93851746 (parse-options: decouple "--end-of-options" and "--",
2023-12-06) updated the world order to make callers of parse-options
that set PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT responsible for deciding what to
do with "--end-of-options" they may see after parse_options() returns.
This made a previous bug in sparse-checkout more visible; namely,
that
git sparse-checkout [add|set] --[no-]cone --end-of-options ...
would simply treat "--end-of-options" as one of the paths to include in
the sparse-checkout. But this was already problematic before; namely,
git sparse-checkout [add|set| --[no-]cone --sikp-checks ...
would not give an error on the mis-typed "--skip-checks" but instead
simply treat "--sikp-checks" as a path or pattern to include in the
sparse-checkout, which is highly unfriendly.
This behavior began when the command was converted to parse-options in
7bffca95ea (sparse-checkout: add '--stdin' option to set subcommand,
2019-11-21). Back then it was just called KEEP_UNKNOWN. Later it was
renamed to KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT in 99d86d60e5 (parse-options:
PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN only applies to --options, 2022-08-19) to clarify
that it was only about dashed options; we always keep non-option
arguments. Looking at that original patch, both Peff and I think that
the author was simply confused about the mis-named option, and really
just wanted to keep the non-option arguments. We never should have used
the flag all along (and the other cases were cargo-culted within the
file).
Remove the erroneous PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT flag now to fix this
bug. Note that this does mean that anyone who might have been using
git sparse-checkout [add|set] [--[no-]cone] --foo --bar
to request paths or patterns '--foo' and '--bar' will now have to use
git sparse-checkout [add|set] [--[no-]cone] -- --foo --bar
That makes sparse-checkout more consistent with other git commands,
provides users much friendlier error messages and behavior, and is
consistent with the all-caps warning in git-sparse-checkout.txt that
this command "is experimental...its behavior...will likely change". :-)
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we added generic end-of-options support in 51b4594b40
(parse-options: allow --end-of-options as a synonym for "--",
2019-08-06), we made them true synonyms. They both stop option parsing,
and they are both returned in the resulting argv if the KEEP_DASHDASH
flag is used.
The hope was that this would work for all callers:
- most generic callers would not pass KEEP_DASHDASH, and so would just
do the right thing (stop parsing there) without needing to know
anything more.
- callers with KEEP_DASHDASH were generally going to rely on
setup_revisions(), which knew to handle --end-of-options specially
But that turned out miss quite a few cases that pass KEEP_DASHDASH but
do their own manual parsing. For example, "git reset", "git checkout",
and so on want pass KEEP_DASHDASH so they can support:
git reset $revs -- $paths
but of course aren't going to actually do a traversal, so they don't
call setup_revisions(). And those cases currently get confused by
--end-of-options being left in place, like:
$ git reset --end-of-options HEAD
fatal: option '--end-of-options' must come before non-option arguments
We could teach each of these callers to handle the leftover option
explicitly. But let's try to be a bit more clever and see if we can
solve it centrally in parse-options.c.
The bogus assumption here is that KEEP_DASHDASH tells us the caller
wants to see --end-of-options in the result. But really, the callers
which need to know that --end-of-options was reached are those that may
potentially parse more options from argv. In other words, those that
pass the KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT flag.
If such a caller is aware of --end-of-options (e.g., because they call
setup_revisions() with the result), then this will continue to do the
right thing, treating anything after --end-of-options as a non-option.
And if the caller is not aware of --end-of-options, they are better off
keeping it intact, because either:
1. They are just passing the options along to somebody else anyway, in
which case that somebody would need to know about the
--end-of-options marker.
2. They are going to parse the remainder themselves, at which point
choking on --end-of-options is much better than having it silently
removed. The point is to avoid option injection from untrusted
command line arguments, and bailing is better than quietly treating
the untrusted argument as an option.
This fixes bugs with --end-of-options across several commands, but I've
focused on two in particular here:
- t7102 confirms that "git reset --end-of-options --foo" now works.
This checks two things. One, that we no longer barf on
"--end-of-options" itself (which previously we did, even if the rev
was something vanilla like "HEAD" instead of "--foo"). And two, that
we correctly treat "--foo" as a revision rather than an option.
This fix applies to any other cases which pass KEEP_DASHDASH but not
KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT, like "git checkout", "git check-attr", "git grep",
etc, which would previously choke on "--end-of-options".
- t9350 shows the opposite case: fast-export passed KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT
but not KEEP_DASHDASH, but then passed the result on to
setup_revisions(). So it never saw --end-of-options, and would
erroneously parse "fast-export --end-of-options --foo" as having a
"--foo" option. This is now fixed.
Note that this does shut the door for callers which want to know if we
hit end-of-options, but don't otherwise need to keep unknown opts. The
obvious thing here is feeding it to the DWIM verify_filename()
machinery. And indeed, this is a problem even for commands which do
understand --end-of-options already. For example, without this patch,
you get:
$ git log --end-of-options --foo
fatal: option '--foo' must come before non-option arguments
because we refuse to accept "--foo" as a filename (because it starts
with a dash) even though we could know that we saw end-of-options. The
verify_filename() function simply doesn't accept this extra information.
So that is the status quo, and this patch doubles down further on that.
Commands like "git reset" have the same problem, but they won't even
know that parse-options saw --end-of-options! So even if we fixed
verify_filename(), they wouldn't have anything to pass to it.
But in practice I don't think this is a big deal. If you are being
careful enough to use --end-of-options, then you should also be using
"--" to disambiguate and avoid the DWIM behavior in the first place. In
other words, doing:
git log --end-of-options --this-is-a-rev -- --this-is-a-path
works correctly, and will continue to do so. And likewise, with this
patch now:
git reset --end-of-options --this-is-a-rev -- --this-is-a-path
will work, as well.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"To dereference" and "to peel" were sometimes used in in-code
comments and documentation but without description in the glossary.
* vd/glossary-dereference-peel:
glossary: add definitions for dereference & peel
A few stray single quotes crept into the usage string in a2ce608244
(send-email docs: add format-patch options, 2021-10-25). Remove them.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add 'gitglossary' definitions for "dereference" (as it used for both symrefs
and objects) and "peel". These terms are used in options and documentation
throughout Git, but they are not clearly defined anywhere and the behavior
they refer to depends heavily on context. Provide explicit definitions to
clarify existing documentation to users and help contributors to use the
most appropriate terminology possible in their additions to Git.
Update other definitions in the glossary that use the term "dereference" to
link to 'def_dereference'.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rev-list --unpacked --objects" failed to exclude packed
non-commit objects, which has been corrected.
* tb/rev-list-unpacked-fix:
pack-bitmap: drop --unpacked non-commit objects from results
list-objects: drop --unpacked non-commit objects from results
Leakfix.
* ps/leakfixes:
setup: fix leaking repository format
setup: refactor `upgrade_repository_format()` to have common exit
shallow: fix memory leak when registering shallow roots
test-bloom: stop setting up Git directory twice
Another step to deprecate test_i18ngrep.
* jc/test-i18ngrep:
tests: teach callers of test_i18ngrep to use test_grep
test framework: further deprecate test_i18ngrep
"git merge-file" learns a mode to read three contents to be merged
from blob objects.
* bc/merge-file-object-input:
merge-file: add an option to process object IDs
git-merge-file doc: drop "-file" from argument placeholders
"git rev-list --missing" did not work for missing commit objects,
which has been corrected.
* kn/rev-list-missing-fix:
rev-list: add commit object support in `--missing` option
rev-list: move `show_commit()` to the bottom
revision: rename bit to `do_not_die_on_missing_objects`
Teach "git show-ref" a mode to check the existence of a ref.
* ps/show-ref:
t: use git-show-ref(1) to check for ref existence
builtin/show-ref: add new mode to check for reference existence
builtin/show-ref: explicitly spell out different modes in synopsis
builtin/show-ref: ensure mutual exclusiveness of subcommands
builtin/show-ref: refactor options for patterns subcommand
builtin/show-ref: stop using global vars for `show_one()`
builtin/show-ref: stop using global variable to count matches
builtin/show-ref: refactor `--exclude-existing` options
builtin/show-ref: fix dead code when passing patterns
builtin/show-ref: fix leaking string buffer
builtin/show-ref: split up different subcommands
builtin/show-ref: convert pattern to a local variable
The codepath to traverse the commit-graph learned to notice that a
commit is missing (e.g., corrupt repository lost an object), even
though it knows something about the commit (like its parents) from
what is in commit-graph.
* ps/do-not-trust-commit-graph-blindly-for-existence:
commit: detect commits that exist in commit-graph but not in the ODB
commit-graph: introduce envvar to disable commit existence checks
Further limit tree depth max to avoid Windows build running out of
the stack space.
* jk/tree-name-and-depth-limit:
max_tree_depth: lower it for MSVC to avoid stack overflows
When performing revision queries with `--objects` and
`--use-bitmap-index`, the output may incorrectly contain objects which
are packed, even when the `--unpacked` option is given. This affects
traversals, but also other querying operations, like `--count`,
`--disk-usage`, etc.
Like in the previous commit, the fix is to exclude those objects from
the result set before they are shown to the user (or, in this case,
before the bitmap containing the result of the traversal is enumerated
and its objects listed).
This is performed by a new function in pack-bitmap.c, called
`filter_packed_objects_from_bitmap()`. Note that we do not have to
inspect individual bits in the result bitmap, since we know that the
first N (where N is the number of objects in the bitmap's pack/MIDX)
bits correspond to objects which packed by definition.
In other words, for an object to have a bitmap position (not in the
extended index), it must appear in either the bitmap's pack or one of
the packs in its MIDX.
This presents an appealing optimization to us, which is that we can
simply memset() the corresponding number of `eword_t`'s to zero,
provided that we handle any objects which spill into the next word (but
don't occupy all 64 bits of the word itself).
We only have to handle objects in the bitmap's extended index. These
objects may (or may not) appear in one or more pack(s). Since these
objects are known to not appear in either the bitmap's MIDX or pack,
they may be stored as loose, appear in other pack(s), or both.
Before returning a bitmap containing the result of the traversal back to
the caller, drop any bits from the extended index which appear in one or
more packs. This implements the correct behavior for rev-list operations
which use the bitmap index to compute their result.
Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In git-rev-list(1), we describe the `--unpacked` option as:
Only useful with `--objects`; print the object IDs that are not in
packs.
This is true of commits, which we discard via get_commit_action(), but
not of the objects they reach. So if we ask for an --objects traversal
with --unpacked, we may get arbitrarily many objects which are indeed
packed.
I am nearly certain this behavior dates back to the introduction of
`--unpacked` via 12d2a18780 ("git rev-list --unpacked" shows only
unpacked commits, 2005-07-03), but I couldn't get that revision of Git
to compile for me. At least as early as v2.0.0 this has been subtly
broken:
$ git.compile --version
git version 2.0.0
$ git.compile rev-list --objects --all --unpacked
72791fe96c93f9ec5c311b8bc966ab349b3b5bbe
05713d991c18bbeef7e154f99660005311b5004d v1.0
153ed8b7719c6f5a68ce7ffc43133e95a6ac0fdb
8e4020bb5a8d8c873b25de15933e75cc0fc275df one
9200b628cf9dc883a85a7abc8d6e6730baee589c two
3e6b46e1b7e3b91acce99f6a823104c28aae0b58 unpacked.t
There, only the first, third, and sixth entries are loose, with the
remaining set of objects belonging to at least one pack.
The implications for this are relatively benign: bare 'git repack'
invocations which invoke pack-objects with --unpacked are impacted, and
at worst we'll store a few extra objects that should have been excluded.
Arguably changing this behavior is a backwards-incompatible change,
since it alters the set of objects emitted from rev-list queries with
`--objects` and `--unpacked`. But I argue that this change is still
sensible, since the existing implementation deviates from
clearly-written documentation.
The fix here is straightforward: avoid showing any non-commit objects
which are contained in packs by discarding them within list-objects.c,
before they are shown to the user. Note that similar treatment for
`list-objects.c::show_commit()` is not needed, since that case is
already handled by `revision.c::get_commit_action()`.
Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Offer a slightly more verbose description of the issue fixed by
7144dee3ec (credential/libsecret: erase matching creds only, 2023-07-26)
and cb626f8e5c (credential/wincred: erase matching creds only,
2023-07-26).
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
