plumbing pull request
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:41:56
Linus, please pull from http://members.cox.net/junkio/git-jc.git/ which contains the following changes. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Optimize diff-cache -p --cached This patch optimizes "diff-cache -p --cached" by avoiding to inflate blobs into temporary files when the blob recorded in the cache matches the corresponding file in the work tree. The file in the work tree is passed as the comparison source in such a case instead. This optimization kicks in only when we have already read the cache this optimization and this is deliberate. Especially, diff-tree does not use this code, because changes are contained in small number of files relative to the project size most of the time, and reading cache is so expensive for a large project that the cost of reading it outweighs the savings by not inflating blobs. Also this patch cleans up the structure passed from diff clients by removing one unused structure member. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Terminate diff-* on non-zero exit from GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF (slightly updated from the version posted to the GIT mailing list with small bugfixes). This patch changes the git-apply-patch-script to exit non-zero when the patch cannot be applied. Previously, the external diff driver deliberately ignored the exit status of GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF command, which was a design mistake. It now stops the processing when GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF exits non-zero, so the damages from running git-diff-* with git-apply-patch-script between two wrong trees can be contained. The "diff" command line generated by the built-in driver is changed to always exit 0 in order to match this new behaviour. I know Pasky does not use GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF yet, so this change should not break Cogito, either. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Git-prune-script loses blobs referenced from an uncommitted cache. (updated from the version posted to GIT mailing list). When a new blob is registered with update-cache, and before the cache is written as a tree and committed, git-fsck-cache will find the blob unreachable. This patch adds a new flag, "--cache" to git-fsck-cache, with which it keeps such blobs from considered "unreachable". The git-prune-script is updated to use this new flag. At the same time it adds .git/refs/*/* to the set of default locations to look for heads, which should be consistent with expectations from Cogito users. Without this fix, "diff-cache -p --cached" after git-prune-script has pruned the blob object will fail mysteriously and git-write-tree would also fail. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Short-cut error return path in git-local-pull. When git-local-pull with -l option gets ENOENT attempting to create a hard link, there is no point falling back to other copy methods. With this patch, git-local-pull detects such a case and gives up copying the file early. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Make git-*-pull say who wants them for missing objects. This patch updates pull.c, the engine that decides which objects are needed, given a commit to traverse from, to report which commit was calling for the object that cannot be retrieved from the remote side. This complements git-fsck-cache in that it checks the consistency of the remote repository for reachability. ----------------------------------------------------------------