Some file systems that can host git repositories and their working copies
do not support symbolic links. But then if the repository contains a symbolic
link, it is impossible to check out the working copy.
This patch enables partial support of symbolic links so that it is possible
to check out a working copy on such a file system. A new flag
core.symlinks (which is true by default) can be set to false to indicate
that the filesystem does not support symbolic links. In this case, symbolic
links that exist in the trees are checked out as small plain files, and
checking in modifications of these files preserve the symlink property in
the database (as long as an entry exists in the index).
Of course, this does not magically make symbolic links work on such defective
file systems; hence, this solution does not help if the working copy relies
on that an entry is a real symbolic link.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'jc/status' (early part):
run_diff_{files,index}(): update calling convention.
update-index: do not die too early in a read-only repository.
git-status: do not be totally useless in a read-only repository.
This is to resolve semantic conflict (which is not textual) that
changes the calling convention of run_diff_files() early.
This delays the error exit from hold_lock_file_for_update() in
update-index, so that "update-index --refresh" in a read-only
repository can still report what paths are stat-dirty before
exiting.
Also it makes -q to squelch the error message.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When we do not trust executable bit from lstat(2), we copied
existing ce_mode bits without checking if the filesystem object
is a regular file (which is the only thing we apply the "trust
executable bit" business) nor if the blob in the index is a
regular file (otherwise, we should do the same as registering a
new regular file, which is to default non-executable).
Noticed by Johannes Sixt.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In particular, it fixes the following (typical for cygwin) problem:
$ git-update-index --chmod=-x ../wrapper/Jamfile
fatal: git-update-index: cannot chmod -x '../wrapper/Jamfile'
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
An earlier commit f28b34a broke symlinks when trust-executable-bit
is not set because it incorrectly assumed that everything was a
regular file.
Reported by Juergen Ruehle.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* master: (72 commits)
runstatus: do not recurse into subdirectories if not needed
grep: fix --fixed-strings combined with expression.
grep: free expressions and patterns when done.
Corrected copy-and-paste thinko in ignore executable bit test case.
An illustration of rev-list --parents --pretty=raw
Allow git-checkout when on a non-existant branch.
gitweb: Decode long title for link tooltips
git-svn: Fix fetch --no-ignore-externals with GIT_SVN_NO_LIB=1
Ignore executable bit when adding files if filemode=0.
Remove empty ref directories that prevent creating a ref.
Use const for interpolate arguments
git-archive: update documentation
Deprecate merge-recursive.py
gitweb: fix over-eager application of esc_html().
Allow '(no author)' in git-svn's authors file.
Allow 'svn fetch' on '(no date)' revisions in Subversion.
git-repack: allow git-repack to run in subdirectory
Remove upload-tar and make git-tar-tree a thin wrapper to git-archive
git-tar-tree: Move code for git-archive --format=tar to archive-tar.c
git-tar-tree: Remove duplicate git_config() call
...
If the user has configured core.filemode=0 then we shouldn't set
the execute bit in the index when adding a new file as the user
has indicated that the local filesystem can't be trusted.
This means that when adding files that should be marked executable
in a repository with core.filemode=0 the user must perform a
'git update-index --chmod=+x' on the file before committing the
addition.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It called read_ref(git_path(..)..), where read_ref does the git_path()
stuff itself.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I often find myself typing this but the common abbreviation "g" for
"again" has not been supported so far for some unknown reason.
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>
Introduces global inline:
hashcmp(const unsigned char *sha1, const unsigned char *sha2)
Uses memcmp for comparison and returns the result based on the length of
the hash name (a future runtime decision).
Acked-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[jc: I needed to hand merge the changes to the updated codebase,
so the result needs to be checked.]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Most of the callers except the one in refs.c use the function to
update the index file. Among the index writers, everybody
except write-tree dies if they cannot open it for writing.
This gives the function an extra argument, to tell it to die
when it cannot create a new file as the lockfile.
The only caller that does not have to die is write-tree, because
updating the index for the cache-tree part is optional and not
being able to do so does not affect the correctness. I think we
do not have to be so careful and make the failure into die() the
same way as other callers, but that would be a different patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This changes the calling convention of built-in commands and
passes the "prefix" (i.e. pathname of $PWD relative to the
project root level) down to them.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
hold_lock_file_for_update() relies on that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
