Commit 7550424804 ("name-rev: include taggerdate in considering the best
name", 2016-04-22) introduced the idea of using taggerdate in the
criteria for selecting the best name. At the time, a certain commit in
linux.git -- namely, aed06b9cfcab -- was being named by name-rev as
v4.6-rc1~9^2~792
which, while correct, was very suboptimal. Some investigation found
that tweaking the MERGE_TRAVERSAL_WEIGHT to lower it could give
alternate answers such as
v3.13-rc7~9^2~14^2~42
or
v3.13~5^2~4^2~2^2~1^2~42
A manual solution involving looking at tagger dates came up with
v3.13-rc1~65^2^2~42
which is much nicer. That workaround was then implemented in name-rev.
Unfortunately, the taggerdate heuristic is causing bugs. I was pointed
to a case in a private repository where name-rev reports a name of the
form
v2022.10.02~86
when users expected to see one of the form
v2022.10.01~2
(I've modified the names and numbers a bit from the real testcase.) As
you can probably guess, v2022.10.01 was created after v2022.10.02 (by a
few hours), even though it pointed to an older commit. While the
condition is unusual even in the repository in question, it is not the
only problematic set of tags in that repository. The taggerdate logic
is causing problems.
Further, it turns out that this taggerdate heuristic isn't even helping
anymore. Due to the fix to naming logic in 3656f84278 ("name-rev:
prefer shorter names over following merges", 2021-12-04), we get
improved names without the taggerdate heuristic. For the original
commit of interest in linux.git, a modern git without the taggerdate
heuristic still provides the same optimal answer of interest, namely:
v3.13-rc1~65^2^2~42
So, the taggerdate is no longer providing benefit, and it is causing
problems. Simply get rid of it.
However, note that "taggerdate" as a variable is used to store things
besides a taggerdate these days. Ever since commit ef1e74065c
("name-rev: favor describing with tags and use committer date to
tiebreak", 2017-03-29), this has been used to store committer dates and
there it is used as a fallback tiebreaker (as opposed to a primary
criteria overriding effective distance calculations). We do not want to
remove that fallback tiebreaker, so not all instances of "taggerdate"
are removed in this change.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On platforms where `size_t` does not have the same width as `unsigned
long`, passing a pointer to the former when a pointer to the latter is
expected can lead to problems.
Windows and 32-bit Linux are among the affected platforms.
In this instance, we want to store the size of the blob that was read in
that variable. However, `read_blob_data_from_index()` passes that
pointer to `read_object_file()` which expects an `unsigned long *`.
Which means that on affected platforms, the variable is not fully
populated and part of its value is left uninitialized. (On Big-Endian
platforms, this problem would be even worse.)
The consequence is that depending on the uninitialized memory's
contents, we may erroneously reject perfectly fine attributes.
Let's address this by passing a pointer to a variable of the expected
data type.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On platforms where `size_t` does not have the same width as `unsigned
long`, passing a pointer to the former when a pointer to the latter is
expected can lead to problems.
Windows and 32-bit Linux are among the affected platforms.
In this instance, we want to store the size of the blob that was read in
that variable. However, `read_blob_data_from_index()` passes that
pointer to `read_object_file()` which expects an `unsigned long *`.
Which means that on affected platforms, the variable is not fully
populated and part of its value is left uninitialized. (On Big-Endian
platforms, this problem would be even worse.)
The consequence is that depending on the uninitialized memory's
contents, we may erroneously reject perfectly fine attributes.
Let's address this by passing a pointer to a variable of the expected
data type.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old version we currently use runs in node.js v12.x, which is being
deprecated in GitHub Actions. The new version uses node.js v16.x.
Incidentally, this also avoids the warning about the deprecated
`::set-output::` workflow command because the newer version of the
`github-script` Action uses the recommended new way to specify outputs.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Adjust the GitHub CI to newer ubuntu release.
* jx/ci-ubuntu-fix:
ci: install python on ubuntu
ci: use the same version of p4 on both Linux and macOS
ci: remove the pipe after "p4 -V" to catch errors
github-actions: run gcc-8 on ubuntu-20.04 image
Update GitHub CI to use actions/checkout@v3; use of the older
checkout@v2 gets annoying deprecation notices.
* od/ci-use-checkout-v3-when-applicable:
ci(main): upgrade actions/checkout to v3
