While C Git has been writing entry count -1 (ie. never other negative
numbers) as invalid since day 1, it accepts all negative entry counts
as invalid. JGit follows the same rule. libgit2 should also follow, or
the index that works with C Git or JGit may someday be rejected by
libgit2.
Other reimplementations like dulwich and grit have not bothered with
parsing or writing tree cache.
The `git_iterator_reset` command has not been working in all cases
particularly when there is a start and end range. This fixes it
and adds tests for it, and also extends it with the ability to
update the start/end range strings when an iterator is reset.
This removes the need to explicitly pass the repo into iterators
where the repo is implied by the other parameters. This moves
the repo to be owned by the parent struct. Also, this has some
iterator related updates to the internal diff API to lay the
groundwork for checkout improvements.
This could also use PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER, but a dynamic initializer seems like a more portable concept, and we won't need another #define on top of git_mutex_init()
Storing 4kB or 8kB in the stack is not very gentle. As this part has
to be linear, put the buffer into the indexer object so we allocate it
once in the heap.
There are many different broken filemodes in the wild so we need to
protect against them and give something useful up the chain. Don't
fail when reading a tree from the ODB but normalize the mode as best
we can.
As 664 is no longer a mode that we consider to be valid and gets
normalized to 644, we can stop accepting it in the treebuilder. The
library won't expose it to the user, so any invalid modes are a bug.
To paraphrase @peff:
You can get both size and type from a packed object reasonably cheaply.
If you have:
* An object that is not a delta; both type and size are available in the
packfile header.
* An object that is a delta. The packfile type will be OBJ_*_DELTA, and
you have to resolve back to the base to find the real type. That means
potentially a lot of packfile index lookups, but each one is
relatively cheap. For the size, you inflate the first few bytes of the
delta, whose header will tell you the resulting size of applying the
delta to the base.
For simplicity, we just decompress the whole delta for now.
