Junio C Hamano [Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:40:52 +0000 (13:40 -0700)]
Merge branch 'bc/doc-compat-object-format-not-working' into maint-2.51
The compatObjectFormat extension is used to hide an incomplete
feature that is not yet usable for any purpose other than
developing the feature further. Document it as such to discourage
its use by mere mortals.
* bc/doc-compat-object-format-not-working:
docs: note that extensions.compatobjectformat is incomplete
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:40:52 +0000 (13:40 -0700)]
Merge branch 'kh/you-still-use-whatchanged-fix' into maint-2.51
The "do you still use it?" message given by a command that is
deeply deprecated and allow us to suggest alternatives has been
updated.
* kh/you-still-use-whatchanged-fix:
BreakingChanges: remove claim about whatchanged reports
whatchanged: remove not-even-shorter clause
whatchanged: hint about git-log(1) and aliasing
you-still-use-that??: help the user help themselves
t0014: test shadowing of aliases for a sample of builtins
git: allow alias-shadowing deprecated builtins
git: move seen-alias bookkeeping into handle_alias(...)
git: add `deprecated` category to --list-cmds
Makefile: don’t add whatchanged after it has been removed
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:56:09 +0000 (12:56 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jc/optional-path'
Configuration variables that take a pathname as a value
(e.g. blame.ignorerevsfile) can be marked as optional by prefixing
":(optoinal)" before its value.
* jc/optional-path:
parseopt: values of pathname type can be prefixed with :(optional)
config: values of pathname type can be prefixed with :(optional)
t7500: fix GIT_EDITOR shell snippet
t7500: make each piece more independent
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:56:09 +0000 (12:56 -0700)]
Merge branch 'kh/format-patch-range-diff-notes'
"git format-patch --range-diff=... --notes=..." did not drive the
underlying range-diff with correct --notes parameter, ending up
comparing with different set of notes from its main patch output
you would get from "git format-patch --notes=..." for a singleton
patch.
* kh/format-patch-range-diff-notes:
format-patch: handle range-diff on notes correctly for single patches
revision: add rdiff_log_arg to rev_info
range-diff: rename other_arg to log_arg
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:56:09 +0000 (12:56 -0700)]
Merge branch 'en/xdiff-cleanup'
A lot of code clean-up of xdiff.
Split out of a larger topic.
* en/xdiff-cleanup:
xdiff: change type of xdfile_t.changed from char to bool
xdiff: add macros DISCARD(0), KEEP(1), INVESTIGATE(2) in xprepare.c
xdiff: rename rchg -> changed in xdfile_t
xdiff: delete chastore from xdfile_t
xdiff: delete fields ha, line, size in xdlclass_t in favor of an xrecord_t
xdiff: delete redundant array xdfile_t.ha
xdiff: delete struct diffdata_t
xdiff: delete local variables that alias fields in xrecord_t
xdiff: delete superfluous function xdl_get_rec() in xemit
xdiff: delete unnecessary fields from xrecord_t and xdfile_t
xdiff: delete local variables and initialize/free xdfile_t directly
xdiff: delete static forward declarations in xprepare
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:56:08 +0000 (12:56 -0700)]
Merge branch 'pw/add-p-hunk-splitting-fix'
Marking a hunk 'selected' in "git add -p" and then splitting made
all the split pieces 'selected'; this has been changed to make them
all 'undecided', which gives better end-user experience.
* pw/add-p-hunk-splitting-fix:
add-patch: update hunk splitability after editing
add -p: mark split hunks as undecided
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:56:08 +0000 (12:56 -0700)]
Merge branch 'sj/string-list'
The "string-list" API function to find where a given string would
be inserted got updated so that it can use unrealistically huge
array index that would only fit in size_t but not int or ssize_t
to achieve unstated goal.
* sj/string-list:
refs: enable sign compare warnings check
string-list: change "string_list_find_insert_index" return type to "size_t"
string-list: replace negative index encoding with "exact_match" parameter
string-list: use bool instead of int for "exact_match"
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:00:35 +0000 (22:00 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/commit-graph-per-object-source'
Code clean-up around commit-graph.
* ps/commit-graph-per-object-source:
commit-graph: pass graphs that are to be merged as parameter
commit-graph: return commit graph from `repo_find_commit_pos_in_graph()`
commit-graph: return the prepared commit graph from `prepare_commit_graph()`
revision: drop explicit check for commit graph
blame: drop explicit check for commit graph
* ja/doc-markup-attached-paragraph-fix:
doc: fix indentation of refStorage item in git-config(1)
doc: change the markup of paragraphs following a nested list item
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:00:34 +0000 (22:00 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/ci-avoid-broken-sudo-on-ubuntu'
Our CI script requires "sudo" that can be told to preserve
environment, but Ubuntu replaced with "sudo" with an implementation
that lacks the feature. Work this around by reinstalling the
original version.
* ps/ci-avoid-broken-sudo-on-ubuntu:
ci: fix broken jobs on Ubuntu 25.10 caused by switch to sudo-rs(1)
In b0b910e052 (cat-file.c: add batch handling for submodules,
2025-06-02), we began handling submodule entries specially when batching
cat-file like so:
Commit b0b910e052 notes that submodules are handled differently than
non-existent objects, which print "<given-name> <type>", since there is
(a) no object to resolve the OID of in the first place, and as commit b0b910e052 notes, (b) for submodules in particular, it is useful to know
what commit it points at without having to spawn another Git process.
That commit does so by calling report_object_status() and passing in
"oid_to_hex(&data->oid)" for the "obj_name" parameter. This is
unnecessary, however, since report_object_status() will do the same
automatically if given a NULL "obj_name" argument.
That behavior dates back to 6a951937ae (cat-file: add
--batch-all-objects option, 2015-06-22), so rely on that instead of
having the caller open-code that part of report_object_status().
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
doc: patch-id: convert to the modern synopsis style
Convert this command documentation to the modern synopsis style based on
similar work.[1] Concretely:
• Change the Synopsis section from `verse` to a `synopsis` block which
will automatically apply the correct formatting to various elements
(although this Synopsis is very simple)
• Use backticks (`) for code-like things which will also use the correct
formatting for interior placeholders (`<orderfile>`)
• Use inline-verbatim on options listing
† 1: E.g.,
• 026f2e3b (doc: convert git-log to new documentation format,
2025-07-07)
• b983aaab (doc: convert git-switch manpage to new synopsis style,
2025-05-25)
• 16543967 (doc: convert git-mergetool manpage to new synopsis
style, 2025-05-25)
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Christian Couder [Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:48:57 +0000 (10:48 +0200)]
fast-import: add '--signed-tags=<mode>' option
Recently, eaaddf5791 (fast-import: add '--signed-commits=<mode>'
option, 2025-09-17) added support for controlling how signed commits
are handled by `git fast-import`, but there is no option yet to
decide about signed tags.
To remediate that, let's add a '--signed-tags=<mode>' option to
`git fast-import` too.
With this, both `git fast-export` and `git fast-import` have both
a '--signed-tags=<mode>' and a '--signed-commits=<mode>' supporting
the same <mode>s.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Christian Couder [Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:48:56 +0000 (10:48 +0200)]
fast-export: handle all kinds of tag signatures
Currently the handle_tag() function in "builtin/fast-export.c" searches
only for "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----\n" in the tag message to find
a tag signature.
This doesn't handle all kinds of OpenPGP signatures as some can start
with "-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----" too, and this doesn't handle SSH and
X.509 signatures either as they use "-----BEGIN SSH SIGNATURE-----" and
"-----BEGIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----" respectively.
To handle all these kinds of tag signatures supported by Git, let's use
the parse_signed_buffer() function to properly find signatures in tag
messages.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Christian Couder [Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:48:55 +0000 (10:48 +0200)]
t9350: properly count annotated tags
In "t9350-fast-export.sh", these existing tests:
- 'fast-export | fast-import when main is tagged'
- 'cope with tagger-less tags'
are checking the number of annotated tags in the test repo by comparing
it with some hardcoded values.
This could be an issue if some new tests that have some prerequisites
add new annotated tags to the repo before these existing tests. When
the prerequisites would be satisfied, the number of annotated tags
would be different from when some prerequisites would not be satisfied.
As we are going to add new tests that add new annotated tags in a
following commit, let's properly count the number of annotated tag in
the repo by incrementing a counter each time a new annotated tag is
added, and then by comparing the number of annotated tags to the value
of the counter when checking the number of annotated tags.
This is a bit ugly, but it makes it explicit that some tests are
interdependent. Alternative solutions, like moving the new tests to
the end of the script, were considered, but were rejected because they
would instead hide the technical debt and could confuse developers in
the future.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Christian Couder [Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:48:54 +0000 (10:48 +0200)]
lib-gpg: allow tests with GPGSM or GPGSSH prereq first
When the 'GPG' prereq is lazily tested, `mkdir "$GNUPGHOME"` could
fail if the "$GNUPGHOME" directory already exists. This can happen if
the 'GPGSM' or the 'GPGSSH' prereq has been lazily tested before as they
already create "$GNUPGHOME".
To allow the GPGSM or the GPGSSH prereq to appear before the GPG prereq
in some test scripts, let's refactor the creation and setup of the
"$GNUPGHOME"` directory in a new prepare_gnupghome() function that uses
`mkdir -p "$GNUPGHOME"`.
This will be useful in a following commit.
Unfortunately the new prepare_gnupghome() function cannot be used when
lazily testing the GPG2 prereq, because that would expose existing,
hidden bugs in "t1016-compatObjectFormat.sh", so let's just document
that with a NEEDSWORK comment.
Helped-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Helped-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Christian Couder [Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:48:53 +0000 (10:48 +0200)]
doc: git-tag: stop focusing on GPG signed tags
It looks like the documentation of `git tag` is focused a bit too
much on GPG signed tags.
This starts with the "NAME" section where the command is described
with:
"Create, list, delete or verify a tag object signed with GPG"
while for example `git branch` is described with simply:
"List, create, or delete branches"
This could give the false impression that `git tag` only works with
tag objects, not with lightweight tags, and that tag objects are
always GPG signed.
In the "DESCRIPTION" section, it looks like only "GnuPG signed tag
objects" can be created by the `-s` and `-u <key-id>` options, and it
seems `gpg.program` can only specify a "custom GnuPG binary".
This goes on in the "OPTIONS" section too, especially about the `-s`
and `-u <key-id>` options.
The "CONFIGURATION" section also doesn't talk about how to configure
the command to work with X.509 and SSH signatures.
Let's rework all that to make sure users have a more accurate and
balanced view of what the command can do.
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
ci: fix broken jobs on Ubuntu 25.10 caused by switch to sudo-rs(1)
Ubuntu 25.10 has been released. One prominent change in this version of
Ubuntu is the switch to some Rust-based utilities. Part of this switch
is also that Ubuntu now defaults to sudo-rs(1).
Unfortunately, this breaks our CI because sudo-rs(1) does not support
the `--preserve-env` flag. Let's revert back to the C-based sudo(1)
implementation to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:51:54 +0000 (13:51 -0700)]
t1016: make sure to use specified GPG
c348192a (t1016: clean up style, 2024-10-22) fixed a coding style
violation that has an extra space between redirection operator ">"
and the redirection target, but at the same time, replaced the use
of "git config" to set a configuration variable to be used by the
remainder of tests with "test_config". The pattern employed here is
that the first set-up test prepares the environment to be used by
subsequent tests, which then use the settings left by this set-up
test to perform their tasks. Using test_config in the first set-up
test means the config setting made by the set-up test is reverted at
the end of the first set-up test, which totally misses the point.
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:51:46 +0000 (12:51 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/gitlab-ci-windows-improvements'
GitLab CI improvements.
* ps/gitlab-ci-windows-improvements:
t8020: fix test failure due to indeterministic tag sorting
gitlab-ci: upload Meson test logs as JUnit reports
gitlab-ci: drop workaround for Python certificate store on Windows
gitlab-ci: ignore failures to disable realtime monitoring
gitlab-ci: dedup instructions to disable realtime monitoring
Make sure that normal paragraphs in most user-facing docs[1] don’t
use literal blocks. This can easily happen if you try to maintain
indentation in order to continue a block; that might work in
e.g. Markdown variants, but not in AsciiDoc.
The fixes are straightforward, i.e. just deindent the block and maybe
add line continuations. The only exception is git-sparse-checkout(1)
where we also replace indentation used for *intended* literal blocks
with `----`.
† 1: These have not been considered:
• `Documentation/howto/`
• `Documentation/technical/`
• `Documentation/gitprotocol*`
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t/lib-gpg: call prepare_gnupghome() in GPG2 prereq
The GPG2 prereq added in 2f36339fa8 (t/lib-gpg: introduce new prereq
GPG2, 2023-06-04) does not create the $GNUPGHOME directory.
Tests which use the GPG2 prereq without previously using the GPG prereq
fail because of the missing directory. This currently affects
t1016-compatObjectFormat.
Ensure $GNUPGHOME is created in the GPG2 prereq.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
D. Ben Knoble [Mon, 6 Oct 2025 12:59:29 +0000 (08:59 -0400)]
doc: explain the impact of stash.index on --autostash options
With 9842c0c749 (stash: honor stash.index in apply, pop modes,
2025-09-21) merged in a5d4779e6e (Merge branch 'dk/stash-apply-index',
2025-09-29), we did not advertise the connection between the new config
option stash.index and the implicit use of git-stash via --autostash
(which may also be configured). Do so.
Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When hash compatibility mode is enabled, we cannot write broken objects
because they cannot be mapped into the other hash algorithm. Use the
BROKEN_OBJECTS prerequisite to disable these tests and the writing of
broken objects in this mode.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We want to specify a compatibility hash for testing interactions for
SHA-256 repositories where we have SHA-1 compatibility enabled. Allow
the user to specify this scenario in the test suite by setting
GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_HASH to "sha256:sha1".
Note that this will get passed into GIT_DEFAULT_HASH, which Git itself
does not presently support. However, we will support this in a future
commit.
Since we'll now want to know the value for a specific version, let's add
the ability to specify either the storage hash (in this case, SHA-256)
or the compatibility hash (SHA-1). We use a different value for the
compatibility hash that will be enabled for all repositories
(test_repo_compat_hash_algo) versus the one that is used individually in
some tests (test_compat_hash_algo), since we want to still run those
individual tests without requiring that the testsuite be run fully in a
compatibility mode.
In some cases, we'll need to adjust our test suite to work in a proper
way with a compatibility hash. For example, in such a case, we'll only
use pack index v3, since v1 and v2 lack support for multiple algorithms.
Since we won't want to write those older formats, we'll need to skip
tests that do so. Let's add a COMPAT_HASH prerequisite for this
purpose.
Finally, in this scenario, we can no longer rely on having broken
objects work since we lack compatibility mappings to rewrite objects in
the repository. Add a prerequisite, BROKEN_OBJECTS, that we define in
terms of COMPAT_HASH and checks to see if creating deliberately broken
objects is possible, so that we can disable these tests if not.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we're creating a tag, we want to make sure that gpgsig and
gpgsig-sha256 headers are allowed for the commit. The default fsck
behavior is to ignore the fact that they're left over, but some of our
tests enable strict checking which flags them nonetheless. Add
improved checking for these headers as well as documentation and several
tests.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Right now, we have a way to print the storage hash, the input hash, and
the output hash, but we lack a way to print the compatibility hash. Add
a new type to --show-object-format, compat, which prints this value.
If no compatibility hash exists, simply print a newline. This is
important to allow users to use multiple options at once while still
getting unambiguous output.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
docs: improve ambiguous areas of pack format documentation
It is fair to say that our pack and indexing code is quite complex.
Contributors who wish to work on this code or implementors of other
implementations would benefit from clear, unambiguous documentation
about how our data formats are structured and encoded and what data is
used in the computation of certain values. Unfortunately, some of this
data is missing, which leads to confusion and frustration.
Let's document some of this data to help clarify things. Specify over
what data CRC32 values are computed and also note which CRC32 algorithm
is used, since Wikipedia mentions at least four 32-bit CRC algorithms
and notes that it's possible to use different bit orderings.
In addition, note how we encode objects in the pack. One might be led
to believe that packed objects are always stored with the "<type>
<size>\0" prefix of loose objects, but that is not the case, although
for obvious reasons this data is included in the computation of the
object ID. Explain why this is for the curious reader.
Finally, indicate what the size field of the packed object represents.
Otherwise, a reader might think that the size of a delta is the size of
the full object or that it might contain the offset or object ID,
neither of which are the case. Explain clearly, however, that the
values represent uncompressed sizes to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for the hash function transition reflects the original
design where the SHA-256 signature would always be placed in a header.
However, due to a missed patch in Git 2.29, we shipped SHA-256 support
such that the signature for the current algorithm is always an in-body
signature and the opposite algorithm is always in a header. Since the
documentation is inaccurate, update it to reflect the correct
information.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current design of pack index v3 has items in two different orders:
sorted shortened object ID order and pack order. The shortened object
IDs and the pack index offset values are in the former order and
everything else is in the latter.
This, however, poses some problems. We have many parts of the packfile
code that expect to find out data about an object knowing only its index
in pack order. With the current design, to find the pack offset after
having looked up the index in pack order, we must then look up the full
object ID and use that to look up the shortened object ID to find the
pack offset, which is inconvenient, inefficient, and leads to poor cache
usage.
Instead, let's change the offset values to be looked up by pack order.
This works better because once we know the pack order offset, we can
find the full object name and its location in the pack with a simple
index into their respective tables. This makes many operations much
more efficient, especially with the functions we already have, and it
avoids the need for the revindex with pack index v3.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our current pack index v3 format uses 4-byte integers to find the
trailer of the file. This effectively means that the file cannot be
much larger than 2^32. While this might at first seem to be okay, we
expect that each object will have at least 64 bytes worth of data, which
means that no more than about 67 million objects can be stored.
Again, this might seem fine, but unfortunately, we know of many users
who attempt to create repos with extremely large numbers of commits to
get a "high score," and we've already seen repositories with at least 55
million commits. In the interests of gracefully handling repositories
even for these well-intentioned but ultimately misguided users, let's
change these lengths to 8 bytes.
For the checksums at the end of the file, we're producing 32-byte
SHA-256 checksums because that's what we already do with pack index v2
and SHA-256. Truncating SHA-256 doesn't pose any actual security
problems other than those related to the reduced size, but our pack
checksum must already be 32 bytes (since SHA-256 packs have 32-byte
checksums) and it simplifies the code to use the existing hashfile logic
for these cases for the index checksum as well.
In addition, even though we may not need cryptographic security for the
index checksum, we'd like to avoid arguments from auditors and such for
organizations that may have compliance or security requirements. Using
the simple, boring choice of the full SHA-256 hash avoids all possible
discussion related to hash truncation and removes impediments for these
organizations.
Note that we do not yet have a pack index v3 implementation in Git, so
it should be fine to change this format. However, such an
implementation has been written for future inclusion following this
format.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
refs: forbid clang to complain about unreachable code
When `NO_SYMLINK_HEAD` is defined, `create_ref_symlink()` is hard-coded
as `(-1)`, and as a consequence the condition `!create_ref_symlink()`
always evaluates to false, rendering any code guarded by that condition
unreachable.
Therefore, clang is _technically_ correct when it complains about
unreachable code. It does completely miss the fact that this is okay
because on _other_ platforms, where `NO_SYMLINK_HEAD` is not defined,
the code isn't unreachable at all.
Let's use the same trick as in 82e79c63642c (git-compat-util: add
NOT_CONSTANT macro and use it in atfork_prepare(), 2025-03-17) to
appease clang while at the same time keeping the `-Wunreachable` flag
to potentially find _actually_ unreachable code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 8 Oct 2025 19:17:55 +0000 (12:17 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/rust-balloon'
Dip our toes a bit to (optionally) use Rust implemented helper
called from our C code.
* ps/rust-balloon:
ci: enable Rust for breaking-changes jobs
ci: convert "pedantic" job into full build with breaking changes
BreakingChanges: announce Rust becoming mandatory
varint: reimplement as test balloon for Rust
varint: use explicit width for integers
help: report on whether or not Rust is enabled
Makefile: introduce infrastructure to build internal Rust library
Makefile: reorder sources after includes
meson: add infrastructure to build internal Rust library
Taylor Blau [Tue, 7 Oct 2025 21:39:41 +0000 (17:39 -0400)]
SubmittingPatches: guidance for multi-series efforts
Occasionally there are efforts to contribute to the Git project that
span more than one patch series in order to achieve a broader goal. By
convention, the maintainer has typically suffixed the topic names with
"-part-one", or "-part-1" and so on.
Document that convention and suggest some guidance on how to structure
proposed topic names for multi-series efforts.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Taylor Blau [Tue, 7 Oct 2025 21:39:37 +0000 (17:39 -0400)]
SubmittingPatches: extend release-notes experiment to topic names
In d255105c99 (SubmittingPatches: release-notes entry experiment,
2024-03-25), we began an experiment to have contributors suggest a topic
description to appear in our RelNotes and "What's cooking?" reports.
Extend that experiment to also welcome suggested topic branch names in
addition to descriptions.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 7 Oct 2025 19:25:27 +0000 (12:25 -0700)]
Merge branch 'js/curl-off-t-fixes'
A few places where an size_t value was cast to curl_off_t without
checking has been updated to use the existing helper function.
* js/curl-off-t-fixes:
http-push: avoid new compile error
imap-send: be more careful when casting to `curl_off_t`
http: offer to cast `size_t` to `curl_off_t` safely
Clang-format update to let our control macros formatted the way we
had them traditionally, e.g., "for_each_string_list_item()" without
space before the parentheses.
* jt/clang-format-foreach-wo-space-before-parenthesis:
clang-format: exclude control macros from SpaceBeforeParens
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 7 Oct 2025 19:25:27 +0000 (12:25 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/packfile-store'
Code clean-up around the in-core list of all the pack files and
object database(s).
* ps/packfile-store:
packfile: refactor `get_packed_git_mru()` to work on packfile store
packfile: refactor `get_all_packs()` to work on packfile store
packfile: refactor `get_packed_git()` to work on packfile store
packfile: move `get_multi_pack_index()` into "midx.c"
packfile: introduce function to load and add packfiles
packfile: refactor `install_packed_git()` to work on packfile store
packfile: split up responsibilities of `reprepare_packed_git()`
packfile: refactor `prepare_packed_git()` to work on packfile store
packfile: reorder functions to avoid function declaration
odb: move kept cache into `struct packfile_store`
odb: move MRU list of packfiles into `struct packfile_store`
odb: move packfile map into `struct packfile_store`
odb: move initialization bit into `struct packfile_store`
odb: move list of packfiles into `struct packfile_store`
packfile: introduce a new `struct packfile_store`
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 7 Oct 2025 17:55:57 +0000 (10:55 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/gitlab-ci-windows-improvements' into ps/ci-rust
* ps/gitlab-ci-windows-improvements:
t8020: fix test failure due to indeterministic tag sorting
gitlab-ci: upload Meson test logs as JUnit reports
gitlab-ci: drop workaround for Python certificate store on Windows
gitlab-ci: ignore failures to disable realtime monitoring
gitlab-ci: dedup instructions to disable realtime monitoring
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 7 Oct 2025 17:55:39 +0000 (10:55 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/rust-balloon' into ps/ci-rust
* ps/rust-balloon:
ci: enable Rust for breaking-changes jobs
ci: convert "pedantic" job into full build with breaking changes
BreakingChanges: announce Rust becoming mandatory
varint: reimplement as test balloon for Rust
varint: use explicit width for integers
help: report on whether or not Rust is enabled
Makefile: introduce infrastructure to build internal Rust library
Makefile: reorder sources after includes
meson: add infrastructure to build internal Rust library
Junio C Hamano [Sun, 28 Sep 2025 21:29:16 +0000 (17:29 -0400)]
parseopt: values of pathname type can be prefixed with :(optional)
In the previous step, we introduced an optional filename that can be
given to a configuration variable, and nullify the fact that such a
configuration setting even existed if the named path is missing or
empty.
Let's do the same for command line options that name a pathname.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Sun, 28 Sep 2025 21:29:15 +0000 (17:29 -0400)]
config: values of pathname type can be prefixed with :(optional)
Sometimes people want to specify additional configuration data
as "best effort" basis. Maybe commit.template configuration file points
at somewhere in ~/template/ but on a particular system, the file may not
exist and the user may be OK without using the template in such a case.
When the value given to a configuration variable whose type is
pathname wants to signal such an optional file, it can be marked by
prepending ":(optional)" in front of it. Such a setting that is
marked optional would avoid getting the command barf for a missing
file, as an optional configuration setting that names a missing
file is not even seen.
cf. <xmqq5ywehb69.fsf@gitster.g>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Oct 2025 20:07:18 +0000 (13:07 -0700)]
t7500: fix GIT_EDITOR shell snippet
2140b140 (commit: error out for missing commit message template,
2011-02-25) defined
GIT_EDITOR="echo hello >\"\$1\""
for these two tests, with the intention that 'hello' would be
written in the given file, but as Phillip Wood points out,
GIT_EDITOR is invoked by shell after getting expanded to
sh -c 'echo hello >"$1" "$@"' 'echo hello >"$1"' path/to/file
Karthik Nayak [Tue, 7 Oct 2025 12:11:31 +0000 (14:11 +0200)]
refs/reftable: add fsck check for checking the table name
Add glue code in 'refs/reftable-backend.c' which calls the reftable
library to perform the fsck checks. Here we also map the reftable errors
to Git' fsck errors.
Introduce a check to validate table names for a given reftable stack.
Also add 'badReftableTableName' as a corresponding error within Git. The
reftable specification mentions:
It suggested to use
${min_update_index}-${max_update_index}-${random}.ref as a naming
convention.
So treat non-conformant file names as warnings.
While adding the fsck header to 'refs/reftable-backend.c', modify the
list to maintain lexicographical ordering.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Karthik Nayak [Tue, 7 Oct 2025 12:11:30 +0000 (14:11 +0200)]
reftable: add code to facilitate consistency checks
The `git refs verify` command is used to run consistency checks on the
reference backends. This command is also invoked when users run 'git
fsck'. While the files-backend has some fsck checks added, the reftable
backend lacks such checks. Let's add the required infrastructure and a
check to test for the files present in the reftable directory.
Since the reftable library is treated as an independent library we
should ensure that the library code works independently without
knowledge about Git's internals. To do this, add both 'reftable/fsck.c'
and 'reftable/reftable-fsck.h'. Which provide an entry point
'reftable_fsck_check' for running fsck checks over a provided reftable
stack. The callee provides the function with callbacks to handle issue
and information reporting.
The added check, goes over all tables in the reftable stack validates
that they have a valid name. It not, it raises an error.
While here, move 'reftable/error.o' in the Makefile to retain
lexicographic ordering.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Karthik Nayak [Tue, 7 Oct 2025 12:11:29 +0000 (14:11 +0200)]
fsck: order 'fsck_msg_type' alphabetically
The list of 'fsck_msg_type' seem to be alphabetically ordered, but there
are a few small misses. Fix this by sorting the sub-sections of the
list to maintain alphabetical ordering.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Karthik Nayak [Tue, 7 Oct 2025 12:11:27 +0000 (14:11 +0200)]
reftable: check for trailing newline in 'tables.list'
In the reftable format, the 'tables.list' file contains a
newline separated list of tables. While we parse this file, we do not
check or care about the last newline. Tighten the parser in
`parse_names()` to return an appropriate error if the last newline is
missing.
This requires modification to `parse_names()` to now return the error
while accepting the output as a third argument.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Karthik Nayak [Tue, 7 Oct 2025 12:11:26 +0000 (14:11 +0200)]
refs: move consistency check msg to generic layer
The files-backend prints a message before the consistency checks run.
Move this to the generic layer so both the files and reftable backend
can benefit from this message.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Tue, 7 Oct 2025 08:22:23 +0000 (04:22 -0400)]
doc: fix indentation of refStorage item in git-config(1)
Commit 5a12fd2a8c (doc: change the markup of paragraphs following a
nested list item, 2025-09-27) converted the list of items in
config/extensions.adoc into a definition list. This caused a small
regression in the indentation of one item, but only when built with
AsciiDoctor. You can see the problem with:
- Note that this setting should only be set by git-init(1) or git-
- clone(1). Trying to change it after initialization will not work
- and will produce hard-to-diagnose issues.
+ Note that this setting should only be set by git-init(1) or git-
+ clone(1). Trying to change it after initialization will not work and
+ will produce hard-to-diagnose issues.
relativeWorktrees
If enabled, indicates at least one worktree has been linked with
(along with many other changes which are correctly fixing what 5a12fd2a8c intended to fix). The "Note" paragraph should remain aligned
with the bullet points, as they are left-aligned with the rest of the
definition text.
The confusion comes from a paragraph following a list item (ironically,
the same case that 5a12fd2a8c was solving!). We can solve it by adding
"--" block markers around the nested list. We couldn't have done that
before 5a12fd2a8c because before then our list was nested inside another
set of block markers, something that AsciiDoctor has trouble with. But
now that we are a top-level definition list, it is OK to do so (and in
fact, you can see that commit already made a similar adjustment for the
worktreeConfig entry).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Julia Evans [Mon, 6 Oct 2025 18:58:50 +0000 (18:58 +0000)]
doc: git-push: clarify "what to push"
From user feedback: 6 users says they found the "what to push"
paragraphs confusing, for many different reasons, including:
* what does "..." in <refspec>... mean?
* "consult XXX configuration" is hard to parse
* it refers to the `git-config` man page even though the config
information for `git push` is included in this man page under
CONFIGURATION
* the default ("push to a branch with the same name") is what they use
99% of the time, they would have expected it to appear earlier instead
of at the very end
* not understanding what the term "upstream" means in Git
("are branches tracked by some system besides their names?"")
Also, the current explanation of `push.default=simple` ("the
current branch is pushed to the corresponding upstream branch, but
as a safety measure, the push is aborted if the upstream branch
does not have the same name as the local one.") is not accurate:
`push.default=simple` does not always require you to set a corresponding
upstream branch.
Address all of these by
* using a numbered "in order of precedence" list
* giving a more accurate explanation of how `push.default=simple` works
* giving a little bit of context around "upstream branch": it's
something that you may have to set explicitly
* referring to the new UPSTREAM BRANCHES section
The default behaviour is still discussed pretty late but it should be
easier to skim now to get to the relevant information.
In "`git push` may fail if...", I'm intentionally being vague about
what exactly `git push` does, because (as discussed on the mailing list)
the behaviour of `push.default=simple` is very confusing, perhaps broken,
and certainly not worth trying to explain in an introductory context.
`push.default.simple` sometimes requires you to set an upstream and
sometimes doesn't and the exact conditions under which it does/doesn't
are hard to describe.
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Julia Evans [Mon, 6 Oct 2025 18:58:48 +0000 (18:58 +0000)]
doc: add an UPSTREAM BRANCHES section to pull/push/fetch
From user feedback: one user mentioned that they don't know what the
term "upstream branch" means. As far as I can tell, the most complete
description is under the `--track` option in `git branch`. Upstreams
are an important concept in Git and the `git branch` man page is not an
obvious place for that information to live.
There's also a very terse description of "upstream branch" in the
glossary that's missing a lot of key information, like the fact that the
upstream is used by `git status` and `git pull`, as well as a
description in `git-config` in `branch.<name>.remote` which doesn't
explain the relationship to `git status` either.
Since the `git pull`, `git push`, and `git fetch` man pages already
include sections on REMOTES and the syntax for URLs, add a section on
UPSTREAM BRANCHES to `urls-remotes.adoc`.
In the new UPSTREAM BRANCHES section, cover the various ways that
upstreams branches are automatically set in Git, since users may
mistakenly think that their branch does not have an upstream branch if
they didn't explicitly set one.
A terminology note: Git uses two terms for this concept:
- "tracking" as in "the tracking information for the 'foo' branch"
or the `--track` option to `git branch`
- "upstream" or "upstream branch", as in `git push --set-upstream`.
This term is also used in the `git rebase` man page to refer to the
first argument to `git rebase`, as well as in `git pull` to refer to
the branch which is going to be merged into the current branch ("merge
the upstream branch into the current branch")
Use "upstream branch" as a heading for this concept even though the term
"upstream branch" is not always used strictly in the sense of "the
tracking information for the current branch". "Upstream" is used much
more often than "tracking" in the Git docs to refer to this concept and
the goal is to help users understand the docs.
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Julia Evans [Mon, 6 Oct 2025 18:58:47 +0000 (18:58 +0000)]
doc: git-push: clarify intro
From user feedback, 5 users are unsure what "ref" and/or "objects" means
in this context. 3 users said they don't know what "complete the refs"
means.
Many users also commented that receive hooks do not seem like the most
important thing to know about `git push`, and that this information
should not be the second sentence in the man page.
Use more familiar language to make it more accessible to users who do
not know what a "ref" is and move the "hooks" comment to the end.
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe [Mon, 6 Oct 2025 17:24:28 +0000 (19:24 +0200)]
add-patch: reset "permitted" at loop start
Don't accumulate allowed options from any visited hunks, start fresh at
the top of the loop instead and only record the allowed options for the
current hunk.
Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe [Mon, 6 Oct 2025 17:23:34 +0000 (19:23 +0200)]
add-patch: let options a and d roll over like y and n
Options a and d stage and unstage all undecided hunks towards the bottom
of the array of hunks, respectively, and then roll over to the very
first hunk. The first part is similar to y and n if the current hunk is
the last one in the array, but they roll over to the next undecided
hunk if there is any. That's more useful; do it for a and d as well.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe [Mon, 6 Oct 2025 17:22:38 +0000 (19:22 +0200)]
add-patch: let options k and K roll over like j and J
Options j and J roll over at the bottom and go to the first undecided
hunk and hunk 1, respectively. Let options k and K do the same when
they reach the top of the hunk array, so let them go to the last
undecided hunk and the last hunk, respectively, for consistency. Also
use the same direction-neutral error messages.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe [Mon, 6 Oct 2025 17:21:19 +0000 (19:21 +0200)]
add-patch: let options y, n, j, and e roll over to next undecided
The options y, n, and e mark the current hunk as decided. If there's
another undecided hunk towards the bottom of the hunk array they go
there. If there isn't, but there is another undecided hunk towards the
top then they go to the very first hunk, no matter if it has already
been decided on.
The option j does basically the same move. Technically it is not
allowed if there's no undecided hunk towards the bottom, but the
variable "permitted" is never reset, so this permission is retained
from the very first hunk. That may a bug, but this behavior is at
least consistent with y, n, and e and arguably more useful than
refusing to move.
Improve the roll-over behavior of these four options by moving to the
first undecided hunk instead of hunk 1, consistent with what they do
when not rolling over.
Also adjust the error message for j, as it will only be shown if
there's no other undecided hunk in either direction.
Reported-by: Windl, Ulrich <u.windl@ukr.de> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe [Mon, 6 Oct 2025 17:20:31 +0000 (19:20 +0200)]
add-patch: document that option J rolls over
The variable "permitted" is not reset after moving to a different hunk,
so it only accumulates permission and doesn't necessarily reflect those
of the current hunk. This may be a bug, but is actually useful with the
option J, which can be used at the last hunk to roll over to the first
hunk. Make this particular behavior official.
Also adjust the error message, as it will only be shown if there's just
a single hunk.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe [Mon, 6 Oct 2025 17:19:23 +0000 (19:19 +0200)]
add-patch: improve help for options j, J, k, and K
The options j, J, k, and K don't affect the status of the current hunk.
They just go to a different one. This is true whether the current hunk
is undecided or not. Avoid misunderstanding by no longer mentioning
the current hunk explicitly in their help texts.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
shejialuo [Mon, 6 Oct 2025 06:32:48 +0000 (14:32 +0800)]
refs: enable sign compare warnings check
After fixing the tricky compare warning introduced by calling
"string_list_find_insert_index", there are only two loop iterator type
mismatches. Fix them to enable compare warnings check.
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
shejialuo [Mon, 6 Oct 2025 06:32:40 +0000 (14:32 +0800)]
string-list: change "string_list_find_insert_index" return type to "size_t"
As "string_list_find_insert_index" is a simple wrapper of
"get_entry_index" and the return type of "get_entry_index" is already
"size_t", we could simply change its return type to "size_t".
Update all callers to use size_t variables for storing the return value.
The tricky fix is the loop condition in "mailmap.c" to properly handle
"size_t" underflow by changing from `0 <= --i` to `i--`.
Remove "DISABLE_SIGN_COMPARE_WARNINGS" from "mailmap.c" as it's no
longer needed with the proper unsigned types.
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
shejialuo [Mon, 6 Oct 2025 06:32:31 +0000 (14:32 +0800)]
string-list: replace negative index encoding with "exact_match" parameter
The "string_list_find_insert_index()" function is used to determine
the correct insertion index for a new string within the string list.
The function also doubles up to convey if the string is already
existing in the list, this is done by returning a negative index
"-1 -index". Users are expected to decode this information. This
approach has several limitations:
1. It requires the callers to look into the detail of the function to
understand how to decode the negative index encoding.
2. Using int for indices can cause overflow issues when dealing with
large string lists.
To address these limitations, change the function to return size_t for
the index value and use a separate bool parameter to indicate whether
the index refers to an existing entry or an insertion point.
In some cases, the callers of "string_list_find_insert_index" only need
the index position and don't care whether an exact match is found.
However, "get_entry_index" currently requires a non-NULL "exact_match"
parameter, forcing these callers to declare unnecessary variables.
Let's allow callers to pass NULL for the "exact_match" parameter when
they don't need this information, reducing unnecessary variable
declarations in calling code.
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
shejialuo [Mon, 6 Oct 2025 06:32:23 +0000 (14:32 +0800)]
string-list: use bool instead of int for "exact_match"
The "exact_match" parameter in "get_entry_index" is used to indicate
whether a string is found or not, which is fundamentally a true/false
value. As we allow the use of bool, let's use bool instead of int to
make the function more semantically clear.
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jean-Noël Avila [Sun, 5 Oct 2025 21:11:42 +0000 (21:11 +0000)]
doc: convert git worktree to synopsis style
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Also add the config section in the manual page and do not refer to the man
page in the description of settings when this description is already in the
man page.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jean-Noël Avila [Sun, 5 Oct 2025 21:11:41 +0000 (21:11 +0000)]
doc: convert git tag to synopsis style
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Also add the config section in the manual page and do not refer to the man
page in the description of settings when this description is already in the
man page.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jean-Noël Avila [Sun, 5 Oct 2025 21:11:40 +0000 (21:11 +0000)]
doc: convert git-stash.adoc to synopis style
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Also do not refer to the man page in the description of settings when this
description is already in the man page.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Sun, 5 Oct 2025 20:32:47 +0000 (13:32 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/j6t/gitk
* 'master' of https://github.com/j6t/gitk:
gitk: set minimum size on configuration dialog
gitk: separate code blocks for configuration dialog
gitk: make configuration dialog resizing useful
gitk: add theme selection to color configuration page
gitk: add proc run_themeloader
gitk: eliminate unused ui color variables
gitk: eliminate Interface color option from gui
gitk: use text labels for next/prev search buttons
gitk: use text labels for commit ID buttons
gitk: do not invoke tk_setPalette
gitk: use config variables to define and load a theme
gitk: make sha1but a ttk::button
gitk: use themed spinboxes
gitk: fix MacOS 10.14 "Mojave" crash on launch
gitk: fix error when remote tracking branch is deleted
Johannes Sixt [Sun, 5 Oct 2025 11:09:49 +0000 (13:09 +0200)]
Merge branch 'ml/themes'
* ml/themes:
gitk: set minimum size on configuration dialog
gitk: separate code blocks for configuration dialog
gitk: make configuration dialog resizing useful
gitk: add theme selection to color configuration page
gitk: add proc run_themeloader
gitk: eliminate unused ui color variables
gitk: eliminate Interface color option from gui
gitk: use text labels for next/prev search buttons
gitk: use text labels for commit ID buttons
gitk: do not invoke tk_setPalette
gitk: use config variables to define and load a theme
gitk: make sha1but a ttk::button
gitk: use themed spinboxes
Mark Levedahl [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 13:57:18 +0000 (09:57 -0400)]
gitk: set minimum size on configuration dialog
gitk sets no size limit on its configuration dialog, allowing the user
to collapse the window so almost nothing is visible. The geometry
manager sets an initial size so all the widgets are visible, though
ignores the potentially very long text in the entry widgets in doing so.
Let's use this initial size as the minimum. The size information is
computed in Tk's idle processing queue, so a wait is required.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Wed, 1 Oct 2025 03:28:36 +0000 (23:28 -0400)]
gitk: separate code blocks for configuration dialog
gitk's configuration dialog uses a large number of widgets, and this
code is hard to read as there is no easily recognizable grouping or
breaks. Help this by adding space between items that occupy a single row
in the dialog.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl [Tue, 30 Sep 2025 23:35:59 +0000 (19:35 -0400)]
gitk: make configuration dialog resizing useful
gitk's configuration dialog can be resized, but this does not expand the
space allocated to any widgets. Some items may have long lines of text
that would be visible if the widgets expanded, but this does not happen.
The top-level container uses a two column grid and allocates any space
change equally to both columns. However, the configuration pages are
contained in one cell so half the additional space is wasted if
expanding. Also, the individual configuration pages do not mark any
column or widgets to expand, so any additional space given is just used
as padding.
Collapse the top-level page to have one column, placing the "OK" and
"Cancel" buttons in a non-resizing frame in column 1 (this keeps the
buttons in constant geometry as the dialog is expanded). This makes all
additional space go to the configuration page.
Mark column 3 of the individual pages to get all additional space, and
mark the text widgets in that column so they will expand to use the
space. While we're at it, eliminate or simplify use of frames to contain
column 2 content, and harmonize the indents of that content.
prefspage_general adds a special "spacer" label in row 2, column 1, that
causes all of the subsequent rows with no column 1 content to indent,
and this carries over to the next notebook tab (prefspage_color) through
some undocumented feature. The fonts page has a different indent, again
for unknown reason. The documented approach would be to use -padx
explicitly on all the rows to set the indents.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>