Junio C Hamano [Mon, 4 Aug 2025 01:44:27 +0000 (18:44 -0700)]
Merge branch 'hl/test-helper-fd-close'
A few file descriptors left unclosed upon program completion in a
few test helper programs are now closed.
* hl/test-helper-fd-close:
test-delta: close output descriptor after use
test-delta: use strbufs to hold input files
test-delta: handle errors with die()
t/helper/test-truncate: close file descriptor after truncation
"git rebase -i" with bogus rebase.instructionFormat configuration
failed to produce the todo file after recording the state files,
leading to confused "git status"; this has been corrected.
* ow/rebase-verify-insn-fmt-before-initializing-state:
rebase: write script before initializing state
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 4 Aug 2025 01:44:26 +0000 (18:44 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/object-store-midx'
Redefine where the multi-pack-index sits in the object subsystem,
which recently was restructured to allow multiple backends that
support a single object source that belongs to one repository. A
midx does span mulitple "object sources".
* ps/object-store-midx:
midx: remove now-unused linked list of multi-pack indices
packfile: stop using linked MIDX list in `get_all_packs()`
packfile: stop using linked MIDX list in `find_pack_entry()`
packfile: refactor `get_multi_pack_index()` to work on sources
midx: stop using linked list when closing MIDX
packfile: refactor `prepare_packed_git_one()` to work on sources
midx: start tracking per object database source
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 4 Aug 2025 01:44:26 +0000 (18:44 -0700)]
Merge branch 'kn/for-each-ref-skip'
"git for-each-ref" learns "--start-after" option to help
applications that want to page its output.
* kn/for-each-ref-skip:
ref-cache: set prefix_state when seeking
for-each-ref: introduce a '--start-after' option
ref-filter: remove unnecessary else clause
refs: selectively set prefix in the seek functions
ref-cache: remove unused function 'find_ref_entry()'
refs: expose `ref_iterator` via 'refs.h'
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 1 Aug 2025 18:27:14 +0000 (11:27 -0700)]
Merge branch 'sk/reftable-clarify-tests'
The reftable unit tests are now ported to the "clar" unit testing
framework.
* sk/reftable-clarify-tests:
t/unit-tests: finalize migration of reftable-related tests
t/unit-tests: convert reftable stack test to use clar
t/unit-tests: convert reftable record test to use clar
t/unit-tests: convert reftable readwrite test to use clar
t/unit-tests: convert reftable table test to use clar
t/unit-tests: convert reftable pq test to use clar
t/unit-tests: convert reftable merged test to use clar
t/unit-tests: convert reftable block test to use clar
t/unit-tests: convert reftable basics test to use clar test framework
t/unit-tests: implement clar specific reftable test helper functions
To help our developers, document what C99 language features are
being considered for adoption, in addition to what past experiments
have already decided.
* jc/document-test-balloons-in-flight:
CodingGuidelines: document test balloons in flight
Han Young [Mon, 28 Jul 2025 03:55:48 +0000 (11:55 +0800)]
blame: remove parameter detailed in get_commit_info()
The get_commit_info() function accepts a parameter that can be used
to stop the commit parsing early. However, none of the callers use
this feature, and testing proved that the performance gain of
stopping parsing early is negligible and unmeasurable.
Signed-off-by: Han Young <hanyang.tony@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:02:34 +0000 (12:02 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ac/auto-comment-char-fix'
"git commit" that concludes a conflicted merge failed to notice and remove
existing comment added automatically (like "# Conflicts:") when the
core.commentstring is set to 'auto'.
* ac/auto-comment-char-fix:
config: set comment_line_str to "#" when core.commentChar=auto
commit: avoid scanning trailing comments when 'core.commentChar' is "auto"
The pop_most_recent_commit() function can have quite expensive
worst case performance characteristics, which has been optimized by
using prio-queue data structure.
* rs/pop-recent-commit-with-prio-queue:
commit: use prio_queue_replace() in pop_most_recent_commit()
prio-queue: add prio_queue_replace()
commit: convert pop_most_recent_commit() to prio_queue
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:03:56 +0000 (16:03 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ss/compat-bswap-revamp'
Clean-up compat/bswap.h mess.
* ss/compat-bswap-revamp:
bswap.h: provide a built-in based version of bswap32/64 if possible
bswap.h: remove optimized x86 version of bswap32/64
bswap.h: always overwrite ntohl/ ntohll macros
bswap.h: define GIT_LITTLE_ENDIAN on msvc as little endian
bswap.h: add support for __BYTE_ORDER__
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:03:55 +0000 (16:03 -0700)]
Merge branch 'pw/adopt-c99-bool-officially'
Declare weather-balloon we raised for "bool" type 18 months ago a
success and officially allow using the type in our codebase.
* pw/adopt-c99-bool-officially:
strbuf: convert predicates to return bool
git-compat-util: convert string predicates to return bool
CodingGuidelines: allow the use of bool
In 090eb5336c (refs: selectively set prefix in the seek functions,
2025-07-15) we separated the seeking functionality of reference
iterators from the functionality to set prefix to an iterator. This
allows users of ref iterators to seek to a particular reference to
provide pagination support.
The files-backend, uses the ref-cache iterator to iterate over loose
refs. The iterator tracks directories and entries already processed via
a stack of levels. Each level corresponds to a directory under the files
backend. New levels are added to the stack, and when all entries from a
level is yielded, the corresponding level is popped from the stack.
To accommodate seeking, we need to populate and traverse the levels to
stop the requested seek marker at the appropriate level and its entry
index. Each level also contains a 'prefix_state' which is used for
prefix matching, this allows the iterator to skip levels/entries which
don't match a prefix. The default value of 'prefix_state' is
PREFIX_CONTAINS_DIR, which yields all entries within a level. When
purely seeking without prefix matching, we want to yield all entries.
The commit however, skips setting the value explicitly. This causes the
MemorySanitizer to issue a 'use-of-uninitialized-value' error when
running 't/t6302-for-each-ref-filter'.
Set the value explicitly to avoid to fix the issue.
Reported-by: Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com> Helped-by: Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t/unit-tests: finalize migration of reftable-related tests
The old `lib-reftable.{c,h}` implemented helper functions for our
homegrown unit-testing framework. As part of migrating reftable-related
tests to the Clar framework, Clar-specific versions of these functions
in `lib-reftable-clar.{c,h}` were introduced.
Now that all test files using these helpers have been converted to Clar,
we can safely remove the original `lib-reftable.{c,h}` and rename the
Clar- specific versions back to `lib-reftable.{c,h}`. This restores a
clean and consistent naming scheme for shared test utilities.
Finally, update our build system to reflect the changes made and remove
redundant code related to the reftable tests and our old homegrown
unit-testing setup. `test-lib.{c,h}` remains unchanged in our build
system as some files particularly `t/helper/test-example-tap.c` depends
on it in order to run, and removing that would be beyond the scope of
this patch.
Signed-off-by: Seyi Kuforiji <kuforiji98@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t/unit-tests: convert reftable stack test to use clar
Adapt reftable stack test file to use clar by using clar assertions
where necessary.
This marks the end of all unit tests migrated away from the
`unit-tests/t-*.c` pattern, there are no longer any files matching that
glob. Remove the sanity check for `t-*.c` files to prevent Meson
configuration errors during CI and local builds.
Signed-off-by: Seyi Kuforiji <kuforiji98@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t/unit-tests: implement clar specific reftable test helper functions
Helper functions defined in `t/unit-tests/lib-reftable.{c,h}` are
required for the reftable-related test files to run. In the current
implementation these functions are designed to conform with our
homegrown unit-testing structure. So in other to convert the reftable
test files, there is need for a clar specific implementation of these
helper functions.
Implement equivalent helper functions in `lib-reftable-clar.{c,h}` to
use clar. These functions conform with the clar testing framework and
become available for all reftable-related test files implemented using
the clar testing framework, which requires them. This will be used by
subsequent commits.
Signed-off-by: Seyi Kuforiji <kuforiji98@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:03:08 +0000 (20:03 -0400)]
test-delta: close output descriptor after use
After we write to the output file, the program exits. This naturally
closes the descriptor. But we should do an explicit close for two
reasons:
1. It's possible to hit an error on close(), which we should detect
and report via our exit code.
2. Leaking descriptors is a bad practice in general. Even if it isn't
meaningful here, it sets a bad example.
It is tempting to write:
if (write_in_full(fd, ...) < 0 || close(fd) < 0)
die_errno(...);
But that pattern contains a subtle problem that has resulted in
descriptor leaks before. If write_in_full() fails, we'll short-circuit
and never call close(), leaking the descriptor.
That's not a problem here, since our error path dies instead of
returning up the stack. But since we're trying to set a good example,
let's write it out as two separate conditions. As a bonus, that lets us
produce a slightly more specific error message.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:02:11 +0000 (20:02 -0400)]
test-delta: use strbufs to hold input files
We want to read the whole contents of two files into memory. If we
switch from raw ptr/len pairs to strbufs, we can use strbuf_read_file()
to shorten the code.
This incidentally fixes two small bugs:
1. We stat() the files and allocate our buffers based on st.st_size.
But that is an off_t which may be larger than the size_t we'd use
to allocate. We should use xsize_t() to do a checked conversion.
Otherwise integer truncation (on a file >4GB) could cause us to
under-allocate (though in practice this does not result in a buffer
overflow because the same truncation happens when read_in_full()
also takes a size_t).
2. We get the size from st.st_size, and then try to read_in_full()
that many bytes. But it may return fewer bytes than expected (if
the file changed racily and we get an early EOF), leading us to
read uninitialized bytes in the allocated buffer. We don't notice
because we only check the value for error, not that we got the
expected number of bytes.
The strbuf code doesn't run into this, because it just reads to EOF,
expanding the buffer dynamically as necessary. Neither bug is a big deal
for a test helper, but fixing them is a nice bonus on top of simplifying
the code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:56 +0000 (20:00 -0400)]
test-delta: handle errors with die()
This is a short test helper that does all of its work in the main
function. When we encounter an error, we try to clean up memory and
descriptors and then jump to an error return, which exits the program.
We can get the same effect by just calling die(), which means we do not
have to bother with cleaning up. This simplifies the code, and also
removes some inconsistencies where a few code paths forgot to clean up
descriptors (though in practice it was not a big deal since we were
exiting anyway).
In addition to die() and die_errno(), we'll also use a few of our usual
helpers like xopen() and usage() that make things more ergonomic.
This does change the exit code in these cases from 1 to 128, but I
don't think it matters (and arguably is better, as we'd already exit 128
for other errors like xmalloc() failure).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:31:26 +0000 (12:31 -0700)]
CodingGuidelines: document test balloons in flight
Due to portability concerns, we do not blindly say "It is in [[this
standard]], so we will make liberal use of it" for many features,
and use of C99 language features follow this same principle. When
we contemplate adopting a language feature that we haven't used in
our codebase, we typically first raise a test balloon, which
- is a piece of code that exercises the language feature we are
trying to see if it is OK to adopt
- is in a small section of code that we know everybody who cares
about having a working Git must be compiling
- is in a fairly stable part of the code, to allow reverting it
easily if some platforms do not understand it yet.
After a few years, with no breakage report from the community, we'd
declare that the feature is now safe to use in our codebase. Before
that, we forbid the use of the language construct except for the
designated test balloon code site.
The CodingGuidelines document lists these selected features that we
already have determined that they are safe, and also those features
that we know some platforms had trouble with.
Let's also start listing ongoing test balloons and expected timeline
for adoption. Recently phillip proposed to adopt the syntax to
spell a structure literally (i.e. compound literal) with a new test
balloon, which Patrick made redundant by pointing out an existing
one we had already.but without documenting it. Start the new section
with an entry for that test balloon.
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 23 Jul 2025 22:45:16 +0000 (15:45 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/sane-ctype-workaround'
Our <sane-ctype.h> header file relied on that the system-supplied
<ctype.h> header is not later included, which would override our
macro definitions, but "amazon linux" broke this assumption. Fix
this by preemptively including <ctype.h> near the beginning of
<sane-ctype.h> ourselves.
* ps/sane-ctype-workaround:
sane-ctype: fix compiler error on Amazon Linux 2
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 23 Jul 2025 22:45:15 +0000 (15:45 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ly/changed-paths-traversal'
Lift the limitation to use changed-path filter in "git log" so that
it can be used for a pathspec with multiple literal paths.
* ly/changed-paths-traversal:
bloom: optimize multiple pathspec items in revision
revision: make helper for pathspec to bloom keyvec
bloom: replace struct bloom_key * with struct bloom_keyvec
bloom: rename function operates on bloom_key
bloom: add test helper to return murmur3 hash
Jacob Keller [Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:18:26 +0000 (16:18 -0700)]
reflog: close leak of reflog expire entry
find_cfg_ent() allocates a struct reflog_expire_entry_option via
FLEX_ALLOC_MEM and inserts it into a linked list in the
reflog_expire_options structure. The entries in this list are never
freed, resulting in a leak in cmd_reflog_expire and the gc reflog expire
maintenance task:
Direct leak of 39 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
#0 0x7ff975ee6883 in calloc (/lib64/libasan.so.8+0xe6883)
#1 0x0000010edada in xcalloc ../wrapper.c:154
#2 0x000000df0898 in find_cfg_ent ../reflog.c:28
#3 0x000000df0898 in reflog_expire_config ../reflog.c:70
#4 0x00000095c451 in configset_iter ../config.c:2116
#5 0x0000006d29e7 in git_config ../config.h:724
#6 0x0000006d29e7 in cmd_reflog_expire ../builtin/reflog.c:205
#7 0x0000006d504c in cmd_reflog ../builtin/reflog.c:419
#8 0x0000007e4054 in run_builtin ../git.c:480
#9 0x0000007e4054 in handle_builtin ../git.c:746
#10 0x0000007e8a35 in run_argv ../git.c:813
#11 0x0000007e8a35 in cmd_main ../git.c:953
#12 0x000000441e8f in main ../common-main.c:9
#13 0x7ff9754115f4 in __libc_start_call_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x35f4)
#14 0x7ff9754116a7 in __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x36a7)
#15 0x000000444184 in _start (/home/jekeller/libexec/git-core/git+0x444184)
Close this leak by adding a reflog_clear_expire_config() function which
iterates the linked list and frees its elements. Call it upon exit of
cmd_reflog_expire() and reflog_expire_condition().
Add a basic test which covers this leak. While at it, cover the
functionality from commit commit 3cb22b8efe (Per-ref reflog expiry
configuration, 2008-06-15). We've had this support for years, but lacked
any tests.
Co-developed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:30:21 +0000 (13:30 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/j6t/gitk
* 'master' of https://github.com/j6t/gitk: (21 commits)
gitk: remove header of now empty section "General options"
gitk: separate upstream refs when using the sort-by-type option
gitk: make 'sort-refs-by-type' optional and persistent
gitk: sort by ref type on the 'tags and heads' view
gitk: choosefont - remove a stray debugging line
gitk: allow horizontal commit-graph scrolling
gitk: update aqua scrolling for TclTk 8.6 / TIP171
gitk: update x11 scrolling for TclTk 8.6 / TIP 171
gitk: update win32 scrolling for Tk 8.6 / TIP 171
gitk: mousewheel scrolling functions for Tk 8.6
gitk: wheel scrolling multiplier preference
gitk: separate x11 / win32 / aqua Mouse bindings
gitk: remove non-ttk support code
gitk: replace ${NS} with ttk
gitk: always use themed Tk (ttk)
gitk: use $config_variables as list for save/restore
gitk: remove implementations for Tcl/Tk < 8.6
gitk: Make TclTk 8.6 the minimum, allow 8.7
gitk: remove code targeting git <= 1.7.2
gitk: require git >= 2.20
...
Johannes Sixt [Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:13:31 +0000 (18:13 +0200)]
Merge branch 'mr/sort-refs-by-type'
* mr/sort-refs-by-type:
gitk: separate upstream refs when using the sort-by-type option
gitk: make 'sort-refs-by-type' optional and persistent
gitk: sort by ref type on the 'tags and heads' view
docs: explain how to use `git imap-send --list` command to get a list of available folders
The output `git imap-send --list` command can be a bit confusing for new
users since the IMAP LIST command output is very verbose. Help such users
to analyse the same by using an example output.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe [Fri, 18 Jul 2025 09:39:11 +0000 (11:39 +0200)]
commit: use prio_queue_replace() in pop_most_recent_commit()
Optimize pop_most_recent_commit() by adding the first parent using the
more efficient prio_queue_peek() and prio_queue_replace() instead of
prio_queue_get() and prio_queue_put().
On my machine this neutralizes the performance hit it took in Git's own
repository when we converted it to prio_queue two patches ago (git_pq):
$ hyperfine -w3 -L git ./git_2.50.1,./git_pq,./git '{git} rev-parse :/^Initial.revision'
Benchmark 1: ./git_2.50.1 rev-parse :/^Initial.revision
Time (mean ± σ): 1.073 s ± 0.003 s [User: 1.053 s, System: 0.019 s]
Range (min … max): 1.069 s … 1.078 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: ./git_pq rev-parse :/^Initial.revision
Time (mean ± σ): 1.077 s ± 0.002 s [User: 1.057 s, System: 0.018 s]
Range (min … max): 1.072 s … 1.079 s 10 runs
Benchmark 3: ./git rev-parse :/^Initial.revision
Time (mean ± σ): 1.069 s ± 0.003 s [User: 1.049 s, System: 0.018 s]
Range (min … max): 1.065 s … 1.074 s 10 runs
Summary
./git rev-parse :/^Initial.revision ran
1.00 ± 0.00 times faster than ./git_2.50.1 rev-parse :/^Initial.revision
1.01 ± 0.00 times faster than ./git_pq rev-parse :/^Initial.revision
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe [Fri, 18 Jul 2025 09:39:14 +0000 (11:39 +0200)]
prio-queue: add prio_queue_replace()
Add a function to replace the top element of the queue that basically
does the same as prio_queue_get() followed by prio_queue_put(), but
without the work by prio_queue_get() to rebalance the heap. It can be
used to optimize loops that get one element and then immediately add
another one. That's common e.g., with commit history traversal, where
we get out a commit and then put in its parents.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe [Fri, 18 Jul 2025 09:39:06 +0000 (11:39 +0200)]
commit: convert pop_most_recent_commit() to prio_queue
pop_most_recent_commit() calls commit_list_insert_by_date() for parent
commits, which is itself called in a loop. This can lead to quadratic
complexity if there are many merges. Replace the commit_list with a
prio_queue to ensure logarithmic worst case complexity and convert all
three users.
Add a performance test that exercises one of them using a pathological
history that consists of 50% merges and 50% root commits to demonstrate
the speedup:
Test v2.50.1 HEAD
----------------------------------------------------------------------
1501.2: rev-parse ':/65535' 2.48(2.47+0.00) 0.20(0.19+0.00) -91.9%
Alas, sane histories don't benefit from the conversion much, and
traversing Git's own history takes a 1% performance hit on my machine:
$ hyperfine -w3 -L git ./git_2.50.1,./git '{git} rev-parse :/^Initial.revision'
Benchmark 1: ./git_2.50.1 rev-parse :/^Initial.revision
Time (mean ± σ): 1.071 s ± 0.004 s [User: 1.052 s, System: 0.017 s]
Range (min … max): 1.067 s … 1.078 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: ./git rev-parse :/^Initial.revision
Time (mean ± σ): 1.079 s ± 0.003 s [User: 1.060 s, System: 0.017 s]
Range (min … max): 1.074 s … 1.083 s 10 runs
Summary
./git_2.50.1 rev-parse :/^Initial.revision ran
1.01 ± 0.00 times faster than ./git rev-parse :/^Initial.revision
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:46:42 +0000 (15:46 -0700)]
rev-list: update a NEEDSWORK comment
The comment is poorly phrased and it in't clear what it wanted to
say. Strongly discourage this broken pattern to be copied and
pasted to other code paths.
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:58:03 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
rev-list: make "struct rev_list_info" static to the only user
The structure has nothing to do with what "git bisect" does; as
nobody other than "git rev-list" implementation uses it, move it
as a private data type to builtin/rev-list.c
Mark Levedahl [Sat, 5 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 (08:00 -0400)]
git-gui: eliminate _search_exe
git-gui has _search_exe as needed to give the executable suffix
(.exe) on Windows. But, the prior commit eliminated the only user of
this variable. Delete it.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Sun, 6 Apr 2025 15:14:35 +0000 (11:14 -0400)]
git-gui: remove procs gitexec and _git_cmd
gitexec looks up and caches the method to execute git subcommands using
the long deprecated dashed form if found in $(git--exec-path). But,
git_read and git_write now use the dashless form, by-passing gitexec.
This leaves two remaining uses of gitexec: one during startup to define
use of an ssh_key helper, and one in the about dialog box. These are
neither performance critical nor likely to be called more than once, so
do not justify an otherwise unused cacheing system.
Let's change those two uses, making gitexec unused. This allows removing
gitexec and _git_cmd.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Sat, 5 Apr 2025 03:08:35 +0000 (23:08 -0400)]
git-gui: use dashless 'git cmd' form for read/write
git-gui implements its own approach to locating and running various git
subcommands, bypassing git's capabilities for running git-*. This was
written in 2007: at that time, many git commands were shell-scripts
stored in $(git --exec-path), git's run-command api was not well adapted
to Windows and had serious performance issues when it worked at all, and
running subcommand 'git foo' as 'git-foo' was common and fully supported.
On Windows, git-gui searches $(git --exec-path) for builtin commands,
then attempts to find an interpreter on PATH to run those, invoking
these differently than on other platforms. For instance, the explicit
shebang #!/usr/bin/perl found in a script will be run by the first Perl
interpreter found on $PATH, which might not be at that specific location
so could be different than what git would run.
The various issues leading to the current implemention no longer exist.
Most git commands are now builtins, links to run those are not installed
in $(git --exec-path) by default (the "dashless" form is recommended
instead), and git's run-command api works well everywhere.
So, let's use git to launch its subcommands on all platforms. Do so by
modifying procs git_read and git_write to use the "dashless" form for
invoking git commands, avoiding the search for git-<foo>. This leaves
_git_cmd unused with cleanup in a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:12:18 +0000 (11:12 -0400)]
git-gui: default to full copy for linked worktrees
git-gui's default clone method is git-clone's default, and this uses
hardlinks rather than copying the objects directory for local
repositories. However, this method explicitly fails if a symlink (or
.gitfile) exists in the path to the objects directory. Thus, the default
clone option fails for worktrees created by git-new-workdir or
git-worktree. git-gui's original do_clone trapped this error for a
symlinked git-new-workdir tree, directly falling back to a full clone,
while the updated git-gui using git-clone does not. (The old do_clone
could not handle gitfile linked worktrees, however).
Let's apply the more friendly fallback to a full clone in both these
cases where git-clone behavior throws an error on the default method.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Fri, 9 Feb 2024 23:07:45 +0000 (18:07 -0500)]
git-gui: use git-clone
git-gui clones a repository by invoking git-plumbing commands, in proc
do_clone, rather than using git-clone. The justification was that the
low-level commands are guaranteed to provide a stable interface, while
the higher level commands such as git-clone may not be stable. This
approach requires git-gui to continually evolve by mirroring new
features in git itself, which has not happened, while the user interface
in git-clone has proven very stable. Also, git-gui does directly call
many other non-plumbing commands in git's repertoire.
do_clone's last significant functionality change was in 2015, and
updates are required for shallow clones, the reftable backend, cloning
from linked worktrees, and perhaps other features and bugs. For
instance, I had reports of git-gui failing to correctly clone
repositories prior to 2015, resulting in essentially the patch given
here. The only significant work was supporting .gitfile linked worktrees
unknown to do_clone, but supported by git-clone, and none regarding the
interface to git-clone itself. That interface is clearly stable enough
to not be a problem.
Supporting new use-cases with this requires exposing new options in the
clone dialog, then passing flags to git-clone. This avoids updating
do_clone to understand those options, reducing the maintenance burdens.
So, teach git-gui to use git-clone. This change is in one patch as
there is no obvious incremental path to migration. The existing dialog /
options / status screen are unchanged, the known user-visible changes
are that cloning from a working directory linked by a gitfile now works,
there is no auto-fallback to a full copy when cloning linked workdirs
and worktrees (meaning git-clone fails unless a full or shared copy is
selected), and messages displayed are from git-clone.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Lidong Yan [Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:43:34 +0000 (20:43 +0800)]
pull: add pull.autoStash config option
Git uses `rebase.autostash` or `merge.autostash` to determine whether a
dirty worktree is allowed during pull. However, this behavior is not
clearly documented, making it difficult for users to discover how to
enable autostash, or causing them to unknowingly enable it. Add new
config option `pull.autostash` along with its documentation and test
cases.
`pull.autostash` provides the same functionality as `rebase.autostash`
and `merge.autostash`, but overrides them when set. If `pull.autostash`
is not set, it falls back to `rebase.autostash` or `merge.autostash`,
depending on the value of `pull.rebase`.
Signed-off-by: Lidong Yan <yldhome2d2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Sat, 19 Jul 2025 07:08:13 +0000 (03:08 -0400)]
revision: drop early output option
We added the --early-output feature long ago in cdcefbc971 (Add
"--early-output" log flag for interactive GUI use, 2007-11-03). The idea
was that GUIs could use it to progressively render a history view,
showing something quick-and-inaccurate at first and then enhancing it
later.
But we never documented it, and it appears never to have been used, even
by the projects which initially expressed interest. There was an RFC
patch for gitk to use it:
but it was never fully merged (to this day, QGit has a commented-out line to
add "--early-output" to the "log" invocation). Searching for other
mentions on the web or forges like github.com turns up nothing.
Meanwhile, the feature has been broken off and on over the years without
anybody noticing (and naturally, there are no tests, either). From 2011
to 2017 the option didn't even turn on via "--early-output"; this was
fixed in e35b6ac56f (revision.h: turn rev_info.early_output back into an
unsigned int, 2017-06-10).
It worked for a while then, but it does not interact well at all with
commit-graphs (which are turned on by default these days). The main
logic to count early commits is triggered by limit_list(), which we
traditionally invoked when showing output in topo-order (and
--early-output always enables --topo-order). But that changed in f0d9cc4196 (revision.c: begin refactoring --topo-order logic,
2018-11-01). Now when we have generation numbers, we skip limit_list()
entirely, and the early-output code shows no commits, and just the final
header "Final output: 1 done". Which is syntactically OK, but
semantically wrong: that message should give the total number of commits
we're about to show.
So let's drop the feature. It is extra code that is untested and
undocumented, and makes working on the revision machinery more brittle.
Given the history above, it seems unlikely that anybody is using it (or
has used it), and we can drop it without the usual deprecation period.
A gentler option might be to "soft" drop it: keep accepting the option,
have it imply --topo-order as it does now, print "Final output: 1 done",
and then do our regular traversal. That would keep any hypothetical
caller working. But it doesn't seem worth the hassle to me.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:14:27 +0000 (09:14 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ja/doc-git-log-markup'
Doc mark-up updates.
* ja/doc-git-log-markup:
doc: git-log: convert log config to new doc format
doc: git-log: convert diff options to new doc format
doc: git-log: convert pretty formats to new doc format
doc: git-log: convert pretty options to new doc format
doc: git-log: convert rev list options to new doc format
doc: git-log: convert line range format to new doc format
doc: git-log: convert line range options to new doc format
doc: git-log convert rev-list-description to new doc format
doc: convert git-log to new documentation format
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:14:26 +0000 (09:14 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/meson-cleanups'
Meson-based build update.
* ps/meson-cleanups:
ci: use Meson's new `--slice` option
meson: update subproject wrappers
meson: fix lookup of shell on MINGW64
meson: clean up unnecessary variables
meson: improve summary of auto-detected features
meson: stop printing 'https' option twice in our summaries
meson: stop discovering native version of Python
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:14:26 +0000 (09:14 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jk/remote-avoid-overlapping-names'
"git remote" now detects remote names that overlap with each other
(e.g., remote nickname "outer" and "outer/inner" are used at the
same time), as it will lead to overlapping remote-tracking
branches.
* jk/remote-avoid-overlapping-names:
remote: detect collisions in remote names
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:14:26 +0000 (09:14 -0700)]
Merge branch 'tb/midx-avoid-cruft-packs'
"pack-objects" has been taught to avoid pointing into objects in
cruft packs from midx.
* tb/midx-avoid-cruft-packs:
repack: exclude cruft pack(s) from the MIDX where possible
pack-objects: introduce '--stdin-packs=follow'
pack-objects: swap 'show_{object,commit}_pack_hint'
pack-objects: fix typo in 'show_object_pack_hint()'
pack-objects: perform name-hash traversal for unpacked objects
pack-objects: declare 'rev_info' for '--stdin-packs' earlier
pack-objects: factor out handling '--stdin-packs'
pack-objects: limit scope in 'add_object_entry_from_pack()'
pack-objects: use standard option incompatibility functions
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:14:25 +0000 (09:14 -0700)]
Merge branch 'bc/use-sha256-by-default-in-3.0'
Prepare to flip the default hash function to SHA-256.
* bc/use-sha256-by-default-in-3.0:
Enable SHA-256 by default in breaking changes mode
help: add a build option for default hash
t5300: choose the built-in hash outside of a repo
t4042: choose the built-in hash outside of a repo
t1007: choose the built-in hash outside of a repo
t: default to compile-time default hash if not set
setup: use the default algorithm to initialize repo format
Use legacy hash for legacy formats
builtin: use default hash when outside a repository
hash: add a constant for the legacy hash algorithm
hash: add a constant for the default hash algorithm
Michael Rappazzo [Sat, 19 Jul 2025 19:24:39 +0000 (15:24 -0400)]
gitk: separate upstream refs when using the sort-by-type option
Since the upstream refs of local refs may be of more significance in the
context of the local refs, they are sorted after local refs and before the
remainder of the remote refs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Rappazzo <michael.rappazzo@infor.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Michael Rappazzo [Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:33:08 +0000 (16:33 -0400)]
gitk: make 'sort-refs-by-type' optional and persistent
On the 'tags and heads' view, add an option to enable or disable
'Sort refs by type'. This option is read from and written to the
config file. Clicking on the option will update the refs in the
view.
Signed-off-by: Michael Rappazzo <michael.rappazzo@infor.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Mark Levedahl [Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:15:49 +0000 (12:15 -0400)]
git-gui: remove ${NS} indirection for ttk
git-gui uses ${NS} to switch between non-themed and themed widgets, with
${NS} == 'ttk' selecting the latter. As git-gui now always uses ttk,
this indirection is not needed. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Wed, 21 May 2025 20:31:14 +0000 (16:31 -0400)]
git-gui: always use themed widgets from ttk
git-gui optionally uses themed ui elements from ttk, but the full set of
ttk ui elements is always available with Tk 8.6. Keeping code making
ttk use optional increases maintenance burden for no benefit. Let's use
ttk always, allowing removal of alternate code paths in subsequent
patches.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Sun, 18 Feb 2024 18:06:05 +0000 (13:06 -0500)]
git-gui: remove redundant check for Tk >= 8.5
Since commit c80d7be5e1e0d, git-gui checks for the availability of ttk
before enabling its use, but this check is redundant as Tk >= 8.6 is
required. Remove the redundant check.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:24:06 +0000 (18:24 -0500)]
git-gui: remove unreachable Tk 8.4 code
git-gui has remnant code to allow some drawing with Tk 8.4 predating the
addition of themed widgets. As git-gui requires Tk >= 8.6, this code can
never trigger. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:19:56 +0000 (00:19 -0500)]
git-gui: remove unused git-version
git-version supports choosing different bodies of code passed into it,
rather than using the more traditional if/else construct typically used.
The only use of git-version in this mode was by its author in 2007, and
that code has been deleted. So, delete this now unused function that
was mostly ignored.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Fri, 9 Feb 2024 22:58:04 +0000 (17:58 -0500)]
git-gui: use git_init to create new repository dir
When creating a new repository, git-gui creates a directory, cds to it,
then runs git-init, but git-init learned to create and initialize the
directory in 1.6.5. git-gui requires git version >= 2.36, so teach
git-gui to use git-init's full capability.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:13:45 +0000 (00:13 -0500)]
git-gui: git-remote is always available
git-gui checks for git version >= 1.6.6 before enabling the remotes
menu. But git-gui requires git v2.36 or later, so git-remote is always
available. Delete this check and always enable the menu.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui's merge driver includes code to invoke the recursive strategy
for merging prior to git v2.5 that added a simpler syntax. As git-gui
requires git v2.36 or later, let's delete the code targeting earlier
git.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:11:32 +0000 (00:11 -0500)]
git-gui: git-diff knows submodules and textconv
git-gui's diff functions avoid using textconv filters on git < 1.6.1, or
asking about submodules on version before 1.7.2, but git-gui requires
git >= v2.36. So, remove this now obsolete code.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:09:02 +0000 (00:09 -0500)]
git-gui: git-blame understands -w and textconv
git-gui uses alternate code paths for git versions < 1.7.2, avoiding use
of --ignore-all-space and textconv. git-gui requires git v2.36 or later,
so this alternate code is obsolete. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:03:30 +0000 (22:03 -0500)]
git-gui: git rev-parse knows show_toplevel
git-gui has its own code to determine the worktree root for git-versions
earlier than 1.7.0, where git rev-parse learned this function. git-gui
requires git v2.36 or later, so delete the now obsolete alternate code.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:42:05 +0000 (14:42 -0500)]
git-gui: use git-branch --show-current
git-gui relies upon the files back-end to determine the current branch.
This does not support the newer reftables backend. But, git-branch has
long supported --show-current to get this same information regardless of
backend cahnged. So teach git-gui to use git-branch --show-current.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Sat, 5 Apr 2025 14:19:48 +0000 (10:19 -0400)]
git-gui: git-diff-index always knows submodules
git-gui asks for submodule info only on git-versions >=1.72, which
introduced such capability. But, git-gui requires git version >= 2.36,
so this alternate code path is obsolete. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Sat, 5 Apr 2025 14:18:06 +0000 (10:18 -0400)]
git-gui: git ls-files knows --exclude-standard
git-gui includes code to implement ls-files for git versions prior to
1.63 that did not know --exclude-standard. But, git-gui now requires git
version >= 2.36, so remove the obsolete code.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
meson: work around broken system PCRE2 dependency in macOS
macOS provides a PCRE2 library in base that is not usable and not
configured properly, as it installs a pkgconf module that
points to a non-existent pcre2.h header in /usr/local/include.
Detect that case and if the feature is enabled, try to fallback
to a wrapped subproject through an anonymous dependency, aborting
with an error if that is not possible.
Change the feature to "auto" and print a warning and disable it
if a broken dependency was detected, but to keep consistency
with the cmake build system used on Windows, add a special rule
to re-enable the pcre2 feature by default there.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Suggested-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark Levedahl [Sat, 17 May 2025 02:25:17 +0000 (22:25 -0400)]
git-gui: Make TclTk 8.6 the minimum, allow 8.7
git-gui requires that Tcl and Tk are 8.5, though the check using
'package require' allows 8.6. As git-gui runs under wish, both Tcl and
Tk are always available and of the same version, so only one need be
checked.
The 8.5 requirement is very outdated as the earliest Tcl currently
shipping on any supported OS is 8.6. 8.7 is in alpha test and is
generally compatible with 8.6, so should also be allowed. Tcl 9.0 has
planned compatibility breaking changes so cannot be allowed.
Let's update the requirements to be 8.6 or 8.7, and check only on Tcl as
Tk will be the same version.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Tue, 13 Feb 2024 04:32:44 +0000 (23:32 -0500)]
git-gui: require git >= 2.36
git-gui since commit d6967022 explicitly requires version >= 1.5.0, and
this coded requirement has never been changed. But, since 0730a5a3a
git-gui actually requires git 2.36, providing 'git hook run.' git-gui
throws an error if that command is not supported.
So, let's update the requirement checking code to 2.36, and throw a more
useful error if this is not met.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
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