Junio C Hamano [Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:28:58 +0000 (11:28 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jk/fetch-check-graph-objects-fix'
Under a race against another process that is repacking the
repository, especially a partially cloned one, "git fetch" may
mistakenly think some objects we do have are missing, which has
been corrected.
* jk/fetch-check-graph-objects-fix:
fetch-pack: re-scan when double-checking graph objects
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:28:57 +0000 (11:28 -0700)]
Merge branch 'sg/line-log-merge-optim'
"git log -L..." compared trees of multiple parents with the tree of the
merge result in an unnecessarily inefficient way.
* sg/line-log-merge-optim:
line-log: simplify condition checking for merge commits
line-log: initialize diff queue in process_ranges_ordinary_commit()
line-log: get rid of the parents array in process_ranges_merge_commit()
line-log: avoid unnecessary tree diffs when processing merge commits
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:28:57 +0000 (11:28 -0700)]
Merge branch 'js/progress-delay-fix'
The start_delayed_progress() function in the progress eye-candy API
did not clear its internal state, making an initial delay value
larger than 1 second ineffective, which has been corrected.
* js/progress-delay-fix:
progress: pay attention to (customized) delay time
Johannes Sixt [Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:16:12 +0000 (21:16 +0200)]
progress: pay attention to (customized) delay time
Using one of the start_delayed_*() functions, clients of the progress
API can request that a progress meter is only shown after some time.
To do that, the implementation intends to count down the number of
seconds stored in struct progress by observing flag progress_update,
which the timer interrupt handler sets when a second has elapsed. This
works during the first second of the delay. But the code forgets to
reset the flag to zero, so that subsequent calls of display_progress()
think that another second has elapsed and decrease the count again
until zero is reached. Due to the frequency of the calls, this happens
without an observable delay in practice, so that the effective delay is
always just one second.
This bug has been with us since the inception of the feature. Despite
having been touched on various occasions, such as 8aade107dd84
(progress: simplify "delayed" progress API), 9c5951cacf5c (progress:
drop delay-threshold code), and 44a4693bfcec (progress: create
GIT_PROGRESS_DELAY), the short delay went unnoticed.
Copy the flag state into a local variable and reset the global flag
right away so that we can detect the next clock tick correctly.
Since we have not had any complaints that the delay of one second is
too short nor that GIT_PROGRESS_DELAY is ignored, people seem to be
comfortable with the status quo. Therefore, set the default to 1 to
keep the current behavior.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:22:03 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
Merge branch 'lo/repo-info'
A new subcommand "git repo" gives users a way to grab various
repository characteristics.
* lo/repo-info:
repo: add the --format flag
repo: add the field layout.shallow
repo: add the field layout.bare
repo: add the field references.format
repo: declare the repo command
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
Jeff King [Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:00:40 +0000 (01:00 -0400)]
fetch-pack: re-scan when double-checking graph objects
The fetch code tries to avoid asking the remote side for an object we
already have. It does this by traversing recent commits reachable from
our refs looking for matches. Commit 5d4cc78f72 (fetch-pack: die if in
commit graph but not obj db, 2024-11-05) introduced an extra check
there: if we think we have an object because it's in the commit graph,
we double-check that we actually have it in our object database with a
call to odb_has_object().
But that call does not pass any flags, and so the function won't call
reprepared_packed_git() if it does not find the object. That opens us up
to the usual race against some other process repacking the odb:
1. We scan the list of packs in objects/pack but haven't yet opened them.
2. Somebody else packs the object into a new pack (which we don't know
about), and deletes the old pack it was in.
3. Our odb_has_object() calls tries to open that old pack, but finds it
is gone. We declare that we don't have the object.
And this causes us to erroneously complain and abort the fetch, thinking
our commit-graph and object database are out of sync. Instead, we should
pass HAS_OBJECT_RECHECK_PACKED, which will add a new step:
4. We re-scan the pack directory again, find the new pack, and locate
the object.
Often the fetch code tries to avoid these kinds of re-scans if it's
likely that we won't have the object. If the other side has told us
about object X and we want to know if we have it, we'll skip the re-scan
(to avoid spending a lot of effort when there are many such objects). We
can accept the racy false negative in that case because the worst case
is that we ask the other side to send us the object.
But this is not one of those cases. These are objects which are
accessible from _our_ refs, and which we already found in the commit
graph file. We should have them, and if we don't, we'll die()
immediately. So the performance impact is negligible, and getting the
right answer is important.
There's no test here because it's inherently racy. In fact, I had
trouble even developing a minimal test. The problem seen in the wild can
be produced like this:
# Any git.git mirror which supports partial clones; I think this
# should work with any repo that contains submodules, but note that
# $obj below is specific to this repo
url=https://github.com/git/git.git
# This is a commit that is not at the tip of any branches (so after
# we have it, we'll still have some commits to fetch).
obj=cf6f63ea6bf35173e02e18bdc6a4ba41288acff9
What happens here is that the initial fetch grabs that older commit (and
its ancestors) but no trees or blobs, and the subsequent checkout grabs
the necessary trees and blobs just for that commit. The final fetch
spawns a long sequence of child fetches due to fetch_submodules(), which
wants to check whether there have been any gitlink modifications which
should trigger a fetch of the related submodule (we'll leave aside the
irony that we did not even check out any submodules yet).
That series of fetches causes us to accumulate packs, which eventually
triggers background maintenance to run. That repacks all-into-one, and
the pack containing $obj goes away in favor of a new pack. And then the
fetch eventually fails with:
In the scenario above, the race becomes likely because of the long
series of quick fetches. But I _think_ the bug is independent of partial
clones entirely, and you could run into the same thing with a single
fetch, some other process running "git repack" simultaneously, and a bit
of bad luck. I haven't been able to reproduce, though. I'm not sure if
that's because there's some mis-analysis above, or if the race window is
just small enough that it's hard to trigger.
At any rate, re-scanning here seems like an obviously correct thing to
do with no downside, and it does fix the partial-clone case shown above.
Reported-by: Дилян Палаузов <dilyan.palauzov@aegee.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
SZEDER Gábor [Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:06:44 +0000 (21:06 +0200)]
line-log: simplify condition checking for merge commits
In process_ranges_arbitrary_commit() the condition deciding whether
the given commit is not a merge, i.e. that it doesn't have more than
one parent, is head-scratchingly backwards, flip it.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
SZEDER Gábor [Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:06:43 +0000 (21:06 +0200)]
line-log: initialize diff queue in process_ranges_ordinary_commit()
process_ranges_ordinary_commit() uses a local diff queue variable,
which it leaves uninitialized before passing its address to
queue_diffs(). This is not an issue, because at the end of that
function the contents of an other diff queue is moved into it by
simply overwriting whatever is in there, i.e. without reading any
uninitialized memory.
Still, seeing the uninitialized diff queue being passed around scared
me more than once, so out of caution let's make sure that it's
initialized.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
SZEDER Gábor [Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:06:42 +0000 (21:06 +0200)]
line-log: get rid of the parents array in process_ranges_merge_commit()
We can easily iterate through the parents of a merge commit without
turning the list of parents into a dynamically allocated array of
parents, so let's do so. This way we can avoid a memory allocation
for each processed merge commit, though its effect on runtime seems to
be unmeasurable.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
SZEDER Gábor [Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:06:41 +0000 (21:06 +0200)]
line-log: avoid unnecessary tree diffs when processing merge commits
In process_ranges_merge_commit(), the line-level log first creates an
array of diff queues by iterating over all parents of a merge commit
and computing a tree diff for each. Then in a second loop it iterates
over those diff queues, and if it finds that none of the interesting
paths were modified in one of them, then it will return early. This
means that when none of the interesting paths were modified between a
merge and its first parent, then the tree diff between the merge and
its second (Nth...) parent was computed in vain.
Unify these two loops, so when it iterates over all parents of a merge
commit, then it first computes the tree diff between the merge and
that particular parent and then processes the resulting diff queue
right away. This way we can spare some tree diff computing, thereby
speeding up line-level log in repositories with mergy history:
# git.git, 25.8% of commits are merges:
Benchmark 1: ./git_v2.51.0 -C ~/src/git log -L:'lookup_commit(':commit.c v2.51.0
Time (mean ± σ): 1.001 s ± 0.009 s [User: 0.906 s, System: 0.095 s]
Range (min … max): 0.991 s … 1.023 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: ./git -C ~/src/git log -L:'lookup_commit(':commit.c v2.51.0
Time (mean ± σ): 445.5 ms ± 3.4 ms [User: 358.8 ms, System: 84.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 440.1 ms … 450.3 ms 10 runs
Summary
'./git -C ~/src/git log -L:'lookup_commit(':commit.c v2.51.0' ran
2.25 ± 0.03 times faster than './git_v2.51.0 -C ~/src/git log -L:'lookup_commit(':commit.c v2.51.0'
# linux.git, 7.5% of commits are merges:
Benchmark 1: ./git_v2.51.0 -C ~/src/linux.git log -L:build_restore_work_registers:arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c v6.16
Time (mean ± σ): 3.246 s ± 0.007 s [User: 2.835 s, System: 0.409 s]
Range (min … max): 3.232 s … 3.255 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: ./git -C ~/src/linux.git log -L:build_restore_work_registers:arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c v6.16
Time (mean ± σ): 2.467 s ± 0.014 s [User: 2.113 s, System: 0.353 s]
Range (min … max): 2.455 s … 2.505 s 10 runs
Summary
'./git -C ~/src/linux.git log -L:build_restore_work_registers:arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c v6.16' ran
1.32 ± 0.01 times faster than './git_v2.51.0 -C ~/src/linux.git log -L:build_restore_work_registers:arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c v6.16'
And since now each iteration computes a tree diff and processes its
result, there is no reason to store the diff queues for each merge
parent anymore, so replace that diff queue array with a loop-local
diff queue variable. With this change the static free_diffqueues()
helper function in 'line-log.c' has no more callers left, remove it.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Julia Evans [Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:43:02 +0000 (00:43 +0000)]
doc: git-rebase: update discussion of internals
- make it clearer that we're talking about a multistep process
- give a more technically accurate description how rebase works with the
merge backend.
- condense the explanation of how git rebase skips commits with the same
textual changes into a single bullet point and remove the explanatory
diagram. Lots of things which are more complicated are already being
explained without a diagram.
- remove the explanation of how exactly `--fork-point` and `--root`
work since that information is in the OPTIONS section
- put all discussion of `ORIG_HEAD` inside the note
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Julia Evans [Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:43:01 +0000 (00:43 +0000)]
doc: git-rebase: move --onto explanation down
There's a very clear explanation with examples of using --onto which is
currently buried in the very long DESCRIPTION section. This moves it to
its own section, so that we can reference the explanation from the
`--onto` option by name.
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Julia Evans [Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:42:58 +0000 (00:42 +0000)]
doc: git-rebase: start with an example
- Start with an example that mirrors the example in the `git-merge` man
page, to make it easier for folks to understand the difference between
a rebase and a merge.
- Mention that rebase can combine or reorder commits
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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
Add the --format flag to git-repo-info. By using this flag, the users
can choose the format for obtaining the data they requested.
Given that this command can be used for generating input for other
applications and for being read by end users, it requires at least two
formats: one for being read by humans and other for being read by
machines. Some other Git commands also have two output formats, notably
git-config which was the inspiration for the two formats that were
chosen here:
- keyvalue, where the retrieved data is printed one per line, using =
for delimiting the key and the value. This is the default format,
targeted for end users.
- nul, where the retrieved data is separated by NUL characters, using
the newline character for delimiting the key and the value. This
format is targeted for being read by machines.
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is part of the series that introduces the new subcommand
git-repo-info.
The flag `--is-shallow-repository` from git-rev-parse is used for
retrieving whether the repository is shallow. This way, it is used for
querying repository metadata, fitting in the purpose of git-repo-info.
Then, add a new field `layout.shallow` to the git-repo-info subcommand
containing that information.
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is part of the series that introduces the new subcommand
git-repo-info.
The flag --is-bare-repository from git-rev-parse is used for retrieving
whether the current repository is bare. This way, it is used for
querying repository metadata, fitting in the purpose of git-repo-info.
Then, add a new field layout.bare to the git-repo-info subcommand
containing that information.
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is part of the series that introduces the new subcommand
git-repo-info.
The flag `--show-ref-format` from git-rev-parse is used for retrieving
the reference format (i.e. `files` or `reftable`). This way, it is
used for querying repository metadata, fitting in the purpose of
git-repo-info.
Add a new field `references.format` to the repo-info subcommand
containing that information.
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, `git rev-parse` covers a wide range of functionality not
directly related to parsing revisions, as its name suggests. Over time,
many features like parsing datestrings, options, paths, and others
were added to it because there wasn't a more appropriate command
to place them.
Create a new Git command called `repo`. `git repo` will be the main
command for obtaining the information about a repository (such as
metadata and metrics).
Also declare a subcommand for `repo` called `info`. `git repo info`
will bring the functionality of retrieving repository-related
information currently returned by `rev-parse`.
Add the required documentation and build changes to enable usage of
this subcommand.
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>