Originally, "git add -N" was introduced to help users from forgetting to
add new files to the index before they ran "git commit -a". As an attempt
to help them further so that they do not forget to say "-a", "git commit"
to commit the index as-is was taught to error out, reminding the user that
they may have forgotten to add the final contents of the paths before
running the command.
This turned out to be a false "safety" that is useless. If the user made
changes to already tracked paths and paths added with "git add -N", and
then ran "git add" to register the final contents of the paths added with
"git add -N", "git commit" will happily create a commit out of the index,
without including the local changes made to the already tracked paths. It
was not a useful "safety" measure to prevent "forgetful" mistakes from
happening.
It turns out that this behaviour is not just a useless false "safety", but
actively hurts use cases of "git add -N" that were discovered later and
have become popular, namely, to tell Git to be aware of these paths added
by "git add -N", so that commands like "git status" and "git diff" would
include them in their output, even though the user is not interested in
including them in the next commit they are going to make.
Fix this ancient UI mistake, and instead make a commit from the index
ignoring the paths added by "git add -N" without adding real contents.
Based on the work by Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, and helped by injection of
sanity from Jonathan Nieder and others on the Git mailing list.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We'll need to safely create or update the cache-tree data of the_index
from other places. While at it, give it an argument that lets us
silence the messages produced by unmerged entries (which prevent it
from working).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Noticed by valgrind during test t0000.35 “writing this tree without
--missing-ok”.
Even in the cherry-pick foo..bar code path, such an error is the
end of the line. But maybe some day an interactive porcelain will
want to link to libgit, making this matter.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Not that anybody should ever get it, but somebody did (probably because
of a flaky filesystem, but whatever). And each time I see an error
message that I haven't seen before, I decide that next time it will look
better.
So this makes us write more relevant information about exactly which
file ended up having issues with a missing object. Which will tell
whether it was a tree object, for example, or just a regular file in the
index (and which one).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running "diff-index --cached" after making a change to only a small
portion of the index, there is no point unpacking unchanged subtrees into
the index recursively, only to find that all entries match anyway. Tweak
unpack_trees() logic that is used to read in the tree object to catch the
case where the tree entry we are looking at matches the index as a whole
by looking at the cache-tree.
As an exercise, after modifying a few paths in the kernel tree, here are
a few numbers on my Athlon 64X2 3800+:
(without patch, hot cache)
$ /usr/bin/time git diff --cached --raw
:100644 100644 b57e1f5... e69de29... M Makefile
:100644 000000 8c86b72... 0000000... D arch/x86/Makefile
:000000 100644 0000000... e69de29... A arche
0.07user 0.02system 0:00.09elapsed 102%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+9407minor)pagefaults 0swaps
(with patch, hot cache)
$ /usr/bin/time ../git.git/git-diff --cached --raw
:100644 100644 b57e1f5... e69de29... M Makefile
:100644 000000 8c86b72... 0000000... D arch/x86/Makefile
:000000 100644 0000000... e69de29... A arche
0.02user 0.00system 0:00.02elapsed 103%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+2446minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Cold cache numbers are very impressive, but it does not matter very much
in practice:
(without patch, cold cache)
$ su root sh -c 'echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
$ /usr/bin/time git diff --cached --raw
:100644 100644 b57e1f5... e69de29... M Makefile
:100644 000000 8c86b72... 0000000... D arch/x86/Makefile
:000000 100644 0000000... e69de29... A arche
0.06user 0.17system 0:10.26elapsed 2%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
247032inputs+0outputs (1172major+8237minor)pagefaults 0swaps
(with patch, cold cache)
$ su root sh -c 'echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
$ /usr/bin/time ../git.git/git-diff --cached --raw
:100644 100644 b57e1f5... e69de29... M Makefile
:100644 000000 8c86b72... 0000000... D arch/x86/Makefile
:000000 100644 0000000... e69de29... A arche
0.02user 0.01system 0:01.01elapsed 3%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
18440inputs+0outputs (79major+2369minor)pagefaults 0swaps
This of course helps "git status" as well.
(without patch, hot cache)
$ /usr/bin/time ../git.git/git-status >/dev/null
0.17user 0.18system 0:00.35elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+5336outputs (0major+10970minor)pagefaults 0swaps
(with patch, hot cache)
$ /usr/bin/time ../git.git/git-status >/dev/null
0.10user 0.16system 0:00.27elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+5336outputs (0major+3921minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier cache_tree_find() needs to be called with a valid cache_tree,
but repeated look-up may find an invalid or missing cache_tree in between.
Help simplify the callers by returning NULL to mean "nothing appropriate
found" when the input is NULL.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows you to discard the cache-tree information before writing the
tree out of the index (i.e. it always recomputes the tree object names for
all the subtrees).
This is only useful as a debug option, so I did not bother documenting it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Writing a tree out of an index with an "intent to add" entry is blocked.
This implies that you cannot "git commit" from such a state; however you
can still do "git commit -a" or "git commit $that_path".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tomasz Fortuna reported that "git commit" does not error out properly when
it cannot write tree objects out. "git write-tree" shares the same issue,
as the failure to notice the error is deep in the logic to write tree
objects out recursively.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The original "rewrite in C" did somewhat a sloppy job while
stealing code from git-write-tree.
The caller pretends as if the write_tree() function would return
an error code and being able to issue a sensible error message
itself, but write_tree() function just calls die() and never
returns an error. Worse yet, the function claims that it was
running git-write-tree (which is no longer true after
cherry-pick stole it).
Tested-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This converts the index explicitly on read and write to its on-disk
format, allowing the in-core format to contain more flags, and be
simpler.
In particular, the in-core format is now host-endian (as opposed to the
on-disk one that is network endian in order to be able to be shared
across machines) and as a result we can dispense with all the
htonl/ntohl on accesses to the cache_entry fields.
This will make it easier to make use of various temporary flags that do
not exist in the on-disk format.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This function cannot fail, make it void. Also make write_one act on a
const char* instead of a char*.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Add strbuf_rtrim to remove trailing spaces.
* Add strbuf_insert to insert data at a given position.
* Off-by one fix in strbuf_addf: strbuf_avail() does not counts the final
\0 so the overflow test for snprintf is the strict comparison. This is
not critical as the growth mechanism chosen will always allocate _more_
memory than asked, so the second test will not fail. It's some kind of
miracle though.
* Add size extension hints for strbuf_init and strbuf_read. If 0, default
applies, else:
+ initial buffer has the given size for strbuf_init.
+ first growth checks it has at least this size rather than the
default 8192.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino noticed the one in tree-walk.h where
we cast away constness while computing the legnth of a tree
entry.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This teaches the really fundamental core SHA1 object handling routines
about gitlinks. We can compare trees with gitlinks in them (although we
can not actually generate patches for them yet - just raw git diffs),
and they show up as commits in "git ls-tree".
We also know to compare gitlinks as if they were directories (ie the
normal "sort as trees" rules apply).
[jc: amended a cut&paste error]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If git-write-index is called without --missing-ok, it reports invalid
objects that it finds in the index. But without this patch it dies
right away or may run into an infinite loop.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Most callers of write_sha1_file_prepare() are only interested in the
resulting hash but don't care about the returned file name or the header.
This patch adds a simple wrapper named hash_sha1_file() which does just
that, and converts potential callers.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This abstracts away the size of the hash values when copying them
from memory location to memory location, much as the introduction
of hashcmp abstracted away hash value comparsion.
A few call sites were using char* rather than unsigned char* so
I added the cast rather than open hashcpy to be void*. This is a
reasonable tradeoff as most call sites already use unsigned char*
and the existing hashcmp is also declared to be unsigned char*.
[jc: Splitted the patch to "master" part, to be followed by a
patch for merge-recursive.c which is not in "master" yet.
Fixed the cast in the latter hunk to combine-diff.c which was
wrong in the original.
Also converted ones left-over in combine-diff.c, diff-lib.c and
upload-pack.c ]
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The "bind" commit can express an aggregation of multiple
projects into a single commit.
In such an organization, there would be one project, root of
whose tree object is at the same level of the root of the
aggregated projects, and other projects have their toplevel in
separate subdirectories. Let's call that root level project the
"primary project", and call other ones just "subprojects".
You would first read-tree the primary project, and then graft
the subprojects under their appropriate location using read-tree
--prefix=<subdir>/ repeatedly.
To write out a tree object from such an index for a subproject,
write-tree --prefix=<subdir>/ is used.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
On one of my systems, sscanf() first calls strlen() on the buffer. But
this buffer is not terminated by NUL. So git crashed.
strtol() does not share that problem, as it stops reading after the
first non-digit.
[jc: original patch was wrong and did not read the cache-tree
structure correctly; this has been fixed up and tested minimally
with fsck-objects. ]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When the extra "dryrun" parameter is true, cache_tree_update()
recomputes the invalid entry but does not actually creates
new tree object.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This teaches read-tree to fully populate valid cache-tree when
reading a tree from scratch, or reading a single tree into an
existing index, reusing only the cached stat information (i.e.
one-way merge). We have already taught update-index about cache-tree,
so "git checkout" followed by updates to a few path followed by
a "git commit" would become very efficient.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Not that this makes practical performance difference; the kernel tree
for example has 200 or so directories that have subdirectory, and the
largest ones have 57 of them (fs and drivers). With a test to apply
600 patches with git-apply and git-write-tree, this did not make more
than one per-cent of a difference, but it is a good cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We reused the cache-tree data without verifying the tree object
still exists. Recompute in cache_tree_update() an otherwise
valid cache-tree entry when the tree object disappeared.
This is not usually a problem, but theoretically without this
fix things can break when the user does something like this:
- read-index from a side branch
- write-tree the result
- remove the side branch with "git branch -D"
- remove the unreachable objects with "git prune"
- write-tree what is in the index.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The cache_tree data structure is to cache tree object names that
would result from the current index file.
The idea is to have an optional file to record each tree object
name that corresponds to a directory path in the cache when we
run write_cache(), and read it back when we run read_cache().
During various index manupulations, we selectively invalidate
the parts so that the next write-tree can bypass regenerating
tree objects for unchanged parts of the directory hierarchy.
We could perhaps make the cache-tree data an optional part of
the index file, but that would involve the index format updates,
so unless we need it for performance reasons, the current plan
is to use a separate file, $GIT_DIR/index.aux to store this
information and link it with the index file with the checksum
that is already used for index file integrity check.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
