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-What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2024, #11; Mon, 30)
+What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2025, #01; Fri, 3)
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Here are the topics that have been cooking in my tree. Commits
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[New Topics]
+* ja/doc-commit-markup-updates (2025-01-03) 3 commits
+ - doc: git-commit: migrate secondary files to new format
+ - doc: git-commit.txt: convert git commit config to new format
+ - doc: git-commit: apply new documentation guidelines
+
+ Doc updates.
+
+ source: <pull.1845.git.1735912046.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
+
+
+* jc/doc-opt-tilde-expand (2025-01-03) 1 commit
+ (merged to 'next' on 2025-01-03 at b3e6e7acbc)
+ + gitcli.txt: typeset pathnames as monospace
+
+ Docfix.
+
+ Will merge to 'next' and then to 'master'.
+ source: <6e0abe96b60a94d4fdee15a45b7d53c2f44a0c69.1735903029.git.martin.agren@gmail.com>
+
+
+* mh/doc-windows-home-env (2025-01-03) 1 commit
+ (merged to 'next' on 2025-01-03 at 1d4db69ce0)
+ + git.txt: fix heading line of tildes
+
+ Docfix.
+
+ Will merge to 'next' and then to 'master'.
+ source: <50e47d14a8a0a2ca0dd158f01b833a28c7b46887.1735903029.git.martin.agren@gmail.com>
+
+
+* ps/ci-misc-updates (2025-01-03) 10 commits
+ - ci: remove stale code for Azure Pipelines
+ - ci: use latest Ubuntu release
+ - ci: stop special-casing for Ubuntu 16.04
+ - gitlab-ci: add linux32 job testing against i386
+ - gitlab-ci: remove the "linux-old" job
+ - github: simplify computation of the job's distro
+ - github: convert all Linux jobs to be containerized
+ - github: adapt containerized jobs to be rootless
+ - t7422: fix flaky test caused by buffered stdout
+ - t0060: fix EBUSY in MinGW when setting up runtime prefix
+
+ CI updates (containerization, dropping stale ones, etc.).
+
+ source: <20250103-b4-pks-ci-fixes-v1-0-a9bb95dff833@pks.im>
+
+--------------------------------------------------
+[Graduated to 'master']
+
+* jk/lsan-race-ignore-false-positive (2025-01-01) 5 commits
+ (merged to 'next' on 2025-01-02 at 7b5c9e281e)
+ + test-lib: ignore leaks in the sanitizer's thread code
+ + test-lib: check leak logs for presence of DEDUP_TOKEN
+ + test-lib: simplify leak-log checking
+ + test-lib: rely on logs to detect leaks
+ + Revert barrier-based LSan threading race workaround
+
+ CI jobs that run threaded programs under LSan has been giving false
+ positives from time to time, which has been worked around.
+
+ This is an alternative to the jk/lsan-race-with-barrier topic with
+ much smaller change to the production code.
+ source: <20250101201226.GA3304465@coredump.intra.peff.net>
+
+
* jk/lsan-race-with-barrier (2024-12-30) 5 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2024-12-30 at 3fc0e14928)
+ grep: work around LSan threading race with barrier
CI jobs that run threaded programs under LSan has been giving false
positives from time to time, which has been worked around.
-
- Will merge to 'master'.
source: <20241230042325.GA112439@coredump.intra.peff.net>
-* ps/meson-weak-sha1-build (2024-12-30) 8 commits
- - meson: provide a summary of configured backends
- - meson: wire up unsafe SHA1 backend
- - meson: add missing dots for build options
- - meson: simplify conditions for HTTPS and SHA1 dependencies
- - meson: require SecurityFramework when it's used as SHA1 backend
- - meson: deduplicate access to SHA1/SHA256 backend options
- - meson: consistenlty spell 'CommonCrypto'
- - Merge branch 'ps/weak-sha1-for-tail-sum-fix' into ps/meson-weak-sha1-build
- (this branch uses ps/weak-sha1-for-tail-sum-fix.)
-
- meson-based build now supports the unsafe-sha1 build knob.
-
- Will merge to 'next'.
- source: <20241230-pks-meson-sha1-unsafe-v1-0-efb276e171f5@pks.im>
-
-
-* ps/object-collision-check (2024-12-30) 1 commit
- (merged to 'next' on 2024-12-30 at e083ea3154)
- + object-file: fix race in object collision check
-
- CI jobs gave sporadic failures, which turns out that that the
- object finalization code was giving an error when it did not have
- to.
+* ps/build-meson-html (2024-12-27) 12 commits
+ (merged to 'next' on 2025-01-02 at 115458a58b)
+ + Documentation: wire up sanity checks for Meson
+ + t/Makefile: make "check-meson" work with Dash
+ + meson: install static files for HTML documentation
+ + meson: generate articles
+ + Documentation: refactor "howto-index.sh" for out-of-tree builds
+ + Documentation: refactor "api-index.sh" for out-of-tree builds
+ + meson: generate user manual
+ + Documentation: inline user-manual.conf
+ + meson: generate HTML pages for all man page categories
+ + meson: fix generation of merge tools
+ + meson: properly wire up dependencies for our docs
+ + meson: wire up support for AsciiDoctor
- Will merge to 'master'.
- source: <20241230-b4-pks-object-file-racy-collision-check-v1-1-11571294e60a@pks.im>
+ The build procedure based on meson learned to generate HTML
+ documention pages.
+ source: <20241227-b4-pks-meson-docs-v2-0-f61e63edbfa1@pks.im>
* ps/weak-sha1-for-tail-sum-fix (2024-12-30) 3 commits
sha1dc" topic had a few code paths that had initialized an
implementation of a hash function to be used by an unmatching hash
by mistake, which have been corrected.
-
- Will merge to 'master'.
source: <20241230-pks-meson-sha1-unsafe-v1-0-efb276e171f5@pks.im>
+
+* rs/reftable-realloc-errors (2024-12-28) 4 commits
+ (merged to 'next' on 2024-12-30 at ebc9625a4c)
+ + t-reftable-merged: handle realloc errors
+ + reftable: handle realloc error in parse_names()
+ + reftable: fix allocation count on realloc error
+ + reftable: avoid leaks on realloc error
+
+ The custom allocator code in the reftable library did not handle
+ failing realloc() very well, which has been addressed.
+ cf. <Z3JLdIG4C9D2-1ZT@pks.im>
+ source: <f4677194-0a3a-4f07-b003-c0295b51c100@web.de>
+
--------------------------------------------------
-[Graduated to 'master']
+[Cooking]
+
+* ps/meson-weak-sha1-build (2024-12-30) 8 commits
+ (merged to 'next' on 2025-01-01 at e01db872e4)
+ + meson: provide a summary of configured backends
+ + meson: wire up unsafe SHA1 backend
+ + meson: add missing dots for build options
+ + meson: simplify conditions for HTTPS and SHA1 dependencies
+ + meson: require SecurityFramework when it's used as SHA1 backend
+ + meson: deduplicate access to SHA1/SHA256 backend options
+ + meson: consistenlty spell 'CommonCrypto'
+ + Merge branch 'ps/weak-sha1-for-tail-sum-fix' into ps/meson-weak-sha1-build
-* ms/t7611-test-path-is-file (2024-12-27) 1 commit
- (merged to 'next' on 2024-12-28 at b08a0c8e23)
- + t7611: replace test -f with test_path_is* helpers
+ meson-based build now supports the unsafe-sha1 build knob.
- Test modernization.
-
- source: <20241227105345.10184-1-meetsoni3017@gmail.com>
+ Will cook in 'next'.
+ source: <20241230-pks-meson-sha1-unsafe-v1-0-efb276e171f5@pks.im>
-* ps/meson-test-wo-gitweb (2024-12-27) 3 commits
- (merged to 'next' on 2024-12-28 at 39938f41fd)
- + meson: enable auto-discovered "gitweb"
- + GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS: wire up NO_GITWEB option
- + GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS: sort variables alphabetically
+* ps/object-collision-check (2025-01-03) 3 commits
+ - object-file: retry linking file into place when occluding file vanishes
+ - object-file: rename variables in `check_collision()`
+ (merged to 'next' on 2024-12-30 at e083ea3154)
+ + object-file: fix race in object collision check
- meson-based build without GitWeb failed the self tests.
- source: <20241227-b4-pks-meson-wo-gitweb-v1-0-14ca8515bb3b@pks.im>
+ CI jobs gave sporadic failures, which turns out that that the
+ object finalization code was giving an error when it did not have
+ to.
+
+ source: <20241230-b4-pks-object-file-racy-collision-check-v1-1-11571294e60a@pks.im>
+ source: <20250103-b4-pks-object-file-racy-collision-check-v1-0-6ef9e2da1f87@pks.im>
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-[Cooking]
* sk/strlen-returns-size_t (2024-12-26) 1 commit
- date.c: Fix type missmatch warings from msvc
* ps/more-sign-compare (2024-12-27) 10 commits
- - sign-compare: avoid comparing ptrdiff with an int/unsigned
- - commit-reach: use `size_t` to track indices when computing merge bases
- - shallow: fix -Wsign-compare warnings
- - builtin/log: fix remaining -Wsign-compare warnings
- - builtin/log: use `size_t` to track indices
- - commit-reach: use `size_t` to track indices in `get_reachable_subset()`
- - commit-reach: use `size_t` to track indices in `remove_redundant()`
- - commit-reach: fix type of `min_commit_date`
- - commit-reach: fix index used to loop through unsigned integer
- - prio-queue: fix type of `insertion_ctr`
+ (merged to 'next' on 2025-01-01 at 41c78cf690)
+ + sign-compare: avoid comparing ptrdiff with an int/unsigned
+ + commit-reach: use `size_t` to track indices when computing merge bases
+ + shallow: fix -Wsign-compare warnings
+ + builtin/log: fix remaining -Wsign-compare warnings
+ + builtin/log: use `size_t` to track indices
+ + commit-reach: use `size_t` to track indices in `get_reachable_subset()`
+ + commit-reach: use `size_t` to track indices in `remove_redundant()`
+ + commit-reach: fix type of `min_commit_date`
+ + commit-reach: fix index used to loop through unsigned integer
+ + prio-queue: fix type of `insertion_ctr`
More -Wsign-compare fixes.
- Will merge to 'next'.
+ Will cook in 'next'.
cf. https://staticthinking.wordpress.com/2023/07/25/wsign-compare-is-garbage/
source: <20241227-b4-pks-commit-reach-sign-compare-v1-0-07c59c2aa632@pks.im>
source: <pull.1838.v2.git.1735380461980.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
-* rs/reftable-realloc-errors (2024-12-28) 4 commits
- (merged to 'next' on 2024-12-30 at ebc9625a4c)
- + t-reftable-merged: handle realloc errors
- + reftable: handle realloc error in parse_names()
- + reftable: fix allocation count on realloc error
- + reftable: avoid leaks on realloc error
-
- The custom allocator code in the reftable library did not handle
- failing realloc() very well, which has been addressed.
-
- Will merge to 'master'?
- cf. <Z3JLdIG4C9D2-1ZT@pks.im>
- source: <f4677194-0a3a-4f07-b003-c0295b51c100@web.de>
-
-
* jc/show-index-h-update (2024-12-20) 1 commit
- show-index: the short help should say the command reads from its input
source: <20241217-pks-use-the-repository-conversion-v1-0-0dba48bcc239@pks.im>
-* ps/build-meson-html (2024-12-27) 12 commits
- - Documentation: wire up sanity checks for Meson
- - t/Makefile: make "check-meson" work with Dash
- - meson: install static files for HTML documentation
- - meson: generate articles
- - Documentation: refactor "howto-index.sh" for out-of-tree builds
- - Documentation: refactor "api-index.sh" for out-of-tree builds
- - meson: generate user manual
- - Documentation: inline user-manual.conf
- - meson: generate HTML pages for all man page categories
- - meson: fix generation of merge tools
- - meson: properly wire up dependencies for our docs
- - meson: wire up support for AsciiDoctor
-
- The build procedure based on meson learned to generate HTML
- documention pages.
-
- Needs review. On hold.
- source: <20241227-b4-pks-meson-docs-v2-0-f61e63edbfa1@pks.im>
-
-
* jc/doc-attr-tree (2024-12-14) 1 commit
- doc: give attr.tree a bit more visibility