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2015-08-10memoize common git-path "constant" filesJeff King
One of the most common uses of git_path() is to pass a constant, like git_path("MERGE_MSG"). This has two drawbacks: 1. The return value is a static buffer, and the lifetime is dependent on other calls to git_path, etc. 2. There's no compile-time checking of the pathname. This is OK for a one-off (after all, we have to spell it correctly at least once), but many of these constant strings appear throughout the code. This patch introduces a series of functions to "memoize" these strings, which are essentially globals for the lifetime of the program. We compute the value once, take ownership of the buffer, and return the cached value for subsequent calls. cache.h provides a helper macro for defining these functions as one-liners, and defines a few common ones for global use. Using a macro is a little bit gross, but it does nicely document the purpose of the functions. If we need to touch them all later (e.g., because we learned how to change the git_dir variable at runtime, and need to invalidate all of the stored values), it will be much easier to have the complete list. Note that the shared-global functions have separate, manual declarations. We could do something clever with the macros (e.g., expand it to a declaration in some places, and a declaration _and_ a definition in path.c). But there aren't that many, and it's probably better to stay away from too-magical macros. Likewise, if we abandon the C preprocessor in favor of generating these with a script, we could get much fancier. E.g., normalizing "FOO/BAR-BAZ" into "git_path_foo_bar_baz". But the small amount of saved typing is probably not worth the resulting confusion to readers who want to grep for the function's definition. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-11Merge branch 'pt/xdg-config-path'Junio C Hamano
Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support. * pt/xdg-config-path: path.c: remove home_config_paths() git-config: replace use of home_config_paths() git-commit: replace use of home_config_paths() credential-store.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home() dir.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home() attr.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home() path.c: implement xdg_config_home()
2015-05-06attr.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()Paul Tan
Since only the xdg attributes file path is required, simplify the code by using xdg_config_home() instead of home_config_paths(). Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-06Merge branch 'cn/bom-in-gitignore'Junio C Hamano
Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration files already. * cn/bom-in-gitignore: attr: skip UTF8 BOM at the beginning of the input file config: use utf8_bom[] from utf.[ch] in git_parse_source() utf8-bom: introduce skip_utf8_bom() helper add_excludes_from_file: clarify the bom skipping logic dir: allow a BOM at the beginning of exclude files
2015-04-16attr: skip UTF8 BOM at the beginning of the input fileJunio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-12-29attr: avoid heavy work when we know the specified attr is not definedNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
If we have never seen attr 'X' in any .gitattributes file we have examined so far, we can be sure that 'X' is not defined. So no need to go over all the attr stack to look for attr 'X'. This is the purpose behind this new field maybe_real. This optimization breaks down if macros are involved because we can't know for sure what macro would expand to 'X' at attr parsing time. But if we go the pessimistic way and assume all macros are expanded, we hit the builtin "binary" macro. At least the "diff" attr defined in this macro will disable this optimization for git-grep. So we wait until any attr lines _may_ reference to a macro before we turn this off. In git.git, this reduces the number of fill_one() call for "git grep abcdefghi" from ~5348 to 2955. The optimization stops when it reads t/.gitattributes, which uses 'binary' macro. We could probably reduce it further by limiting the 'binary' reference to t/ and subdirs only in this case. "git grep" is actually a good example to justify this patch. The command checks "diff" attribute on every file. People usually don't define this attribute. But they pay the attr lookup penalty anyway without this patch, proportional to the number of attr lines they have in repo. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-12-29attr: do not attempt to expand when we know it's not a macroNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Keep track of all recognized macros in the new "maybe_macro" field. If this field is true, it _may_ be a macro (depending on what's in the current attr stack). But if the field is false, it's definitely not a macro, no need to go through the whole attr stack in macroexpand_one() to search for one. Without this, "git grep abcdefghi" on git.git hits the inner loop in macroexpand_one() 2481 times. With this, it's 66 times. Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-12-29attr.c: rename arg name attr_nr to avoid shadowing the global oneNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-18use REALLOC_ARRAY for changing the allocation size of arraysRené Scharfe
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-03attr.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in handle_attr_line()Dmitry S. Dolzhenko
Signed-off-by: Dmitry S. Dolzhenko <dmitrys.dolzhenko@yandex.ru> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-05replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()Christian Couder
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API functions. The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this: $ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c | grep -v strbuf\\.c | xargs perl -pi -e ' s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g; s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g; s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g; s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g; ' on the result of preparatory changes in this series. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-22Merge branch 'lf/read-blob-data-from-index'Junio C Hamano
Reduce duplicated code between convert.c and attr.c. * lf/read-blob-data-from-index: convert.c: remove duplicate code read_blob_data_from_index(): optionally return the size of blob data attr.c: extract read_index_data() as read_blob_data_from_index()
2013-04-17read_blob_data_from_index(): optionally return the size of blob dataLukas Fleischer
This allows for optionally getting the size of the returned data and will be used in a follow-up patch. Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <git@cryptocrack.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-17attr.c: extract read_index_data() as read_blob_data_from_index()Lukas Fleischer
Extract the read_index_data() function from attr.c and move it to read-cache.c; rename it to read_blob_data_from_index() and update the function signature of it to align better with index/cache API functions. This allows for reusing the function in convert.c later. Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <git@cryptocrack.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-07Merge branch 'jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix' into maint-1.8.1Junio C Hamano
A pattern "dir" (without trailing slash) in the attributes file stopped matching a directory "dir" by mistake with an earlier change that wanted to allow pattern "dir/" to also match. * jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix: t: check that a pattern without trailing slash matches a directory dir.c::match_pathname(): pay attention to the length of string parameters dir.c::match_pathname(): adjust patternlen when shifting pattern dir.c::match_basename(): pay attention to the length of string parameters attr.c::path_matches(): special case paths that end with a slash attr.c::path_matches(): the basename is part of the pathname
2013-04-03Merge branch 'jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix'Junio C Hamano
Fix 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without trailing slash) to a directory "dir". * jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix: t: check that a pattern without trailing slash matches a directory dir.c::match_pathname(): pay attention to the length of string parameters dir.c::match_pathname(): adjust patternlen when shifting pattern dir.c::match_basename(): pay attention to the length of string parameters attr.c::path_matches(): special case paths that end with a slash attr.c::path_matches(): the basename is part of the pathname
2013-03-29attr.c::path_matches(): special case paths that end with a slashJunio C Hamano
The function is given a string that ends with a slash to signal that the path is a directory to make sure that a pattern that ends with a slash (i.e. MUSTBEDIR) can tell directories and non-directories apart. However, the pattern itself (pat->pattern and pat->patternlen) that came from such a MUSTBEDIR pattern is represented as a string that ends with a slash, but patternlen does not count that trailing slash. A MUSTBEDIR pattern "element/" is represented as a counted string <"element/", 7> and this must match match pathname "element/". Because match_basename() and match_pathname() want to see pathname "element" to match against the pattern <"element/", 7>, reduce the length of the path to exclude the trailing slash when calling these functions. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-26attr.c::path_matches(): the basename is part of the pathnameJunio C Hamano
The function takes two strings (pathname and basename) as if they are independent strings, but in reality, the latter is always pointing into a substring in the former. Clarify this relationship by expressing the latter as an offset into the former. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-01Sync with 1.8.1.5Junio C Hamano
2013-03-01Make !pattern in .gitattributes non-fatalThomas Rast
Before 82dce99 (attr: more matching optimizations from .gitignore, 2012-10-15), .gitattributes did not have any special treatment of a leading '!'. The docs, however, always said The rules how the pattern matches paths are the same as in `.gitignore` files; see linkgit:gitignore[5]. By those rules, leading '!' means pattern negation. So 82dce99 correctly determined that this kind of line makes no sense and should be disallowed. However, users who actually had a rule for files starting with a '!' are in a bad position: before 82dce99 '!' matched that literal character, so it is conceivable that users have .gitattributes with such lines in them. After 82dce99 the unescaped version was disallowed in such a way that git outright refuses to run(!) most commands in the presence of such a .gitattributes. It therefore becomes very hard to fix, let alone work with, such repositories. Let's at least allow the users to fix their repos: change the fatal error into a warning. Reported-by: mathstuf@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-29Merge branch 'nd/fix-directory-attrs-off-by-one' into maintJunio C Hamano
The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the exclude mechanism does. The initial implementation of this that was merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.1 had severe performance degradations. * nd/fix-directory-attrs-off-by-one: attr: avoid calling find_basename() twice per path attr: fix off-by-one directory component length calculation
2013-01-28Merge branch 'nd/attr-debug-fix' into maintJunio C Hamano
* nd/attr-debug-fix: attr: make it build with DEBUG_ATTR again
2013-01-22Merge branch 'nd/fix-directory-attrs-off-by-one'Junio C Hamano
Fix performance regression introduced by an earlier change to let attributes apply to directories. Needs to be merged to maint, as 94bc671a was merged there already. * nd/fix-directory-attrs-off-by-one: attr: avoid calling find_basename() twice per path attr: fix off-by-one directory component length calculation
2013-01-18Merge branch 'nd/attr-debug-fix'Junio C Hamano
Fix debugging support that was broken in earlier change. * nd/attr-debug-fix: attr: make it build with DEBUG_ATTR again
2013-01-16attr: avoid calling find_basename() twice per pathDuy Nguyen
find_basename() is only used inside collect_all_attrs(), called once in prepare_attr_stack, then again after prepare_attr_stack() returns. Both calls return exact same value. Reorder the code to do the same task once. Also avoid strlen() because we knows the length after finding basename. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-15attr: make it build with DEBUG_ATTR againNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Commit 82dce99 (attr: more matching optimizations from .gitignore - 2012-10-15) changed match_attr structure but it did not update DEBUG_ATTR-specific code. This fixes it. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-15attr: fix off-by-one directory component length calculationNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
94bc671 (Add directory pattern matching to attributes - 2012-12-08) uses find_basename() to calculate the length of directory part in prepare_attr_stack. This function expects the directory without the trailing slash (as "origin" field in match_attr struct is without the trailing slash). find_basename() includes the trailing slash and confuses push/pop algorithm. Consider path = "abc/def" and the push down code: while (1) { len = strlen(attr_stack->origin); if (dirlen <= len) break; cp = memchr(path + len + 1, '/', dirlen - len - 1); if (!cp) cp = path + dirlen; dirlen is 4, not 3, without this patch. So when attr_stack->origin is "abc", it'll miss the exit condition because 4 <= 3 is wrong. It'll then try to push "abc/" down the attr stack (because "cp" would be NULL). So we have both "abc" and "abc/" in the stack. Next time when "abc/ghi" is checked, "abc/" is popped out because of the off-by-one dirlen, only to be pushed back in again by the above code. This repeats for all files in the same directory. Which means at least one failed open syscall per file, or more if .gitattributes exists. This is the perf result with 10 runs on git.git: Test 94bc671^ 94bc671 HEAD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7810.1: grep worktree, cheap regex 0.02(0.01+0.04) 0.05(0.03+0.05) +150.0% 0.02(0.01+0.04) +0.0% 7810.2: grep worktree, expensive regex 0.25(0.94+0.01) 0.26(0.94+0.02) +4.0% 0.25(0.93+0.02) +0.0% 7810.3: grep --cached, cheap regex 0.11(0.10+0.00) 0.12(0.10+0.02) +9.1% 0.10(0.10+0.00) -9.1% 7810.4: grep --cached, expensive regex 0.61(0.60+0.01) 0.62(0.61+0.01) +1.6% 0.61(0.60+0.00) +0.0% Reported-by: Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-10Merge branch 'as/dir-c-cleanup'Junio C Hamano
Refactor and generally clean up the directory traversal API implementation. * as/dir-c-cleanup: dir.c: rename free_excludes() to clear_exclude_list() dir.c: refactor is_path_excluded() dir.c: refactor is_excluded() dir.c: refactor is_excluded_from_list() dir.c: rename excluded() to is_excluded() dir.c: rename excluded_from_list() to is_excluded_from_list() dir.c: rename path_excluded() to is_path_excluded() dir.c: rename cryptic 'which' variable to more consistent name Improve documentation and comments regarding directory traversal API api-directory-listing.txt: update to match code
2012-12-28dir.c: rename excluded() to is_excluded()Adam Spiers
Continue adopting clearer names for exclude functions. This is_* naming pattern for functions returning booleans was discussed here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/204661/focus=204924 Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-18Add directory pattern matching to attributesJean-Noël AVILA
The manpage of gitattributes says: "The rules how the pattern matches paths are the same as in .gitignore files" and the gitignore pattern matching has a pattern ending with / for directory matching. This rule is specifically relevant for the 'export-ignore' rule used for git archive. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noel Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-11-09Merge branch 'nd/attr-match-optim-more'Jeff King
Start laying the foundation to build the "wildmatch" after we can agree on its desired semantics. * nd/attr-match-optim-more: attr: more matching optimizations from .gitignore gitignore: make pattern parsing code a separate function exclude: split pathname matching code into a separate function exclude: fix a bug in prefix compare optimization exclude: split basename matching code into a separate function exclude: stricten a length check in EXC_FLAG_ENDSWITH case
2012-10-25Merge branch 'nd/attr-match-optim'Jeff King
Trivial and obvious optimization for finding attributes that match a given path. * nd/attr-match-optim: attr: avoid searching for basename on every match attr: avoid strlen() on every match
2012-10-15attr: more matching optimizations from .gitignoreNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
.gitattributes and .gitignore share the same pattern syntax but has separate matching implementation. Over the years, ignore's implementation accumulates more optimizations while attr's stays the same. This patch reuses the core matching functions that are also used by excluded_from_list. excluded_from_list and path_matches can't be merged due to differences in exclude and attr, for example: * "!pattern" syntax is forbidden in .gitattributes. As an attribute can be unset (i.e. set to a special value "false") or made back to unspecified (i.e. not even set to "false"), "!pattern attr" is unclear which one it means. * we support attaching attributes to directories, but git-core internally does not currently make use of attributes on directories. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-05attr: avoid searching for basename on every matchNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-05attr: avoid strlen() on every matchNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-17Merge branch 'jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths'Junio C Hamano
The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its leading directories no longer exists in the working tree. Failure to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than ENOENT and ENOTDIR are diagnosed. * jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths: attr: failure to open a .gitattributes file is OK with ENOTDIR
2012-09-15Merge branch 'jc/ll-merge-binary-ours'Junio C Hamano
"git merge -Xtheirs" did not help content-level merge of binary files; it should just take their version. Also "*.jpg binary" in the attributes did not imply they should use the binary ll-merge driver. * jc/ll-merge-binary-ours: ll-merge: warn about inability to merge binary files only when we can't attr: "binary" attribute should choose built-in "binary" merge driver merge: teach -Xours/-Xtheirs to binary ll-merge driver
2012-09-14attr: failure to open a .gitattributes file is OK with ENOTDIRJunio C Hamano
Often we consult an in-tree .gitattributes file that exists per directory. Majority of directories do not usually have such a file, and it is perfectly fine if we cannot open it because there is no such file, but we do want to know when there is an I/O or permission error. Earlier, we made the codepath warn when we fail to open it for reasons other than ENOENT for that reason. We however sometimes have to attempt to open the .gitattributes file from a directory that does not exist in the commit that is currently checked out. "git pack-objects" wants to know if a path is marked with "-delta" attributes, and "git archive" wants to know about export-ignore and export-subst attributes. Both commands may and do need to ask the attributes system about paths in an arbitrary commit. "git diff", after removing an entire directory, may want to know textconv on paths that used to be in that directory. Make sure we also ignore a failure to open per-directory attributes file due to ENOTDIR. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-09attr: "binary" attribute should choose built-in "binary" merge driverJunio C Hamano
The built-in "binary" attribute macro expands to "-diff -text", so that textual diff is not produced, and the contents will not go through any CR/LF conversion ever. During a merge, it should also choose the "binary" low-level merge driver, but it didn't. Make it expand to "-diff -merge -text". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-21warn_on_inaccessible(): a helper to warn on inaccessible pathsJunio C Hamano
The previous series introduced warnings to multiple places, but it could become tiring to see the warning on the same path over and over again during a single run of Git. Making just one function responsible for issuing this warning, we could later choose to keep track of which paths we issued a warning (it would involve a hash table of paths after running them through real_path() or something) in order to reduce noise. Right now we do not know if the noise reduction is necessary, but it still would be a good code reduction/sharing anyway. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-21attr: warn on inaccessible attribute filesJeff King
Just like config and gitignore files, we silently ignore missing or inaccessible attribute files. An existent but inaccessible file is probably a configuration error, so let's warn the user. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-24attr: make sure we have an xdg path before using itJeff King
If we don't have a core.attributesfile configured, we fall back to checking XDG config, which is usually $HOME/.config/git/attributes. However, if $HOME is unset, then home_config_paths will return NULL, and we end up calling fopen(NULL). Depending on your system, this may or may not cause the accompanying test to fail (e.g., on Linux and glibc, the address will go straight to open, which will return EFAULT). However, valgrind will reliably notice the error. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-25Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributesHuynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen
This gives the default value for the core.attributesfile variable following the exact same logic of the previous change for the core.excludesfile setting. Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-12Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint-1.7.7Junio C Hamano
* maint-1.7.6: attr: fix leak in free_attr_elem t2203: fix wrong commit command
2012-01-12attr: fix leak in free_attr_elemJeff King
This function frees the individual "struct match_attr"s we have allocated, but forgot to free the array holding their pointers, leading to a minor memory leak (but it can add up after checking attributes for paths in many directories). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10Merge the attributes fix in from maint-1.6.6 branchJunio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10attr.c: clarify the logic to pop attr_stackJunio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10attr.c: make bootstrap_attr_stack() leave earlyJunio C Hamano
Thas would de-dent the body of a function that has grown rather large over time, making it a bit easier to read. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10attr: drop misguided defensive codingJeff King
In prepare_attr_stack, we pop the old elements of the stack (which were left from a previous lookup and may or may not be useful to us). Our loop to do so checks that we never reach the top of the stack. However, the code immediately afterwards will segfault if we did actually reach the top of the stack. Fortunately, this is not an actual bug, since we will never pop all of the stack elements (we will always keep the root gitattributes, as well as the builtin ones). So the extra check in the loop condition simply clutters the code and makes the intent less clear. Let's get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10attr: don't confuse prefixes with leading directoriesJeff King
When we prepare the attribute stack for a lookup on a path, we start with the cached stack from the previous lookup (because it is common to do several lookups in the same directory hierarchy). So the first thing we must do in preparing the stack is to pop any entries that point to directories we are no longer interested in. For example, if our stack contains gitattributes for: foo/bar/baz foo/bar foo but we want to do a lookup in "foo/bar/bleep", then we want to pop the top element, but retain the others. To do this we walk down the stack from the top, popping elements that do not match our lookup directory. However, the test do this simply checked strncmp, meaning we would mistake "foo/bar/baz" as a leading directory of "foo/bar/baz_plus". We must also check that the character after our match is '/', meaning we matched the whole path component. There are two special cases to consider: 1. The top of our attr stack has the empty path. So we must not check for '/', but rather special-case the empty path, which always matches. 2. Typically when matching paths in this way, you would also need to check for a full string match (i.e., the character after is '\0'). We don't need to do so in this case, though, because our path string is actually just the directory component of the path to a file (i.e., we know that it terminates with "/", because the filename comes after that). Helped-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>