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Junio C Hamano
15be621072 Merge branch 'mm/push-default-warning'
Across the transition at around Git version 2.0, the user used to
get a pretty loud warning when running "git push" without setting
push.default configuration variable.  We no longer warn, given that
the transition is over long time ago.

* mm/push-default-warning:
  push: remove "push.default is unset" warning message
2016-02-26 13:37:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4ce064dd81 Merge branch 'fa/merge-recursive-no-rename'
"git merge-recursive" learned "--no-renames" option to disable its
rename detection logic.

* fa/merge-recursive-no-rename:
  t3034: test deprecated interface
  t3034: test option to disable renames
  t3034: add rename threshold tests
  merge-recursive: find-renames resets threshold
  merge-strategies.txt: fix typo
  merge-recursive: more consistent interface
  merge-recursive: option to disable renames
2016-02-26 13:37:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9671a76c17 Merge branch 'sb/submodule-fetch-nontip'
When "git submodule update" did not result in fetching the commit
object in the submodule that is referenced by the superproject, the
command learned to retry another fetch, specifically asking for
that commit that may not be connected to the refs it usually
fetches.

* sb/submodule-fetch-nontip:
  submodule: try harder to fetch needed sha1 by direct fetching sha1
2016-02-26 13:37:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
03f682bf74 Merge branch 'sb/submodule-module-list-fix'
A helper function "git submodule" uses since v2.7.0 to list the
modules that match the pathspec argument given to its subcommands
(e.g. "submodule add <repo> <path>") has been fixed.

* sb/submodule-module-list-fix:
  submodule helper list: respect correct path prefix
2016-02-26 13:37:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c6b94eb009 Merge branch 'tb/conversion'
Code simplification.

* tb/conversion:
  convert.c: correct attr_action()
  convert.c: simplify text_stat
  convert.c: refactor crlf_action
  convert.c: use text_eol_is_crlf()
  convert.c: remove input_crlf_action()
  convert.c: remove unused parameter 'path'
  t0027: add tests for get_stream_filter()
2016-02-26 13:37:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
316336379c Merge branch 'jk/grep-binary-workaround-in-test'
Recent versions of GNU grep are pickier when their input contains
arbitrary binary data, which some of our tests uses.  Rewrite the
tests to sidestep the problem.

* jk/grep-binary-workaround-in-test:
  t9200: avoid grep on non-ASCII data
  t8005: avoid grep on non-ASCII data
2016-02-26 13:37:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c1fa85ff8c Merge branch 'ps/plug-xdl-merge-leak'
* ps/plug-xdl-merge-leak:
  xdiff/xmerge: fix memory leak in xdl_merge
2016-02-26 13:37:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1e4c08ff7e Merge branch 'mm/push-simple-doc'
The documentation did not clearly state that the 'simple' mode is
now the default for "git push" when push.default configuration is
not set.

* mm/push-simple-doc:
  Documentation/git-push: document that 'simple' is the default
2016-02-26 13:37:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2a24444aae Merge branch 'jg/credential-cache-chdir-to-sockdir'
The "credential-cache" daemon process used to run in whatever
directory it happened to start in, but this made umount(2)ing the
filesystem that houses the repository harder; now the process
chdir()s to the directory that house its own socket on startup.

* jg/credential-cache-chdir-to-sockdir:
  credential-cache--daemon: change to the socket dir on startup
  credential-cache--daemon: disallow relative socket path
  credential-cache--daemon: refactor check_socket_directory
2016-02-26 13:37:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
225caa73f2 Merge branch 'ps/config-error'
Many codepaths forget to check return value from git_config_set();
the function is made to die() to make sure we do not proceed when
setting a configuration variable failed.

* ps/config-error:
  config: rename git_config_set_or_die to git_config_set
  config: rename git_config_set to git_config_set_gently
  compat: die when unable to set core.precomposeunicode
  sequencer: die on config error when saving replay opts
  init-db: die on config errors when initializing empty repo
  clone: die on config error in cmd_clone
  remote: die on config error when manipulating remotes
  remote: die on config error when setting/adding branches
  remote: die on config error when setting URL
  submodule--helper: die on config error when cloning module
  submodule: die on config error when linking modules
  branch: die on config error when editing branch description
  branch: die on config error when unsetting upstream
  branch: report errors in tracking branch setup
  config: introduce set_or_die wrappers
2016-02-26 13:37:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
56d4e7e6c3 Merge branch 'mg/work-tree-tests'
Traditionally, the tests that try commands that work on the
contents in the working tree were named with "worktree" in their
filenames, but with the recent addition of "git worktree"
subcommand, whose tests are also named similarly, it has become
harder to tell them apart.  The traditional tests have been renamed
to use "work-tree" instead in an attempt to differentiate them.

* mg/work-tree-tests:
  tests: rename work-tree tests to *work-tree*
2016-02-26 13:37:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dd0f567f10 Merge branch 'ls/config-origin'
The configuration system has been taught to phrase where it found a
bad configuration variable in a better way in its error messages.
"git config" learnt a new "--show-origin" option to indicate where
the values come from.

* ls/config-origin:
  config: add '--show-origin' option to print the origin of a config value
  config: add 'origin_type' to config_source struct
  rename git_config_from_buf to git_config_from_mem
  t: do not hide Git's exit code in tests using 'nul_to_q'
2016-02-26 13:37:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
11529ecec9 Merge branch 'jk/tighten-alloc'
Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc().

* jk/tighten-alloc: (22 commits)
  ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
  convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
  diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
  transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
  git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
  sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
  test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
  fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
  fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
  write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
  prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
  use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
  convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
  use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
  convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
  convert manual allocations to argv_array
  argv-array: add detach function
  add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
  harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
  tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
  ...
2016-02-26 13:37:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3ed26a44b3 Merge branch 'jk/more-comments-on-textconv'
The memory ownership rule of fill_textconv() API, which was a bit
tricky, has been documented a bit better.

* jk/more-comments-on-textconv:
  diff: clarify textconv interface
2016-02-26 13:37:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
18b26b18c5 Merge branch 'jk/no-diff-emit-common'
"git merge-tree" used to mishandle "both sides added" conflict with
its own "create a fake ancestor file that has the common parts of
what both sides have added and do a 3-way merge" logic; this has
been updated to use the usual "3-way merge with an empty blob as
the fake common ancestor file" approach used in the rest of the
system.

* jk/no-diff-emit-common:
  xdiff: drop XDL_EMIT_COMMON
  merge-tree: drop generate_common strategy
  merge-one-file: use empty blob for add/add base
2016-02-26 13:37:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dede29612a Merge branch 'ak/git-strip-extension-from-dashed-command'
Code simplification.

* ak/git-strip-extension-from-dashed-command:
  git.c: simplify stripping extension of a file in handle_builtin()
2016-02-26 13:37:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7943cba1de Merge branch 'ak/extract-argv0-last-dir-sep'
Code simplification.

* ak/extract-argv0-last-dir-sep:
  exec_cmd.c: use find_last_dir_sep() for code simplification
2016-02-26 13:37:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
26f7b5c79a Merge branch 'kn/ref-filter-atom-parsing'
The ref-filter's format-parsing code has been refactored, in
preparation for "branch --format" and friends.

* kn/ref-filter-atom-parsing:
  ref-filter: introduce objectname_atom_parser()
  ref-filter: introduce contents_atom_parser()
  ref-filter: introduce remote_ref_atom_parser()
  ref-filter: align: introduce long-form syntax
  ref-filter: introduce align_atom_parser()
  ref-filter: introduce parse_align_position()
  ref-filter: introduce color_atom_parser()
  ref-filter: introduce parsing functions for each valid atom
  ref-filter: introduce struct used_atom
  ref-filter: bump 'used_atom' and related code to the top
  ref-filter: use string_list_split over strbuf_split
2016-02-26 13:37:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ae2f25542f Merge branch 'tg/git-remote'
The internal API to interact with "remote.*" configuration
variables has been streamlined.

* tg/git-remote:
  remote: use remote_is_configured() for add and rename
  remote: actually check if remote exits
  remote: simplify remote_is_configured()
  remote: use parse_config_key
2016-02-26 13:37:09 -08:00
Matthieu Moy
2f275207ce push: remove "push.default is unset" warning message
The warning was important before the 2.0 transition, and remained
important for a while after, so that new users get push.default
explicitly in their configuration and do not experience inconsistent
behavior if they ever used an older version of Git.

The warning has been there since version 1.8.0 (Oct 2012), hence we can
expect the vast majority of current Git users to have been exposed to
it, and most of them have already set push.default explicitly. The
switch from 'matching' to 'simple' was planned for 2.0 (May 2014), but
actually happened only for 2.3 (Feb 2015).

Today, the warning is mostly seen by beginners, who have not set their
push.default configuration (yet). For many of them, the warning is
confusing because it talks about concepts that they have not learned and
asks them a choice that they are not able to make yet. See for example

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13148066/warning-push-default-is-unset-its-implicit-value-is-changing-in-git-2-0

(1260 votes for the question, 1824 for the answer as of writing)

Remove the warning completely to avoid disturbing beginners. People who
still occasionally use an older version of Git will be exposed to the
warning through this old version.

Eventually, versions of Git without the warning will be deployed enough
and tutorials will not need to advise setting push.default anymore.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-25 09:56:42 -08:00
Stefan Beller
fb43e31f2b submodule: try harder to fetch needed sha1 by direct fetching sha1
When reviewing a change that also updates a submodule in Gerrit, a
common review practice is to download and cherry-pick the patch
locally to test it. However when testing it locally, the 'git
submodule update' may fail fetching the correct submodule sha1 as
the corresponding commit in the submodule is not yet part of the
project history, but also just a proposed change.

If $sha1 was not part of the default fetch, we try to fetch the $sha1
directly. Some servers however do not support direct fetch by sha1,
which leads git-fetch to fail quickly. We can fail ourselves here as
the still missing sha1 would lead to a failure later in the checkout
stage anyway, so failing here is as good as we can get.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-24 15:24:49 -08:00
Felipe Gonçalves Assis
44c74ecade t3034: test deprecated interface
--find-renames= and --rename-threshold= should be aliases.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipegassis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-24 14:48:55 -08:00
Felipe Gonçalves Assis
2307211349 t3034: test option to disable renames
Signed-off-by: Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipegassis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-24 14:48:34 -08:00
Felipe Gonçalves Assis
63651e1a13 t3034: add rename threshold tests
10ae752 (merge-recursive: option to specify rename threshold,
2010-09-27) introduced this feature but did not include any tests.

The tests use the new option --find-renames, which replaces the then
introduced and now deprecated option --rename-threshold.

Also update name and description of t3032 for consistency:
"merge-recursive options" -> "merge-recursive space options"

Signed-off-by: Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipegassis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-24 14:45:28 -08:00
Stefan Beller
2b56bb7a87 submodule helper list: respect correct path prefix
This is a regression introduced by 74703a1e4d (submodule: rewrite
`module_list` shell function in C, 2015-09-02).

Add a test to ensure we list the right submodule when giving a
specific pathspec.

Reported-By: Caleb Jorden <cjorden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-24 14:33:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
56f37fda51 Eighth batch for 2.8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-24 13:31:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c3b1e8d851 Merge branch 'jc/am-i-v-fix'
The "v(iew)" subcommand of the interactive "git am -i" command was
broken in 2.6.0 timeframe when the command was rewritten in C.

* jc/am-i-v-fix:
  am -i: fix "v"iew
  pager: factor out a helper to prepare a child process to run the pager
  pager: lose a separate argv[]
2016-02-24 13:26:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
595bfefa6c Merge branch 'nd/worktree-add-B'
"git worktree add -B <branchname>" did not work.

* nd/worktree-add-B:
  worktree add -B: do the checkout test before update branch
  worktree: fix "add -B"
2016-02-24 13:26:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5e57f9c3df Merge branch 'nd/exclusion-regression-fix'
Another try to add support to the ignore mechanism that lets you
say "this is excluded" and then later say "oh, no, this part (that
is a subset of the previous part) is not excluded".

* nd/exclusion-regression-fix:
  dir.c: don't exclude whole dir prematurely
  dir.c: support marking some patterns already matched
  dir.c: support tracing exclude
  dir.c: fix match_pathname()
2016-02-24 13:25:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e79112d210 Merge branch 'ce/https-public-key-pinning'
You can now set http.[<url>.]pinnedpubkey to specify the pinned
public key when building with recent enough versions of libcURL.

* ce/https-public-key-pinning:
  http: implement public key pinning
2016-02-24 13:25:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
65ba75ba7d Merge branch 'bc/http-empty-auth'
Some authentication methods do not need username or password, but
libcurl needs some hint that it needs to perform authentication.
Supplying an empty username and password string is a valid way to
do so, but you can set the http.[<url>.]emptyAuth configuration
variable to achieve the same, if you find it cleaner.

* bc/http-empty-auth:
  http: add option to try authentication without username
2016-02-24 13:25:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
97c49af6a7 Merge branch 'sp/remote-curl-ssl-strerror'
Help those who debug http(s) part of the system.

* sp/remote-curl-ssl-strerror:
  remote-curl: include curl_errorstr on SSL setup failures
2016-02-24 13:25:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9831e92bfa Merge branch 'jk/lose-name-path'
The "name_path" API was an attempt to reduce the need to construct
the full path out of a series of path components while walking a
tree hierarchy, but over time made less efficient because the path
needs to be flattened, e.g. to be compared with another path that
is already flat.  The API has been removed and its users have been
rewritten to simplify the overall code complexity.

* jk/lose-name-path:
  list-objects: pass full pathname to callbacks
  list-objects: drop name_path entirely
  list-objects: convert name_path to a strbuf
  show_object_with_name: simplify by using path_name()
  http-push: stop using name_path
2016-02-24 13:25:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e84d5e9fa1 Merge branch 'ew/force-ipv4'
"git fetch" and friends that make network connections can now be
told to only use ipv4 (or ipv6).

* ew/force-ipv4:
  connect & http: support -4 and -6 switches for remote operations
2016-02-24 13:25:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8020803f50 Merge branch 'nd/git-common-dir-fix'
"git rev-parse --git-common-dir" used in the worktree feature
misbehaved when run from a subdirectory.

* nd/git-common-dir-fix:
  rev-parse: take prefix into account in --git-common-dir
2016-02-24 13:25:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e6a6a768ca Merge branch 'nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs'
"git show 'HEAD:Foo[BAR]Baz'" did not interpret the argument as a
rev, i.e. the object named by the the pathname with wildcard
characters in a tree object.

* nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs:
  get_sha1: don't die() on bogus search strings
  check_filename: tighten dwim-wildcard ambiguity
  checkout: reorder check_filename conditional
2016-02-24 13:25:52 -08:00
Felipe Gonçalves Assis
87892f605b merge-recursive: find-renames resets threshold
Make the find-renames option follow the behaviour in git-diff, where it
resets the threshold when none is given. So, for instance,
"--find-renames=25 --find-renames" should result in the default
threshold (50%) instead of 25%.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipegassis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-24 10:39:02 -08:00
John Keeping
3b1442d5d2 t9200: avoid grep on non-ASCII data
GNU grep 2.23 detects the input used in this test as binary data so it
does not work for extracting lines from a file.  We could add the "-a"
option to force grep to treat the input as text, but not all
implementations support that.  Instead, use sed to extract the desired
lines since it will always treat its input as text.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-23 15:03:43 -08:00
John Keeping
0be43dedbc t8005: avoid grep on non-ASCII data
GNU grep 2.23 detects the input used in this test as binary data so it
does not work for extracting lines from a file.  We could add the "-a"
option to force grep to treat the input as text, but not all
implementations support that.  Instead, use sed to extract the desired
lines since it will always treat its input as text.

While touching these lines, modernize the test style to avoid hiding the
exit status of "git blame" and remove a space following a redirection
operator.  Also swap the order of the expected and actual output
files given to test_cmp; we compare expect and actual to show how
actual output differs from what is expected.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-23 15:00:12 -08:00
Jon Griffiths
6e61449051 credential-cache--daemon: change to the socket dir on startup
Changing to the socket path stops the daemon holding open
the directory the user was in when it was started,
preventing umount from working. We're already holding open a
socket in that directory, so there's no downside.

Thanks-to: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jon Griffiths <jon_p_griffiths@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-23 14:48:03 -08:00
Matthieu Moy
f6b1fb372e Documentation/git-push: document that 'simple' is the default
The default behavior is well documented already in git-config(1), but
git-push(1) itself did not mention it at all. For users willing to learn
how "git push" works but not how to configure it, this makes the
documentation cumbersome to read.

Make the git-push(1) page self-contained by adding a short summary of
what 'push.default=simple' does, early in the page.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-23 13:35:10 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
4867f1184c xdiff/xmerge: fix memory leak in xdl_merge
When building the script for the second file that is to be merged
we have already allocated memory for data structures related to
the first file. When we encounter an error in building the second
script we only free allocated memory related to the second file
before erroring out.

Fix this memory leak by also releasing allocated memory related
to the first file.

Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-23 12:58:26 -08:00
Jon Griffiths
bd93b8d9be credential-cache--daemon: disallow relative socket path
Relative socket paths are dangerous since the user cannot generally
control when the daemon starts (initially, after a timeout, kill or
crash). Since the daemon creates but does not delete the socket
directory, this could lead to spurious directory creation relative
to the users cwd.

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jon Griffiths <jon_p_griffiths@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-23 12:56:27 -08:00
Jon Griffiths
a6e5e2864f credential-cache--daemon: refactor check_socket_directory
This function does an early return, and therefore has to
repeat its cleanup. We can stick the later bit of the
function into an "else" and avoid duplicating the shared
part (which will get bigger in a future patch).

Let's also rename the function to init_socket_directory. It
not only checks the directory but also creates it. Saying
"init" is more accurate.

Signed-off-by: Jon Griffiths <jon_p_griffiths@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-23 12:56:26 -08:00
Eric Wong
7c0da37d7b tests: remove no-op full-svn-test target
git-svn has not supported GIT_SVN_NO_OPTIMIZE_COMMITS for
the "set-tree" sub-command in 9 years since commit 490f49ea5899
("git-svn: remove optimized commit stuff for set-tree").

So remove this target and TSVN variable to avoid confusion.

ref: http://mid.gmane.org/56C9B7B7.7030406@f2.dion.ne.jp

Helped-by: Kazutoshi Satoda <k_satoda@f2.dion.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-23 12:55:03 -08:00
Torsten Bögershausen
817a0c7968 convert.c: correct attr_action()
df747b81 (convert.c: refactor crlf_action, 2016-02-10) introduced a
bug to "git ls-files --eol".

The "text" attribute was shown as "text eol=lf" or "text eol=crlf",
depending on core.autocrlf or core.eol.

Correct this and add test cases in t0027.

Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-23 12:53:15 -08:00
Jeff King
907681e940 xdiff: drop XDL_EMIT_COMMON
There are no more callers that use this mode, and none
likely to be added (as our xdl_merge() eliminates the common
use of it for generating 3-way merge bases).

This is effectively a revert of a9ed376 (xdiff: generate
"anti-diffs" aka what is common to two files, 2006-06-28),
though of course trying to revert that ancient commit
directly produces many textual conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22 22:36:09 -08:00
Jeff King
b779b3a199 merge-tree: drop generate_common strategy
When merge_blobs sees an add/add conflict, it tries to
create a virtual base object for the 3-way merge that
consists of the common lines of each file. It inherited this
strategy from merge-one-file in 0c79938 (Improved three-way
blob merging code, 2006-06-28), and the point is to minimize
the size of the conflict hunks. That commit talks about "if
libxdiff were to ever grow a compatible three-way merge, it
could probably be directly plugged in".

That has long since happened. So as with merge-one-file in
the previous commit, this extra step is no longer necessary.
Our 3-way merge code is smart enough to do the minimizing
itself if we simply feed it an empty base, which is what the
more modern merge-recursive strategy already does.

Not only does this let us drop some code, but it removes an
overflow bug in generate_common_file(). We allocate a buffer
as large as the smallest of the two blobs, under the
assumption that there cannot be more common content than
what is in the smaller blob. However, xdiff may feed us
more: if neither file ends in a newline, it feeds us the
"\nNo newline at end of file" marker as common content, and
we write it into the output. If the differences between the
files are small than that string, we overflow the output
buffer.  This patch solves it by simply dropping the buggy
code entirely.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22 22:36:07 -08:00
Jeff King
1a92e53ba3 merge-one-file: use empty blob for add/add base
When we see an add/add conflict on a file, we generate the
conflicted content by doing a 3-way merge with a "virtual"
base consisting of the common lines of the two sides. This
strategy dates back to cb93c19 (merge-one-file: use common
as base, instead of emptiness., 2005-11-09).

Back then, the next step was to call rcs merge to generate
the 3-way conflicts. Using the virtual base produced much
better results, as rcs merge does not attempt to minimize
the hunks. As a result, you'd get a conflict with the
entirety of the files on either side.

Since then, though, we've switched to using git-merge-file,
which uses xdiff's "zealous" merge. This will find the
minimal hunks even with just the simple, empty base.

Let's switch to using that empty base. It's simpler, more
efficient, and reduces our dependencies (we no longer need a
working diff binary). It's also how the merge-recursive
strategy handles this same case.

We can almost get rid of git-sh-setup's create_virtual_base,
but we don't here, for two reasons:

  1. The functions in git-sh-setup are part of our public
     interface, so it's possible somebody is depending on
     it. We'd at least need to deprecate it first.

  2. It's also used by mergetool's p4merge driver. It's
     unknown whether its 3-way merge is as capable as git's;
     if not, then it is benefiting from the function.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22 22:36:05 -08:00
Jeff King
08c95df8fa ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
Now that we're built around xmalloc and friends, we can use
helpers like REALLOC_ARRAY, ALLOC_GROW, and so on to make
the code shorter and protect against integer overflow.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22 14:51:09 -08:00