Junio C Hamano [Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:22:03 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/commit-graph-wo-globals'
Remove dependency on the_repository and other globals from the
commit-graph code, and other changes unrelated to de-globaling.
* ps/commit-graph-wo-globals:
commit-graph: stop passing in redundant repository
commit-graph: stop using `the_repository`
commit-graph: stop using `the_hash_algo`
commit-graph: refactor `parse_commit_graph()` to take a repository
commit-graph: store the hash algorithm instead of its length
commit-graph: stop using `the_hash_algo` via macros
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:22:01 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ja/doc-lint-sections-and-synopsis'
Doc lint updates to encourage the newer and easier-to-use
`synopsis` format, with fixes to a handful of existing uses.
* ja/doc-lint-sections-and-synopsis:
doc lint: check that synopsis manpages have synopsis inlines
doc:git-for-each-ref: fix styling and typos
doc: check for absence of the form --[no-]parameter
doc: check for absence of multiple terms in each entry of desc list
doc: check well-formedness of delimited sections
doc: test linkgit macros for well-formedness
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:22:00 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
Merge branch 'tc/diff-tree-max-depth'
"git diff-tree" learned "--max-depth" option.
* tc/diff-tree-max-depth:
diff: teach tree-diff a max-depth parameter
within_depth: fix return for empty path
combine-diff: zero memory used for callback filepairs
Various options to "git diff" that makes comparison ignore certain
aspects of the differences (like "space changes are ignored",
"differences in lines that match these regular expressions are
ignored") did not work well with "--name-only" and friends.
* ly/diff-name-only-with-diff-from-content:
diff: ensure consistent diff behavior with ignore options
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:13:21 +0000 (13:13 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ac/deglobal-fmt-merge-log-config'
Code clean-up.
* ac/deglobal-fmt-merge-log-config:
builtin/fmt-merge-msg: stop depending on 'the_repository'
environment: remove the global variable 'merge_log_config'
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:13:20 +0000 (13:13 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jc/diff-no-index-in-subdir'
"git diff --no-index" run inside a subdirectory under control of a
Git repository operated at the top of the working tree and stripped
the prefix from the output, and oddballs like "-" (stdin) did not
work correctly because of it. Correct the set-up by undoing what
the set-up sequence did to cwd and prefix.
* jc/diff-no-index-in-subdir:
diff: --no-index should ignore the worktree
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:13:20 +0000 (13:13 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ms/refs-list'
The "list" subcommand of "git refs" acts as a front-end for
"git for-each-ref".
* ms/refs-list:
t: add test for git refs list subcommand
t6300: refactor tests to be shareable
builtin/refs: add list subcommand
builtin/for-each-ref: factor out core logic into a helper
builtin/for-each-ref: align usage string with the man page
doc: factor out common option
Revision traversal limited with pathspec, like "git log dir/*",
used to ignore changed-paths Bloom filter when the pathspec
contained wildcards; now they take advantage of the filter when
they can.
* ly/changed-path-traversal-with-magic-pathspec:
bloom: enable bloom filter with wildcard pathspec in revision traversal
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:47:02 +0000 (13:47 -0700)]
Merge branch 'en/ort-rename-fixes'
Various bugs about rename handling in "ort" merge strategy have
been fixed.
* en/ort-rename-fixes:
merge-ort: fix directory rename on top of source of other rename/delete
merge-ort: fix incorrect file handling
merge-ort: clarify the interning of strings in opt->priv->path
t6423: fix missed staging of file in testcases 12i,12j,12k
t6423: document two bugs with rename-to-self testcases
merge-ort: drop unnecessary temporary in check_for_directory_rename()
merge-ort: update comments to modern testfile location
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:47:01 +0000 (13:47 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ua/t1517-short-help-tests'
Test shuffling.
* ua/t1517-short-help-tests:
t5304: move `prune -h` test from t1517
t5200: move `update-server-info -h` test from t1517
t/t1517: automate `git subcmd -h` tests outside a repository
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:47:00 +0000 (13:47 -0700)]
Merge branch 'dl/push-missing-object-error'
"git push" had a code path that led to BUG() but it should have
been a die(), as it is a response to a usual but invalid end-user
action to attempt pushing an object that does not exist.
* dl/push-missing-object-error:
remote.c: convert if-else ladder to switch
remote.c: remove BUG in show_push_unqualified_ref_name_error()
t5516: remove surrounding empty lines in test bodies
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:47:00 +0000 (13:47 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jc/strbuf-split'
Arrays of strbuf is often a wrong data structure to use, and
strbuf_split*() family of functions that create them often have
better alternatives.
Update several code paths and replace strbuf_split*().
* jc/strbuf-split:
trace2: do not use strbuf_split*()
trace2: trim_trailing_newline followed by trim is a no-op
sub-process: do not use strbuf_split*()
environment: do not use strbuf_split*()
config: do not use strbuf_split()
notes: do not use strbuf_split*()
merge-tree: do not use strbuf_split*()
clean: do not use strbuf_split*() [part 2]
clean: do not pass the whole structure when it is not necessary
clean: do not use strbuf_split*() [part 1]
clean: do not pass strbuf by value
wt-status: avoid strbuf_split*()
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:46:59 +0000 (13:46 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jc/string-list-split'
string_list_split*() family of functions have been extended to
simplify common use cases.
* jc/string-list-split:
string-list: split-then-remove-empty can be done while splitting
string-list: optionally omit empty string pieces in string_list_split*()
diff: simplify parsing of diff.colormovedws
string-list: optionally trim string pieces split by string_list_split*()
string-list: unify string_list_split* functions
string-list: align string_list_split() with its _in_place() counterpart
string-list: report programming error with BUG
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:46:58 +0000 (13:46 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/remote-rename-fix'
"git remote rename origin upstream" failed to move origin/HEAD to
upstream/HEAD when origin/HEAD is unborn and performed other
renames extremely inefficiently, which has been corrected.
* ps/remote-rename-fix:
builtin/remote: only iterate through refs that are to be renamed
builtin/remote: rework how remote refs get renamed
builtin/remote: determine whether refs need renaming early on
builtin/remote: fix sign comparison warnings
refs: simplify logic when migrating reflog entries
refs: pass refname when invoking reflog entry callback
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:46:57 +0000 (13:46 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/reflog-migrate-fixes'
"git refs migrate" to migrate the reflog entries from a refs
backend to another had a handful of bugs squashed.
* ps/reflog-migrate-fixes:
refs: fix invalid old object IDs when migrating reflogs
refs: stop unsetting REF_HAVE_OLD for log-only updates
refs/files: detect race when generating reflog entry for HEAD
refs: fix identity for migrated reflogs
ident: fix type of string length parameter
builtin/reflog: implement subcommand to write new entries
refs: export `ref_transaction_update_reflog()`
builtin/reflog: improve grouping of subcommands
Documentation/git-reflog: convert to use synopsis type
As part of 9bbc981c6f2 (t/unit-tests: finalize migration of
reftable-related tests, 2025-07-24), the explicit list of
`UNIT_TEST_PROGRAMS` was turned into a wildcard pattern-derived list.
Let's do the same in the CMake definition.
This fixes build errors with symptoms like this:
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:132 (string):
string sub-command REPLACE requires at least four arguments.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:1037 (parse_makefile_for_scripts)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mikel Forcada [Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:40:41 +0000 (22:40 +0200)]
l10n: Update Catalan Translation for Git 2.51-rc2
Edit: We are continuing to follow the existing PO file convention, which
includes filenames but strips out line numbers from the file-location
comments. This standard was set by our former lead, Jordi Mas, and we
are maintaining it for project-wide consistency.
Signed-off-by: Mikel Forcada <mikel.forcada@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
commit-graph: stop passing in redundant repository
Many of the commit-graph related functions take in both a repository and
the object database source (directly or via `struct commit_graph`) for
which we are supposed to load such a commit-graph. In the best case this
information is simply redundant as the source already contains a
reference to its owning object database, which in turn has a reference
to its repository. In the worst case this information could even
mismatch when passing in a source that doesn't belong to the same
repository.
Refactor the code so that we only pass in the object database source in
those cases.
There is one exception though, namely `load_commit_graph_chain_fd_st()`,
which is responsible for loading a commit-graph chain. It is expected
that parts of the commit-graph chain aren't located in the same object
source as the chain file itself, but in a different one. Consequently,
this function doesn't work on the source level but on the database level
instead.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's still a bunch of uses of `the_repository` in "commit-graph.c",
which we want to stop using due to it being a global variable. Refactor
the code to stop using `the_repository` in favor of the repository
provided via the calling context.
This allows us to drop the `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Stop using `the_hash_algo` as it implicitly relies on `the_repository`.
Instead, we either use the hash algo provided via the context or, if
there is no such hash algo, we use `the_repository` explicitly. Such
uses will be removed in subsequent commits.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
commit-graph: refactor `parse_commit_graph()` to take a repository
Refactor `parse_commit_graph()` so that it takes a repository instead of
taking repository settings. On the one hand this allows us to get rid of
instances where we access `the_hash_algo` by using the repository's hash
algorithm instead. On the other hand it also allows us to move the call
of `prepare_repo_settings()` into the function itself.
Note that there's one small catch, as the commit-graph fuzzer calls this
function directly without having a fully functional repository at hand.
And while the fuzzer already initializes `the_repository` with relevant
info, the call to `prepare_repo_settings()` would fail because we don't
have a fully-initialized repository.
Work around the issue by also settings `settings.initialized` to pretend
that we've already read the settings.
While at it, remove the redundant `parse_commit_graph()` declaration in
the fuzzer. It was added together with aa658574bf (commit-graph, fuzz:
add fuzzer for commit-graph, 2019-01-15), but as we also declared the
same function in "commit-graph.h" it wasn't ever needed.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
commit-graph: store the hash algorithm instead of its length
The commit-graph stores the length of the hash algorithm it uses. In
subsequent commits we'll need to pass the whole hash algorithm around
though, which we currently don't have access to.
Refactor the code so that we store the hash algorithm instead of only
its size.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
commit-graph: stop using `the_hash_algo` via macros
We have two macros `GRAPH_DATA_WIDTH` and `GRAPH_MIN_SIZE` that compute
hash-dependent sizes. They do so by using the global `the_hash_algo`
variable though, which we want to get rid of over time.
Convert these macros into functions that accept the hash algorithm as
input parameter. Adapt callers accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
D. Ben Knoble [Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:50:05 +0000 (13:50 -0400)]
t7005: sanitize test environment for subsequent tests
Some of the editor tests manipulate the environment or config in ways
that affect future tests, but those modifications are visible to future
tests and create a footgun for them.
Use test_config, subshells, single-command environment overrides, and
test helpers to automatically undo environment and config modifications
once finished.
Best-viewed-with: --ignore-all-space Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
D. Ben Knoble [Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:50:03 +0000 (13:50 -0400)]
t7005: use modern test style
Tests in t7005 mask Git error codes and do not use our nice test
helpers. Improve that, move some code into the setup test, and drop a
few old-style blank lines while at it.
Best-viewed-with: --ignore-all-space Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
docs: remove stray bracket from git-clone synopsis
The synopsis section has an extra closing bracket, like this:
[--filter=<filter>] [--also-filter-submodules]]
The extra one is not the one at the end of this line; it is the one
after "...=<filter>".
The "--also-filter-submodules" option was added by f05da2b4 (clone,
submodule: pass partial clone filters to submodules, 2022-02-04).
Because it makes sense only when used with the "--filter=<filter>"
option, these two options are enclosed in a pair of brackets. The
extra one was added by 76880f05 (doc: git-clone: apply new
documentation formatting guidelines, 2024-03-29) by mistake.
Remove the extra and incorrect closing bracket, so that the line
reads:
[--filter=<filter> [--also-filter-submodules]]
Signed-off-by: Knut Harald Ryager <e-k-nut@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jean-Noël Avila [Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:53:20 +0000 (20:53 +0000)]
doc lint: check that synopsis manpages have synopsis inlines
When switching manpages to the synopsis style, the description lists of
options need to be switched to inline synopsis for proper formatting. This
is done by enclosing the option name in double backticks, e.g. `--option`.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jean-Noël Avila [Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:53:18 +0000 (20:53 +0000)]
doc: check for absence of the form --[no-]parameter
For better searchability, this commit adds a check to ensure that parameters
expressed in the form of `--[no-]parameter` are not used in the
documentation. In the place of such parameters, the documentation should
list two separate parameters: `--parameter` and `--no-parameter`.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jean-Noël Avila [Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:53:17 +0000 (20:53 +0000)]
doc: check for absence of multiple terms in each entry of desc list
For simplifying automated translation of the documentation, it is better to
only present one term in each entry of a description list of options. This
is because most of these terms can automatically be marked as
notranslatable.
Also, due to portability issues, the script generate-configlist.sh can no
longer insert newlines in the output. However, the result is that it no
longer correctly handles multiple terms in a single entry of definition
lists.
As a result, we now check that these entries do not exist in the
documentation.
Reviewed-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jean-Noël Avila [Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:53:16 +0000 (20:53 +0000)]
doc: check well-formedness of delimited sections
Having an empty line before each delimited sections is not required by
asciidoc, but it is a safety measure that prevents generating malformed
asciidoc when generating translated documentation.
When a delimited section appears just after a paragraph, the asciidoc
processor checks that the length of the delimited section header is
different from the length of the paragraph. If it is not, the asciidoc
processor will generate a title. In the original English documentation, this
is not a problem because the authors always check the output of the asciidoc
processor and fix the length of the delimited section header if it turns out
to be the same as the paragraph length. However, this is not the case for
translations, where the authors have no way to check the length of the
delimited section header or the output of the asciidoc processor. This can
lead to a section title that is not intended.
Indeed, this test also checks that titles are correctly formed, that is,
the length of the underline is equal to the length of the title (otherwise
it would not be a title but a section header).
Finally, this test checks that the delimited section are terminated within
the same file.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ayush Chandekar [Sun, 10 Aug 2025 23:45:46 +0000 (05:15 +0530)]
builtin/fmt-merge-msg: stop depending on 'the_repository'
Refactor builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c to remove the dependancy on the global
'the_repository'. Remove the 'UNUSED' macro from the 'struct repository'
parameter and replace 'git_config()' with 'repo_config()' so that
configuration is read from the passed repository. Also, add a test to
make sure that "git fmt-merge-msg -h" can be called outside a
repository.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Ghanshyam Thakkar <shyamthakkar001@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ayush Chandekar <ayu.chandekar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ayush Chandekar [Sun, 10 Aug 2025 23:45:45 +0000 (05:15 +0530)]
environment: remove the global variable 'merge_log_config'
The global variable 'merge_log_config', set via the "merge.log" or
"merge.summary" settings, is only used in 'cmd_fmt_merge_msg()' and
'cmd_merge()' to adjust the 'shortlog_len' variable.
Remove 'merge_log_config' globally and localize it in
'cmd_fmt_merge_msg()' and 'cmd_merge()'. Set its value by passing it in
'fmt_merge_msg_config()' by passing its pointer to the function via the
callback parameter.
This change is part of an ongoing effort to eliminate global variables,
improve modularity and help libify the codebase.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Ghanshyam Thakkar <shyamthakkar001@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ayush Chandekar <ayu.chandekar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
That is, for a file "foo.txt", `git diff --no-prefix` will emit:
+++ foo.txt
but for "foo bar.txt" it will emit:
+++ foo bar.txt\t
This in turn leads `git-jump` to produce a quickfix format like this:
foo bar.txt\t:1:1:contents
Because no "foo bar.txt\t" file actually exists on disk, opening it in
Vim will just land the user in an empty buffer.
This commit takes the simple approach of unconditionally stripping any
trailing tab. Consider the following three examples:
1. For file "foo", Git will emit "foo".
2. For file "foo bar", Git will emit "foo bar\t".
3. For file "foo\t", Git will emit "\"foo\t\"".
4. For file "foo bar\t", Git will emit "\"foo bar\t\"".
Before this commit, `git-jump` correctly handled only case "1".
After this commit, `git-jump` correctly handles cases "1" and "2". In
reality, these are the only cases people are going to run into with any
regularity, and the other two are rare edge cases, which probably aren't
worth the effort to support unless somebody actually complains about
them.
Signed-off-by: Greg Hurrell <greg.hurrell@datadoghq.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Lidong Yan [Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:01:37 +0000 (14:01 +0800)]
bloom: enable bloom filter with wildcard pathspec in revision traversal
When traversing commits, a pathspec item can be used to limit the
traversal to commits that modify the specified paths. And the
commit-graph includes a Bloom filter to exclude commits that definitely
did not modify a given pathspec item. During commit traversal, the
Bloom filter can significantly improve performance. However, it is
disabled if the specified pathspec item contains wildcard characters
or magic signatures.
For performance reason, enable Bloom filter even if a pathspec item
contains wildcard characters by filtering only the non-wildcard part of
the pathspec item.
The function of pathspec magic signature is generally to narrow down
the path specified by the pathspecs. So, enable Bloom filter when
the magic signature is "top", "glob", "attr", "--depth" or "literal".
"exclude" is used to select paths other than the specified path, rather
than serving as a filtering function, so it cannot be used together with
the Bloom filter. Since Bloom filter is not case insensitive even in
case insensitive system (e.g. MacOS), it cannot be used together with
"icase" magic.
With this optimization, we get some improvements for pathspecs with
wildcards or magic signatures. First, in the Git repository we see these
modest results:
git log -100 -- "t/*"
Benchmark 1: new
Time (mean ± σ): 20.4 ms ± 0.6 ms
Range (min … max): 19.3 ms … 24.4 ms
Benchmark 2: old
Time (mean ± σ): 23.4 ms ± 0.5 ms
Range (min … max): 22.5 ms … 24.7 ms
git log -100 -- ":(top)t"
Benchmark 1: new
Time (mean ± σ): 16.2 ms ± 0.4 ms
Range (min … max): 15.3 ms … 17.2 ms
Benchmark 2: old
Time (mean ± σ): 18.6 ms ± 0.5 ms
Range (min … max): 17.6 ms … 20.4 ms
But in a larger repo, such as the LLVM project repo below, we get even
better results:
git log -100 -- "libc/*"
Benchmark 1: new
Time (mean ± σ): 16.0 ms ± 0.6 ms
Range (min … max): 14.7 ms … 17.8 ms
Benchmark 2: old
Time (mean ± σ): 26.7 ms ± 0.5 ms
Range (min … max): 25.4 ms … 27.8 ms
git log -100 -- ":(top)libc"
Benchmark 1: new
Time (mean ± σ): 15.6 ms ± 0.6 ms
Range (min … max): 14.4 ms … 17.7 ms
Benchmark 2: old
Time (mean ± σ): 19.6 ms ± 0.5 ms
Range (min … max): 18.6 ms … 20.6 ms
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Lidong Yan <yldhome2d2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:20:36 +0000 (17:20 -0700)]
diff: --no-index should ignore the worktree
The act of giving "--no-index" tells Git to pretend that the current
directory is not under control of any Git index or repository, so
even when you happen to be in a Git controlled working tree, where
in that working tree should not matter.
But the start-up sequence tries to discover the top of the working
tree and chdir(2)'s there, even before Git passes control to the
subcommand being run. When diff_no_index() starts running, it
starts at a wrong (from the end-user's point of view who thinks
"git diff --no-index" is merely a better version of GNU diff)
directory, and the original directory the user started the command
is at "prefix".
Because the paths given from argv[] have already been adjusted to
account for this path shuffling by prepending the prefix, and
showing the resulting path by stripping the prefix, the effect of
these nonsense operations (nonsense in the context of "--no-index",
that is) is usually not observable.
Except for special cases like "-", where it is not preprocessed by
prepending the prefix.
Instead of papering over by adding more special cases only to cater
to the no-index codepath in the generic code, drive the diff
machinery more faithfully to what is going on. If the user started
"git diff --no-index" in directory X/Y/Z in a working tree
controlled by Git, and the start up sequence of Git chdir(2)'ed up
to directory X and left Y/Z in the prefix, revert the effect of the
start up sequence by chdir'ing back to Y/Z and emptying the prefix.
Reported-by: Gregoire Geis <opensource@gregoirege.is> Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
3a54f5bd5d (merge/pull: add the "--compact-summary" option, 2025-06-12)
added the option --compact-summary to both merge and pull. It takes no
no argument, but for merge it got an argument help string. Remove it,
since it is unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
dabecb9db2 (for-each-ref: introduce a '--start-after' option,
2025-07-15) added the option --start-after and referred to its argument
as "marker" in documentation and usage string, but not in the option's
short help. Use "marker" there as well for consistency and brevity.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ramsay Jones [Fri, 8 Aug 2025 19:32:02 +0000 (20:32 +0100)]
t6137-*.sh: fix test failure on cygwin
Commit 6fd1106aa4 ("t3700: Skip a test with backslashes in pathspec",
2009-03-13) introduced the BSLASHPSPEC prerequisite. This prerequisite
allows tests to check for systems that can use backslashes in pathspecs
(e.g. to escape glob special characters). On windows (and cygwin), this
does not work because backslashes are used as directory separators, and
git eagerly converts them to forward slashes.
This test file uses the FUNNYNAMES prerequisite to skip this test file
on windows, despite not really being appropriate for this test, which
does not hold on cygwin. The FUNNYNAMES prerequisite is set when the
system can create files with embedded quotes ("), tabs or newlines in
the name. Since cygwin can satisfy FUNNYNAMES, but not BSLASHPSPEC, this
leads to test failures on cygwin.
In order to skip these tests on cygwin, replace the FUNNYNAMES prerequisite
with BSLASHPSPEC, so that this test file is skipped on both windows and
cygwin. While here, fix a few test titles as well.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
D. Ben Knoble [Sun, 3 Aug 2025 16:10:27 +0000 (12:10 -0400)]
builtin: also setup gently for --help-all
Git experts often check the help summary of a command to make sure they
spell options right when suggesting advice to colleagues. Further, they
might check hidden options when responding to queries about deprecated
options like git-rebase(1)'s "preserve merges" option. But some commands
don't support "--help-all" outside of a git directory. Running (for
example)
git rebase --help-all
outside a directory fails in "setup_git_directory", erroring with the
localized form of
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
Like 99caeed05d (Let 'git <command> -h' show usage without a git dir,
2009-11-09), we want to show the "--help-all" output even without a git
dir. Make "--help-all" where we expect "-h" to mean
"setup_git_directory_gently", and interpose early in the natural place
("show_usage_with_options_if_asked").
Do the same for usage callers with show_usage_if_asked.
The exception is merge-recursive, whose help block doesn't use newer
APIs.
Best-viewed-with: --ignore-space-change Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
D. Ben Knoble [Sun, 3 Aug 2025 16:10:26 +0000 (12:10 -0400)]
parse-options: refactor flags for usage_with_options_internal
When reading or editing calls to usage_with_options_internal, it is
difficult to tell what trailing "0, 0", "0, 1", "1, 0" arguments mean
(NB there is never a "1, 1" case).
Give the flags readable names to improve call-sites without changing any
behavior.
Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 8 Aug 2025 18:03:33 +0000 (11:03 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ua/t1517-short-help-tests' into dk/help-all
* ua/t1517-short-help-tests:
t5304: move `prune -h` test from t1517
t5200: move `update-server-info -h` test from t1517
t/t1517: automate `git subcmd -h` tests outside a repository
b27be108c89 (doc: git-log: convert log config to new doc format,
2025-07-07) intended to convert a paragraph describing the different
options for `log.decorate` into a description list. But the literal
block syntax was used by mistake.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Denton Liu [Fri, 8 Aug 2025 07:24:45 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
remote.c: remove BUG in show_push_unqualified_ref_name_error()
When "git push <remote> <src>:<dst>" does not spell out the
destination side of the ref fully, and when <src> is not given
as a reference but an object name, the code tries to give advice
messages based on the type of that object.
The type is determined by calling odb_read_object_info() and
signalled by its return value. The code however reported a
programming error with BUG() when this function said that there
is no such object, which happens when the object name is given
as a full hexadecimal (if the object name is given as a partial
hexadecimal or an non-existing ref, the function would have died
without returning, so this BUG() wouldn't have triggered). This
is wrong. It is an ordinary end-user mistake to give an object
name that does not exist and treated as such.
An example of the error message produced is as follows:
error: The destination you provided is not a full refname (i.e.,
starting with "refs/"). We tried to guess what you meant by:
- Looking for a ref that matches 'branch' on the remote side.
- Checking if the <src> being pushed ('0000000000000000000000000000000000000001')
is a ref in "refs/{heads,tags}/". If so we add a corresponding
refs/{heads,tags}/ prefix on the remote side.
Neither worked, so we gave up. You must fully qualify the ref.
BUG: remote.c:1221: '0000000000000000000000000000000000000001' should be commit/tag/tree/blob, is '-1'
fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
Aborted (core dumped)
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Denton Liu [Fri, 8 Aug 2025 07:24:42 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
t5516: remove surrounding empty lines in test bodies
This style with the empty lines in test bodies was from when the test
suite was being developed. Remove the empty lines to match the modern
test style.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Lidong Yan [Fri, 8 Aug 2025 03:30:19 +0000 (11:30 +0800)]
diff: ensure consistent diff behavior with ignore options
In git-diff, options like `-w` and `-I<regex>`, two files are considered
equivalent under the specified "ignore" rules, even when they are not
bit-for-bit identical. For options like `--raw`, `--name-status`,
and `--name-only`, git-diff deliberately compares only the SHA values
to determine whether two files are equivalent, for performance reasons.
As a result, a file shown in `git diff --name-status` may not appear
in `git diff --patch`.
To quickly determine whether two files are equivalent, add a helper
function diff_flush_patch_quietly() in diff.c. Add `.dry_run` field in
`struct diff_options`. When `.dry_run` is true, builtin_diff() returns
immediately upon finding any change. Call diff_flush_patch_quietly()
to determine if we should flush `--raw`, `--name-only` or `--name-status`
output.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Lidong Yan <yldhome2d2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Usman Akinyemi [Fri, 8 Aug 2025 01:06:51 +0000 (06:36 +0530)]
t5304: move `prune -h` test from t1517
t1517 is now focused on testing subcommands outside a repository.
Move the in-repo `-h` test for `prune` to t5304, which covers
this command.
Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Usman Akinyemi <usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Usman Akinyemi [Fri, 8 Aug 2025 01:06:50 +0000 (06:36 +0530)]
t5200: move `update-server-info -h` test from t1517
t1517 is now focused on testing subcommands outside a repository.
Move the in-repo `-h` test for `update-server-info` to t5200,
which covers this command.
Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Usman Akinyemi <usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Usman Akinyemi [Fri, 8 Aug 2025 01:06:49 +0000 (06:36 +0530)]
t/t1517: automate `git subcmd -h` tests outside a repository
Replace manual `-h` tests with a loop over all subcommands using
`git --list-cmds=main`. This ensures consistent coverage of `-h`
behavior outside a repo and future-proofs the test by covering
new commands automatically.
Known exceptions are skipped or marked as expected failures.
Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Usman Akinyemi <usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Thu, 7 Aug 2025 20:52:58 +0000 (22:52 +0200)]
diff: teach tree-diff a max-depth parameter
When you are doing a tree-diff, there are basically two options: do not
recurse into subtrees at all, or recurse indefinitely. While most
callers would want to always recurse and see full pathnames, some may
want the efficiency of looking only at a particular level of the tree.
This is currently easy to do for the top-level (just turn off
recursion), but you cannot say "show me what changed in subdir/, but do
not recurse".
This patch adds a max-depth parameter which is measured from the closest
pathspec match, so that you can do:
git log --raw --max-depth=1 -- a/b/c
and see the raw output for a/b/c/, but not those of a/b/c/d/
(instead of the raw output you would see for a/b/c/d).
Co-authored-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Toon Claes [Thu, 7 Aug 2025 20:52:57 +0000 (22:52 +0200)]
within_depth: fix return for empty path
The within_depth() function is used to check whether pathspecs limited
by a max-depth parameter are acceptable. It takes a path to check, a
maximum depth, and a "base" depth. It counts the components in the
path (by counting slashes), adds them to the base, and compares them to
the maximum.
However, if the base does not have any slashes at all, we always return
`true`. If the base depth is 0, then this is correct; no matter what the
maximum is, we are always within it. However, if the base depth is
greater than 0, then we might return an erroneous result.
This ends up not causing any user-visible bugs in the current code. The
call sites in dir.c always pass a base depth of 0, so are unaffected.
But tree_entry_interesting() uses this function differently: it will
pass the prefix of the current entry, along with a `1` if the entry is a
directory, in essence checking whether items inside the entry would be
of interest. It turns out not to make a difference in behavior, but the
reasoning is complex.
Given a tree like:
file
a/file
a/b/file
walking the tree and calling tree_entry_interesting() will yield the
following results:
(with max_depth=0):
file: yes
a: yes
a/file: no
a/b: no
(with max_depth=1):
file: yes
a: yes
a/file: yes
a/b: no
So we have inconsistent behavior in considering directories interesting.
If they are at the edge of our depth but at the root, we will recurse
into them, but then find all of their entries uninteresting (e.g., in
the first case, we will look at "a" but find "a/*" uninteresting). But
if they are at the edge of our depth and not at the root, then we will
not recurse (in the second example, we do not even bother entering
"a/b").
This turns out not to matter because the only caller which uses
max-depth pathspecs is cmd_grep(), which only cares about blob entries.
From its perspective, it is exactly the same to not recurse into a
subtree, or to recurse and find that it contains no matching entries.
Not recursing is merely an optimization.
It is debatable whether tree_entry_interesting() should consider such an
entry interesting. The only caller does not care if it sees the tree
itself, and can benefit from the optimization. But if we add a
"max-depth" limiter to regular diffs, then a diff with
DIFF_OPT_TREE_IN_RECURSIVE would probably want to show the tree itself,
but not what it contains.
This patch just fixes within_depth(), which means we consider such
entries uninteresting (and makes the current caller happy). If we want
to change that in the future, then this fix is still the correct first
step, as the current behavior is simply inconsistent.
This has the effect the function tree_entry_interesting() now behaves
like following on the first example:
(with max_depth=0):
file: yes
a: no
a/file: no
a/b: no
Meaning we won't step in "a/" no more to realize all "a/*" entries are
uninterested, but we stop at the tree entry itself.
Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Thu, 7 Aug 2025 20:52:56 +0000 (22:52 +0200)]
combine-diff: zero memory used for callback filepairs
In commit 25e5e2bf85 (combine-diff: support format_callback,
2011-08-19), the combined-diff code learned how to make a multi-sourced
`diff_filepair` to pass to a diff callback. When we create each
filepair, we do not bother to fill in many of the fields, because they
would make no sense (e.g. there can be no rename score or broken_pair
flag because we do not go through the diffcore filters). However, we did
not even bother to zero them, leading to random values. Let's make sure
everything is blank with xcalloc(), just as the regular diff code does.
We would potentially want to set the `status` flag to
something non-zero, but it is not clear to what. Possibly a
new DIFF_STATUS_COMBINED would make sense, as this is not
strictly a modification, nor does it fit any other category.
Since it is not yet clear what callers would want, this
patch simply leaves it as `0`, the same empty flag that is
seen when `diffcore_std` is not used at all.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unfortunately, this one has been quite complex to unravel, and is a
bit complex to explain. So, I'm going to carefully try to explain each
relevant piece needed to understand the fix, then carefully build up
from a simple testcase to some of the relevant testcases.
== New special case we need to consider ==
Rename pairs in the diffcore machinery connect the source path of a
rename with the destination path of a rename. Since we have rename
pairs to consider on both sides of history since the merge base,
merging has to consider a few special cases of possible overlap:
A) two rename pairs having the same target path
B) two rename pairs having the same source path
C) the source path of one rename pair being the target path of a
different rename pair
Some of these came up often enough that we gave them names:
A) a rename/rename(2to1) conflict (looks similar to an add/add conflict)
B) a rename/rename(1to2) conflict, which represents the same path being
renamed differently on the two sides of history
C) not yet named
merge-ort is well-prepared to handle cases (A) and (B), as was
merge-recursive (which was merge-ort's predecessor). Case (C) was
briefly considered during the years of merge-recursive maintenance,
but the full extent of support it got was a few FIXME/TODO comments
littered around the code highlighting some of the places that would
probably need to be fixed to support it. When I wrote merge-ort I
ignored case (C) entirely, since I believed that case (C) was only
possible if we were to support break detection during merges. Not
only had break detection never been supported by any merge algorithm,
I thought break detection wasn't worth the effort to support in a
merge algorithm. However, it turns out that case (C) can be triggered
without break detection, if there's enough moving pieces.
Before I dive into how to trigger case (C) with directory renames plus
other renames, it might be helpful to use a simpler example with break
detection first. And before we get to that it may help to explain
some more basics of handling renames in the merge algorithm. So, let
me first backup and provide a quick refresher on each of
* handling renames
* what break detection would mean, if supported in merging
* handling directory renames
From there, I'll build up from a basic directory rename detection case
to one that triggers a failure currently.
== Handling renames ==
In the merge machinery when we have a rename of a path A -> B,
processing that rename needs to remove path A, and make sure that path B
has the relevant information. Note that if the content was also
modified on both sides, this may mean that we have 3 different stages
that need to be stored at path B instead of having some stored at path
A.
Having all stages stored at path B makes it much easier for users to
investigate and resolve the content conflict associated with a renamed
path. For example:
* "git status" doesn't have to figure out how to list paths A & B and
attempt to connect them for users; it can just list path B.
* Users can use "git ls-files -u B" (instead of trying to find the
previous name of the file so they can list both, i.e. "git ls-files
-u A B")
* Users can resolve via "git add B" (without needing to "git rm A")
== What break detection would mean ==
If break detection were supported, we might have cases where A -> B
*and* C -> A, meaning that both rename pairs might believe they need to
update A. In particular, the processing of A -> B would need to be
careful to not clear out all stages of A and mark it resolved, while
both renames would need to figure out which stages of A belong with A
and which belong with B, so that both paths have the right stages
associated with them.
merge-ort (like merge-recursive before it) makes no attempt to handle
break detection; it runs with break detection turned off. It would
need to be retrofitted to handle such cases.
== Directory rename detection ==
If one side of history renames directory D/ -> E/, and the other side of
history adds new files to D/, then directory rename detection notices
and suggests moving those new files to E/. A similar thing is done for
paths renamed into D/, causing them to be transitively renamed into E/.
The default in the merge machinery is to report a conflict whenever a
directory rename might modify the location of a path, so that users can
decide whether they wanted the original path or the
directory-rename-induced location. However, that means the default
codepath still runs through all the directory rename detection logic, it
just supplements it with providing conflict notices when it is done.
== Building up increasingly complex testcases ==
I'll start with a really simple directory rename example, and then
slowly add twists that explain new pieces until we get to the
problematic cases:
=== Testcase 1 ===
Let's start with a concrete example, where particular files/directories of
interest that exist or are changed on each side are called out:
Original: <nothing of note>
our side: rename B/file -> C/file
their side: rename C/ -> A/
For this case, we'd expect to see the original B/file appear not at
C/file but at A/file.
(We would also expect a conflict notice that the user will want to
choose between C/file and A/file, but I'm going to ignore conflict
notices from here on by assuming merge.directoryRenames is set to
`true` rather than `conflict`; the only difference that assumption
makes is whether that makes the merge be considered to be conflicted
and whether it prints a conflict notice; what is written to the index
or working directory is unchanged.)
=== Testcase 2 ===
Modify testcase 1 by having A/file exist from the start:
In such a case, to avoid user confusion at what looks kind of like an
add/add conflict (even though the original path at A/file was not added
by either side of the merge), we turn off directory rename detection for
this path and print a "in the way" warning to the user:
CONFLICT (implicit dir rename): Existing file/dir ... in the way ...
The testcases in section 5 of t6423 explore these in more detail.
=== Testcase 3 ===
Let's modify testcase 1 in a slightly different way: have A/file be
added by their side rather than it already existing.
Original: <nothing of note>
our side: rename B/file -> C/file
their side: rename C/ -> A/
add A/file
In this case, the directory rename detection basically transforms our
side's original B/file -> C/file into a B/file -> A/file, and so we
get a rename/add conflict, with one version of A/file coming from the
renamed file, and another coming from the new A/file, each stored as
stages 2 and 3 in conflicts. This kind of add/add conflict is perhaps
slightly more complex than a regular add/add conflict, but with the
printed messages it makes sense where it came from and we have
different stages of the file to work with to resolve the conflict.
=== Testcase 4 ===
Let's do something similar to testcase 3, but have the opposite side of
history add A/file:
Original: <nothing of note>
our side: rename B/file -> C/file
add A/file
their side: rename C/ -> A/
Now if we allow directory rename detection to modify C/file to A/file,
then we also get a rename/add conflict, but in this case we'd need both
higher order stages being recorded on side 2, which makes no sense. The
index can't store multiple stage 2 entries, and even if we could, it
would probably be confusing for users to work with. So, similar to what
we do when there was an A/file in the original version, we simply turn
off directory rename detection for cases like this and provide the "in
the way" CONFLICT notice to the user.
=== Testcase 5 ===
We're slowly getting closer. Let's mix it up by having A/file exist at
the beginning but not exist on their side:
For this case, you could say that since A/file -> D/file, it's no longer
in the way of C/file being moved by directory rename detection to
A/file. But that would give us a case where A/file is both the source
and the target of a rename, similar to break detection, which the code
isn't currently equipped to handle.
This is not yet the case that causes current failures; to the current
code, this kind of looks like testcase 4 in that A/file is in the way
on our side (since A/file was in the original and was umodified by our
side). So, it results in a "in the way" notification with directory
rename detection being turned off for A/file so that B/file ends up at
C/file.
Perhaps the resolution could be improved in the future, but our "in
the way" checks prevented such problems by noticing that A/file exists
on our side and thus turns off directory rename detection from
affecting C/file's location. So, while the merge result could be
perhaps improved, the fact that this is currently handled by giving
the user an "in the way" message gives the user a chance to resolve
and prevents the code from tripping itself up.
=== Testcase 6 ===
Let's modify testcase 5 a bit more, to also delete A/file on our side:
Now the "in the way" logic doesn't detect that there's an A/file in
the way (neither side has an A/file anymore), so it's fine to
transitively rename C/file further to A/file...except that we end up
with A/file being both the source of one rename, and the target of a
different rename. Each rename pair tries to handle the resolution of
the source and target paths of its own rename. But when we go to
process the second rename pair in process_renames(), we do not expect
either the source or the destination to be marked as handled already;
so, when we hit the sanity checks that these are not handled:
VERIFY_CI(oldinfo);
VERIFY_CI(newinfo);
then one of these is going to throw an assertion failure since the
previous rename pair already marked both of its paths as handled.
This will give us an error of the form:
This is the failure we're currently triggering, and it fundamentally
depends on:
* a path existing in the original
* that original path being removed or renamed on *both* sides
* some kind of directory rename moving some *other* path into that
original path
This was added as testcase 12q in t6423.
=== Testcase 7 ===
Bonus bug found while investigating!
Let's go back to the comparison between testcases 2 & 3, and set up a
file present on their side that we need to consider:
Here, there is no A/file in the way on our side like testcase 4.
There is an A/file present on their side like testcase 3, which was an
add/add conflict, but that's associated with the file be renamed to
D/file. So, that really shouldn't be an add/add conflict because we
instead want all modes of the original A/file to be transported to
D/file.
Unfortunately, the current code kind of treats it like an add/add
conflict instead...but even worse. There is also a valid mode for
A/file in the original, which normally goes to stage 1. However, an
add/add conflict should be represented in the index with no mode at
stage 1 (for the original side), only modes at stages 2 and 3 (for our
and their side), so for an add/add we'd expect that mode for A/file in
the original version to be cleared out (or be transported to D/file).
Unfortunately, the code currently leaves not only the stage 3 entry
for A/file intact, it also leaves the stage 1 entry for A/file. This
results in `git ls-files -u A/file` output of the form:
This would likely cause users to believe this isn't an add/add
conflict; rather, this would lead them to believe that A/file was only
modified on our side and that therefore it should not have been a
conflict in the first place. And while resolving the conflict in
favor of our side is the correct resolution (because stages 1 and 3
should have been cleared out in the first place), this is certainly
likely to cause confusion for anyone attempting to investigate why
this path was marked as conflicted.
This was added as testcase 12p in t6423.
== Attempted solutions that I discarded ==
1) For each side of history, create a strset of the sources of each
rename on the other side of history. Then when using directory
renames to modify existing renames, verify that we aren't renaming
to a source of another rename.
Unfortunately, the "relevant renames" optimization in merge-ort
means we often don't detect renames -- we just see a delete and an
add -- which is easy to forget and makes debugging testcases harder,
but it also turns out that this solution in insufficient to solve
the related problems in the area (more on that below).
2) Modify the code to be aware of the possibility of renaming to
the source of another side's rename, and make all the conflict
resolution logic for each case (including existing
rename/rename(2to1) and rename/rename(1to2) cases) handle the
additional complexity. It turns out there was much more code to
audit than I wanted, for a really niche case. I didn't like how
many changes were needed, and aborted.
== Solution ==
We do not want the stages of unrelated files appearing at the same path
in the index except when dealing with an add/add conflict. While we
previously handled this for stages 2 & 3, we also need to worry about
stage 1. So check for a stage 1 index entry being in the way of a
directory rename.
However, if we can detect that the stage 1 index entry is actually from
a related file due to a directory-rename-causes-rename-to-self
situation, then we can allow the stage 1 entry to remain.
From this wording, you may note that it's not just rename cases that
are a problem; bugs could be triggered with directory renames vs simple
adds. That leads us to...
== Testcases 8+ ==
Another bonus bug, found via understanding our final solutions (and the
failure of our first attempted solution)!
Here, there doesn't seem to be a big problem. Sure C/file gets modified
via the directory rename of C/ -> A/ so that it becomes A/file, but
there's no file in the way, right? Actually, here we have a problem
that the stage 1 entry of A/file would be combined with the stage 2
entry of C/file, and make it look like a modify/delete conflict.
Perhaps there is some extra checking that could be added to the code to
make it attempt to clear out the stage 1 entry of A/file, but the
various rename-to-self-via-directory-rename testcases make that a bit
more difficult. For now, it's easier to just treat this as a
path-in-the-way situation and not allow the directory rename to modify
C/file.
That sounds all well and good, but it does have an interesting side
effect. Due to the "relevant renames" optimizations in merge-ort (i.e.
only detect the renames you need), 100% renames whose files weren't
modified on the other side often go undetected. This means that if we
modify this testcase slightly to:
Then although this looks like where the directory rename just moves
C/file back to A/file and there's no problem, we may not detect the
A/file -> C/file rename. Instead it will look like a deletion of A/file
and an addition of C/file. The directory rename then appears to be
moving C/file to A/file, which is on top of an "unrelated" file (or at
least a file it doesn't know is related). So, we will report
path-in-the-way conflicts now in cases where we didn't before. That's
better than silently and accidentally combining stages of unrelated
files and making them look like a modify/delete; users can investigate
the reported conflict and simply resolve it.
This means we tweak the expected solution for testcases 12i, 12j, and
12k. (Those three tests are basically the same test repeated three
times, but I was worried when I added those that subtle differences in
parent/child, sibling/sibling, and toplevel directories might mess up
how rename-to-self testcases actually get handled.)
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Elijah Newren [Wed, 6 Aug 2025 23:15:21 +0000 (23:15 +0000)]
merge-ort: fix incorrect file handling
We have multiple bugs here -- accidental silent file deletion,
accidental silent file retention for files that should be deleted,
and incorrect number of entries left in the index.
The series merged at commit d3b88be1b450 (Merge branch
'en/merge-dir-rename-corner-case-fix', 2021-07-16) introduced testcase
12i-12k in t6423 which checked for rename-to-self cases, and fixed bugs
that merge-ort and merge-recursive had with these testcases. At the
time, I noted that merge-ort had one bug for these cases, while
merge-recursive had two. It turns out that merge-ort did in fact have
another bug, but the "relevant renames" optimizations were masking it.
If we modify testcase 12i from t6423 to modify the file in the commit
that renames it (but only modify it enough that it can still be detected
as a rename), then we can trigger silent deletion of the file.
Tweak testcase 12i slightly to make the file in question have more than
one line in it. This leaves the testcase intact other than changing the
initial contents of this one file. The purpose of this tweak is to
minimize the changes between this testcase and a new one that we want to
add. Then duplicate testcase 12i as 12i2, changing it so that it adds a
single line to the file in question when it is renamed; testcase 12i2
then serves as a testcase for this merge-ort bug that I previously
overlooked.
Further, commit 98a1a00d5301 (t6423: add a testcase causing a failed
assertion in process_renames, 2025-03-06), fixed an issue with
rename-to-self but added a new testcase, 12n, that only checked for
whether the merge ran to completion. A few commits ago, we modified
this test to check for the number of entries in the index -- but noted
that the number was wrong. And we also noted a
silently-keep-instead-of-delete bug at the same time in the new testcase
12n2.
In summary, we have the following bugs with rename-to-self cases:
* silent deletion of file expected to be kept (t6423 testcase 12i2)
* silent retention of file expected to be removed (t6423 testcase 12n2)
* wrong number of extries left in the index (t6423 testcase 12n)
All of these bugs arise because in a rename-to-self case, when we have a
rename A->B, both A and B name the same file. The code in
process_renames() assumes A & B are different, and tries to move the
higher order stages and file contents so that they are associated just
with the new path, but the assumptions of A & B being different can
cause A to be deleted when it's not supposed to be or mark B as resolved
and kept in place when it's supposed to be deleted. Since A & B are
already the same path in the rename-to-self case, simply skip the steps
in process_renames() for such files to fix these bugs.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Elijah Newren [Wed, 6 Aug 2025 23:15:20 +0000 (23:15 +0000)]
merge-ort: clarify the interning of strings in opt->priv->path
Because merge-ort is dealing with potentially all the pathnames in the
repository, it sometimes needs to do an awful lot of string comparisons.
Because of this, struct merge_options_internal's path member was
envisioned from the beginning to contain an interned value for every
path in order to allow us to compare strings via pointer comparison
instead of using strcmp. See
* 5b59c3db059d (merge-ort: setup basic internal data structures,
2020-12-13)
* f591c4724615 (merge-ort: copy and adapt merge_3way() from
merge-recursive.c, 2021-01-01)
for some of the early comments.
However, the original comment was slightly misleading when it switched
from mentioning paths to only mentioning directories. Fix that, and
while at it also point to an example in the code which applies the extra
needed care to permit the pointer comparison optimization.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Elijah Newren [Wed, 6 Aug 2025 23:15:19 +0000 (23:15 +0000)]
t6423: fix missed staging of file in testcases 12i,12j,12k
Commit 806f83287f8d (t6423: test directory renames causing
rename-to-self, 2021-06-30) introduced testcase 12i-12k but omitted
staging one of the files and copy-pasted that mistake to the other
tests. This means the merge runs with an unstaged change, even though
that isn't related to what is being tested and makes the test look more
complicated than it is.
The cover letter for the series associated with the above commit (see
Message-ID: pull.1039.git.git.1624727121.gitgitgadget@gmail.com) noted
that these testcases triggered two bugs in merge-recursive but only one
in merge-ort; in merge-recursive these testcases also triggered a
silent deletion of the file in question when it shouldn't be deleted.
What I didn't realize at the time was that the deletion bug in merge-ort
was merely being sidestepped by the "relevant renames" optimization but
can actually be triggered. A subsequent commit will deal with that
additional bug, but it was complicated by the mistaken forgotten
staging, so this commit first fixes that issue.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Elijah Newren [Wed, 6 Aug 2025 23:15:18 +0000 (23:15 +0000)]
t6423: document two bugs with rename-to-self testcases
When commit 98a1a00d5301 (t6423: add a testcase causing a failed
assertion in process_renames, 2025-03-06) was added, I tweaked
the commit message, and moved the test into t6423. However, that
still left two other things missing that made this test unlike the
others in the same testfile:
* It didn't have an English description of the test setup like
all other tests in t6423
* It didn't check that the right number of files were present at
the end
The former issue is a minor detail that isn't that critical, but the
latter feels more important. If it had been done, I might have noticed
another bug. In particular, this testcase involves
Side A: rename world -> tools/world
and
Side B: rename tools/ -> <the toplevel>
Side B: remove world
The tools/ -> <toplevel> rename turns the world -> tools/world rename
into world -> world, i.e. a rename-to-self case. But, it's a path
conflict because merge.directoryRenames defaults to false. There's
no content conflict because Side A didn't modify world, so we should
just take the content of world from Side B -- i.e. delete it. So, we
have a conflict on the path, but not on its content. We could consider
letting the content trump since it is unconflicted, but if we are going
to leave a conflict, it should certainly represent that 'world' existed
both in the base version and on Side A. Currently it doesn't.
Add a description of this test, add some checking of the number of
entries in the index at the end of the merge, and mark the test as
expecting to fail for now. A subsequent commit will fix this bug.
While at it, I found another related bug from a nearly identical setup
but setting merge.directoryRenames=true. Copy testcase 12n into 12n2,
changing it to use merge instead of cherry-pick, and turn on directory
renames for this test. In this case, since there is no content conflict
and no path conflict, it should be okay to delete the file.
Unfortunately, the code resolves without conflict but silently leaves
world despite the fact it should be deleted. It might also be okay if
the code spuriously thought there was a modify/delete conflict here;
that would at least notify users to look closer and then when they
notice there was no change since the base version, they can easily
resolve. A conflict notice is much better than silently providing the
wrong resolution. Cover this with the 12n2 testcase, which for now is
marked as expecting to fail as well.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Elijah Newren [Wed, 6 Aug 2025 23:15:17 +0000 (23:15 +0000)]
merge-ort: drop unnecessary temporary in check_for_directory_rename()
check_for_directory_rename() had a weirdly coded check for whether a
strmap contained a certain key. Replace the temporary variable and call
to strmap_get_entry() with the more natural strmap_contains() call.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Elijah Newren [Wed, 6 Aug 2025 23:15:16 +0000 (23:15 +0000)]
merge-ort: update comments to modern testfile location
In commit 919df3195553 (Collect merge-related tests to t64xx,
2020-08-10), merge related tests were moved from t60xx to t64xx. Some
comments in merge-ort relating to some tricky code referenced specific
testcases within certain testfiles for additional information, but
referred to their historical testfile names; update the testfile names
to mention their modern location.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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