Our in-tree builds used by the Makefile use various different build
directories scattered around different locations. The paths to those
build directories have to be propagated to our tests such that they can
find the contained files. This is done via a mixture of hardcoded paths
in our test library and injected variables in our bin-wrappers or
"GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS".
The latter two mechanisms are preferable over using hardcoded paths. For
one, we have all paths which are subject to change stored in a small set
of central files instead of having the knowledge of build paths in many
files. And second, it allows build systems which build files elsewhere
to adapt those paths based on their own needs. This is especially nice
in the context of build systems that use out-of-tree builds like CMake
or Meson.
Remove hardcoded knowledge of build paths from our test library and move
it into our bin-wrappers and "GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS".
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We include the list of available mergetools into our manpages. Extract
the script that performs this logic such that we can reuse it in other
build systems.
While at it, refactor the Makefile targets such that we don't create
"mergetools-list.made" anymore. It shouldn't be necessary, as we can
instead have other targets depend on "mergetools-{diff,merge}.txt"
directly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "cmd-list.perl" script generates a list of commands that can be
included into our manpages. The script doesn't know about out-of-tree
builds and instead writes resulting files into the source directory.
Adapt it such that we can read data from the source directory and write
data into the build directory.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our documentation uses "include::" directives to include parts that are
either reused across multiple documents or parts that we generate at
build time. Unfortunately, top-level includes are only ever resolved
relative to the base directory, which is typically the directory of the
including document. Most importantly, it is not possible to have either
asciidoc or asciidoctor search multiple directories.
It follows that both kinds of includes must live in the same directory.
This is of course a bummer for out-of-tree builds, because here the
dynamically-built includes live in the build directory whereas the
static includes live in the source directory.
Introduce a `build_dir` attribute and prepend it to all of our includes
for dynamically-built files. This attribute gets set to the build
directory and thus converts the include path to an absolute path, which
asciidoc and asciidoctor know how to resolve.
Note that this change also requires us to update "build-docdep.perl",
which tries to figure out included files such our Makefile can set up
proper build-time dependencies. This script simply scans through the
source files for any lines that match "^include::" and treats the
remainder of the line as included file path. But given that those may
now contain the "{build_dir}" variable we have to teach the script to
replace that attribute with the actual build directory.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we install Git we also install a set of default templates that both
git-init(1) and git-clone(1) populate into our build directories. The
way the pristine templates are laid out in our source directory is
somewhat weird though: instead of reconstructing the actual directory
hierarchy in "templates/", we represent directory separators with "--".
The only reason I could come up with for why we have this is the
"branches/" directory, which is supposed to be empty when installing it.
And as Git famously doesn't store empty directories at all we have to
work around this limitation.
Now the thing is that the "branches/" directory is a leftover to how
branches used to be stored in the dark ages. gitrepository-layout(5)
lists this directory as "slightly deprecated", which I would claim is a
strong understatement. I have never encountered anybody using it today
and would be surprised if it even works as expected. So having the "--"
hack in place for an item that is basically unused, unmaintained and
deprecated doesn't only feel unreasonable, but installing that entry by
default may also cause confusion for users that do not know what this is
supposed to be in the first place.
Remove this directory from our templates and, now that we do not require
the workaround anymore, restructure the templates to form a proper
hierarchy. This makes it way easier for build systems to install these
templates into place.
We should likely think about removing support for "branch/" altogether,
but that is outside of the scope of this patch series.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Write the absolute program path into our bin-wrappers. This allows us to
simplify the Meson build instructions we are about to introduce a bit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "bin-wrappers/" directory gets created by our build system and is
populated with one script for each of our binaries. There isn't anything
inherently wrong with the current layout, but it is somewhat hard to
adapt for out-of-tree build systems.
Adapt the layout such that our "bin-wrappers/" directory always exists
and contains our "wrap-for-bin.sh" script to make things a little bit
easier for subsequent steps.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have multiple scripts that generate headers from other data. All of
these scripts have the assumption built-in that they are executed in the
current source directory, which makes them a bit unwieldy to use during
out-of-tree builds.
Refactor them to instead take the source directory as well as the output
file as arguments.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to the preceding commit, also extract the script to generate the
"gitweb.js" file. While the logic itself is trivial, it helps us avoid
duplication of logic across build systems and ensures that the build
systems will remain in sync with each other in case the logic ever needs
to change.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to generate "gitweb.cgi" we have to replace various different
placeholders. This is done ad-hoc and is thus not easily reusable across
different build systems.
Introduce a new GITWEB-BUILD-OPTIONS.in template that we populate at
configuration time with the expected options. This script is then used
as input for a new "generate-gitweb.sh" script that generates the final
"gitweb.cgi" file. While this requires us to repeat the options multiple
times, it is in line to how we generate other build options like our
GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS file.
While at it, refactor how we replace the GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH. Even
though this variable is supposed to be an integer, the source file has
the value quoted. The quotes are eventually stripped via sed(1), which
replaces `"@GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH@"` with the actual value, which is
rather nonsensical. This is made clearer by just dropping the quotes in
the source file.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extract a script that massages Python scripts. This provides a couple of
benefits:
- The build logic is deduplicated across Make, CMake and Meson.
- CMake learns to rewrite scripts as-needed at build time instead of
only writing them at configure time.
Furthermore, we will use this script when introducing Meson to
deduplicate the logic across build systems.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Same as in the preceding commits, extract a script that allows us to
unify how we massage shell scripts.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extend "generate-perl.sh" such that it knows to also massage the Perl
library files. There are two major differences:
- We do not read in the Perl header. This is handled by matching on
whether or not we have a Perl shebang.
- We substitute some more variables, which we read in via our
GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS.
Adapt both our Makefile and the CMake build instructions to use this.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extract the script to inject various build-time parameters into our Perl
scripts into a standalone script. This is done such that we can reuse it
in other build systems.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When injecting the Perl path into our scripts we sometimes use '@PERL@'
while we othertimes use '@PERL_PATH@'. Refactor the code use the latter
consistently, which makes it easier to reuse the same logic for multiple
scripts.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation we generate embeds information for the exact Git
version used as well as the date of the commit. This information is
injected by injecting attributes into the build process via command line
argument.
Refactor the logic so that we write the information into "asciidoc.conf"
and "asciidoctor-extensions.rb" via `GIT-VERSION-GEN` for AsciiDoc and
AsciiDoctor, respectively.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "git.rc" is used on Windows to embed information like the project
name and version into the resulting executables. As such we need to
inject the version information, which we do by using preprocessor
defines. The logic to do so is non-trivial and needs to be kept in sync
with the different build systems.
Refactor the logic so that we generate "git.rc" via `GIT-VERSION-GEN`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We set up a couple of preprocessor macros when compiling Git that
propagate the version that Git was built from to `git version` et al.
The way this is set up makes it harder than necessary to reuse the
infrastructure across the different build systems.
Refactor this such that we generate a "version-def.h" header via
`GIT-VERSION-GEN` instead.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our "GIT-VERSION-GEN" script always writes the "GIT-VERSION-FILE" into
the current directory, where the expectation is that it should exist in
the source directory. But other build systems that support out-of-tree
builds may not want to do that to keep the source directory pristine,
even though CMake currently doesn't care.
Refactor the script such that it won't write the "GIT-VERSION-FILE"
directly anymore, but instead knows to replace @PLACEHOLDERS@ in an
arbitrary input file. This allows us to simplify the logic in CMake to
determine the project version, but can also be reused later on in order
to generate other files that need to contain version information like
our "git.rc" file.
While at it, change the format of the version file by removing the
spaces around the equals sign. Like this we can continue to include the
file in our Makefiles, but can also start to source it in shell scripts
in subsequent steps.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have a bunch of placeholders in our scripts that we replace at build
time, for example by using sed(1). These placeholders come in three
different formats: @PLACEHOLDER@, @@PLACEHOLDER@@ and ++PLACEHOLDER++.
Next to being inconsistent it also creates a bit of a problem with
CMake, which only supports the first syntax in its `configure_file()`
function. To work around that we instead manually replace placeholders
via string operations, which is a hassle and removes safeguards that
CMake has to verify that we didn't forget to replace any placeholders.
Besides that, other build systems like Meson also support the CMake
syntax.
Unify our codebase to consistently use the syntax supported by such
build systems.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS" file is generated by our build systems to
propagate built-in features and paths to our tests. The generation is
done ad-hoc, where both our Makefile and the CMake build instructions
simply echo a bunch of strings into the file. This makes it very hard to
figure out what variables are expected to exist and what format they
have, and the written variables can easily get out of sync between build
systems.
Introduce a new "GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS.in" template to address this issue.
This has multiple advantages:
- It demonstrates which built options exist in the first place.
- It can serve as a spot to document the build options.
- Some build systems complain when not all variables could be
substituted, alerting us of mismatches. Others don't, but if we
forgot to substitute such variables we now have a bogus string that
will likely cause our tests to fail, if they have any meaning in the
first place.
Backfill values that we didn't yet set in our CMake build instructions.
While at it, remove the `SUPPORTS_SIMPLE_IPC` variable that we only set
up in CMake as it isn't used anywhere.
This change requires us to adapt the setup of TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY in
"test-lib.sh" such that it does not get overwritten after sourcing when
it has been set up via the environment. This is the only instance I
could find where we rely on ordering on variables.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A double-free that may not trigger in practice by luck has been
corrected in the reference resolution code.
* sj/refs-symref-referent-fix:
ref-cache: fix invalid free operation in `free_ref_entry`
Documentation mark-up updates.
* ja/git-diff-doc-markup:
doc: git-diff: apply format changes to config part
doc: git-diff: apply format changes to diff-generate-patch
doc: git-diff: apply format changes to diff-format
doc: git-diff: apply format changes to diff-options
doc: git-diff: apply new documentation guidelines
Drop support for older libcURL and Perl.
* bc/drop-ancient-libcurl-and-perl:
gitweb: make use of s///r
Require Perl 5.26.0
INSTALL: document requirement for libcurl 7.61.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.56.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.53.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.52.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.44.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.43.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.39.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.34.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.25.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.21.5
Built-in Git subcommands are supplied the repository object to work
with; they learned to do the same when they invoke sub-subcommands.
* kn/pass-repo-to-builtin-sub-sub-commands:
builtin: pass repository to sub commands
Work around Coverity warning that would not trigger in practice.
* ps/bisect-double-free-fix:
bisect: address Coverity warning about potential double free
"git fsck" learned to issue warnings on "curiously formatted" ref
contents that have always been taken valid but something Git
wouldn't have written itself (e.g., missing terminating end-of-line
after the full object name).
* sj/ref-contents-check:
ref: add symlink ref content check for files backend
ref: check whether the target of the symref is a ref
ref: add basic symref content check for files backend
ref: add more strict checks for regular refs
ref: port git-fsck(1) regular refs check for files backend
ref: support multiple worktrees check for refs
ref: initialize ref name outside of check functions
ref: check the full refname instead of basename
ref: initialize "fsck_ref_report" with zero
The migration procedure between two ref backends has been optimized.
* ps/ref-backend-migration-optim:
reftable: rename scratch buffer
refs: adapt `initial_transaction` flag to be unsigned
reftable/block: optimize allocations by using scratch buffer
reftable/block: rename `block_writer::buf` variable
reftable/writer: optimize allocations by using a scratch buffer
refs: don't normalize log messages with `REF_SKIP_CREATE_REFLOG`
refs: skip collision checks in initial transactions
refs: use "initial" transaction semantics to migrate refs
refs/files: support symbolic and root refs in initial transaction
refs: introduce "initial" transaction flag
refs/files: move logic to commit initial transaction
refs: allow passing flags when setting up a transaction
Leakfixes.
* ps/leakfixes-part-10: (27 commits)
t: remove TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK annotations
test-lib: unconditionally enable leak checking
t: remove unneeded !SANITIZE_LEAK prerequisites
t: mark some tests as leak free
t5601: work around leak sanitizer issue
git-compat-util: drop now-unused `UNLEAK()` macro
global: drop `UNLEAK()` annotation
t/helper: fix leaking commit graph in "read-graph" subcommand
builtin/branch: fix leaking sorting options
builtin/init-db: fix leaking directory paths
builtin/help: fix leaks in `check_git_cmd()`
help: fix leaking return value from `help_unknown_cmd()`
help: fix leaking `struct cmdnames`
help: refactor to not use globals for reading config
builtin/sparse-checkout: fix leaking sanitized patterns
split-index: fix memory leak in `move_cache_to_base_index()`
git: refactor builtin handling to use a `struct strvec`
git: refactor alias handling to use a `struct strvec`
strvec: introduce new `strvec_splice()` function
line-log: fix leak when rewriting commit parents
...
Give a bit of advice/hint message when "git maintenance" stops finding a
lock file left by another instance that still is potentially running.
* ps/gc-stale-lock-warning:
t7900: fix host-dependent behaviour when testing git-maintenance(1)
builtin/gc: provide hint when maintenance hits a stale schedule lock
The ref-transaction hook triggered for reflog updates, which has
been corrected.
* kn/ref-transaction-hook-with-reflog:
refs: don't invoke reference-transaction hook for reflogs
We now ensure "index-pack" is used with the "--promisor" option
only during a "git fetch".
* jt/index-pack-allow-promisor-only-while-fetching:
index-pack: teach --promisor to forbid pack name
"git fast-import" can be tricked into a replace ref that maps an
object to itself, which is a useless thing to do.
* en/fast-import-avoid-self-replace:
fast-import: avoid making replace refs point to themselves
GCC 15 compatibility updates.
* jk/gcc15:
object-file: inline empty tree and blob literals
object-file: treat cached_object values as const
object-file: drop oid field from find_cached_object() return value
object-file: move empty_tree struct into find_cached_object()
object-file: drop confusing oid initializer of empty_tree struct
object-file: prefer array-of-bytes initializer for hash literals
Fix for clar unit tests to support CMake build.
* ps/clar-build-improvement:
Makefile: let clar header targets depend on their scripts
cmake: use verbatim arguments when invoking clar commands
cmake: use SH_EXE to execute clar scripts
t/unit-tests: convert "clar-generate.awk" into a shell script
Documentation for "git bundle" saw improvements to more prominently
call out the use of '--all' when creating bundles.
* kh/bundle-docs:
Documentation/git-bundle.txt: discuss naïve backups
Documentation/git-bundle.txt: mention --all in spec. refs
Documentation/git-bundle.txt: remove old `--all` example
Documentation/git-bundle.txt: mention full backup example
In cfd971520e (refs: keep track of unresolved reference value in
iterators, 2024-08-09), we added a new field "referent" into the "struct
ref" structure. In order to free the "referent", we unconditionally
freed the "referent" by simply adding a "free" statement.
However, this is a bad usage. Because when ref entry is either directory
or loose ref, we will always execute the following statement:
free(entry->u.value.referent);
This does not make sense. We should never access the "entry->u.value"
field when "entry" is a directory. However, the change obviously doesn't
break the tests. Let's analysis why.
The anonymous union in the "ref_entry" has two members: one is "struct
ref_value", another is "struct ref_dir". On a 64-bit machine, the size
of "struct ref_dir" is 32 bytes, which is smaller than the 48-byte size
of "struct ref_value". And the offset of "referent" field in "struct
ref_value" is 40 bytes. So, whenever we create a new "ref_entry" for a
directory, we will leave the offset from 40 bytes to 48 bytes untouched,
which means the value for this memory is zero (NULL). It's OK to free a
NULL pointer, but this is merely a coincidence of memory layout.
To fix this issue, we now ensure that "free(entry->u.value.referent)" is
only called when "entry->flag" indicates that it represents a loose
reference and not a directory to avoid the invalid memory operation.
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 9b1cb5070f (builtin: add a repository parameter for builtin
functions, 2024-09-13) the repository was passed down to all builtin
commands. This allowed the repository to be passed down to lower layers
without depending on the global `the_repository` variable.
Continue this work by also passing down the repository parameter from
the command to sub-commands. This will help pass down the repository to
other subsystems and cleanup usage of global variables like
'the_repository' and 'the_hash_algo'.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Coverity has started to warn about a potential double-free in
`find_bisection()`. This warning is triggered because we may modify the
list head of the passed-in `commit_list` in case it is an UNINTERESTING
commit, but still call `free_commit_list()` on the original variable
that points to the now-freed head in case where `do_find_bisection()`
returns a `NULL` pointer.
As far as I can see, this double free cannot happen in practice, as
`do_find_bisection()` only returns a `NULL` pointer when it was passed a
`NULL` input. So in order to trigger the double free we would have to
call `find_bisection()` with a commit list that only consists of
UNINTERESTING commits, but I have not been able to construct a case
where that happens.
Drop the `else` branch entirely as it seems to be a no-op anyway.
Another option might be to instead call `free_commit_list()` on `list`,
which is the modified version of `commit_list` and thus wouldn't cause a
double free. But as mentioned, I couldn't come up with any case where a
passed-in non-NULL list becomes empty, so this shouldn't be necessary.
And if it ever does become necessary we'd notice anyway via the leak
sanitizer.
Interestingly enough we did not have a single test exercising this
branch: all tests pass just fine even when replacing it with a call to
`BUG()`. Add a test that exercises it.
Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ps/leakfixes-part-10: (27 commits)
t: remove TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK annotations
test-lib: unconditionally enable leak checking
t: remove unneeded !SANITIZE_LEAK prerequisites
t: mark some tests as leak free
t5601: work around leak sanitizer issue
git-compat-util: drop now-unused `UNLEAK()` macro
global: drop `UNLEAK()` annotation
t/helper: fix leaking commit graph in "read-graph" subcommand
builtin/branch: fix leaking sorting options
builtin/init-db: fix leaking directory paths
builtin/help: fix leaks in `check_git_cmd()`
help: fix leaking return value from `help_unknown_cmd()`
help: fix leaking `struct cmdnames`
help: refactor to not use globals for reading config
builtin/sparse-checkout: fix leaking sanitized patterns
split-index: fix memory leak in `move_cache_to_base_index()`
git: refactor builtin handling to use a `struct strvec`
git: refactor alias handling to use a `struct strvec`
strvec: introduce new `strvec_splice()` function
line-log: fix leak when rewriting commit parents
...
The rebase todo editor has commands like `fixup -c` which affects
the commit messages of the rebased commits.[1] For example:
pick hash1 <msg>
fixup hash2 <msg>
fixup -c hash3 <msg>
This says that hash2 and hash3 should be squashed into hash1 and
that hash3’s commit message should be used for the resulting commit.
So the user is presented with an editor where the two first commit
messages are commented out and the third is not. However this does
not work if `core.commentChar`/`core.commentString` is in use since
the comment char is hardcoded (#) in this `sequencer.c` function.
As a result the first commit message will not be commented out.
† 1: See 9e3cebd97c (rebase -i: add fixup [-C | -c] command,
2021-01-29)
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Co-authored-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Reported-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git revert --reference <commit>` leaves behind a comment in the
first line:[1]
# *** SAY WHY WE ARE REVERTING ON THE TITLE LINE ***
Meaning that the commit will just consist of the next line if the user
exits the editor directly:
This reverts commit <--format=reference commit>
But the comment char here is hardcoded (#). Which means that the
comment line will inadvertently be included in the commit message if
`core.commentChar`/`core.commentString` is in use.
† 1: See 43966ab315 (revert: optionally refer to commit in the
"reference" format, 2022-05-26)
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
