From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 00/10] Fix the early config
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 15:32:19 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1488897111.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1488562287.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
These patches are an attempt to make Git's startup sequence a bit less
surprising.
The idea here is to discover the .git/ directory gently (i.e. without
changing the current working directory, nor any global variables), and
to use it to read the .git/config file early, before we actually called
setup_git_directory() (if we ever do that).
This also allows us to fix the early config e.g. to determine the pager
or to resolve aliases in a non-surprising manner.
My own use case: in the GVFS Git fork, we need to execute pre-command
and post-command hooks before and after *every* Git command. A previous
version of the pre-command/post-command hook support was broken, as it
used run_hook() which implicitly called setup_git_directory() too early.
The discover_git_directory() function (and due to core.hooksPath also
the read_early_config() function) helped me fix this.
Notable notes:
- Even if it can cause surprising problems, `init` and `clone` are not
special-cased. Rationale: it would introduce technical debt and
violate the Principle Of Least Astonishment.
- The read_early_config() function does not cache Git directory
discovery nor read values. This is left for another patch series, if
it ever becomes necessary.
- The alias handling in git.c could possibly benefit from this work, but
again, this is a separate topic from the current patch series.
Changes since v3:
- instead of just fixing the `== '/'` comparison, 2/9 now *also* changes
the style of the original to something Linux' checkpatch.pl prefers.
- fixed the comment added in 8/9 which was stale from an earlier
iteration of this patch series.
- adjusted the commit above discover_git_directory()'s declaration, to
make it more understandable.
- touched up the commit message of 5/9 to make the flow more natural.
- moved a fault fixup: by mistake, the repository_format check was added
to 8/9 when it really needed to go to 5/9, where the
discover_git_directory() function was introduced (I noticed this while
rebasing).
- fixed discover_git_directory() when setup_git_directory_gently_1()
returned GIT_DIR_NONE (the previous iteration would *not* return NULL
in that case).
Johannes Schindelin (10):
t7006: replace dubious test
setup_git_directory(): use is_dir_sep() helper
Prepare setup_discovered_git_directory() the root directory
setup_git_directory_1(): avoid changing global state
Introduce the discover_git_directory() function
Make read_early_config() reusable
read_early_config(): avoid .git/config hack when unneeded
read_early_config(): really discover .git/
Test read_early_config()
setup_git_directory_gently_1(): avoid die()ing
cache.h | 8 ++
config.c | 25 +++++
pager.c | 31 ------
setup.c | 246 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
t/helper/test-config.c | 15 +++
t/t1309-early-config.sh | 50 ++++++++++
t/t7006-pager.sh | 18 +++-
7 files changed, 282 insertions(+), 111 deletions(-)
create mode 100755 t/t1309-early-config.sh
base-commit: 3bc53220cb2dcf709f7a027a3f526befd021d858
Published-As: https://github.com/dscho/git/releases/tag/early-config-v4
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/dscho/git early-config-v4
Interdiff vs v3:
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 8a4580f921d..e7b57457e73 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -518,7 +518,12 @@ extern void set_git_work_tree(const char *tree);
#define ALTERNATE_DB_ENVIRONMENT "GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES"
extern void setup_work_tree(void);
-/* Find GIT_DIR without changing the working directory or other global state */
+/*
+ * Find GIT_DIR of the repository that contains the current working directory,
+ * without changing the working directory or other global state. The result is
+ * appended to gitdir. The return value is either NULL if no repository was
+ * found, or pointing to the path inside gitdir's buffer.
+ */
extern const char *discover_git_directory(struct strbuf *gitdir);
extern const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *);
extern const char *setup_git_directory(void);
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 749623a9649..a88df53fdbc 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -1419,14 +1419,12 @@ void read_early_config(config_fn_t cb, void *data)
git_config_with_options(cb, data, NULL, 1);
/*
- * When we are not about to create a repository ourselves (init or
- * clone) and when no .git/ directory was set up yet (in which case
- * git_config_with_options() would already have picked up the
- * repository config), we ask discover_git_directory() to figure out
- * whether there is any repository config we should use (but unlike
+ * When setup_git_directory() was not yet asked to discover the
+ * GIT_DIR, we ask discover_git_directory() to figure out whether there
+ * is any repository config we should use (but unlike
* setup_git_directory_gently(), no global state is changed, most
- * notably, the current working directory is still the same after
- * the call).
+ * notably, the current working directory is still the same after the
+ * call).
*/
if (!have_git_dir() && discover_git_directory(&buf)) {
struct git_config_source repo_config;
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 5320ae37314..9118b48590a 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -825,7 +825,8 @@ enum discovery_result {
GIT_DIR_BARE,
/* these are errors */
GIT_DIR_HIT_CEILING = -1,
- GIT_DIR_HIT_MOUNT_POINT = -2
+ GIT_DIR_HIT_MOUNT_POINT = -2,
+ GIT_DIR_INVALID_GITFILE = -3
};
/*
@@ -842,7 +843,8 @@ enum discovery_result {
* `dir` (i.e. *not* necessarily the cwd).
*/
static enum discovery_result setup_git_directory_gently_1(struct strbuf *dir,
- struct strbuf *gitdir)
+ struct strbuf *gitdir,
+ int die_on_error)
{
const char *env_ceiling_dirs = getenv(CEILING_DIRECTORIES_ENVIRONMENT);
struct string_list ceiling_dirs = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP;
@@ -890,14 +892,22 @@ static enum discovery_result setup_git_directory_gently_1(struct strbuf *dir,
if (one_filesystem)
current_device = get_device_or_die(dir->buf, NULL, 0);
for (;;) {
- int offset = dir->len;
+ int offset = dir->len, error_code = 0;
if (offset > min_offset)
strbuf_addch(dir, '/');
strbuf_addstr(dir, DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT);
- gitdirenv = read_gitfile(dir->buf);
- if (!gitdirenv && is_git_directory(dir->buf))
- gitdirenv = DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT;
+ gitdirenv = read_gitfile_gently(dir->buf, die_on_error ?
+ NULL : &error_code);
+ if (!gitdirenv) {
+ if (die_on_error ||
+ error_code == READ_GITFILE_ERR_NOT_A_FILE) {
+ if (is_git_directory(dir->buf))
+ gitdirenv = DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT;
+ } else if (error_code &&
+ error_code != READ_GITFILE_ERR_STAT_FAILED)
+ return GIT_DIR_INVALID_GITFILE;
+ }
strbuf_setlen(dir, offset);
if (gitdirenv) {
strbuf_addstr(gitdir, gitdirenv);
@@ -912,7 +922,8 @@ static enum discovery_result setup_git_directory_gently_1(struct strbuf *dir,
if (offset <= min_offset)
return GIT_DIR_HIT_CEILING;
- while (--offset > ceil_offset && !is_dir_sep(dir->buf[offset]));
+ while (--offset > ceil_offset && !is_dir_sep(dir->buf[offset]))
+ ; /* continue */
if (offset <= ceil_offset)
return GIT_DIR_HIT_CEILING;
@@ -933,7 +944,7 @@ const char *discover_git_directory(struct strbuf *gitdir)
return NULL;
cwd_len = dir.len;
- if (setup_git_directory_gently_1(&dir, gitdir) < 0) {
+ if (setup_git_directory_gently_1(&dir, gitdir, 0) <= 0) {
strbuf_release(&dir);
return NULL;
}
@@ -963,7 +974,7 @@ const char *discover_git_directory(struct strbuf *gitdir)
return NULL;
}
- return gitdir->buf;
+ return gitdir->buf + gitdir_offset;
}
const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *nongit_ok)
@@ -992,7 +1003,7 @@ const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *nongit_ok)
die_errno(_("Unable to read current working directory"));
strbuf_addbuf(&dir, &cwd);
- switch (setup_git_directory_gently_1(&dir, &gitdir)) {
+ switch (setup_git_directory_gently_1(&dir, &gitdir, 1)) {
case GIT_DIR_NONE:
prefix = NULL;
break;
--
2.12.0.windows.1.7.g94dafc3b124
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Thread overview: 123+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-08 15:35 [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Pie-in-the-sky attempt to fix the early config Johannes Schindelin
2016-12-08 15:36 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/7] Make read_early_config() reusable Johannes Schindelin
2016-12-08 15:36 ` [PATCH/RFC 2/7] read_early_config(): avoid .git/config hack when unneeded Johannes Schindelin
2016-12-08 15:36 ` [PATCH/RFC 3/7] Mark builtins that create .git/ directories Johannes Schindelin
2016-12-08 15:36 ` [PATCH/RFC 4/7] read_early_config(): special-case `init` and `clone` Johannes Schindelin
2016-12-08 15:36 ` [PATCH/RFC 5/7] read_early_config(): really discover .git/ Johannes Schindelin
2016-12-08 15:36 ` [PATCH/RFC 6/7] WIP read_config_early(): respect ceiling directories Johannes Schindelin
2016-12-08 15:36 ` [PATCH/RFC 7/7] WIP: read_early_config(): add tests Johannes Schindelin
2016-12-08 17:26 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Pie-in-the-sky attempt to fix the early config Jeff King
2016-12-09 17:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-12-09 17:55 ` Jeff King
2016-12-09 12:42 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-12-09 16:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 2:03 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] Fix " Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 2:04 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] t7006: replace dubious test Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 3:36 ` Jeff King
2017-03-03 11:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 2:04 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] setup_git_directory(): use is_dir_sep() helper Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 3:37 ` Jeff King
2017-03-03 11:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 11:26 ` Jeff King
2017-03-03 15:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 2:04 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] setup_git_directory(): avoid changing global state during discovery Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 4:24 ` Jeff King
2017-03-03 13:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 2:04 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] Export the discover_git_directory() function Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 4:45 ` Jeff King
2017-03-03 14:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 2:04 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] Make read_early_config() reusable Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 4:46 ` Jeff King
2017-03-03 14:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 2:04 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] read_early_config(): special-case builtins that create a repository Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 4:51 ` Jeff King
2017-03-03 15:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 2:04 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] read_early_config(): avoid .git/config hack when unneeded Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 4:51 ` Jeff King
2017-03-03 2:04 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] read_early_config(): really discover .git/ Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 5:06 ` Jeff King
2017-03-03 15:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 2:04 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] Test read_early_config() Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 5:07 ` Jeff King
2017-03-03 15:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 5:14 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] Fix the early config Jeff King
2017-03-03 15:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 17:31 ` [PATCH v3 " Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 17:32 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] t7006: replace dubious test Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 17:32 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] setup_git_directory(): use is_dir_sep() helper Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 17:32 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] Prepare setup_discovered_git_directory() the root directory Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 17:32 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] setup_git_directory_1(): avoid changing global state Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 17:33 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] Export the discover_git_directory() function Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 17:33 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] Make read_early_config() reusable Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 17:33 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] read_early_config(): avoid .git/config hack when unneeded Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 17:33 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] read_early_config(): really discover .git/ Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 17:33 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] Test read_early_config() Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 21:35 ` [PATCH v3 0/9] Fix the early config Junio C Hamano
2017-03-07 11:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-07 15:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-04 7:39 ` Jeff King
2017-03-05 3:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-07 14:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-08 7:30 ` Jeff King
2017-03-08 16:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-08 16:29 ` Jeff King
2017-03-08 17:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-08 17:42 ` Jeff King
2017-03-08 22:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-09 11:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-09 12:16 ` Jeff King
2017-03-10 16:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-07 14:32 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2017-03-07 14:32 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] t7006: replace dubious test Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-07 14:32 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] setup_git_directory(): use is_dir_sep() helper Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-07 14:32 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] Prepare setup_discovered_git_directory() the root directory Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-07 14:32 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] setup_git_directory_1(): avoid changing global state Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-07 23:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-07 23:35 ` Brandon Williams
2017-03-08 0:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-08 2:10 ` Brandon Williams
2017-03-07 14:33 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] Introduce the discover_git_directory() function Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-07 14:33 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] Make read_early_config() reusable Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-07 14:33 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] read_early_config(): avoid .git/config hack when unneeded Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-07 14:33 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] read_early_config(): really discover .git/ Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-07 14:33 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] Test read_early_config() Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-07 14:33 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] setup_git_directory_gently_1(): avoid die()ing Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-09 22:23 ` [PATCH v5 00/11] Fix the early config Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-09 22:23 ` [PATCH v5 01/11] t7006: replace dubious test Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-09 22:23 ` [PATCH v5 02/11] setup_git_directory(): use is_dir_sep() helper Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-09 22:23 ` [PATCH v5 03/11] Prepare setup_discovered_git_directory() the root directory Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-09 22:24 ` [PATCH v5 04/11] setup_git_directory_1(): avoid changing global state Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-10 19:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-09 22:24 ` [PATCH v5 05/11] Introduce the discover_git_directory() function Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-09 22:24 ` [PATCH v5 06/11] Make read_early_config() reusable Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-09 22:24 ` [PATCH v5 07/11] read_early_config(): avoid .git/config hack when unneeded Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-09 22:25 ` [PATCH v5 08/11] read_early_config(): really discover .git/ Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-09 22:25 ` [PATCH v5 09/11] Test read_early_config() Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-10 19:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-13 17:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 17:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-09 22:25 ` [PATCH v5 10/11] setup_git_directory_gently_1(): avoid die()ing Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-10 18:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-13 19:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 19:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-13 20:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-13 21:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 23:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-09 22:25 ` [PATCH v5 11/11] t1309: document cases where we would want early config not to die() Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 20:09 ` [PATCH v6 00/12] Fix the early config Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 20:09 ` [PATCH v6 01/12] t7006: replace dubious test Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 20:09 ` [PATCH v6 02/12] setup_git_directory(): use is_dir_sep() helper Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 20:09 ` [PATCH v6 03/12] Prepare setup_discovered_git_directory() the root directory Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-13 21:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 20:10 ` [PATCH v6 04/12] setup_git_directory_1(): avoid changing global state Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 20:10 ` [PATCH v6 05/12] Introduce the discover_git_directory() function Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 20:11 ` [PATCH v6 06/12] Make read_early_config() reusable Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 20:11 ` [PATCH v6 07/12] read_early_config(): avoid .git/config hack when unneeded Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 20:11 ` [PATCH v6 08/12] read_early_config(): really discover .git/ Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 20:11 ` [PATCH v6 09/12] Add t1309 to test read_early_config() Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 20:11 ` [PATCH v6 10/12] setup_git_directory_gently_1(): avoid die()ing Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 20:11 ` [PATCH v6 11/12] t1309: document cases where we would want early config not to die() Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 20:12 ` [PATCH v6 12/12] setup.c: mention unresolved problems Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-13 22:31 ` [PATCH v6 00/12] Fix the early config Junio C Hamano
2017-03-14 18:01 ` Jeff King
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