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2024-10-11archive: remove the_repository global variableJohn Cai1-3/+2
As part of the effort to get rid of global state due to the global the_repository variable, replace the_repository with the repository argument that gets passed down through the builtin function. The repo might be NULL, but we should be safe in write_archive() because it detects if we are outside of a repository and calls setup_git_directory() which will error. Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-23Merge branch 'jc/pass-repo-to-builtins'Junio C Hamano1-2/+5
The convention to calling into built-in command implementation has been updated to pass the repository, if known, together with the prefix value. * jc/pass-repo-to-builtins: add: pass in repo variable instead of global the_repository builtin: remove USE_THE_REPOSITORY for those without the_repository builtin: remove USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE from builtin.h builtin: add a repository parameter for builtin functions
2024-09-13builtin: remove USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE from builtin.hJohn Cai1-1/+1
Instead of including USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE by default on every builtin, remove it from builtin.h and add it to all the builtins that include builtin.h (by definition, that means all builtins/*.c). Also, remove the include statement for repository.h since it gets brought in through builtin.h. The next step will be to migrate each builtin from having to use the_repository. Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-13builtin: add a repository parameter for builtin functionsJohn Cai1-1/+4
In order to reduce the usage of the global the_repository, add a parameter to builtin functions that will get passed a repository variable. This commit uses UNUSED on most of the builtin functions, as subsequent commits will modify the actual builtins to pass the repository parameter down. Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-22builtin/archive: fix leaking `OPT_FILENAME()` valuePatrick Steinhardt1-2/+5
The "--output" switch is an `OPT_FILENAME()` option, which allocates memory when specified by the user. But while we free the string when executed without the "--remote" switch, we don't otherwise because we return via a separate exit path that doesn't know to free it. Fix this by creating a common exit path. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-08Merge branch 'ps/leakfixes-more'Junio C Hamano1-2/+5
More memory leaks have been plugged. * ps/leakfixes-more: (29 commits) builtin/blame: fix leaking ignore revs files builtin/blame: fix leaking prefixed paths blame: fix leaking data for blame scoreboards line-range: plug leaking find functions merge: fix leaking merge bases builtin/merge: fix leaking `struct cmdnames` in `get_strategy()` sequencer: fix memory leaks in `make_script_with_merges()` builtin/clone: plug leaking HEAD ref in `wanted_peer_refs()` apply: fix leaking string in `match_fragment()` sequencer: fix leaking string buffer in `commit_staged_changes()` commit: fix leaking parents when calling `commit_tree_extended()` config: fix leaking "core.notesref" variable rerere: fix various trivial leaks builtin/stash: fix leak in `show_stash()` revision: free diff options builtin/log: fix leaking commit list in git-cherry(1) merge-recursive: fix memory leak when finalizing merge builtin/merge-recursive: fix leaking object ID bases builtin/difftool: plug memory leaks in `run_dir_diff()` object-name: free leaking object contexts ...
2024-06-14remote: drop checks for zero-url caseJeff King1-2/+0
Now that the previous commit removed the possibility that a "struct remote" will ever have zero url fields, we can drop a number of redundant checks and untriggerable code paths. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-06-14remote: use strvecs to store remote url/pushurlJeff King1-2/+2
Now that the url/pushurl fields of "struct remote" own their strings, we can switch from bare arrays to strvecs. This has a few advantages: - push/clear are now one-liners - likewise the free+assigns in alias_all_urls() can use strvec_replace() - we now use size_t for storage, avoiding possible overflow - this will enable some further cleanups in future patches There's quite a bit of fallout in the code that reads these fields, as it tends to access these arrays directly. But it's mostly a mechanical replacement of "url_nr" with "url.nr", and "url[i]" with "url.v[i]", with a few variations (e.g. "*url" could become "*url.v", but I used "url.v[0]" for consistency). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-06-14archive: fix check for missing urlJeff King1-1/+1
Running "git archive --remote" checks that we have at least one url for the remote. It does so by looking at remote.url[0], but that won't work; if we have no url at all, then remote.url will be NULL, and we'll segfault. Check url_nr instead, which is a more direct way of asking what we want. You can trigger the segfault like this: git -c remote.foo.vcs=bar archive --remote=foo but I didn't bother adding a test. This is the tip of the iceberg for no-url remotes, and a later patch will improve that situation. I just wanted to clean up this bug so it didn't make further refactoring of this code more confusing. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-06-11parse-options: fix leaks for users of OPT_FILENAMEPatrick Steinhardt1-2/+5
The `OPT_FILENAME()` option will, if set, put an allocated string into the user-provided variable. Consequently, that variable thus needs to be free'd by the caller of `parse_options()`. Some callsites don't though and thus leak memory. Fix those. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-26treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source filesElijah Newren1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-06-21cache.h: remove this no-longer-used headerElijah Newren1-1/+0
Since this header showed up in some places besides just #include statements, update/clean-up/remove those other places as well. Note that compat/fsmonitor/fsm-path-utils-darwin.c previously got away with violating the rule that all files must start with an include of git-compat-util.h (or a short-list of alternate headers that happen to include it first). This change exposed the violation and caused it to stop building correctly; fix it by having it include git-compat-util.h first, as per policy. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-04-24hash-ll.h: split out of hash.h to remove dependency on repository.hElijah Newren1-0/+1
hash.h depends upon and includes repository.h, due to the definition and use of the_hash_algo (defined as the_repository->hash_algo). However, most headers trying to include hash.h are only interested in the layout of the structs like object_id. Move the parts of hash.h that do not depend upon repository.h into a new file hash-ll.h (the "low level" parts of hash.h), and adjust other files to use this new header where the convenience inline functions aren't needed. This allows hash.h and object.h to be fairly small, minimal headers. It also exposes a lot of hidden dependencies on both path.h (which was brought in by repository.h) and repository.h (which was previously implicitly brought in by object.h), so also adjust other files to be more explicit about what they depend upon. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-21treewide: be explicit about dependence on gettext.hElijah Newren1-0/+1
Dozens of files made use of gettext functions, without explicitly including gettext.h. This made it more difficult to find which files could remove a dependence on cache.h. Make C files explicitly include gettext.h if they are using it. However, while compat/fsmonitor/fsm-ipc-darwin.c should also gain an include of gettext.h, it was left out to avoid conflicting with an in-flight topic. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-06parse-options: consistently allocate memory in fix_filename()Jeff King1-1/+2
When handling OPT_FILENAME(), we have to stick the "prefix" (if any) in front of the filename to make up for the fact that Git has chdir()'d to the top of the repository. We can do this with prefix_filename(), but there are a few special cases we handle ourselves. Unfortunately the memory allocation is inconsistent here; if we do make it to prefix_filename(), we'll allocate a string which the caller must free to avoid a leak. But if we hit our special cases, we'll return the string as-is, and a caller which tries to free it will crash. So there's no way to win. Let's consistently allocate, so that callers can do the right thing. There are now three cases to care about in the function (and hence a three-armed if/else): 1. we got a NULL input (and should leave it as NULL, though arguably this is the sign of a bug; let's keep the status quo for now and we can pick at that scab later) 2. we hit a special case that means we leave the name intact; we should duplicate the string. This includes our special "-" matching. Prior to this patch, it also included empty prefixes and absolute filenames. But we can observe that prefix_filename() already handles these, so we don't need to detect them. 3. everything else goes to prefix_filename() I've dropped the "const" from the "char **file" parameter to indicate that we're allocating, though in practice it's not really important. This is all being shuffled through a void pointer via opt->value before it hits code which ever looks at the string. And it's even a bit weird, because we are really taking _in_ a const string and using the same out-parameter for a non-const string. A better function signature would be: static char *fix_filename(const char *prefix, const char *file); but that would mean the caller dereferences the double-pointer (and the NULL check is currently handled inside this function). So I took the path of least-change here. Note that we have to fix several callers in this commit, too, or we'll break the leak-checking tests. These are "new" leaks in the sense that they are now triggered by the test suite, but these spots have always been leaky when Git is run in a subdirectory of the repository. I fixed all of the cases that trigger with GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK. There may be others in scripts that have other leaks, but we can fix them later along with those other leaks (and again, you _couldn't_ fix them before this patch, so this is the necessary first step). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-19parse-options: PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN only applies to --optionsSZEDER Gábor1-1/+1
The description of 'PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN' starts with "Keep unknown arguments instead of erroring out". This is a bit misleading, as this flag only applies to unknown --options, while non-option arguments are kept even without this flag. Update the description to clarify this, and rename the flag to PARSE_OPTIONS_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT to make this obvious just by looking at the flag name. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25use xopen() to handle fatal open(2) failuresRené Scharfe1-3/+1
Add and apply a semantic patch for using xopen() instead of calling open(2) and die() or die_errno() explicitly. This makes the error messages more consistent and shortens the code. Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-02pack-protocol.txt: accept error packets in any contextMasaya Suzuki1-3/+3
In the Git pack protocol definition, an error packet may appear only in a certain context. However, servers can face a runtime error (e.g. I/O error) at an arbitrary timing. This patch changes the protocol to allow an error packet to be sent instead of any packet. Without this protocol spec change, when a server cannot process a request, there's no way to tell that to a client. Since the server cannot produce a valid response, it would be forced to cut a connection without telling why. With this protocol spec change, the server can be more gentle in this situation. An old client may see these error packets as an unexpected packet, but this is not worse than having an unexpected EOF. Following this protocol spec change, the error packet handling code is moved to pkt-line.c. Implementation wise, this implementation uses pkt-line to communicate with a subprocess. Since this is not a part of Git protocol, it's possible that a packet that is not supposed to be an error packet is mistakenly parsed as an error packet. This error packet handling is enabled only for the Git pack protocol parsing code considering this. Signed-off-by: Masaya Suzuki <masayasuzuki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-02Use packet_reader instead of packet_read_lineMasaya Suzuki1-9/+10
By using and sharing a packet_reader while handling a Git pack protocol request, the same reader option is used throughout the code. This makes it easy to set a reader option to the request parsing code. Signed-off-by: Masaya Suzuki <masayasuzuki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-26archive: initialize archivers earlierJosh Steadmon1-0/+2
Initialize archivers as soon as possible when running git-archive. Various non-obvious behavior depends on having the archivers initialized, such as determining the desired archival format from the provided filename. Since 08716b3c11 ("archive: refactor file extension format-guessing", 2011-06-21), archive_format_from_filename() has used the registered archivers to match filenames (provided via --output) to archival formats. However, when git-archive is executed with --remote, format detection happens before the archivers have been registered. This causes archives from remotes to always be generated as TAR files, regardless of the actual filename (unless an explicit --format is provided). This patch fixes that behavior; archival format is determined properly from the output filename, even when --remote is used. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-13archive.c: avoid access to the_indexNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-08correct error messages for NULL packet_read_line()Jeff King1-1/+1
The packet_read_line() function dies if it gets an unexpected EOF. It only returns NULL if we get a flush packet (or technically, a zero-length "0004" packet, but nobody is supposed to send those, and they are indistinguishable from a flush in this interface). Let's correct error messages which claim an unexpected EOF; it's really an unexpected flush packet. While we're here, let's also check "!line" instead of "!len" in the second case. The two events should always coincide, but checking "!line" makes it more obvious that we are not about to dereference NULL. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-11-22archive: read local configurationJunio C Hamano1-3/+3
Since b9605bc4f2 ("config: only read .git/config from configured repos", 2016-09-12), we do not read from ".git/config" unless we know we are in a repository. "git archive" however didn't do the repository discovery and instead relied on the old behaviour. Teach the command to run a "gentle" version of repository discovery so that local configuration variables are honoured. [jc: stole tests from peff] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-17pkt-line: rename packet_write() to packet_write_fmt()Lars Schneider1-2/+2
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 <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-05replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()Christian Couder1-2/+2
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API functions. The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this: $ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c | grep -v strbuf\\.c | xargs perl -pi -e ' s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g; s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g; s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g; s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g; ' on the result of preparatory changes in this series. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-20pkt-line: provide a LARGE_PACKET_MAX static bufferJeff King1-8/+7
Most of the callers of packet_read_line just read into a static 1000-byte buffer (callers which handle arbitrary binary data already use LARGE_PACKET_MAX). This works fine in practice, because: 1. The only variable-sized data in these lines is a ref name, and refs tend to be a lot shorter than 1000 characters. 2. When sending ref lines, git-core always limits itself to 1000 byte packets. However, the only limit given in the protocol specification in Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt is LARGE_PACKET_MAX; the 1000 byte limit is mentioned only in pack-protocol.txt, and then only describing what we write, not as a specific limit for readers. This patch lets us bump the 1000-byte limit to LARGE_PACKET_MAX. Even though git-core will never write a packet where this makes a difference, there are two good reasons to do this: 1. Other git implementations may have followed protocol-common.txt and used a larger maximum size. We don't bump into it in practice because it would involve very long ref names. 2. We may want to increase the 1000-byte limit one day. Since packets are transferred before any capabilities, it's difficult to do this in a backwards-compatible way. But if we bump the size of buffer the readers can handle, eventually older versions of git will be obsolete enough that we can justify bumping the writers, as well. We don't have plans to do this anytime soon, but there is no reason not to start the clock ticking now. Just bumping all of the reading bufs to LARGE_PACKET_MAX would waste memory. Instead, since most readers just read into a temporary buffer anyway, let's provide a single static buffer that all callers can use. We can further wrap this detail away by having the packet_read_line wrapper just use the buffer transparently and return a pointer to the static storage. That covers most of the cases, and the remaining ones already read into their own LARGE_PACKET_MAX buffers. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-20pkt-line: teach packet_read_line to chomp newlinesJeff King1-2/+0
The packets sent during ref negotiation are all terminated by newline; even though the code to chomp these newlines is short, we end up doing it in a lot of places. This patch teaches packet_read_line to auto-chomp the trailing newline; this lets us get rid of a lot of inline chomping code. As a result, some call-sites which are not reading line-oriented data (e.g., when reading chunks of packfiles alongside sideband) transition away from packet_read_line to the generic packet_read interface. This patch converts all of the existing callsites. Since the function signature of packet_read_line does not change (but its behavior does), there is a possibility of new callsites being introduced in later commits, silently introducing an incompatibility. However, since a later patch in this series will change the signature, such a commit would have to be merged directly into this commit, not to the tip of the series; we can therefore ignore the issue. This is an internal cleanup and should produce no change of behavior in the normal case. However, there is one corner case to note. Callers of packet_read_line have never been able to tell the difference between a flush packet ("0000") and an empty packet ("0004"), as both cause packet_read_line to return a length of 0. Readers treat them identically, even though Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt says we must not; it also says that implementations should not send an empty pkt-line. By stripping out the newline before the result gets to the caller, we will now treat the newline-only packet ("0005\n") the same as an empty packet, which in turn gets treated like a flush packet. In practice this doesn't matter, as neither empty nor newline-only packets are part of git's protocols (at least not for the line-oriented bits, and readers who are not expecting line-oriented packets will be calling packet_read directly, anyway). But even if we do decide to care about the distinction later, it is orthogonal to this patch. The right place to tighten would be to stop treating empty packets as flush packets, and this change does not make doing so any harder. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-22Reduce translations by using same terminologiesNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
Somewhere in help usage, we use both "message" and "msg", "command" and "cmd", "key id" and "key-id". This patch makes all help text from parseopt use the first form. Clearer and 3 fewer strings for translators. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-20i18n: archive: mark parseopt strings for translationNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-6/+6
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-15Revert "upload-archive: use start_command instead of fork"Junio C Hamano1-5/+1
This reverts commit c09cd77ea2fe3580b33918a99fe138d239ac2aaf, expecting a better version to be rerolled soon.
2011-10-30upload-archive: use start_command instead of forkErik Faye-Lund1-1/+5
The POSIX-function fork is not supported on Windows. Use our start_command API instead. As this is the last call-site that depends on the fork-stub in compat/mingw.h, remove that as well. Add an undocumented flag to git-archive that tells it that the action originated from a remote, so features can be disabled. Thanks to Jeff King for work on this part. Remove the NOT_MINGW-prereq for t5000, as git-archive --remote now works. Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-13Merge branch 'il/archive-err-signal'Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
* il/archive-err-signal: Support ERR in remote archive like in fetch/push
2011-10-05Support ERR in remote archive like in fetch/pushIlari Liusvaara1-0/+2
Make ERR as first packet of remote snapshot reply work like it does in fetch/push. Lets servers decline remote snapshot with message the same way as declining fetch/push with a message. Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-22upload-archive: allow user to turn off filtersJeff King1-1/+1
Some tar filters may be very expensive to run, so sites do not want to expose them via upload-archive. This patch lets users configure tar.<filter>.remote to turn them off. By default, gzip filters are left on, as they are about as expensive as creating zip archives. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-22archive: move file extension format-guessing lowerJeff King1-35/+16
The process for guessing an archive output format based on the filename is something like this: a. parse --output in cmd_archive; check the filename against a static set of mapping heuristics (right now it just matches ".zip" for zip files). b. if found, stick a fake "--format=zip" at the beginning of the arguments list (if the user did specify a --format manually, the later option will override our fake one) c. if it's a remote call, ship the arguments to the remote (including the fake), which will call write_archive on their end d. if it's local, ship the arguments to write_archive locally There are two problems: 1. The set of mappings is static and at too high a level. The write_archive level is going to check config for user-defined formats, some of which will specify extensions. We need to delay lookup until those are parsed, so we can match against them. 2. For a remote archive call, our set of mappings (or formats) may not match the remote side's. This is OK in practice right now, because all versions of git understand "zip" and "tar". But as new formats are added, there is going to be a mismatch between what the client can do and what the remote server can do. To fix (1), this patch refactors the location guessing to happen at the write_archive level, instead of the cmd_archive level. So instead of sticking a fake --format field in the argv list, we actually pass a "name hint" down the callchain; this hint is used at the appropriate time to guess the format (if one hasn't been given already). This patch leaves (2) unfixed. The name_hint is converted to a "--format" option as before, and passed to the remote. This means the local side's idea of how extensions map to formats will take precedence. Another option would be to pass the name hint to the remote side and let the remote choose. This isn't a good idea for two reasons: 1. There's no room in the protocol for passing that information. We can pass a new argument, but older versions of git on the server will choke on it. 2. Letting the remote side decide creates a silent inconsistency in user experience. Consider the case that the locally installed git knows about the "tar.gz" format, but a remote server doesn't. Running "git archive -o foo.tar.gz" will use the tar.gz format. If we use --remote, and the local side chooses the format, then we send "--format=tar.gz" to the remote, which will complain about the unknown format. But if we let the remote side choose the format, then it will realize that it doesn't know about "tar.gz" and output uncompressed tar without even issuing a warning. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-09i18n: git-archive basic messagesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-7/+7
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-22Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectoryLinus Torvalds1-0/+129
This shrinks the top-level directory a bit, and makes it much more pleasant to use auto-completion on the thing. Instead of [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab> Display all 180 possibilities? (y or n) [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-sh builtin-shortlog.c builtin-show-branch.c builtin-show-ref.c builtin-shortlog.o builtin-show-branch.o builtin-show-ref.o [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shor<tab> builtin-shortlog.c builtin-shortlog.o [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shortlog.c you get [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab> [type] builtin/ builtin.h [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin [auto-completes to] [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sh<tab> [type] shortlog.c shortlog.o show-branch.c show-branch.o show-ref.c show-ref.o [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sho [auto-completes to] [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shor<tab> [type] shortlog.c shortlog.o [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shortlog.c which doesn't seem all that different, but not having that annoying break in "Display all 180 possibilities?" is quite a relief. NOTE! If you do this in a clean tree (no object files etc), or using an editor that has auto-completion rules that ignores '*.o' files, you won't see that annoying 'Display all 180 possibilities?' message - it will just show the choices instead. I think bash has some cut-off around 100 choices or something. So the reason I see this is that I'm using an odd editory, and thus don't have the rules to cut down on auto-completion. But you can simulate that by using 'ls' instead, or something similar. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>