ls-files: fix pathspec display on error

The following sequence of commands reveals an issue with error
reporting of relative paths:

 $ mkdir sub
 $ cd sub
 $ git ls-files --error-unmatch ../bbbbb
 error: pathspec 'b' did not match any file(s) known to git.
 $ git commit --error-unmatch ../bbbbb
 error: pathspec 'b' did not match any file(s) known to git.

This bug is visible only if the normalized path (i.e., the relative
path from the repository root) is longer than the prefix.
Otherwise, the code skips over the normalized path and reads from
an unused memory location which still contains a leftover of the
original command line argument.

So instead, use the existing facilities to deal with relative paths
correctly.

Also fix inconsistency between "checkout" and "commit", e.g.

    $ cd Documentation
    $ git checkout nosuch.txt
    error: pathspec 'Documentation/nosuch.txt' did not match...
    $ git commit nosuch.txt
    error: pathspec 'nosuch.txt' did not match...

by propagating the prefix down the codepath that reports the error.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
branch.c: use the parsed branch name

When setting up tracking info, branch.c uses the given branch specifier
("name"). Use the parsed name ("ref.buf") instead so that

git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo

sets up tracking info for the previous branch rather than for a branch
named "@{-1}".

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
read_gitfile_gently(): rename misnamed function to read_gitfile()

The function was not gentle at all to the callers and died without giving
them a chance to deal with possible errors. Rename it to read_gitfile(),
and update all the callers.

As no existing caller needs a true "gently" variant, we do not bother
adding one at this point.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
clone: allow to clone from .git file

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
clone: allow more than one --reference

Also add a test to expose a long-standing bug that is triggered when
cloning with --reference option from a local repository that has its own
alternates. The alternate object stores specified on the command line
are lost, and only alternates copied from the source repository remain.
The bug will be fixed in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
clone: clone from a repository with relative alternates

Cloning from a local repository blindly copies or hardlinks all the files
under objects/ hierarchy. This results in two issues:

 - If the repository cloned has an "objects/info/alternates" file, and the
   command line of clone specifies --reference, the ones specified on the
   command line get overwritten by the copy from the original repository.

 - An entry in a "objects/info/alternates" file can specify the object
   stores it borrows objects from as a path relative to the "objects/"
   directory. When cloning a repository with such an alternates file, if
   the new repository is not sitting next to the original repository, such
   relative paths needs to be adjusted so that they can be used in the new
   repository.

This updates add_to_alternates_file() to take the path to the alternate
object store, including the "/objects" part at the end (earlier, it was
taking the path to $GIT_DIR and was adding "/objects" itself), as it is
technically possible to specify in objects/info/alternates file the path
of a directory whose name does not end with "/objects".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
check-ref-format --print: Normalize refnames that start with slashes

When asked if "refs///heads/master" is valid, check-ref-format says "Yes,
it is well formed", and when asked to print canonical form, it shows
"refs/heads/master". This is so that it can be tucked after "$GIT_DIR/"
to form a valid pathname for a loose ref, and we normalize a pathname like
"$GIT_DIR/refs///heads/master" to de-dup the slashes in it.

Similarly, when asked if "/refs/heads/master" is valid, check-ref-format
says "Yes, it is Ok", but the leading slash is not removed when printing,
leading to "$GIT_DIR//refs/heads/master".

Fix it to make sure such leading slashes are removed.  Add tests that such
refnames are accepted and normalized correctly.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Forbid DEL characters in reference names

DEL is an ASCII control character and therefore should not be
permitted in reference names.  Add tests for this and other unusual
characters.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t3005: do not assume a particular order of stdout and stderr of git-ls-files

There is no guarantee that stderr is flushed before stdout when both
channels are redirected to a file. Check the channels using independent
files.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
am: format is in $patch_format, not parse_patch

The error message given when the patch format was not recognized was
wrong, since the variable checked was $parse_patch rather than
$patch_format. Fix by checking the non-emptyness of the correct
variable.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-mergetool: check return value from read

Mostly fixed already by 6b44577 (mergetool: check return value
from read, 2011-07-01). Catch two uses it missed.

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge branch 'gb/maint-am-patch-format-error-message' into maint

* gb/maint-am-patch-format-error-message:
  am: format is in $patch_format, not parse_patch
Merge branch 'mg/branch-set-upstream-previous' into maint

* mg/branch-set-upstream-previous:
  branch.c: use the parsed branch name
Merge branch 'mh/check-ref-format-print-normalize' into maint

* mh/check-ref-format-print-normalize:
  Forbid DEL characters in reference names
  check-ref-format --print: Normalize refnames that start with slashes
Merge branch 'nd/maint-clone-gitdir' into maint

* nd/maint-clone-gitdir:
  clone: allow to clone from .git file
  read_gitfile_gently(): rename misnamed function to read_gitfile()
Merge branch 'jc/maint-clone-alternates' into maint

* jc/maint-clone-alternates:
  clone: clone from a repository with relative alternates
  clone: allow more than one --reference
describe: Refresh the index when run with --dirty

When running git describe --dirty the index should be refreshed.  Previously
the cached index would cause describe to think that the index was dirty when,
in reality, it was just stale.

The issue was exposed by python setuptools which hardlinks files into another
directory when building a distribution.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge branch 'cb/maint-ls-files-error-report' into maint

* cb/maint-ls-files-error-report:
  t3005: do not assume a particular order of stdout and stderr of git-ls-files
  ls-files: fix pathspec display on error
Git 1.7.6.4

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>