[PATCH 1/3] introduce GIT_INDEX_VERSION environment variable
From: Thomas Gummerer <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:59:55
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Respect a GIT_INDEX_VERSION environment variable, when a new index is initialized. Setting the environment variable will not cause existing index files to be converted to another format, but will only affect newly written index files. This can be used to initialize repositories with index-v4. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <redacted> --- Documentation/git.txt | 5 +++++ read-cache.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- t/t1600-index.sh | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100755 t/t1600-index.sh
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index aec3726..bc9eeea 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt@@ -712,6 +712,11 @@ Git so take care if using Cogito etc. index file. If not specified, the default of `$GIT_DIR/index` is used. +'GIT_INDEX_VERSION':: + This environment variable allows the specification of an index + version for new repositories. It won't affect existing index + files. By default index file version 3 is used. + 'GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY':: If the object storage directory is specified via this environment variable then the sha1 directories are created
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 3f735f3..3993e12 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c@@ -1223,6 +1223,22 @@ static struct cache_entry *refresh_cache_entry(struct cache_entry *ce, int reall #define INDEX_FORMAT_DEFAULT 3 +static unsigned int get_index_format_default() +{ + char *envversion = getenv("GIT_INDEX_VERSION"); + if (!envversion) { + return INDEX_FORMAT_DEFAULT; + } else { + unsigned int version = strtol(envversion, NULL, 10); + if (version < INDEX_FORMAT_LB || version > INDEX_FORMAT_UB) { + warning(_("GIT_INDEX_VERSION set, but the value is invalid.\n" + "Using version %i"), INDEX_FORMAT_DEFAULT); + version = INDEX_FORMAT_DEFAULT; + } + return version; + } +} + /* * dev/ino/uid/gid/size are also just tracked to the low 32 bits * Again - this is just a (very strong in practice) heuristic that
@@ -1799,7 +1815,7 @@ int write_index(struct index_state *istate, int newfd) } if (!istate->version) - istate->version = INDEX_FORMAT_DEFAULT; + istate->version = get_index_format_default(); /* demote version 3 to version 2 when the latter suffices */ if (istate->version == 3 || istate->version == 2)
diff --git a/t/t1600-index.sh b/t/t1600-index.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..37fd84d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t1600-index.sh@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +test_description='index file specific tests' + +. ./test-lib.sh + +test_expect_success 'setup' ' + echo 1 >a +' + +test_expect_success 'out of bounds GIT_INDEX_VERSION issues warning' ' + ( + GIT_INDEX_VERSION=1 && + export GIT_INDEX_VERSION && + git add a 2>&1 | sed "s/[0-9]//" >actual.err && + sed -e "s/ Z$/ /" <<-\EOF >expect.err && + warning: GIT_INDEX_VERSION set, but the value is invalid. + Using version Z + EOF + test_i18ncmp expect.err actual.err + ) +' + +test_done
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