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2 daysMerge branch 'mh/doc-config-gui-gcwarning'Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Docfix. * mh/doc-config-gui-gcwarning: config: document 'gui.GCWarning'
10 daysconfig: document 'gui.GCWarning'Matthew Hughes1-0/+5
While investigating the config options set by 'scalar' I noticed this one wasn't documented. Signed-off-by: Matthew Hughes <matthewhughes934@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-30Merge branch 'jc/whitespace-incomplete-line'Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
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
2025-11-30Merge branch 'ja/doc-synopsis-style'Junio C Hamano2-84/+89
Doc mark-up updates. * ja/doc-synopsis-style: doc: pull-fetch-param typofix doc: convert git push to synopsis style doc: convert git pull to synopsis style doc: convert git fetch to synopsis style
2025-11-24Merge branch 'sa/replay-atomic-ref-updates'Junio C Hamano1-0/+11
"git replay" (experimental) learned to perform ref updates itself in a transaction by default, instead of emitting where each refs should point at and leaving the actual update to another command. * sa/replay-atomic-ref-updates: replay: add replay.refAction config option replay: make atomic ref updates the default behavior replay: use die_for_incompatible_opt2() for option validation
2025-11-19doc: convert git push to synopsis styleJean-Noël Avila1-54/+59
- 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. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-19doc: convert git fetch to synopsis styleJean-Noël Avila1-30/+30
- 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. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-12whitespace: allocate a few more bits and define WS_INCOMPLETE_LINEJunio C Hamano1-0/+2
Reserve a few more bits in the diff flags word to be used for future whitespace rules. Add WS_INCOMPLETE_LINE without implementing the behaviour (yet). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-05replay: add replay.refAction config optionSiddharth Asthana1-0/+11
Add a configuration variable to control the default behavior of git replay for updating references. This allows users who prefer the traditional pipeline output to set it once in their config instead of passing --ref-action=print with every command. The config variable uses string values that mirror the behavior modes: * replay.refAction = update (default): atomic ref updates * replay.refAction = print: output commands for pipeline Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Helped-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-03Merge branch 'ps/maintenance-geometric'Junio C Hamano1-8/+41
"git maintenance" command learns the "geometric" strategy where it avoids doing maintenance tasks that rebuilds everything from scratch. * ps/maintenance-geometric: t7900: fix a flaky test due to git-repack always regenerating MIDX builtin/maintenance: introduce "geometric" strategy builtin/maintenance: make "gc" strategy accessible builtin/maintenance: extend "maintenance.strategy" to manual maintenance builtin/maintenance: run maintenance tasks depending on type builtin/maintenance: improve readability of strategies builtin/maintenance: don't silently ignore invalid strategy builtin/maintenance: make the geometric factor configurable builtin/maintenance: introduce "geometric-repack" task builtin/gc: make `too_many_loose_objects()` reusable without GC config builtin/gc: remove global `repack` variable
2025-10-30Merge branch 'ps/symlink-symref-deprecation'Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
"Symlink symref" has been added to the list of things that will disappear at Git 3.0 boundary. * ps/symlink-symref-deprecation: refs/files: deprecate writing symrefs as symbolic links
2025-10-24builtin/maintenance: introduce "geometric" strategyPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+9
We have two different repacking strategies in Git: - The "gc" strategy uses git-gc(1). - The "incremental" strategy uses multi-pack indices and `git multi-pack-index repack` to merge together smaller packfiles as determined by a specific batch size. The former strategy is our old and trusted default, whereas the latter has historically been used for our scheduled maintenance. But both strategies have their shortcomings: - The "gc" strategy performs regular all-into-one repacks. Furthermore it is rather inflexible, as it is not easily possible for a user to enable or disable specific subtasks. - The "incremental" strategy is not a full replacement for the "gc" strategy as it doesn't know to prune stale data. So today, we don't have a strategy that is well-suited for large repos while being a full replacement for the "gc" strategy. Introduce a new "geometric" strategy that aims to fill this gap. This strategy invokes all the usual cleanup tasks that git-gc(1) does like pruning reflogs and rerere caches as well as stale worktrees. But where it differs from both the "gc" and "incremental" strategy is that it uses our geometric repacking infrastructure exposed by git-repack(1) to repack packfiles. The advantage of geometric repacking is that we only need to perform an all-into-one repack when the object count in a repo has grown significantly. One downside of this strategy is that pruning of unreferenced objects is not going to happen regularly anymore. Every geometric repack knows to soak up all loose objects regardless of their reachability, and merging two or more packs doesn't consider reachability, either. Consequently, the number of unreachable objects will grow over time. This is remedied by doing an all-into-one repack instead of a geometric repack whenever we determine that the geometric repack would end up merging all packfiles anyway. This all-into-one repack then performs our usual reachability checks and writes unreachable objects into a cruft pack. As cruft packs won't ever be merged during geometric repacks we can thus phase out these objects over time. Of course, this still means that we retain unreachable objects for far longer than with the "gc" strategy. But the maintenance strategy is intended especially for large repositories, where the basic assumption is that the set of unreachable objects will be significantly dwarfed by the number of reachable objects. If this assumption is ever proven to be too disadvantageous we could for example introduce a time-based strategy: if the largest packfile has not been touched for longer than $T, we perform an all-into-one repack. But for now, such a mechanism is deferred into the future as it is not clear yet whether it is needed in the first place. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-24builtin/maintenance: make "gc" strategy accessiblePatrick Steinhardt1-0/+2
While the user can pick the "incremental" maintenance strategy, it is not possible to explicitly use the "gc" strategy. This has two downsides: - It is impossible to use the default "gc" strategy for a specific repository when the strategy was globally set to a different strategy. - It is not possible to use git-gc(1) for scheduled maintenance. Address these issues by making making the "gc" strategy configurable. Furthermore, extend the strategy so that git-gc(1) runs for both manual and scheduled maintenance. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-24builtin/maintenance: extend "maintenance.strategy" to manual maintenancePatrick Steinhardt1-8/+14
The "maintenance.strategy" configuration allows users to configure how Git is supposed to perform repository maintenance. The idea is that we provide a set of high-level strategies that may be useful in different contexts, like for example when handling a large monorepo. Furthermore, the strategy can be tweaked by the user by overriding specific tasks. In its current form though, the strategy only applies to scheduled maintenance. This creates something of a gap, as scheduled and manual maintenance will now use _different_ strategies as the latter would continue to use git-gc(1) by default. This makes the strategies way less useful than they could be on the one hand. But even more importantly, the two different strategies might clash with one another, where one of the strategies performs maintenance in such a way that it discards benefits from the other strategy. So ideally, it should be possible to pick one strategy that then applies globally to all the different ways that we perform maintenance. This doesn't necessarily mean that the strategy always does the _same_ thing for every maintenance type. But it means that the strategy can configure the different types to work in tandem with each other. Change the meaning of "maintenance.strategy" accordingly so that the strategy is applied to both types, manual and scheduled. As preceding commits have introduced logic to run maintenance tasks depending on this type we can tweak strategies so that they perform those tasks depending on the context. Note that this raises the question of backwards compatibility: when the user has configured the "incremental" strategy we would have ignored that strategy beforehand. Instead, repository maintenance would have continued to use git-gc(1) by default. But luckily, we can match that behaviour by: - Keeping all current tasks of the incremental strategy as `MAINTENANCE_TYPE_SCHEDULED`. This ensures that those tasks will not run during manual maintenance. - Configuring the "gc" task so that it is invoked during manual maintenance. Like this, the user shouldn't observe any difference in behaviour. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-24builtin/maintenance: make the geometric factor configurablePatrick Steinhardt1-0/+5
The geometric repacking task uses a factor of two for its geometric sequence, meaning that each next pack must contain at least twice as many objects as the next-smaller one. In some cases it may be helpful to configure this factor though to reduce the number of packfile merges even further, e.g. in very big repositories. But while git-repack(1) itself supports doing this, the maintenance task does not give us a way to tune it. Introduce a new "maintenance.geometric-repack.splitFactor" configuration to plug this gap. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-24builtin/maintenance: introduce "geometric-repack" taskPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+11
Introduce a new "geometric-repack" task. This task uses our geometric repack infrastructure as provided by git-repack(1) itself, which is a strategy that especially hosting providers tend to use to amortize the costs of repacking objects. There is one issue though with geometric repacks, namely that they unconditionally pack all loose objects, regardless of whether or not they are reachable. This is done because it means that we can completely skip the reachability step, which significantly speeds up the operation. But it has the big downside that we are unable to expire objects over time. To address this issue we thus use a split strategy in this new task: whenever a geometric repack would merge together all packs, we instead do an all-into-one repack. By default, these all-into-one repacks have cruft packs enabled, so unreachable objects would now be written into their own pack. Consequently, they won't be soaked up during geometric repacking anymore and can be expired with the next full repack, assuming that their expiry date has surpassed. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-22commit-graph: add new config for changed-paths & recommend it in scalarEmily Yang1-0/+11
The changed-path Bloom filters feature has proven stable and reliable over several years of use, delivering significant performance improvement for file history computation in large monorepos. Currently a user can opt-in to writing the changed-path Bloom filters using the "--changed-paths" option to "git commit-graph write". The filters will be persisted until the user drops the filters using the "--no-changed-paths" option. For this functionality, refer to 0087a87ba8 (commit-graph: persist existence of changed-paths, 2020-07-01). Large monorepos using Git's background maintenance to build and update commit-graph files could use an easy switch to enable this feature without a foreground computation. In this commit, we're proposing a new config option "commitGraph.changedPaths": * If "true", "git commit-graph write" will write Bloom filters, equivalent to passing "--changed-paths"; * If "false" or "unset", Bloom filters will be written during "git commit-graph write" only if the filters already exist in the current commit-graph file. This matches the default behaviour of "git commit-graph write" without any "--[no-]changed-paths" option. Note "false" can disable a previous "true" config value but doesn't imply "--no-changed-paths". This config will always respect the precedence of command line option "--[no-]changed-paths". We also set this new config as optional recommended config in scalar to turn on this feature for large repos. Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Emily Yang <emilyyang.git@gmail.com> Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-20Merge branch 'kh/doc-continued-paragraph-fix'Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Doc mark-up fixes. * kh/doc-continued-paragraph-fix: doc: fix accidental literal blocks
2025-10-20Merge branch 'dk/stash-apply-index'Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
Doc update. * dk/stash-apply-index: doc: explain the impact of stash.index on --autostash options
2025-10-15refs/files: deprecate writing symrefs as symbolic linksPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+3
The "files" backend has the ability to store symbolic refs as symbolic links, which can be configured via "core.preferSymlinkRefs". This feature stems back from the early days: the initial implementation of symbolic refs used symlinks exclusively. The symref format was only introduced in 9b143c6e15 (Teach update-ref about a symbolic ref stored in a textfile., 2005-09-25) and made the default in 9f0bb90d16 (core.prefersymlinkrefs: use symlinks for .git/HEAD, 2006-05-02). This is all about 20 years ago, and there are no known reasons nowadays why one would want to use symlinks instead of symrefs. Mark the feature for deprecation in Git 3.0. Note that this only deprecates _writing_ symrefs as symbolic links. Reading such symrefs is still supported for now. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-14Merge branch 'jn/doc-synopsis'Junio C Hamano3-25/+40
Doc-mark-up modernization continues. * jn/doc-synopsis: doc: convert git worktree to synopsis style doc: convert git tag to synopsis style doc: convert git-stash.adoc to synopis style
2025-10-13Merge branch 'ja/doc-markup-attached-paragraph-fix'Junio C Hamano1-13/+13
Documentation mark-up fix. * 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
2025-10-10doc: fix accidental literal blocksKristoffer Haugsbakk1-2/+2
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>
2025-10-09doc: explain the impact of stash.index on --autostash optionsD. Ben Knoble1-0/+4
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>
2025-10-07doc: fix indentation of refStorage item in git-config(1)Jeff King1-1/+2
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: $ ./doc-diff --asciidoctor 5a12fd2a8c^ 5a12fd2a8c --- a/c44beea485f0f2feaf460e2ac87fdd5608d63cf0-asciidoctor/home/peff/share/man/man1/git-config.1 +++ b/5a12fd2a8c850df311aa149c9bad87b7cb002abb-asciidoctor/home/peff/share/man/man1/git-config.1 @@ -3128,9 +3128,9 @@ CONFIGURATION FILE • reftable for the reftable format. This format is experimental and its internals are subject to change. - 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>
2025-10-05doc: convert git worktree to synopsis styleJean-Noël Avila1-7/+7
- 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>
2025-10-05doc: convert git tag to synopsis styleJean-Noël Avila1-8/+14
- 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>
2025-10-05doc: convert git-stash.adoc to synopis styleJean-Noël Avila1-10/+19
- 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>
2025-10-02Merge branch 'kh/you-still-use-whatchanged-fix'Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
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
2025-09-29Merge branch 'dk/stash-apply-index'Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
The stash.index configuration variable can be set to make "git stash pop/apply" pretend that it was invoked with "--index". * dk/stash-apply-index: stash: honor stash.index in apply, pop modes stash: refactor private config globals t3905: remove unneeded blank line t3903: reduce dependencies on previous tests
2025-09-27doc: change the markup of paragraphs following a nested list itemJean-Noël Avila1-12/+11
Asciidoctor and asciidoc.py have different behaviors when a paragraph follows a nested list item. Asciidoctor has a bug[1] that makes it keep a plus sign (+) used to attached paragraphs at the beginning of the paragraph. This commit uses workarounds to avoid this problem by using second level definition lists and open blocks. [1]:https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/4704 Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-23Merge branch 'cc/promisor-remote-capability'Junio C Hamano1-0/+61
The "promisor-remote" capability mechanism has been updated to allow the "partialCloneFilter" settings and the "token" value to be communicated from the server side. * cc/promisor-remote-capability: promisor-remote: use string_list_split() in mark_remotes_as_accepted() promisor-remote: allow a client to check fields promisor-remote: use string_list_split() in filter_promisor_remote() promisor-remote: refactor how we parse advertised fields promisor-remote: use string constants for 'name' and 'url' too promisor-remote: allow a server to advertise more fields promisor-remote: refactor to get rid of 'struct strvec'
2025-09-21stash: honor stash.index in apply, pop modesD. Ben Knoble1-0/+5
With stash.index=true, git-stash(1) command now tries to reinstate the index by default in the "apply" and "pop" modes. Not doing so creates a common trap [1], [2]: "git stash apply" is not the reverse of "git stash push" because carefully staged indices are lost and have to be manually recreated. OTOH, this mode is not always desirable and may create more conflicts when applying stashes. As usual, "--no-index" will disable this behavior if you set "stash.index". [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPx1GvcxyDDQmCssMjEnt6JoV6qPc5ZUpgPLX3mpUC_4PNYA1w@mail.gmail.com/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/c5a811ac-8cd3-c389-ac6d-29020a648c87@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-18Merge branch 'ag/send-email-imap-sent'Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
"git send-email" learned to drive "git imap-send" to store already sent e-mails in an IMAP folder. * ag/send-email-imap-sent: send-email: enable copying emails to an IMAP folder without actually sending them send-email: add ability to send a copy of sent emails to an IMAP folder
2025-09-18Merge branch 'pw/3.0-commentchar-auto-deprecation'Junio C Hamano1-2/+18
"core.commentChar=auto" that attempts to dynamically pick a suitable comment character is non-workable, as it is too much trouble to support for little benefit, and is marked as deprecated. * pw/3.0-commentchar-auto-deprecation: commit: print advice when core.commentString=auto config: warn on core.commentString=auto breaking-changes: deprecate support for core.commentString=auto
2025-09-17git: allow alias-shadowing deprecated builtinsKristoffer Haugsbakk1-1/+2
git-whatchanged(1) is deprecated and you need to pass `--i-still-use-this` in order to force it to work as before. There are two affected users, or usages: 1. people who use the command in scripts; and 2. people who are used to using it interactively. For (1) the replacement is straightforward.[1] But people in (2) might like the name or be really used to typing it.[3] An obvious first thought is to suggest aliasing `whatchanged` to the git-log(1) equivalent.[1] But this doesn’t work and is awkward since you cannot shadow builtins via aliases. Now you are left in an uncomfortable limbo; your alias won’t work until the command is removed for good. Let’s lift this limitation by allowing *deprecated* builtins to be shadowed by aliases. The only observed demand for aliasing has been for git-whatchanged(1), not for git-pack-redundant(1). But let’s be consistent and treat all deprecated commands the same. [1]: git log --raw --no-merges With a minor caveat: you get different outputs if you happen to have empty commits (no changes)[2] [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250825085428.GA367101@coredump.intra.peff.net/ [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/BL3P221MB0449288C8B0FA448A227FD48833AA@BL3P221MB0449.NAMP221.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM/ Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-15Merge branch 'mm/worktree-doc-typofix'Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Docfix. * mm/worktree-doc-typofix: docs: fix typo in worktree.adoc 'extension'
2025-09-12Merge branch 'km/alias-doc-markup-fix'Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Docfix. * km/alias-doc-markup-fix: doc: fix formatting of function-wrap shell alias
2025-09-08promisor-remote: allow a client to check fieldsChristian Couder1-0/+39
A previous commit allowed a server to pass additional fields through the "promisor-remote" protocol capability after the "name" and "url" fields, specifically the "partialCloneFilter" and "token" fields. Let's make it possible for a client to check if these fields match what it expects before accepting a promisor remote. We allow this by introducing a new "promisor.checkFields" configuration variable. It should contain a comma or space separated list of fields that will be checked. By limiting the protocol to specific well-defined fields, we ensure both server and client have a shared understanding of field semantics and usage. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-08promisor-remote: allow a server to advertise more fieldsChristian Couder1-0/+22
For now the "promisor-remote" protocol capability can only pass "name" and "url" information from a server to a client in the form "name=<remote_name>,url=<remote_url>". To allow clients to make more informed decisions about which promisor remotes they accept, let's make it possible to pass more information by introducing a new "promisor.sendFields" configuration variable. On the server side, information about a remote `foo` is stored in configuration variables named `remote.foo.<variable-name>`. To make it clearer and simpler, we use `field` and `field name` like this: * `field name` refers to the <variable-name> part of such a configuration variable, and * `field` refers to both the `field name` and the value of such a configuration variable. The "promisor.sendFields" configuration variable should contain a comma or space separated list of field names that will be looked up in the configuration of the remote on the server to find the values that will be passed to the client. Only a set of predefined field names are allowed. The only field names in this set are "partialCloneFilter" and "token". The "partialCloneFilter" field name specifies the filter definition used by the promisor remote, and the "token" field name can provide an authentication credential for accessing it. For example, if "promisor.sendFields" is set to "partialCloneFilter", and the server has the "remote.foo.partialCloneFilter" config variable set to a value, then that value will be passed in the "partialCloneFilter" field in the form "partialCloneFilter=<value>" after the "name" and "url" fields. A following commit will allow the client to use the information to decide if it accepts the remote or not. For now the client doesn't do anything with the additional information it receives. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-03docs: fix typo in worktree.adoc 'extension'Mikhail Malinouski1-1/+1
The documentation incorrectly referred to the extension without an 's'. This fixes the typo for clarity. Signed-off-by: Mikhail Malinouski <m.l.malinouski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-02doc: fix formatting of function-wrap shell aliasKyle E. Mitchell1-1/+1
Add a missed backtick to the end of a code segment so that it will be rendered like preceding examples. I deeply appreciate the thoroughness of this documentation. I noticed the formatting discrepancy reading https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config. Signed-off-by: Kyle E. Mitchell <kyle@kemitchell.com> Acked-by: Jean-Noël AVILA <avila.jn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-02Merge branch 'kh/doc-config-typofix'Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Documentation typofix. * kh/doc-config-typofix: doc: config: replace backtick with apostrophe for possessive
2025-08-28Merge branch 'bc/doc-compat-object-format-not-working'Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
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
2025-08-26breaking-changes: deprecate support for core.commentString=autoPhillip Wood1-2/+18
When "core.commentString" is set to "auto" then "git commit" will automatically select the comment character ensuring that it is not the first character on any of the lines in the commit message. This was introduced by commit 84c9dc2c5a2 (commit: allow core.commentChar=auto for character auto selection, 2014-05-17). The motivation seems to be to avoid commenting out lines from the existing message when amending a commit that was created with a message from a file. Unfortunately this feature does not work with: * commit message templates that contain comments. * prepare-commit-msg hooks that introduce comments. * "git commit --cleanup=strip --edit -F <file>" which means that it is incompatible with - the "fixup" and "squash" commands of "git rebase -i" as the comments added by those commands are then treated as part of the commit message. - the conflict comments added to the commit message by "git cherry-pick", "git rebase" etc. as these comments are then treated as part of the commit message. It is also ignored by "git notes" when amending a note. The issues with comments coming from a template, hook or file are a consequence of the design of this feature and are therefore hard to fix. As the costs of this feature outweigh the benefits, deprecate it and remove it in Git 3.0. If someone comes up with some patches that fix all the issues in a maintainable way then I'd be happy to see this change reverted. The next commits will add a warning and some advice for users on how they can update their config settings. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-26docs: note that extensions.compatobjectformat is incompletebrian m. carlson1-0/+4
The compatibility object format is only implemented for loose objects, not packed objects, so anyone attempting to push or fetch data into a repository with this option will likely not see it work as expected. In addition, the underlying storage of loose object mapping is likely to change because the current format is inefficient and does not handle important mapping information such as that of submodules. It would have been preferable to initially document that this was not yet ready for prime time, but we did not do so. We hinted at the fact that this functionality is incomplete in the description, but did not say so explicitly. Let's do so now: indicate that this feature is incomplete and subject to change and that the option is not designed to be used by end users. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-25doc: config: replace backtick with apostrophe for possessiveKristoffer Haugsbakk1-1/+1
Revert back to “Git's” which was used before d30c5cc4592 (doc: convert git-mergetool options to new synopsis style, 2025-05-25) accidentally changed it. Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-21Merge branch 'kh/doc-git-log-markup-fix'Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Doc update. * kh/doc-git-log-markup-fix: doc: git-log: fix description list
2025-08-12send-email: enable copying emails to an IMAP folder without actually sending ↵Aditya Garg1-0/+1
them `git imap-send` was built on the idea of copying emails to an IMAP folder like drafts, and sending them later using an email client. Currently the only way to do it is by piping output of `git format-patch` to IMAP send. Add another way to do it by using `git send-email` with the `--use-imap-only` or `sendmail.useImapOnly` option. This allows users to use the advanced features of `git send-email` like tweaking Cc: list programmatically, compose the cover letter, etc. and then send the well formatted emails to an IMAP folder using `git imap-send`. While at it, use `` instead of '' for --smtp-encryption ssl in help section of `git send-email`. Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-12send-email: add ability to send a copy of sent emails to an IMAP folderAditya Garg1-0/+1
Some email providers like Apple iCloud Mail do not support sending a copy of sent emails to the "Sent" folder if SMTP server is used. As a workaround, various email clients like Thunderbird which rely on SMTP, use IMAP to send a copy of sent emails to the "Sent" folder. Something similar can be done if sending emails via `git send-email`, by using the `git imap-send` command to send a copy of the sent email to an IMAP folder specified by the user. Add this functionality to `git send-email` by introducing a new configuration variable `sendemail.imapfolder` and command line option `--imap-folder` which specifies the IMAP folder to send a copy of the sent emails to. If specified, a copy of the sent emails will be sent by piping the emails to `git imap-send` command, after all emails are sent via SMTP and the SMTP server has been closed. Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-08doc: git-log: fix description listKristoffer Haugsbakk1-2/+2
b27be108c89 (doc: git-log: convert log config to new doc format, 2025-07-07) intended to convert a paragraph describing the different options for `log.decorate` into a description list. But the literal block syntax was used by mistake. Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-03mingw: drop Windows 7-specific work-aroundJohannes Schindelin1-6/+0
In ac33519ddfa8 (mingw: restrict file handle inheritance only on Windows 7 and later, 2019-11-22), I introduced code to safe-guard the defense-in-depth handling that restricts handles' inheritance so that it would work with Windows 7, too. Let's revert this patch: Git for Windows dropped supporting Windows 7 (and Windows 8) directly after Git for Windows v2.46.2. For full details, see https://gitforwindows.org/requirements#windows-version. Actually, on second thought: revert only the part that makes this handle inheritance restriction logic optional and that suggests to open a bug report if it fails, but keep the fall-back to try again without said logic: There have been a few false positives over the past few years (where the warning was triggered e.g. because Defender was still accessing a file that Git wanted to overwrite), and the fall-back logic seems to have helped occasionally in such situations. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-01Merge branch 'ly/pull-autostash'Junio C Hamano1-0/+16
"git pull" learned to pay attention to pull.autostash configuration variable, which overrides rebase/merge.autostash. * ly/pull-autostash: pull: add pull.autoStash config option
2025-07-21pull: add pull.autoStash config optionLidong Yan1-0/+16
Git uses `rebase.autostash` or `merge.autostash` to determine whether a dirty worktree is allowed during pull. However, this behavior is not clearly documented, making it difficult for users to discover how to enable autostash, or causing them to unknowingly enable it. Add new config option `pull.autostash` along with its documentation and test cases. `pull.autostash` provides the same functionality as `rebase.autostash` and `merge.autostash`, but overrides them when set. If `pull.autostash` is not set, it falls back to `rebase.autostash` or `merge.autostash`, depending on the value of `pull.rebase`. Signed-off-by: Lidong Yan <yldhome2d2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-21Merge branch 'jb/gpg-program-variable-is-a-pathname'Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The gpg.program configuration variable, which names a pathname to the (custom) GPG compatible program, can now be spelled with ~tilde expansion. * jb/gpg-program-variable-is-a-pathname: gpg-interface: expand gpg.program as a path
2025-07-21Merge branch 'ja/doc-git-log-markup'Junio C Hamano1-21/+26
Doc mark-up updates. * ja/doc-git-log-markup: doc: git-log: convert log config to new doc format doc: git-log: convert diff options to new doc format doc: git-log: convert pretty formats to new doc format doc: git-log: convert pretty options to new doc format doc: git-log: convert rev list options to new doc format doc: git-log: convert line range format to new doc format doc: git-log: convert line range options to new doc format doc: git-log convert rev-list-description to new doc format doc: convert git-log to new documentation format
2025-07-21Merge branch 'tb/midx-avoid-cruft-packs'Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
"pack-objects" has been taught to avoid pointing into objects in cruft packs from midx. * tb/midx-avoid-cruft-packs: repack: exclude cruft pack(s) from the MIDX where possible pack-objects: introduce '--stdin-packs=follow' pack-objects: swap 'show_{object,commit}_pack_hint' pack-objects: fix typo in 'show_object_pack_hint()' pack-objects: perform name-hash traversal for unpacked objects pack-objects: declare 'rev_info' for '--stdin-packs' earlier pack-objects: factor out handling '--stdin-packs' pack-objects: limit scope in 'add_object_entry_from_pack()' pack-objects: use standard option incompatibility functions
2025-07-16Merge branch 'ag/doc-send-email'Junio C Hamano1-2/+7
Documentation updates for "git send-email". * ag/doc-send-email: docs: mention possible options for Proton Mail users docs: add a paragraph explaining the `sendmailCmd` option of sendemail docs: add an OAuth2.0 credential helper for AOL accounts docs: add outlookidfix config option to sendemail documentation docs: link OpenSSL's verify(1) manual page to know about -CAfile and -CApath options
2025-07-14Merge branch 'ps/use-reftable-as-default-in-3.0'Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
The reftable ref backend has matured enough; Git 3.0 will make it the default format in a newly created repositories by default. * ps/use-reftable-as-default-in-3.0: setup: use "reftable" format when experimental features are enabled BreakingChanges: announce switch to "reftable" format
2025-07-14gpg-interface: expand gpg.program as a pathJonas Brandstötter1-1/+1
This allows using a custom gpg program under the user's home directory by specifying a path starting with '~' [gpg] program = "~/.local/bin/mygpg" Signed-off-by: Jonas Brandstötter <jonas.brandstoetter@gmx.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-07Merge branch 'jj/doc-branch-markup-fix'Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Doc markup fix. * jj/doc-branch-markup-fix: doc: improve formatting in branch section
2025-07-07doc: git-log: convert log config to new doc formatJean-Noël Avila1-22/+34
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to these spans. - Explain possible options in description list instead of in a paragraph. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-07setup: use "reftable" format when experimental features are enabledPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+6
With the preceding commit we have announced the switch to the "reftable" format in Git 3.0 for newly created repositories. The format is being battle tested by GitLab and a couple of other developers, and except for a small handful of issues exposed early after it has been merged it has been rock solid. Regardless of that though the test user base is still comparatively small, which increases the risk that we miss critical bugs. Address this by enabling the reftable format when experimental features are enabled. This should increase the test user base by some margin and thus give us more input before making the format the default. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-02Merge branch 'ag/imap-send-resurrection'Junio C Hamano1-4/+7
"git imap-send" has been broken for a long time, which has been resurrected and then taught to talk OAuth2.0 etc. * ag/imap-send-resurrection: imap-send: fix minor mistakes in the logs imap-send: display the destination mailbox when sending a message imap-send: display port alongwith host when git credential is invoked imap-send: add ability to list the available folders imap-send: enable specifying the folder using the command line imap-send: add PLAIN authentication method to OpenSSL imap-send: add support for OAuth2.0 authentication imap-send: gracefully fail if CRAM-MD5 authentication is requested without OpenSSL imap-send: fix memory leak in case auth_cram_md5 fails imap-send: fix bug causing cfg->folder being set to NULL
2025-06-30Merge branch 'jc/merge-compact-summary'Junio C Hamano1-2/+12
"git merge/pull" has been taught the "--compact-summary" option to use the compact-summary format, intead of diffstat, when showing the summary of the incoming changes. * jc/merge-compact-summary: merge/pull: extend merge.stat configuration variable to cover --compact-summary merge/pull: add the "--compact-summary" option
2025-06-30docs: add outlookidfix config option to sendemail documentationAditya Garg1-2/+7
The documentation for command line option `--outlook-id-fix` is there in the sendemail documentation, but the config option `sendemail.outlookidfix` was missing. Add the same to the documentation. White at it, also enclose the values `true` and `false` in backticks in the documentation for `sendemail.mailmap`. Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-06-30doc: improve formatting in branch sectionJakub Ječmínek1-2/+2
The 'branch' section of the git-config documentation was missing inline code formatting and emphasis for the <name> placeholder. Both changes improve readability, especially when viewed online. Signed-off-by: Jakub Ječmínek <kuba@kubajecminek.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-06-25Merge branch 'jc/you-still-use-whatchanged'Junio C Hamano2-2/+15
"git whatchanged" that is longer to type than "git log --raw" which is its modern rough equivalent has outlived its usefulness more than 10 years ago. Plan to deprecate and remove it. * jc/you-still-use-whatchanged: whatschanged: list it in BreakingChanges document whatchanged: remove when built with WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES whatchanged: require --i-still-use-this tests: prepare for a world without whatchanged doc: prepare for a world without whatchanged you-still-use-that??: help deprecating commands for removal
2025-06-23repack: exclude cruft pack(s) from the MIDX where possibleTaylor Blau1-0/+7
In ddee3703b3 (builtin/repack.c: add cruft packs to MIDX during geometric repack, 2022-05-20), repack began adding cruft pack(s) to the MIDX with '--write-midx' to ensure that the resulting MIDX was always closed under reachability in order to generate reachability bitmaps. While the previous patch added the '--stdin-packs=follow' option to pack-objects, it is not yet on by default. Given that, suppose you have a once-unreachable object packed in a cruft pack, which later becomes reachable from one or more objects in a geometrically repacked pack. That once-unreachable object *won't* appear in the new pack, since the cruft pack was not specified as included or excluded when the geometrically repacked pack was created with 'pack-objects --stdin-packs' (*not* '--stdin-packs=follow', which is not on). If that new pack is included in a MIDX without the cruft pack, then trying to generate bitmaps for that MIDX may fail. This happens when the bitmap selection process picks one or more commits which reach the once-unreachable objects. To mitigate this failure mode, commit ddee3703b3 ensures that the MIDX will be closed under reachability by including cruft pack(s). If cruft pack(s) were not included, we would fail to generate a MIDX bitmap. But ddee3703b3 alludes to the fact that this is sub-optimal by saying [...] it's desirable to avoid including cruft packs in the MIDX because it causes the MIDX to store a bunch of objects which are likely to get thrown away. , which is true, but hides an even larger problem. If repositories rarely prune their unreachable objects and/or have many of them, the MIDX must keep track of a large number of objects which bloats the MIDX and slows down object lookup. This is doubly unfortunate because the vast majority of objects in cruft pack(s) are unlikely to be read. But any object lookups that go through the MIDX must binary search over them anyway, slowing down object lookups using the MIDX. This patch causes geometrically-repacked packs to contain a copy of any once-unreachable object(s) with 'git pack-objects --stdin-packs=follow', allowing us to avoid including any cruft packs in the MIDX. This is because a sequence of geometrically-repacked packs that were all generated with '--stdin-packs=follow' are guaranteed to have their union be closed under reachability. Note that you cannot guarantee that a collection of packs is closed under reachability if not all of them were generated with "following" as above. One tell-tale sign that not all geometrically-repacked packs in the MIDX were generated with "following" is to see if there is a pack in the existing MIDX that is not going to be somehow represented (either verbatim or as part of a geometric rollup) in the new MIDX. If there is, then starting to generate packs with "following" during geometric repacking won't work, since it's open to the same race as described above. But if you're starting from scratch (e.g., building the first MIDX after an all-into-one '--cruft' repack), then you can guarantee that the union of subsequently generated packs from geometric repacking *is* closed under reachability. (One exception here is when "starting from scratch" results in a noop repack, e.g., because the non-cruft pack(s) in a repository already form a geometric progression. Since we can't tell whether or not those were generated with '--stdin-packs=follow', they may depend on once-unreachable objects, so we have to include the cruft pack in the MIDX in this case.) Detect when this is the case and avoid including cruft packs in the MIDX where possible. The existing behavior remains the default, and the new behavior is available with the config 'repack.midxMustIncludeCruft' set to 'false'. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-06-20imap-send: enable specifying the folder using the command lineAditya Garg1-2/+4
Some users may very often want to imap-send messages to a folder other than the default set in the config. Add a command line argument for the same. While at it, fix minor mark-up inconsistencies in the existing documentation text. Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-06-20imap-send: add PLAIN authentication method to OpenSSLAditya Garg1-2/+2
The current implementation for PLAIN in imap-send works just fine if using curl, but if attempted to use for OpenSSL, it is treated as an invalid mechanism. The default implementation for OpenSSL is IMAP LOGIN command rather than AUTH PLAIN. Since AUTH PLAIN is still used today by many email providers in form of app passwords, lets add an implementation that can use AUTH PLAIN if specified. Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-06-20imap-send: add support for OAuth2.0 authenticationAditya Garg1-2/+3
OAuth2.0 is a new way of authentication supported by various email providers these days. OAUTHBEARER and XOAUTH2 are the two most common mechanisms used for OAuth2.0. OAUTHBEARER is described in RFC5801[1] and RFC7628[2], whereas XOAUTH2 is Google's proprietary mechanism (See [3]). [1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5801 [2]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7628 [3]: https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/imap/xoauth2-protocol#initial_client_response Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-06-17Merge branch 'ag/send-email-docs'Junio C Hamano1-10/+10
Documentation for "git send-email" has been updated with a bit more credential helper and OAuth information. * ag/send-email-docs: docs: make the purpose of using app password for Gmail more clear in send-email docs: remove credential helper links for emails from gitcredentials docs: improve formatting in git-send-email documentation docs: add credential helper for yahoo and link Google's sendgmail tool
2025-06-17Merge branch 'ds/path-walk-2'Junio C Hamano2-0/+8
"git pack-objects" learns to find delta bases from blobs at the same path, using the --path-walk API. * ds/path-walk-2: pack-objects: allow --shallow and --path-walk path-walk: add new 'edge_aggressive' option pack-objects: thread the path-based compression pack-objects: refactor path-walk delta phase scalar: enable path-walk during push via config pack-objects: enable --path-walk via config repack: add --path-walk option t5538: add tests to confirm deltas in shallow pushes pack-objects: introduce GIT_TEST_PACK_PATH_WALK p5313: add performance tests for --path-walk pack-objects: update usage to match docs pack-objects: add --path-walk option pack-objects: extract should_attempt_deltas()
2025-06-13merge/pull: extend merge.stat configuration variable to cover --compact-summaryJunio C Hamano1-2/+12
Existing `merge.stat` configuration variable is a Boolean that defaults to `true` to control `git merge --[no-]stat` behaviour. Extend it to be "Boolean or text", that takes false, true, or "compact", with the last one triggering the --compact-summary option introduced earlier. Any other values are taken as the same as true, instead of signaling an error---it is not a grave enough offence to stop their merge. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-06-02completion: make sed command that generates config-list.h portable.Collin Funk2-2/+4
The OpenBSD 'sed' command does not support '\n' to represent newlines in sed expressions. This leads to the follow compiler error: In file included from builtin/help.c:15: ./config-list.h:282:18: error: use of undeclared identifier 'n' "gitcvs.dbUser",n "gitcvs.dbPass", ^ 1 error generated. gmake: *** [Makefile:2821: builtin/help.o] Error 1 We can fix this by documenting related configuration variables one-per-line instead of listing them separated by commas. This allows us to remove the unportable part of the sed expression in generate-configlist.sh. Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-06-02Merge branch 'ja/doc-synopsis-style'Junio C Hamano4-78/+82
Doc mark-up fixes. * ja/doc-synopsis-style: doc: convert git-switch manpage to new synopsis style doc: convert git-mergetool options to new synopsis style doc: convert git-mergetool manpage to new synopsis style doc: switch merge config description to new synopsis format doc: convert merge strategies to synopsis format doc: merge-options.adoc remove a misleading double negation doc: convert merge options to new synopsis format doc: convert git-merge manpage to new style doc: convert git-checkout manpage to new style
2025-05-30docs: improve formatting in git-send-email documentationAditya Garg1-10/+10
The current documentation for git-send-email had an inconsistent use of "", ``, and '' for quoting. This commit improves the formatting by using the same style throughout the documentation. Missing full stops have also been added at some places. Finally, the cpan links of necessary perl modules have been added to make their installation easier. While at it, the unecessary use of $ with <num> and <int> placeholders has also been removed. Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-05-27doc: config: mention core.commentChar on commit.cleanupKristoffer Haugsbakk1-3/+4
Mention it in parentheses since we are in a configuration context. Refer to the default as such, not as “the” character. Also don’t mention `#` again; just say “comment character”. Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-05-27doc: convert git-mergetool options to new synopsis styleJean-Noël Avila1-27/+27
- 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. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-05-27doc: switch merge config description to new synopsis formatJean-Noël Avila2-44/+48
- 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. Additionally, a list of option possible values has been reformatted as a standalone definition list. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-05-27doc: convert git-checkout manpage to new styleJean-Noël Avila1-7/+7
- 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. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-05-16pack-objects: enable --path-walk via configDerrick Stolee2-0/+8
Users may want to enable the --path-walk option for 'git pack-objects' by default, especially underneath commands like 'git push' or 'git repack'. This should be limited to client repositories, since the --path-walk option disables bitmap walks, so would be bad to include in Git servers when serving fetches and clones. There is potential that it may be helpful to consider when repacking the repository, to take advantage of improved deltas across historical versions of the same files. Much like how "pack.useSparse" was introduced and included in "feature.experimental" before being enabled by default, use the repository settings infrastructure to make the new "pack.usePathWalk" config enabled by "feature.experimental" and "feature.manyFiles". In order to test that this config works, add a new trace2 region around the path walk code that can be checked by a 'git push' command. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-05-12whatchanged: remove when built with WITH_BREAKING_CHANGESJunio C Hamano2-2/+15
As we made "git whatchanged" require "--i-still-use-this" and asked the users to report if they still want to use it, the logical next step is to allow us build Git without "whatchanged" to prepare for its eventual removal. If we were to follow the pattern established in 8ccc75c2 (remote: announce removal of "branches/" and "remotes/", 2025-01-22), we can do this together with the documentation update to officially list that the command will be removed in the BreakingChanges document, but let's just keep the changes separate just in case we want to proceed a bit slower. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-05-07builtin/maintenance: introduce "rerere-gc" taskPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+9
While git-gc(1) knows to garbage collect the rerere cache, git-maintenance(1) does not yet have a task for this cleanup. Introduce a new "rerere-gc" task to plug this gap. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-05-07builtin/maintenance: introduce "worktree-prune" taskPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+8
While git-gc(1) knows to prune stale worktrees, git-maintenance(1) does not yet have a task for this cleanup. Introduce a new "worktree-prune" task to plug this gap. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-24Merge branch 'ds/doc-disable-hooks'Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Document the convention to disable hooks altogether by setting the hooksPath configuration variable to /dev/nulll * ds/doc-disable-hooks: docs: document core.hooksPath=/dev/null
2025-04-17Merge branch 'jk/fetch-follow-remote-head-fix'Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
"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. * jk/fetch-follow-remote-head-fix: fetch: make set_head() call easier to read fetch: don't ask for remote HEAD if followRemoteHEAD is "never" fetch: only respect followRemoteHEAD with configured refspecs
2025-04-16Merge branch 'ps/maintenance-reflog-expire'Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
"git maintenance" learns a new task to expire reflog entries. * ps/maintenance-reflog-expire: builtin/maintenance: introduce "reflog-expire" task builtin/gc: split out function to expire reflog entries builtin/reflog: make functions regarding `reflog_expire_options` public builtin/reflog: stop storing per-reflog expiry dates globally builtin/reflog: stop storing default reflog expiry dates globally reflog: rename `cmd_reflog_expire_cb` to `reflog_expire_options`
2025-04-16docs: document core.hooksPath=/dev/nullDerrick Stolee1-0/+5
If a user wishes to disable hooks, then they can do so using the established pattern of setting 'core.hooksPath' to /dev/null. This is already tested in t1350-config-hooks-path.sh, but has not previously been visible in the documentation. Update the documentation to include this as an option. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-15Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-loose-objects-batchsize'Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
The job to coalesce loose objects into packfiles in "git maintenance" now has configurable batch size. * ds/maintenance-loose-objects-batchsize: maintenance: add loose-objects.batchSize config maintenance: force progress/no-quiet to children
2025-04-08Merge branch 'tb/http-curl-keepalive'Junio C Hamano1-0/+18
TCP keepalive behaviour on http transports can now be configured by calling cURL library. * tb/http-curl-keepalive: http.c: allow custom TCP keepalive behavior via config http.c: inline `set_curl_keepalive()` http.c: introduce `set_long_from_env()` for convenience http.c: remove unnecessary casts to long
2025-04-08builtin/maintenance: introduce "reflog-expire" taskPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+9
By default, git-maintenance(1) uses the "gc" task to ensure that the repository is well-maintained. This can be changed, for example by either explicitly configuring which tasks should be enabled or by using the "incremental" maintenance strategy. If so, git-maintenance(1) does not know to expire reflog entries, which is a subtask that git-gc(1) knows to perform for the user. Consequently, the reflog will grow indefinitely unless the user manually trims it. Introduce a new "reflog-expire" task that plugs this gap: - When running the task directly, then we simply execute `git reflog expire --all`, which is the same as git-gc(1). - When running git-maintenance(1) with the `--auto` flag, then we only run the task in case the "HEAD" reflog has at least N reflog entries that would be discarded. By default, N is set to 100, but this can be configured via "maintenance.reflog-expire.auto". When a negative integer has been provided we always expire entries, zero causes us to never expire entries, and a positive value specifies how many entries need to exist before we consider pruning the entries. Note that the condition for the `--auto` flags is merely a heuristic and optimized for being fast. This is because `git maintenance run --auto` will be executed quite regularly, so scanning through all reflogs would likely be too expensive in many repositories. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-07Merge branch 'ja/doc-branch-markup'Junio C Hamano1-52/+53
Doc mark-up updates. * ja/doc-branch-markup: doc: apply new format to git-branch man page completion: take into account the formatting backticks for options
2025-04-07Merge branch 'cc/lop-remote'Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Bugfix in newly introduced large-object-promisor remote support. * cc/lop-remote: promisor-remote: compare remote names case sensitively promisor-remote: fix possible issue when no URL is advertised promisor-remote: fix segfault when remote URL is missing t5710: arrange to delete the client before cloning
2025-03-23maintenance: add loose-objects.batchSize configDerrick Stolee1-0/+5
The 'loose-objects' task of 'git maintenance run' first deletes loose objects that exit within packfiles and then collects loose objects into a packfile. This second step uses an implicit limit of fifty thousand that cannot be modified by users. Add a new config option that allows this limit to be adjusted or ignored entirely. While creating tests for this option, I noticed that actually there was an off-by-one error due to the strict comparison in the limit check. I considered making the limit check turn true on equality, but instead I thought to use INT_MAX as a "no limit" barrier which should mean it's never possible to hit the limit. Thus, a new decrement to the limit is provided if the value is positive. (The restriction to positive values is to avoid underflow if INT_MIN is configured.) Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-21http.c: allow custom TCP keepalive behavior via configTaylor Blau1-0/+18
curl supports a few options to control when and how often it should instruct the OS to send TCP keepalives, like KEEPIDLE, KEEPINTVL, and KEEPCNT. Until this point, there hasn't been a way for users to change what values are used for these options, forcing them to rely on curl's defaults. But we do unconditionally enable TCP keepalives without giving users an ability to tweak any fine-grained parameters. Ordinarily this isn't a problem, particularly for users that have fast-enough connections, and/or are talking to a server that has generous or nonexistent thresholds for killing a connection it hasn't heard from in a while. But it can present a problem when one or both of those assumptions fail. For instance, I can reliably get an in-progress clone to be killed from the remote end when cloning from some forges while using trickle to limit my clone's bandwidth. For those users and others who wish to more finely tune the OS's keepalive behavior, expose configuration and environment variables which allow setting curl's KEEPIDLE, KEEPINTVL, and KEEPCNT options. Note that while KEEPIDLE and KEEPINTVL were added in curl 7.25.0, KEEPCNT was added much more recently in curl 8.9.0. Per f7c094060c (git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.25.0, 2024-10-23), both KEEPIDLE and KEEPINTVL are set unconditionally. But since we may be compiled with a curl that isn't as new as 8.9.0, only set KEEPCNT when we have CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPCNT to begin with. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-20doc: apply new format to git-branch man pageJean-Noël Avila1-52/+53
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which automatically formats 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 applies synopsis rules to these spans. Possible values for some variables, that were mentioned in the description prose, are now made into enumerated list. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-18promisor-remote: compare remote names case sensitivelyChristian Couder1-2/+2
Because the "[remote "nick"] fetch = ..." configuration variables have the nickname in the second part, the nicknames are case sensitive, unlike the first and the third component (i.e. "remote.origin.fetch" and "Remote.origin.FETCH" are the same thing, but "remote.Origin.fetch" and "remote.origin.fetch" are different). Let's follow the way Git works in general and compare the remote names case sensitively when processing advertised remotes. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-18fetch: only respect followRemoteHEAD with configured refspecsJeff King1-1/+2
The new followRemoteHEAD feature is triggered for almost every fetch, causing us to ask the server about the remote "HEAD" and to consider updating our local tracking HEAD symref. This patch limits the feature only to the case when we are fetching a remote using its configured refspecs (typically into its refs/remotes/ hierarchy). There are two reasons for this. One is efficiency. E.g., the fixes in 6c915c3f85 (fetch: do not ask for HEAD unnecessarily, 2024-12-06) and 20010b8c20 (fetch: avoid ls-refs only to ask for HEAD symref update, 2025-03-08) were aimed at reducing the work we do when we would not be able to update HEAD anyway. But they do not quite cover all cases. The remaining one is: git fetch origin refs/heads/foo:refs/remotes/origin/foo which _sometimes_ can update HEAD, but usually not. And that leads us to the second point, which is being simple and explainable. The code for updating the tracking HEAD symref requires both that we learned which ref the remote HEAD points at, and that the server advertised that ref to us. But because the v2 protocol narrows the server's advertisement, the command above would not typically update HEAD at all, unless it happened to point to the "foo" branch. Or even weirder, it probably _would_ update if the server is very old and supports only the v0 protocol, which always gives a full advertisement. This creates confusing behavior for the user: sometimes we may try to update HEAD and sometimes not, depending on vague rules. One option here would be to loosen the update code to accept the remote HEAD even if the server did not advertise that ref. I think that could work, but it may also lead to interesting corner cases (e.g., creating a dangling symref locally, even though the branch is not unborn on the server, if we happen not to have fetched it). So let's instead simplify the rules: we'll only consider updating the tracking HEAD symref when we're doing a full fetch of the remote's configured refs. This is easy to implement; we can just set a flag at the moment we realize we're using the configured refspecs. And we can drop the special case code added by 6c915c3f85 and 20010b8c20, since this covers those cases. The existing tests from those commits still pass. In t5505, an incidental call to "git fetch <remote> <refspec>" updated HEAD, which caused us to adjust the test in 3f763ddf28 (fetch: set remote/HEAD if it does not exist, 2024-11-22). We can now adjust that back to how it was before the feature was added. Even though t5505 is incidentally testing our new desired behavior, we'll add an explicit test in t5510 to make sure it is covered. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-12Merge branch 'pb/doc-follow-remote-head'Junio C Hamano1-11/+11
Doc updates. * pb/doc-follow-remote-head: config/remote.txt: improve wording for 'remote.<name>.followRemoteHEAD' config/remote.txt: reunite 'severOption' description paragraphs
2025-03-05Merge branch 'cc/lop-remote'Junio C Hamano1-0/+27
Large-object promisor protocol extension. * cc/lop-remote: doc: add technical design doc for large object promisors promisor-remote: check advertised name or URL Add 'promisor-remote' capability to protocol v2
2025-02-21Merge branch 'ac/doc-http-ssl-type-config'Junio C Hamano1-0/+15
Two configuration variables about SSL authentication material that weren't mentioned in the documentations are now mentioned. * ac/doc-http-ssl-type-config: docs: indicate http.sslCertType and sslKeyType
2025-02-21Merge branch 'en/doc-renormalize'Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Doc updates. * en/doc-renormalize: doc: clarify the intent of the renormalize option in the merge machinery
2025-02-18promisor-remote: check advertised name or URLChristian Couder1-6/+16
A previous commit introduced a "promisor.acceptFromServer" configuration variable with only "None" or "All" as valid values. Let's introduce "KnownName" and "KnownUrl" as valid values for this configuration option to give more choice to a client about which promisor remotes it might accept among those that the server advertised. In case of "KnownName", the client will accept promisor remotes which are already configured on the client and have the same name as those advertised by the client. This could be useful in a corporate setup where servers and clients are trusted to not switch names and URLs, but where some kind of control is still useful. In case of "KnownUrl", the client will accept promisor remotes which have both the same name and the same URL configured on the client as the name and URL advertised by the server. This is the most secure option, so it should be used if possible. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-18Add 'promisor-remote' capability to protocol v2Christian Couder1-0/+17
When a server S knows that some objects from a repository are available from a promisor remote X, S might want to suggest to a client C cloning or fetching the repo from S that C may use X directly instead of S for these objects. Note that this could happen both in the case S itself doesn't have the objects and borrows them from X, and in the case S has the objects but knows that X is better connected to the world (e.g., it is in a $LARGEINTERNETCOMPANY datacenter with petabit/s backbone connections) than S. Implementation of the latter case, which would require S to omit in its response the objects available on X, is left for future improvement though. Then C might or might not, want to get the objects from X. If S and C can agree on C using X directly, S can then omit objects that can be obtained from X when answering C's request. To allow S and C to agree and let each other know about C using X or not, let's introduce a new "promisor-remote" capability in the protocol v2, as well as a few new configuration variables: - "promisor.advertise" on the server side, and: - "promisor.acceptFromServer" on the client side. By default, or if "promisor.advertise" is set to 'false', a server S will not advertise the "promisor-remote" capability. If S doesn't advertise the "promisor-remote" capability, then a client C replying to S shouldn't advertise the "promisor-remote" capability either. If "promisor.advertise" is set to 'true', S will advertise its promisor remotes with a string like: promisor-remote=<pr-info>[;<pr-info>]... where each <pr-info> element contains information about a single promisor remote in the form: name=<pr-name>[,url=<pr-url>] where <pr-name> is the urlencoded name of a promisor remote and <pr-url> is the urlencoded URL of the promisor remote named <pr-name>. For now, the URL is passed in addition to the name. In the future, it might be possible to pass other information like a filter-spec that the client may use when cloning from S, or a token that the client may use when retrieving objects from X. It is C's responsibility to arrange how it can reach X though, so pieces of information that are usually outside Git's concern, like proxy configuration, must not be distributed over this protocol. It might also be possible in the future for "promisor.advertise" to have other values. For example a value like "onlyName" could prevent S from advertising URLs, which could help in case C should use a different URL for X than the URL S is using. (The URL S is using might be an internal one on the server side for example.) By default or if "promisor.acceptFromServer" is set to "None", C will not accept to use the promisor remotes that might have been advertised by S. In this case, C will not advertise any "promisor-remote" capability in its reply to S. If "promisor.acceptFromServer" is set to "All" and S advertised some promisor remotes, then on the contrary, C will accept to use all the promisor remotes that S advertised and C will reply with a string like: promisor-remote=<pr-name>[;<pr-name>]... where the <pr-name> elements are the urlencoded names of all the promisor remotes S advertised. In a following commit, other values for "promisor.acceptFromServer" will be implemented, so that C will be able to decide the promisor remotes it accepts depending on the name and URL it received from S. So even if that name and URL information is not used much right now, it will be needed soon. Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-14Merge branch 'bc/doc-adoc-not-txt'Junio C Hamano94-5/+5
All the documentation .txt files have been renamed to .adoc to help content aware editors. * bc/doc-adoc-not-txt: Remove obsolete ".txt" extensions for AsciiDoc files doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc files gitattributes: mark AsciiDoc files as LF-only editorconfig: add .adoc extension doc: update gitignore for .adoc extension
2025-02-14config/remote.txt: improve wording for 'remote.<name>.followRemoteHEAD'Philippe Blain1-6/+6
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-14config/remote.txt: reunite 'severOption' description paragraphsPhilippe Blain1-5/+5
When 'remote.<name>.followRemoteHEAD' was added in b7f7d16562 (fetch: add configuration for set_head behaviour, 2024-11-29), its description was added to remote.txt in between the two paragraphs describing 'remote.<name>.serverOption'. Reunite these two paragraphs. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-12Merge branch 'da/help-autocorrect-one-fix'Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
"git -c help.autocorrect=0 psuh" shows the suggested typofix, unlike the previous attempt in the base topic. * da/help-autocorrect-one-fix: help: add "show" as a valid configuration value help: show the suggested command when help.autocorrect is false
2025-02-12Merge branch 'sc/help-autocorrect-one'Junio C Hamano1-4/+5
"[help] autocorrect = 1" used to be a way to say "please wait for 0.1 second after suggesting a typofix of the command name before running that command"; now it means "yes, if there is a plausible typofix for the command name, please run it immediately". * sc/help-autocorrect-one: help: interpret boolean string values for help.autocorrect
2025-02-12Merge branch 'jp/doc-trailer-config'Junio C Hamano1-0/+136
Documentaiton updates. * jp/doc-trailer-config: config.txt: add trailer.* variables
2025-02-11doc: clarify the intent of the renormalize option in the merge machineryElijah Newren1-1/+2
The -X renormalize (or merge.renormalize config) option is intended to reduce conflicts due to normalization of newer versions of history. It does so by renormalizing files that it is about to do a three-way content merge on. Some folks thought it would renormalize all files throughout the tree, and the previous wording wasn't clear enough to dispell that misconception. Update the docs to make it clear that the merge machinery will only apply renormalization to files which need a three-way content merge. (Technically, the merge machinery also does renormalization on modify/delete conflicts, in order to see if the modification was merely a normalization; if so, it can accept the delete and not report a conflict. But it's not clear that this piece needs to be explained to users, and trying to distinguish it might feel like splitting hairs and overcomplicating the explanation, so we leave it out.) Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-05docs: indicate http.sslCertType and sslKeyTypeAndrew Carter1-0/+15
0a01d41ee4 (http: add support for different sslcert and sslkey types., 2023-03-20) added useful SSL config options, but did not document them. Signed-off-by: Andrew Carter <andrew@emailcarter.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-03help: add "show" as a valid configuration valueDavid Aguilar1-1/+1
Add a literal value for showing the suggested autocorrection for consistency with the rest of the help.autocorrect options. Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-03help: show the suggested command when help.autocorrect is falseDavid Aguilar1-2/+2
Make the handling of false boolean values for help.autocorrect consistent with the handling of value 0 by showing the suggested commands but not running them. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-03Merge branch 'sc/help-autocorrect-one' into da/help-autocorrect-one-fixJunio C Hamano1-4/+5
* sc/help-autocorrect-one: help: interpret boolean string values for help.autocorrect
2025-01-31Merge branch 'ja/doc-notes-markup-updates'Junio C Hamano1-16/+16
Doc mark-up updates. * ja/doc-notes-markup-updates: doc: convert git-notes to new documentation format
2025-01-29Merge branch 'ja/doc-commit-markup-updates'Junio C Hamano1-10/+15
Doc updates. * ja/doc-commit-markup-updates: doc: migrate git-commit manpage secondary files to new format doc: convert git commit config to new format doc: make more direct explanations in git commit options doc: the mode param of -u of git commit is optional doc: apply new documentation guidelines to git commit
2025-01-24config.txt: add trailer.* variablesJulian Prein1-0/+136
The trailer.* configuration variables are currently only described in git-interpret-trailers(1) but affect git-commit and git-tag as well. Move that section into its own config/trailer.txt file and also include it in git-config(1). Signed-off-by: Julian Prein <julian@druckdev.xyz> Acked-by: Eric Sesterhenn <eric.sesterhenn@x41-dsec.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-21doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc filesbrian m. carlson93-5/+5
We presently use the ".txt" extension for our AsciiDoc files. While not wrong, most editors do not associate this extension with AsciiDoc, meaning that contributors don't get automatic editor functionality that could be useful, such as syntax highlighting and prose linting. It is much more common to use the ".adoc" extension for AsciiDoc files, since this helps editors automatically detect files and also allows various forges to provide rich (HTML-like) rendering. Let's do that here, renaming all of the files and updating the includes where relevant. Adjust the various build scripts and makefiles to use the new extension as well. Note that this should not result in any user-visible changes to the documentation. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-21Merge branch 'aj/difftool-config-doc-fix'Junio C Hamano2-2/+2
Docfix. * aj/difftool-config-doc-fix: difftool docs: restore correct position of tool list
2025-01-15doc: convert git commit config to new formatJean-Noël Avila1-10/+15
Also prevent git-commit manpage to refer to itself in the config description by using a variable. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-13Sync with Git 2.47.2Junio C Hamano1-0/+11
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2025-01-13help: interpret boolean string values for help.autocorrectScott Chacon1-4/+5
A help.autocorrect value of 1 is currently interpreted as "wait 1 decisecond", which can be confusing to users who believe they are setting a boolean value to turn the autocorrect feature on. Interpret the value of help.autocorrect as either one of the accepted list of special values ("never", "immediate", ...), a boolean or an integer. If the value is 1, it is no longer interpreted as a decisecond value of 0.1s but as a true boolean, the equivalent of "immediate". If the value is 2 or more, continue treating it as a decisecond wait time. False boolean string values ("off", "false", "no") are now equivalent to "never", meaning that guessed values are still shown but nothing is executed. True boolean string values are interpreted as "immediate". Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-10doc: convert git-notes to new documentation formatJean-Noël Avila1-16/+16
- 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. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-09difftool docs: restore correct position of tool listAdam Johnson2-2/+2
2a9dfdf260 (difftool docs: de-duplicate configuration sections, 2022-09-07) moved the difftool documentation, but missed moving this "include" line that includes the generated list of diff tools, as referenced in the moved text. Restore the correct position of the included list. Signed-off-by: Adam Johnson <me@adamj.eu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-19Merge branch 'bf/fetch-set-head-config'Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
"git fetch" honors "remote.<remote>.followRemoteHEAD" settings to tweak the remote-tracking HEAD in "refs/remotes/<remote>/HEAD". * bf/fetch-set-head-config: remote set-head: set followRemoteHEAD to "warn" if "always" fetch set_head: add warn-if-not-$branch option fetch set_head: move warn advice into advise_if_enabled fetch: add configuration for set_head behaviour
2024-12-15Merge branch 'ps/build'Junio C Hamano2-2/+2
Build procedure update plus introduction of Meson based builds. * ps/build: (24 commits) Introduce support for the Meson build system Documentation: add comparison of build systems t: allow overriding build dir t: better support for out-of-tree builds Documentation: extract script to generate a list of mergetools Documentation: teach "cmd-list.perl" about out-of-tree builds Documentation: allow sourcing generated includes from separate dir Makefile: simplify building of templates Makefile: write absolute program path into bin-wrappers Makefile: allow "bin-wrappers/" directory to exist Makefile: refactor generators to be PWD-independent Makefile: extract script to generate gitweb.js Makefile: extract script to generate gitweb.cgi Makefile: extract script to massage Python scripts Makefile: extract script to massage Shell scripts Makefile: use "generate-perl.sh" to massage Perl library Makefile: extract script to massage Perl scripts Makefile: consistently use PERL_PATH Makefile: generate doc versions via GIT-VERSION-GEN Makefile: generate "git.rc" via GIT-VERSION-GEN ...
2024-12-13Merge branch 'cw/worktree-extension'Junio C Hamano2-0/+16
Introduce a new repository extension to prevent older Git versions from mis-interpreting worktrees created with relative paths. * cw/worktree-extension: worktree: refactor `repair_worktree_after_gitdir_move()` worktree: add relative cli/config options to `repair` command worktree: add relative cli/config options to `move` command worktree: add relative cli/config options to `add` command worktree: add `write_worktree_linking_files()` function worktree: refactor infer_backlink return worktree: add `relativeWorktrees` extension setup: correctly reinitialize repository version
2024-12-07Documentation: allow sourcing generated includes from separate dirPatrick Steinhardt2-2/+2
Our documentation uses "include::" directives to include parts that are either reused across multiple documents or parts that we generate at build time. Unfortunately, top-level includes are only ever resolved relative to the base directory, which is typically the directory of the including document. Most importantly, it is not possible to have either asciidoc or asciidoctor search multiple directories. It follows that both kinds of includes must live in the same directory. This is of course a bummer for out-of-tree builds, because here the dynamically-built includes live in the build directory whereas the static includes live in the source directory. Introduce a `build_dir` attribute and prepend it to all of our includes for dynamically-built files. This attribute gets set to the build directory and thus converts the include path to an absolute path, which asciidoc and asciidoctor know how to resolve. Note that this change also requires us to update "build-docdep.perl", which tries to figure out included files such our Makefile can set up proper build-time dependencies. This script simply scans through the source files for any lines that match "^include::" and treats the remainder of the line as included file path. But given that those may now contain the "{build_dir}" variable we have to teach the script to replace that attribute with the actual build directory. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-06fetch set_head: add warn-if-not-$branch optionBence Ferdinandy1-3/+5
Currently if we want to have a remote/HEAD locally that is different from the one on the remote, but we still want to get a warning if remote changes HEAD, our only option is to have an indiscriminate warning with "follow_remote_head" set to "warn". Add a new option "warn-if-not-$branch", where $branch is a branch name we do not wish to get a warning about. If the remote HEAD is $branch do not warn, otherwise, behave as "warn". E.g. let's assume, that our remote origin has HEAD set to "master", but locally we have "git remote set-head origin seen". Setting 'remote.origin.followRemoteHEAD = "warn"' will always print a warning, even though the remote has not changed HEAD from "master". Setting 'remote.origin.followRemoteHEAD = "warn-if-not-master" will squelch the warning message, unless the remote changes HEAD from "master". Note, that should the remote change HEAD to "seen" (which we have locally), there will still be no warning. Improve the advice message in report_set_head to also include silencing the warning message with "warn-if-not-$branch". Signed-off-by: Bence Ferdinandy <bence@ferdinandy.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-04Merge branch 'ja/git-diff-doc-markup'Junio C Hamano1-93/+111
Documentation mark-up updates. * ja/git-diff-doc-markup: doc: git-diff: apply format changes to config part doc: git-diff: apply format changes to diff-generate-patch doc: git-diff: apply format changes to diff-format doc: git-diff: apply format changes to diff-options doc: git-diff: apply new documentation guidelines
2024-12-02fetch: add configuration for set_head behaviourBence Ferdinandy1-0/+11
In the current implementation, if refs/remotes/$remote/HEAD does not exist, running fetch will create it, but if it does exist it will not do anything, which is a somewhat safe and minimal approach. Unfortunately, for users who wish to NOT have refs/remotes/$remote/HEAD set for any reason (e.g. so that `git rev-parse origin` doesn't accidentally point them somewhere they do not want to), there is no way to remove this behaviour. On the other side of the spectrum, users may want fetch to automatically update HEAD or at least give them a warning if something changed on the remote. Introduce a new setting, remote.$remote.followRemoteHEAD with four options: - "never": do not ever do anything, not even create - "create": the current behaviour, now the default behaviour - "warn": print a message if remote and local HEAD is different - "always": silently update HEAD on every change Signed-off-by: Bence Ferdinandy <bence@ferdinandy.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-02worktree: add relative cli/config options to `add` commandCaleb White1-0/+10
This introduces the `--[no-]relative-paths` CLI option and `worktree.useRelativePaths` configuration setting to the `worktree add` command. When enabled these options allow worktrees to be linked using relative paths, enhancing portability across environments where absolute paths may differ (e.g., containerized setups, shared network drives). Git still creates absolute paths by default, but these options allow users to opt-in to relative paths if desired. The t2408 test file is removed and more comprehensive tests are written for the various worktree operations in their own files. Signed-off-by: Caleb White <cdwhite3@pm.me> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-02worktree: add `relativeWorktrees` extensionCaleb White1-0/+6
A new extension, `relativeWorktrees`, is added to indicate that at least one worktree in the repository has been linked with relative paths. This ensures older Git versions do not attempt to automatically prune worktrees with relative paths, as they would not not recognize the paths as being valid. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Caleb White <cdwhite3@pm.me> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-26Sync with 2.46.3Johannes Schindelin1-0/+11
* maint-2.46: Git 2.46.3 Git 2.45.3 Git 2.44.3 Git 2.43.6 Git 2.42.4 Git 2.41.3 Git 2.40.4 credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by default credential: sanitize the user prompt credential_format(): also encode <host>[:<port>] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3) mingw: drop bogus (and unneeded) declaration of `_pgmptr` ci: remove 'Upload failed tests' directories' step from linux32 jobs
2024-11-26Sync with 2.45.3Johannes Schindelin1-0/+11
* maint-2.45: Git 2.45.3 Git 2.44.3 Git 2.43.6 Git 2.42.4 Git 2.41.3 Git 2.40.4 credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by default credential: sanitize the user prompt credential_format(): also encode <host>[:<port>] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3) mingw: drop bogus (and unneeded) declaration of `_pgmptr` ci: remove 'Upload failed tests' directories' step from linux32 jobs
2024-11-26Sync with 2.44.3Johannes Schindelin1-0/+11
* maint-2.44: Git 2.44.3 Git 2.43.6 Git 2.42.4 Git 2.41.3 Git 2.40.4 credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by default credential: sanitize the user prompt credential_format(): also encode <host>[:<port>] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3) mingw: drop bogus (and unneeded) declaration of `_pgmptr` ci: remove 'Upload failed tests' directories' step from linux32 jobs
2024-11-26Sync with 2.43.6Johannes Schindelin1-0/+11
* maint-2.43: Git 2.43.6 Git 2.42.4 Git 2.41.3 Git 2.40.4 credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by default credential: sanitize the user prompt credential_format(): also encode <host>[:<port>] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3) mingw: drop bogus (and unneeded) declaration of `_pgmptr` ci: remove 'Upload failed tests' directories' step from linux32 jobs
2024-11-26Sync with 2.42.4Johannes Schindelin1-0/+11
* maint-2.42: Git 2.42.4 Git 2.41.3 Git 2.40.4 credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by default credential: sanitize the user prompt credential_format(): also encode <host>[:<port>] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3) mingw: drop bogus (and unneeded) declaration of `_pgmptr` ci: remove 'Upload failed tests' directories' step from linux32 jobs
2024-11-26Sync with 2.41.3Johannes Schindelin1-0/+11
* maint-2.41: Git 2.41.3 Git 2.40.4 credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by default credential: sanitize the user prompt credential_format(): also encode <host>[:<port>] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3) mingw: drop bogus (and unneeded) declaration of `_pgmptr` ci: remove 'Upload failed tests' directories' step from linux32 jobs
2024-11-26Sync with 2.40.4Johannes Schindelin1-0/+11
* maint-2.40: Git 2.40.4 credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by default credential: sanitize the user prompt credential_format(): also encode <host>[:<port>] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3) mingw: drop bogus (and unneeded) declaration of `_pgmptr` ci: remove 'Upload failed tests' directories' step from linux32 jobs
2024-11-26credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by defaultJohannes Schindelin1-0/+5
While Git has documented that the credential protocol is line-based, with newlines as terminators, the exact shape of a newline has not been documented. From Git's perspective, which is firmly rooted in the Linux ecosystem, it is clear that "a newline" means a Line Feed character. However, even Git's credential protocol respects Windows line endings (a Carriage Return character followed by a Line Feed character, "CR/LF") by virtue of using `strbuf_getline()`. There is a third category of line endings that has been used originally by MacOS, and that is respected by the default line readers of .NET and node.js: bare Carriage Returns. Git cannot handle those, and what is worse: Git's remedy against CVE-2020-5260 does not catch when credential helpers are used that interpret bare Carriage Returns as newlines. Git Credential Manager addressed this as CVE-2024-50338, but other credential helpers may still be vulnerable. So let's not only disallow Line Feed characters as part of the values in the credential protocol, but also disallow Carriage Return characters. In the unlikely event that a credential helper relies on Carriage Returns in the protocol, introduce an escape hatch via the `credential.protectProtocol` config setting. This addresses CVE-2024-52006. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-11-26credential: sanitize the user promptJohannes Schindelin1-0/+6
When asking the user interactively for credentials, we want to avoid misleading them e.g. via control sequences that pretend that the URL targets a trusted host when it does not. While Git learned, over the course of the preceding commits, to disallow URLs containing URL-encoded control characters by default, credential helpers are still allowed to specify values very freely (apart from Line Feed and NUL characters, anything is allowed), and this would allow, say, a username containing control characters to be specified that would then be displayed in the interactive terminal prompt asking the user for the password, potentially sending those control characters directly to the terminal. This is undesirable because control characters can be used to mislead users to divulge secret information to untrusted sites. To prevent such an attack vector, let's add a `git_prompt()` that forces the displayed text to be sanitized, i.e. displaying question marks instead of control characters. Note: While this commit's diff changes a lot of `user@host` strings to `user%40host`, which may look suspicious on the surface, there is a good reason for that: this string specifies a user name, not a <username>@<hostname> combination! In the context of t5541, the actual combination looks like this: `user%40@127.0.0.1:5541`. Therefore, these string replacements document a net improvement introduced by this commit, as `user@host@127.0.0.1` could have left readers wondering where the user name ends and where the host name begins. Hinted-at-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-11-19doc: git-diff: apply format changes to config partJean-Noël Avila1-93/+111
By the way, we also change the sentences where git-diff would refer to itself, so that no link is created in the HTML output. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-12doc: git-add.txt: convert to new style conventionJean-Noël Avila1-7/+12
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-08Merge branch 'cw/config-extensions'Junio C Hamano2-20/+55
Centralize documentation for repository extensions into a single place. * cw/config-extensions: doc: consolidate extensions in git-config documentation
2024-10-22doc: consolidate extensions in git-config documentationCaleb White2-20/+55
The `technical/repository-version.txt` document originally served as the master list for extensions, requiring that any new extensions be defined there. However, the `config/extensions.txt` file was introduced later and has since become the de facto location for describing extensions, with several extensions listed there but missing from `repository-version.txt`. This consolidates all extension definitions into `config/extensions.txt`, making it the authoritative source for extensions. The references in `repository-version.txt` are updated to point to `config/extensions.txt`, and cross-references to related documentation such as `gitrepository-layout[5]` and `git-config[1]` are added. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Caleb White <cdwhite3@pm.me> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2024-10-21doc: document how uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant impact other allow optionsPiotr Szlazak1-1/+5
Document how setting of `uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant` influences other `uploadpack` options - `allowTipSHA1InWant` and `allowReachableSHA1InWant`. Signed-off-by: Piotr Szlazak <piotr.szlazak@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2024-10-08remote: introduce remote.<name>.serverOption configurationXing Xin1-0/+10
Currently, server options for Git protocol v2 can only be specified via the command line option "--server-option" or "-o", which is inconvenient when users want to specify a list of default options to send. Therefore, we are introducing a new configuration to hold a list of default server options, akin to the `push.pushOption` configuration for push options. Initially, I named the new configuration `fetch.serverOption` to align with `push.pushOption`. However, after discussing with Patrick, it was renamed to `remote.<name>.serverOption` as suggested, because: 1. Server options are designed to be server-specific, making it more logical to use a per-remote configuration. 2. Using "fetch." prefixed configurations in git-clone or git-ls-remote seems out of place and inconsistent in design. The parsing logic for `remote.<name>.serverOption` also relies on `transport.c:parse_transport_option`, similar to `push.pushOption`, and they follow the same priority design: 1. Server options set in lower-priority configuration files (e.g., /etc/gitconfig or $HOME/.gitconfig) can be overridden or unset in more specific repository configurations using an empty string. 2. Command-line specified server options take precedence over those from the configuration. Server options from configuration are stored to the corresponding `remote.h:remote` as a new field `server_options`. The field will be utilized in the subsequent commit to help initialize the `server_options` of `transport.h:transport`. And documentation have been updated accordingly. Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Reported-by: Liu Zhongbo <liuzhongbo.6666@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Xing Xin <xingxin.xx@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-10-04Merge branch 'ak/doc-typofix'Junio C Hamano3-3/+3
Typofixes. * ak/doc-typofix: Documentation: fix typos Documentation/config: fix typos
2024-09-30Merge branch 'ds/background-maintenance-with-credential'Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
Background tasks "git maintenance" runs may need to use credential information when going over the network, but a credential helper may work only in an interactive environment, and end up blocking a scheduled task waiting for UI. Credential helpers can now behave differently when they are not running interactively. * ds/background-maintenance-with-credential: scalar: configure maintenance during 'reconfigure' maintenance: add custom config to background jobs credential: add new interactive config option
2024-09-30Merge branch 'ps/reftable-concurrent-writes'Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
Give timeout to the locking code to write to reftable. * ps/reftable-concurrent-writes: refs/reftable: reload locked stack when preparing transaction reftable/stack: allow locking of outdated stacks refs/reftable: introduce "reftable.lockTimeout"
2024-09-25send-email: document --mailmap and associated configurationJacob Keller1-0/+15
241499aba007 ("send-email: add mailmap support via sendemail.mailmap and --mailmap", 2024-08-27) added support for --mailmap, and the associated sendemail.mailmap.* configuration variables. Add documentation to reflect this feature. Fixes: 241499aba007 ("send-email: add mailmap support via sendemail.mailmap and --mailmap") Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-24refs/reftable: introduce "reftable.lockTimeout"Patrick Steinhardt1-0/+8
When multiple concurrent processes try to update references in a repository they may try to lock the same lockfiles. This can happen even when the updates are non-conflicting and can both be applied, so it doesn't always make sense to abort the transaction immediately. Both the "loose" and "packed" backends thus have a grace period that they wait for the lock to be released that can be controlled via the config values "core.filesRefLockTimeout" and "core.packedRefsTimeout", respectively. The reftable backend doesn't have such a setting yet and instead fails immediately when it sees such a lock. But the exact same concepts apply here as they do apply to the other backends. Introduce a new "reftable.lockTimeout" config that controls how long we may wait for a "tables.list" lock to be released. The default value of this config is 100ms, which is the same default as we have it for the "loose" backend. Note that even though we also lock individual tables, this config really only applies to the "tables.list" file. This is because individual tables are only ever locked when we already hold the "tables.list" lock during compaction. When we observe such a lock we in fact do not want to compact the table at all because it is already in the process of being compacted by a concurrent process. So applying the same timeout here would not make any sense and only delay progress. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-23Documentation/config: fix typosAndrew Kreimer3-3/+3
Fix typos in documentation. Signed-off-by: Andrew Kreimer <algonell@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-20credential: add new interactive config optionDerrick Stolee1-0/+8
When scripts or background maintenance wish to perform HTTP(S) requests, there is a risk that our stored credentials might be invalid. At the moment, this causes the credential helper to ping the user and block the process. Even if the credential helper does not ping the user, Git falls back to the 'askpass' method, which includes a direct ping to the user via the terminal. Even setting the 'core.askPass' config as something like 'echo' will causes Git to fallback to a terminal prompt. It uses git_terminal_prompt(), which finds the terminal from the environment and ignores whether stdin has been redirected. This can also block the process awaiting input. Create a new config option to prevent user interaction, favoring a failure to a blocked process. The chosen name, 'credential.interactive', is taken from the config option used by Git Credential Manager to already avoid user interactivity, so there is already one credential helper that integrates with this option. However, older versions of Git Credential Manager also accepted other string values, including 'auto', 'never', and 'always'. The modern use is to use a boolean value, but we should still be careful that some users could have these non-booleans. Further, we should respect 'never' the same as 'false'. This is respected by the implementation and test, but not mentioned in the documentation. The implementation for the Git interactions takes place within credential_getpass(). The method prototype is modified to return an 'int' instead of 'void'. This allows us to detect that no attempt was made to fill the given credential, changing the single caller slightly. Also, a new trace2 region is added around the interactive portion of the credential request. This provides a way to measure the amount of time spent in that region for commands that _are_ interactive. It also makes a conventient way to test that the config option works with 'test_region'. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-13Merge branch 'jc/doc-skip-fetch-all-and-prefetch'Junio C Hamano1-6/+7
Doc updates. * jc/doc-skip-fetch-all-and-prefetch: doc: remote.*.skip{DefaultUpdate,FetchAll} stops prefetch
2024-09-09doc: remote.*.skip{DefaultUpdate,FetchAll} stops prefetchJunio C Hamano1-6/+7
Back when 7cc91a2f (Add the configuration option skipFetchAll, 2009-11-09) added for the sole purpose of adding skipFetchAll as a synonym to skipDefaultUpdate, there was no explanation about the reason why it was needed., but these two configuration variables mean exactly the same thing. Also, when we taught the "prefetch" task to "git maintenance" later, we did make it pay attention to the setting, but we forgot to document it. Document these variables as synonyms that collectively implements the last-one-wins semantics, and also clarify that the prefetch task is also controlled by this variable. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-06advice: recommend GIT_ADVICE=0 for toolsDerrick Stolee1-1/+7
The GIT_ADVICE environment variable was added implicitly in b79deeb5544 (advice: add --no-advice global option, 2024-05-03) but was not documented. Add documentation to show that it is an option for tools that want to disable these messages. Make note that while the --no-advice option exists, older Git versions will fail to parse that option. The environment variable presents a way to change the behavior of Git versions that understand it without disrupting older versions. Co-authored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-26Merge branch 'ps/maintenance-detach-fix'Junio C Hamano2-1/+13
Maintenance tasks other than "gc" now properly go background when "git maintenance" runs them. * ps/maintenance-detach-fix: run-command: fix detaching when running auto maintenance builtin/maintenance: add a `--detach` flag builtin/gc: add a `--detach` flag builtin/gc: stop processing log file on signal builtin/gc: fix leaking config values builtin/gc: refactor to read config into structure config: fix constness of out parameter for `git_config_get_expiry()`
2024-08-16setup: make ref storage format configurable via configPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+5
Similar to the preceding commit, introduce a new "init.defaultRefFormat" config that allows the user to globally set the ref storage format used by newly created repositories. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-16setup: make object format configurable via configPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+5
The object format for repositories can either be configured explicitly by passing the `--object-format=` option to git-init(1) or git-clone(1), or globally by setting the `GIT_DEFAULT_HASH` environment variable. While the former makes sense, setting random environment variables is not really a good user experience in case someone decides to only use SHA256 repositories. It is only natural to expect for a user that things like this can also be configured via their config. As such, introduce a new config "init.defaultObjectFormat", similar to "init.defaultBranch", that allows the user to configure the default object format when creating new repos. The precedence order now is the following, where the first one wins: 1. The `--object-format=` switch. 2. The `GIT_DEFAULT_HASH` environment variable. 3. The `init.defaultObjectFormat` config variable. This matches the typical precedence order we use in Git. We typically let the environment override the config such that the latter can easily be overridden on an ephemeral basis, for example by scripts. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-16run-command: fix detaching when running auto maintenancePatrick Steinhardt2-1/+13
In the past, we used to execute `git gc --auto` as part of our automatic housekeeping routines. As git-gc(1) may require quite some time to perform the housekeeping, it knows to detach itself and run in the background so that the user can continue their work. Eventually, we refactored our automatic housekeeping to instead use the more flexible git-maintenance(1) command. The upside of this new infra is that the user can configure which maintenance tasks are performed, at least to a certain degree. So while it continues to run git-gc(1) by default, it can also be adapted to e.g. use git-multi-pack-index(1) for maintenance of the object database. The auto-detach of the new infra is somewhat broken though once the user configures non-standard tasks. The problem is essentially that we detach at the wrong level in the process hierarchy: git-maintenance(1) never detaches itself, but instead it continues to be git-gc(1) which does. When configured to only run the git-gc(1) maintenance task, then the result is basically the same as before. But when configured to run other tasks, then git-maintenance(1) will wait for these to run to completion. Even worse, it may be that git-gc(1) runs concurrently with other housekeeping tasks, stomping on each others feet. Fix this bug by asking git-gc(1) to not detach when it is being invoked via git-maintenance(1). Instead, git-maintenance(1) now respects a new config "maintenance.autoDetach", the equivalent of "gc.autoDetach", and detaches itself into the background when running as part of our auto maintenance. This should continue to behave the same for all users which use the git-gc(1) task, only. For others though, it means that we now properly perform all tasks in the background. The default behaviour of git-maintenance(1) when executed by the user does not change, it will remain in the foreground unless they pass the `--detach` option. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-02http: do not ignore proxy pathRyan Hendrickson1-2/+2
The documentation for `http.proxy` describes that option, and the environment variables it overrides, as supporting "the syntax understood by curl". curl allows SOCKS proxies to use a path to a Unix domain socket, like `socks5h://localhost/path/to/socket.sock`. Git should therefore include, if present, the path part of the proxy URL in what it passes to libcurl. Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Ryan Hendrickson <ryan.hendrickson@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-18Merge branch 'tb/doc-max-tree-depth-fix'Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Doc update. * tb/doc-max-tree-depth-fix: Documentation: fix default value for core.maxTreeDepth
2024-07-17Merge branch 'ps/doc-http-empty-cookiefile'Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
What happens when http.cookieFile gets the special value "" has been clarified in the documentation. * ps/doc-http-empty-cookiefile: doc: update http.cookieFile with in-memory cookie processing
2024-07-17Documentation: fix default value for core.maxTreeDepthTaylor Blau1-1/+2
When `core.maxTreeDepth` was originally introduced via be20128bfa (add core.maxTreeDepth config, 2023-08-31), its default value was 4096. There have since been a couple of updates to its default value that were not reflected in the documentation for `core.maxTreeDepth`: - 4d5693ba05 (lower core.maxTreeDepth default to 2048, 2023-08-31) - b64d78ad02 (max_tree_depth: lower it for MSVC to avoid stack overflows, 2023-11-01) Commit 4d5693ba05 lowers the default to 2048 for platforms with smaller stack sizes, and commit b64d78ad02 lowers the default even further when Git is compiled with MSVC. Neither of these changes were reflected in the documentation, which I noticed while merging newer releases back into GitHub's private fork (which contained the original implementation of `core.maxTreeDepth`). Update the documentation to reflect what the platform-specific default values are. Noticed-by: Keith W. Campbell <keithc@ca.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-16Merge branch 'bc/gitfaq-more'Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
A handful of entries are added to the GitFAQ document. * bc/gitfaq-more: doc: mention that proxies must be completely transparent gitfaq: add entry about syncing working trees gitfaq: give advice on using eol attribute in gitattributes gitfaq: add documentation on proxies
2024-07-16Merge branch 'bc/http-proactive-auth'Junio C Hamano1-0/+20
The http transport can now be told to send request with authentication material without first getting a 401 response. * bc/http-proactive-auth: http: allow authenticating proactively
2024-07-16Merge branch 'ds/advice-sparse-index-expansion'Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
A new warning message is issued when a command has to expand a sparse index to handle working tree cruft that are outside of the sparse checkout. * ds/advice-sparse-index-expansion: advice: warn when sparse index expands
2024-07-11doc: update http.cookieFile with in-memory cookie processingPiotr Szlazak1-1/+5
Documentation only mentions how to read cookies from the given file and how to save them to the file using http.saveCookies. But underlying libcURL allows the HTTP cookies used only in memory; cookies from the server will be accepted and sent back in successive requests within same connection, by using an empty string as the filename. Document this. Signed-off-by: Piotr Szlazak <piotr.szlazak@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-09http: allow authenticating proactivelybrian m. carlson1-0/+20
When making a request over HTTP(S), Git only sends authentication if it receives a 401 response. Thus, if a repository is open to the public for reading, Git will typically never ask for authentication for fetches and clones. However, there may be times when a user would like to authenticate nevertheless. For example, a forge may give higher rate limits to users who authenticate because they are easier to contact in case of excessive use. Or it may be useful for a known heavy user, such as an internal service, to proactively authenticate so its use can be monitored and, if necessary, throttled. Let's make this possible with a new option, "http.proactiveAuth". This option specifies a type of authentication which can be used to authenticate against the host in question. This is necessary because we lack the WWW-Authenticate header to provide us details; similarly, we cannot accept certain types of authentication because we require information from the server, such as a nonce or challenge, to successfully authenticate. If we're in auto mode and we got a username and password, set the authentication scheme to Basic. libcurl will not send authentication proactively unless there's a single choice of allowed authentication, and we know in this case we didn't get an authtype entry telling us what scheme to use, or we would have taken a different codepath and written the header ourselves. In any event, of the other schemes that libcurl supports, Digest and NTLM require a nonce or challenge, which means that they cannot work with proactive auth, and GSSAPI does not use a username and password at all, so Basic is the only logical choice among the built-in options. Note that the existing http_proactive_auth variable signifies proactive auth if there are already credentials, which is different from the functionality we're adding, which always seeks credentials even if none are provided. Nonetheless, t5540 tests the existing behavior for WebDAV-based pushes to an open repository without credentials, so we preserve it. While at first this may seem an insecure and bizarre decision, it may be that authentication is done with TLS certificates, in which case it might actually provide a quite high level of security. Expand the variable to use an enum to handle the additional cases and a helper function to distinguish our new cases from the old ones. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-09doc: mention that proxies must be completely transparentbrian m. carlson1-0/+5
We already document in the FAQ that proxies must be completely transparent and not modify the request or response in any way, but add similar documentation to the http.proxy entry. We know that while the FAQ is very useful, users sometimes are less likely to read in favor of the documentation specific to an option or command, so adding it in both places will help users be adequately informed. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-08Merge branch 'tb/path-filter-fix'Junio C Hamano1-3/+26
The Bloom filter used for path limited history traversal was broken on systems whose "char" is unsigned; update the implementation and bump the format version to 2. * tb/path-filter-fix: bloom: introduce `deinit_bloom_filters()` commit-graph: reuse existing Bloom filters where possible object.h: fix mis-aligned flag bits table commit-graph: new Bloom filter version that fixes murmur3 commit-graph: unconditionally load Bloom filters bloom: prepare to discard incompatible Bloom filters bloom: annotate filters with hash version repo-settings: introduce commitgraph.changedPathsVersion t4216: test changed path filters with high bit paths t/helper/test-read-graph: implement `bloom-filters` mode bloom.h: make `load_bloom_filter_from_graph()` public t/helper/test-read-graph.c: extract `dump_graph_info()` gitformat-commit-graph: describe version 2 of BDAT commit-graph: ensure Bloom filters are read with consistent settings revision.c: consult Bloom filters for root commits t/t4216-log-bloom.sh: harden `test_bloom_filters_not_used()`
2024-07-08advice: warn when sparse index expandsDerrick Stolee1-0/+4
Typically, forcing a sparse index to expand to a full index means that Git could not determine the status of a file outside of the sparse-checkout and needed to expand sparse trees into the full list of sparse blobs. This operation can be very slow when the sparse-checkout is much smaller than the full tree at HEAD. When users are in this state, there is usually a modified or untracked file outside of the sparse-checkout mentioned by the output of 'git status'. There are a number of reasons why this is insufficient: 1. Users may not have a full understanding of which files are inside or outside of their sparse-checkout. This is more common in monorepos that manage the sparse-checkout using custom tools that map build dependencies into sparse-checkout definitions. 2. In some cases, an empty directory could exist outside the sparse-checkout and these empty directories are not reported by 'git status' and friends. 3. If the user has '.gitignore' or 'exclude' files, then 'git status' will squelch the warnings and not demonstrate any problems. In order to help users who are in this state, add a new advice message to indicate that a sparse index is expanded to a full index. This message should be written at most once per process, so add a static global 'give_advice_on_expansion' to sparse-index.c. Further, there is a case in 'git sparse-checkout set' that uses the sparse index as an in-memory data structure (even when writing a full index) so we need to disable the message in that kind of case. The t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh test script compares the behavior of several Git commands across full and sparse repositories, including sparse repositories with and without a sparse index. We need to disable the advice in the sparse-index repo to avoid differences in stderr. By leaving the advice on in the sparse-checkout repo (without the sparse index), we can test the behavior of disabling the advice in convert_to_sparse(). (Indeed, these tests are how that necessity was discovered.) Add a test that reenables the advice and demonstrates that the message is output. The advice message is defined outside of expand_index() to avoid super- wide lines. It is also defined as a macro to avoid compile issues with -Werror=format-security. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-02Merge branch 'jk/remote-wo-url'Junio C Hamano1-1/+10
Memory ownership rules for the in-core representation of remote.*.url configuration values have been straightened out, which resulted in a few leak fixes and code clarification. * jk/remote-wo-url: remote: drop checks for zero-url case remote: always require at least one url in a remote t5801: test remote.*.vcs config t5801: make remote-testgit GIT_DIR setup more robust remote: allow resetting url list config: document remote.*.url/pushurl interaction remote: simplify url/pushurl selection remote: use strvecs to store remote url/pushurl remote: transfer ownership of memory in add_url(), etc remote: refactor alias_url() memory ownership archive: fix check for missing url
2024-07-02Merge branch 'jc/no-default-attr-tree-in-bare' into maint-2.45Junio C Hamano1-3/+2
Earlier we stopped using the tree of HEAD as the default source of attributes in a bare repository, but failed to document it. This has been corrected. * jc/no-default-attr-tree-in-bare: attr.tree: HEAD:.gitattributes is no longer the default in a bare repo
2024-07-02Merge branch 'pw/rebase-i-error-message' into maint-2.45Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
When the user adds to "git rebase -i" instruction to "pick" a merge commit, the error experience is not pleasant. Such an error is now caught earlier in the process that parses the todo list. * pw/rebase-i-error-message: rebase -i: improve error message when picking merge rebase -i: pass struct replay_opts to parse_insn_line()
2024-06-28Merge branch 'ds/doc-add-interactive-singlekey' into maint-2.45Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
Doc update. * ds/doc-add-interactive-singlekey: doc: interactive.singleKey is disabled by default
2024-06-25commit-graph: new Bloom filter version that fixes murmur3Taylor Blau1-1/+4
The murmur3 implementation in bloom.c has a bug when converting series of 4 bytes into network-order integers when char is signed (which is controllable by a compiler option, and the default signedness of char is platform-specific). When a string contains characters with the high bit set, this bug causes results that, although internally consistent within Git, does not accord with other implementations of murmur3 (thus, the changed path filters wouldn't be readable by other off-the-shelf implementatios of murmur3) and even with Git binaries that were compiled with different signedness of char. This bug affects both how Git writes changed path filters to disk and how Git interprets changed path filters on disk. Therefore, introduce a new version (2) of changed path filters that corrects this problem. The existing version (1) is still supported and is still the default, but users should migrate away from it as soon as possible. Because this bug only manifests with characters that have the high bit set, it may be possible that some (or all) commits in a given repo would have the same changed path filter both before and after this fix is applied. However, in order to determine whether this is the case, the changed paths would first have to be computed, at which point it is not much more expensive to just compute a new changed path filter. So this patch does not include any mechanism to "salvage" changed path filters from repositories. There is also no "mixed" mode - for each invocation of Git, reading and writing changed path filters are done with the same version number; this version number may be explicitly stated (typically if the user knows which version they need) or automatically determined from the version of the existing changed path filters in the repository. There is a change in write_commit_graph(). graph_read_bloom_data() makes it possible for chunk_bloom_data to be non-NULL but bloom_filter_settings to be NULL, which causes a segfault later on. I produced such a segfault while developing this patch, but couldn't find a way to reproduce it neither after this complete patch (or before), but in any case it seemed like a good thing to include that might help future patch authors. The value in t0095 was obtained from another murmur3 implementation using the following Go source code: package main import "fmt" import "github.com/spaolacci/murmur3" func main() { fmt.Printf("%x\n", murmur3.Sum32([]byte("Hello world!"))) fmt.Printf("%x\n", murmur3.Sum32([]byte{0x99, 0xaa, 0xbb, 0xcc, 0xdd, 0xee, 0xff})) } Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-06-25repo-settings: introduce commitgraph.changedPathsVersionTaylor Blau1-3/+23
A subsequent commit will introduce another version of the changed-path filter in the commit graph file. In order to control which version to write (and read), a config variable is needed. Therefore, introduce this config variable. For forwards compatibility, teach Git to not read commit graphs when the config variable is set to an unsupported version. Because we teach Git this, commitgraph.readChangedPaths is now redundant, so deprecate it and define its behavior in terms of the config variable we introduce. This commit does not change the behavior of writing (Git writes changed path filters when explicitly instructed regardless of any config variable), but a subsequent commit will restrict Git such that it will only write when commitgraph.changedPathsVersion is a recognized value. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-06-24Merge branch 'jc/add-i-retire-usebuiltin-config'Junio C Hamano1-6/+0
For over a year, setting add.interactive.useBuiltin configuration variable did nothing but giving a "this does not do anything" warning. Finally remove it. * jc/add-i-retire-usebuiltin-config: add-i: finally retire add.interactive.useBuiltin
2024-06-24Merge branch 'jc/no-default-attr-tree-in-bare'Junio C Hamano1-3/+2
Earlier we stopped using the tree of HEAD as the default source of attributes in a bare repository, but failed to document it. This has been corrected. * jc/no-default-attr-tree-in-bare: attr.tree: HEAD:.gitattributes is no longer the default in a bare repo
2024-06-24Merge branch 'tb/pseudo-merge-reachability-bitmap'Junio C Hamano1-0/+91
The pseudo-merge reachability bitmap to help more efficient storage of the reachability bitmap in a repository with too many refs has been added. * tb/pseudo-merge-reachability-bitmap: (26 commits) pack-bitmap.c: ensure pseudo-merge offset reads are bounded Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt: add missing position table t/perf: implement performance tests for pseudo-merge bitmaps pseudo-merge: implement support for finding existing merges ewah: `bitmap_equals_ewah()` pack-bitmap: extra trace2 information pack-bitmap.c: use pseudo-merges during traversal t/test-lib-functions.sh: support `--notick` in `test_commit_bulk()` pack-bitmap: implement test helpers for pseudo-merge ewah: implement `ewah_bitmap_popcount()` pseudo-merge: implement support for reading pseudo-merge commits pack-bitmap.c: read pseudo-merge extension pseudo-merge: scaffolding for reads pack-bitmap: extract `read_bitmap()` function pack-bitmap-write.c: write pseudo-merge table pseudo-merge: implement support for selecting pseudo-merge commits config: introduce `git_config_double()` pack-bitmap: make `bitmap_writer_push_bitmapped_commit()` public pack-bitmap: implement `bitmap_writer_has_bitmapped_object_id()` pack-bitmap-write: support storing pseudo-merge commits ...
2024-06-20Merge branch 'pw/rebase-i-error-message'Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
When the user adds to "git rebase -i" instruction to "pick" a merge commit, the error experience is not pleasant. Such an error is now caught earlier in the process that parses the todo list. * pw/rebase-i-error-message: rebase -i: improve error message when picking merge rebase -i: pass struct replay_opts to parse_insn_line()
2024-06-20Merge branch 'rs/diff-exit-code-with-external-diff'Junio C Hamano1-0/+18
"git diff --exit-code --ext-diff" learned to take the exit status of the external diff driver into account when deciding the exit status of the overall "git diff" invocation when configured to do so. * rs/diff-exit-code-with-external-diff: diff: let external diffs report that changes are uninteresting userdiff: add and use struct external_diff t4020: test exit code with external diffs
2024-06-20Merge branch 'ds/doc-add-interactive-singlekey'Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
Doc update. * ds/doc-add-interactive-singlekey: doc: interactive.singleKey is disabled by default
2024-06-14remote: allow resetting url listJeff King1-1/+4
Because remote.*.url is treated as a multi-valued key, there is no way to override previous config. So for example if you have remote.origin.url set to some wrong value, doing: git -c remote.origin.url=right fetch would not work. It would append "right" to the list, which means we'd still fetch from "wrong" (since subsequent values are used only as push urls). Let's provide a mechanism to reset the list, like we do for other multi-valued keys (e.g., credential.helper, http.extraheaders, and merge.suppressDest all use this "empty string means reset" pattern). Reported-by: Mathew George <mathewegeorge@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-06-14config: document remote.*.url/pushurl interactionJeff King1-1/+7
The documentation for these keys gives a very terse definition and points you to the fetch/push manpages. But from reading those pages it was not at all obvious to me that: - these are keys that can be defined multiple times with meaningful behavior (especially remote.*.url) - the way that pushurl overrides url (the git-push page does mention that "pushurl defaults to url", but it is not immediately clear what a multi-valued url would do in that situation). Let's try to summarize the current behavior. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-06-12Merge branch 'jc/safe-directory-leading-path'Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
The safe.directory configuration knob has been updated to optionally allow leading path matches. * jc/safe-directory-leading-path: safe.directory: allow "lead/ing/path/*" match
2024-06-10Merge branch 'iw/trace-argv-on-alias'Junio C Hamano1-5/+20
The alias-expanded command lines are logged to the trace output. * iw/trace-argv-on-alias: run-command: show prepared command Documentation: alias: add notes on shell expansion Documentation: alias: rework notes into points
2024-06-10diff: let external diffs report that changes are uninterestingRené Scharfe1-0/+18
The options --exit-code and --quiet instruct git diff to indicate whether it found any significant changes by exiting with code 1 if it did and 0 if there were none. Currently this doesn't work if external diff programs are involved, as we have no way to learn what they found. Add that ability in the form of the new configuration options diff.trustExitCode and diff.<driver>.trustExitCode and the environment variable GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF_TRUST_EXIT_CODE. They pair with the config options diff.external and diff.<driver>.command and the environment variable GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF, respectively. The new options are off by default, keeping the old behavior. Enabling them indicates that the external diff returns exit code 1 if it finds significant changes and 0 if it doesn't, like diff(1). The name of the new options is taken from the git difftool and mergetool options of similar purpose. (There they enable passing on the exit code of a diff tool and to infer whether a merge done by a merge tool is successful.) The new feature sets the diff flag diff_from_contents in diff_setup_done() if we need the exit code and are allowed to call external diffs. This disables the optimization that avoids calling the program with --quiet. Add it back by skipping the call if the external diff is not able to report empty diffs. We can only do that check after evaluating the file-specific attributes in run_external_diff(). If we do run the external diff with --quiet, send its output to /dev/null. I considered checking the output of the external diff to check whether its empty. It was added as 11be65cfa4 (diff: fix --exit-code with external diff, 2024-05-05) and quickly reverted, as it does not work with external diffs that do not write to stdout. There's no reason why a graphical diff tool would even need to write anything there at all. I also considered using a non-zero exit code for empty diffs, which could be done without adding new configuration options. We'd need to disable the optimization that allows git diff --quiet to skip calling external diffs, though -- that might be quite surprising if graphical diff programs are involved. And assigning the opposite meaning of the exit codes compared to diff(1) and git diff --exit-code to the external diff can cause unnecessary confusion. Suggested-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-06-07doc: interactive.singleKey is disabled by defaultDragan Simic1-4/+4
Make it clear that the interactive.singleKey configuration option is disabled by default, using rather subtle wording that avoids an emphasis on the actual default value. This should eliminate any associated doubts. While there, touch up the remaining wording of the description a bit. Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-06-06Merge branch 'th/quiet-lazy-fetch-from-promisor'Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
The promisor.quiet configuration knob can be set to true to make lazy fetching from promisor remotes silent. * th/quiet-lazy-fetch-from-promisor: promisor-remote: add promisor.quiet configuration option
2024-06-05add-i: finally retire add.interactive.useBuiltinJunio C Hamano1-6/+0
The configuration variable stopped doing anything (other than announcing itself as a variable that does not do anything useful, when it is used) in Git 2.40. At this point, it is not even worth giving the warning, which was meant to be a way to help users notice they are carrying unused cruft in their configuration files and give them a chance to clean-up. Let's remove the warning and documentation for it, and truly stop paying attention to it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> --- Documentation/config/add.txt | 6 ------ builtin/add.c | 6 +----- t/t3701-add-interactive.sh | 15 --------------- 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 26 deletions(-)
2024-06-05attr.tree: HEAD:.gitattributes is no longer the default in a bare repoJunio C Hamano1-3/+2
51441e64 (stop using HEAD for attributes in bare repository by default, 2024-05-03) has addressed a recent performance regression by partially reverting a topic that was merged at 26dd307c (Merge branch 'jc/attr-tree-config', 2023-10-30). But it forgot to update the documentation to remove the mention of a special case in bare repositories. Let's update the document before the update hits the next release. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-05-31Documentation: alias: add notes on shell expansionIan Wienand1-0/+14
When writing inline shell for shell-expansion aliases (i.e. prefixed with "!"), there are some caveats around argument parsing to be aware of. This series of notes attempts to explain what is happening more clearly. Signed-off-by: Ian Wienand <iwienand@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-05-30rebase -i: improve error message when picking mergePhillip Wood1-0/+2
The only todo commands that accept a merge commit are "merge" and "reset". All the other commands like "pick" or "reword" fail when they try to pick a a merge commit and print the message error: commit abc123 is a merge but no -m option was given. followed by a hint about the command being rescheduled. This message is designed to help the user when they cherry-pick a merge and forget to pass "-m". For users who are rebasing the message is confusing as there is no way for rebase to cherry-pick the merge. Improve the user experience by detecting the error and printing some advice on how to fix it when the todo list is parsed rather than waiting for the "pick" command to fail. The advice recommends "merge" rather than "exec git cherry-pick -m ..." on the assumption that cherry-picking merges is relatively rare and it is more likely that the user chose "pick" by a mistake. It would be possible to support cherry-picking merges by allowing the user to pass "-m" to "pick" commands but that adds complexity to do something that can already be achieved with exec git cherry-pick -m1 abc123 Reported-by: Stefan Haller <lists@haller-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>