Test that on platforms without `core.symlinks`, we preserve symlinks
in `git_index_add_bypath`. (Users should correct the actual index
entry's mode to change a link to a regular file.)
Test that nanoseconds are round-tripped correctly when we read
an index file that contains them. We should, however, ignore them
because we don't understand them, and any new entries in the index
should contain a `0` nsecs field, while existing preserving entries.
When we do not trust the on-disk mode, we use the mode of an existing
index entry. This allows us to preserve executable bits on platforms
that do not honor them on the filesystem.
If there is no stage 0 index entry, also look at conflicts to attempt
to answer this question: prefer the data from the 'ours' side, then
the 'theirs' side before falling back to the common ancestor.
Untangle git_futils_mkdir from git_futils_mkdir_ext - the latter
assumes that we own everything beneath the base, as if it were
being called with a base of the repository or working directory,
and is tailored towards checkout and ensuring that there is no
bogosity beneath the base that must be cleaned up.
This is (at best) slow and (at worst) unsafe in the larger context
of a filesystem where we do not own things and cannot do things like
unlink symlinks that are in our way.
On case insensitive platforms, allow `git_index_add` to provide a new
path for an existing index entry. Previously, we would maintain the
case in an index entry without the ability to change it (except by
removing an entry and re-adding it.)
Higher-level functions (like `git_index_add_bypath` and
`git_index_add_frombuffers`) continue to keep the old path for easier
usage.
On case insensitive systems, when given a user-provided path in the
higher-level index addition functions (eg `git_index_add_bypath` /
`git_index_add_frombuffer`), examine the index to try to match the
given path to an existing directory.
Various mechanisms can cause the on-disk representation of a folder
to not match the representation in HEAD or the index - for example,
a case changing rename of some file `a/file.txt` to `A/file.txt`
will update the paths in the index, but not rename the folder on
disk.
If a user subsequently adds `a/other.txt`, then this should be stored
in the index as `A/other.txt`.
When we pass the path of a repository to `_bypath()`, we should behave
like git and stage it as a `_COMMIT` regardless of whether it is
registered a a submodule.
When confronted with a conflict in the index, `git_index_add_all`
should stage the working directory copy. If there is no file in the
working directory, the conflict should simply be removed.
It's not always obvious the mapping between stage level and
conflict-ness. More importantly, this can lead otherwise sane
people to write constructs like `if (!git_index_entry_stage(entry))`,
which (while technically correct) is unreadable.
Provide a nice method to help avoid such messy thinking.
The idea...sometimes, a filemode is user-specified via an
explicit git_index_entry. In this case, believe the user, always.
Sometimes, it is instead built up by statting the file system. In
those cases, go with the existing logic we have to determine
whether the file system supports all filemodes and symlinks, and
make the best guess.
On file systems which have full filemode and symlink support, this
commit should make no difference. On others (most notably Windows),
this will fix problems things like:
* git_index_add and git_index_add_frombuffer() should be believed.
* As a consequence, git_checkout_tree should make the filemodes in
the index match the ones in the tree.
* And diffs with GIT_DIFF_UPDATE_INDEX don't write the wrong filemodes.
* And merges, and probably other downstream stuff now fixed, too.
This makes my previous changes to checkout.c unnecessary,
so they are now reverted.
Also, added a test for index_entry permissions from git_index_add
and git_index_add_frombuffer, both of which failed before these changes.
The signature for the reflog is not something which changes
dynamically. Almost all uses will be NULL, since we want for the
repository's default identity to be used, making it noise.
In order to allow for changing the identity, we instead provide
git_repository_set_ident() and git_repository_ident() which allow a user
to override the choice of signature.
git_index_add_frombuffer enables now to store a memory buffer in the odb
and to store an entry in the index directly if the index is attached to a
repository.
Introduce `git_indexwriter`, to allow us to lock the index while
performing additional operations, then complete the write (or abort,
unlocking the index).
Path validation may be influenced by `core.protectHFS` and
`core.protectNTFS` configuration settings, thus treebuilders
can take a repository to influence their configuration.