A release candidate Git v2.44.0-rc1 is now available for testing at
the usual places. It is comprised of 473 non-merge commits since
v2.43.0, contributed by 72 people, 33 of which are new faces [*].
The tarballs are found at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/
The following public repositories all have a copy of the
'v2.44.0-rc1' tag and the 'master' branch that the tag points at:
url = https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
url = https://github.com/gitster/git
New contributors whose contributions weren't in v2.43.0 are as follows.
Welcome to the Git development community!
Achu Luma, Antonin Delpeuch, Benjamin Lehmann, Britton Leo
Kerin, Carlos Andrés Ramírez Cataño, Chandra Pratap, Ghanshyam
Thakkar, Illia Bobyr, James Touton, Janik Haag, Joanna Wang, Josh
Brobst, Julian Prein, Justin Tobler, Kyle Lippincott, Maarten van
der Schrieck, Marcel Krause, Marcelo Roberto Jimenez, Michael
Lohmann, moti sd, Nikolay Borisov, Nikolay Edigaryev, Ondrej
Pohorelsky, Sam Delmerico, Sergey Kosukhin, Shreyansh Paliwal,
Sören Krecker, Stan Hu, Tamino Bauknecht, Wilfred Hughes,
Willem Verstraeten, Xiaoguang WANG, and Zach FettersMoore.
Returning contributors who helped this release are as follows.
Thanks for your continued support.
Andy Koppe, Arthur Chan, Calvin Wan, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón,
Christian Couder, Dragan Simic, Elijah Newren, Eric Sunshine,
Glen Choo, Han-Wen Nienhuys, Jean-Noël Avila, Jeff Hostetler,
Jeff King, Jiang Xin, Johannes Schindelin, John Cai, Jonathan
Tan, Josh Soref, Josh Steadmon, Josip Sokcevic, Junio C Hamano,
Konstantin Ryabitsev, Kristoffer Haugsbakk, Linus Arver,
Matthias Aßhauer, M Hickford, Oswald Buddenhagen, Patrick
Steinhardt, Philippe Blain, Phillip Wood, Randall S. Becker,
René Scharfe, Rubén Justo, Simon Ser, SZEDER Gábor, Taylor
Blau, Todd Zullinger, Toon Claes, and Victoria Dye.
[*] We are counting not just the authorship contribution but issue
reporting, mentoring, helping and reviewing that are recorded in
the commit trailers.
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Git v2.44 Release Notes (draft)
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Backward Compatibility Notes
* "git chekcout -B <branch>" used to allow switching to a branch that
is in use on another worktree, but this was by mistake. The users
need to use "--ignore-other-worktrees" option.
UI, Workflows & Features
* "git add" and "git stash" learned to support the ":(attr:...)"
magic pathspec.
* "git rebase --autosquash" is now enabled for non-interactive rebase,
but it is still incompatible with the apply backend.
* Introduce "git replay", a tool meant on the server side without
working tree to recreate a history.
* "git merge-file" learned to take the "--diff-algorithm" option to
use algorithm different from the default "myers" diff.
* Command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete path
arguments to the "add/set" subcommands of "git sparse-checkout"
better.
* "git checkout -B <branch> [<start-point>]" allowed a branch that is
in use in another worktree to be updated and checked out, which
might be a bit unexpected. The rule has been tightened, which is a
breaking change. "--ignore-other-worktrees" option is required to
unbreak you, if you are used to the current behaviour that "-B"
overrides the safety.
* The builtin_objectmode attribute is populated for each path
without adding anything in .gitattributes files, which would be
useful in magic pathspec, e.g., ":(attr:builtin_objectmode=100755)"
to limit to executables.
* "git fetch" learned to pay attention to "fetch.all" configuration
variable, which pretends as if "--all" was passed from the command
line when no remote parameter was given.
* In addition to (rather cryptic) Security Identifiers, show username
and domain in the error message when we barf on mismatch between
the Git directory and the current user on Windows.
* The error message given when "git branch -d branch" fails due to
commits unique to the branch has been split into an error and a new
conditional advice message.
* When given an existing but unreadable file as a configuration file,
gitweb behaved as if the file did not exist at all, but now it
errors out. This is a change that may break backward compatibility.
* When $HOME/.gitignore is missing but XDG config file available, we
should write into the latter, not former. "git gc" and "git
maintenance" wrote into a wrong "global config" file, which have
been corrected.
* Define "special ref" as a very narrow set that consists of
FETCH_HEAD and MERGE_HEAD, and clarify everything else that used to
be classified as such are actually just pseudorefs.
* All conditional "advice" messages show how to turn them off, which
becomes repetitive. Setting advice.* configuration explicitly on
now omits the instruction part.
* The "disable repository discovery of a bare repository" check,
triggered by setting safe.bareRepository configuration variable to
'explicit', has been loosened to exclude the ".git/" directory inside
a non-bare repository from the check. So you can do "cd .git &&
git cmd" to run a Git command that works on a bare repository without
explicitly specifying $GIT_DIR now.
* The completion script (in contrib/) learned more options that can
be used with "git log".
* The labels on conflict markers for the common ancestor, our version,
and the other version are available to custom 3-way merge driver
via %S, %X, and %Y placeholders.
* The write codepath for the reftable data learned to honor
core.fsync configuration.
* The "--fsck-objects" option of "git index-pack" now can take the
optional parameter to tweak severity of different fsck errors.
* The wincred credential backend has been taught to support oauth
refresh token the same way as credential-cache and
credential-libsecret backends.
* Command line completion support (in contrib/) has been
updated for "git bisect".
* "git branch" and friends learned to use the formatted text as
sorting key, not the underlying timestamp value, when the --sort
option is used with author or committer timestamp with a format
specifier (e.g., "--sort=creatordate:format:%H:%M:%S").
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Process to add some form of low-level unit tests has started.
* Add support for GitLab CI.
* "git for-each-ref --no-sort" still sorted the refs alphabetically
which paid non-trivial cost. It has been redefined to show output
in an unspecified order, to allow certain optimizations to take
advantage of.
* Simplify API implementation to delete references by eliminating
duplication.
* Subject approxidate() and show_date() machinery to OSS-Fuzz.
* A new helper to let us pretend that we called lstat() when we know
our cache_entry is up-to-date via fsmonitor.
* The optimization based on fsmonitor in the "diff --cached"
codepath is resurrected with the "fake-lstat" introduced earlier.
* Test balloon to use C99 "bool" type from <stdbool.h> has been
added.
* "git clone" has been prepared to allow cloning a repository with
non-default hash function into a repository that uses the reftable
backend.
* Streaming spans of packfile data used to be done only from a
single, primary, pack in a repository with multiple packfiles. It
has been extended to allow reuse from other packfiles, too.
* Comment updates to help developers not to attempt to modify
messages from plumbing commands that must stay constant.
It might make sense to reassess the plumbing needs every few years,
but that should be done as a separate effort.
* Move test-ctype helper to the unit-test framework.
* Instead of manually creating refs/ hierarchy on disk upon a
creation of a secondary worktree, which is only usable via the
files backend, use the refs API to populate it.
* CI for GitLab learned to drive macOS jobs.
* A few tests to "git commit -o <pathspec>" and "git commit -i
<pathspec>" has been added.
* Tests on ref API are moved around to prepare for reftable.
* The Makefile often had to say "-L$(path) -R$(path)" that repeats
the path to the same library directory for link time and runtime.
A Makefile template is used to reduce such repetition.
* The priority queue test has been migrated to the unit testing
framework.
* Setting `feature.experimental` opts the user into multi-pack reuse
experiment
* Squelch node.js 16 deprecation warnings from GitHub Actions CI
by updating actions/github-script and actions/checkout that use
node.js 20.
* The mechanism to report the filename in the source code, used by
the unit-test machinery, assumed that the compiler expanded __FILE__
to the path to the source given to the $(CC), but some compilers
give full path, breaking the output. This has been corrected.
Fixes since v2.43
-----------------
* The way CI testing used "prove" could lead to running the test
suite twice needlessly, which has been corrected.
* Update ref-related tests.
* "git format-patch --encode-email-headers" ignored the option when
preparing the cover letter, which has been corrected.
* Newer versions of Getopt::Long started giving warnings against our
(ab)use of it in "git send-email". Bump the minimum version
requirement for Perl to 5.8.1 (from September 2002) to allow
simplifying our implementation.
* Earlier we stopped relying on commit-graph that (still) records
information about commits that are lost from the object store,
which has negative performance implications. The default has been
flipped to disable this pessimization.
* Stale URLs have been updated to their current counterparts (or
archive.org) and HTTP links are replaced with working HTTPS links.
* trace2 streams used to record the URLs that potentially embed
authentication material, which has been corrected.
* The sample pre-commit hook that tries to catch introduction of new
paths that use potentially non-portable characters did not notice
an existing path getting renamed to such a problematic path, when
rename detection was enabled.
* The command line parser for the "log" family of commands was too
loose when parsing certain numbers, e.g., silently ignoring the
extra 'q' in "git log -n 1q" without complaining, which has been
tightened up.
* "git $cmd --end-of-options --rev -- --path" for some $cmd failed
to interpret "--rev" as a rev, and "--path" as a path. This was
fixed for many programs like "reset" and "checkout".
* "git bisect reset" has been taught to clean up state files and refs
even when BISECT_START file is gone.
* Some codepaths did not correctly parse configuration variables
specified with valueless "true", which has been corrected.
* Code clean-up for sanity checking of command line options for "git
show-ref".
* The code to parse the From e-mail header has been updated to avoid
recursion.
* "git fetch --atomic" issued an unnecessary empty error message,
which has been corrected.
* Command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to work better
with the reftable backend.
* "git status" is taught to show both the branch being bisected and
being rebased when both are in effect at the same time.
* "git archive --list extra garbage" silently ignored excess command
line parameters, which has been corrected.
* "git sparse-checkout set" added default patterns even when the
patterns are being fed from the standard input, which has been
corrected.
* "git sparse-checkout (add|set) --[no-]cone --end-of-options" did
not handle "--end-of-options" correctly after a recent update.
* Unlike other environment variables that took the usual
true/false/yes/no as well as 0/1, GIT_FLUSH only understood 0/1,
which has been corrected.
* Clearing in-core repository (happens during e.g., "git fetch
--recurse-submodules" with commit graph enabled) made in-core
commit object in an inconsistent state by discarding the necessary
data from commit-graph too early, which has been corrected.
* Update to a new feature recently added, "git show-ref --exists".
* oss-fuzz tests are built and run in CI.
(merge c4a9cf1df3 js/oss-fuzz-build-in-ci later to maint).
* Rename detection logic ignored the final line of a file if it is an
incomplete line.
* GitHub CI update.
(merge 0188b2c8e0 pb/ci-github-skip-logs-for-broken-tests later to maint).
* "git diff --no-rename A B" did not disable rename detection but did
not trigger an error from the command line parser.
* "git archive --remote=<remote>" learned to talk over the smart
http (aka stateless) transport.
(merge 176cd68634 jx/remote-archive-over-smart-http later to maint).
* Fetching via protocol v0 over Smart HTTP transport sometimes failed
to correctly auto-follow tags.
(merge fba732c462 jk/fetch-auto-tag-following-fix later to maint).
* The documentation for the --exclude-per-directory option marked it
as deprecated, which confused readers into thinking there may be a
plan to remove it in the future, which was not our intention.
(merge 0009542cab jc/ls-files-doc-update later to maint).
* "git diff --no-index file1 file2" segfaulted while invoking the
external diff driver, which has been corrected.
* Rewrite //-comments to /* comments */ in files whose comments
prevalently use the latter.
* Cirrus CI jobs started breaking because we specified version of
FreeBSD that is no longer available, which has been corrected.
(merge 81fffb66d3 cb/use-freebsd-13-2-at-cirrus-ci later to maint).
* A caller called index_file_exists() that takes a string expressed
as <ptr, length> with a wrong length, which has been corrected.
(merge 156e28b36d jh/sparse-index-expand-to-path-fix later to maint).
* A failed "git tag -s" did not necessarily result in an error
depending on the crypto backend, which has been corrected.
* "git stash" sometimes was silent even when it failed due to
unwritable index file, which has been corrected.
* "git show-ref --verify" did not show things like "CHERRY_PICK_HEAD",
which has been corrected.
* Recent conversion to allow more than 0/1 in GIT_FLUSH broke the
mechanism by flipping what yes/no means by mistake, which has been
corrected.
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 5aea3955bc rj/clarify-branch-doc-m later to maint).
(merge 9cce3be2df bk/bisect-doc-fix later to maint).
(merge 8430b438f6 vd/fsck-submodule-url-test later to maint).
(merge 3cb4384683 jc/t0091-with-unknown-git later to maint).
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Changes since v2.43.0 are as follows:
Achu Luma (2):
unit-tests: rewrite t/helper/test-ctype.c as a unit test
t2400: avoid losing exit status to pipes
Andy Koppe (3):
rebase: fully ignore rebase.autoSquash without -i
rebase: support --autosquash without -i
rebase: rewrite --(no-)autosquash documentation
Antonin Delpeuch (2):
merge-file: add --diff-algorithm option
merge-ll: expose revision names to custom drivers
Arthur Chan (1):
fuzz: add new oss-fuzz fuzzer for date.c / date.h
Britton Leo Kerin (9):
doc: use singular form of repeatable path arg
doc: refer to pathspec instead of path
completion: tests: always use 'master' for default initial branch name
completion: bisect: complete bad, new, old, and help subcommands
completion: bisect: complete custom terms and related options
completion: bisect: complete missing --first-parent and - -no-checkout options
completion: new function __git_complete_log_opts
completion: bisect: complete log opts for visualize subcommand
completion: bisect: recognize but do not complete view subcommand
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón (1):
ci: update FreeBSD cirrus job
Chandra Pratap (4):
sideband.c: remove redundant 'NEEDSWORK' tag
write-or-die: make GIT_FLUSH a Boolean environment variable
t4129: prevent loss of exit code due to the use of pipes
tests: move t0009-prio-queue.sh to the new unit testing framework
Elijah Newren (32):
t6429: remove switching aspects of fast-rebase
replay: introduce new builtin
replay: start using parse_options API
replay: die() instead of failing assert()
replay: introduce pick_regular_commit()
replay: change rev walking options
replay: add an important FIXME comment about gpg signing
replay: remove progress and info output
replay: remove HEAD related sanity check
replay: make it a minimal server side command
replay: use standard revision ranges
replay: add --advance or 'cherry-pick' mode
replay: add --contained to rebase contained branches
replay: stop assuming replayed branches do not diverge
completion: squelch stray errors in sparse-checkout completion
completion: fix logic for determining whether cone mode is active
completion: avoid misleading completions in cone mode
completion: avoid user confusion in non-cone mode
treewide: remove unnecessary includes from header files
treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
archive.h: remove unnecessary include
blame.h: remove unnecessary includes
fsmonitor--daemon.h: remove unnecessary includes
http.h: remove unnecessary include
line-log.h: remove unnecessary include
pkt-line.h: remove unnecessary include
submodule-config.h: remove unnecessary include
trace2/tr2_tls.h: remove unnecessary include
treewide: add direct includes currently only pulled in transitively
treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
sparse-checkout: be consistent with end of options markers
diffcore-delta: avoid ignoring final 'line' of file
Eric Sunshine (1):
git-add.txt: add missing short option -A to synopsis
Ghanshyam Thakkar (4):
t7501: add tests for --include and --only
t7501: add tests for --amend --signoff
t0024: avoid losing exit status to pipes
t0024: style fix
Illia Bobyr (1):
rebase: clarify --reschedule-failed-exec default
James Touton (1):
git-p4: use raw string literals for regular expressions
Jean-Noël Avila (2):
doc: enforce dashes in placeholders
doc: enforce placeholders in documentation
Jeff Hostetler (4):
trace2: fix signature of trace2_def_param() macro
t0211: test URL redacting in PERF format
t0212: test URL redacting in EVENT format
sparse-index: pass string length to index_file_exists()
Jeff King (38):
commit-graph: handle overflow in chunk_size checks
midx: check consistency of fanout table
commit-graph: drop redundant call to "lite" verification
commit-graph: clarify missing-chunk error messages
commit-graph: abort as soon as we see a bogus chunk
commit-graph: use fanout value for graph size
commit-graph: check order while reading fanout chunk
commit-graph: drop verify_commit_graph_lite()
commit-graph: mark chunk error messages for translation
parse-options: decouple "--end-of-options" and "--"
bisect: always clean on reset
config: handle NULL value when parsing non-bools
setup: handle NULL value when parsing extensions
trace2: handle NULL values in tr2_sysenv config callback
help: handle NULL value for alias.* config
submodule: handle NULL value when parsing submodule.*.branch
trailer: handle NULL value when parsing trailer-specific config
fsck: handle NULL value when parsing message config
config: reject bogus values for core.checkstat
git_xmerge_config(): prefer error() to die()
imap-send: don't use git_die_config() inside callback
config: use config_error_nonbool() instead of custom messages
diff: give more detailed messages for bogus diff.* config
config: use git_config_string() for core.checkRoundTripEncoding
push: drop confusing configset/callback redundancy
gpg-interface: drop pointless config_error_nonbool() checks
sequencer: simplify away extra git_config_string() call
mailinfo: fix out-of-bounds memory reads in unquote_quoted_pair()
t5100: make rfc822 comment test more careful
mailinfo: avoid recursion when unquoting From headers
t1006: add tests for %(objectsize:disk)
commit-graph: retain commit slab when closing NULL commit_graph
index-pack: spawn threads atomically
transport-helper: re-examine object dir after fetching
diff: handle NULL meta-info when spawning external diff
Makefile: use mkdir_p_parent_template for UNIT_TEST_BIN
Makefile: remove UNIT_TEST_BIN directory with "make clean"
t/Makefile: get UNIT_TESTS list from C sources
Jiang Xin (11):
t5574: test porcelain output of atomic fetch
fetch: no redundant error message for atomic fetch
test-pkt-line: add option parser for unpack-sideband
pkt-line: memorize sideband fragment in reader
pkt-line: do not chomp newlines for sideband messages
transport-helper: no connection restriction in connect_helper
remote-curl: supports git-upload-archive service
transport-helper: protocol v2 supports upload-archive
http-backend: new rpc-service for git-upload-archive
transport-helper: call do_take_over() in connect_helper
transport-helper: call do_take_over() in process_connect
Joanna Wang (2):
attr: enable attr pathspec magic for git-add and git-stash
attr: add builtin objectmode values support
Johannes Schindelin (13):
artifacts-tar: when including `.dll` files, don't forget the unit-tests
cmake: fix typo in variable name
cmake: also build unit tests
cmake: use test names instead of full paths
unit-tests: do not mistake `.pdb` files for being executable
cmake: handle also unit tests
unit-tests: do show relative file paths
ci: avoid running the test suite _twice_
packfile.c: fix a typo in `each_file_in_pack_dir_fn()`'s declaration
trace2: redact passwords from https:// URLs by default
win32: special-case `ENOSPC` when writing to a pipe
ci: bump remaining outdated Actions versions
ci(linux32): add a note about Actions that must not be updated
John Cai (15):
t3210: move to t0601
remove REFFILES prerequisite for some tests in t1405 and t2017
t1414: convert test to use Git commands instead of writing refs manually
t1404: move reffiles specific tests to t0600
t1405: move reffiles specific tests to t0601
t1406: move reffiles specific tests to t0600
t1410: move reffiles specific tests to t0600
t1415: move reffiles specific tests to t0601
t1503: move reffiles specific tests to t0600
t3903: make drop stash test ref backend agnostic
t4202: move reffiles specific tests to t0600
t5312: move reffiles specific tests to t0601
reftable: honor core.fsync
index-pack: test and document --strict=<msg-id>=<severity>...
index-pack: --fsck-objects to take an optional argument for fsck msgs
Josh Brobst (1):
builtin/reflog.c: fix dry-run option short name
Josh Soref (13):
doc: update links to current pages
doc: switch links to https
doc: update links for andre-simon.de
doc: refer to internet archive
CodingGuidelines: move period inside parentheses
CodingGuidelines: write punctuation marks
SubmittingPatches: drop ref to "What's in git.git"
SubmittingPatches: discourage new trailers
SubmittingPatches: update extra tags list
SubmittingPatches: provide tag naming advice
SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub visual
SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub artifact format
SubmittingPatches: hyphenate non-ASCII
Josh Steadmon (4):
unit tests: add a project plan document
ci: run unit tests in CI
fuzz: fix fuzz test build rules
ci: build and run minimal fuzzers in GitHub CI
Julian Prein (1):
hooks--pre-commit: detect non-ASCII when renaming
Junio C Hamano (55):
cache: add fake_lstat()
diff-lib: fix check_removed() when fsmonitor is active
checkout: refactor die_if_checked_out() caller
orphan/unborn: add to the glossary and use them consistently
orphan/unborn: fix use of 'orphan' in end-user facing messages
revision: parse integer arguments to --max-count, --skip, etc., more carefully
Start the 2.44 cycle
checkout: forbid "-B <branch>" from touching a branch used elsewhere
git.txt: HEAD is not that special
git-bisect.txt: BISECT_HEAD is not that special
refs.h: HEAD is not that special
docs: AUTO_MERGE is not that special
docs: MERGE_AUTOSTASH is not that special
doc: format.notes specify a ref under refs/notes/ hierarchy
The second batch
remote.h: retire CAS_OPT_NAME
The third batch
archive: "--list" does not take further options
sparse-checkout: use default patterns for 'set' only !stdin
The fourth batch
The fifth batch
The sixth batch
messages: mark some strings with "up-to-date" not to touch
The seventh batch
The eighth batch
The ninth batch
Docs: majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx has been decomissioned
CoC: whitespace fix
ls-files: avoid the verb "deprecate" for individual options
The tenth batch
builtin/worktree: comment style fixes
merge-ort.c: comment style fix
reftable/pq_test: comment style fix
The eleventh batch
t0091: allow test in a repository without tags
The twelfth batch
Makefile: reduce repetitive library paths
Makefile: simplify output of the libpath_template
The thirteenth batch
GitHub Actions: update to checkout@v4
GitHub Actions: update to github-script@v7
t/Makefile: say the default target upfront
The fourteenth batch
tag: fix sign_buffer() call to create a signed tag
bisect: document "terms" subcommand more fully
bisect: document command line arguments for "bisect start"
ssh signing: signal an error with a negative return value
The fifteenth batch
Git 2.43.1
Git 2.44-rc0
unit-tests: do show relative file paths on non-Windows, too
A few more topics before -rc1
write-or-die: fix the polarity of GIT_FLUSH environment variable
A few more fixes before -rc1
Git 2.43.2
Justin Tobler (2):
t1401: remove lockfile creation
t5541: remove lockfile creation
Kristoffer Haugsbakk (5):
config: format newlines
config: rename global config function
config: factor out global config file retrieval
maintenance: use XDG config if it exists
config: add back code comment
Kyle Lippincott (1):
setup: allow cwd=.git w/ bareRepository=explicit
Linus Arver (4):
commit: ignore_non_trailer computes number of bytes to ignore
trailer: find the end of the log message
trailer: use offsets for trailer_start/trailer_end
strvec: use correct member name in comments
M Hickford (1):
credential/wincred: store oauth_refresh_token
Maarten van der Schrieck (1):
Documentation: fix statement about rebase.instructionFormat
Marcel Krause (1):
doc: make the gitfile syntax easier to discover
Marcelo Roberto Jimenez (1):
gitweb: die when a configuration file cannot be read
Michael Lohmann (2):
Documentation/git-merge.txt: fix reference to synopsis
Documentation/git-merge.txt: use backticks for command wrapping
Nikolay Borisov (1):
rebase: fix documentation about used shell in -x
Nikolay Edigaryev (1):
rev-list-options: fix off-by-one in '--filter=blob:limit=<n>' explainer
Patrick Steinhardt (139):
t: allow skipping expected object ID in `ref-store update-ref`
t: convert tests to not write references via the filesystem
t: convert tests to not access symrefs via the filesystem
t: convert tests to not access reflog via the filesystem
t1450: convert tests to remove worktrees via git-worktree(1)
t4207: delete replace references via git-update-ref(1)
t7300: assert exact states of repo
t7900: assert the absence of refs via git-for-each-ref(1)
t: mark several tests that assume the files backend with REFFILES
ci: reorder definitions for grouping functions
ci: make grouping setup more generic
ci: group installation of Docker dependencies
ci: split out logic to set up failed test artifacts
ci: unify setup of some environment variables
ci: squelch warnings when testing with unusable Git repo
ci: install test dependencies for linux-musl
ci: add support for GitLab CI
t/lib-httpd: dynamically detect httpd and modules path
t/lib-httpd: stop using legacy crypt(3) for authentication
t9164: fix inability to find basename(1) in Subversion hooks
global: convert trivial usages of `test <expr> -a/-o <expr>`
contrib/subtree: stop using `-o` to test for number of args
contrib/subtree: convert subtree type check to use case statement
Makefile: stop using `test -o` when unlinking duplicate executables
t5510: ensure that the packed-refs file needs locking
refs/files: use transactions to delete references
refs: deduplicate code to delete references
refs: remove `delete_refs` callback from backends
commit-graph: disable GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA by default
t0410: mark tests to require the reffiles backend
t1400: split up generic reflog tests from the reffile-specific ones
t1401: stop treating FETCH_HEAD as real reference
t1410: use test-tool to create empty reflog
t1417: make `reflog --updateref` tests backend agnostic
t3310: stop checking for reference existence via `test -f`
t4013: simplify magic parsing and drop "failure"
t5401: speed up creation of many branches
t5551: stop writing packed-refs directly
t6301: write invalid object ID via `test-tool ref-store`
reftable: wrap EXPECT macros in do/while
reftable: handle interrupted reads
reftable: handle interrupted writes
reftable/stack: verify that `reftable_stack_add()` uses auto-compaction
reftable/stack: perform auto-compaction with transactional interface
reftable/stack: reuse buffers when reloading stack
reftable/stack: fix stale lock when dying
reftable/stack: fix use of unseeded randomness
reftable/merged: reuse buffer to compute record keys
reftable/block: introduce macro to initialize `struct block_iter`
reftable/block: reuse buffer to compute record keys
setup: extract function to create the refdb
setup: allow skipping creation of the refdb
remote-curl: rediscover repository when fetching refs
builtin/clone: fix bundle URIs with mismatching object formats
builtin/clone: set up sparse checkout later
builtin/clone: skip reading HEAD when retrieving remote
builtin/clone: create the refdb with the correct object format
wt-status: read HEAD and ORIG_HEAD via the refdb
refs: propagate errno when reading special refs fails
refs: complete list of special refs
bisect: consistently write BISECT_EXPECTED_REV via the refdb
tests: adjust whitespace in chainlint expectations
t: introduce DEFAULT_REPO_FORMAT prereq
worktree: skip reading HEAD when repairing worktrees
refs: refactor logic to look up storage backends
setup: start tracking ref storage format
setup: set repository's formats on init
setup: introduce "extensions.refStorage" extension
setup: introduce GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT envvar
t: introduce GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT envvar
builtin/rev-parse: introduce `--show-ref-format` flag
builtin/init: introduce `--ref-format=` value flag
builtin/clone: introduce `--ref-format=` value flag
t9500: write "extensions.refstorage" into config
reftable/stack: do not overwrite errors when compacting
reftable/stack: do not auto-compact twice in `reftable_stack_add()`
reftable/writer: fix index corruption when writing multiple indices
reftable/record: constify some parts of the interface
reftable/record: store "val1" hashes as static arrays
reftable/record: store "val2" hashes as static arrays
reftable/merged: really reuse buffers to compute record keys
reftable/merged: transfer ownership of records when iterating
git-prompt: stop manually parsing HEAD with unknown ref formats
ci: add job performing static analysis on GitLab CI
refs: prepare `refs_init_db()` for initializing worktree refs
setup: move creation of "refs/" into the files backend
refs/files: skip creation of "refs/{heads,tags}" for worktrees
builtin/worktree: move setup of commondir file earlier
worktree: expose interface to look up worktree by name
builtin/worktree: create refdb via ref backend
reftable/stack: refactor stack reloading to have common exit path
reftable/stack: refactor reloading to use file descriptor
reftable/stack: use stat info to avoid re-reading stack list
reftable/blocksource: refactor code to match our coding style
reftable/blocksource: use mmap to read tables
git-p4: stop reaching into the refdb
commit-graph: fix memory leak when not writing graph
completion: discover repo path in `__git_pseudoref_exists ()`
t9902: verify that completion does not print anything
completion: improve existence check for pseudo-refs
completion: silence pseudoref existence check
completion: treat dangling symrefs as existing pseudorefs
t7527: decrease likelihood of racing with fsmonitor daemon
Makefile: detect new Homebrew location for ARM-based Macs
ci: handle TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY when printing test failures
ci: make p4 setup on macOS more robust
ci: add macOS jobs to GitLab CI
reftable/stack: unconditionally reload stack after commit
reftable/stack: fix race in up-to-date check
sequencer: clean up pseudo refs with REF_NO_DEREF
sequencer: delete REBASE_HEAD in correct repo when picking commits
refs: convert AUTO_MERGE to become a normal pseudo-ref
sequencer: introduce functions to handle autostashes via refs
refs: convert MERGE_AUTOSTASH to become a normal pseudo-ref
refs: redefine special refs
Documentation: add "special refs" to the glossary
reftable/stack: adjust permissions of compacted tables
t1300: make tests more robust with non-default ref backends
t1301: mark test for `core.sharedRepository` as reffiles specific
t1302: make tests more robust with new extensions
t1419: mark test suite as files-backend specific
t5526: break test submodule differently
t: mark tests regarding git-pack-refs(1) to be backend specific
reftable/stack: fsync "tables.list" during compaction
reftable/reader: be more careful about errors in indexed seeks
reftable/writer: use correct type to iterate through index entries
reftable/writer: simplify writing index records
reftable/writer: fix writing multi-level indices
reftable: document reading and writing indices
builtin/stash: report failure to write to index
reftable: introduce macros to grow arrays
reftable: introduce macros to allocate arrays
reftable/stack: fix parameter validation when compacting range
reftable/stack: index segments with `size_t`
reftable/stack: use `size_t` to track stack slices during compaction
reftable/stack: use `size_t` to track stack length
reftable/merged: refactor seeking of records
reftable/merged: refactor initialization of iterators
reftable/record: improve semantics when initializing records
Philippe Blain (7):
completion: complete missing rev-list options
completion: complete --patch-with-raw
completion: complete --encoding
completion: complete missing 'git log' options
ci(github): also skip logs of broken test cases
imap-send: add missing "strbuf.h" include under NO_CURL
.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md: add a note about single-commit PRs
Phillip Wood (3):
unit tests: add TAP unit test framework
show-ref --verify: accept pseudorefs
t1400: use show-ref to check pseudorefs
René Scharfe (19):
column: release strbuf and string_list after use
i18n: factorize even more 'incompatible options' messages
push: use die_for_incompatible_opt4() for - -delete/--tags/--all/--mirror
repack: use die_for_incompatible_opt3() for -A/-k/--cruft
revision: use die_for_incompatible_opt3() for - -graph/--reverse/--walk-reflogs
revision, rev-parse: factorize incompatibility messages about - -exclude-hidden
clean: factorize incompatibility message
worktree: standardize incompatibility messages
worktree: simplify incompatibility message for --orphan and commit-ish
show-ref: use die_for_incompatible_opt3()
t6300: avoid hard-coding object sizes
git-compat-util: convert skip_{prefix,suffix}{,_mem} to bool
rebase: use strvec_pushf() for format-patch revisions
fast-import: use mem_pool_calloc()
mem-pool: fix big allocations
mem-pool: simplify alignment calculation
t1006: prefer shell loop to awk for packed object sizes
parse-options: fully disable option abbreviation with PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN
parse-options: simplify positivation handling
Rubén Justo (10):
status: fix branch shown when not only bisecting
branch: clarify <oldbranch> term
advice: sort the advice related lists
advice: fix an unexpected leading space
branch: make the advice to force-deleting a conditional one
advice: allow disabling the automatic hint in advise_if_enabled()
t5332: mark as leak-free
t6113: mark as leak-free
test-lib: check for TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK
t0080: mark as leak-free
Sam Delmerico (1):
push: region_leave trace for negotiate_using_fetch
Shreyansh Paliwal (1):
test-lib-functions.sh: fix test_grep fail message wording
Simon Ser (1):
format-patch: fix ignored encode_email_headers for cover letter
Stan Hu (2):
completion: refactor existence checks for pseudorefs
completion: support pseudoref existence checks for reftables
Sören Krecker (1):
mingw: give more details about unsafe directory's ownership
Tamino Bauknecht (1):
fetch: add new config option fetch.all
Taylor Blau (29):
pack-objects: free packing_data in more places
pack-bitmap-write: deep-clear the `bb_commit` slab
pack-bitmap: plug leak in find_objects()
midx: factor out `fill_pack_info()`
midx: implement `BTMP` chunk
midx: implement `midx_locate_pack()`
pack-bitmap: pass `bitmapped_pack` struct to pack-reuse functions
ewah: implement `bitmap_is_empty()`
pack-bitmap: simplify `reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()` signature
pack-bitmap: return multiple packs via `reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()`
pack-objects: parameterize pack-reuse routines over a single pack
pack-objects: keep track of `pack_start` for each reuse pack
pack-objects: pass `bitmapped_pack`'s to pack-reuse functions
pack-objects: prepare `write_reused_pack()` for multi-pack reuse
pack-objects: prepare `write_reused_pack_verbatim()` for multi-pack reuse
pack-objects: include number of packs reused in output
git-compat-util.h: implement checked size_t to uint32_t conversion
midx: implement `midx_preferred_pack()`
pack-revindex: factor out `midx_key_to_pack_pos()` helper
pack-revindex: implement `midx_pair_to_pack_pos()`
pack-bitmap: prepare to mark objects from multiple packs for reuse
pack-objects: add tracing for various packfile metrics
t/test-lib-functions.sh: implement `test_trace2_data` helper
pack-objects: allow setting `pack.allowPackReuse` to "single"
pack-bitmap: enable reuse from all bitmapped packs
t/perf: add performance tests for multi-pack reuse
pack-bitmap: drop unused `reuse_objects`
t5332-multi-pack-reuse.sh: extract pack-objects helper functions
pack-objects: enable multi-pack reuse via `feature.experimental`
Todd Zullinger (2):
perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8.1 from 5.8.0
send-email: avoid duplicate specification warnings
Toon Claes (1):
builtin/show-ref: treat directory as non-existing in --exists
Victoria Dye (15):
ref-filter.c: really don't sort when using --no-sort
ref-filter.h: add max_count and omit_empty to ref_format
ref-filter.h: move contains caches into filter
ref-filter.h: add functions for filter/format & format-only
ref-filter.c: rename 'ref_filter_handler()' to 'filter_one()'
ref-filter.c: refactor to create common helper functions
ref-filter.c: filter & format refs in the same callback
for-each-ref: clean up documentation of --format
ref-filter.c: use peeled tag for '*' format fields
t/perf: add perf tests for for-each-ref
submodule-config.h: move check_submodule_url
test-submodule: remove command line handling for check-name
t7450: test submodule urls
submodule-config.c: strengthen URL fsck check
ref-filter.c: sort formatted dates by byte value
Zach FettersMoore (1):
subtree: fix split processing with multiple subtrees present
