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When running Git commands quickly -- such as in a shell script or the test suite -- the Git commands frequently complete and start again during the same second. The example fsmonitor hooks to integrate with Watchman truncate the nanosecond times to seconds. In principle, this is fine, as Watchman claims to use inclusive comparisons [1]. The result should only be an over-representation of the changed paths since the last Git command. However, Watchman's own documentation claims "Using a timestamp is prone to race conditions in understanding the complete state of the file tree" [2]. All of their documented examples use a "clockspec" that looks like 'c:123:234'. Git should eventually learn how to store this type of string to provide a stronger integration, but that will be a more invasive change. When using GIT_TEST_FSMONITOR="$(pwd)/t7519/fsmonitor-watchman", scripts such as t7519-wtstatus.sh fail due to these race conditions. In fact, running any test script with GIT_TEST_FSMONITOR pointing at t/t7519/fsmonitor-wathcman will cause failures in the test_commit function. The 'git add "$indir$file"' command fails due to not enough time between the creation of '$file' and the 'git add' command. For now, subtract one second from the timestamp we pass to Watchman. This will make our window large enough to avoid these race conditions. Increasing the window causes tests like t7519-wtstatus.sh to pass. When the integration was introduced in def437671 (fsmonitor: add a sample integration script for Watchman, 2018-09-22), the query included an expression that would ignore files created and deleted in that window. The performance reason for this change was to ignore temporary files created by a build between Git commands. However, this causes failures in script scenarios where Git is creating or deleting files quickly. When using GIT_TEST_FSMONITOR as before, t2203-add-intent.sh fails due to this add-and-delete race condition. By removing the "expression" from the Watchman query, we remove this race condition. It will lead to some performance degradation in the case of users creating and deleting temporary files inside their working directory between Git commands. However, that is a cost we need to pay to be correct. [1] https://github.com/facebook/watchman/blob/master/query/since.cpp#L35-L39 [2] https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/clockspec.html Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Willford <Kevin.Willford@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-<commandname>.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the
documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
(man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is
installed).
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission). To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at https://public-inbox.org/git/, http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.
Issues which are security relevant should be disclosed privately to the Git Security mailing list git-security@googlegroups.com.
The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.
The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your mood):
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks