When a push specifies deletion of non-existent refs, the post post-receive and
post-update hooks receive them as input/arguments.

For instance, for the following push, where refs/heads/nonexistent is a ref
which does not exist on the remote side:

	git push origin :refs/heads/nonexistent

the post-receive hook receives from standard input:

	<null-sha1> SP <null-sha1> SP refs/heads/nonexistent

and the post-update hook receives as arguments:

	refs/heads/nonexistent

which does not make sense since it is a no-op.

Teach receive-pack not to pass non-existent refs to the post-receive and
post-update hooks. If the push only attempts to delete non-existent refs,
these hooks are not even called.

The update and pre-receive hooks are still notified about attempted
deletion of non-existent refs to give them a chance to inspect the
situation and act on it.

[jc: mild fix-ups to avoid introducing an extra list; also added fixes to
some tests]
Signed-off-by: NPang Yan Han <pangyanhan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Add support for dividing the refs of a single repository into multiple
namespaces, each of which can have its own branches, tags, and HEAD.
Git can expose each namespace as an independent repository to pull from
and push to, while sharing the object store, and exposing all the refs
to operations such as git-gc.

Storing multiple repositories as namespaces of a single repository
avoids storing duplicate copies of the same objects, such as when
storing multiple branches of the same source.  The alternates mechanism
provides similar support for avoiding duplicates, but alternates do not
prevent duplication between new objects added to the repositories
without ongoing maintenance, while namespaces do.

To specify a namespace, set the GIT_NAMESPACE environment variable to
the namespace.  For each ref namespace, git stores the corresponding
refs in a directory under refs/namespaces/.  For example,
GIT_NAMESPACE=foo will store refs under refs/namespaces/foo/.  You can
also specify namespaces via the --namespace option to git.

Note that namespaces which include a / will expand to a hierarchy of
namespaces; for example, GIT_NAMESPACE=foo/bar will store refs under
refs/namespaces/foo/refs/namespaces/bar/.  This makes paths in
GIT_NAMESPACE behave hierarchically, so that cloning with
GIT_NAMESPACE=foo/bar produces the same result as cloning with
GIT_NAMESPACE=foo and cloning from that repo with GIT_NAMESPACE=bar.  It
also avoids ambiguity with strange namespace paths such as
foo/refs/heads/, which could otherwise generate directory/file conflicts
within the refs directory.

Add the infrastructure for ref namespaces: handle the GIT_NAMESPACE
environment variable and --namespace option, and support iterating over
refs in a namespace.
Signed-off-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: NJamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

When create a new branch, we fed "refs/heads/<proposed name>" as a string
to get_sha1() and expected it to fail when a branch already exists.

The right way to check if a ref exists is to check with resolve_ref().

A naïve solution that might appear attractive but does not work is to
forbid slashes in get_describe_name() but that will not work. A describe
name is is in the form of "ANYTHING-g<short sha1>", and that ANYTHING part
comes from a original tag name used in the repository the user ran the
describe command. A sick user could have a confusing hierarchical tag
whose name is "refs/heads/foobar" (stored as refs/tags/refs/heads/foobar")
to generate a describe name "refs/heads/foobar-6-g02ac9837", and we should
be able to use that name to refer to the object whose name is 02ac9837.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

By passing the path to a submodule in opt->submodule, the function can
be used to walk history in the named submodule repository, instead of
the toplevel repository.
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

859c3017 (refs: split log_ref_write logic into log_ref_setup,
2010-05-21) refactors the stack allocation of the log_file array into
the new log_ref_setup() function, but passes it back to the caller.

Since the original intent seems to have been to split the work between
log_ref_setup and log_ref_write, make it the caller's responsibility
to allocate the buffer.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Reported-by: NÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Separation of the logic for testing and preparing the reflogs from
function log_ref_write to a new non static new function: log_ref_setup.

This allows to be performed from outside the first all reasonable checks
and procedures for writing reflogs.
Signed-off-by: NErick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

With this patch, you can set notes.displayRef to a glob that points at
your favourite notes refs, e.g.,

[notes]
	displayRef = refs/notes/*

Then git-log and friends will show notes from all trees.

Thanks to Junio C Hamano for lots of feedback, which greatly
influenced the design of the entire series and this commit in
particular.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: NJohan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Since local branch, tags and remote tracking branch namespaces are
most often used, add shortcut notations for globbing those in
manner similar to --glob option.

With this, one can express the "what I have but origin doesn't?"
as:

'git log --branches --not --remotes=origin'
Original-idea-by: NJohannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: NIlari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Add --glob=<glob-pattern> option to rev-parse and everything that
accepts its options. This option matches all refs that match given
shell glob pattern (complete with some DWIM logic).

Example:

'git log --branches --not --glob=remotes/origin'

To show what you have that origin doesn't.
Signed-off-by: NIlari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Different callers of warn_dangling_symref() may want to control whether its
output goes to stdout or stderr so let it take a FILE argument.
Signed-off-by: NJay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This is some preparation work for the following patches that are using
the "refs/replace/" ref namespace.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

In preparation to be used when the ref object is not available
Signed-off-by: NFelipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Add the strict mode of abbreviation to shorten_unambiguous_ref(), i.e. the
resulting ref won't trigger the ambiguous ref warning.

All users of shorten_unambiguous_ref() still use the loose mode.
Signed-off-by: NBert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Often we want to shorten a full ref name to something "prettier"
to show a user. For example, "refs/heads/master" is often shown
simply as "master", or "refs/remotes/origin/master" is shown as
"origin/master".

Many places in the code use a very simple formula: skip common
prefixes like refs/heads, refs/remotes, etc. This is codified in
the prettify_ref function.

for-each-ref has a more correct (but more expensive) approach:
consider the ref lookup rules, and try shortening as much as
possible while remaining unambiguous.

This patch makes the latter strategy globally available as
shorten_unambiguous_ref.
Signed-off-by: NJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The "for_each_{tag,branch,remote,replace,}_ref" functions are
redefined in terms of "for_each_ref_in" so that we can lose the
hardcoded length of prefix strings from the code.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

The result should be consistent between fetch and push, so we ought to
use the same code in both cases, even though it's short.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

If you prune from the remote "frotz" that deleted the ref your tracking
branch remotes/frotz/HEAD points at, the symbolic ref will become
dangling.  We used to detect this as an error condition and issued a
message every time refs are enumerated.

This stops the error message, but moves the warning to "remote prune".
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This can be used to scan only the last few kilobytes of a reflog, as a
cheap optimization when the data you are looking for is likely to be
found near the end of it.  The caller is expected to fall back to the
full scan if that is not the case.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

These refs can be anything, but they are most likely useful as
pointing to objects that you know are in the object database but don't
have any regular refs for. For example, when cloning with --reference,
the refs in this repository should be listed as objects that we have,
even though we don't have refs in our newly-created repository for
them yet.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This is in preparation to the reflog-expire changes which will
allow updating the ref after expiring the reflog.
Signed-off-by: NBrandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Recent check_ref_format() returns -3 as well as -1 (general
error) and -2 (less than two levels).  The caller was explicitly
checking for -1, to allow "HEAD" but still needed to disallow
bogus refs.

This introduces symbolic constants for the return values from
check_ref_format() to make them read better and more
meaningful.  Normal ref creation codepath can still treat
non-zero return values as errors.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: NJohannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

A function intended to be called from builtins updating refs
by locking them before write, specially those that came from
scripts using "git update-ref".

[jc: with minor fixups]
Signed-off-by: NCarlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

git-checkout is also adapted to make use of this new option
instead of the handcrafted command sequence.
Signed-off-by: NSven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

This new function resolves a ref in *another* git repository.  It's
named for its intended use: to look up the git link to a subproject.

It's not actually wired up to anything yet, but we're getting closer to
having fundamental plumbing support for "links" from one git directory
to another, which is the basis of subproject support.

[jc: amended a FILE* leak]
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Currently, the search for all reflogs depends on the existence of
corresponding refs under the .git/refs/ directory.  Let's scan the
.git/logs/ directory directly instead.
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

A ref might be pointing to another ref but only the name of the last ref
is remembered.  Let's remember about the first name as well.
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

This allows for ref_log_write() to be used in a more flexible way,
and is needed for future changes.

This is only code reorg with no behavior change.
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

You can pass an extra argument to the function to receive the
reflog message information.  Also when the log does not go back
beyond the point the user asked, the cut-off time and count are
given back to the caller for emitting the error messages as
appropriately.

We could later add configuration for get_sha1_basic() to make it
an error instead of it being just a warning.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

It used to ignore the return value of the helper function; now, it
expects it to return 0, and stops iteration upon non-zero return
values; this value is then passed on as the return value of
for_each_reflog_ent().

Further, it makes no sense to force the parsing upon the helper
functions; for_each_reflog_ent() now calls the helper function with
old and new sha1, the email, the timestamp & timezone, and the message.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

This changes the signature of rename_ref() in refs.[hc] to include a
logmessage for the reflogs.

Also, builtin-branch.c is modified to provide a proper logmessage + call
setup_ident() before any logmessages are written.
Signed-off-by: NLars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Extend git-branch with the following options:

  git-branch -m|-M [<oldbranch>] newbranch

The -M variation is required to force renaming over an exsisting
branchname.

This also indroduces $GIT_DIR/RENAME_REF which is a "metabranch"
used when renaming branches. It will always hold the original sha1
for the latest renamed branch.

Additionally, if $GIT_DIR/logs/RENAME_REF exists, all branch rename
events are logged there.

Finally, some testcases are added to verify the new options.
Signed-off-by: NLars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

This fixes the previous implementation which failed to optimize
repositories with tons of lightweight tags.  The updated
packed-refs format begins with "# packed-refs with:" line that
lists the kind of extended data the file records.  Currently,
there is only one such extension defined, "peeled".  This stores
the "peeled tag" on a line that immediately follows a line for a
tag object itself in the format "^<sha-1>".

The header line itself and any extended data are ignored by
older implementation, so packed-refs file generated with this
version can still be used by older git.  packed-refs made by
older git can of course be used with this version.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

This would speed up "show-ref -d" in a repository with mostly
packed tags.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Often I find myself wanting to say 'tip of "next" before I
merged the last three topics'.  Now I can say that with:

	git log next@{3}..next

Since small integers alone are invalid input strings to
approxidate, there is no fear of confusion.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

This drops "mustexist" parameter lock_ref_sha1() and lock_any_ref_forupdate()
functions take.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

This adds a "int *flag" parameter to resolve_ref() and makes
for_each_ref() family to call callback function with an extra
"int flag" parameter.  They are used to give two bits of
information (REF_ISSYMREF and REF_ISPACKED) about the ref.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

This is a long overdue fix to the API for for_each_ref() family
of functions.  It allows the callers to specify a callback data
pointer, so that the caller does not have to use static
variables to communicate with the callback funciton.

The updated for_each_ref() family takes a function of type

	int (*fn)(const char *, const unsigned char *, void *)

and a void pointer as parameters, and calls the function with
the name of the ref and its SHA-1 with the caller-supplied void
pointer as parameters.

The commit updates two callers, builtin-name-rev.c and
builtin-pack-refs.c as an example.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

This actually "turns on" the packed ref file format, now that the
infrastructure to do so sanely exists (ie notably the change to make the
reference reading logic take refnames rather than pathnames to the loose
objects that no longer necessarily even exist).

In particular, when the ref lookup hits a refname that has no loose file
associated with it, it falls back on the packed-ref information. Also, the
ref-locking code, while still using a loose file for the locking itself
(and _creating_ a loose file for the new ref) no longer requires that the
old ref be in such an unpacked state.

Finally, this does a minimal hack to git-checkout.sh to rather than check
the ref-file directly, do a "git-rev-parse" on the "heads/$refname".
That's not really wonderful - we should rather really have a special
routine to verify the names as proper branch head names, but it is a
workable solution for now.

With this, I can literally do something like

	git pack-refs
	find .git/refs -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f --

and the end result is a largely working repository (ie I've done two
commits - which creates _one_ unpacked ref file - done things like run
"gitk" and "git log" etc, and it all looks ok).

There are probably things missing, but I'm hoping that the missing things
are now of the "small and obvious" kind, and that somebody else might want
to start looking at this too. Hint hint ;)
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>