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While doing some testing with fsmonitor enabled I found that git commands would segfault after staging and unstaging an untracked file. Looking at the crash it appeared that fsmonitor_ewah_callback was attempting to adjust bits beyond the bounds of the index cache. Digging into how this could happen it became clear that the fsmonitor extension must have been written with more bits than there were entries in the index. The root cause ended up being that fill_fsmonitor_bitmap was populating fsmonitor_dirty with bits for all entries in the index, even those that had been marked for removal. To solve this problem fill_fsmonitor_bitmap has been updated to skip entries with the the CE_REMOVE flag set. With this change the bits written for the fsmonitor extension will be consistent with the index entries written by do_write_index. Additionally, BUG checks have been added to detect if the number of bits in fsmonitor_dirty should ever exceed the number of entries in the index again. Another option that was considered was moving the call to fill_fsmonitor_bitmap closer to where the index is written (and where the fsmonitor extension itself is written). However, that did not work as the fsmonitor_dirty bitmap must be filled before the index is split during writing. Signed-off-by: William Baker <William.Baker@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-<commandname>.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the
documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
(man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is
installed).
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission). To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at https://public-inbox.org/git/, http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.
Issues which are security relevant should be disclosed privately to the Git Security mailing list git-security@googlegroups.com.
The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.
The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your mood):
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks