Even when there is no changes in the packfile and no need to
recompute bitmaps, "git repack" recomputed and updated the MIDX
file, which has been corrected.
* ps/repack-avoid-noop-midx-rewrite:
midx-write: skip rewriting MIDX with `--stdin-packs` unless needed
midx-write: extract function to test whether MIDX needs updating
midx: fix `BUG()` when getting preferred pack without a reverse index
Prepare test suite for Git for Windows that supports symbolic
links.
* js/test-symlink-windows:
t7800: work around the MSYS path conversion on Windows
t6423: introduce Windows-specific handling for symlinking to /dev/null
t1305: skip symlink tests that do not apply to Windows
t1006: accommodate for symlink support in MSYS2
t0600: fix incomplete prerequisite for a test case
t0301: another fix for Windows compatibility
t0001: handle `diff --no-index` gracefully
mingw: special-case `open(symlink, O_CREAT | O_EXCL)`
apply: symbolic links lack a "trustable executable bit"
t9700: accommodate for Windows paths
More object database related information are shown in "git repo
structure" output.
* jt/repo-struct-more-objinfo:
builtin/repo: add object disk size info to structure table
builtin/repo: add disk size info to keyvalue stucture output
builtin/repo: add inflated object info to structure table
builtin/repo: add inflated object info to keyvalue structure output
builtin/repo: humanise count values in structure output
strbuf: split out logic to humanise byte values
builtin/repo: group per-type object values into struct
The code path that enumerates promisor objects have been optimized
to skip pointlessly parsing blob objects.
* ap/packfile-promisor-object-optim:
packfile: skip hash checks in add_promisor_object()
object: apply skip_hash and discard_tree optimizations to unknown blobs too
Documentation update.
* jc/doc-commit-signoff-config:
signoff-option: linkify the reference to gitfaq
commit: document that $command.signoff will not be added
"git fetch" that involves fetching tags, when a tag being fetched
needs to overwrite existing one, failed to fetch other tags, which
has been corrected.
* kn/fix-fetch-backfill-tag-with-batched-ref-updates:
fetch: fix failed batched updates skipping operations
fetch: fix non-conflicting tags not being committed
fetch: extract out reference committing logic
"git diff-files -R --find-copies-harder" has been taught to use
the potential copy sources from the index correctly.
* rs/diff-files-r-find-copies-fix:
diff-files: fix copy detection
Further application of MEMZERO_ARRAY() macro to the rest of the
code base.
* jc/memzero-array:
cocci: use MEMZERO_ARRAY() a bit more
coccicheck: emit the contents of cocci patch
MEMZERO_ARRAY() helper is introduced to avoid clearing only the
first N bytes of an N-element array whose elements are larger than
a byte.
* tc/memzero-array:
contrib/coccinelle: pass include paths to spatch(1)
git-compat-util: introduce MEMZERO_ARRAY() macro
In-code comment update to clarify that single-letter options are
outside of the scope of command line completion script.
* jc/completion-no-single-letter-options:
completion: clarify support for short options and arguments
"git submodule add" to add a submodule under <name> segfaulted,
when a submodule.<name>.something is already in .gitmodules file
without defining where its submodule.<name>.path is, which has been
corrected.
* jc/submodule-add:
submodule add: sanity check existing .gitmodules
"git replay --onto=<commit> ...", when <commit> is mistyped,
started to segfault with recent change, which has been corrected.
* rs/replay-wrong-onto-fix:
replay: move onto NULL check before first use
"git replay" documentation updates.
* kh/doc-replay-updates:
doc: replay: link section using markup
replay: improve --contained and add to doc
doc: replay: mention no output on conflicts
Code refactoring around alternate object store.
* ps/odb-alternates-object-sources:
odb: write alternates via sources
odb: read alternates via sources
odb: drop forward declaration of `read_info_alternates()`
odb: remove mutual recursion when parsing alternates
odb: stop splitting alternate in `odb_add_to_alternates_file()`
odb: move computation of normalized objdir into `alt_odb_usable()`
odb: resolve relative alternative paths when parsing
odb: refactor parsing of alternates to be self-contained
* use imperative mood for consistency in options descriptions
* add missing parenthesis
* reword verbose phrase in git-repack.adoc
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* fix incorrect use of backticks for markup in
git-checkout.adoc, git-worktree.adoc
* switch tabs to spaces in git-send-email.adoc list items
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The GitFAQ is a proper manual page in the section 7, so refer to it
using the usual linkgit:stuff[7] syntax.
Helped-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
From e509b5b8be (rust: support for Windows, 2025-10-15), we check
cargo's information to decide which library to build. However, that
check mistakenly used "sed -s" ("consider files as separate rather than
as a single, continuous long stream"), which is a GNU extension. The
build thus fails on macOS with "meson -Drust=enabled", which comes with
BSD-derived sed.
Instead, use the intended "sed -n" and print the matching section of the
output. This failure mode likely went unnoticed on systems with GNU sed
(common for developer machines and CI) because, in those instances, the
output being matched by case is the full cargo output (which either
contains the string "-windows-" or doesn't).
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ps/ci-rust:
rust: support for Windows
ci: verify minimum supported Rust version
ci: check for common Rust mistakes via Clippy
rust/varint: add safety comments
ci: check formatting of our Rust code
ci: deduplicate calls to `apt-get update`
t8020: fix test failure due to indeterministic tag sorting
gitlab-ci: upload Meson test logs as JUnit reports
gitlab-ci: drop workaround for Python certificate store on Windows
gitlab-ci: ignore failures to disable realtime monitoring
gitlab-ci: dedup instructions to disable realtime monitoring
ci: enable Rust for breaking-changes jobs
ci: convert "pedantic" job into full build with breaking changes
BreakingChanges: announce Rust becoming mandatory
varint: reimplement as test balloon for Rust
varint: use explicit width for integers
help: report on whether or not Rust is enabled
Makefile: introduce infrastructure to build internal Rust library
Makefile: reorder sources after includes
meson: add infrastructure to build internal Rust library
The previous wording:
> Path expansions are made the same way as for `core.excludesFile`.
required one to check the docs for 'core.excludesFile' and from there
the definition of the pathname variable type to understand the path
expansion behaviour of this variable. Instead, just link directly to the
pathname type.
This change is basically the same rewording as was done to
'core.excludesFile' in dca83abd (config: describe 'pathname' value
type, 2016-04-29).
Signed-off-by: Matthew Hughes <matthewhughes934@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to a prior commit, update the table output format for the
git-repo(1) structure command to display the total object disk usage by
object type.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to a prior commit, extend the keyvalue and nul output formats of
the git-repo(1) structure command to additionally provide info regarding
total object disk sizes by object type.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update the table output format for the git-repo(1) structure command to
begin printing the total inflated object size info by object type. To be
more human-friendly, larger values are scaled down and displayed with
the appropriate unit prefix. Output for the keyvalue and nul formats
remains unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The structure subcommand for git-repo(1) outputs basic count information
for objects and references. Extend this output to also provide
information regarding total size of inflated objects by object type.
For now, object size by object type info is only added to the keyvalue
and nul output formats. In a subsequent commit, this info is also added
to the table format.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The table output format for the git-repo(1) structure subcommand is used
by default and intended to provide output to users in a human-friendly
manner. When the reference/object count values in a repository are
large, it becomes more cumbersome for users to read the values.
For larger values, update the table output format to instead produce
more human-friendly count values that are scaled down with the
appropriate unit prefix. Output for the keyvalue and nul formats remains
unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a subsequent commit, byte size values displayed in table output for
the git-repo(1) "structure" subcommand will be shown in a more
human-readable format with the appropriate unit prefixes. For this
usecase, the downscaled values and unit strings must be handled
separately to ensure proper column alignment.
Split out logic from strbuf_humanise() to downscale byte values and
determine the corresponding unit prefix into a separate humanise_bytes()
function that provides seperate value and unit strings.
Note that the "byte" string in "t/helper/test-simple-ipc.c" is unmarked
for translation here so that it doesn't conflict with the newly defined
plural "byte/bytes" translation and instead uses it.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `object_stats` structure stores object counts by type. In a
subsequent commit, additional per-type object measurements will also be
stored. Group per-type object values into a new struct to allow better
reuse.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git's test suite's relies on Unix shell scripting, which is
understandable, of course, given Git's firm roots (and indeed, ongoing
focus) on Linux.
This fact, combined with Unix shell scripting's natural
habitat -- which is, naturally... *drumroll*... Unix --
often has unintended side effects, where developers expect the test
suite to run in a Unix environment, which is an incorrect assumption.
One instance of this problem can be observed in the 'difftool --dir-diff
handles modified symlinks' test case in `t7800-difftool.sh`, which
assumes that all absolute paths start with a forward slash. That
assumption is incorrect in general, e.g. on Windows, where absolute
paths have many shapes and forms, none of which starts with a forward
slash.
The only saving grace is that this test case is currently not run on
Windows because of the `SYMLINK` prerequisite. However, I am currently
working towards upstreaming symbolic link support from Git for Windows
to upstream Git, which will put a crack into that saving grace.
Let's change that test case so that it does not rely on absolute paths
(which are passed to the "external command" `ls` as parameters and are
therefore part of its output, and which the test case wants to filter
out before verifying that the output is as expected) starting with a
forward slash. Let's instead rely on the much more reliable fact that
`ls` will output the path in a line that ends in a colon, and simply
filter out those lines by matching said colon instead.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The device `/dev/null` does not exist on Windows, it's called `NUL`
there. Calling `ln -s /dev/null my-symlink` in a symlink-enabled MSYS2
Bash will therefore literally link to a file or directory called `null`
that is supposed to be in the current drive's top-level `dev` directory.
Which typically does not exist.
The test, however, really wants the created symbolic link to point to
the NUL device. Let's instead use the `mklink` utility on Windows to
perform that job, and keep using `ln -s /dev/null <target>` on
non-Windows platforms.
While at it, add the missing `SYMLINKS` prereq because this test _still_
would not pass on Windows before support for symbolic links is
upstreamed from Git for Windows.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In Git for Windows, the gitdir is canonicalized so that even when the
gitdir is specified via a symbolic link, the `gitdir:` conditional
include will only match the real directory path.
Unfortunately, t1305 codifies a different behavior in two test cases,
which are hereby skipped on Windows.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The MSYS2 runtime (which inherits this trait from the Cygwin runtime,
and which is used by Git for Windows' Bash to emulate POSIX
functionality on Windows, the same Bash that is also used to run Git's
test suite on Windows) has a mode where it can create native symbolic
links on Windows.
Naturally, this is a bit of a strange feature, given that Cygwin goes
out of its way to support Unix-like paths even if no Win32 program
understands those, and the symbolic links have to use Win32 paths
instead (which Win32 programs understand very well).
As a consequence, the symbolic link targets get normalized before the
links are created.
This results in certain quirks that Git's test suite is ill equipped to
accommodate (because Git's test suite expects to be able to use
Unix-like paths even on Windows).
The test script t1006-cat-file.sh contains two prime examples, two test
cases that need to skip a couple assertions because they are simply
wrong in the context of Git for Windows.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'symref transaction supports symlinks' test case is guarded by the
`SYMLINK` prerequisite because `core.prefersymlinkrefs = true` requires
symbolic links to be supported.
However, the `preferSymlinkRefs` feature is not supported on Windows,
therefore this test case needs the `MINGW` prerequisite, too.
There's a couple more cases where we set this config key:
- In a subsequent test in t0600, but there we explicitly set it to
"false". So this would naturally be supported by Windows.
- In t7201 we set the value to `yes`, but we never verify that the
written reference is a symbolic link in the first place. I guess
that we could rather remove setting the configuration value here, as
we are about to deprecate support for symrefs via symbolic links in
the first place. But that's certainly outside of the scope of this
patch.
- In t9903 we do the same, but likewise, we don't check whether the
written file is a symbolic link.
Therefore this seems to be the only instance where the tests actually
need to be adapted.
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Just like 0fdcfa2f9f (t0301: fixes for windows compatibility,
2021-09-14) explained, we should not call `mkdir -m<mode>` in the test
suite because that would fail on Windows.
There was one forgotten instance of this which was hidden by a `SYMLINK`
prerequisite. Currently, this prevents this test case from being
executed on Windows, but with the upcoming support for symbolic links,
it would become a problem.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The test case 're-init to move gitdir symlink' wants to compare the
contents of `newdir/.git`, which is a symbolic link pointing to a file.
However, `git diff --no-index`, which is used by `test_cmp` on Windows,
does not resolve symlinks; It shows the symlink _target_ instead (with a
file mode of 120000). That is totally unexpected by the test case, which
as a consequence fails, meaning that it's a bug in the test case itself.
Co-authored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 0482c32c33 (apply: ignore working tree filemode when
!core.filemode, 2023-12-26) fixed `git apply` to stop warning about
executable files, it inadvertently changed the code flow also for
symbolic links and directories.
Let's narrow the scope of the special `!trust_executable_git` code path
to apply only to regular files.
This is needed to let t4115.5(symlink escape when creating new files)
pass on Windows when symbolic link support is enabled in the MSYS2
runtime.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since fe53bbc9be (Git.pm: Always set Repository to absolute path
if autodetecting, 2009-05-07), the t9700 test _must_ fail on Windows
because of that age-old Unix paths vs Windows paths problem.
The underlying root cause is that Git cannot run with a regular Win32
variant of Perl, the assumption that every path is a Unix path is just
too strong in Git's Perl code.
As a consequence, Git for Windows is basically stuck with using the
MSYS2 variant of Perl which uses a POSIX emulation layer (which is a
friendly fork of Cygwin) _and_ a best-effort Unix <-> Windows paths
conversion whenever crossing the boundary between MSYS2 and regular
Win32 processes. It is best effort only, though, using heuristics to
automagically convert correctly in most cases, but not in all cases.
In the context of this here patch, this means that asking `git.exe` for
the absolute path of the `.git/` directory will return a Win32 path
because `git.exe` is a regular Win32 executable that has no idea about
Unix-ish paths. But above-mentioned commit introduced a test that wants
to verify that this path is identical to the one that the Git Perl
module reports (which refuses to use Win32 paths and uses Unix-ish paths
instead). Obviously, this must fail because no heuristics can kick in at
that layer.
This test failure has not even been caught when Git introduced Windows
support in its CI definition in 2e90484eb4 (ci: add a Windows job to
the Azure Pipelines definition, 2019-01-29), as all tests relying on
Perl had to be disabled even from the start (because the CI runs would
otherwise have resulted in prohibitively long runtimes, not because
Windows is super slow per se, but because Git's test suite keeps
insisting on using technology that requires a POSIX emulation layer,
which _is_ super slow on Windows).
To work around this failure, let's use the `cygpath` utility to convert
the absolute `gitdir` path into the form that the Perl code expects.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Every now and then we see this coming up on the list. Let's help
new contributors who are not aware of past discussions by clearly
documenting our past consensus.
Helped-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
