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Elijah Newren
eceba53214 dir: fix problematic API to avoid memory leaks
The dir structure seemed to have a number of leaks and problems around
it.  First I noticed that parent_hashmap and recursive_hashmap were
being leaked (though Peff noticed and submitted fixes before me).  Then
I noticed in the previous commit that clear_directory() was only taking
responsibility for a subset of fields within dir_struct, despite the
fact that entries[] and ignored[] we allocated internally to dir.c.
That, of course, resulted in many callers either leaking or haphazardly
trying to free these arrays and their contents.

Digging further, I found that despite the pretty clear documentation
near the top of dir.h that folks were supposed to call clear_directory()
when the user no longer needed the dir_struct, there were four callers
that didn't bother doing that at all.  However, two of them clearly
thought about leaks since they had an UNLEAK(dir) directive, which to me
suggests that the method to free the data was too unclear.  I suspect
the non-obviousness of the API and its holes led folks to avoid it,
which then snowballed into further problems with the entries[],
ignored[], parent_hashmap, and recursive_hashmap problems.

Rename clear_directory() to dir_clear() to be more in line with other
data structures in git, and introduce a dir_init() to handle the
suggested memsetting of dir_struct to all zeroes.  I hope that a name
like "dir_clear()" is more clear, and that the presence of dir_init()
will provide a hint to those looking at the code that they need to look
for either a dir_clear() or a dir_free() and lead them to find
dir_clear().

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-18 17:17:31 -07:00
Elijah Newren
7ec8125fba check-ignore: fix documentation and implementation to match
check-ignore has two different modes, and neither of these modes has an
implementation that matches the documentation.  These modes differ in
whether they just print paths or whether they also print the final
pattern matched by the path.  The fix is different for both modes, so
I'll discuss both separately.

=== First (default) mode ===

The first mode is documented as:

    For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via
    --stdin, check whether the file is excluded by .gitignore (or other
    input files to the exclude mechanism) and output the path if it is
    excluded.

However, it fails to do this because it did not account for negated
patterns.  Commands other than check-ignore verify exclusion rules via
calling

   ... -> treat_one_path() -> is_excluded() -> last_matching_pattern()

while check-ignore has a call path of the form:

   ... -> check_ignore()                    -> last_matching_pattern()

The fact that the latter does not include the call to is_excluded()
means that it is susceptible to to messing up negated patterns (since
that is the only significant thing is_excluded() adds over
last_matching_pattern()).  Unfortunately, we can't make it just call
is_excluded(), because the same codepath is used by the verbose mode
which needs to know the matched pattern in question.  This brings us
to...

=== Second (verbose) mode ===

The second mode, known as verbose mode, references the first in the
documentation and says:

    Also output details about the matching pattern (if any) for each
    given pathname. For precedence rules within and between exclude
    sources, see gitignore(5).

The "Also" means it will print patterns that match the exclude rules as
noted for the first mode, and also print which pattern matches.  Unless
more information is printed than just pathname and pattern (which is not
done), this definition is somewhat ill-defined and perhaps even
self-contradictory for negated patterns: A path which matches a negated
exclude pattern is NOT excluded and thus shouldn't be printed by the
former logic, while it certainly does match one of the explicit patterns
and thus should be printed by the latter logic.

=== Resolution ==

Since the second mode exists to find out which pattern matches given
paths, and showing the user a pattern that begins with a '!' is
sufficient for them to figure out whether the pattern is excluded, the
existing behavior is desirable -- we just need to update the
documentation to match the implementation (i.e. it is about printing
which pattern is matched by paths, not about showing which paths are
excluded).

For the first or default mode, users just want to know whether a pattern
is excluded.  As such, the existing documentation is desirable; change
the implementation to match the documented behavior.

Finally, also adjust a few tests in t0008 that were caught up by this
discrepancy in how negated paths were handled.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-18 15:28:58 -08:00
Derrick Stolee
65edd96aec treewide: rename 'exclude' methods to 'pattern'
The first consumer of pattern-matching filenames was the
.gitignore feature. In that context, storing a list of patterns
as a 'struct exclude_list'  makes sense. However, the
sparse-checkout feature then adopted these structures and methods,
but with the opposite meaning: these patterns match the files
that should be included!

It would be clearer to rename this entire library as a "pattern
matching" library, and the callers apply exclusion/inclusion
logic accordingly based on their needs.

This commit renames several methods defined in dir.h to make
more sense with the renamed 'struct exclude_list' to 'struct
pattern_list' and 'struct exclude' to 'struct path_pattern':

 * last_exclude_matching() -> last_matching_pattern()
 * parse_exclude() -> parse_path_pattern()

In addition, the word 'exclude' was replaced with 'pattern'
in the methods below:

 * add_exclude_list()
 * add_excludes_from_file_to_list()
 * add_excludes_from_file()
 * add_excludes_from_blob_to_list()
 * add_exclude()
 * clear_exclude_list()

A few methods with the word "exclude" remain. These will
be handled seperately. In particular, the method
"is_excluded()" is concretely about the .gitignore file
relative to a specific directory. This is the important
boundary between library and consumer: is_excluded() cares
about .gitignore, but is_excluded() calls
last_matching_pattern() to make that decision.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-09-05 14:05:12 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
4ff89ee52c treewide: rename 'EXCL_FLAG_' to 'PATTERN_FLAG_'
The first consumer of pattern-matching filenames was the
.gitignore feature. In that context, storing a list of patterns
as a 'struct exclude_list'  makes sense. However, the
sparse-checkout feature then adopted these structures and methods,
but with the opposite meaning: these patterns match the files
that should be included!

It would be clearer to rename this entire library as a "pattern
matching" library, and the callers apply exclusion/inclusion
logic accordingly based on their needs.

This commit replaces 'EXCL_FLAG_' to 'PATTERN_FLAG_' in the
names of the flags used on 'struct path_pattern'.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-09-05 14:05:12 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
caa3d55444 treewide: rename 'struct exclude_list' to 'struct pattern_list'
The first consumer of pattern-matching filenames was the
.gitignore feature. In that context, storing a list of patterns
as a 'struct exclude_list'  makes sense. However, the
sparse-checkout feature then adopted these structures and methods,
but with the opposite meaning: these patterns match the files
that should be included!

It would be clearer to rename this entire library as a "pattern
matching" library, and the callers apply exclusion/inclusion
logic accordingly based on their needs.

This commit renames 'struct exclude_list' to 'struct pattern_list'
and renames several variables called 'el' to 'pl'.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-09-05 14:05:11 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
ab8db61390 treewide: rename 'struct exclude' to 'struct path_pattern'
The first consumer of pattern-matching filenames was the
.gitignore feature. In that context, storing a list of patterns
as a list of 'struct exclude' items makes sense. However, the
sparse-checkout feature then adopted these structures and methods,
but with the opposite meaning: these patterns match the files
that should be included!

It would be clearer to rename this entire library as a "pattern
matching" library, and the callers apply exclusion/inclusion
logic accordingly based on their needs.

This commit renames 'struct exclude' to 'struct path_pattern'
and renames several variable names to match. 'struct pattern'
was already taken by attr.c, and this more completely describes
that the patterns are specific to file paths.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-09-05 14:05:11 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
f8adbec9fe cache.h: flip NO_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS switch
By default, index compat macros are off from now on, because they
could hide the_index dependency.

Only those in builtin can use it.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-24 11:55:06 -08:00
René Scharfe
d60771e930 check-ignore: fix mix of directories and other file types
In check_ignore(), the first pathspec item determines the dtype for any
subsequent ones.  That means that a pathspec matching a regular file can
prevent following pathspecs from matching directories, which makes no
sense.  Fix that by determining the dtype for each pathspec separately,
by passing the value DT_UNKNOWN to last_exclude_matching() each time.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-12 13:09:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f31d23a399 Merge branch 'bw/config-h'
Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir
that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API
into its own header file.

* bw/config-h:
  config: don't implicitly use gitdir or commondir
  config: respect commondir
  setup: teach discover_git_directory to respect the commondir
  config: don't include config.h by default
  config: remove git_config_iter
  config: create config.h
2017-06-24 14:28:41 -07:00
Brandon Williams
b2141fc1d2 config: don't include config.h by default
Stop including config.h by default in cache.h.  Instead only include
config.h in those files which require use of the config system.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-15 12:56:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3c5a78280f Merge branch 'bw/pathspec-sans-the-index'
Simplify parse_pathspec() codepath and stop it from looking at the
default in-core index.

* bw/pathspec-sans-the-index:
  pathspec: convert find_pathspecs_matching_against_index to take an index
  pathspec: remove PATHSPEC_STRIP_SUBMODULE_SLASH_CHEAP
  ls-files: prevent prune_cache from overeagerly pruning submodules
  pathspec: remove PATHSPEC_STRIP_SUBMODULE_SLASH_EXPENSIVE flag
  submodule: add die_in_unpopulated_submodule function
  pathspec: provide a more descriptive die message
2017-05-30 11:16:40 +09:00
Brandon Williams
08de9151a8 pathspec: convert find_pathspecs_matching_against_index to take an index
Convert find_pathspecs_matching_against_index to take an index
parameter.

In addition mark pathspec.c with NO_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS now
that it doesn't use any cache macros or reference 'the_index'.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-12 14:23:46 +09:00
Brandon Williams
c08397e3aa pathspec: remove PATHSPEC_STRIP_SUBMODULE_SLASH_EXPENSIVE flag
Since (ae8d08242 pathspec: pass directory indicator to
match_pathspec_item()) the path matching logic has been able to cope
with submodules without needing to strip off a trailing slash if a path
refers to a submodule.

Since the stripping the trailing slash is no longer necessary, remove
the PATHSPEC_STRIP_SUBMODULE_SLASH_EXPENSIVE flag.  In addition, factor
out the logic which dies if a path decends into a submodule so that it
can still be used as a check after a pathspec struct has been
initialized.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-12 14:23:46 +09:00
Brandon Williams
a0bba65b10 dir: convert is_excluded to take an index
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-06 19:15:39 +09:00
Jeff King
0d4cc1b45b give "nbuf" strbuf a more meaningful name
It's a common pattern in our code to read paths from stdin,
separated either by newlines or NULs, and unquote as
necessary. In each of these five cases we use "nbuf" to
temporarily store the unquoted value. Let's give it the more
meaningful name "unquoted", which makes it easier to
understand the purpose of the variable.

While we're at it, let's also static-initialize all of our
strbufs. It's not wrong to call strbuf_init, but it
increases the cognitive load on the reader, who might wonder
"do we sometimes avoid initializing them?  why?".

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-01 13:43:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dca90031fb check-ignore: there are only two possible line terminations
The program by default reads LF terminated lines, with an option to
use NUL terminated records.  Instead of pretending that there can be
other useful values for line_termination, use a boolean variable,
nul_term_line, to tell if NUL terminated records are used, and
switch between strbuf_getline_{lf,nul} based on it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-01-15 10:12:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
33e8fc8740 usage: do not insist that standard input must come from a file
The synopsys text and the usage string of subcommands that read list
of things from the standard input are often shown like this:

	git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes>

This is problematic in a number of ways:

 * The way to use these commands is more often to feed them the
   output from another command, not feed them from a file.

 * Manual pages outside Git, commands that operate on the data read
   from the standard input, e.g "sort", "grep", "sed", etc., are not
   described with such a "< redirection-from-file" in their synopsys
   text.  Our doing so introduces inconsistency.

 * We do not insist on where the output should go, by saying

	git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes> > <output>

 * As it is our convention to enclose placeholders inside <braket>,
   the redirection operator followed by a placeholder filename
   becomes very hard to read, both in the documentation and in the
   help text.

Let's clean them all up, after making sure that the documentation
clearly describes the modes that take information from the standard
input and what kind of things are expected on the input.

[jc: stole example for fmt-merge-msg from Jonathan]

Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-16 15:27:52 -07:00
Alex Henrie
9c9b4f2f8b standardize usage info string format
This patch puts the usage info strings that were not already in docopt-
like format into docopt-like format, which will be a litle easier for
end users and a lot easier for translators. Changes include:

- Placing angle brackets around fill-in-the-blank parameters
- Putting dashes in multiword parameter names
- Adding spaces to [-f|--foobar] to make [-f | --foobar]
- Replacing <foobar>* with [<foobar>...]

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-01-14 09:32:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
005a1de380 Merge branch 'dw/check-ignore-sans-index'
"git check-ignore" follows the same rule as "git add" and "git
status" in that the ignore/exclude mechanism does not take effect
on paths that are already tracked.  With "--no-index" option, it
can be used to diagnose which paths that should have been ignored
have been mistakenly added to the index.

* dw/check-ignore-sans-index:
  check-ignore: Add option to ignore index contents
2013-09-20 12:37:32 -07:00
Dave Williams
8231fa6ae1 check-ignore: Add option to ignore index contents
check-ignore currently shows how .gitignore rules would treat untracked
paths. Tracked paths do not generate useful output.  This prevents
debugging of why a path became tracked unexpectedly unless that path is
first removed from the index with `git rm --cached <path>`.

The option --no-index tells the command to bypass the check for the
path being in the index and hence allows tracked paths to be checked
too.

Whilst this behaviour deviates from the characteristics of `git add` and
`git status` its use case is unlikely to cause any user confusion.

Test scripts are augmented to check this option against the standard
ignores to ensure correct behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Dave Williams <dave@opensourcesolutions.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-12 15:40:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b02f5aeda6 Merge branch 'jl/submodule-mv'
"git mv A B" when moving a submodule A does "the right thing",
inclusing relocating its working tree and adjusting the paths in
the .gitmodules file.

* jl/submodule-mv: (53 commits)
  rm: delete .gitmodules entry of submodules removed from the work tree
  mv: update the path entry in .gitmodules for moved submodules
  submodule.c: add .gitmodules staging helper functions
  mv: move submodules using a gitfile
  mv: move submodules together with their work trees
  rm: do not set a variable twice without intermediate reading.
  t6131 - skip tests if on case-insensitive file system
  parse_pathspec: accept :(icase)path syntax
  pathspec: support :(glob) syntax
  pathspec: make --literal-pathspecs disable pathspec magic
  pathspec: support :(literal) syntax for noglob pathspec
  kill limit_pathspec_to_literal() as it's only used by parse_pathspec()
  parse_pathspec: preserve prefix length via PATHSPEC_PREFIX_ORIGIN
  parse_pathspec: make sure the prefix part is wildcard-free
  rename field "raw" to "_raw" in struct pathspec
  tree-diff: remove the use of pathspec's raw[] in follow-rename codepath
  remove match_pathspec() in favor of match_pathspec_depth()
  remove init_pathspec() in favor of parse_pathspec()
  remove diff_tree_{setup,release}_paths
  convert common_prefix() to use struct pathspec
  ...
2013-09-09 14:36:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a86a8b9752 Merge branch 'sb/parseopt-boolean-removal'
Convert most uses of OPT_BOOLEAN/OPTION_BOOLEAN that can use
OPT_BOOL/OPTION_BOOLEAN which have much saner semantics, and turn
remaining ones into OPT_SET_INT, OPT_COUNTUP, etc. as necessary.

* sb/parseopt-boolean-removal:
  revert: use the OPT_CMDMODE for parsing, reducing code
  checkout-index: fix negations of even numbers of -n
  config parsing options: allow one flag multiple times
  hash-object: replace stdin parsing OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_COUNTUP
  branch, commit, name-rev: ease up boolean conditions
  checkout: remove superfluous local variable
  log, format-patch: parsing uses OPT__QUIET
  Replace deprecated OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_BOOL
  Remove deprecated OPTION_BOOLEAN for parsing arguments
2013-09-04 12:39:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0db320d023 Merge branch 'jc/check-x-z'
"git check-ignore -z" applied the NUL termination to both its input
(with --stdin) and its output, but "git check-attr -z" ignored the
option on the output side.

This is potentially a backward incompatible fix.  Let's see if
anybody screams before deciding if we want to do anything to help
existing users (there may be none).

* jc/check-x-z:
  check-attr -z: a single -z should apply to both input and output
  check-ignore -z: a single -z should apply to both input and output
  check-attr: the name of the character is NUL, not NULL
  check-ignore: the name of the character is NUL, not NULL
2013-09-04 12:23:25 -07:00
Stefan Beller
d5d09d4754 Replace deprecated OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_BOOL
This task emerged from b04ba2bb (parse-options: deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN,
2011-09-27). All occurrences of the respective variables have
been reviewed and none of them relied on the counting up mechanism,
but all of them were using the variable as a true boolean.

This patch does not change semantics of any command intentionally.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05 11:32:19 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
84b8b5d1fa remove match_pathspec() in favor of match_pathspec_depth()
match_pathspec_depth was created to replace match_pathspec (see
61cf282 (pathspec: add match_pathspec_depth() - 2010-12-15). It took
more than two years, but the replacement finally happens :-)

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15 10:56:09 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
931eab64ad check-ignore: convert to use parse_pathspec
check-ignore (at least the test suite) seems to rely on the pattern
order. PATHSPEC_KEEP_ORDER is introduced to explictly express this.
The lack of PATHSPEC_MAXDEPTH_VALID is sufficient because it's the
only flag that reorders pathspecs, but it's less obvious that way.

Cc: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15 10:56:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d6dcb92a1d check-ignore -z: a single -z should apply to both input and output
Unless a command has separate --nul-terminated-{input,output}
options, the --nul-terminated-records (-z) option should apply
to both input and output for consistency.  The caller knows that its
input paths may need to be protected for LF, and the program shows
these problematic paths to its output.

The code already did the right thing.  Only the help text needs
fixing.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-11 23:07:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
800531a866 check-ignore: the name of the character is NUL, not NULL
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-11 23:07:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c51afbbd18 Merge branch 'as/check-ignore'
Enhance "check-ignore" (1.8.2 update) to work more like "check-attr"
over bidi-pipes.

* as/check-ignore:
  t0008: use named pipe (FIFO) to test check-ignore streaming
  Documentation: add caveats about I/O buffering for check-{attr,ignore}
  check-ignore: allow incremental streaming of queries via --stdin
  check-ignore: move setup into cmd_check_ignore()
  check-ignore: add -n / --non-matching option
  t0008: remove duplicated test fixture data
2013-05-29 14:23:40 -07:00
Karsten Blees
0aaf62b6e0 dir.c: git-status --ignored: don't scan the work tree twice
'git-status --ignored' still scans the work tree twice to collect
untracked and ignored files, respectively.

fill_directory / read_directory already supports collecting untracked and
ignored files in a single directory scan. However, the DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED
flag to enable this has some git-add specific side-effects (e.g. it
doesn't recurse into ignored directories, so listing ignored files with
--untracked=all doesn't work).

The DIR_SHOW_IGNORED flag doesn't list untracked files and returns ignored
files in dir_struct.entries[] (instead of dir_struct.ignored[] as
DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED). DIR_SHOW_IGNORED is used all throughout git.

We don't want to break the existing API, so lets introduce a new flag
DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO that lists untracked as well as ignored files similar
to DIR_COLLECT_FILES, but will recurse into sub-directories based on the
other flags as DIR_SHOW_IGNORED does.

In dir.c::read_directory_recursive, add ignored files to either
dir_struct.entries[] or dir_struct.ignored[] based on the flags. Also move
the DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED case here so that filling result lists is in a
common place.

In wt-status.c::wt_status_collect_untracked, use the new flag and read
results from dir_struct.ignored[]. Remove the extra fill_directory call.

builtin/check-ignore.c doesn't call fill_directory, setting the git-add
specific DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED flag has no effect here. Remove for clarity.

Update API documentation to reflect the changes.

Performance: with this patch, 'git-status --ignored' is typically as fast
as 'git-status'.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 12:36:42 -07:00
Karsten Blees
b07bc8c8c3 dir.c: replace is_path_excluded with now equivalent is_excluded API
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 12:34:01 -07:00
Adam Spiers
0c8e8c080b check-ignore: allow incremental streaming of queries via --stdin
Some callers, such as the git-annex web assistant, find it useful to
invoke git check-ignore as a persistent background process, which can
then have queries fed to its STDIN at any point, and the corresponding
response consumed from its STDOUT.  For this we need to invoke
check_ignore() once per line of standard input, and flush standard
output after each result.

The above use case suggests that empty STDIN is actually a reasonable
scenario (e.g. when the caller doesn't know in advance whether any
queries need to be fed to the background process until after it's
already started), so we make the minor behavioural change that "no
pathspec given." is no longer emitted in when STDIN is empty.

Even though check_ignore() could now be changed to operate on a single
pathspec, we keep it operating on an array of pathspecs since that is
a more convenient way of consuming the existing pathspec API.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-11 11:01:59 -07:00
Adam Spiers
0006d85c3a check-ignore: move setup into cmd_check_ignore()
Initialisation of the dir_struct and path_exclude_check structs was
previously done within check_ignore().  This was acceptable since
check_ignore() was only called once per check-ignore invocation;
however the next commit will convert it into an inner loop which is
called once per line of STDIN when --stdin is given.  Therefore moving
the initialisation code out into cmd_check_ignore() ensures that
initialisation is still only performed once per check-ignore
invocation, and consequently that the output is identical whether
pathspecs are provided as CLI arguments or via STDIN.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-11 11:01:58 -07:00
Adam Spiers
ae3caf4c91 check-ignore: add -n / --non-matching option
If `-n` or `--non-matching` are specified, non-matching pathnames will
also be output, in which case all fields in each output record except
for <pathname> will be empty.  This can be useful when running
check-ignore as a background process, so that files can be
incrementally streamed to STDIN, and for each of these files, STDOUT
will indicate whether that file matched a pattern or not.  (Without
this option, it would be impossible to tell whether the absence of
output for a given file meant that it didn't match any pattern, or
that the result simply hadn't been flushed to STDOUT yet.)

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-11 11:01:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c19387e799 name-hash: allow hashing an empty string
Usually we do not pass an empty string to the function hash_name()
because we almost always ask for hash values for a path that is a
candidate to be added to the index. However, check-ignore (and most
likely check-attr, but I didn't check) apparently has a callchain
to ask the hash value for an empty path when it was given a "." from
the top-level directory to ask "Is the path . excluded by default?"

Make sure that hash_name() does not overrun the end of the given
pathname even when it is empty.

Remove a sweep-the-issue-under-the-rug conditional in check-ignore
that avoided to pass an empty string to the callchain while at it.
It is a valid question to ask for check-ignore if the top-level is
set to be ignored by default, even though the answer is most likely
no, if only because there is currently no way to specify such an
entry in the .gitignore file. But it is an unusual thing to ask and
it is not worth optimizing for it by special casing at the top level
of the call chain.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19 14:00:12 -08:00
Adam Spiers
368aa52952 add git-check-ignore sub-command
This works in a similar manner to git-check-attr.

Thanks to Jeff King and Junio C Hamano for the idea:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/108671/focus=108815

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-06 14:26:38 -08:00