6cc6d1b4c699 (Documentation: update add --force option + ignore=all
config, 2026-02-06) added text describing both the ignore=none and
ignore=all behaviors. The former had minor formatting and grammatical
errors, while the latter was a bit garbled. I have tried to tweak the
wording on the latter to make it read as I think was intended, and fixed
the minor grammatical issues with both as well.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
doc: fix self-referential config in sendemail.smtpSSLClientKey
a8215a205141 (send-email: add client certificate options, 2026-03-02)
added documentation for sendemail.smtpSSLClientKey that says it works
"in conjunction with `sendemail.smtpSSLClientKey`" -- referring to
itself. It appears that `sendemail.smtpSSLClientCert` was the intended
reference; fix it.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:06:59 +0000 (16:06 -0400)]
MIDX: revert the default version to v1
We introduced midx version 2 in b2ec8e90c2 (midx: do not require packs
to be sorted in lexicographic order, 2026-02-24) and now write it by
default. The rationale was that older versions should ignore the v2 midx
and fall back to using the packs (just like we do for other midx
errors). Unfortunately this is not the case, as we have a hard die()
when we see an unknown midx version.
As a result, writing a midx with Git 2.54-rc2 puts the repository into a
state that is unusable with Git 2.53. And this midx write may happen
behind the scenes as part of normal operations, like fetch.
Let's switch back to writing v1 by default to avoid regressing the case
where multiple versions of Git are used on the same repository.
There is one gotcha, though: the v2 format is required for some new
features, like midx compaction, and running "git multi-pack-index
compact" will complain when asked to write a v1 index. The user must set
midx.version to "2" to make the feature work.
So instead of always using v1, we'll base the default on whether the
requested feature requires v2. That does mean that running midx
compaction will create a repository that can't be read by older versions
of Git. But we never do that by default; only people experimenting with
the new feature will be affected.
We have to adjust the test expectation in t5319, since it will now
generate v1 files. And our "auto-select v2" is covered by the tests in
t5335, which continue to check that compaction works without having to
set midx.version manually (and also explicitly check that asking for v1
with compaction reports the problem).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- correct translation of pathspec msgs
Corrects cases where the “pathspec” is translated as if it was a
path
- correct translation of refspec msgs
Corrects cases where the “refspec” were not consistently translated
- correct translation of credential msgs
Corrects cases where the “credential” were not correctly translated
Signed-off-by: Stefan Björnelund <stefan.bjornelund.gnome@gmail.com> Modified-by: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Originally-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:55:18 +0000 (17:55 -0400)]
gitglossary: fix indentation of sub-lists
The glossary entry is a list of terms and their definitions, so
multi-paragraph definitions need "+" continuation lines to indicate
that they are part of a single entry.
When an entry contains a sub-list (say, a bulleted list), the final "+"
may become ambiguous: is it connecting the next paragraph to the final
entry of the sub-list, or to the original list of definition paragraphs?
Asciidoc generally connects it to the former, even when we mean the
latter, and you end up with the next paragraph indented incorrectly,
like this:
glob
...defines glob...
Two consecutive asterisks ("**") in patterns matched
against full pathname may have special meaning:
- ...some special meaning of **...
- ...another special meaning of **...
- Other consecutive asterisks are considered invalid.
Glob magic is incompatible with literal magic.
That final "Glob magic is incompatible" paragraph is in the wrong spot.
It should be at the same level as "Two consecutive asterisks", as it is
not part of the final "Other consecutive asterisks" bullet point.
The same problem appears in several other spots in the glossary.
Usually we'd fix this by using "--" markers, which put the sub-list into
its own block. But there's a catch: in some of these spots we are
already in an open block, and nesting open blocks is a problem. It seems
to work for me using Asciidoc 10.2.1, but Asciidoctor 2.0.26 makes a
mess of it (our intent to open a new block seems to close the old one).
Fortunately there's a work-around: when using a "+" list-continuation,
the number of empty lines above the continuation indicates which level
of parent list to continue. So by adding an empty line after our
unordered list (before the "+"), we should be able to continue the
definition list item.
But asciidoc being asciidoc, of course that is not the end of the story.
That technique works fine for the "glob" and "attr" lists in this patch,
but under the "refs" item it works for only 1 of the 2 lists! I can't
figure out why, and this may be an asciidoctor bug. But we can work
around it by using "--" open-block markers here, since we're not
already in an open block.
So using the extra blank line for the first two instances, and "--"
markers for the second two, this patch produces identical output from
"doc-diff HEAD^ HEAD" for both --asciidoctor and --asciidoc modes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:24:44 +0000 (11:24 -0700)]
CI: bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 for rust-analysis job
GitHub Actions started complaining about use of Node.js 20 and I was
wondering why only one job uses actions/checkout@v4, while everybody
else already uses actions/checkout@v5.
It turns out that it is caused by a semantic mismerge between e75cd059 (ci: check formatting of our Rust code, 2025-10-15) that
added a new use of actions/checkout@v4 that happened very close to
another change 63541ed9 (build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4
to 5, 2025-10-16) that updated all uses of actions/checkout@v4 to
use vactions/checkout@v5.
Update the leftover and the last use of actions/checkout@v4 to use
actions/checkout@v5 to help ourselves to move away from Node.js 20.
I claimed in 3c18135b (doc: am: say that --message-id adds a trailer,
2026-02-09) that `git am --message-id` adds a Git trailer. But that
isn’t the case; for the case of a commit message with a subject, body,
and no trailer block:
It does work for two other cases though, namely subject-only and with an
existing trailer block.
This is at best an inconsistency and arguably a bug, but we’re at the
trailing end of the release cycle now. So reverting the doc is safer
than making msg-id act as a trailer, for now.
Revert this hunk from commit 3c18135b except the only useful
change (“Also use inline-verbatim for `Message-ID`”).
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:47:35 +0000 (16:47 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jc/no-writev-does-not-work'
We used writev() in limited code paths and supplied emulation for
platforms without working writev(), but the emulation was too
faithful to the spec to make the result useless to send even 64kB;
revert the topic and plan to restart the effort later.
* jc/no-writev-does-not-work:
Revert "compat/posix: introduce writev(3p) wrapper"
Revert "wrapper: introduce writev(3p) wrappers"
Revert "sideband: use writev(3p) to send pktlines"
Revert "cmake: use writev(3p) wrapper as needed"
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:52:50 +0000 (07:52 -0700)]
rust: we are way beyond 2.53
Earlier we timelined that we'd tune our build procedures to build
with Rust by default in Git 2.53, but we are already in prerelease
freeze for 2.54 now. Update the BreakingChanges document to delay
it until Git 2.55 (slated for the end of June 2026).
Noticed-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 9 Apr 2026 22:07:12 +0000 (15:07 -0700)]
writev: retract the topic until we have a better emulation
The emulation layer we added for writev(3p) tries to be too faithful
to the spec that on systems with SSIZE_MAX set to lower than 64kB to
fit a single sideband packet would fail just like the real system
writev(), which makes our use of writev() for sideband messages
unworkable.
Let's revert them and reboot the effort after the release. The
reverted commits are:
$ git log -Swritev --oneline 8023abc632^..v2.52.0-rc1 89152af176 cmake: use writev(3p) wrapper as needed 26986f4cba sideband: use writev(3p) to send pktlines 1970fcef93 wrapper: introduce writev(3p) wrappers 3b9b2c2a29 compat/posix: introduce writev(3p) wrapper
8023abc632 is the merge of ps/upload-pack-buffer-more-writes topic to
the mainline.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 9 Apr 2026 18:21:59 +0000 (11:21 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ds/rev-list-maximal-only-optim'
"git rev-list --maximal-only" has been optimized by borrowing the
logic used by "git show-branch --independent", which computes the
same kind of information much more efficiently.
* ds/rev-list-maximal-only-optim:
rev-list: use reduce_heads() for --maximal-only
p6011: add perf test for rev-list --maximal-only
t6600: test --maximal-only and --independent
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 9 Apr 2026 18:21:59 +0000 (11:21 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jk/c23-const-preserving-fixes-more'
Further work to adjust the codebase for C23 that changes functions
like strchr() that discarded constness when they return a pointer into
a const string to preserve constness.
* jk/c23-const-preserving-fixes-more:
git-compat-util: fix CONST_OUTPARAM typo and indentation
refs/files-backend: drop const to fix strchr() warning
http: drop const to fix strstr() warning
range-diff: drop const to fix strstr() warnings
pkt-line: make packet_reader.line non-const
skip_prefix(): check const match between in and out params
pseudo-merge: fix disk reads from find_pseudo_merge()
find_last_dir_sep(): convert inline function to macro
run-command: explicitly cast away constness when assigning to void
pager: explicitly cast away strchr() constness
transport-helper: drop const to fix strchr() warnings
http: add const to fix strchr() warnings
convert: add const to fix strchr() warnings
Jeff King [Wed, 8 Apr 2026 17:20:55 +0000 (13:20 -0400)]
run_processes_parallel(): fix order of sigpipe handling
In commit ec0becacc9 (run-command: add stdin callback for
parallelization, 2026-01-28), we taught run_processes_parallel() to
ignore SIGPIPE, since we wouldn't want a write() to a broken pipe of one
of the children to take down the whole process.
But there's a subtle ordering issue. After we ignore SIGPIPE, we call
pp_init(), which installs its own cleanup handler for multiple signals
using sigchain_push_common(), which includes SIGPIPE. So if we receive
SIGPIPE while writing to a child, we'll trigger that handler first, pop
it off the stack, and then re-raise (which is then ignored because of
the SIG_IGN we pushed first).
But what does that handler do? It tries to clean up all of the child
processes, under the assumption that when we re-raise the signal we'll
be exiting the process!
So a hook that exits without reading all of its input will cause us to
get SIGPIPE, which will put us in a signal handler that then tries to
kill() that same child.
This seems to be mostly harmless on Linux. The process has already
exited by this point, and though kill() does not complain (since the
process has not been reaped with a wait() call), it does not affect the
exit status of the process.
However, this seems not to be true on all platforms. This case is
triggered by t5401.13, "pre-receive hook that forgets to read its
input". This test fails on NonStop since that hook was converted to the
run_processes_parallel() API.
We can fix it by reordering the code a bit. We should run pp_init()
first, and then push our SIG_IGN onto the stack afterwards, so that it
is truly ignored while feeding the sub-processes.
Note that we also reorder the popping at the end of the function, too.
This is not technically necessary, as we are doing two pops either way,
but now the pops will correctly match their pushes.
This also fixes a related case that we can't test yet. If we did have
more than one process to run, then one child causing SIGPIPE would cause
us to kill() all of the children (which might still actually be
running). But the hook API is the only user of the new feed_pipe
feature, and it does not yet support parallel hook execution. So for now
we'll always execute the processes sequentially. Once parallel hook
execution exists, we'll be able to add a test which covers this.
Reported-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 8 Apr 2026 17:19:18 +0000 (10:19 -0700)]
Merge branch 'tc/replay-ref'
The experimental `git replay` command learned the `--ref=<ref>` option
to allow specifying which ref to update, overriding the default behavior.
* tc/replay-ref:
replay: allow to specify a ref with option --ref
replay: use stuck form in documentation and help message
builtin/replay: mark options as not negatable
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 8 Apr 2026 17:19:17 +0000 (10:19 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ng/add-files-to-cache-wo-rename'
add_files_to_cache() used diff_files() to detect only the paths that
are different between the index and the working tree and add them,
which does not need rename detection, which interfered with unnecessary
conflicts.
* ng/add-files-to-cache-wo-rename:
read-cache: disable renames in add_files_to_cache
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 8 Apr 2026 17:19:17 +0000 (10:19 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/reftable-portability'
Update reftable library part with what is used in libgit2 to improve
portability to different target codebases and platforms.
* ps/reftable-portability:
reftable/system: add abstraction to mmap files
reftable/system: add abstraction to retrieve time in milliseconds
reftable/fsck: use REFTABLE_UNUSED instead of UNUSED
reftable/stack: provide fsync(3p) via system header
reftable: introduce "reftable-system.h" header
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 8 Apr 2026 17:19:17 +0000 (10:19 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/odb-cleanup'
Various code clean-up around odb subsystem.
* ps/odb-cleanup:
odb: drop unneeded headers and forward decls
odb: rename `odb_has_object()` flags
odb: use enum for `odb_write_object` flags
odb: rename `odb_write_object()` flags
treewide: use enum for `odb_for_each_object()` flags
CodingGuidelines: document our style for flags
Adrian Ratiu [Wed, 8 Apr 2026 16:11:48 +0000 (19:11 +0300)]
t1800: add &&-chains to test helper functions
Add the missing &&'s so we properly propagate failures
between commands in the hook helper functions.
Also add a missing mkdir -p arg (found by adding the &&).
Reported-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our description of the reftable format is that it is experimental and
subject to change, but that is no longer true. Remove this statement so
as not to mislead users.
In addition, the documentation says that the files format is the
default, but that is not true if breaking changes mode is on. Correct
this information with a conditional.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
object-file: avoid ODB transaction when not writing objects
In ce1661f9da (odb: add transaction interface, 2025-09-16), existing
ODB transaction logic is adapted to create a transaction interface
at the ODB layer. The intent here is for the ODB transaction
interface to eventually provide an object source agnostic means to
manage transactions.
An unintended consequence of this change though is that
`object-file.c:index_fd()` may enter the ODB transaction path even
when no object write is requested. In non-repository contexts, this
can result in a NULL dereference and segfault. One such case occurs
when running git-diff(1) outside of a repository with
"core.bigFileThreshold" forcing the streaming path in `index_fd()`:
$ echo foo >foo
$ echo bar >bar
$ git -c core.bigFileThreshold=1 diff -- foo bar
In this scenario, the caller only needs to compute the object ID. Object
hashing does not require an ODB, so starting a transaction is both
unnecessary and invalid.
Fix the bug by avoiding the use of ODB transactions in `index_fd()` when
callers are only interested in computing the object hash.
Reported-by: Luca Stefani <luca.stefani.ge1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
[jc: adjusted to fd13909e (Merge branch 'jt/odb-transaction', 2025-10-02)] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The check in "receive-pack" to prevent a checked out branch from
getting updated via updateInstead mechanism has been corrected.
* ps/receive-pack-updateinstead-in-worktree:
receive-pack: use worktree HEAD for updateInstead
t5516: clean up cloned and new-wt in denyCurrentBranch and worktrees test
t5516: test updateInstead with worktree and unborn bare HEAD
The way the "git log -L<range>:<file>" feature is bolted onto the
log/diff machinery is being reworked a bit to make the feature
compatible with more diff options, like -S/G.
* mm/line-log-use-standard-diff-output:
doc: note that -L supports patch formatting and pickaxe options
t4211: add tests for -L with standard diff options
line-log: route -L output through the standard diff pipeline
line-log: fix crash when combined with pickaxe options
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 7 Apr 2026 21:59:26 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/fsck-wo-the-repository'
Internals of "git fsck" have been refactored to not depend on the
global `the_repository` variable.
* ps/fsck-wo-the-repository:
builtin/fsck: stop using `the_repository` in error reporting
builtin/fsck: stop using `the_repository` when marking objects
builtin/fsck: stop using `the_repository` when checking packed objects
builtin/fsck: stop using `the_repository` with loose objects
builtin/fsck: stop using `the_repository` when checking reflogs
builtin/fsck: stop using `the_repository` when checking refs
builtin/fsck: stop using `the_repository` when snapshotting refs
builtin/fsck: fix trivial dependence on `the_repository`
fsck: drop USE_THE_REPOSITORY
fsck: store repository in fsck options
fsck: initialize fsck options via a function
fetch-pack: move fsck options into function scope
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 7 Apr 2026 21:59:25 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/commit-graph-overflow-fix'
Fix a regression in writing the commit-graph where commits with dates
exceeding 34 bits (beyond year 2514) could cause an underflow and
crash Git during the generation data overflow chunk writing.
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Apr 2026 22:42:51 +0000 (15:42 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jk/c23-const-preserving-fixes'
Adjust the codebase for C23 that changes functions like strchr()
that discarded constness when they return a pointer into a const
string to preserve constness.
* jk/c23-const-preserving-fixes:
config: store allocated string in non-const pointer
rev-parse: avoid writing to const string for parent marks
revision: avoid writing to const string for parent marks
rev-parse: simplify dotdot parsing
revision: make handle_dotdot() interface less confusing
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Apr 2026 22:42:50 +0000 (15:42 -0700)]
Merge branch 'aa/reap-transport-child-processes'
A few code paths that spawned child processes for network
connection weren't wait(2)ing for their children and letting "init"
reap them instead; they have been tightened.
* aa/reap-transport-child-processes:
transport-helper, connect: use clean_on_exit to reap children on abnormal exit
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Apr 2026 22:42:49 +0000 (15:42 -0700)]
Merge branch 'tb/stdin-packs-excluded-but-open'
pack-objects's --stdin-packs=follow mode learns to handle
excluded-but-open packs.
* tb/stdin-packs-excluded-but-open:
repack: mark non-MIDX packs above the split as excluded-open
pack-objects: support excluded-open packs with --stdin-packs
t7704: demonstrate failure with once-cruft objects above the geometric split
pack-objects: refactor `read_packs_list_from_stdin()` to use `strmap`
pack-objects: plug leak in `read_stdin_packs()`
Object name handling (disambiguation and abbreviation) has been
refactored to be backend-generic, moving logic into the respective
object database backends.
* ps/odb-generic-object-name-handling:
odb: introduce generic `odb_find_abbrev_len()`
object-file: move logic to compute packed abbreviation length
object-name: move logic to compute loose abbreviation length
object-name: simplify computing common prefixes
object-name: abbreviate loose object names without `disambiguate_state`
object-name: merge `update_candidates()` and `match_prefix()`
object-name: backend-generic `get_short_oid()`
object-name: backend-generic `repo_collect_ambiguous()`
object-name: extract function to parse object ID prefixes
object-name: move logic to iterate through packed prefixed objects
object-name: move logic to iterate through loose prefixed objects
odb: introduce `struct odb_for_each_object_options`
oidtree: extend iteration to allow for arbitrary return codes
oidtree: modernize the code a bit
object-file: fix sparse 'plain integer as NULL pointer' error
The 'git rev-list --maximal-only' option filters the output to only
independent commits. A commit is independent if it is not reachable from
other listed commits. Currently this is implemented by doing a full
revision walk and marking parents with CHILD_VISITED to skip non-maximal
commits.
The 'git merge-base --independent' command computes the same result
using reduce_heads(), which uses the more efficient remove_redundant()
algorithm. This is significantly faster because it avoids walking the
entire commit graph.
Add a fast path in rev-list that detects when --maximal-only is the only
interesting option and all input commits are positive (no revision
ranges). In this case, use reduce_heads() directly instead of doing a
full revision walk.
In order to preserve the rest of the output filtering, this computation
is done opportunistically in a new prepare_maximal_independent() method
when possible. If successful, it populates revs->commits with the list
of independent commits and set revs->no_walk to prevent any other walk
from occurring. This allows us to have any custom output be handled
using the existing output code hidden inside
traverse_commit_list_filtered(). A new test is added to demonstrate that
this output is preserved.
The fast path is only used when no other flags complicate the walk or
output format: no UNINTERESTING commits, no limiting options (max-count,
age filters, path filters, grep filters), no output formatting beyond
plain OIDs, and no object listing flags.
Running the p6011 performance test for my copy of git.git, I see the
following improvement with this change:
Add a performance test that compares 'git rev-list --maximal-only'
against 'git merge-base --independent'. These two commands are asking
essentially the same thing, but the rev-list implementation is more
generic and hence slower. These performance tests will demonstrate that
in the current state and also be used to show the equivalence in the
future.
We also add a case with '--since' to force the generic walk logic for
rev-list even when we make that future change to use the merge-base
algorithm on a simple walk.
When run on my copy of git.git, I see these results:
Test HEAD
----------------------------------------------
6011.2: merge-base --independent 0.03
6011.3: rev-list --maximal-only 0.06
6011.4: rev-list --maximal-only --since 0.06
These numbers are low, but the --independent calculation is interesting
due to having a lot of local branches that are actually independent.
Running the same test on a fresh clone of the Linux kernel repository
shows a larger difference between the algorithms, especially because the
--independent algorithm is extremely fast when there are no independent
references selected:
Test HEAD
----------------------------------------------
6011.2: merge-base --independent 0.00
6011.3: rev-list --maximal-only 0.70
6011.4: rev-list --maximal-only --since 0.70
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a test that verifies the 'git rev-list --maximal-only' option
produces the same set of commits as 'git merge-base --independent'. This
equivalence was noted when the feature was first created, but we are
about to update the implementation to use a common algorithm in this
case where the user intention is identical.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe [Mon, 6 Apr 2026 09:31:21 +0000 (11:31 +0200)]
history: fix short help for argument of --update-refs
"print" is not a valid argument for --update-refs. List both valid
alternatives literally in the argh string, consistent with documentation
and usage string.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
1edeb9a (Win32: warn if the console font doesn't support Unicode,
2014-06-10) introduced both code to detect the current console font on
Windows Vista and newer and a fallback for older systems to detect the
default console font and issue a warning if that font doesn't support
unicode.
Since we haven't supported any Windows older than Vista in almost a
decade, we don't need to keep the workaround.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
unify and bump _WIN32_WINNT definition to Windows 8.1
Git for Windows doesn't support anything prior to Windows 8.1 since 2.47.0
and Git followed along with commits like ce6ccba (mingw: drop Windows
7-specific work-around, 2025-08-04).
There is no need to pretend to the compiler that we still support Windows
Vista, just to lock us out of easy access to newer APIs. There is also no
need to have conflicting and unused definitions claiming we support some
versions of Windows XP or even Windows NT 4.0.
Bump all definitions of _WIN32_WINNT to a realistic value of Windows 8.1.
This will also simplify code for a followup commit that will improve cpu
core detection on multi-socket systems.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Let’s change the phrasing around the `linkgit` while we’re visiting this
file (see previous commit[1]).
We use the section syntax to refer to man pages, so writing “man page”
next to it is a bit redundant. We can be more concise and just lean on
the preposition “in”.
And in order to avoid this double “git”:
see `git config list` in git-config(1) ...
We can rephrase to the subcommand, which is a typical pattern (config or
option followed by “in git-command(1)”).
† 1: Which also discusses why we do not change a similar phrasing
in gittutorial(7)
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace uses of `git config --list` (short or long) with the subcommand
`list` since `--list` is deprecated.
We will change the “man page” phrasing in gitcvs-migration(7) in the
next commit, since we are already visiting that sentence. But note
that we leave the “man page” phrasing in the sentence that we touch in
gittutorial(7) since it’s a tutorial and not a manual page. We can be
more wordy in a tutorial context.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 85127bcdea ("backfill: assume --sparse when sparse-checkout is
enabled") intended for 'git backfill' to consult the repository
configuration when the user does not pass '--sparse' or
'--no-sparse' on the command line. It added the sentinel check:
if (ctx->sparse < 0)
ctx->sparse = cfg->apply_sparse_checkout;
However, the ctx->sparse field is initialized to 0 instead of -1,
so this guard never triggers. Consequently, the repository config
(core.sparseCheckout) is never checked, and the command always
performs a full backfill even when sparse-checkout is enabled.
Fix this by initializing ctx->sparse to -1, ensuring the existing
fallback logic correctly reads the repository configuration when
no explicit flags are provided.
Add a test to verify that 'git backfill' automatically respects
sparse-checkout settings when no flags are passed.
Signed-off-by: Trieu Huynh <vikingtc4@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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