"git clone" learned to make a shallow clone for a single commit
that is not necessarily be at the tip of any branch.
* tc/clone-single-revision:
builtin/clone: teach git-clone(1) the --revision= option
parse-options: introduce die_for_incompatible_opt2()
clone: introduce struct clone_opts in builtin/clone.c
clone: add tags refspec earlier to fetch refspec
clone: refactor wanted_peer_refs()
clone: make it possible to specify --tags
clone: cut down on global variables in clone.c
The git-clone(1) command has the option `--branch` that allows the user
to select the branch they want HEAD to point to. In a non-bare
repository this also checks out that branch.
Option `--branch` also accepts a tag. When a tag name is provided, the
commit this tag points to is checked out and HEAD is detached. Thus
`--branch` can be used to clone a repository and check out a ref kept
under `refs/heads` or `refs/tags`. But some other refs might be in use
as well. For example Git forges might use refs like `refs/pull/<id>` and
`refs/merge-requests/<id>` to track pull/merge requests. These refs
cannot be selected upon git-clone(1).
Add option `--revision` to git-clone(1). This option accepts a fully
qualified reference, or a hexadecimal commit ID. This enables the user
to clone and check out any revision they want. `--revision` can be used
in conjunction with `--depth` to do a minimal clone that only contains
the blob and tree for a single revision. This can be useful for
automated tests running in CI systems.
Using option `--branch` and `--single-branch` together is a similar
scenario, but serves a different purpose. Using these two options, a
singlet remote tracking branch is created and the fetch refspec is set
up so git-fetch(1) will receive updates on that branch from the remote.
This allows the user work on that single branch.
Option `--revision` on contrary detaches HEAD, creates no tracking
branches, and writes no fetch refspec.
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
[jc: removed unnecessary TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK from the test]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adapt strcmp-offset test script to clar framework by using clar
assertions where necessary. Introduce `test_strcmp_offset__empty()` to
verify `check_strcmp_offset()` behavior when both input strings are
empty. This ensures the function correctly handles edge cases and
returns expected values.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Seyi Kuforiji <kuforiji98@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adapt strbuf test script to clar framework by using clar assertions
where necessary.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Seyi Kuforiji <kuforiji98@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce `test_example_decorate__initialize()` to explicitly set up
object IDs and retrieve corresponding objects before tests run. This
ensures a consistent and predictable test state without relying on data
from previous tests.
Add `test_example_decorate__cleanup()` to clear decorations after each
test, preventing interference between tests and ensuring each runs in
isolation.
Adapt example decorate test script to clar framework by using clar
assertions where necessary. Previously, tests relied on data written by
earlier tests, leading to unintended dependencies between them. This
explicitly initializes the necessary state within
`test_example_decorate__readd`, ensuring it does not depend on prior
test executions.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Seyi Kuforiji <kuforiji98@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adapts hashmap test script to clar framework by using clar assertions
where necessary.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Seyi Kuforiji <kuforiji98@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new API to visit objects in batches based on a common
path, or by type.
* ds/path-walk-1:
path-walk: drop redundant parse_tree() call
path-walk: reorder object visits
path-walk: mark trees and blobs as UNINTERESTING
path-walk: visit tags and cached objects
path-walk: allow consumer to specify object types
t6601: add helper for testing path-walk API
test-lib-functions: add test_cmp_sorted
path-walk: introduce an object walk by path
Move a few more unit tests to the clar test framework.
* sk/unit-tests:
t/unit-tests: convert reftable tree test to use clar test framework
t/unit-tests: adapt priority queue test to use clar test framework
t/unit-tests: convert mem-pool test to use clar test framework
t/unit-tests: handle dashes in test suite filenames
Adapts reftable tree test script to clar framework by using clar
assertions where necessary.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Seyi Kuforiji <kuforiji98@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert the prio-queue test script to clar framework by using clar
assertions where necessary. Test functions are created as a standalone
to test different cases.
update the type of the variable `j` from int to `size_t`, this ensures
compatibility with the type used for result_size, which is also size_t,
preventing a potential warning or error caused by comparisons between
signed and unsigned integers.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Seyi Kuforiji <kuforiji98@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adapt the mem-pool test script to use clar framework by using clar
assertions where necessary.Test functions are created as a standalone to
test different test cases.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Seyi Kuforiji <kuforiji98@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adapt the hash test functions to clar framework by using clar
assertions where necessary. Following the consensus to convert
the unit-tests scripts found in the t/unit-tests folder to clar driven by
Patrick Steinhardt. Test functions are structured as a standalone to
test individual hash string and literal case.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Seyi Kuforiji <kuforiji98@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is quite easy for the list of integration tests to go out-of-sync
without anybody noticing. Introduce a new configure-time check that
verifies that all tests are wired up properly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All of the code files for unit tests using the self-grown unit testing
framework have a "t-" prefix to their name. This makes it easy to
identify them and use globbing in our Makefile and in other places. On
the other hand though, our clar-based unit tests have no prefix at all
and thus cannot easily be discerned from other files in the unit test
directory.
Introduce a new "u-" prefix for clar-based unit tests. This prefix will
be used in a subsequent commit to easily identify such tests.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce support for the Meson build system, a "modern" meta build
system that supports many different platforms, including Linux, macOS,
Windows and BSDs. Meson supports different backends, including Ninja,
Xcode and Microsoft Visual Studio. Several common IDEs provide an
integration with it.
The biggest contender compared to Meson is probably CMake as outlined in
our "Documentation/technical/build-systems.txt" file. Based on my own
personal experience from working with both build systems extensively I
strongly favor Meson over CMake. In my opinion, it feels significantly
easier to use with a syntax that feels more like a "real" programming
language. The second big reason is that Meson supports Rust natively,
which may prove to be important given that the project may pick up Rust
as another language eventually.
Using Meson is rather straight-forward. An example:
```
# Meson uses out-of-tree builds. You can set up multiple build
# directories, how you name them is completely up to you.
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ meson setup .. -Dprefix=/tmp/git-installation
# Build the project. This also provides several other targets like
e.g. `install` or `test`.
$ ninja
# Meson has been wired up to support execution of our test suites.
# Both our unit tests and our integration tests are supported.
# Running `meson test` without any arguments will execute all tests,
# but the syntax supports globbing to select only some tests.
$ meson test 't-*'
# Execute single test interactively to allow for debugging.
$ meson test 't0000-*' --interactive --test-args=-ix
```
The build instructions have been successfully tested on the following
systems, tests are passing:
- Apple macOS 10.15.
- FreeBSD 14.1.
- NixOS 24.11.
- OpenBSD 7.6.
- Ubuntu 24.04.
- Windows 10 with Cygwin.
- Windows 10 with MinGW64, except for t9700, which is also broken with
our Makefile.
- Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2022 toolchain, using the Native Tools
Command Prompt with `meson setup --vsenv`. Tests pass, except for
t9700.
- Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2022 solution, using the Native Tools
Command Prompt with `meson setup --backend vs2022`. Tests pass,
except for t9700.
- Windows 10 with VS Code, using the Meson plug-in.
It is expected that there will still be rough edges in the current
version. If this patch lands the expectation is that it will coexist
with our other build systems for a while. Like this, distributions can
slowly migrate over to Meson and report any findings they have to us
such that we can continue to iterate. A potential cutoff date for other
build systems may be Git 3.0.
Some notes:
- The installed distribution is structured somewhat differently than
how it used to be the case. All of our binaries are installed into
`$libexec/git-core`, while all binaries part of `$bindir` are now
symbolic links pointing to the former. This rule is consistent in
itself and thus easier to reason about.
- We do not install dashed binaries into `$libexec/git-core` anymore,
so there won't e.g. be a symlink for git-add(1). These are not
required by modern Git and there isn't really much of a use case for
those anymore. By not installing those symlinks we thus start the
deprecation of this layout.
- We're targeting Meson 1.3.0, which has been released relatively
recently November 2023. The only feature we use from that version is
`fs.relative_to()`, which we could replace if necessary. If so, we
could start to target Meson 1.0.0 and newer, released in December
2022.
- The whole build instructions count around 3300 lines, half of which
is listing all of our code and test files. Our Makefiles are around
5000 lines, autoconf adds another 1300 lines. CMake in comparison
has only 1200 linescode, but it avoids listing individual files and
does not wire up auto-configuration as extensively as the Meson
instructions do.
- We bundle a set of subproject wrappers for curl, expat, openssl,
pcre2 and zlib. This allows developers to build Git without these
dependencies preinstalled, and Meson will fetch and build them
automatically. This is especially helpful on Windows.
Helped-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
