The upstream git.git project verifies objects when looking them up from
disk. This avoids scenarios where objects have somehow become corrupt on
disk, e.g. due to hardware failures or bit flips. While our mantra is
usually to follow upstream behavior, we do not do so in this case, as we
never check hashes of objects we have just read from disk.
To fix this, we create a new error class `GIT_EMISMATCH` which denotes
that we have looked up an object with a hashsum mismatch. `odb_read_1`
will then, after having read the object from its backend, hash the
object and compare the resulting hash to the expected hash. If hashes do
not match, it will return an error.
This obviously introduces another computation of checksums and could
potentially impact performance. Note though that we usually perform I/O
operations directly before doing this computation, and as such the
actual overhead should be drowned out by I/O. Running our test suite
seems to confirm this guess. On a Linux system with best-of-five
timings, we had 21.592s with the check enabled and 21.590s with the
ckeck disabled. Note though that our test suite mostly contains very
small blobs only. It is expected that repositories with bigger blobs may
notice an increased hit by this check.
In addition to a new test, we also had to change the
odb::backend::nonrefreshing test suite, which now triggers a hashsum
mismatch when looking up the commit "deadbeef...". This is expected, as
the fake backend allocated inside of the test will return an empty
object for the OID "deadbeef...", which will obviously not hash back to
"deadbeef..." again. We can simply adjust the hash to equal the hash of
the empty object here to fix this test.
Provide a macro that will allow us to run a function with posix-like
return values multiple times in a retry loop, with an optional cleanup
function called between invocations.
Add a new function that checks wether a given `struct
git_worktree` is valid. The validation includes checking if the
gitdir, parent directory and common directory are present.
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.
We do not error on "merge conflicts"; on the contrary, merge conflicts
are a normal part of merging. We only error on "checkout conflicts",
where a change exists in the index or the working directory that would
otherwise be overwritten by performing the checkout.
This *may* happen during merge (after the production of the new index
that we're going to checkout) but it could happen during any checkout.
This can be used by tools to show mesages about failing to communicate
with the server. The error message in this case will often contain the
server's error message, as far as it managed to send anything.
There are some combination of objects and target types which we know
cannot be fulfilled. Return EINVALIDSPEC for those to signify that there
is a mismatch in the user-provided data and what the object model is
capable of satisfying.
If we start at a tag and in the course of peeling find out that we
cannot reach a particular type, we return EPEEL.
Already cherry-picked commits should not be re-included. If all changes
included in a commit exist in the upstream, then we should error with
GIT_EAPPLIED.
If the certificate validation fails (or always in the case of ssh),
let the user decide whether to allow the connection.
The data structure passed to the user is the native certificate
information from the underlying implementation, namely OpenSSL or
WinHTTP.
This changes the behavior of callbacks so that the callback error
code is not converted into GIT_EUSER and instead we propagate the
return value through to the caller. Instead of using the
giterr_capture and giterr_restore functions, we now rely on all
functions to pass back the return value from a callback.
To avoid having a return value with no error message, the user
can call the public giterr_set_str or some such function to set
an error message. There is a new helper 'giterr_set_callback'
that functions can invoke after making a callback which ensures
that some error message was set in case the callback did not set
one.
In places where the sign of the callback return value is
meaningful (e.g. positive to skip, negative to abort), only the
negative values are returned back to the caller, obviously, since
the other values allow for continuing the loop.
The hardest parts of this were in the checkout code where positive
return values were overloaded as meaningful values for checkout.
I fixed this by adding an output parameter to many of the internal
checkout functions and removing the overload. This added some
code, but it is probably a better implementation.
There is some funkiness in the network code where user provided
callbacks could be returning a positive or a negative value and
we want to rely on that to cancel the loop. There are still a
couple places where an user error might get turned into GIT_EUSER
there, I think, though none exercised by the tests.
This adds giterr_user_cancel to return GIT_EUSER and clear any
error message that is sitting around. As a result of using that
in places, we need to be more thorough with capturing errors that
happen inside a callback when used internally. To help with that,
this also adds giterr_capture and giterr_restore so that when we
internally use a foreach-type function that clears errors and
converts them to GIT_EUSER, it is easier to restore not just the
return value, but the actual error message text.
There are a number of cases where it is convenient to be able to
fetch and "claim" the current error string, clearing the error.
This is helpful when you need to call some code that may alter
the error and you want to restore it later on and/or report it via
some other mechanism.
The filter registry as implemented was too primitive to actually
work once multiple filters were coming into play. This expands
the implementation of the registry to handle multiple prioritized
filters correctly.
Additionally, this adds an "attributes" field to a filter that
makes it really really easy to implement filters that are based
on one or more attribute values. The lookup and even simple value
checking can all happen automatically without custom filter code.
Lastly, with the registry improvements, this fills out the filter
lifecycle callbacks, with initialize and shutdown callbacks that
will be called before the filter is first used and after it is
last invoked. This allows for system-wide initialization and
cleanup by the filter.
Unfortunately git-core uses the term "unborn branch" and "orphan
branch" interchangeably. However, "orphan" is only really there for
the checkout command, which has the `--orphan` option so it doesn't
actually create the branch.
Branches never have parents, so the distinction of a branch with no
parents is odd to begin with. Crucially, the error messages deal with
unborn branches, so let's use that.
Report the index being locked with its own error code in order to be
able to differentiate, as a locked index is typically the result of a
crashed process or concurrent access, both of which often require user
intervention to fix.
Fixed a few header @param and @return typos with the help of -Wdocumentation in Xcode.
The following warnings have not been fixed:
common.h:213 - Not sure how the documentation format is for '...'
notes.h:102 - Correct @param name but empty text
notes.h:111 - Correct @param name but empty text
pack.h:140 - @return missing text
pack.h:148 - @return missing text