Junio C Hamano [Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:33:15 +0000 (11:33 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jc/submodule-add'
"git submodule add" to add a submodule under <name> segfaulted,
when a submodule.<name>.something is already in .gitmodules file
without defining where its submodule.<name>.path is, which has been
corrected.
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:33:15 +0000 (11:33 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ds/doc-scalar-config'
Documentation updates.
* ds/doc-scalar-config:
scalar: document config settings
scalar: alphabetize and simplify config
scalar: remove stale config values
scalar: use index.skipHash=true for performance
scalar: annotate config file with "set by scalar"
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:57:48 +0000 (14:57 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ps/odb-alternates-object-sources'
Code refactoring around alternate object store.
* ps/odb-alternates-object-sources:
odb: write alternates via sources
odb: read alternates via sources
odb: drop forward declaration of `read_info_alternates()`
odb: remove mutual recursion when parsing alternates
odb: stop splitting alternate in `odb_add_to_alternates_file()`
odb: move computation of normalized objdir into `alt_odb_usable()`
odb: resolve relative alternative paths when parsing
odb: refactor parsing of alternates to be self-contained
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Dec 2025 02:08:34 +0000 (11:08 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ps/object-read-stream'
The "git_istream" abstraction has been revamped to make it easier
to interface with pluggable object database design.
* ps/object-read-stream:
streaming: drop redundant type and size pointers
streaming: move into object database subsystem
streaming: refactor interface to be object-database-centric
streaming: move logic to read packed objects streams into backend
streaming: move logic to read loose objects streams into backend
streaming: make the `odb_read_stream` definition public
streaming: get rid of `the_repository`
streaming: rely on object sources to create object stream
packfile: introduce function to read object info from a store
streaming: move zlib stream into backends
streaming: create structure for filtered object streams
streaming: create structure for packed object streams
streaming: create structure for loose object streams
streaming: create structure for in-core object streams
streaming: allocate stream inside the backend-specific logic
streaming: explicitly pass packfile info when streaming a packed object
streaming: propagate final object type via the stream
streaming: drop the `open()` callback function
streaming: rename `git_istream` into `odb_read_stream`
Derrick Stolee [Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:15:28 +0000 (15:15 +0000)]
scalar: document config settings
Add user-facing documentation that justifies the values being set by
'scalar clone', 'scalar register', and 'scalar reconfigure'.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Sun, 14 Dec 2025 08:04:37 +0000 (17:04 +0900)]
Merge branch 'lo/repo-struct-z'
"git repo struct" learned to take "-z" as a synonym to "--format=nul".
* lo/repo-struct-z:
repo: add -z as an alias for --format=nul to git-repo-structure
repo: use [--format=... | -z] instead of [-z] in git-repo-info synopsis
repo: remove blank line from Documentation/git-repo.adoc
Junio C Hamano [Sun, 14 Dec 2025 08:04:37 +0000 (17:04 +0900)]
Merge branch 'tc/meson-cross-compile-fix'
Build fix.
* tc/meson-cross-compile-fix:
meson: use is_cross_build() where possible
meson: only detect ICONV_OMITS_BOM if possible
meson: ignore subprojects/.wraplock
Start by copying the text from `replay_options` in `builtin/
replay.c`. But some people think that the existing text is a
bit unclear; what does it mean for a branch to be contained
in a revision range? Let’s include the implied commits here:
the branches that point at commits in the range.
Also use “update” instead of “advance”. “Update” is the verb
commonly used in this context.
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe [Sat, 13 Dec 2025 09:40:42 +0000 (10:40 +0100)]
t4014: support Git version strings with spaces
git --version reports its version with the prefix "git version ".
Remove precisely this string instead of everything up to and including
the rightmost space to avoid butchering version strings that contain
spaces. This helps Apple's release of Git, which reports its version
like this: "git version 2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)".
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Derrick Stolee [Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:15:27 +0000 (15:15 +0000)]
scalar: alphabetize and simplify config
The config values set by Scalar went through an audit in the previous
changes, so now reorganize the settings and simplify their purpose.
First, alphabetize the config options, except put the platform-specific
options at the end. This groups two Windows-specific settings and only
one non-Windows setting.
Also, this removes the 'overwrite_on_reconfigure' setting for many of
these options. That setting made nearly all of these options "required"
for scalar enlistments, restricting use for users. Instead, now nearly
all options have removed this setting.
However, there is one setting that still has this, which is
index.skipHash, which was previously being set to _false_ when we
actually prefer the value of true. Keep the overwrite here to help
Scalar users upgrade to the new version. We may remove that overwrite in
the future once we belive that most of the users who have the false
value have upgraded to a version that overwrites that to 'true'.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Derrick Stolee [Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:15:26 +0000 (15:15 +0000)]
scalar: remove stale config values
These config values were added in the original Scalar contribution, d0feac4e8c (scalar: 'register' sets recommended config and starts
maintenance, 2021-12-03), but were never fully checked for validity in
the upstream Git project. At the time, Scalar was only intended for the
contrib/ directory so did not have as rigorous of an investigation.
Each config option has its own justification for removal:
* core.preloadIndex: This value is true by default, now. Removing this
causes some changes required to the tests that checked this config
value. Use gui.gcwarning=false instead.
* core.fscache: This config does not exist in the core Git project, but
is instead a config option for a Git for Windows feature.
* core.multiPackIndex: This config value is now enabled by default, so
does not need to be called out specifically. It was originally
included to make sure the background maintenance that created
multi-pack-indexes would result in the expected performance
improvements.
* credential.validate: This option is not something specific to Git but
instead an older version of Git Credential Manager for Windows. That
software was replaced several years ago by the cross-platform Git
Credential Manger so this option is no longer needed to help users who
were on that older software.
* pack.useSparse=true: This value is now Git's default as of de3a864114
(config: set pack.useSparse=true by default, 2020-03-20) so we don't
need it set by Scalar.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Derrick Stolee [Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:15:25 +0000 (15:15 +0000)]
scalar: use index.skipHash=true for performance
The index.skipHash config option has been set to 'false' by Scalar since 4933152cbb (scalar: enable path-walk during push via config, 2025-05-16)
but that commit message is trying to communicate the exact opposite:
that the 'true' value is what we want instead. This means that we've
been disabling this performance benefit for Scalar repos
unintentionally.
Fix this issue before we add justification for the config options set in
this list.
Oddly, enabling index.skipHash causes a test issue during 'test_commit'
in one of the Scalar tests when GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX is enabled (as
caught by the linux-test-vars build). I'm fixing the test by disabling
the environment variable, but the issue should be resolved in a series
focused on the split index.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Derrick Stolee [Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:15:24 +0000 (15:15 +0000)]
scalar: annotate config file with "set by scalar"
A repo may have config options set by 'scalar clone' or 'scalar
register' and then updated by 'scalar reconfigure'. It can be helpful to
point out which of those options were set by the latest scalar
recommendations.
Add "# set by scalar" to the end of each config option to assist users
in identifying why these config options were set in their repo. Use a new
helper method to simplify the two callsites.
Co-authored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
K Jayatheerth [Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:44:33 +0000 (13:14 +0530)]
pull: move options[] array into function scope
Unless there are good reasons, it is customary to have the options[]
array used with the parse-options API declared in function scope rather
than at file scope.
Move builtin/pull.c:cmd_pull()’s options[] array into the function to
match that convention.
Signed-off-by: K Jayatheerth <jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe [Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:56:54 +0000 (18:56 +0100)]
replay: move onto NULL check before first use
cmd_replay() aborts if the pointer "onto" is NULL after argument
parsing, e.g. when specifying a non-existing commit with --onto. 15cd4ef1f4 (replay: make atomic ref updates the default behavior,
2025-11-06) added code that dereferences this pointer before the check.
Switch their places to avoid a segmentation fault.
Reported-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:53:07 +0000 (11:53 +0900)]
Makefile: help macOS novices by mentioning MacPorts
Since Aug 2006, the DarwinPorts project renamed themselves as
MacPorts. Those who are not intimately familiar with the Opensource
ecosystem around macOS from olden days, the name DarwinPorts may not
ring a bell, even when they are using MacPorts.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Reviewed-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Refactor writing of alternates so that the actual business logic is
structured around the object database source we want to write the
alternate to. Same as with the preceding commit, this will eventually
allow us to have different logic for writing alternates depending on the
backend used.
Note that after the refactoring we start to call
`odb_add_alternate_recursively()` unconditionally. This is fine though
as we know to skip adding sources that are tracked already.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adapt how we read alternates so that the interface is structured around
the object database source we're reading from. This will eventually
allow us to abstract away this behaviour with pluggable object databases
so that every format can have its own mechanism for listing alternates.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
odb: drop forward declaration of `read_info_alternates()`
Now that we have removed the mutual recursion in the preceding commit
it is not necessary anymore to have a forward declaration of the
`read_info_alternates()` function. Move the function and its
dependencies further up so that we can remove it.
Note that this commit also removes the function documentation of
`read_info_alternates()`. It's unclear what it's documenting, but it for
sure isn't documenting the modern behaviour of the function anymore.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
odb: remove mutual recursion when parsing alternates
When adding an alternative object database source we not only have to
consider the added source itself, but we also have to add _its_ sources
to our database. We implement this via mutual recursion:
This flow is somewhat hard to follow, but more importantly it means that
parsing of alternates is somewhat tied to the recursive behaviour.
Refactor the function to remove the mutual recursion between adding
sources and parsing alternates. The parsing step thus becomes completely
oblivious to the fact that there is recursive behaviour going on at all.
The recursion is handled by `odb_add_alternate_recursively()` instead,
which now recurses with itself.
This refactoring allows us to move parsing of alternates into object
database sources in a subsequent step.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
odb: stop splitting alternate in `odb_add_to_alternates_file()`
When calling `odb_add_to_alternates_file()` we know to add the newly
added source to the object database in case we have already loaded
alternates. This is done so that we can make its objects accessible
immediately without having to fully reload all alternates.
The way we do this though is to call `link_alt_odb_entries()`, which
adds _multiple_ sources to the object database source in case we have
newline-separated entries. This behaviour is not documented in the
function documentation of `odb_add_to_alternates_file()`, and all
callers only ever pass a single directory to it. It's thus entirely
surprising and a conceptual mismatch.
Fix this issue by directly calling `odb_add_alternate_recursively()`
instead.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
odb: move computation of normalized objdir into `alt_odb_usable()`
The function `alt_odb_usable()` receives as input the object database,
the path it's supposed to determine usability for as well as the
normalized path of the main object directory of the repository. The last
part is derived by the function's caller from the object database. As we
already pass the object database to `alt_odb_usable()` it is redundant
information.
Drop the extra parameter and compute the normalized object directory in
the function itself.
While at it, rename the function to `odb_is_source_usable()` to align it
with modern terminology.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
odb: resolve relative alternative paths when parsing
Parsing alternates and resolving potential relative paths is currently
handled in two separate steps. This has the effect that the logic to
retrieve alternates is not entirely self-contained. We want it to be
just that though so that we can eventually move the logic to list
alternates into the `struct odb_source`.
Move the logic to resolve relative alternative paths into
`parse_alternates()`. Besides bringing us a step closer towards the
above goal, it also neatly separates concerns of generating the list of
alternatives and linking them into the object database.
Note that we ignore any errors when the relative path cannot be
resolved. This isn't really a change in behaviour though: if the path
cannot be resolved to a directory then `alt_odb_usable()` still knows to
bail out.
While at it, rename the function to `odb_add_alternate_recursively()` to
more clearly indicate what its intent is and to align it with modern
terminology.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
odb: refactor parsing of alternates to be self-contained
Parsing of the alternates file and environment variable is currently
split up across multiple different functions and is entangled with
`link_alt_odb_entries()`, which is responsible for linking the parsed
object database sources. This results in two downsides:
- We have mutual recursion between parsing alternates and linking them
into the object database. This is because we also parse alternates
that the newly added sources may have.
- We mix up the actual logic to parse the data and to link them into
place.
Refactor the logic so that parsing of the alternates file is entirely
self-contained. Note that this doesn't yet fix the above two issues, but
it is a necessary step to get there.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Toon Claes [Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:13:02 +0000 (14:13 +0100)]
contrib/coccinelle: pass include paths to spatch(1)
In the previous commit a new coccinelle rule is added. But neiter
`make coccicheck` nor `meson compile coccicheck` did detect a case in
builtin/last-modified.c.
This case involves the field `scratch` in `struct last_modified`. This
field is of type `struct bitmap` and that struct has a member
`eword_t *words`. Both are defined in `ewah/ewok.h`. Now, while
builtin/last-modified.c does include that header (with the subdir in the
#include directive), it seems coccinelle does not process it. So it's
unaware of the type of `words` in the bitmap, and it doesn't recognize
the rule from previous commit that uses:
type T;
T *ptr;
Fix coccicheck by passing all possible include paths inside the Git
project so spatch(1) can find the headers and can determine the types.
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Toon Claes [Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:13:01 +0000 (14:13 +0100)]
git-compat-util: introduce MEMZERO_ARRAY() macro
Introduce a new macro MEMZERO_ARRAY() that zeroes the memory allocated
by ALLOC_ARRAY() and friends. And add coccinelle rule to enforce the use
of this macro.
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Sun, 7 Dec 2025 04:40:46 +0000 (13:40 +0900)]
connect: plug protocol capability leak
When pushing to a set of remotes using a nickname for the group, the
client initializes the connection to each remote, talks to the
remote and reads and parses capabilities line, and holds the
capabilities in a file-scope static variable server_capabilities_v1.
There are a few other such file-scope static variables, and these
connections cannot be parallelized until they are refactored to a
structure that keeps track of active connections.
Which is *not* the theme of this patch ;-)
For a single connection, the server_capabilities_v1 variable is
initialized to NULL (at the program initialization), populated when
we talk to the other side, used to look up capabilities of the other
side possibly multiple times, and the memory is held by the variable
until program exit, without leaking. When talking to multiple remotes,
however, the server capabilities from the second connection overwrites
without freeing the one from the first connection, which leaks.
Direct leak of 421 byte(s) in 2 object(s) allocated from:
#0 0x5615305f849e in strdup (/home/gitster/g/git-jch/bin/bin/git+0x2b349e) (BuildId: 54d149994c9e85374831958f694bd0aa3b8b1e26)
#1 0x561530e76cc4 in xstrdup /home/gitster/w/build/wrapper.c:43:14
#2 0x5615309cd7fa in process_capabilities /home/gitster/w/build/connect.c:243:27
#3 0x5615309cd502 in get_remote_heads /home/gitster/w/build/connect.c:366:4
#4 0x561530e2cb0b in handshake /home/gitster/w/build/transport.c:372:3
#5 0x561530e29ed7 in get_refs_via_connect /home/gitster/w/build/transport.c:398:9
#6 0x561530e26464 in transport_push /home/gitster/w/build/transport.c:1421:16
#7 0x561530800bec in push_with_options /home/gitster/w/build/builtin/push.c:387:8
#8 0x5615307ffb99 in do_push /home/gitster/w/build/builtin/push.c:442:7
#9 0x5615307fe926 in cmd_push /home/gitster/w/build/builtin/push.c:664:7
#10 0x56153065673f in run_builtin /home/gitster/w/build/git.c:506:11
#11 0x56153065342f in handle_builtin /home/gitster/w/build/git.c:779:9
#12 0x561530655b89 in run_argv /home/gitster/w/build/git.c:862:4
#13 0x561530652cba in cmd_main /home/gitster/w/build/git.c:984:19
#14 0x5615308dda0a in main /home/gitster/w/build/common-main.c:9:11
#15 0x7f051651bca7 in __libc_start_call_main csu/../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58:16
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: 421 byte(s) leaked in 2 allocation(s).
Free the capablities data for the previous server before overwriting
it with the next server to plug this leak.
The added test fails without the freeing with SANITIZE=leak; I
somehow couldn't get it fail reliably with SANITIZE=leak,address
though.
Join two paragraphs that start with the standard “The default <hook>,
when enabled” into one and put it at the end of the “pre-commit”
section.
The trailing whitespace paragraph was added in the first commit for the
doc, in 6d35cc76 (Document hooks., 2005-09-02). Then 3e14dd2c (mention
use of "hooks.allownonascii" in "man githooks", 2019-02-20) updated the
“pre-commit” section to mention the non-ASCII check that was added in d00e364d.[1] But this paragraph was added one-past the original
“default” paragraph, after the env. variable paragraph, and starts
exactly the same. That causes the flow of this section to feel
off (paragraphs in order):
1. Invoked by <cmd> and what parameters it takes
2. The default 'pre-commit' hook catches introduction of trailing
whitespace
3. `GIT_EDITOR=:`
4. The default pre-commit' hook catches introduction of non-ASCII
filenames
Let’s instead join these two paragrahs and explain the whole behavior of
the default script.
† 1: Extend sample pre-commit hook to check for non ascii filenames,
2009-05-19
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Sun, 7 Dec 2025 01:03:56 +0000 (10:03 +0900)]
completion: clarify support for short options and arguments
The list of supported completions in the header of the file was
mostly written a long time ago when Shawn added the initial version
of this script in 2006. The list explicitly states that we complete
"common --long-options", which implies that we do not complete
not-so-common ones and single letter options (this text dates back
to May 2007).
Update the description to explicitly state that single-letter
options are not completed. Also, document that arguments to options
are completed, even for single-letter options (e.g., "git -c <TAB>"
offers configuration variables).
The reason why we do not complete single-letter options is because
it does not seem to help all that much to learn that the command
takes -c, -d, -e options when "git foo -<TAB>" offers these three,
unlike long options that is easier to guess what they are about.
Because this rationale is primarily for our developers, let's leave
it out of the completion script itself, whose messages are entirely
for end-users. Our developers can run "git blame" to find this
commit as needed.
René Scharfe [Sat, 6 Dec 2025 13:29:43 +0000 (14:29 +0100)]
banned.h: ban mktemp(3)
Older versions of mktemp(3) generate easily guessable file names. The
function checks if the generated name is used, which is unreliable, as
a file with that name might then be created by some other process before
we can do it ourselves. The function was dropped from POSIX due to its
security problems. Forbid its use.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe [Sat, 6 Dec 2025 13:27:47 +0000 (14:27 +0100)]
compat: use git_mkdtemp()
A file might appear at the path returned by mktemp(3) before we call
mkdir(2). Use the more robust git_mkdtemp() instead, which retries a
number of times and doesn't need to call lstat(2).
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe [Sat, 6 Dec 2025 13:27:39 +0000 (14:27 +0100)]
wrapper: add git_mkdtemp()
Extend git_mkstemps_mode() to optionally call mkdir(2) instead of
open(2), then use that ability to create a mkdtemp(3) replacement,
git_mkdtemp(). We'll start using it in the next commit.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The error message given by "git config set", when the variable
being updated has more than one values defined, used old style "git
config" syntax with an incorrect option in its hint, both of which
have been corrected.
* rs/config-set-multi-error-message-fix:
config: fix suggestion for failed set of multi-valued option
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 5 Dec 2025 05:49:59 +0000 (14:49 +0900)]
Merge branch 'rs/config-unset-opthelp-fix'
The option help text given by "git config unset -h" described
the "--all" option to "replace", not "unset", multiple variables,
which has been corrected.
* rs/config-unset-opthelp-fix:
config: fix short help of unset flags
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 5 Dec 2025 05:49:58 +0000 (14:49 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ps/object-source-management'
Code refactoring around object database sources.
* ps/object-source-management:
odb: handle recreation of quarantine directories
odb: handle changing a repository's commondir
chdir-notify: add function to unregister listeners
odb: handle initialization of sources in `odb_new()`
http-push: stop setting up `the_repository` for each reference
t/helper: stop setting up `the_repository` repeatedly
builtin/index-pack: fix deferred fsck outside repos
oidset: introduce `oidset_equal()`
odb: move logic to disable ref updates into repo
odb: refactor `odb_clear()` to `odb_free()`
odb: adopt logic to close object databases
setup: convert `set_git_dir()` to have file scope
path: move `enter_repo()` into "setup.c"
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 5 Dec 2025 05:49:56 +0000 (14:49 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jc/optional-path'
"git config get --path" segfaulted on an ":(optional)path" that
does not exist, which has been corrected.
* jc/optional-path:
config: really treat missing optional path as not configured
config: really pretend missing :(optional) value is not there
config: mark otherwise unused function as file-scope static
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 5 Dec 2025 05:49:56 +0000 (14:49 +0900)]
Merge branch 'en/xdiff-cleanup-2'
Code clean-up.
* en/xdiff-cleanup-2:
xdiff: rename rindex -> reference_index
xdiff: change rindex from long to size_t in xdfile_t
xdiff: make xdfile_t.nreff a size_t instead of long
xdiff: make xdfile_t.nrec a size_t instead of long
xdiff: split xrecord_t.ha into line_hash and minimal_perfect_hash
xdiff: use unambiguous types in xdl_hash_record()
xdiff: use size_t for xrecord_t.size
xdiff: make xrecord_t.ptr a uint8_t instead of char
xdiff: use ptrdiff_t for dstart/dend
doc: define unambiguous type mappings across C and Rust
repo: add -z as an alias for --format=nul to git-repo-structure
Other Git commands that have nul-terminated output, such as git-config,
git-status, git-ls-files, and git-repo-info have a flag `-z` for using
the null character as the record separator.
Add the `-z` flag to git-repo-structure as an alias for `--format=nul`,
making it consistent with the behavior of the other commands.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
repo: remove blank line from Documentation/git-repo.adoc
There was an extra blank line in git-repo-structure documentation, which
led to an unwawnted '+' character after generating an HTML or PDF from
that page. This can be seen, for example, in Git 2.52.0 online docs [1].
Remove that extra line.
[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-repo/2.52.0
Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Toon Claes [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 14:53:31 +0000 (15:53 +0100)]
meson: use is_cross_build() where possible
In previous commit the first use of meson.can_run_host_binaries() was
introduced. This is a guard around compiler.run() to ensure it's
actually possible to execute the provided.
In other places we've been having the same issue, but here `not
meson.is_cross_build()` is used as guard. This does the trick, but it
also prevents the code from running even when an exe_wrapper is
configured.
Switch to using meson.can_run_host_binaries() here as well.
There is another place left that still uses `not
meson.is_cross_build()`, but here it's a guard around fs.exists(). That
function will always run on the build machine, so checking for
cross-compilation is still in place here.
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a sparse checkout, a user might want to run `last-modified` on a
directory outside the worktree.
And even in non-sparse checkouts, a user might need to run that command
on a directory that does not exist in the worktree.
These use cases should be supported via the `--` separator between
revision and file arguments, which is even advertised in the
documentation. This patch fixes a tiny bug that prevents that from
working.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5978
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Acked-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Julia Evans [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 15:34:55 +0000 (15:34 +0000)]
doc: git-pull: fix 'git --rebase abort' typo
An earlier commit e9d221b0 (doc: git-pull: clarify how to exit a
conflicted merge, 2025-10-15) misspelt `git rebase --abort` to
`git --rebase abort`. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Julia Evans [Tue, 2 Dec 2025 18:11:24 +0000 (18:11 +0000)]
doc: remove stray text in Git data model
I meant to delete this sentence fragment when rewriting this paragraph,
but accidentally left it in. It's repetitive (since it was meant to be
deleted) and it's causing some formatting issues with the note.
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
branch: advice using git-help(1) instead of man(1)
8fbd903e (branch: advise about ref syntax rules, 2024-03-05) added
an advice about checking git-check-ref-format(1) for the ref syntax
rules. The advice uses man(1). But git(1) is a multi-platform tool and
man(1) may not be available on some platforms. It might also be slightly
jarring to see a suggestion for running a command which is not from
the Git suite.
Let’s instead use git-help(1) in order to stay inside the land of
git(1). This also means that `help.format` (for `man`, `html` or other
formats) will be used if set.
Also change to using single quotes (') to quote the command since that
is more conventional.
While here let’s also update the test to use `{SQ}`, which is more
readable and easier to edit.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 1 Dec 2025 02:31:41 +0000 (18:31 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jk/asan-bonanza'
Various issues detected by Asan have been corrected.
* jk/asan-bonanza:
t: enable ASan's strict_string_checks option
fsck: avoid parse_timestamp() on buffer that isn't NUL-terminated
fsck: remove redundant date timestamp check
fsck: avoid strcspn() in fsck_ident()
fsck: assert newline presence in fsck_ident()
cache-tree: avoid strtol() on non-string buffer
Makefile: turn on NO_MMAP when building with ASan
pack-bitmap: handle name-hash lookups in incremental bitmaps
compat/mmap: mark unused argument in git_munmap()
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 1 Dec 2025 02:31:40 +0000 (18:31 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jc/whitespace-incomplete-line'
Both "git apply" and "git diff" learn a new whitespace error class,
"incomplete-line".
* jc/whitespace-incomplete-line:
attr: enable incomplete-line whitespace error for this project
diff: highlight and error out on incomplete lines
apply: check and fix incomplete lines
whitespace: allocate a few more bits and define WS_INCOMPLETE_LINE
apply: revamp the parsing of incomplete lines
diff: update the way rewrite diff handles incomplete lines
diff: call emit_callback ecbdata everywhere
diff: refactor output of incomplete line
diff: keep track of the type of the last line seen
diff: correct suppress_blank_empty hack
diff: emit_line_ws_markup() if/else style fix
whitespace: correct bit assignment comments
René Scharfe [Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:47:17 +0000 (12:47 +0100)]
diff-index: don't queue unchanged filepairs with diff_change()
diff_cache() queues unchanged filepairs if the flag find_copies_harder
is set, and uses diff_change() for that. This function allocates a
filespec for each side, does a few other things that are unnecessary for
unchanged filepairs and always sets the diff_flag has_changes, which is
simply misleading in this case.
Add a new streamlined function for queuing unchanged filepairs and
use it in show_modified(), which is called by diff_cache() via
oneway_diff() and do_oneway_diff(). It allocates only a single filespec
for each filepair and uses it twice with reference counting. This has a
measurable effect if there are a lot of them, like in the Linux repo:
Benchmark 1: ./git_v2.52.0 -C ../linux diff --cached --find-copies-harder
Time (mean ± σ): 31.8 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 24.2 ms, System: 6.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 31.5 ms … 32.3 ms 85 runs
Benchmark 2: ./git -C ../linux diff --cached --find-copies-harder
Time (mean ± σ): 23.9 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 18.1 ms, System: 4.6 ms]
Range (min … max): 23.5 ms … 24.4 ms 111 runs
Summary
./git -C ../linux diff --cached --find-copies-harder ran
1.33 ± 0.01 times faster than ./git_v2.52.0 -C ../linux diff --cached --find-copies-harder
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Toon Claes [Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:37:13 +0000 (17:37 +0100)]
last-modified: fix use of uninitialized memory
git-last-modified(1) uses a scratch bitmap to keep track of paths that
have been changed between commits. To avoid reallocating a bitmap on
each call of process_parent(), the scratch bitmap is kept and reused.
Although, it seems an incorrect length is passed to memset(3).
`struct bitmap` uses `eword_t` to for internal storage. This type is
typedef'd to uint64_t. To fully zero the memory used by the bitmap,
multiply the length (saved in `struct bitmap::word_alloc`) by the size
of `eword_t`.
Reported-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Elijah Newren [Sat, 29 Nov 2025 04:44:24 +0000 (04:44 +0000)]
Documentation/git-replay.adoc: fix errors around revision range
There was significant confusion in the git-replay manual about what
constitutes a revision range. As noted in f302c1e4aa09 (revisions(7):
clarify that most commands take a single revision range, 2021-05-18):
Commands that are specifically designed to take two distinct ranges
(e.g. "git range-diff R1 R2" to compare two ranges) do exist, but they
are exceptions. Unless otherwise noted, all "git" commands that operate
on a set of commits work on a single revision range.
`git replay` is not an exception, but a few places in the manual were
written as though it were. These appear to have come in revisions to
the original series, between v3->v4 (see
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAP8UFD3bpLrVW97DH7j=V9H2GsTSAkksC9L3QujQERFk_kLnZA@mail.gmail.com/
, "More than one <revision-range> can be passed") and between v6->v7
(https://lore.kernel.org/git/20231115143327.2441397-1-christian.couder@gmail.com/,
"Takes ranges of commits"), and I missed both of these revisions when
reviewing. Fix them now.
There was also a reference to the "Commit Limiting options below", but
this page has no such section of options; strike the misleading
reference.
It is worth noting that we are documenting existing behavior, rather
than optimal behavior. Junio has multiple times suggested introducing
alternative ways to walk revisions and use them in `git replay
--advance`, e.g. at
* https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqy1mqo6kv.fsf@gitster.g/
* https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq8rb3is8c.fsf@gitster.g/
* https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqtsydj2zk.fsf@gitster.g/ (item (2))
If/when we introduce some new revision walking flag that implements one
of these alternate types of revision walks, we can update the --advance
option and this manual appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The find_longest_common_sequence() function in patience diff is
inefficient as it calls binary_search() for every unique line it
encounters when deciding where to put it in the sequence. From
instrumentation (using xctrace) on popular repositories, binary_search()
takes up 50-60% of the run time within patience_diff() when performing a
diff.
To optimize this, add a boundary condition check before binary_search()
is called to see if the encountered unique line is located after the
entire currently tracked longest subsequence. If so, skip the
unnecessary binary search and simply append the entry to the end of
sequence. Given that most files compared in a diff are usually quite
similar to each other, this condition is very common, and should be hit
much more frequently than the binary search.
Below are some end-to-end performance results by timing `git log
--shortstat --oneline -500 --patience` on different repositories with
the old and new code. Generally speaking this seems to give at least
8-10% speed up. The "binary search hit %" column describes how often the
algorithm enters the binary search path instead of the new faster path.
Even in the WebKit case we can see that it's quite rare (1.46%).
brian m. carlson [Fri, 28 Nov 2025 01:21:06 +0000 (01:21 +0000)]
t5564: fix test hang under zsh's sh mode
This test starts a SOCKS server in Perl in the background and then kills
it after the tests are done. However, when using zsh (in sh mode) in
the tests, the start_socks function hangs until the background process
is killed.
Note that this does not reproduce in a simple shell script, so there is
likely some interaction between job handling, our heavy use of eval in
the test framework, and possibly other complexities of our test
framework. What is clear, however, is that switching from a compound
statement to a subshell fixes the problem entirely and the test passes
with no problem, so do that.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
brian m. carlson [Fri, 28 Nov 2025 01:21:05 +0000 (01:21 +0000)]
t0614: use numerical comparison with test_line_count
In this comparison, we want to know whether the number of lines is
greater than 1. Our test_line_count function passes the first argument
as the comparison operator to test, so what we want is a numerical
comparison, not a string comparison. While this does not produce a
functional problem now, it could very well if we expected two or more
items, in which case the value "10" would not match when it should.
Furthermore, the "<" and ">" comparisons are new in POSIX 1003.1-2024
and we don't want to require such a new version of POSIX since many
popular and supported operating systems were released before that
version of POSIX was released.
Finally, zsh's builtin test operator does not like the greater-than sign
in "test", since it is only supported in the double-bracket extension.
This has been reported and will be addressed in a future version, but
since our code is also technically incorrect, as well as not very
compatible, let's fix it by using a numeric comparison.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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