git
19 years ago[PATCH] Clean up read-tree two-way tests.
Junio C Hamano [Sat, 11 Jun 2005 01:34:34 +0000 (18:34 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Clean up read-tree two-way tests.

This is in preparation for "2-way fast-forward emulated with
3-way mechanism" series.  It does not change what the tests for
pure 2-way do.  It only changes how it tests things, to make
reviewing of differences of the two tests easier in later steps.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Add --diff-filter= output restriction to diff-* family.
Junio C Hamano [Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:57:13 +0000 (20:57 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Add --diff-filter= output restriction to diff-* family.

This is a halfway between debugging aid and a helper to write an
ultra-smart merge scripts.  The new option takes a string that
consists of a list of "status" letters, and limits the diff
output to only those classes of changes, with two exceptions:

 - A broken pair (aka "complete rewrite"), does not match D
   (deleted) or N (created).  Use B to look for them.

 - The letter "A" in the diff-filter string does not match
   anything itself, but causes the entire diff that contains
   selected patches to be output (this behaviour is similar to
   that of --pickaxe-all for the -S option).

For example,

    $ git-rev-list HEAD |
      git-diff-tree --stdin -s -v -B -C --diff-filter=BCR

shows a list of commits that have complete rewrite, copy, or
rename.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] diff-tree: --find-copies-harder
Junio C Hamano [Sat, 11 Jun 2005 01:31:02 +0000 (18:31 -0700)] 
[PATCH] diff-tree: --find-copies-harder

Normally, diff-tree does not feed unchanged filepair to diffcore
for performance reasons, so copies are detected only when the
source file of the copy happens to be modified in the same
changeset.  This adds --find-copies-harder flag to tell
diff-tree to sacrifice the performance in order to find copies
the same way as other commands in diff-* family.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Tutorial update to adjust for -B fix
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 19:11:07 +0000 (12:11 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Tutorial update to adjust for -B fix

Now -B does not say silly "complete rewrite" anymore for small
files such as the one in the tutorial example.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Fix rename/copy when dealing with temporarily broken pairs.
Junio C Hamano [Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:55:20 +0000 (20:55 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Fix rename/copy when dealing with temporarily broken pairs.

When rename/copy uses a file that was broken by diffcore-break
as the source, and the broken filepair gets merged back later,
the output was mislabeled as a rename.  In this case, the source
file ends up staying in the output, so we should label it as a
copy instead.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agogit-whatchanged: make default output format be pretty.
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:35:04 +0000 (20:35 -0700)] 
git-whatchanged: make default output format be pretty.

If you want the raw stuff, just do

git-whatchanged --pretty=raw

and it wil act like it used to.

19 years agogit-diff-tree: fix output with just "--pretty".
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:34:09 +0000 (20:34 -0700)] 
git-diff-tree: fix output with just "--pretty".

It set verbose, but didn't set the output prefix to "diff-tree".

19 years ago[PATCH] Support commit_format in diff-tree
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:44:21 +0000 (17:44 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Support commit_format in diff-tree

This steals --pretty command line option from rev-list and
teaches diff-tree to do the same.  With this change,

    $ git-whatchanged --pretty

would work as expected.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Re-Fix SIGSEGV on unmerged files in git-diff-files -p
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:23:15 +0000 (17:23 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Re-Fix SIGSEGV on unmerged files in git-diff-files -p

When an unmerged path was fed via diff_unmerged() into diffcore,
it eventually called run_diff() with "one" and "two" parameters
with NULL, but run_diff() was not written carefully enough to
notice this situation.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agogit-apply: ignore empty git headers
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 12 Jun 2005 16:37:49 +0000 (09:37 -0700)] 
git-apply: ignore empty git headers

A meaningful (ie non-empty) git patch always has more information in the
header than just the "diff --git" line itself: it needs to have either a
patch associated with it (which implies "---" and "+++" lines in the
header) or it needs to have rename/copy/delete/create information in it.

Just ignore git patches which have no change information. Otherwise we'll
end up with a patch that doesn't have filenames etc filled in, and we'll
be unhappy.

19 years ago[PATCH] Bugfix: read-cache.c:write_cache() misrecords number of entries.
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:32:37 +0000 (01:32 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Bugfix: read-cache.c:write_cache() misrecords number of entries.

When we choose to omit deleted entries, we should subtract
numbers of such entries from the total number in the header.

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

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agogit-read-tree: remove deleted files in the working directory
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 9 Jun 2005 22:34:04 +0000 (15:34 -0700)] 
git-read-tree: remove deleted files in the working directory

Only when "-u" is used of course.

19 years ago[PATCH] Add git-diff-stages command.
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 9 Jun 2005 22:13:13 +0000 (15:13 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Add git-diff-stages command.

The diff-* brothers acquired a sibling, git-diff-stages.  With
an unmerged index file, you specify two stage numbers and it
shows the differences between them.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agogit-read-tree: add "--reset" flag
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:51:01 +0000 (12:51 -0700)] 
git-read-tree: add "--reset" flag

This is the same as "-m", but it will silently ignore any unmerged
entries, which makes it useful for efficiently forcing a new position
regardless of the state of the current index file.

IOW, to reset to a previous HEAD (in case you have had a failed
merge, for example), you'd just do

git-read-tree -u --reset HEAD

which will also update your working tree to the right state.

NOTE! The "update" will not remove files that may have been added by the
merge.  Yet.

19 years agoOne more time.. Clean up git-merge-one-file-script
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 9 Jun 2005 00:56:09 +0000 (17:56 -0700)] 
One more time.. Clean up git-merge-one-file-script

This uses git-checkout-file to make sure that the full pathname is
created, instead of the script having to verify it by hand.  Also,
simplify the 3-way merge case by just writing to the right file and
setting the initial index contents early.

19 years agoFix up git-merge-one-file-script
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 9 Jun 2005 00:36:47 +0000 (17:36 -0700)] 
Fix up git-merge-one-file-script

Junio points out that we may need to create the path leading
up the the file we merge.

And we need to be more careful with the "exec"s we've done
to exit on success - only do the on the last command in the
pipeline, not the first one ;)

19 years agoMerge my and Petr's git-merge-one-file-script modifications
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 8 Jun 2005 23:54:23 +0000 (16:54 -0700)] 
Merge my and Petr's git-merge-one-file-script modifications

19 years ago[PATCH] git-merge-one-file-script cleanups from Cogito
Petr Baudis [Wed, 8 Jun 2005 23:38:20 +0000 (01:38 +0200)] 
[PATCH] git-merge-one-file-script cleanups from Cogito

Chain the resolving sequences (e.g. git-cat-file - chmod -
git-update-cache) through &&s so we stop right away in case one of the
command fails, and report the error code to the script caller.

Also add a copyright notice, some blank lines, ;; on a separate line,
and nicer error messages.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agoMake sure we error out if we can't remove a file on automatic merges.
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 8 Jun 2005 23:35:30 +0000 (16:35 -0700)] 
Make sure we error out if we can't remove a file on automatic merges.

Pointed out by Junio.

19 years ago[PATCH] Tidy up some rev-list-related stuff
Petr Baudis [Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:59:43 +0000 (22:59 +0200)] 
[PATCH] Tidy up some rev-list-related stuff

This patch tidies up the git-rev-list documentation and epoch.c, which
are in severe clash with the unwritten coding style now, and quite
unreadable.

It also fixes up compile failures with older compilers due to variable
declarations after code.

The patch mostly wraps lines before or on the 80th column, removes
plenty of superfluous empty lines and changes comments from // to /* */.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Add read-tree -m 3-way merge tests.
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:55:35 +0000 (14:55 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Add read-tree -m 3-way merge tests.

This adds a set of tests to make sure that requirements on
existing cache entries are checked when a read-tree -m 3-way
merge is run with an already populated index file.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Fix git-merge-one-file permissions auto-merging
Petr Baudis [Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:26:55 +0000 (23:26 +0200)] 
[PATCH] Fix git-merge-one-file permissions auto-merging

In the automerge case, permissions were not restored properly after the
merge tool was invoked and overwrote the target file.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agoRemove MERGE_HEAD after committing merge
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:44:32 +0000 (13:44 -0700)] 
Remove MERGE_HEAD after committing merge

19 years agoMake "git commit" work correctly in the presense of a manual merge
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:33:15 +0000 (13:33 -0700)] 
Make "git commit" work correctly in the presense of a manual merge

This has gotten only very light testing, but something like this is
clearly necessary and did the right thing for the one case I threw at
it.

19 years agocvs-migration: add more of a header to the "annotate" discussion
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:19:31 +0000 (13:19 -0700)] 
cvs-migration: add more of a header to the "annotate" discussion

19 years ago[PATCH] Miniscule correction of diff-format.txt
Christian Meder [Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:55:03 +0000 (11:55 +0200)] 
[PATCH] Miniscule correction of diff-format.txt

Add missing "space" element to the description of the diff-format.

Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
Acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Anal retentive 'const unsigned char *sha1'
Jason McMullan [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 15:05:39 +0000 (11:05 -0400)] 
[PATCH] Anal retentive 'const unsigned char *sha1'

Make 'sha1' parameters const where possible

Signed-off-by: Jason McMullan <jason.mcmullan@timesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] git-diff-cache: handle pathspec beginning with a dash
Jonas Fonseca [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:27:00 +0000 (23:27 +0200)] 
[PATCH] git-diff-cache: handle pathspec beginning with a dash

Parse everything after '--' as tree name or pathspec.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agoLeave merge failures in the filesystem
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:40:59 +0000 (11:40 -0700)] 
Leave merge failures in the filesystem

This changes how we handle merges: if a automated merge
fails, we will leave the index as a clean entry pointing
to the original branch, and leave the actual file _dirty_
the way the "merge" program left it.

You can then just do "git-diff-files -p" to see what the
merge conflicts did, fix them up, and commit the end result.

NOTE NOTE NOTE! Do _not_ use "git commit" to commit such
a merge. It won't set the parents right. I'll need to fix
that. In the meantime, you'd need to merge using

git-commit-tree $(git-write) -p HEAD -p MERGE_HEAD

or something like that by hand.

19 years agoFix SIGSEGV on unmerged files in git-diff-files -p
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:31:53 +0000 (11:31 -0700)] 
Fix SIGSEGV on unmerged files in git-diff-files -p

NULL is not considered a VALID pathspec.

19 years ago[PATCH] Tests: read-tree -m test updates.
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:08:54 +0000 (02:08 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Tests: read-tree -m test updates.

This updates t1000 (basic 3-way merge test) to check the merge
results for both successful cases (earlier one checked the
result for only one of them).  Also fixes typos in t1002 that
broke '&&' chain, potentially missing a test failure before the
chain got broken.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agoMake default merge messages denser.
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:09:41 +0000 (10:09 -0700)] 
Make default merge messages denser.

In particular, make them readable on one line since that's what all the
tools like git-shortlog and gitk end up showing.

19 years ago[PATCH] three --merge-order bug fixes
Jon Seymour [Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:37:41 +0000 (00:37 +1000)] 
[PATCH] three --merge-order bug fixes

This patch fixes three bugs in --merge-order support
    * mark_ancestors_uninteresting was unnecessarily exponential which
      caused a problem when a commit with no parents was merged near the
      head of something like the linux kernel
    * removed a spurious statement from find_base which wasn't
      apparently causing problems now, but wasn't correct either.
    * removed an unnecessarily strict check from find_base_for_list
      that causes a problem if git-rev-list commit ^parent-of-commit
      is specified.
    * added some unit tests which were accidentally omitted from
      original merge-order patch

The fix to mark_ancestors_uninteresting isn't an optimal fix - a full
graph scan will still be performed in this case even though it is
not strictly required. However, a full graph scan is linear
and still no worse than git-rev-list HEAD which runs in less than 2
seconds on a warm cache.

Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] git-cvs2git: create tags
Sven Verdoolaege [Wed, 1 Jun 2005 11:27:23 +0000 (13:27 +0200)] 
[PATCH] git-cvs2git: create tags

cvsps seems to put a space after the tag name, so we remove it first.

19 years agogit-apply: creatign empty files is nonfatal
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:11:47 +0000 (08:11 -0700)] 
git-apply: creatign empty files is nonfatal

(but it will result in a warning)

19 years agoTalk about "git cvsimport" in the cvs migration docs
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 7 Jun 2005 22:52:06 +0000 (15:52 -0700)] 
Talk about "git cvsimport" in the cvs migration docs

We should add a lot more information about how you copy repositories,
pulling and pushing, merging etc.  Oh, well.  I'm not exactly known for
my documentation skills. Maybe somebody else will help me..

19 years ago[PATCH] Documentation: describe diff tweaking (fix).
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 00:54:10 +0000 (17:54 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Documentation: describe diff tweaking (fix).

I cannot count ;-)

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
19 years ago[PATCH] Start cvs-migration documentation
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 00:46:06 +0000 (17:46 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Start cvs-migration documentation

This does a section to talk about "cvs annotate".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agogit-read-tree: -u without -m is meaningless. Don't allow it.
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 7 Jun 2005 22:20:39 +0000 (15:20 -0700)] 
git-read-tree: -u without -m is meaningless. Don't allow it.

Also, documetn the "-u" in the usage string.

19 years agogit-read-tree: make one-way merge also honor the "update" flag
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 7 Jun 2005 22:17:33 +0000 (15:17 -0700)] 
git-read-tree: make one-way merge also honor the "update" flag

It didn't set CE_UPDATE before, so "-u" was a no-op.

19 years ago[PATCH] read-tree: update documentation for 3-way merge.
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:35:43 +0000 (14:35 -0700)] 
[PATCH] read-tree: update documentation for 3-way merge.

This explains the new merge world order that formally assigns
specific meaning to each of three tree-ish command line
arguments.  It also mentions -u option

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agoAdd CVS import scripts and programs
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 7 Jun 2005 22:11:28 +0000 (15:11 -0700)] 
Add CVS import scripts and programs

This gets the "cvs2git" program from the old git-tools
archive, and adds a nice script around it that makes it
much easier to use.

With this, you should be able to import a CVS archive
using just a simple

git cvsimport <cvsroot> <module>

and you're done. At least it worked for my one single test.

NOTE!! This may need tweaking. It currently expects (and
verifies) that cvsps version 2.1 is installed, but you
can't actually set any of the cvsps parameters, like the
time fuzz.

19 years agogit-ssh-push/pull: usability improvements
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:23:46 +0000 (14:23 -0700)] 
git-ssh-push/pull: usability improvements

Allow traditional ssh path specifiers (host:path), and let the user
override the command name on the other end.

With this, I can push to kernel.org with this script

export GIT_SSH_PULL=/home/torvalds/bin/git-ssh-pull
git-ssh-push -a -v -w heads/master heads/master master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

which while not pretty is at least workable.

19 years ago[PATCH] Use ntohs instead of htons to convert ce_flags to host byte order
Timo Hirvonen [Tue, 7 Jun 2005 20:35:56 +0000 (20:35 +0000)] 
[PATCH] Use ntohs instead of htons to convert ce_flags to host byte order

Use ntohs instead of htons to convert ce_flags to host byte order

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] read-tree: save more user hassles during fast-forward.
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 7 Jun 2005 18:36:30 +0000 (11:36 -0700)] 
[PATCH] read-tree: save more user hassles during fast-forward.

This implements the "never lose the current cache information or
the work tree state, but favor a successful merge over merge
failure" principle in the fast-forward two-tree merge operation.

It comes with a set of tests to cover all the cases described in
the case matrix found in the new documentation.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Document git-ssh-pull and git-ssh-push
Daniel Barkalow [Tue, 7 Jun 2005 02:30:39 +0000 (22:30 -0400)] 
[PATCH] Document git-ssh-pull and git-ssh-push

This fixes the documentation for git-ssh-push, as called by users (if you
run git-ssh-pull or git-ssh-push on one machine, the other runs on the
other machine, and they transfer data in the specified direction).

This also adds documentation for the -w option and for using filenames for
the commit-id (which does what you'd want: uses the source side's value,
not the value already on the target, even if you're running it on the
target).

It also credits me with the programs and the documentation for
git-ssh-push.

Someone who knows asciidoc should make sure I didn't mess up the
formatting. I'm only sure of the ascii part.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agogit-resolve-script: stop when the automated merge fails
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 7 Jun 2005 02:37:25 +0000 (19:37 -0700)] 
git-resolve-script: stop when the automated merge fails

No point in doing a tree write that will just throw
confusing messages on the screen.

19 years agoMake fetch/pull scripts terminate cleanly on errors
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 7 Jun 2005 00:40:22 +0000 (17:40 -0700)] 
Make fetch/pull scripts terminate cleanly on errors

Don't continue with a merge if the fetch failed.

19 years agogit-resolve-script: don't wait for three seconds any more
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 7 Jun 2005 00:39:14 +0000 (17:39 -0700)] 
git-resolve-script: don't wait for three seconds any more

We used to overwrite peoples dirty state.  We don't any more.  So don't
print the scary message and don't delay, just do the update already.

19 years ago[PATCH] -w support for git-ssh-pull/push
Daniel Barkalow [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:43:27 +0000 (16:43 -0400)] 
[PATCH] -w support for git-ssh-pull/push

This adds support for -w to git-ssh-pull and git-ssh-push to make
receiving side write the commit that was transferred to a reference file.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Generic support for pulling refs
Daniel Barkalow [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:38:26 +0000 (16:38 -0400)] 
[PATCH] Generic support for pulling refs

This adds support to pull.c for requesting a reference and writing it to a
file. All of the git-*-pull programs get stubs for now.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] rsh.c environment variable
Daniel Barkalow [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:35:02 +0000 (16:35 -0400)] 
[PATCH] rsh.c environment variable

rsh.c used to set the environment variable for the object database when
invoking the remote command. Now that there is a GIT_DIR variable, use
that instead.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Operations on refs
Daniel Barkalow [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:31:29 +0000 (16:31 -0400)] 
[PATCH] Operations on refs

This patch adds code to read a hash out of a specified file under
{GIT_DIR}/refs/, and to write such files atomically and optionally with an
compare and lock.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agogit-read-tree: some "final" cleanups
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:33:11 +0000 (14:33 -0700)] 
git-read-tree: some "final" cleanups

Looking good, but hey, it's not like I even have a real testcase for any
of this.  But unlike the mess that this was yerstday, today read-cache
is pretty readable and understandable.  Which is always a good sign.

19 years agogit-read-tree: simplify merge loops enormously
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:01:58 +0000 (14:01 -0700)] 
git-read-tree: simplify merge loops enormously

Stop trying to haev this stateful thing that keeps track of what it has
seen, and use a much simpler "gather all the different stages with the
same name together and just merge them in one go" approach.

Makes it a lot more understandable, and allows the different merge
algorithms to share the basic merge loop.

19 years ago[PATCH] index locking like everybody else
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 19:20:55 +0000 (12:20 -0700)] 
[PATCH] index locking like everybody else

This patch teaches read-tree how to use the index file locking
helpers the same way "checkout-cache -u" and "update-cache" do.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agoAdd "__noreturn__" attribute to die() and usage()
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:12:31 +0000 (10:12 -0700)] 
Add "__noreturn__" attribute to die() and usage()

Only with gcc. It fixes some warnings for certain versions
of gcc, but not apparently all.

19 years agogit-rev-list: make sure to link with ssl libraries
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:09:43 +0000 (09:09 -0700)] 
git-rev-list: make sure to link with ssl libraries

Needed for the bignum stuff used by merge-order.

19 years ago[PATCH] Modify git-rev-list to linearise the commit history in merge order.
jon@blackcubes.dyndns.org [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 15:39:40 +0000 (15:39 +0000)] 
[PATCH] Modify git-rev-list to linearise the commit history in merge order.

This patch linearises the GIT commit history graph into merge order
which is defined by invariants specified in Documentation/git-rev-list.txt.

The linearisation produced by this patch is superior in an objective sense
to that produced by the existing git-rev-list implementation in that
the linearisation produced is guaranteed to have the minimum number of
discontinuities, where a discontinuity is defined as an adjacent pair of
commits in the output list which are not related in a direct child-parent
relationship.

With this patch a graph like this:

a4 ---
| \   \
|  b4 |
|/ |  |
a3 |  |
|  |  |
a2 |  |
|  |  c3
|  |  |
|  |  c2
|  b3 |
|  | /|
|  b2 |
|  |  c1
|  | /
|  b1
a1 |
|  |
a0 |
| /
root

Sorts like this:

= a4
| c3
| c2
| c1
^ b4
| b3
| b2
| b1
^ a3
| a2
| a1
| a0
= root

Instead of this:

= a4
| c3
^ b4
| a3
^ c2
^ b3
^ a2
^ b2
^ c1
^ a1
^ b1
^ a0
= root

A test script, t/t6000-rev-list.sh, includes a test which demonstrates
that the linearisation produced by --merge-order has less discontinuities
than the linearisation produced by git-rev-list without the --merge-order
flag specified. To see this, do the following:

cd t
./t6000-rev-list.sh
cd trash
cat actual-default-order
cat actual-merge-order

The existing behaviour of git-rev-list is preserved, by default. To obtain
the modified behaviour, specify --merge-order or --merge-order --show-breaks
on the command line.

This version of the patch has been tested on the git repository and also on the linux-2.6
repository and has reasonable performance on both - ~50-100% slower than the original algorithm.

This version of the patch has incorporated a functional equivalent of the Linus' output limiting
algorithm into the merge-order algorithm itself. This operates per the notes associated
with Linus' commit 337cb3fb8da45f10fe9a0c3cf571600f55ead2ce.

This version has incorporated Linus' feedback regarding proposed changes to rev-list.c.
(see: [PATCH] Factor out filtering in rev-list.c)

This version has improved the way sort_first_epoch marks commits as uninteresting.

For more details about this change, refer to Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
and http://blackcubes.dyndns.org/epoch/.

Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agoFix off-by-one in new three-way-merge updates
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 06:38:18 +0000 (23:38 -0700)] 
Fix off-by-one in new three-way-merge updates

That's the final one ("Yeah, sure, we believe you").

Anyway, at least the tests pass, which is not saying a lot, since they
don't end up testing all the new the things that the new merge world
order tries to do. But hopefully we're now at least not any worse off
than we were before the rewrite.

19 years ago[PATCH] 3-way merge tests for new "git-read-tree -m"?
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 06:18:16 +0000 (23:18 -0700)] 
[PATCH] 3-way merge tests for new "git-read-tree -m"?

The updated git-tread-tree -m is more strict in that it wants to
have the original cache up to date.  The initial part of t1000
(merge tests from hell) fails due to it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agoThree-way merge: fix silly bug that made trivial merges not work
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 06:32:53 +0000 (23:32 -0700)] 
Three-way merge: fix silly bug that made trivial merges not work

Making the main loop look more like the one- and two-way cases
introduced a bug where "src" had been updated early, but later
users hadn't been adjusted to match.

19 years agoFix entry.c dependency and compile problem
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 06:15:40 +0000 (23:15 -0700)] 
Fix entry.c dependency and compile problem

Bad Linus.

19 years agogit-read-tree: fix up two-way merge
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 05:59:59 +0000 (22:59 -0700)] 
git-read-tree: fix up two-way merge

This is starting to look better.

19 years agoMore work on merging with git-read-tree..
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 05:07:31 +0000 (22:07 -0700)] 
More work on merging with git-read-tree..

Add a "-u" flag to update the tree as a result of a merge.

Right now this code is way too anal about things, and fails merges it
shouldn't, but let me fix up the different cases and this will allow for
much smoother merging even in the presense of dirty data in the working
tree.

19 years agoMake fiel checkout function available to the git library
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 04:59:54 +0000 (21:59 -0700)] 
Make fiel checkout function available to the git library

The merge stuff will want it soon, and we don't want to
duplicate all the work..

19 years agogit-read-tree: fix up three-way merge tests
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 03:28:33 +0000 (20:28 -0700)] 
git-read-tree: fix up three-way merge tests

When we collapse three entries, we need to check all of the
collapsed entries against the old pre-merge state.

19 years agogit-read-tree: be a lot more careful about merging dirty trees
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 03:02:31 +0000 (20:02 -0700)] 
git-read-tree: be a lot more careful about merging dirty trees

We don't want to overwrite state that we haven't committed yet
when merging, so it's better to make git-read-tree fail than
end up with a merge tree that ends up not having the dirty changes.

Update git-resolve-script to fail cleanly when git-read-tree fails.

19 years ago[PATCH] Make git-update-cache --force-remove regular
Petr Baudis [Tue, 31 May 2005 16:52:43 +0000 (18:52 +0200)] 
[PATCH] Make git-update-cache --force-remove regular

Make the --force-remove flag behave same as --add, --remove and
--replace. This means I can do

git-update-cache --force-remove -- file1.c file2.c

which is probably saner and also makes it easier to use in cg-rm.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] rename git-rpush and git-rpull to git-ssh-push and git-ssh-pull
Junio C Hamano [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 22:41:05 +0000 (15:41 -0700)] 
[PATCH] rename git-rpush and git-rpull to git-ssh-push and git-ssh-pull

In preparation for 1.0 release, this makes the command names
consistent with others in git-*-pull family.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agodiff 'rename' format change.
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 22:31:52 +0000 (15:31 -0700)] 
diff 'rename' format change.

Clearly even Junio felt git "rename" header lines should say "from/to"
instead of "old/new", since he wrote the documentation that way.

This way it also matches "copy".

git-apply will accept both versions, at least for a while.

19 years agogit-apply: consider it an error to apply no changes
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 22:25:28 +0000 (15:25 -0700)] 
git-apply: consider it an error to apply no changes

A "--stat" or a "--check" will just be quiet, but if
you try to apply something with no changes, that's an
error.

19 years ago[PATCH] Documentation: describe git extended diff headers.
Junio C Hamano [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 21:39:49 +0000 (14:39 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Documentation: describe git extended diff headers.

The documentation failed to describe "diff --git" extended diff
headers, so add some.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Documentation: describe diff tweaking.
Junio C Hamano [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 21:30:58 +0000 (14:30 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Documentation: describe diff tweaking.

This adds documentation for the diffcore mechanism and explains
how numeric parameters to -B/-C/-M options affect the output,
which was left "black magic" so far.

The documentation is not connected to any of the other asciidoc
nodes yet.  Awaiting for suggestions, fixes and help from other
people.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agogit-apply: fix rename header parsing
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 21:26:50 +0000 (14:26 -0700)] 
git-apply: fix rename header parsing

It's not "rename from" and "rename to", it's "rename old" and "rename new".

Which is illogical and doesn't match the "copy from/to" case, but that's
life. Maybe Junio will fix it up one of these days.

19 years ago[PATCH] pull: gracefully recover from delta retrieval failure.
Junio C Hamano [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 06:11:38 +0000 (23:11 -0700)] 
[PATCH] pull: gracefully recover from delta retrieval failure.

This addresses a concern raised by Jason McMullan in the mailing
list discussion.  After retrieving and storing a potentially
deltified object, pull logic tries to check and fulfil its delta
dependency.  When the pull procedure is killed at this point,
however, there was no easy way to recover by re-running pull,
since next run would have found that we already have that
deltified object and happily reported success, without really
checking its delta dependency is satisfied.

This patch introduces --recover option to git-*-pull family
which causes them to re-validate dependency of deltified objects
we are fetching.  A new test t5100-delta-pull.sh covers such a
failure mode.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] diffcore-break.c: various fixes.
Junio C Hamano [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 06:05:57 +0000 (23:05 -0700)] 
[PATCH] diffcore-break.c: various fixes.

This fixes three bugs in the -B heuristics.

 - Although it was advertised that the initial break criteria
   used was the same as what diffcore-rename uses, it was using
   something different.  Instead of using smaller of src and dst
   size to compare with "edit" size, (insertion and deletion),
   it was using larger of src and dst, unlike the rename/copy
   detection logic.  This caused the parameter to -B to mean
   something different from the one to -M and -C.  To compensate
   for this change, the default break score is also changed to
   match that of the default for rename/copy.

 - The code would have crashed with division by zero when trying
   to break an originally empty file.

 - Contrary to what the comment said, the algorithm was breaking
   small files, only to later merge them together.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] diff.c: -B argument passing fix.
Junio C Hamano [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 06:04:07 +0000 (23:04 -0700)] 
[PATCH] diff.c: -B argument passing fix.

This fixes a bug that was preventing non-default parameter to -B
option to be passed correctly; you could not give more than 50%
break score.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] diff.c: locate_size_cache() fix.
Junio C Hamano [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 06:02:23 +0000 (23:02 -0700)] 
[PATCH] diff.c: locate_size_cache() fix.

This fixes two bugs.

 - declaration of auto variable "cmp" was preceeded by a
   statement, causing compilation error on real C compilers;
   noticed and patch given by Yoichi Yuasa.

 - the function's calling convention was overloading its size
   parameter to mean "largest possible value means do not add
   entry", which was a bad taste.  Brought up during a
   discussion with Peter Baudis.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agogit-apply: actually apply patches and update the index
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 21:05:43 +0000 (14:05 -0700)] 
git-apply: actually apply patches and update the index

We update the index only if the "--index" flag is given,
so you can actually use this as a strange kind of "patch"
program even for non-git usage. Not that you'd likely
want to, but it comes in handy for testing.

This _should_ more or less get everythign right, but as
usual I leave the testing to the usrs..

19 years agogit-apply: fix apply of a new file
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 19:43:56 +0000 (12:43 -0700)] 
git-apply: fix apply of a new file

(And fix name handling for when we have an implied
create or delete event from a traditional diff).

19 years agogit-apply: find offset fragments, and really apply them
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 19:16:32 +0000 (12:16 -0700)] 
git-apply: find offset fragments, and really apply them

This applies the fragments in memory, but doesn't actually
write the results out to the files yet. But we now do all the
difficult parts, the rest is just basically writing the
results out and updating the index.

19 years agogit-apply: first cut at actually checking fragment data
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 18:03:13 +0000 (11:03 -0700)] 
git-apply: first cut at actually checking fragment data

Right now it requires that the fragment offsets be exact,
and it doesn't actually apply the fragment yet, but it
does find where it goes and verify the data.

Next step: actually applying the fragment changes.

19 years agogit-fsck-cache: complain if no default references found
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 16:55:27 +0000 (09:55 -0700)] 
git-fsck-cache: complain if no default references found

19 years agopretty_print_commit: add different formats
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 16:02:03 +0000 (09:02 -0700)] 
pretty_print_commit: add different formats

You can ask to print out "raw" format (full headers, full body),
"medium" format (author and date, full body) or "short" format
(author only, condensed body).

Use "git-rev-list --pretty=short HEAD | less -S" for an example.

19 years agogit-shortlog: add name translations for 'sparse' repo
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 03:33:01 +0000 (20:33 -0700)] 
git-shortlog: add name translations for 'sparse' repo

19 years agoAdd git-shortlog perl script
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 03:21:35 +0000 (20:21 -0700)] 
Add git-shortlog perl script

Somebody finally came through - Jeff Garzik gets a gold
star for writing a shortlog script for git, so that I
can do nice release announcments again.

I added name translations from the current kernel history
(and git, for that matter). Hopefully it won't grow at
nearly the same rate the BK equivalent did, since 99% of
the time git records the full name already.

Usage: just do

        git-rev-list --pretty HEAD ^LAST_HEAD | git-shortlog

or, in fact, use any of the other tools (git-diff-tree,
git-whatchanged etc) that use the default "pretty" commit format.

19 years agogit-rev-list: allow arbitrary head selections, use git-rev-tree syntax
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 21:38:28 +0000 (14:38 -0700)] 
git-rev-list: allow arbitrary head selections, use git-rev-tree syntax

This makes git-rev-list use the same command line syntax to mark the
commits as git-rev-tree does, and instead of just allowing a start and
end commit, it allows an arbitrary list of "interesting" and "uninteresting"
commits.

For example, imagine that you had three branches (a, b and c) that you
are interested in, but you don't want to see stuff that already exists
in another persons three releases (x, y and z). You can do

git-rev-list a b c ^x ^y ^z

(order doesn't matter, btw - feel free to put the uninteresting ones
first or otherwise swithc them around), and it will show all the
commits that are reachable from a/b/c but not reachable from x/y/z.

The old syntax "git-rev-list start end" would not be written as
"git-rev-list start ^end", or "git-rev-list ^end start".

There's no limit to the number of heads you can specify (unlike
git-rev-tree, which can handle a maximum of 16 heads).

19 years ago[PATCH] ssh-protocol version, command types, response code
Daniel Barkalow [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 21:43:52 +0000 (17:43 -0400)] 
[PATCH] ssh-protocol version, command types, response code

This patch makes an incompatible change to the protocol used by
rpull/rpush which will let it be extended in the future without
incompatible changes.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] diff: Update -B heuristics.
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 08:40:28 +0000 (01:40 -0700)] 
[PATCH] diff: Update -B heuristics.

As Linus pointed out on the mailing list discussion, -B should
break a files that has many inserts even if it still keeps
enough of the original contents, so that the broken pieces can
later be matched with other files by -M or -C.  However, if such
a broken pair does not get picked up by -M or -C, we would want
to apply different criteria; namely, regardless of the amount of
new material in the result, the determination of "rewrite"
should be done by looking at the amount of original material
still left in the result.  If you still have the original 97
lines from a 100-line document, it does not matter if you add
your own 13 lines to make a 110-line document, or if you add 903
lines to make a 1000-line document.  It is not a rewrite but an
in-place edit.  On the other hand, if you did lose 97 lines from
the original, it does not matter if you added 27 lines to make a
30-line document or if you added 997 lines to make a 1000-line
document.  You did a complete rewrite in either case.

This patch introduces a post-processing phase that runs after
diffcore-rename matches up broken pairs diffcore-break creates.
The purpose of this post-processing is to pick up these broken
pieces and merge them back into in-place modifications.  For
this, the score parameter -B option takes is changed into a pair
of numbers, and it takes "-B99/80" format when fully spelled
out.  The first number is the minimum amount of "edit" (same
definition as what diffcore-rename uses, which is "sum of
deletion and insertion") that a modification needs to have to be
broken, and the second number is the minimum amount of "delete"
a surviving broken pair must have to avoid being merged back
together.  It can be abbreviated to "-B" to use default for
both, "-B9" or "-B9/" to use 90% for "edit" but default (80%)
for merge avoidance, or "-B/75" to use default (99%) "edit" and
75% for merge avoidance.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] diff: Clean up diff_scoreopt_parse().
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 08:37:54 +0000 (01:37 -0700)] 
[PATCH] diff: Clean up diff_scoreopt_parse().

This cleans up diff_scoreopt_parse() function that is used to
parse the fractional notation -B, -C and -M option takes.  The
callers are modified to check for errors and complain.  Earlier
they silently ignored malformed input and falled back on the
default.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] diff: Fix docs and add -O to diff-helper.
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 08:36:43 +0000 (01:36 -0700)] 
[PATCH] diff: Fix docs and add -O to diff-helper.

This patch updates diff documentation and usage strings:

 - clarify the semantics of -R.  It is not "output in reverse";
   rather, it is "I will feed diff backwards".  Semantically
   they are different when -C is involved.

 - describe -O in usage strings of diff-* brothers.  It was
   implemented, documented but not described in usage text.

Also it adds -O to diff-helper.  Like -S (and unlike -M/-C/-B),
this option can work on sanitized diff-raw output produced by
the diff-* brothers.  While we are at it, the call it makes to
diffcore is cleaned up to use the diffcore_std() like everybody
else, and the declaration for the low level diffcore routines
are moved from diff.h (public) to diffcore.h (private between
diff.c and diffcore backends).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Tweak count-delta interface
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 08:36:03 +0000 (01:36 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Tweak count-delta interface

Make it return copied source and insertion separately, so that
later implementation of heuristics can use them more flexibly.

This does not change the heuristics implemented in
diffcore-rename nor diffcore-break in any way.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] git-tar-tree: do only basic tests in t/t5000-git-tar-tree.sh
Rene Scharfe [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 16:21:23 +0000 (18:21 +0200)] 
[PATCH] git-tar-tree: do only basic tests in t/t5000-git-tar-tree.sh

git-tar-tree: remove tests of long path handling out of t5000-tar-tree.sh
and make test script cope with tar programs displaying file modification
date as hh:mm (newer variants show it as hh:mm:ss).

This makes the test cover only basic functionality that is expected to
be handled even by older tar programs.  Tests for long filenames (which
require pax extended headers) can be added separately.

I ran this test successfully with GNU tar 1.13, 1.14 and 1.15.1.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] git-tar-tree: fix write_trailer
Rene Scharfe [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:25:18 +0000 (13:25 +0200)] 
[PATCH] git-tar-tree: fix write_trailer

write_trailer() writes the last 10k (a full block) of the tar archive.
write_if_needed() writes out a block *if* it is full and then sets
the offset to 0.  In nine out of ten cases the messed up write_trailer()
function didn't manage to fill the block thus not writing anything at
all, truncating the archive.  I was "lucky" to hit the other case and so
my testing ran OK.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] git-tar-tree: add a test case
Rene Scharfe [Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:50:17 +0000 (22:50 +0200)] 
[PATCH] git-tar-tree: add a test case

add a simple test case.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] git-tar-tree: small doc update
Rene Scharfe [Thu, 2 Jun 2005 18:50:42 +0000 (20:50 +0200)] 
[PATCH] git-tar-tree: small doc update

document difference in behaviour w/ regard to tree vs.  commit and
correct author information.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] git-tar-tree: cleanup write_trailer()
Rene Scharfe [Thu, 2 Jun 2005 18:50:48 +0000 (20:50 +0200)] 
[PATCH] git-tar-tree: cleanup write_trailer()

replace open-coded variants of get_record().

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agoClarify git-diff-cache semantics in the tutorial.
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 00:15:32 +0000 (17:15 -0700)] 
Clarify git-diff-cache semantics in the tutorial.

Adam Kropelin points out that it wasn't all that clear
at all what the thing does. This hopefully helps a bit.

19 years ago[PATCH] Find size of SHA1 object without inflating everything.
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 2 Jun 2005 22:20:54 +0000 (15:20 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Find size of SHA1 object without inflating everything.

This adds sha1_file_size() helper function and uses it in the
rename/copy similarity estimator.  The helper function handles
deltified object as well.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>