When an entry has a racy timestamp, we need to check whether the file
itself has changed since we put its entry in the index. Only then do we
smudge the size field to force a check the next time around.
This is used by the submodule in order to figure out if the index has
changed since it last read it. Using a timestamp is racy, so let's make
it use the checksum, just like we now do for reloading the index itself.
We currently use a timetamp to check whether an index file has been
modified since we last read it, but this is racy. If two updates happen
in the same second and we read after the first one, we won't detect the
second one.
Instead read the SHA-1 checksum of the file, which are its last 20 bytes which
gives us a sure-fire way to detect whether the file has changed since we
last read it.
As we're now keeping track of it, expose an accessor to this data.
If a file entry has the same timestamp as the index itself, it is
considered racily-clean, as it may have been modified after the index
was written, but during the same second. We take extra steps to check
the contents, but this is just one part of avoiding races.
For files which do have changes but have not been updated in the index,
updating the on-disk index means updating its timestamp, which means we
would no longer recognise these entries as racy and we would trust the
timestamp to tell us whether they have changed.
In order to work around this, git zeroes out the file-size field in
entries with the same timestamp as the index in order to force the next
diff to check the contents. Do so in libgit2 as well.
Introduce a new binary diff callback to provide the actual binary
delta contents to callers. Create this data from the diff contents
(instead of directly from the ODB) to support binary diffs including
the workdir, not just things coming out of the ODB.
If there exists a conflict in the index, but no file in the working
directory, this implies that the user wants to accept the resolution
by removing the file. Thus, remove the conflict entry from the
index, instead of trying to add a (nonexistent) file.
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.
Instead of going through each entry we have and re-adding, which may not
even be correct for certain crlf options and has bad performance, use
the function which performs a diff against the worktree and try to add
and remove files from that list.
We currently iterate over all the entries and re-add them to the
index. While this provides correctness, it is wasteful as we try to
re-insert files which have not changed.
Instead, take a diff between the index and the worktree and only re-add
those which we already know have changed.
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.
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).
Make our overflow checking look more like gcc and clang's, so that
we can substitute it out with the compiler instrinsics on platforms
that support it. This means dropping the ability to pass `NULL` as
an out parameter.
As a result, the macros also get updated to reflect this as well.
For the REUC and NAME entries, we use size_t internally, and we take
size_t for the get_byindex() functions, but the entrycount() functions
strangely cast to an unsigned int instead.
Disallow:
1. paths with trailing dot
2. paths with trailing space
3. paths with trailing colon
4. paths that are 8.3 short names of .git folders ("GIT~1")
5. paths that are reserved path names (COM1, LPT1, etc).
6. paths with reserved DOS characters (colons, asterisks, etc)
These paths would (without \\?\ syntax) be elided to other paths - for
example, ".git." would be written as ".git". As a result, writing these
paths literally (using \\?\ syntax) makes them hard to operate with from
the shell, Windows Explorer or other tools. Disallow these.
We cannot know from looking at .gitmodules whether a directory is a
submodule or not. We need the index or tree we are comparing against to
tell us. Otherwise we have to assume the entry in .gitmodules is stale
or otherwise invalid.
Thus we pass the index of the repository into the workdir iterator, even
if we do not want to compare against it. This follows what git does,
which even for `git diff <tree>`, it will consider staged submodules as
such.
Keeping the cache around after read-tree is only one part of the
optimisation opportunities. In order to share the cache between program
instances, we need to write the TREE extension to the index.
Do so, taking the opportunity to rename 'entries' to 'entry_count' to
match the name given in the format description. The included test is
rather trivial, but works as a sanity check.
When reading from a tree, we know what every tree is going to look like,
so we can fill in the tree cache completely, making use of the index for
modification of trees a lot quicker.
This simplifies freeing the entries quite a bit; though there aren't
that many failure paths right now, introducing filling the cache from a
tree will introduce more. This makes sure not to leak memory on errors.
This reorganized the diff OID calculation to make it easier to
correctly update the stat cache during a diff once the flags to
do so are enabled.
This includes marking the path of a git_index_entry as const so
we can make a "fake" git_index_entry with a "const char *" path
and not get warnings. I was a little surprised at how unobtrusive
this change was, but I think it's probably a good thing.
In the threading tests, I was still seeing a race condition where
the same item could end up being inserted multiple times into the
index. Preserving the sorted-ness of the index outside of the
`index_insert` call fixes the issue.
This is a big refactoring of the attribute file cache to be a bit
simpler which in turn makes it easier to enforce a lock around any
updates to the cache so that it can be used in a threaded env.
Tons of changes to the attributes and ignores code.
I introduced a leak into conflict cleanup by removing items from
inside the git_vector_remove_matching call. This simplifies the
code to just use one common way for the two conflict cleanup APIs.
When an index has an active snapshot, removing an item can cause
an error (inserting into the deferred deletion vector), so I made
the git_index_conflict_cleanup API return an error code. I felt
like this wasn't so bad since it is just like the other APIs.
I fixed up a couple of comments while I was changing the header.
This makes the lock management on the index a little bit broader,
having a number of routines hold the lock across looking up the
item to be modified and actually making the modification. Still
not true thread safety, but more pure index modifications are now
safe which allows the simple cases (such as starting up a diff
while index modifications are underway) safe enough to get the
snapshot without hitting allocation problems.
As part of this, I simplified the allocation of index entries to
use a flex array and just put the path at the end of the index
entry. This makes every entry self-contained and makes it a
little easier to feel sure that pointers to strings aren't
being accidentally copied and freed while other references are
still being held.
This makes the index iterator honor the GIT_ITERATOR_IGNORE_CASE
and GIT_ITERATOR_DONT_IGNORE_CASE flags without modifying the
index data itself. To take advantage of this, I had to export a
number of the internal index entry comparison functions. I also
wrote some new tests to exercise the capability.
Again, laying groundwork for some index iterator changes, this
contains a bunch of code refactorings for index internals that
should make it easier down the line to add locking around index
modifications. Also this removes the redundant prefix_position
function and fixes some potential memory leaks.