git/http-backend.c, branch v2.14.3

avoid "write_in_full(fd, buf, len) != len" pattern

2017-09-14T06:17:59Z

The return value of write_in_full() is either "-1", or the requested number of bytes[1]. If we make a partial write before seeing an error, we still return -1, not a partial value. This goes back to f6aa66cb95 (write_in_full: really write in full or return error on disk full., 2007-01-11). So checking anything except "was the return value negative" is pointless. And there are a couple of reasons not to do so: 1. It can do a funny signed/unsigned comparison. If your "len" is signed (e.g., a size_t) then the compiler will promote the "-1" to its unsigned variant. This works out for "!= len" (unless you really were trying to write the maximum size_t bytes), but is a bug if you check "< len" (an example of which was fixed recently in config.c). We should avoid promoting the mental model that you need to check the length at all, so that new sites are not tempted to copy us. 2. Checking for a negative value is shorter to type, especially when the length is an expression. 3. Linus says so. In d34cf19b89 (Clean up write_in_full() users, 2007-01-11), right after the write_in_full() semantics were changed, he wrote: I really wish every "write_in_full()" user would just check against "<0" now, but this fixes the nasty and stupid ones. Appeals to authority aside, this makes it clear that writing it this way does not have an intentional benefit. It's a historical curiosity that we never bothered to clean up (and which was undoubtedly cargo-culted into new sites). So let's convert these obviously-correct cases (this includes write_str_in_full(), which is just a wrapper for write_in_full()). [1] A careful reader may notice there is one way that write_in_full() can return a different value. If we ask write() to write N bytes and get a return value that is _larger_ than N, we could return a larger total. But besides the fact that this would imply a totally broken version of write(), it would already invoke undefined behavior. Our internal remaining counter is an unsigned size_t, which means that subtracting too many byte will wrap it around to a very large number. So we'll instantly begin reading off the end of the buffer, trying to write gigabytes (or petabytes) of data. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'bw/config-h'

2017-06-24T21:28:41Z

Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API into its own header file. * bw/config-h: config: don't implicitly use gitdir or commondir config: respect commondir setup: teach discover_git_directory to respect the commondir config: don't include config.h by default config: remove git_config_iter config: create config.h

config: don't include config.h by default

2017-06-15T19:56:22Z

Stop including config.h by default in cache.h. Instead only include config.h in those files which require use of the config system. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'bc/object-id'

2017-05-29T03:34:43Z

Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. * bc/object-id: (53 commits) object: convert parse_object* to take struct object_id tree: convert parse_tree_indirect to struct object_id sequencer: convert do_recursive_merge to struct object_id diff-lib: convert do_diff_cache to struct object_id builtin/ls-tree: convert to struct object_id merge: convert checkout_fast_forward to struct object_id sequencer: convert fast_forward_to to struct object_id builtin/ls-files: convert overlay_tree_on_cache to object_id builtin/read-tree: convert to struct object_id sha1_name: convert internals of peel_onion to object_id upload-pack: convert remaining parse_object callers to object_id revision: convert remaining parse_object callers to object_id revision: rename add_pending_sha1 to add_pending_oid http-push: convert process_ls_object and descendants to object_id refs/files-backend: convert many internals to struct object_id refs: convert struct ref_update to use struct object_id ref-filter: convert some static functions to struct object_id Convert struct ref_array_item to struct object_id Convert the verify_pack callback to struct object_id Convert lookup_tag to struct object_id ...

object: convert parse_object* to take struct object_id

2017-05-08T06:12:58Z

Make parse_object, parse_object_or_die, and parse_object_buffer take a pointer to struct object_id. Remove the temporary variables inserted earlier, since they are no longer necessary. Transform all of the callers using the following semantic patch: @@ expression E1; @@ - parse_object(E1.hash) + parse_object(&E1) @@ expression E1; @@ - parse_object(E1->hash) + parse_object(E1) @@ expression E1, E2; @@ - parse_object_or_die(E1.hash, E2) + parse_object_or_die(&E1, E2) @@ expression E1, E2; @@ - parse_object_or_die(E1->hash, E2) + parse_object_or_die(E1, E2) @@ expression E1, E2, E3, E4, E5; @@ - parse_object_buffer(E1.hash, E2, E3, E4, E5) + parse_object_buffer(&E1, E2, E3, E4, E5) @@ expression E1, E2, E3, E4, E5; @@ - parse_object_buffer(E1->hash, E2, E3, E4, E5) + parse_object_buffer(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5) Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

timestamp_t: a new data type for timestamps

2017-04-27T04:07:39Z

Git's source code assumes that unsigned long is at least as precise as time_t. Which is incorrect, and causes a lot of problems, in particular where unsigned long is only 32-bit (notably on Windows, even in 64-bit versions). So let's just use a more appropriate data type instead. In preparation for this, we introduce the new `timestamp_t` data type. By necessity, this is a very, very large patch, as it has to replace all timestamps' data type in one go. As we will use a data type that is not necessarily identical to `time_t`, we need to be very careful to use `time_t` whenever we interact with the system functions, and `timestamp_t` everywhere else. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

pkt-line: rename packet_write() to packet_write_fmt()

2016-10-17T18:36:50Z

packet_write() should be called packet_write_fmt() because it is a printf-like function that takes a format string as first parameter. packet_write_fmt() should be used for text strings only. Arbitrary binary data should use a new packet_write() function that is introduced in a subsequent patch. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'ew/http-backend-batch-headers'

2016-08-12T16:47:38Z

The http-backend (the server-side component of smart-http transport) used to trickle the HTTP header one at a time. Now these write(2)s are batched. * ew/http-backend-batch-headers: http-backend: buffer headers before sending

http-backend: buffer headers before sending

2016-08-10T16:27:26Z

Avoid waking up the readers for unnecessary context switches for each line of header data being written, as all the headers are written in short succession. It is unlikely any HTTP/1.x server would want to read a CGI response one-line-at-a-time and trickle each to the client. Instead, I'd expect HTTP servers want to minimize syscall and TCP/IP framing overhead by trying to send all of its response headers in a single syscall or even combining the headers and first chunk of the body with MSG_MORE or writev. Verified by strace-ing response parsing on the CGI side. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'jk/common-main-2.8' into jk/common-main

2016-07-06T17:02:57Z

* jk/common-main-2.8: mingw: declare main()'s argv as const common-main: call git_setup_gettext() common-main: call restore_sigpipe_to_default() common-main: call sanitize_stdfds() common-main: call git_extract_argv0_path() add an extra level of indirection to main()