The `path_repository` variable is actually confusing to think
about, as it is not always clear what the repository actually is.
It may either be the path to the folder containing worktree and
.git directory, the path to .git itself, a worktree or something
entirely different. Actually, the intent of the variable is to
hold the path to the gitdir, which is either the .git directory
or the bare repository.
Rename the variable to `gitdir` to avoid confusion. While at it,
also rename `path_gitlink` to `gitlink` to improve consistency.
Error messages should be sentence fragments, and therefore:
1. Should not begin with a capital letter,
2. Should not conclude with punctuation, and
3. Should not end a sentence and begin a new one
When one side of a merge is treesame to the ancestor, we can take the other side and skip all the expensive merge operations. This optimization can only be performed when the generation of REUC extension data is skipped.
Since the `apply` callback can defer, the `check` callback is not
necessary. Removing the `check` callback further makes the `payload`
unnecessary along with the `cleanup` callback.
Consumers can now register custom merged drivers with
`git_merge_driver_register`. This allows consumers to support the
merge drivers, as configured in `.gitattributes`. Consumers will be
asked to perform the file-level merge when a custom driver is
configured.
Instead of calling `git_index_add` in a loop, use the new
`git_index_fill` internal API to fill the index with the initial staged
entries.
The new `fill` helper assumes that all the entries will be unique and
valid, so it can append them at the end of the entries vector and only
sort it once at the end. It performs no validation checks.
This prevents the quadratic behavior caused by having to sort the
entries list once after every insertion.
When building a recursive merge base, allow conflicts to occur.
Use the file (with conflict markers) as the common ancestor.
The user has already seen and dealt with this conflict by virtue
of having a criss-cross merge. If they resolved this conflict
identically in both branches, then there will be no conflict in the
result. This is the best case scenario.
If they did not resolve the conflict identically in the two branches,
then we will generate a new conflict. If the user is simply using
standard conflict output then the results will be fairly sensible.
But if the user is using a mergetool or using diff3 output, then the
common ancestor will be a conflict file (itself with diff3 output,
haha!). This is quite terrible, but it matches git's behavior.
Use annotated commits to act as our virtual bases, instead of regular
commits, to avoid polluting the odb with virtual base commits and
trees. Instead, build an annotated commit with an index and pointers
to the commits that it was merged from.
When there are more than two common ancestors, continue merging the
virtual base with the additional common ancestors, effectively
octopus merging a new virtual base.
Provide a new merge option, GIT_MERGE_TREE_FAIL_ON_CONFLICT, which
will stop on the first conflict and fail the merge operation with
GIT_EMERGECONFLICT.
xdiff craps the bed on large files. Treat very large files as binary,
so that it doesn't even have to try.
Refactor our merge binary handling to better match git.git, which
looks for a NUL in the first 8000 bytes.
When using literal pathspecs in diff with `GIT_DIFF_DISABLE_PATHSPEC_MATCH`
turn on the faster iterator pathlist handling.
Updates iterator pathspecs to include directory prefixes (eg, `foo/`)
for compatibility with `GIT_DIFF_DISABLE_PATHSPEC_MATCH`.
