On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 04:17:34PM +0200, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
>
>> The combination of "git clean" and fat fingers can some times cause
>> data-loss, which can be frustrating.
>>
>> So let's add a flag that imports the files to be deleted into the
>> object-database, in a way similar to what git-stash does. Maintain
>> a reflog of the previously backed up clean-runs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmab...@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> I've had a similar patch laying around for quite a while, but since
>> f538a91 ("git-clean: Display more accurate delete messages"), this
>> patch is a lot less nasty than before. So here you go, perhaps
>> someone else has fat fingers and hate to lose work?
>
> I've definitely considered doing something like this before (and for
> "git reset --hard"). My biggest concern would be poor performance in
> some cases. But since it's optional, and one can presumably override it
> with --no-backup for a specific large cleanup, it would not hurt anybody
> who does not want to play with it.
I also made it opt-in rather than opt-out by default. Perhaps it
shouldn't be, though - dunno.
>> + /* load HEAD into the index */
>> +
>> + tree = parse_tree_indirect(sha1);
>> + if (!tree)
>> + die(_("Failed to unpack tree object %s"), sha1);
>> +
>> + parse_tree(tree);
>> + init_tree_desc(&t, tree->buffer, tree->size);
>> +
>> + memset(&opts, 0, sizeof(opts));
>> + opts.head_idx = -1;
>> + opts.src_index = &the_index;
>> + opts.dst_index = &the_index;
>> + opts.index_only = 1;
>> +
>> + if (unpack_trees(1, &t, &opts)) {
>> + /* We've already reported the error, finish dying */
>> + exit(128);
>> + }
>
> This bit of the code surprised me. I guess you are trying to re-create
> the index state of the HEAD so that the commit you build on top of it
> contains _only_ the untracked files as changes, and not whatever
> intermediate index state you had. That makes some sense to me, as clean
> is never touching the index state.
TBH, I didn't really think this stuff through, I basically just hacked
on this until I got it to save away superfluous files when the index
matched HEAD. So this part is more accidental than designed. I'm not
very familiar with the index-maniuplation code in Git either.
I *think* the right thing to do would be to save the tree of HEAD
*plus* those deleted files in this case. That way it only records the
destruction itself. This does *not* seem to be what currently happens.
If I have a change staged, that staged change also gets included in
the commit. That's not ideal, I think.
> Though taking a step back for a moment, I'd like to think about doing
> something similar for "reset --hard", which is the other "destructive"
> operation in git[1]. In that case, I think saving the index state is also
> useful, because it is being reset, too (and while those blobs are
> recoverable, the exact state is sometimes useful).
I agree. I guess that should essentially do a "full" git-stash.
> If we were to do that, should it be a separate ref? Or should there be a
> single backup ref for such "oops, undo that" operations? If the latter,
> what should that ref look like? I think it would look something like
> refs/stash, with the index and the working tree state stored as separate
> commits (even though in the "clean" case, the index state is not likely
> to be that interesting, it is cheap to store and makes the recovery
> tools uniform to use).
Hmm, perhaps. I do like the concept of a "git undo" of sorts, but
perhaps that'll raise the expectations even further? Or maybe raising
them a good thing, so people add missing features? :)
> And if we are going to store it like that, should we just be using "git
> stash save --keep-index --include-untracked"? I think we would just need
> to teach it a "--no-reset" option to leave the tracked files as-is.
Hm, interesting. But it does leave me with a bit of a bad feeling; git
stash is currently a shell-script, and I want us to move *away* from
depending on those rather than towards... Or perhaps I just convinced
myself to port git-stash to C? I guess the full script won't be
needed, only the heavy lifting...
> I realize that I went a few steps down the "if..." chain there to get to
> "should we just be using stash?". But it would also make the code here
> dirt-simple.
Simplicity is good, and it's always good to hear some different ideas
on how to reach a goal.
> [1] Actually, "reset --hard" may be more of an education issue, as
> simply running "git stash" has the same effect, but keeps a backup.
> It's just that "reset --hard" is advertised as the solution to many
> problems.
>
>> + if (!active_cache_tree)
>> + active_cache_tree = cache_tree();
>> +
>> + if (!cache_tree_fully_valid(active_cache_tree)) {
>> + if (cache_tree_update(active_cache_tree,
>> + (const struct cache_entry * const *)active_cache,
>> + active_nr, 0) < 0)
>> + die("failed to update cache");
>> + }
>
> I'd have thought you could use write_cache_as_tree, which backs "git
> write-tree", but there is currently no way to convince it not to write
> out the new cache. This is little enough code that it may not be worth
> refactoring write_cache_as_tree to handle it.
>
I think not having to maintain multiple copies might make it worth
factoring it out. Sure, it's not *that* complicated, but it *is*
pretty well-contained.
>> + /* create a reflog, if there isn't one */
>> + git_snpath(logfile, sizeof(logfile), "logs/%s", ref);
>> + if (stat(logfile, &st)) {
>> + FILE *fp = fopen(logfile, "w");
>> + if (!fp)
>> + warning(_("Can not do reflog for '%s'\n"), ref);
>> + else
>> + fclose(fp);
>> + }
>
> Kind of gross that we have to do this ourselves (and somewhat contrary
> to efforts elsewhere to make the ref code more abstract), but I see that
> "git stash" does the same thing.
Hmm, it seems like log_ref_setup might be able to do the work for us,
if it wold take a flag to force O_CREAT. Perhaps that's worth the
effort?
> Should you fopen with "a" here, to avoid a race condition where another
> process creates it between the stat() and the fopen(), in which case we
> would truncate what they wrote? You could even just get rid of the
> stat(), then, like:
>
> if ((fp = fopen(logfile, "a")))
> fclose(fp);
> else
> warning(_("Can not do reflog for '%s'"), ref);
>
> Also note that your warning has an extra "\n" in it.
Good catch, thanks. Both details :)
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