No behaviour change as the end result of the rewritten checks should be the same as before. We are just doing less work where possible. Patch by James Cook

ok op@

Since standard error is unbuffered, it could happen that the error string is printed immediately while the output from the subcommand is stuck in a buffer and written later. So flush() standard output before printing the error message. Problem reported by naddy@, ok stsp@

Spotted while looking for leaks using Otto' malloc() new leaks detection. Harmless in practice since we just forgot to call got_repo_close() when terminating in some cmd_*() functions, but still a leak. ok stsp@

Reported by Mikhail (thanks!), ok jamsek

Fixes a race condition on NFS where the file's modify time may change while the file is being edited, causing the editor to complain. OK stsp

getline(3) allows to safely re-use the storage. While here rename `size' to `linesize', `len' to `linelen', and properly initialize `linesize' to zero; suggested by tb@ ok tb@

ed users are reading files with their minds rather then their eyes, and might therefore be missing important visual clues we write into files before the user gets to edit them. Use of vi(1) ensures that such clues will not be missed.

In preparation for wide sha256 support; stsp@ agrees. Change done mechanically with find . -iname \*.[cy] -exec sam {} + X ,x/<sha1\.h>/i/\n#include <sha2.h>

cmd_merge is the only subcommand that may create commits that doesn't parse the git config files, thusly failing for users without GOT_AUTHOR defined. Problem reported by James Cook who also provided an initial test case, thanks! ok jamsek

As per stsp's suggestion and building on his initial diff, add the -C option to enable creating commits with unresolved conflicts to the commit, histedit, merge, and rebase commands to allow continuing the operation despite files in conflict status. Also, only search for conflict markers in newly added lines to enable working with files already under version control that may have conflict markers embedded verbatim. lots of tweaks, improvements, and initial diff + ok stsp@

Implement stsp's suggestion to only fetch remote's HEAD if the symref refs/remote/*/HEAD exists, and its target no longer matches the remote HEAD. This ensures users tracking a project won't miss a change in HEAD, while also fixing the issue reported by naddy where HEAD was fetched by default even though a specific, potentially less active, branch is cloned, resulting in a repository with more commits than necessary. In addition, unless 'got fetch -b <branch>' is used, the remote HEAD branch will be fetched if branches are not set in got.conf and there is no work tree to ascertain a branch, or said branches are not found on the server. ok stsp@

As pointed out by naddy, this behaviour is not ideal when users want to limit their repository to a particular branch which will diverge from HEAD over time, such as -stable branches. See https://marc.gameoftrees.org/mail/1676388048.8632_0.html

Rather than only fetch HEAD when there are no branches set in got.conf and there is no branch to be inferred from a work tree, or said branches don't exist on the server, always fetch HEAD unless 'got fetch -b branch' is used. ok stsp@