The commit 0e358de64a (fetch: use batched reference updates, 2025-05-19)
updated the 'git-fetch(1)' command to use batched updates. This batches
updates to gain performance improvements. When fetching references, each
update is added to the transaction. Finally, when committing, individual
updates are allowed to fail with reason, while the transaction itself
succeeds.
One scenario which was missed here, was fetching tags. When fetching
conflicting tags, the `fetch_and_consume_refs()` function returns '1',
which skipped committing the transaction and directly jumped to the
cleanup section. This mean that no updates were applied. This also
extends to backfilling tags which is done when fetching specific
refspecs which contains tags in their history.
Fix this by committing the transaction when we have an error code and
not using an atomic transaction. This ensures other references are
applied even when some updates fail.
The cleanup section is reached with `retcode` set in several scenarios:
- `truncate_fetch_head()`, `open_fetch_head()` and `prune_refs()` set
`retcode` before the transaction is created, so no commit is
attempted.
- `fetch_and_consume_refs()` and `backfill_tags()` are the primary
cases this fix targets, both setting a positive `retcode` to
trigger the committing of the transaction.
This simplifies error handling and ensures future modifications to
`do_fetch()` don't need special handling for batched updates.
Add tests to check for this regression. While here, add a missing
cleanup from previous test.
Reported-by: David Bohman <debohman@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When is_promisor_object() is called for the first time, it lazily
initializes a set of all promisor objects by iterating through all
objects in promisor packs. For each object, add_promisor_object() calls
parse_object(), which decompresses and hashes the entire object.
For repositories with large pack files, this can take an extremely long
time. For example, on a production repository with a 176 GB promisor
pack:
$ time ~/git/git/git-rev-list --objects --all --exclude-promisor-objects --quiet
________________________________________________________
Executed in 76.10 mins fish external
usr time 72.10 mins 1.83 millis 72.10 mins
sys time 3.56 mins 0.17 millis 3.56 mins
add_promisor_object() just wants to construct the set of all promisor
objects, so it doesn't really need to verify the hash of every object.
Set PARSE_OBJECT_SKIP_HASH_CHECK to skip the hash check. This has the
side effect of skipping decompression of blob objects completely, saving
a significant amount of time:
$ time ~/git/git/git-rev-list --objects --all --exclude-promisor-objects --quiet
________________________________________________________
Executed in 124.70 secs fish external
usr time 46.94 secs 0.00 millis 46.94 secs
sys time 43.11 secs 1.03 millis 43.11 secs
Signed-off-by: Aaron Plattner <aplattner@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
parse_object_with_flags() has an optimization to skip parsing blobs if
PARSE_OBJECT_SKIP_HASH_CHECK is set and the object hasn't been seen
before or might be a blob but hasn't been parsed yet. The latter can
happen, for example, if add_tree_entries() walks a path that references
a blob object that hasn't been seen before: lookup_blob() marks the
referenced oid as being a blob, but does not provide any additional
information about it until it is parsed.
It's possible for an object to be created without even a type, such as
when prepare_revision_walk() uses mark_uninteresting() to mark all
promisor objects as uninteresting. These objects have obj->parsed ==
false and obj->type == OBJ_NONE.
The skip_hash optimization does not consider this kind of object, so
parse_object_with_flags() proceeds to fully parse the object to
determine its type.
Improve the optimization by applying it to OBJ_NONE objects as well as
OBJ_BLOB ones. Apply a similar fix for trees.
Fixes: 8db2dad7a045 ("parse_object(): check on-disk type of suspected blob")
Signed-off-by: Aaron Plattner <aplattner@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The use of "revision" (a connected set of commits) has been
clarified in the "git replay" documentation.
* en/replay-doc-revision-range:
Documentation/git-replay.adoc: fix errors around revision range
A few tests have been updated to work under the shell compatible
mode of zsh.
* bc/zsh-testsuite:
t5564: fix test hang under zsh's sh mode
t0614: use numerical comparison with test_line_count
"git replay" forgot to omit the "gpgsig-sha256" extended header
from the resulting commit the same way it omits "gpgsig", which has
been corrected.
* pw/replay-exclude-gpgsig-fix:
replay: do not copy "gpgsign-sha256" header
While investigating the config options set by 'scalar' I noticed this
one wasn't documented.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Hughes <matthewhughes934@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When pushing to a set of remotes using a nickname for the group, the
client initializes the connection to each remote, talks to the
remote and reads and parses capabilities line, and holds the
capabilities in a file-scope static variable server_capabilities_v1.
There are a few other such file-scope static variables, and these
connections cannot be parallelized until they are refactored to a
structure that keeps track of active connections.
Which is *not* the theme of this patch ;-)
For a single connection, the server_capabilities_v1 variable is
initialized to NULL (at the program initialization), populated when
we talk to the other side, used to look up capabilities of the other
side possibly multiple times, and the memory is held by the variable
until program exit, without leaking. When talking to multiple remotes,
however, the server capabilities from the second connection overwrites
without freeing the one from the first connection, which leaks.
==1080970==ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks
Direct leak of 421 byte(s) in 2 object(s) allocated from:
#0 0x5615305f849e in strdup (/home/gitster/g/git-jch/bin/bin/git+0x2b349e) (BuildId: 54d149994c9e85374831958f694bd0aa3b8b1e26)
#1 0x561530e76cc4 in xstrdup /home/gitster/w/build/wrapper.c:43:14
#2 0x5615309cd7fa in process_capabilities /home/gitster/w/build/connect.c:243:27
#3 0x5615309cd502 in get_remote_heads /home/gitster/w/build/connect.c:366:4
#4 0x561530e2cb0b in handshake /home/gitster/w/build/transport.c:372:3
#5 0x561530e29ed7 in get_refs_via_connect /home/gitster/w/build/transport.c:398:9
#6 0x561530e26464 in transport_push /home/gitster/w/build/transport.c:1421:16
#7 0x561530800bec in push_with_options /home/gitster/w/build/builtin/push.c:387:8
#8 0x5615307ffb99 in do_push /home/gitster/w/build/builtin/push.c:442:7
#9 0x5615307fe926 in cmd_push /home/gitster/w/build/builtin/push.c:664:7
#10 0x56153065673f in run_builtin /home/gitster/w/build/git.c:506:11
#11 0x56153065342f in handle_builtin /home/gitster/w/build/git.c:779:9
#12 0x561530655b89 in run_argv /home/gitster/w/build/git.c:862:4
#13 0x561530652cba in cmd_main /home/gitster/w/build/git.c:984:19
#14 0x5615308dda0a in main /home/gitster/w/build/common-main.c:9:11
#15 0x7f051651bca7 in __libc_start_call_main csu/../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58:16
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: 421 byte(s) leaked in 2 allocation(s).
Free the capablities data for the previous server before overwriting
it with the next server to plug this leak.
The added test fails without the freeing with SANITIZE=leak; I
somehow couldn't get it fail reliably with SANITIZE=leak,address
though.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Join two paragraphs that start with the standard “The default <hook>,
when enabled” into one and put it at the end of the “pre-commit”
section.
The trailing whitespace paragraph was added in the first commit for the
doc, in 6d35cc76 (Document hooks., 2005-09-02). Then 3e14dd2c (mention
use of "hooks.allownonascii" in "man githooks", 2019-02-20) updated the
“pre-commit” section to mention the non-ASCII check that was added in
d00e364d.[1] But this paragraph was added one-past the original
“default” paragraph, after the env. variable paragraph, and starts
exactly the same. That causes the flow of this section to feel
off (paragraphs in order):
1. Invoked by <cmd> and what parameters it takes
2. The default 'pre-commit' hook catches introduction of trailing
whitespace
3. `GIT_EDITOR=:`
4. The default pre-commit' hook catches introduction of non-ASCII
filenames
Let’s instead join these two paragrahs and explain the whole behavior of
the default script.
† 1: Extend sample pre-commit hook to check for non ascii filenames,
2009-05-19
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The list of supported completions in the header of the file was
mostly written a long time ago when Shawn added the initial version
of this script in 2006. The list explicitly states that we complete
"common --long-options", which implies that we do not complete
not-so-common ones and single letter options (this text dates back
to May 2007).
Update the description to explicitly state that single-letter
options are not completed. Also, document that arguments to options
are completed, even for single-letter options (e.g., "git -c <TAB>"
offers configuration variables).
The reason why we do not complete single-letter options is because
it does not seem to help all that much to learn that the command
takes -c, -d, -e options when "git foo -<TAB>" offers these three,
unlike long options that is easier to guess what they are about.
Because this rationale is primarily for our developers, let's leave
it out of the completion script itself, whose messages are entirely
for end-users. Our developers can run "git blame" to find this
commit as needed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitmkdtemp() has become a trivial wrapper around git_mkdtemp(). Remove
this now unnecessary layer of indirection.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Older versions of mktemp(3) generate easily guessable file names. The
function checks if the generated name is used, which is unreliable, as
a file with that name might then be created by some other process before
we can do it ourselves. The function was dropped from POSIX due to its
security problems. Forbid its use.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the mktemp(3) compatibility function now that its last caller was
removed by the previous commit.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A file might appear at the path returned by mktemp(3) before we call
mkdir(2). Use the more robust git_mkdtemp() instead, which retries a
number of times and doesn't need to call lstat(2).
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extend git_mkstemps_mode() to optionally call mkdir(2) instead of
open(2), then use that ability to create a mkdtemp(3) replacement,
git_mkdtemp(). We'll start using it in the next commit.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The error message given by "git config set", when the variable
being updated has more than one values defined, used old style "git
config" syntax with an incorrect option in its hint, both of which
have been corrected.
* rs/config-set-multi-error-message-fix:
config: fix suggestion for failed set of multi-valued option
The option help text given by "git config unset -h" described
the "--all" option to "replace", not "unset", multiple variables,
which has been corrected.
* rs/config-unset-opthelp-fix:
config: fix short help of unset flags
Code refactoring around object database sources.
* ps/object-source-management:
odb: handle recreation of quarantine directories
odb: handle changing a repository's commondir
chdir-notify: add function to unregister listeners
odb: handle initialization of sources in `odb_new()`
http-push: stop setting up `the_repository` for each reference
t/helper: stop setting up `the_repository` repeatedly
builtin/index-pack: fix deferred fsck outside repos
oidset: introduce `oidset_equal()`
odb: move logic to disable ref updates into repo
odb: refactor `odb_clear()` to `odb_free()`
odb: adopt logic to close object databases
setup: convert `set_git_dir()` to have file scope
path: move `enter_repo()` into "setup.c"
Dockerised jobs at the GitHub Actions CI have been taught to show
more details of failed tests.
* js/ci-show-breakage-in-dockerized-jobs:
ci(dockerized): do show the result of failing tests again
The "--committer-date-is-author-date" option of "git am/rebase" is
a misguided one. The documentation is updated to discourage its
use.
* kh/doc-committer-date-is-author-date:
doc: warn against --committer-date-is-author-date
"git config get --path" segfaulted on an ":(optional)path" that
does not exist, which has been corrected.
* jc/optional-path:
config: really treat missing optional path as not configured
config: really pretend missing :(optional) value is not there
config: mark otherwise unused function as file-scope static
Code clean-up.
* en/xdiff-cleanup-2:
xdiff: rename rindex -> reference_index
xdiff: change rindex from long to size_t in xdfile_t
xdiff: make xdfile_t.nreff a size_t instead of long
xdiff: make xdfile_t.nrec a size_t instead of long
xdiff: split xrecord_t.ha into line_hash and minimal_perfect_hash
xdiff: use unambiguous types in xdl_hash_record()
xdiff: use size_t for xrecord_t.size
xdiff: make xrecord_t.ptr a uint8_t instead of char
xdiff: use ptrdiff_t for dstart/dend
doc: define unambiguous type mappings across C and Rust
Other Git commands that have nul-terminated output, such as git-config,
git-status, git-ls-files, and git-repo-info have a flag `-z` for using
the null character as the record separator.
Add the `-z` flag to git-repo-structure as an alias for `--format=nul`,
making it consistent with the behavior of the other commands.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The flag -z is only an alias for --format=null and even though --format
and -z can be used together and repeated, only the last one is
considered.
Replace `[-z]` in the synopsis of git-repo-info by
`[--format=... | -z]`, expliciting that the use of one of those flags
replace the other.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There was an extra blank line in git-repo-structure documentation, which
led to an unwawnted '+' character after generating an HTML or PDF from
that page. This can be seen, for example, in Git 2.52.0 online docs [1].
Remove that extra line.
[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-repo/2.52.0
Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In previous commit the first use of meson.can_run_host_binaries() was
introduced. This is a guard around compiler.run() to ensure it's
actually possible to execute the provided.
In other places we've been having the same issue, but here `not
meson.is_cross_build()` is used as guard. This does the trick, but it
also prevents the code from running even when an exe_wrapper is
configured.
Switch to using meson.can_run_host_binaries() here as well.
There is another place left that still uses `not
meson.is_cross_build()`, but here it's a guard around fs.exists(). That
function will always run on the build machine, so checking for
cross-compilation is still in place here.
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In our Meson setup it automatically detects whether ICONV_OMITS_BOM
should be defined. To check this, a piece of code is compiled and ran.
When cross-compiling, it's not possible to run this piece of code. Guard
this test with a can_run_host_binaries() check to ensure it can run.
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When asking Meson to wrap subprojects, it generates a .wraplock file in
the subprojects/ directory. Ignore this file.
See also https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/14948.
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a sparse checkout, a user might want to run `last-modified` on a
directory outside the worktree.
And even in non-sparse checkouts, a user might need to run that command
on a directory that does not exist in the worktree.
These use cases should be supported via the `--` separator between
revision and file arguments, which is even advertised in the
documentation. This patch fixes a tiny bug that prevents that from
working.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5978
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier commit e9d221b0 (doc: git-pull: clarify how to exit a
conflicted merge, 2025-10-15) misspelt `git rebase --abort` to
`git --rebase abort`. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I meant to delete this sentence fragment when rewriting this paragraph,
but accidentally left it in. It's repetitive (since it was meant to be
deleted) and it's causing some formatting issues with the note.
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
8fbd903e (branch: advise about ref syntax rules, 2024-03-05) added
an advice about checking git-check-ref-format(1) for the ref syntax
rules. The advice uses man(1). But git(1) is a multi-platform tool and
man(1) may not be available on some platforms. It might also be slightly
jarring to see a suggestion for running a command which is not from
the Git suite.
Let’s instead use git-help(1) in order to stay inside the land of
git(1). This also means that `help.format` (for `man`, `html` or other
formats) will be used if set.
Also change to using single quotes (') to quote the command since that
is more conventional.
While here let’s also update the test to use `{SQ}`, which is more
readable and easier to edit.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various issues detected by Asan have been corrected.
* jk/asan-bonanza:
t: enable ASan's strict_string_checks option
fsck: avoid parse_timestamp() on buffer that isn't NUL-terminated
fsck: remove redundant date timestamp check
fsck: avoid strcspn() in fsck_ident()
fsck: assert newline presence in fsck_ident()
cache-tree: avoid strtol() on non-string buffer
Makefile: turn on NO_MMAP when building with ASan
pack-bitmap: handle name-hash lookups in incremental bitmaps
compat/mmap: mark unused argument in git_munmap()
Both "git apply" and "git diff" learn a new whitespace error class,
"incomplete-line".
* jc/whitespace-incomplete-line:
attr: enable incomplete-line whitespace error for this project
diff: highlight and error out on incomplete lines
apply: check and fix incomplete lines
whitespace: allocate a few more bits and define WS_INCOMPLETE_LINE
apply: revamp the parsing of incomplete lines
diff: update the way rewrite diff handles incomplete lines
diff: call emit_callback ecbdata everywhere
diff: refactor output of incomplete line
diff: keep track of the type of the last line seen
diff: correct suppress_blank_empty hack
diff: emit_line_ws_markup() if/else style fix
whitespace: correct bit assignment comments
diff_cache() queues unchanged filepairs if the flag find_copies_harder
is set, and uses diff_change() for that. This function allocates a
filespec for each side, does a few other things that are unnecessary for
unchanged filepairs and always sets the diff_flag has_changes, which is
simply misleading in this case.
Add a new streamlined function for queuing unchanged filepairs and
use it in show_modified(), which is called by diff_cache() via
oneway_diff() and do_oneway_diff(). It allocates only a single filespec
for each filepair and uses it twice with reference counting. This has a
measurable effect if there are a lot of them, like in the Linux repo:
Benchmark 1: ./git_v2.52.0 -C ../linux diff --cached --find-copies-harder
Time (mean ± σ): 31.8 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 24.2 ms, System: 6.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 31.5 ms … 32.3 ms 85 runs
Benchmark 2: ./git -C ../linux diff --cached --find-copies-harder
Time (mean ± σ): 23.9 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 18.1 ms, System: 4.6 ms]
Range (min … max): 23.5 ms … 24.4 ms 111 runs
Summary
./git -C ../linux diff --cached --find-copies-harder ran
1.33 ± 0.01 times faster than ./git_v2.52.0 -C ../linux diff --cached --find-copies-harder
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-last-modified(1) uses a scratch bitmap to keep track of paths that
have been changed between commits. To avoid reallocating a bitmap on
each call of process_parent(), the scratch bitmap is kept and reused.
Although, it seems an incorrect length is passed to memset(3).
`struct bitmap` uses `eword_t` to for internal storage. This type is
typedef'd to uint64_t. To fully zero the memory used by the bitmap,
multiply the length (saved in `struct bitmap::word_alloc`) by the size
of `eword_t`.
Reported-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There was significant confusion in the git-replay manual about what
constitutes a revision range. As noted in f302c1e4aa09 (revisions(7):
clarify that most commands take a single revision range, 2021-05-18):
Commands that are specifically designed to take two distinct ranges
(e.g. "git range-diff R1 R2" to compare two ranges) do exist, but they
are exceptions. Unless otherwise noted, all "git" commands that operate
on a set of commits work on a single revision range.
`git replay` is not an exception, but a few places in the manual were
written as though it were. These appear to have come in revisions to
the original series, between v3->v4 (see
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAP8UFD3bpLrVW97DH7j=V9H2GsTSAkksC9L3QujQERFk_kLnZA@mail.gmail.com/
, "More than one <revision-range> can be passed") and between v6->v7
(https://lore.kernel.org/git/20231115143327.2441397-1-christian.couder@gmail.com/,
"Takes ranges of commits"), and I missed both of these revisions when
reviewing. Fix them now.
There was also a reference to the "Commit Limiting options below", but
this page has no such section of options; strike the misleading
reference.
It is worth noting that we are documenting existing behavior, rather
than optimal behavior. Junio has multiple times suggested introducing
alternative ways to walk revisions and use them in `git replay
--advance`, e.g. at
* https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqy1mqo6kv.fsf@gitster.g/
* https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq8rb3is8c.fsf@gitster.g/
* https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqtsydj2zk.fsf@gitster.g/ (item (2))
If/when we introduce some new revision walking flag that implements one
of these alternate types of revision walks, we can update the --advance
option and this manual appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The find_longest_common_sequence() function in patience diff is
inefficient as it calls binary_search() for every unique line it
encounters when deciding where to put it in the sequence. From
instrumentation (using xctrace) on popular repositories, binary_search()
takes up 50-60% of the run time within patience_diff() when performing a
diff.
To optimize this, add a boundary condition check before binary_search()
is called to see if the encountered unique line is located after the
entire currently tracked longest subsequence. If so, skip the
unnecessary binary search and simply append the entry to the end of
sequence. Given that most files compared in a diff are usually quite
similar to each other, this condition is very common, and should be hit
much more frequently than the binary search.
Below are some end-to-end performance results by timing `git log
--shortstat --oneline -500 --patience` on different repositories with
the old and new code. Generally speaking this seems to give at least
8-10% speed up. The "binary search hit %" column describes how often the
algorithm enters the binary search path instead of the new faster path.
Even in the WebKit case we can see that it's quite rare (1.46%).
| Repo | Speed difference | binary search hit % |
|----------|------------------|---------------------|
| vim | 1.27x | 0.01% |
| pytorch | 1.16x | 0.02% |
| cpython | 1.14x | 0.06% |
| ripgrep | 1.14x | 0.03% |
| git | 1.13x | 0.12% |
| vscode | 1.09x | 0.10% |
| WebKit | 1.08x | 1.46% |
The benchmarks were done using hyperfine, on an Apple M1 Max laptop,
with git compiled with `-O3 -flto`.
Signed-off-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This test starts a SOCKS server in Perl in the background and then kills
it after the tests are done. However, when using zsh (in sh mode) in
the tests, the start_socks function hangs until the background process
is killed.
Note that this does not reproduce in a simple shell script, so there is
likely some interaction between job handling, our heavy use of eval in
the test framework, and possibly other complexities of our test
framework. What is clear, however, is that switching from a compound
statement to a subshell fixes the problem entirely and the test passes
with no problem, so do that.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In this comparison, we want to know whether the number of lines is
greater than 1. Our test_line_count function passes the first argument
as the comparison operator to test, so what we want is a numerical
comparison, not a string comparison. While this does not produce a
functional problem now, it could very well if we expected two or more
items, in which case the value "10" would not match when it should.
Furthermore, the "<" and ">" comparisons are new in POSIX 1003.1-2024
and we don't want to require such a new version of POSIX since many
popular and supported operating systems were released before that
version of POSIX was released.
Finally, zsh's builtin test operator does not like the greater-than sign
in "test", since it is only supported in the double-bracket extension.
This has been reported and will be addressed in a future version, but
since our code is also technically incorrect, as well as not very
compatible, let's fix it by using a numeric comparison.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
