Introduce a new GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT environment variable that lets
users control the default ref format used by both git-init(1) and
git-clone(1). This is modeled after GIT_DEFAULT_OBJECT_FORMAT, which
does the same thing for the repository's object format.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx>
---
Documentation/git.txt | 5 +++++
setup.c | 7 +++++++
t/t0001-init.sh | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 30 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index bf9e6af695..88e4ed4bd6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -556,6 +556,11 @@ double-quotes and respecting backslash escapes. E.g., the value
is always used. The default is "sha1".
See `--object-format` in linkgit:git-init[1].
+`GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT`::
+ If this variable is set, the default reference backend format for new
+ repositories will be set to this value. The default is "files".
+ See `--ref-format` in linkgit:git-init[1].
+
Git Commits
~~~~~~~~~~~
`GIT_AUTHOR_NAME`::
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index fb1413cabd..1ab1a66bcb 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -2164,12 +2164,19 @@ static void validate_hash_algorithm(struct repository_format *repo_fmt, int hash
static void validate_ref_storage_format(struct repository_format *repo_fmt,
unsigned int format)
{
+ const char *name = getenv("GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT");
+
if (repo_fmt->version >= 0 &&
format != REF_STORAGE_FORMAT_UNKNOWN &&
format != repo_fmt->ref_storage_format) {
die(_("attempt to reinitialize repository with different reference storage format"));
} else if (format != REF_STORAGE_FORMAT_UNKNOWN) {
repo_fmt->ref_storage_format = format;
+ } else if (name) {
+ format = ref_storage_format_by_name(name);
+ if (format == REF_STORAGE_FORMAT_UNKNOWN)
+ die(_("unknown ref storage format '%s'"), name);
+ repo_fmt->ref_storage_format = format;
}
}
diff --git a/t/t0001-init.sh b/t/t0001-init.sh
index 38b3e4c39e..30ce752cc1 100755
--- a/t/t0001-init.sh
+++ b/t/t0001-init.sh
@@ -558,6 +558,24 @@ test_expect_success DEFAULT_REPO_FORMAT 'extensions.refStorage with unknown back
grep "invalid value for ${SQ}extensions.refstorage${SQ}: ${SQ}garbage${SQ}" err
'
+test_expect_success DEFAULT_REPO_FORMAT 'init with GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=files' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -rf refformat" &&
+ GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=files git init refformat &&
+ echo 0 >expect &&
+ git -C refformat config core.repositoryformatversion >actual &&
+ test_cmp expect actual &&
+ test_must_fail git -C refformat config extensions.refstorage
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'init with GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=garbage' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -rf refformat" &&
+ cat >expect <<-EOF &&
+ fatal: unknown ref storage format ${SQ}garbage${SQ}
+ EOF
+ test_must_fail env GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=garbage git init refformat 2>err &&
+ test_cmp expect err
+'
+
test_expect_success MINGW 'core.hidedotfiles = false' '
git config --global core.hidedotfiles false &&
rm -rf newdir &&
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