Merge branch 'disable-git-follow' into 'master'

Disable --follow in `git log` to avoid loading duplicate commit data in infinite scroll

`git` doesn't work properly when `--follow` and `--skip` are specified together. We could even be **omitting commits in the Web log** as a result.

Here are the gory details. Let's say you ran:

```
git log -n=5 --skip=2 README
```

This is the working case since it omits `--follow`. This is what happens:

1. `git` starts at `HEAD` and traverses down the tree until it finds the top-most commit relevant to README.
2. Once this is found, this commit is returned via `get_revision_1()`.
3. If the `skip_count` is positive, decrement and repeat step 2. Otherwise go onto step 4.
4. `show_log()` gets called with that commit.
5. Repeat step 1 until we have all five entries.

That's exactly what we want. What happens when you use `--follow`? You have to understand how step 1 is performed:

* When you specify a pathspec on the command-line (e.g. README), a flag `prune` [gets set here](https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/revision.c#L2351).
* If the `prune` flag is active, `get_commit_action()` determines whether the commit should be [scanned for matching paths](https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/revision.c#L2989).
* In the case of `--follow`, however, `prune` is [disabled here](https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/revision.c#L2350).
* As a result, a commit is never scanned for matching paths and therefore never pruned. `HEAD` will always get returned as the first commit, even if it's not relevant to the README.
* Making matters worse, the `--skip` in the example above would actually skip a every other entry after `HEAD` N times. If README were changed in these skipped commits, we would actually miss information!

Since git uses a matching algorithm to determine whether a file was renamed, I
believe `git` needs to generate a diff of each commit to do this and traverse
each commit one-by-one to do this. I think that's the rationale for disabling
the `prune` functionality since you can't just do a simple string comparison.

Closes #4181, #4229, #3574, #2410

See merge request !2210

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index dca688f514e..6ba3bdb2012 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,22 @@
 Please view this file on the master branch, on stable branches it's out of date.
 
+v 8.4.0 (unreleased)
+  - Add support for Google reCAPTCHA in user registration to prevent spammers (Stan Hu)
+  - Implement new UI for group page
+  - Implement search inside emoji picker
+  - Add API support for looking up a user by username (Stan Hu)
+  - Add project permissions to all project API endpoints (Stan Hu)
+  - Only allow group/project members to mention `@all`
+  - Expose Git's version in the admin area
+  - Add "Frequently used" category to emoji picker
+  - Add CAS support (tduehr)
+  - Add link to merge request on build detail page.
+  - Revert back upvote and downvote button to the issue and MR pages
+
+v 8.3.2 (unreleased)
+  - Disable --follow in `git log` to avoid loading duplicate commit data in infinite scroll (Stan Hu)
+  - Enable "Add key" button when user fills in a proper key
+
 v 8.3.1
   - Fix Error 500 when global milestones have slashes (Stan Hu)
   - Fix Error 500 when doing a search in dashboard before visiting any project (Stan Hu)
diff --git a/app/models/repository.rb b/app/models/repository.rb
index 2c25f4ce451..1f4651f14ed 100644
--- a/app/models/repository.rb
+++ b/app/models/repository.rb
@@ -76,7 +76,9 @@ class Repository
       path: path,
       limit: limit,
       offset: offset,
-      follow: path.present?
+      # --follow doesn't play well with --skip. See:
+      # https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3574#note_3040520
+      follow: false
     }
 
     commits = Gitlab::Git::Commit.where(options)