A release candidate Git v2.50.0-rc1 is now available for testing at
the usual places. It is comprised of 592 non-merge commits since
v2.49.0, contributed by 84 people, 33 of which are new faces [*].
The tarballs are found at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/
The following public repositories all have a copy of the
'v2.50.0-rc1' tag and the 'master' branch that the tag points at:
url = https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
url = https://github.com/gitster/git
New contributors whose contributions weren't in v2.49.0 are as follows.
Welcome to the Git development community!
Abhijeetsingh Meena, Aditya Garg, Alexander Ogorodov, Alex
Mironov, Anthony Wang, Arnav Bhate, Brad Smith, Bruno De Fraine,
Christian Fredrik Johnsen, Christian Reich, Collin Funk,
Dmitry Goncharov, Jason Cho, Jensen Huang, Jitka Plesnikova,
kawarimidoll, K Jayatheerth, Lidong Yan, Mahendra Dani, Mark
Mentovai, Matt Hunter, Moumita Dhar, Nathan Royce, Niels
Glodny, Ondřej Pohořelský, Peter Seiderer, piotrsiupa,
R. Diez, Rodrigo Carvalho, SURA, Wonuk Kim, Zheng Yuting,
and தமிழ் நேரம்.
Returning contributors who helped this release are as follows.
Thanks for your continued support.
Abhijeet Sonar, Adam Johnson, Ahelenia Ziemiańska, brian
m. carlson, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón, Christian Couder,
David Mandelberg, D. Ben Knoble, Dennis Ameling, Derrick Stolee,
Đoàn Trần Công Danh, Elijah Newren, Eli Schwartz, Eric
Sunshine, Fernando Ramos, Han Jiang, Jean-Noël Avila, Jeff King,
Johannes Schindelin, Johannes Sixt, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz,
Josh Heinrichs, Junio C Hamano, Justin Tobler, Karthik Nayak,
Koji Nakamaru, Kristoffer Haugsbakk, Lucas Seiki Oshiro,
Luke Shumaker, Mark Levedahl, Meet Soni, Olaf Hering, Oswald
Buddenhagen, Patrick Steinhardt, Philippe Blain, Phillip Wood,
Ramsay Jones, Randall S. Becker, René Scharfe, Sam James, Scott
Chacon, Seyi Kuforiji, shejialuo, SZEDER Gábor, Taylor Blau,
Todd Zullinger, Toon Claes, Torsten Bögershausen, Tuomas Ahola,
Usman Akinyemi, and YOKOTA Hiroshi.
[*] We are counting not just the authorship contribution but issue
reporting, mentoring, helping and reviewing that are recorded in
the commit trailers.
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Git v2.50 Release Notes (draft)
===============================
UI, Workflows & Features
------------------------
* A post-processing filter for "diff --raw" output has been
introduced.
* "git repack" learned "--combine-cruft-below-size" option that
controls how cruft-packs are combined.
* TCP keepalive behaviour on http transports can now be configured by
calling cURL library.
* Incrementally updating multi-pack index files.
* "git reflog" learns "drop" subcommand, that discards the entire
reflog data for a ref.
* A new userdiff driver for ".ini" format configuration files has
been added.
* The job to coalesce loose objects into packfiles in "git
maintenance" now has configurable batch size.
* "git clone" still gave the message about the default branch name;
this message has been turned into an advice message that can be
turned off.
* "git rev-list" learns machine-parsable output format that delimits
each field with NUL.
* "git maintenance" learns a new task to expire reflog entries.
* Auth-related (and unrelated) error handling in send-email has been
made more robust.
* Updating multiple references have only been possible in all-or-none
fashion with transactions, but it can be more efficient to batch
multiple updates even when some of them are allowed to fail in a
best-effort manner. A new "best effort batches of updates" mode
has been introduced.
* "git help --build-options" reports SHA-1 and SHA-256 backends used
in the build.
* "git cat-file --batch" and friends learned to allow "--filter=" to
omit certain objects, just like the transport layer does.
* "git blame --porcelain" mode now talks about unblamable lines and
lines that are blamed to an ignored commit.
* The build procedure installs bash (but not zsh) completion script.
* send-email has been updated to work better with Outlook's smtp server.
* "git diff --minimal" used to give non-minimal output when its
optimization kicked in, which has been disabled.
* "git index-pack --fix-thin" used to abort to prevent a cycle in
delta chains from forming in a corner case even when there is no
such cycle.
* Make repository clean-up tasks "gc" can do available to "git
maintenance" front-end.
* Bundle-URI feature did not use refs recorded in the bundle other
than normal branches as anchoring points to optimize the follow-up
fetch during "git clone"; now it is told to utilize all.
* The `send-email` documentation has been updated with OAuth2.0
related examples.
* Two of the "scalar" subcommands that add a repository that hasn't
been under "scalar"'s control are taught an option not to enable the
scheduled maintenance on it.
* The userdiff pattern for shell scripts has been updated to cope
with more bash-isms.
* "git merge-tree" learned an option to see if it resolves cleanly
without actually creating a result.
* The commit title in the "rebase -i" todo file are now prefixed with
'#', just like a merge commit being replayed.
* "git receive-pack" optionally learns not to care about connectivity
check, which can be useful when the repository arranges to ensure
connectivity by some other means.
* "git notes --help" documentation updates.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
--------------------------------------------------------------
* A handful of built-in command implementations have been rewritten
to use the repository instance supplied by git.c:run_builtin(), its
caller.
* "git fsck" becomes more careful when checking the refs.
* "git fast-export | git fast-import" learns to deal with commit and
tag objects with embedded signatures a bit better. This is highly
experimental and the format of the data stream may change in the
future without compatibility guarantees.
* The code paths to check whether a refname X is available (by seeing
if another ref X/Y exists, etc.) have been optimized.
* First step of deprecating and removing merge-recursive.
* In protocol v2 where the refs advertisement is constrained, we try
to tell the server side not to limit the advertisement when there
is no specific need to, which has been the source of confusion and
recent bugs. Revamp the logic to simplify.
* Update meson based build procedure for breaking changes support.
* Enable -Wunreachable-code for developer builds.
* Ensure what we write in assert() does not have side effects,
and introduce ASSERT() macro to mark those that cannot be
mechanically checked for lack of side effects.
* Give more meaningful error return values from block writer layer of
the reftable ref-API backend.
* Make the code in reftable library less reliant on the service
routines it used to borrow from Git proper, to make it easier to
use by external users of the library.
* CI update.
* The object layer has been updated to take an explicit repository
instance as a parameter in more code paths.
* Some warnings from "-Wsign-compare" for builtin/rm.c have been
squelched.
* A few traditional unit tests have been rewritten to use the clar
framework.
* Some warnings from "-Wsign-compare" for pathspec.c have been
squelched.
* "make test" used to have a hard dependency on (basic) Perl; tests
have been rewritten help environment with NO_PERL test the build as
much as possible.
* Remove remnants of the recursive merge strategy backend, which was
superseded by the ort merge strategy.
* Optimize the code to dedup references recorded in a bundle file.
* Update parse-options API to catch mistakes to pass address of an
integral variable of a wrong type/size.
* Since a call to repo_config() can be called with repo set to NULL
these days, a command that is marked as RUN_SETUP in the builtin
command table does not have to check repo with NULL before making
the call.
* Overhaul of the reftable API.
* Reduce requirement for Perl in our documentation build and a few
scripts.
* The build procedure based on Meson learned to drive the
benchmarking tests.
* Code clean-up for meson-based build infrastructure.
* Add an equivalent to "make hdr-check" target to meson based builds.
* Further code clean-up in the object-store layer.
* Build performance fix.
* Teach "git send-email" to also consult `hostname -f` for mail
domain to compute the identity given to SMTP servers.
* The dependency on the_repository variable has been reduced from the
code paths in "git replay".
* Support to create a loose object file with unknown object type has
been dropped.
* The code path to access the "packed-refs" file while "fsck" is
taught to mmap the file, instead of reading the whole file in the
memory.
* Assorted fixes for issues found with CodeQL.
* Remove the leftover hints to the test framework to mark tests that
do not pass the leak checker tests, as they should no longer be
needed.
* When a stale .midx file refers to .pack files that no longer exist,
we ended up checking for these non-existent files repeatedly, which
has been optimized by memoizing the non-existence.
Fixes since v2.49
-----------------
* The refname exclusion logic in the packed-ref backend has been
broken for some time, which confused upload-pack to advertise
different set of refs. This has been corrected.
(merge 10e8a9352b tb/refs-exclude-fixes later to maint).
* The merge-recursive and merge-ort machinery crashed in corner cases
when certain renames are involved.
(merge 3adba40858 en/merge-process-renames-crash-fix later to maint).
* Certain "cruft" objects would have never been refreshed when there
are multiple cruft packs in the repository, which has been
corrected.
(merge 08f612ba70 tb/multi-cruft-pack-refresh-fix later to maint).
* The xdiff code on 32-bit platform misbehaved when an insanely large
context size is given, which has been corrected.
(merge d39e28e68c rs/xdiff-context-length-fix later to maint).
* GitHub Actions CI switched on a CI/CD variable that does not exist
when choosing what packages to install etc., which has been
corrected.
(merge ee89f7c79d kn/ci-meson-check-build-docs-fix later to maint).
* Using "git name-rev --stdin" as an example, improve the framework to
prepare tests to pretend to be in the future where the breaking
changes have already happened.
(merge de3dec1187 jc/name-rev-stdin later to maint).
* An earlier code refactoring of the hash machinery missed a few
required calls to init_fn.
(merge d39f04b638 jh/hash-init-fixes later to maint).
* A documentation page was left out from formatting and installation,
which has been corrected.
(merge ae85116f18 pw/build-breaking-changes-doc later to maint).
* The bash command line completion script (in contrib/) has been
updated to cope with remote repository nicknames with slashes in
them.
(merge 778d2f1760 dm/completion-remote-names-fix later to maint).
* "Dubious ownership" checks on Windows has been tightened up.
(merge 5bb88e89ef js/mingw-admins-are-special later to maint).
* Layout configuration in vimdiff backend didn't work as advertised,
which has been corrected.
(merge 93bab2d04b fr/vimdiff-layout-fixes later to maint).
* Fix our use of zlib corner cases.
(merge 1cb2f293f5 jk/zlib-inflate-fixes later to maint).
* Fix lockfile contention in reftable code on Windows.
(merge 0a3dceabf1 ps/mingw-creat-excl-fix later to maint).
* "git-merge-file" documentation source, which has lines that look
like conflict markers, lacked custom conflict marker size defined,
which has been corrected..
(merge d3b5832381 pw/custom-conflict-marker-size-for-merge-related-docs later to maint).
* Squelch false-positive from sparse.
(merge da87b58014 dd/sparse-glibc-workaround later to maint).
* Adjust to the deprecation of use of Ubuntu 20.04 GitHub Actions CI.
(merge 832d9f6d0b js/ci-github-update-ubuntu later to maint).
* Work around CI breakage due to fedora base image getting updated.
(merge 8a471a663b js/ci-fedora-gawk later to maint).
* A ref transaction corner case fix.
(merge b9fadeead7 jt/ref-transaction-abort-fix later to maint).
* Random build fixes.
(merge 85e1d6819f ps/misc-build-fixes later to maint).
* "git fetch [<remote>]" with only the configured fetch refspec
should be the only thing to update refs/remotes/<remote>/HEAD,
but the code was overly eager to do so in other cases.
* Incorrect sorting of refs with bytes with high-bit set on platforms
with signed char led to a BUG, which has been corrected.
* "make perf" fixes.
(merge 1665f12fa0 pb/perf-test-fixes later to maint).
* Doc mark-up updates.
(merge 5a5565ec44 ja/doc-reset-mv-rm-markup-updates later to maint).
* Work around false positive from CodeQL checker.
(merge 0f558141ed js/range-check-codeql-workaround later to maint).
* "git log --{left,right}-only A...B", when A and B does not share
any common ancestor, now behaves as expected.
(merge e7ef4be7c2 mh/left-right-limited later to maint).
* Document the convention to disable hooks altogether by setting the
hooksPath configuration variable to /dev/null.
(merge 1b2eee94f1 ds/doc-disable-hooks later to maint).
* Make sure outage of third-party sites that supply P4, Git-LFS, and
JGit we use for testing would not prevent our CI jobs from running
at all.
* Various build tweaks, including CSPRNG selection on some platforms.
(merge cdda67de03 rj/build-tweaks later to maint).
* Developer support fix..
(merge 32b74b9809 js/git-perf-env-override later to maint).
* Fix for scheduled maintenance tasks on platforms using launchctl.
(merge eb2d7beb0e jh/gc-launchctl-schedule-fix later to maint).
* Update to arm64 Windows port.
(merge 436a42215e js/windows-arm64 later to maint).
* hashmap API clean-up to ensure hashmap_clear() leaves a cleared map
in a reusable state.
(merge 9481877de3 en/hashmap-clear-fix later to maint).
* "git mv a a/b dst" would ask to move the directory 'a' itself, as
well as its contents, in a single destination directory, which is
a contradicting request that is impossible to satisfy. This case is
now detected and the command errors out.
(merge 974f0d4664 ps/mv-contradiction-fix later to maint).
* Further refinement on CI messages when an optional external
software is unavailable (e.g. due to third-party service outage).
(merge 956acbefbd jc/ci-skip-unavailable-external-software later to maint).
* Test result aggregation did not work in Meson based CI jobs.
(merge bd38ed5be1 ps/ci-test-aggreg-fix-for-meson later to maint).
* Code clean-up around stale CI elements and building with Visual Studio.
(merge a7b060f67f js/ci-buildsystems-cleanup later to maint).
* "git add 'f?o'" did not add 'foo' if 'f?o', an unusual pathname,
also existed on the working tree, which has been corrected.
(merge ec727e189c kj/glob-path-with-special-char later to maint).
* The fallback implementation of open_nofollow() depended on
open("symlink", O_NOFOLLOW) to set errno to ELOOP, but a few BSD
derived systems use different errno, which has been worked around.
(merge f47bcc3413 cf/wrapper-bsd-eloop later to maint).
* Use-after-free fix in the sequencer.
(merge 5dbaec628d pw/sequencer-reflog-use-after-free later to maint).
* win+Meson CI pipeline, unlike other pipelines for Windows,
used to build artifacts in developer mode, which has been changed to
build them in release mode for consistency.
(merge 184abdcf05 js/ci-build-win-in-release-mode later to maint).
* CI settings at GitLab has been updated to run MSVC based Meson job
automatically (as opposed to be done only upon manual request).
(merge 6389579b2f ps/ci-gitlab-enable-msvc-meson-job later to maint).
* "git apply" and "git add -i/-p" code paths no longer unnecessarily
expand sparse-index while working.
(merge ecf9ba20e3 ds/sparse-apply-add-p later to maint).
* Avoid adding directory path to a sparse-index tree entries to the
name-hash, since they would bloat the hashtable without anybody
querying for them. This was done already for a single threaded
part of the code, but now the multi-threaded code also does the
same.
(merge 2e60aabc75 am/sparse-index-name-hash-fix later to maint).
* Recent versions of Perl started warning against "! A =~ /pattern/"
which does not negate the result of the matching. As it turns out
that the problematic function is not even called, it was removed.
(merge 67cae845d2 op/cvsserver-perl-warning later to maint).
* "git apply --index/--cached" when applying a deletion patch in
reverse failed to give the mode bits of the path "removed" by the
patch to the file it creates, which has been corrected.
* "git verify-refs" (and hence "git fsck --reference") started
erroring out in a repository in which secondary worktrees were
prepared with Git 2.43 or lower.
(merge d5b3c38b8a sj/ref-contents-check-fix later to maint).
* Update total_ram() functrion on BSD variants.
* Update online_cpus() functrion on BSD variants.
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 227c4f33a0 ja/doc-block-delimiter-markup-fix later to maint).
(merge 2bfd3b3685 ab/decorate-code-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 5337daddc7 am/dir-dedup-decl-of-repository later to maint).
(merge 554051d691 en/diff-rename-follow-fix later to maint).
(merge a18c18b470 en/random-cleanups later to maint).
(merge 5af21c9acb hj/doc-rev-list-ancestry-fix later to maint).
(merge 26d76ca284 aj/doc-restore-p-update later to maint).
(merge 2c0dcb9754 cc/lop-remote later to maint).
(merge 7b399322a2 ja/doc-branch-markup later to maint).
(merge ee434e1807 pw/doc-pack-refs-markup-fix later to maint).
(merge c000918eb7 tb/bitamp-typofix later to maint).
(merge fa8cd29676 js/imap-send-peer-cert-verify later to maint).
(merge 98b423bc1c rs/clear-commit-marks-simplify later to maint).
(merge 133d065dd6 ta/bulk-checkin-signed-compare-false-warning-fix later to maint).
(merge d2827dc31e es/meson-build-skip-coccinelle later to maint).
(merge ee8edb7156 dk/vimdiff-doc-fix later to maint).
(merge 107d889303 md/t1403-path-is-file later to maint).
(merge abd4192b07 js/comma-semicolon-confusion later to maint).
(merge 27b7264206 ab/environment-clean-header later to maint).
(merge ff4a749354 as/typofix-in-env-h-header later to maint).
(merge 86eef3541e az/tighten-string-array-constness later to maint).
(merge 25292c301d lo/remove-log-reencode-from-rev-info later to maint).
(merge 1aa50636fd jk/p5332-testfix later to maint).
(merge 42cf4ac552 ps/ci-resurrect-p4-on-github later to maint).
(merge 104add8368 js/diff-codeql-false-positive-workaround later to maint).
(merge f62977b93c en/get-tree-entry-doc later to maint).
(merge e5dd0a05ed ly/am-split-stgit-leakfix later to maint).
(merge bac220e154 rc/t1001-test-path-is-file later to maint).
(merge 91db6c735d ly/reftable-writer-leakfix later to maint).
(merge 20e4e9ad0b jc/doc-synopsis-option-markup later to maint).
(merge cddcee7f64 es/meson-configure-build-options-fix later to maint).
(merge cea9f55f00 wk/sparse-checkout-doc-fix later to maint).
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Changes since v2.49.0 are as follows:
Abhijeet Sonar (1):
environment: fix typo: 'setup_git_directory_gently'
Abhijeetsingh Meena (1):
dir.h: remove duplicate forward declaration of struct repository
Adam Johnson (1):
doc: restore: remove note on --patch w/ pathspecs
Aditya Garg (6):
send-email: retrieve Message-ID from outlook SMTP server
send-email: add --[no-]outlook-id-fix option
send-mail: improve checks for valid_fqdn
docs: improve send-email documentation
docs: add credential helper for outlook and gmail in OAuth list of helpers
send-email: try to get fqdn by running hostname -f on Linux and macOS
Ahelenia Ziemiańska (1):
global: mark usage strings and string tables const
Alex Mironov (1):
name-hash: don't add sparse directories in threaded lazy init
Alexander Ogorodov (1):
gitk: do not hard-code color of search results in commit list
Anthony Wang (1):
t9811: be more precise to check importing of tags
Arnav Bhate (4):
decorate: fix sign comparison warnings
rm: fix sign comparison warnings
pathspec: fix sign comparison warnings
environment.h: remove unused variables
Brad Smith (2):
thread-utils.c: detect online CPU count on OpenBSD / NetBSD
builtin/gc: correct physical memory detection for OpenBSD / NetBSD
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón (1):
reftable: make REFTABLE_UNUSED C99 compatible
Christian Couder (5):
fast-export: fix missing whitespace after switch
t5710: arrange to delete the client before cloning
promisor-remote: fix segfault when remote URL is missing
promisor-remote: fix possible issue when no URL is advertised
promisor-remote: compare remote names case sensitively
Christian Fredrik Johnsen (1):
refs: fix duplicated word in comment
Collin Funk (1):
wrapper: NetBSD gives EFTYPE and FreeBSD gives EMFILE where POSIX uses ELOOP
D. Ben Knoble (1):
vimdiff: clarify the sigil used for marking the buffer to save
David Mandelberg (2):
completion: add helper to count path components
completion: fix bugs with slashes in remote names
Dennis Ameling (2):
bswap.h: add support for built-in bswap functions
config.mak.uname: add support for clangarm64
Derrick Stolee (15):
maintenance: force progress/no-quiet to children
maintenance: add loose-objects.batchSize config
docs: document core.hooksPath=/dev/null
test-tool: add pack-deltas helper
t5309: create failing test for 'git index-pack'
index-pack: allow revisiting REF_DELTA chains
scalar: customize register_dir()'s behavior
scalar register: add --no-maintenance option
scalar clone: add --no-maintenance option
scalar reconfigure: add --maintenance=<mode> option
scalar reconfigure: improve --maintenance docs
apply: integrate with the sparse index
git add: make -p/-i aware of sparse index
reset: integrate sparse index with --patch
p2000: add performance test for patch-mode commands
Dmitry Goncharov (1):
t6423: add a testcase causing a failed assertion in process_renames
Eli Schwartz (9):
meson: fix perl detection when docs are enabled, but perl bindings aren't
meson: disable coccinelle configuration when building from a tarball
meson: simplify and parameterize various standard function checks
meson: check for getpagesize before using it
meson: do a full usage-based compile check for sysinfo
meson: add a couple missing networking dependencies
meson: fix typo in function check that prevented checking for hstrerror
meson: only check for missing networking syms on non-Windows; add compat impls
meson: reformat default options to workaround bug in `meson configure`
Elijah Newren (29):
merge-ort: fix slightly overzealous assertion for rename-to-self
diffcore-rename: fix BUG when break detection and --follow used together
stash: remove merge-recursive.h include
t6423: fix a comment that accidentally reversed two commits
t7615: be more explicit about diff algorithm used
merge-ort: fix accidental strset<->strintmap
merge-ort: remove extraneous word in comment
merge-ort: add new merge_ort_generic() function
merge-ort: allow rename detection to be disabled
merge-ort: support having merge verbosity be set to 0
merge-ort: fix merge.directoryRenames=false
am: switch from merge_recursive_generic() to merge_ort_generic()
git-compat-util: introduce ASSERT() macro
ci: add build checking for side-effects in assert() calls
treewide: replace assert() with ASSERT() in special cases
checkout: replace merge_trees() with merge_ort_nonrecursive()
builtin/merge-recursive: switch to using merge_ort_generic()
merge-ort: enable diff-algorithms other than histogram
sequencer: switch non-recursive merges over to ort
merge, sequencer: switch recursive merges over to ort
merge-recursive.[ch]: thoroughly debug these
tests: remove GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM and test_expect_merge_algorithm
builtin/{merge,rebase,revert}: remove GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM
hashmap: ensure hashmaps are reusable after hashmap_clear()
tree-walk.h: fix incorrect API comment
replay: replace the_repository with repo parameter passed to cmd_replay ()
sequencer: make it clearer that commit descriptions are just comments
merge-ort: add a new mergeability_only option
merge-tree: add a new --quiet flag
Fernando Ramos (2):
mergetools: vimdiff: fix layout where REMOTE is the target
mergetools: vimdiff: add tests for layout with REMOTE as the target
Han Jiang (1):
doc: add missing commit C to the graph for --ancestry-path=H D..M
Jean-Noël Avila (20):
doc: add a blank line around block delimiters
completion: take into account the formatting backticks for options
doc: apply new format to git-branch man page
doc: convert git-reset to new documentation format
doc: fix synopsis analysis logic
doc: convert git-rm to new documentation format
doc: move synopsis git-mv commands in the synopsis section
doc: convert git-mv to new documentation format
doc: fix asciidoctor synopsis processing of triple-dots
doc: add markup for characters in Guidelines
git-var doc: fix usage of $ENV_VAR vs ENV_VAR
doc: convert git-checkout manpage to new style
doc: convert git-merge manpage to new style
doc: convert merge options to new synopsis format
doc: merge-options.adoc remove a misleading double negation
doc: convert merge strategies to synopsis format
doc: switch merge config description to new synopsis format
doc: convert git-mergetool manpage to new synopsis style
doc: convert git-mergetool options to new synopsis style
doc: convert git-switch manpage to new synopsis style
Jeff King (41):
loose_object_info(): BUG() on inflating content with unknown type
unpack_loose_header(): simplify next_out assignment
unpack_loose_header(): report headers without NUL as "bad"
unpack_loose_header(): fix infinite loop on broken zlib input
git_inflate(): skip zlib_post_call() sanity check on Z_NEED_DICT
unpack_loose_header(): avoid numeric comparison of zlib status
unpack_loose_rest(): avoid numeric comparison of zlib status
unpack_loose_rest(): never clean up zstream
unpack_loose_rest(): simplify error handling
unpack_loose_rest(): rewrite return handling for clarity
t5702: fix typo in test name
t5516: prefer "oid" to "sha1" in some test titles
t5516: drop NEEDSWORK about v2 reachability behavior
t5516: beef up exact-oid ref prefixes test
refspec_ref_prefixes(): clean up refspec_item logic
fetch: ask server to advertise HEAD for config-less fetch
fetch: stop protecting additions to ref-prefix list
fetch: avoid ls-refs only to ask for HEAD symref update
fetch: use ref prefix list to skip ls-refs
run-command: use errno to check for sigfillset() error
config.mak.dev: enable -Wunreachable-code
fetch: only respect followRemoteHEAD with configured refspecs
fetch: don't ask for remote HEAD if followRemoteHEAD is "never"
fetch: make set_head() call easier to read
p5332: drop "+" from --stdin-packs input
oidmap: rename oidmap_free() to oidmap_clear()
oidmap: add size function
raw_object_store: drop extra pointer to replace_map
object-file.h: fix typo in variable declaration
cat-file: make --allow-unknown-type a noop
object-file: drop OBJECT_INFO_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TYPE flag
cat-file: use type enum instead of buffer for -t option
oid_object_info_convert(): stop using string for object type
fsck: stop using object_info->type_name strbuf
oid_object_info(): drop type_name strbuf
t/helper: add zlib test-tool
t: add lib-loose.sh
hash-object: stop allowing unknown types
hash-object: merge HASH_* and INDEX_* flags
hash-object: handle --literally with OPT_NEGBIT
object-file: drop support for writing objects with unknown types
Jensen Huang (1):
index-pack, unpack-objects: restore missing ->init_fn
Johannes Schindelin (38):
t3650: document bug when directory renames are turned off
mingw: special-case administrators even more
test-tool path-utils: support debugging "dubious ownership" issues
imap-send: explicitly verify the peer certificate
remote-curl: avoid using the comma operator unnecessarily
rebase: avoid using the comma operator unnecessarily
kwset: avoid using the comma operator unnecessarily
clar: avoid using the comma operator unnecessarily
xdiff: avoid using the comma operator unnecessarily
diff-delta: avoid using the comma operator
wildmatch: avoid using of the comma operator
compat/regex: explicitly mark intentional use of the comma operator
clang: warn when the comma operator is used
detect-compiler: detect clang even if it found CUDA
read-cache: check range before dereferencing an array element
ci: upgrade `sparse` to supported build agents
ci(pedantic): ensure that awk is installed
perf: do allow `GIT_PERF_*` to be overridden again
mingw: do not use nedmalloc on Windows/ARM64
msvc: do handle builds on Windows/ARM64
mingw(arm64): do move the `/etc/git*` location
max_tree_depth: lower it for clangarm64 on Windows
diff: check range before dereferencing an array element
ci(win+Meson): build in Release mode
ci: stop linking the `prove` cache
contrib/buildsystems: drop support for building . vcproj/.vcxproj files
config.mak.uname: drop the `vcxproj` target
commit: simplify code
fetch: carefully clear local variable's address after use
commit-graph: avoid malloc'ing a local variable
upload-pack: rename `enum` to reflect the operation
has_dir_name(): make code more obvious
fetch: avoid unnecessary work when there is no current branch
Avoid redundant conditions
trace2: avoid "futile conditional"
commit-graph: avoid using stale stack addresses
bundle-uri: avoid using undefined output of `sscanf()`
sequencer: stop pretending that an assignment is a condition
Johannes Sixt (4):
git-gui: po/README: update repository location and maintainer
gitk: adjust indentation to match the style used in this script
git-gui: treat the message template file as a built file
gitk: place file name arguments after options in msgfmt call
Josh Heinrichs (1):
maintenance: fix launchctl calendar intervals
Junio C Hamano (39):
t: document test_lazy_prereq
t: extend test_lazy_prereq
t: introduce WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES prerequisite
t6120: avoid hiding "git" exit status
t6120: further modernize
name-rev: remove "--stdin" support
git-compat-util: add NOT_CONSTANT macro and use it in atfork_prepare()
Start 2.50 cycle (batch #1)
The second batch
The third batch
The fourth batch
The fifth batch
The sixth batch
The seventh batch
t9811: fix misconversion of tests
The eighth batch
ci: skip unavailable external software
CI updates
The ninth batch
ci: update the message for unavailble third-party software
ci: download JGit from maven, not eclipse.org
The tenth batch
The eleventh batch
t6011: fix misconversion from perl to sed
The twelfth batch
git-daemon doc: update mark-up of synopsis option descriptions
git-{var,write-tree} docs: update mark-up of synopsis option descriptions
git-verify-* doc: update mark-up of synopsis option descriptions
The thirteenth batch
The fourteenth batch
The fifteenth batch
The sixteenth batch
The seventeenth batch
The eighteenth batch
Git 2.50-rc0
fast-export: --signed-commits is experimental
A bit more topics for -rc1
A bit more before -rc1
Git 2.50-rc1
Justin Tobler (17):
diff: return diff_filepair from diff queue helpers
diff: add option to skip resolving diff statuses
builtin: introduce diff-pairs command
builtin/diff-pairs: allow explicit diff queue flush
rev-list: inline `show_object_with_name()` in `show_object()`
rev-list: refactor early option parsing
rev-list: support delimiting objects with NUL bytes
rev-list: support NUL-delimited --boundary option
rev-list: support NUL-delimited --missing option
builtin/fetch: avoid aborting closed reference transaction
remote: allow `guess_remote_head()` to suppress advice
builtin/clone: suppress unexpected default branch advice
advice: allow disabling default branch name advice
help: include SHA implementation in version info
help: include unsafe SHA-1 build info in version
t5410: test receive-pack connectivity check
builtin/receive-pack: add option to skip connectivity check
K Jayatheerth (4):
dir.c: literal match with wildcard in pathspec should still glob
docs: remove unused mentoring mailing list reference
docs: clarify cmd_psuh signature and explain UNUSED macro
docs: replace git_config to repo_config
Karthik Nayak (21):
reflog: improve error for when reflog is not found
reflog: implement subcommand to drop reflogs
ci/github: add missing 'CI_JOB_IMAGE' env variable
blame: print unblamable and ignored commits in porcelain mode
refs/files: remove redundant check in split_symref_update()
refs: move duplicate refname update check to generic layer
refs/files: remove duplicate duplicates check
refs/reftable: extract code from the transaction preparation
refs: introduce enum-based transaction error types
refs: implement batch reference update support
refs: support rejection in batch updates during F/D checks
update-ref: add --batch-updates flag for stdin mode
t6020: test for duplicate refnames in bundle creation
bundle: fix non-linear performance scaling with refs
ci/github: install git before checking out the repository
coccinelle: meson: rename variables to be more specific
meson: move headers definition from 'contrib/coccinelle'
meson: rename 'third_party_sources' to 'third_party_excludes'
meson: add support for 'hdr-check'
makefile/meson: add 'check-headers' as alias for 'hdr-check'
t: remove unexpected SANITIZE_LEAK variables
Kristoffer Haugsbakk (12):
doc: reflog: fix `drop` subheading
doc: branch: fix inline-verbatim
doc: stripspace: mention where the default comes from
doc: config: mention core.commentChar on commit.cleanup
doc: notes: split out options with negated forms
doc: notes: rework --[no-]stripspace
doc: notes: remove stripspace discussion from other options
doc: notes: clearly state that --stripspace is the default
doc: notes: point out copy --stdin use with argv
doc: notes: treat --stdin equally between copy/remove
doc: notes: use stuck form throughout
doc: column: fix blank lines around block delimiters
Lidong Yan (7):
reftable/writer: fix memory leak when `padded_write()` fails
reftable/writer: fix memory leak when `writer_index_hash()` fails
builtin/am: fix memory leak in `split_mail_stgit_series`
pack-bitmap: fix memory leak if `load_bitmap_entries_v1` failed
mailinfo: fix potential memory leak if `decode_header` failed
sequencer: fix memory leak if `todo_list_rearrange_squash()` failed
commit-graph: fix memory leak when `fill_oids_from_packs()` fails
Lucas Seiki Oshiro (4):
userdiff: add builtin driver for INI files
revision: remove log_reencode field from rev_info
json-writer: add docstrings to jw_* functions
json-writer: describe the usage of jw_* functions
Luke Shumaker (5):
git-fast-import.adoc: add missing LF in the BNF
fast-export: rename --signed-tags='warn' to 'warn-verbatim'
git-fast-export.adoc: clarify why 'verbatim' may not be a good idea
fast-export: do not modify memory from get_commit_buffer
fast-export, fast-import: add support for signed-commits
Mahendra Dani (1):
t1403: verify that path exists and is a file
Mark Levedahl (3):
gitk: override $PATH search only on Windows
gitk: _search_exe is no longer needed
gitk: limit PATH search to bare executable names
Mark Mentovai (2):
t4129: test that git apply warns for unexpected mode changes
apply: set file mode when --reverse creates a deleted file
Matt Hunter (1):
revision: fix --left/right-only use with unrelated histories
Meet Soni (3):
reftable: propagate specific error codes in block_writer_add()
reftable: adapt writer_add_record() to propagate block_writer_add() errors
reftable: adapt write_object_record() to propagate block_writer_add() errors
Moumita Dhar (1):
userdiff: extend Bash pattern to cover more shell function forms
Niels Glodny (1):
xdiff: disable cleanup_records heuristic with --minimal
Ondřej Pohořelský (1):
cvsserver: remove unused escapeRefName function
Oswald Buddenhagen (1):
git-gui: heed core.commentChar/commentString
Patrick Steinhardt (172):
reftable/stack: stop using `read_in_full()`
reftable/stack: stop using `write_in_full()`
reftable/blocksource: stop using `xmmap()`
reftable/record: stop using `COPY_ARRAY()`
reftable/record: stop using `BUG()` in `reftable_record_init()`
reftable/record: don't `BUG()` in `reftable_record_cmp()`
reftable: stop using `BUG()` in trivial cases
reftable/basics: stop using `st_mult()` in array allocators
reftable/basics: provide wrappers for big endian conversion
reftable/reader: stop using `ARRAY_SIZE()` macro
reftable/system: introduce `reftable_rand()`
reftable/stack: stop using `sleep_millisec()`
reftable/basics: stop using `SWAP()` macro
reftable/basics: introduce `REFTABLE_UNUSED` annotation
compat/mingw: split out POSIX-related bits
git-compat-util.h: split out POSIX-emulating bits
reftable: decouple from Git codebase by pulling in "compat/posix.h"
Makefile: skip reftable library for Coccinelle
reftable: ignore file-in-use errors when unlink(3p) fails on Windows
csum-file: stop depending on `the_repository`
object: stop depending on `the_repository`
pack-write: stop depending on `the_repository` and `the_hash_algo`
environment: move access to "core.bigFileThreshold" into repo settings
pack-check: stop depending on `the_repository`
pack-revindex: stop depending on `the_repository`
pack-bitmap-write: stop depending on `the_repository`
object-file-convert: stop depending on `the_repository`
delta-islands: stop depending on `the_repository`
object-file: split out logic regarding hash algorithms
hash: fix "-Wsign-compare" warnings
hash: stop depending on `the_repository` in `null_oid()`
meson: define WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES when enabling breaking changes
meson: don't compile git-pack-redundant(1) with breaking changes
meson: don't install git-pack-redundant(1) docs with breaking changes
ci: perform build and smoke tests for Meson docs
object-name: introduce `repo_get_oid_with_flags()`
object-name: allow skipping ambiguity checks in `get_oid()` family
builtin/update-ref: skip ambiguity checks when parsing object IDs
refs: introduce function to batch refname availability checks
refs/reftable: batch refname availability checks
refs/files: batch refname availability checks for normal transactions
refs/files: batch refname availability checks for initial transactions
refs: stop re-verifying common prefixes for availability
refs/iterator: separate lifecycle from iteration
refs/iterator: provide infrastructure to re-seek iterators
refs/iterator: implement seeking for merged iterators
refs/iterator: implement seeking for reftable iterators
refs/iterator: implement seeking for ref-cache iterators
refs/iterator: implement seeking for packed-ref iterators
refs/iterator: implement seeking for files iterators
refs: reuse iterators when determining refname availability
meson: fix compat sources when compiling with MSVC
compat/mingw: fix EACCESS when opening files with `O_CREAT | O_EXCL`
meson: fix handling of '-Dcurl=auto'
gitweb: fix generation of "gitweb.js"
meson: respect 'tests' build option in contrib
meson: distinguish build and target host binaries
ci: use Visual Studio for win+meson job on GitHub Workflows
builtin/cat-file: rename variable that tracks usage
builtin/cat-file: introduce function to report object status
builtin/cat-file: wire up an option to filter objects
builtin/cat-file: support "blob:none" objects filter
builtin/cat-file: support "blob:limit=" objects filter
builtin/cat-file: support "object:type=" objects filter
pack-bitmap: allow passing payloads to `show_reachable_fn()`
pack-bitmap: add function to iterate over filtered bitmapped objects
pack-bitmap: introduce function to check whether a pack is bitmapped
builtin/cat-file: deduplicate logic to iterate over all objects
builtin/cat-file: use bitmaps to efficiently filter by object type
t: skip chain lint when PERL_PATH is unset
t: refactor environment sanitization to not use Perl
t: adapt character translation helpers to not use Perl
t: adapt `test_copy_bytes()` to not use Perl
t: adapt `test_readlink()` to not use Perl
t: introduce PERL_TEST_HELPERS prerequisite
t: adapt existing PERL prerequisites
meson: stop requiring Perl when tests are enabled
Makefile: stop requiring Perl when running tests
t: refactor tests depending on Perl transliteration operator
t: refactor tests depending on Perl substitution operator
t: refactor tests depending on Perl to print data
t: refactor tests depending on Perl for textconv scripts
t/lib-gpg: refactor `sanitize_pgp()` to not depend on Perl
t/lib-t6000: refactor `name_from_description()` to not depend on Perl
t/lib-httpd: refactor "one-time-perl" CGI script to not depend on Perl
t0021: refactor `generate_random_characters()` to not depend on Perl
t0210: refactor trace2 scrubbing to not use Perl
t5316: refactor `max_chain()` to not depend on Perl
t5703: refactor test to not depend on Perl
reftable: fix formatting of the license header
reftable/reader: rename data structure to "table"
reftable/blocksource: consolidate code into a single file
reftable/block: simplify how we track restart points
reftable/table: move reading block into block reader
reftable/block: rename `block` to `block_data`
reftable/block: rename `block_reader` to `reftable_block`
git-zlib: use `struct z_stream_s` instead of typedef
reftable/block: create public interface for reading blocks
reftable/block: store block pointer in the block iterator
reftable/block: make block iterators reseekable
reftable/block: expose a generic iterator over reftable records
reftable/table: add `reftable_table` to the public interface
reftable/table: introduce iterator for table blocks
reftable/constants: make block types part of the public interface
reftable/table: move printing logic into test helper
reflog: rename `cmd_reflog_expire_cb` to `reflog_expire_options`
builtin/reflog: stop storing default reflog expiry dates globally
builtin/reflog: stop storing per-reflog expiry dates globally
builtin/reflog: make functions regarding `reflog_expire_options` public
builtin/gc: split out function to expire reflog entries
builtin/maintenance: introduce "reflog-expire" task
refs/packed: fix BUG when seeking refs with UTF-8 characters
object-file: move `mkdir_in_gitdir()` into "path.c"
object-file: move `safe_create_leading_directories()` into "path.c"
object-file: move `git_open_cloexec()` to "compat/open.c"
object-file: move `xmmap()` into "wrapper.c"
object-file: split out functions relating to object store subsystem
object-file: split up concerns of `HASH_*` flags
object-file: drop `index_blob_stream()`
object: split out functions relating to object store subsystem
object-store: remove global array of cached objects
object-store: merge "object-store-ll.h" and "object-store.h"
filter-branch: stop depending on Perl
request-pull: stop depending on Perl
Documentation: stop depending on Perl to massage user manual
Documentation: stop depending on Perl to generate command list
parse: fix off-by-one for minimum signed values
global: use designated initializers for options
parse-options: support unit factors in `OPT_INTEGER()`
parse-options: rename `OPT_MAGNITUDE()` to `OPT_UNSIGNED()`
parse-options: introduce precision handling for `OPTION_INTEGER`
parse-options: introduce precision handling for `OPTION_UNSIGNED`
parse-options: detect mismatches in integer signedness
ci: fix p4d executable not being found on GitHub Actions
contrib/completion: install Bash completion
meson: report detected runtime executable paths
meson: prefer shell at "/bin/sh"
t/perf: fix benchmarks with alternate repo formats
t/perf: use configured PERL_PATH
t/perf: fix benchmarks with out-of-tree builds
meson: wire up benchmarks
meson: wire up benchmarking options
object-store: move `struct packed_git` into "packfile.h"
object-store: drop `loose_object_path()`
object-store: move and rename `odb_pack_keep()`
object-store: move function declarations to their respective subsystems
object-store: allow fetching objects via `has_object()`
treewide: convert users of `repo_has_object_file()` to `has_object()`
object-store: drop `repo_has_object_file()`
builtin/mv: bail out when trying to move child and its parent
builtin/mv: convert assert(3p) into `BUG()`
ci: fix aggregation of test results with Meson
builtin/gc: fix indentation of `cmd_gc()` parameters
builtin/gc: remove global variables where it is trivial to do
builtin/gc: move pruning of worktrees into a separate function
builtin/maintenance: introduce "worktree-prune" task
builtin/gc: move rerere garbage collection into separate function
builtin/maintenance: introduce "rerere-gc" task
reftable: fix perf regression when reading blocks of unwanted type
git-gui: replace GIT-GUI-VARS with GIT-GUI-BUILD-OPTIONS
git-gui: prepare GIT-VERSION-GEN for out-of-tree builds
git-gui: make output of GIT-VERSION-GEN source'able
git-gui: drop no-op GITGUI_SCRIPT replacement
git-gui: extract script to generate "git-gui"
git-gui: extract script to generate "tclIndex"
git-gui: extract script to generate macOS wrapper
git-gui: extract script to generate macOS app
git-gui: stop including GIT-VERSION-FILE file
git-gui: wire up support for the Meson build system
gitlab-ci: always run MSVC-based Meson job
packfile: explain ordering of how we look up auxiliary pack files
midx: stop repeatedly looking up nonexistent packfiles
Philippe Blain (3):
p7821: fix test_perf invocation for prereqs
p9210: fix 'scalar clone' when running from a detached HEAD
p7821: fix instructions for testing with threads
Phillip Wood (9):
pack-refs doc: fix indentation for --exclude
docs: add BreakingChanges to TECH_DOCS target
merge-file doc: set conflict-marker-size attribute
sequencer: move reflog message functions
sequencer: rework reflog message handling
midx repack: avoid integer overflow on 32 bit systems
midx repack: avoid potential integer overflow on 64 bit systems
midx: avoid negative array index
midx docs: clarify tie breaking
Ramsay Jones (18):
meson.build: remove -DCURL_DISABLE_TYPECHECK
Makefile: only set some BASIC_CFLAGS when RUNTIME_PREFIX is set
meson.build: only set build variables for non-default values
meson.build: set default help format to html on windows
Makefile: remove NEEDS_LIBRT build variable
config.mak.uname: add a note about NO_STRLCPY for Linux
config.mak.uname: only set NO_REGEX on cygwin for v1.7
config.mak.uname: add HAVE_GETDELIM to the cygwin section
config.mak.uname: add clock_gettime() to the cygwin build
builtin/gc.c: correct RAM calculation when using sysinfo
config.mak.uname: add sysinfo() configuration for cygwin
config.mak.uname: add arc4random to the cygwin build
config.mak.uname: set CSPRNG_METHOD to getrandom on Linux
meson.build: quote the GITWEBDIR build configuration
meson: correct install location of YAML.pm
meson: correct path to system config/attribute files
meson.build: correct setting of GIT_EXEC_PATH
configure.ac: upgrade to a compilation check for sysinfo
René Scharfe (2):
xdiff: avoid arithmetic overflow in xdl_get_hunk()
commit: move clear_commit_marks_many() loop body to clear_commit_marks()
Rodrigo Carvalho (1):
t1001: replace 'test -f' with 'test_path_is_file'
Scott Chacon (2):
bundle-uri: copy all bundle references ino the refs/bundle space
bundle-uri: add test for bundle-uri clones with tags
Seyi Kuforiji (2):
t/unit-tests: convert trailer test to use clar
t/unit-tests: convert urlmatch-normalization test to clar
Taylor Blau (31):
refs.c: remove empty '--exclude' patterns
refs.c: stop matching non-directory prefixes in exclude patterns
builtin/pack-objects.c: freshen objects from existing cruft packs
http.c: remove unnecessary casts to long
http.c: introduce `set_long_from_env()` for convenience
http.c: inline `set_curl_keepalive()`
http.c: allow custom TCP keepalive behavior via config
refspec: treat 'fetch' as a Boolean value
refspec: replace `refspec_init()` with fetch/push variants
refspec: remove refspec_item_init_or_die()
refspec: replace `refspec_item_init()` with fetch/push variants
pseudo-merge.h: fix a typo
t/t5329-pack-objects-cruft.sh: evict 'repack'-related tests
t/t7704-repack-cruft.sh: clarify wording in --max-cruft-size tests
t/t7704-repack-cruft.sh: consolidate `write_blob()`
repack: avoid combining cruft packs with `--max-cruft-size`
repack: begin combining cruft packs with `--combine-cruft-below-size`
Documentation: remove a "future work" item from the MIDX docs
Documentation: describe incremental MIDX bitmaps
pack-revindex: prepare for incremental MIDX bitmaps
pack-bitmap.c: open and store incremental bitmap layers
pack-bitmap.c: teach `bitmap_for_commit()` about incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: teach `show_objects_for_type()` about incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: support bitmap pack-reuse with incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: teach `rev-list --test-bitmap` about incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: compute disk-usage with incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: apply pseudo-merge commits with incremental MIDXs
ewah: implement `struct ewah_or_iterator`
pack-bitmap.c: keep track of each layer's type bitmaps
pack-bitmap.c: use `ewah_or_iterator` for type bitmap iterators
midx: implement writing incremental MIDX bitmaps
Torsten Bögershausen (1):
intialize false_but_the_compiler_does_not_know_it_
Tuomas Ahola (1):
bulk-checkin: fix sign compare warnings
Usman Akinyemi (11):
config: teach repo_config to allow `repo` to be NULL
builtin/verify-tag: stop using `the_repository`
builtin/verify-commit: stop using `the_repository`
builtin/send-pack: stop using `the_repository`
builtin/pack-refs: stop using `the_repository`
builtin/ls-files: stop using `the_repository`
builtin/for-each-ref: stop using `the_repository`
builtin/checkout-index: stop using `the_repository`
builtin/update-server-info: remove unnecessary if statement
builtin/add: remove unnecessary if statement
builtin/difftool: remove unnecessary if statement
Wonuk Kim (1):
doc: sparse-checkout: use consistent inline list style
YOKOTA Hiroshi (1):
gitk: Legacy widgets doesn't have combobox
Zheng Yuting (2):
send-email: capture errors in an eval {} block
send-email: finer-grained SMTP error handling
brian m. carlson (2):
t5605: fix test for cloning from a different user
Makefile: avoid constant rebuilds with compilation database
shejialuo (13):
t0602: use subshell to ensure working directory unchanged
builtin/refs: get worktrees without reading head information
packed-backend: check whether the "packed-refs" is regular file
packed-backend: check if header starts with "# pack-refs with: "
packed-backend: add "packed-refs" header consistency check
packed-backend: check whether the refname contains NUL characters
packed-backend: add "packed-refs" entry consistency check
packed-backend: check whether the "packed-refs" is sorted
builtin/fsck: add `git refs verify` child process
packed-backend: fsck should warn when "packed-refs" file is empty
packed-backend: extract snapshot allocation in `load_contents`
packed-backend: mmap large "packed-refs" file during fsck
fsck: ignore missing "refs" directory for linked worktrees
Đoàn Trần Công Danh (2):
sparse: ignore warning from new glibc headers
meson: allow customize perl installation path
தமிழ் நேரம் (1):
gitk: add Tamil translation
