an
attribute set by the macro should override an already set
attribute. Consider the following .gitattributes file:
[attr]mybinary binary -ident
* ident
foo.bin mybinary
bar.bin mybinary ident
Without this patch both foo.bin and bar.bin will have
the ident attribute set, which is probably not what
the user expects. With this patch foo.bin will have an
unset ident attribute, while bar.bin will have it set.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Grubbström <grubba@grubba.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using macros it isn't inconceivable to have an attribute
being set by a macro, and then being reset explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Grubbström <grubba@grubba.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows multiple paths to be specified on stdin.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Attributes can be specified at three different places: the internal
table of default values, the file $GIT_DIR/info/attributes and files
named .gitattributes in the work tree. Since bare repositories don't
have a work tree, git should ignore any .gitattributes files there.
This patch makes git do that, so the only way left for a user to specify
attributes in a bare repository is the file info/attributes (in addition
to changing the defaults and recompiling).
In addition, git-check-attr is now allowed to run without a work tree.
Like any user of the code in attr.c, it ignores the .gitattributes files
when run in a bare repository. It can still read from info/attributes.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many scripts compare actual and expected output using
"diff -u". This is nicer than "cmp" because the output shows
how the two differ. However, not all versions of diff
understand -u, leading to unnecessary test failure.
This adds a test_cmp function to the test scripts and
switches all "diff -u" invocations to use it. The function
uses the contents of "$GIT_TEST_CMP" to compare its
arguments; the default is "diff -u".
On systems with a less-capable diff, you can do:
GIT_TEST_CMP=cmp make test
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There was an embarrassing pair of off-by-one miscounting that
failed to match path "a/b/c" when "a/.gitattributes" tried to
name it with relative path "b/c".
This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thomas Rast