enter_repo: avoid duplicating logic, use is_git_directory() instead
It matters for linked checkouts where 'refs' directory won't be
available in $GIT_DIR. is_git_directory() knows about $GIT_COMMON_DIR
and can handle this case.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default, libcurl will follow circular http redirects
forever. Let's put a cap on this so that somebody who can
trigger an automated fetch of an arbitrary repository (e.g.,
for CI) cannot convince git to loop infinitely.
The value chosen is 20, which is the same default that
Firefox uses.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, libcurl would follow redirection to any protocol
it was compiled for support with. This is desirable to allow
redirection from HTTP to HTTPS. However, it would even
successfully allow redirection from HTTP to SFTP, a protocol
that git does not otherwise support at all. Furthermore
git's new protocol-whitelisting could be bypassed by
following a redirect within the remote helper, as it was
only enforced at transport selection time.
This patch limits redirects within libcurl to HTTP, HTTPS,
FTP and FTPS. If there is a protocol-whitelist present, this
list is limited to those also allowed by the whitelist. As
redirection happens from within libcurl, it is impossible
for an HTTP redirect to a protocol implemented within
another remote helper.
When the curl version git was compiled with is too old to
support restrictions on protocol redirection, we warn the
user if GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL restrictions were requested. This
is a little inaccurate, as even without that variable in the
environment, we would still restrict SFTP, etc, and we do
not warn in that case. But anything else means we would
literally warn every time git accesses an http remote.
This commit includes a test, but it is not as robust as we
would hope. It redirects an http request to ftp, and checks
that curl complained about the protocol, which means that we
are relying on curl's specific error message to know what
happened. Ideally we would redirect to a working ftp server
and confirm that we can clone without protocol restrictions,
and not with them. But we do not have a portable way of
providing an ftp server, nor any other protocol that curl
supports (https is the closest, but we would have to deal
with certificates).
[jk: added test and version warning]
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Asciidoctor is stricter than AsciiDoc when deciding if underlining
is a section title or the start of preformatted text. Make the
length of the underlining match the text to ensure that it renders
correctly in all implementations.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
[jc: squashed in git-bisect one noticed by Michael J Gruber] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t/perf: make runner work even if Git is not installed
aggregate.perl did not work when Git.pm is not installed to a directory
contained in the default Perl library path list or PERLLIB.
This commit prepends the Perl library path of the current Git source
tree to enable this.
Note that this commit adds a hard-coded relative path
use lib '../../perl/blib/lib';
instead of the flexible environment-based variant
use lib (split(/:/, $ENV{GITPERLLIB}));
which is used in tests written in Perl.
The hard-coded variant is used because the whole performance test
framework does it that way (and GITPERLLIB is not set there).
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The definition of log_div() appended information to the web server's
logfile to make the test more readable. However, log_div() was called
right after a request is served (which is done by git-http-backend);
the web server waits for the git-http-backend process to exit before
it writes to the log file. When the duration between serving a request
and exiting was long, the log_div() output was written before the last
request's log, and the test failed. (This duration could become
especially long for PROFILE=GEN builds.)
To get rid of this behavior, we should not change the logfile at all.
This commit removes log_div() and its calls. The additional information
is kept in the test (for readability reasons) but filtered out before
comparing it to the actual logfile.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After finding some problems (e.g. a ref refs/heads/X points at an
object that is not a commit) and issuing an error message, the
program failed to signal the fact that it found an error by a
non-zero exit status.
submodule: allow only certain protocols for submodule fetches
Some protocols (like git-remote-ext) can execute arbitrary
code found in the URL. The URLs that submodules use may come
from arbitrary sources (e.g., .gitmodules files in a remote
repository). Let's restrict submodules to fetching from a
known-good subset of protocols.
Note that we apply this restriction to all submodule
commands, whether the URL comes from .gitmodules or not.
This is more restrictive than we need to be; for example, in
the tests we run:
git submodule add ext::...
which should be trusted, as the URL comes directly from the
command line provided by the user. But doing it this way is
simpler, and makes it much less likely that we would miss a
case. And since such protocols should be an exception
(especially because nobody who clones from them will be able
to update the submodules!), it's not likely to inconvenience
anyone in practice.
Reported-by: Blake Burkhart <bburky@bburky.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
transport: add a protocol-whitelist environment variable
If we are cloning an untrusted remote repository into a
sandbox, we may also want to fetch remote submodules in
order to get the complete view as intended by the other
side. However, that opens us up to attacks where a malicious
user gets us to clone something they would not otherwise
have access to (this is not necessarily a problem by itself,
but we may then act on the cloned contents in a way that
exposes them to the attacker).
Ideally such a setup would sandbox git entirely away from
high-value items, but this is not always practical or easy
to set up (e.g., OS network controls may block multiple
protocols, and we would want to enable some but not others).
We can help this case by providing a way to restrict
particular protocols. We use a whitelist in the environment.
This is more annoying to set up than a blacklist, but
defaults to safety if the set of protocols git supports
grows). If no whitelist is specified, we continue to default
to allowing all protocols (this is an "unsafe" default, but
since the minority of users will want this sandboxing
effect, it is the only sensible one).
A note on the tests: ideally these would all be in a single
test file, but the git-daemon and httpd test infrastructure
is an all-or-nothing proposition rather than a test-by-test
prerequisite. By putting them all together, we would be
unable to test the file-local code on machines without
apache.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
notes: correct documentation of DWIMery for notes references
expand_notes_ref is used by --ref from git-notes(1) and --notes from the
git log to find the full refname of a notes reference. Previously the
documentation of these options was not clear about what sorts of
expansions would be performed. Fix the documentation to clearly and
accurately describe the behavior of the expansions.
Add a test for this expansion when using git notes get-ref in order to
prevent future patches from changing this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-p4: handle "Translation of file content failed"
A P4 repository can get into a state where it contains a file with
type UTF-16 that does not contain a valid UTF-16 BOM. If git-p4
attempts to retrieve the file then the process crashes with a
"Translation of file content failed" error.
More info here: http://answers.perforce.com/articles/KB/3117
Fix this by detecting this error and retrieving the file as binary
instead. The result in Git is the same.
Known issue: This works only if git-p4 is executed in verbose mode.
In normal mode no exceptions are thrown and git-p4 just exits.
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-p4: add test case for "Translation of file content failed" error
A P4 repository can get into a state where it contains a file with
type UTF-16 that does not contain a valid UTF-16 BOM. If git-p4
attempts to retrieve the file then the process crashes with a
"Translation of file content failed" error.
More info here: http://answers.perforce.com/articles/KB/3117
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
send-email: fix uninitialized var warning for $smtp_auth
On the latest version of git-send-email, I see this error just before
running SMTP auth (I didn't provide any --smtp-auth= parameter):
Use of uninitialized value $smtp_auth in pattern match (m//) at \
/home/briannorris/git/git/git-send-email.perl line 1139.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improve the documentation of commands taking optional arguments in two
ways:
* Documents the behavior of '-O' (for grep) and '-S' (for commands
creating commits) when used without the optional argument.
* Document the syntax of these options.
For the second point, the behavior is documented in gitcli(7), but it is
easy for users to miss, and hard for the same user to understand why e.g.
"git status -u no" does not work.
Document this explicitly in the documentation of each short option having
an optional argument: they are the most error prone since there is no '='
sign between the option and its argument.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gc: save log from daemonized gc --auto and print it next time
While commit 9f673f9 (gc: config option for running --auto in
background - 2014-02-08) helps reduce some complaints about 'gc
--auto' hogging the terminal, it creates another set of problems.
The latest in this set is, as the result of daemonizing, stderr is
closed and all warnings are lost. This warning at the end of cmd_gc()
is particularly important because it tells the user how to avoid "gc
--auto" running repeatedly. Because stderr is closed, the user does
not know, naturally they complain about 'gc --auto' wasting CPU.
Daemonized gc now saves stderr to $GIT_DIR/gc.log. Following gc --auto
will not run and gc.log printed out until the user removes gc.log.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce three i18n improvements from the following commits:
* tag, update-ref: improve description of option "create-reflog"
* pull: don't mark values for option "rebase" for translation
* show-ref: place angle brackets around variables in usage string
The experimental untracked-cache feature were buggy when paths with
a few levels of subdirectories are involved.
* dt/untracked-subdir:
untracked cache: fix entry invalidation
untracked-cache: fix subdirectory handling
t7063: use --force-untracked-cache to speed up a bit
untracked-cache: support sparse checkout
The revision.c options-parser will parse "--first-parent"
for us, but the blame code does not actually respect it, as
we simply iterate over the whole list returned by
first_scapegoat(). We can fix this by returning a
truncated parent list.
Note that we could technically also do so by limiting the
return value of num_scapegoats(), but that is less robust.
We would rely on nobody ever looking at the "next" pointer
from the returned list.
Combining "--reverse" with "--first-parent" is more
complicated, and will probably involve cooperation from
revision.c. Since the desired semantics are not even clear,
let's punt on this for now, but explicitly disallow it to
avoid confusing users (this is not really a regression,
since it did something nonsensical before).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
My 'demon' email address is no longer functional since, after 16+
years with demon, I have had to change my ISP. :(
Also, take the opportunity to remove my middle name, which I only
use on official documents (or in the GECOS field when creating a
user account on unix).
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Recent versions of scripted "git am" has a performance regression in
"git am --skip" codepath, which no longer exists in the built-in
version on the 'master' front. Fix the regression in the last
scripted version that appear in 2.5.x maintenance track and older.
* js/maint-am-skip-performance-regression:
am --skip/--abort: merge HEAD/ORIG_HEAD tree into index
Both "git show-ref -h" and "git show-ref --help" illustrated that the
"--exclude-existing" option makes the command read list of refs
from its standard input. Change only the "show-ref -h" output to
have a pair of "<>" around the placeholder that designate an input
file, i.e. "git show-ref --exclude-existing < <ref-list>".
* ah/show-ref-usage-string:
show-ref: place angle brackets around variables in usage string
Ensure that when passing a pipe, the gnulib poll replacement will not
return 0 before the timeout has passed.
Not obeying the timeout (and merely returning 0) causes pathological
behavior when preparing a packfile for a repository and taking a
long time to do so. If poll were to return 0 immediately, this would
cause keep-alives to get sent as quickly as possible until the packfile
was created. Such deviance from the standard would cause megabytes (or
more) of keep-alive packets to be sent.
GetTickCount is used as it is efficient, stable and monotonically
increasing. (Neither GetSystemTime nor QueryPerformanceCounter have
all three of these properties.)
Signed-off-by: Edward Thomson <ethomson@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The branch description will be included in 'git format-patch
--cover-letter' and in 'git pull-request' emails. It can also
be used in the automatic merge message. Tell the reader.
While here, clarify that the description may be a multi-line
explanation of the purpose of the branch's patch series.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk:
gitk: Accelerators for the main menu
gitk: Adjust the menu line numbers to compensate for the new entry
gitk: Add a "Copy commit summary" command
gitk: Update Bulgarian translation (307t)
gitk: Update .po files
gitk: Update Bulgarian translation (304t)
gitk: Use translated version of "Command line" in getcommitlines
gitk: Make it easier to go quickly to a specific commit
gitk: Show the current view's name in the window title
gitk: Add mouse right-click options to copy path and branch name
gitk: Remove mc parameter from proc show_error
gitk: Fix error when changing colors after closing "List references" window
gitk: Replace catch {unset foo} with unset -nocomplain foo
gitk: Rearrange window title to be more conventional
gitk: sv.po: Update Swedish translation (305t0f0u)
gitk: Fix bad English grammar "Matches none Commit Info"
path: implement common_dir handling in git_pathdup_submodule()
When submodule is a linked worktree, "git diff --submodule" and other
calls which directly access the submodule's object database do not correctly
calculate its path. Fix it by changing the git_pathdup_submodule() behavior,
to use either common or per-worktree directory.
Do it similarly as for parent repository, but ignore the GIT_COMMON_DIR
environment variable, because it would mean common directory for the parent
repository and does not make sense for submodule.
Also add test for functionality which uses this call.
Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
submodule refactor: use strbuf_git_path_submodule() in add_submodule_odb()
Functions which directly operate submodule's object database do not
handle the case when the submodule is linked worktree (which are
introduced in c7b3a3d2fe). Instead of fixing the path calculation use
already existing strbuf_git_path_submodule() function without changing
overall behaviour. Then it will be possible to modify only that function
whenever we need to change real location of submodule's repository
content.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitk: Adjust the menu line numbers to compensate for the new entry
Commit d835dbb9 ("gitk: Add a "Copy commit summary" command",
2015-08-13) in the upstream gitk repo added a new context menu entry.
Therefore, the line numbers of the entries below the new one need to be
adjusted when their text or state is changed.
Signed-off-by: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
tag, update-ref: improve description of option "create-reflog"
The description of option "create-reflog" is "create_reflog", which
is neither a good description, nor a sensible string to translate.
Change it to a more meaningful message.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Makefile: use SHELL_PATH when running generate-cmdlist.sh
Non-POSIX shells, such as /bin/sh on SunOS, do not support $((...))
arithmetic expansion or $(...) command substitution needed by
generate-cmdlist.sh. Make sure that we use a POSIX compliant shell
$(SHELL_PATH) when running generate-cmdlist.sh.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro R. Sedeño <asedeno@mit.edu> Acked-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is documented as an option but we don't actually accept it.
Support it so that it is possible to override the "rebase.autostash"
config variable.
Reported-by: Daniel Hahler <genml+git-2014@thequod.de> Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, git-svn parses an authors file using the perl regex
/^(.+?|\(no author\))\s*=\s*(.+?)\s*<(.+)>\s*$/
in order to extract svn user name, real name and e-mail.
This does not match an empty e-mail field like "<>". On the other hand,
the output of an authors-prog is parsed with the perl regex
as the authors prog gives different results compared to specifying
/tmp/authors as the authors file directly.
Instead, make git svn uses the perl regex
/^(.+?|\(no author\))\s*=\s*(.+?)\s*<(.*)>\s*$/
for parsing the authors file so that the same (slightly more lenient)
regex is used in both cases.
Reported-by: Till Schäfer <till2.schaefer@tu-dortmund.de> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
am --skip/--abort: merge HEAD/ORIG_HEAD tree into index
f8da6801 (am --skip: support skipping while on unborn branch,
2015-06-06) introduced a performance regression to "git am --skip",
where it used "read-tree" to reconstruct the index from scratch
without reusing the cached stat information.
This is a backport of the corresponding patch to the builtin am in 2.6: 3ecc704 (am --skip/--abort: merge HEAD/ORIG_HEAD tree into index,
2015-08-19).
Reportedly, it can make a huge difference on Windows, in one case a `git
rebase --skip` took 1m40s without, and 5s with, this patch.
Reported-and-suggested-by: Kim Gybels <kgybels@infogroep.be> Acked-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Recent "git am" had regression when adding a Signed-off-by line
with its "-s" option by an unintended tightening of how an existing
trailer block is detected.
* jc/builtin-am-signoff-regression-fix:
am: match --signoff to the original scripted version
When executing user-specified programs, we generally always
want to use a shell, for flexibility and consistency. One
big exception is executing $GIT_SSH, which for historical
reasons must not use a shell.
Once upon a time the logic in git_connect looked like:
But over time the PROTO_SSH block has grown, and the "local"
block has shrunk so that it contains only conn->use_shell;
it's easy to miss at the end of the large block. Moreover,
PROTO_SSH now also sometimes sets use_shell, when the new
GIT_SSH_COMMAND is used.
Let's just set conn->use_shell when we're setting up the "conn"
struct, and unset it (with a comment) in the historical GIT_SSH
case. This will make the flow easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
interpret-trailers: allow running outside a repository
It may be useful to run git-interpret-trailers without needing to be in
a repository.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Acked-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t7900-subtree: test the "space in a subdirectory name" case
In common case there can be spaces in a subdirectory name. Change tests
accorgingly to this statement.
Also, as far as a call to the `rejoin_msg` function (in `cmd_split`)
does not take into account such a case this patch fixes commit message
when `--rejoin` option is set .
Besides, as `fixnl` and `multiline` functions did not take into account
the "new" tested "space in a subdirectory name" case they become unused
and redundant, so they are removed.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Shumkin <Alex.Crezoff@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test-lib-functions: detect test_when_finished in subshell
test_when_finished does nothing in a subshell because the change to
test_cleanup does not affect the parent.
There is no POSIX way to detect that we are in a subshell ($$ and $PPID
are specified to remain unchanged), but we can detect it on Bash and
fall back to ignoring the bug on other shells.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the new "-C" option to test_config to change the configuration in
the submodule from the top level of the test so that it can be unset
correctly when the test finishes.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test-lib-functions: support "test_config -C <dir> ..."
If used in a subshell, test_config cannot unset variables at the end of
a test. This is a problem when testing submodules because we do not
want to "cd" at to top level of a test script in order to run the
command inside the submodule.
Add a "-C" option to test_config (and test_unconfig) so that test_config
can be kept outside subshells and still affect subrepositories.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test_when_finished has no effect in a subshell. Since the cmp_marks
function is only used once, inline it at its call site and move the
test_when_finished invocation to the start of the test.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test_config uses test_when_finished to reset the configuration after the
test, but this does not work inside a subshell. This does not cause a
problem here because the first thing the next test does is to set this
config variable itself, but we are about to add a check that will
complain when test_when_finished is used in a subshell.
In this case, "subdir" not a submodule so test_config has the same
effect when run at the top level and can simply be moved out of the
subshell.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
am: match --signoff to the original scripted version
Linus noticed that the recently reimplemented "git am -s" defines
the trailer block too rigidly, resulting in an unnecessary blank
line between the existing sign-offs and his new sign-off. An e-mail
submission sent to Linus in real life ends with mixture of sign-offs
and commentaries, e.g.
title here
message here
Signed-off-by: Original Author <original@auth.or>
[rv: tweaked frotz and nitfol] Signed-off-by: Re Viewer <rv@ew.er> Signed-off-by: Other Reviewer <other@rev.ewer>
---
patch here
Because the reimplementation reused append_signoff() helper that is
used by other codepaths, which is unaware that people intermix such
comments with their sign-offs in the trailer block, such a message
was judged to end with a non-trailer, resulting in an extra blank
line before adding a new sign-off.
The original scripted version of "git am" used a lot looser
definition, i.e. "if and only if there is no line that begins with
Signed-off-by:, add a blank line before adding a new sign-off". For
the upcoming release, stop using the append_signoff() in "git am"
and reimplement the looser definition used by the scripted version
to use only in "git am" to fix this regression in "am" while
avoiding new regressions to other users of append_signoff().
In the longer term, we should look into loosening append_signoff()
so that other codepaths that add a new sign-off behave the same way
as "git am -s", but that is a task for post-release.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we "switch" to another local repository to run the server
side of a fetch or push, we must clear the variables in
local_repo_env so that our local $GIT_DIR, etc, do not
pollute the upload-pack or receive-pack that is executing in
the "remote" repository.
We have never done so for ssh connections. For the most
part, nobody has noticed because ssh will not pass unknown
environment variables by default. However, it is not out of
the question for a user to configure ssh to pass along GIT_*
variables using SendEnv/AcceptEnv.
We can demonstrate the problem by using "git -c" on a local
command and seeing its impact on a remote repository. This
config ends up in $GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS. In the local case,
the config has no impact, but in the ssh transport, it does
(our test script has a fake ssh that passes through all
environment variables; this isn't normal, but does simulate
one possible setup).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
pager: don't use unsafe functions in signal handlers
Since the commit a3da8821208d (pager: do wait_for_pager on signal
death), we call wait_for_pager() in the pager's signal handler. The
recent bug report revealed that this causes a deadlock in glibc at
aborting "git log" [*1*]. When this happens, git process is left
unterminated, and it can't be killed by SIGTERM but only by SIGKILL.
The problem is that wait_for_pager() function does more than waiting
for pager process's termination, but it does cleanups and printing
errors. Unfortunately, the functions that may be used in a signal
handler are very limited [*2*]. Particularly, malloc(), free() and the
variants can't be used in a signal handler because they take a mutex
internally in glibc. This was the cause of the deadlock above. Other
than the direct calls of malloc/free, many functions calling
malloc/free can't be used. strerror() is such one, either.
Also the usage of fflush() and printf() in a signal handler is bad,
although it seems working so far. In a safer side, we should avoid
them, too.
This patch tries to reduce the calls of such functions in signal
handlers. wait_for_signal() takes a flag and avoids the unsafe
calls. Also, finish_command_in_signal() is introduced for the
same reason. There the free() calls are removed, and only waits for
the children without whining at errors.