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2026-02-17Merge branch 'bk/t2003-modernise'Junio C Hamano1-25/+25
Test update. * bk/t2003-modernise: t2003: modernize path existence checks using test helpers
2026-02-17Merge branch 'rs/commit-commit-stack'Junio C Hamano1-16/+13
Code clean-up to use the commit_stack API. * rs/commit-commit-stack: commit: use commit_stack
2026-02-17Merge branch 'rs/clean-includes'Junio C Hamano7-7/+0
Clean up redundant includes of header files. * rs/clean-includes: remove duplicate includes
2026-02-17Merge branch 'rs/xdiff-wo-the-repository'Junio C Hamano7-18/+21
Reduce dependency on the_repository of xdiff-interface layer. * rs/xdiff-wo-the-repository: xdiff-interface: stop using the_repository
2026-02-17Merge branch 'rs/version-wo-the-repository'Junio C Hamano2-4/+0
Code clean-up. * rs/version-wo-the-repository: version: stop using the_repository
2026-02-17Merge branch 'yt/merge-file-outside-a-repository'Junio C Hamano3-7/+44
"git merge-file" can be run outside a repository, but it ignored all configuration, even the per-user ones. The command now uses available configuration files to find its customization. * yt/merge-file-outside-a-repository: merge-file: honor merge.conflictStyle outside of a repository
2026-02-17Merge branch 'ja/doc-synopsis-style-even-more'Junio C Hamano7-303/+337
A handful of documentation pages have been modernized to use the "synopsis" style. * ja/doc-synopsis-style-even-more: doc: convert git-show to synopsis style doc: fix some style issues in git-clone and for-each-ref-options doc: finalize git-clone documentation conversion to synopsis style doc: convert git-submodule to synopsis style
2026-02-17Merge branch 'pc/lockfile-pid'Junio C Hamano7-29/+315
Allow recording process ID of the process that holds the lock next to a lockfile for diagnosis. * pc/lockfile-pid: lockfile: add PID file for debugging stale locks
2026-02-17environment: stop storing `core.attributesFile` globallyOlamide Caleb Bello6-7/+45
The `core.attributeFile` config value is parsed in git_default_core_config(), loaded eagerly and stored in the global variable `git_attributes_file`. Storing this value in a global variable can lead to it being overwritten by another repository when more than one Git repository run in the same Git process. Create a new struct `repo_config_values` to hold this value and other repository dependent values parsed by `git_default_config()`. This will ensure the current behaviour remains the same while also enabling the libification of Git. An accessor function 'repo_config_values()' s created to ensure that we do not access an uninitialized repository, or an instance of a different repository than the current one. Suggested-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Usman Akinyemi <usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Olamide Caleb Bello <belkid98@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17gitweb: let page header grow on mobile for long wrapped project namesRito Rhymes1-1/+1
On mobile, long project names in the page header can wrap to multiple lines, but the fixed 25px header height does not grow with wrapped content. Switch the header from fixed height to min-height so it expands as needed while keeping the same baseline height for single-line titles. Signed-off-by: Rito Rhymes <rito@ritovision.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17gitweb: fix mobile footer overflow by wrapping text and clearing floatsRito Rhymes1-1/+7
On narrow screens, footer text can wrap, but the fixed 22px footer height and floated footer blocks can cause overflow. Switch to min-height and add a clearfix on the footer container so it grows to contain wrapped float content cleanly. Signed-off-by: Rito Rhymes <rito@ritovision.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17gitweb: fix mobile page overflow across log/commit/blob/diff viewsRito Rhymes1-0/+52
On mobile-sized viewports, gitweb pages in log/commit/blob/diff views can overflow horizontally due to desktop-oriented paddings and fixed-width preformatted content. Extend the existing mobile media query to rebalance those layouts: reduce or clear paddings in log/commit sections, and allow horizontal scrolling for preformatted blob/diff content instead of forcing page-wide overflow. All layout adjustments in this patch are mobile-scoped, except one global safeguard: set overflow-wrap:anywhere on div.log_body. Log content can contain escaped or non-breaking text that behaves like a single long token and can overflow at any viewport width, including desktop. Signed-off-by: Rito Rhymes <rito@ritovision.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17gitweb: prevent project search bar from overflowing on mobileRito Rhymes1-0/+12
On narrow screens, the project search input can exceed the available width and force page-wide horizontal scrolling. Add a mobile media query and apply side padding to the search container, then cap the input width to its container with border-box sizing so the form stays within the viewport. Signed-off-by: Rito Rhymes <rito@ritovision.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17gitweb: add viewport meta tag for mobile devicesRito Rhymes1-0/+1
Without a viewport meta tag, phone browsers render gitweb at desktop width and scale the whole page down to fit the screen. Add a viewport meta tag so the layout viewport tracks device width. This is the baseline needed for mobile CSS fixes in follow-up commits. Signed-off-by: Rito Rhymes <rito@ritovision.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17fetch-pack: wire up and enable auto filter logicChristian Couder8-15/+134
Previous commits have set up an infrastructure for `--filter=auto` to automatically prepare a partial clone filter based on what the server advertised and the client accepted. Using that infrastructure, let's now enable the `--filter=auto` option in `git clone` and `git fetch` by setting `allow_auto_filter` to 1. Note that these small changes mean that when `git clone --filter=auto` or `git fetch --filter=auto` are used, "auto" is automatically saved as the partial clone filter for the server on the client. Therefore subsequent calls to `git fetch` on the client will automatically use this "auto" mode even without `--filter=auto`. Let's also set `allow_auto_filter` to 1 in `transport.c`, as the transport layer must be able to accept the "auto" filter spec even if the invoking command hasn't fully parsed it yet. When an "auto" filter is requested, let's have the "fetch-pack.c" code in `do_fetch_pack_v2()` compute a filter and send it to the server. In `do_fetch_pack_v2()` the logic also needs to check for the "promisor-remote" capability and call `promisor_remote_reply()` to parse advertised remotes and populate the list of those accepted (and their filters). Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17promisor-remote: change promisor_remote_reply()'s signatureChristian Couder3-17/+20
The `promisor_remote_reply()` function performs two tasks: 1. It uses filter_promisor_remote() to parse the server's "promisor-remote" advertisement and to mark accepted remotes in the repository configuration. 2. It assembles a reply string containing the accepted remote names to send back to the server. In a following commit, the fetch-pack logic will need to trigger the side effect (1) to ensure the repository state is correct, but it will not need to send a reply (2). To avoid assembling a reply string when it is not needed, let's change the signature of promisor_remote_reply(). It will now return `void` and accept a second `char **accepted_out` argument. Only if that argument is not NULL will a reply string be assembled and returned back to the caller via that argument. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17promisor-remote: keep advertised filters in memoryChristian Couder2-0/+65
Currently, advertised filters are only kept in memory temporarily during parsing, or persisted to disk if `promisor.storeFields` contains 'partialCloneFilter'. In a following commit though, we will add a `--filter=auto` option. This option will enable the client to use the filters that the server is suggesting for the promisor remotes the client accepts. To use them even if `promisor.storeFields` is not configured, these filters should be stored somewhere for the current session. Let's add an `advertised_filter` field to `struct promisor_remote` for that purpose. To ensure that the filters are available in all cases, filter_promisor_remote() captures them into a temporary list and applies them to the `promisor_remote` structs after the potential configuration reload. Then the accepted remotes are marked as `accepted` in the repository state. This ensures that subsequent calls to look up accepted remotes (like in the filter construction below) actually find them. In a following commit, we will add a `--filter=auto` option that will enable a client to use the filters suggested by the server for the promisor remotes the client accepted. To enable the client to construct a filter spec based on these filters, let's also add a `promisor_remote_construct_filter(repo)` function. This function: - iterates over all accepted promisor remotes in the repository, - collects the filters advertised for them (using `advertised_filter` added in this commit, and - generates a single filter spec for them. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17list-objects-filter-options: support 'auto' mode for --filterChristian Couder6-3/+105
In a following commit, we are going to allow passing "auto" as a <filterspec> to the `--filter=<filterspec>` option, but only for some commands. Other commands that support the `--filter=<filterspec>` option should still die() when 'auto' is passed. Let's set up the "list-objects-filter-options.{c,h}" infrastructure to support that: - Add a new `unsigned int allow_auto_filter : 1;` flag to `struct list_objects_filter_options` which specifies if "auto" is accepted or not by the current command. - Change gently_parse_list_objects_filter() to parse "auto" if it's accepted. - Make sure we die() if "auto" is combined with another filter. - Update list_objects_filter_release() to preserve the allow_auto_filter flag, as this function is often called (via opt_parse_list_objects_filter) to reset the struct before parsing a new value. Let's also update `list-objects-filter.c` to recognize the new `LOFC_AUTO` choice. Since "auto" must be resolved to a concrete filter before filtering actually begins, initializing a filter with `LOFC_AUTO` is invalid and will trigger a BUG(). Note that ideally combining "auto" with "auto" could be allowed, but in practice, it's probably not worth the added code complexity. And if we really want it, nothing prevents us to allow it in future work. If we ever want to give a meaning to combining "auto" with a different filter too, nothing prevents us to do that in future work either. Also note that the new `allow_auto_filter` flag depends on the command, not user choices, so it should be reset to the command default when `struct list_objects_filter_options` instances are reset. While at it, let's add a new "u-list-objects-filter-options.c" file for `struct list_objects_filter_options` related unit tests. For now it only tests gently_parse_list_objects_filter() though. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17doc: fetch: document `--filter=<filter-spec>` optionChristian Couder1-0/+10
The `--filter=<filter-spec>` option is documented in most commands that support it except `git fetch`. Let's fix that and document this option. To ensure consistency across commands, let's reuse the exact description currently found in `git clone`. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17fetch: make filter_options local to cmd_fetch()Christian Couder1-21/+27
The `struct list_objects_filter_options filter_options` variable used in "builtin/fetch.c" to store the parsed filters specified by `--filter=<filterspec>` is currently a static variable global to the file. As we are going to use it more in a following commit, it could become a bit less easy to understand how it's managed. To avoid that, let's make it clear that it's owned by cmd_fetch() by moving its definition into that function and making it non-static. This requires passing a pointer to it through the prepare_transport(), do_fetch(), backfill_tags(), fetch_one_setup_partial(), and fetch_one() functions, but it's quite straightforward. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17clone: make filter_options local to cmd_clone()Christian Couder1-5/+11
The `struct list_objects_filter_options filter_options` variable used in "builtin/clone.c" to store the parsed filters specified by `--filter=<filterspec>` is currently a static variable global to the file. As we are going to use it more in a following commit, it could become a bit less easy to understand how it's managed. To avoid that, let's make it clear that it's owned by cmd_clone() by moving its definition into that function and making it non-static. The only additional change to make this work is to pass it as an argument to checkout(). So it's a small quite cheap cleanup anyway. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17promisor-remote: allow a client to store fieldsChristian Couder4-6/+250
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. Another previous commit, c213820c51 (promisor-remote: allow a client to check fields, 2025-09-08), has made it possible for a client to decide if it accepts a promisor remote advertised by a server based on these additional fields. Often though, it would be interesting for the client to just store in its configuration files these additional fields passed by the server, so that it can use them when needed. For example if a token is necessary to access a promisor remote, that token could be updated frequently only on the server side and then passed to all the clients through the "promisor-remote" capability, avoiding the need to update it on all the clients manually. Storing the token on the client side makes sure that the token is available when the client needs to access the promisor remotes for a lazy fetch. To allow this, let's introduce a new "promisor.storeFields" configuration variable. Note that for a partial clone filter, it's less interesting to have it stored on the client. This is because a filter should be used right away and we already pass a `--filter=<filter-spec>` option to `git clone` when starting a partial clone. Storing the filter could perhaps still be interesting for information purposes. Like "promisor.checkFields" and "promisor.sendFields", the new configuration variable should contain a comma or space separated list of field names. Only the "partialCloneFilter" and "token" field names are supported for now. When a server advertises a promisor remote, for example "foo", along with for example "token=XXXXX" to a client, and on the client side "promisor.storeFields" contains "token", then the client will store XXXXX for the "remote.foo.token" variable in its configuration file and reload its configuration so it can immediately use this new configuration variable. A message is emitted on stderr to warn users when the config is changed. Note that even if "promisor.acceptFromServer" is set to "all", a promisor remote has to be already configured on the client side for some of its config to be changed. In any case no new remote is configured and no new URL is stored. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17promisor-remote: refactor initialising field listsChristian Couder1-14/+14
In "promisor-remote.c", the fields_sent() and fields_checked() functions serve similar purposes and contain a small amount of duplicated code. As we are going to add a similar function in a following commit, let's refactor this common code into a new initialize_fields_list() function. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17shallow: handling fetch relative-deepenSamo Pogačnik4-82/+87
When a shallowed repository gets deepened beyond the beginning of a merged branch, we may end up with some shallows that are hidden behind the reachable shallow commits. Added test 'fetching deepen beyond merged branch' exposes that behaviour. An example showing the problem based on added test: 0. Whole initial git repo to be cloned from Graph: * 033585d (HEAD -> main) Merge branch 'branch' |\ | * 984f8b1 (branch) five | * ecb578a four |/ * 0cb5d20 three * 2b4e70d two * 61ba98b one 1. Initial shallow clone --depth=3 (all good) Shallows: 2b4e70da2a10e1d3231a0ae2df396024735601f1 ecb578a3cf37198d122ae5df7efed9abaca17144 Graph: * 033585d (HEAD -> main) Merge branch 'branch' |\ | * 984f8b1 five | * ecb578a (grafted) four * 0cb5d20 three * 2b4e70d (grafted) two 2. Deepen shallow clone with fetch --deepen=1 (NOT OK) Shallows: 0cb5d204f4ef96ed241feb0f2088c9f4794ba758 61ba98be443fd51c542eb66585a1f6d7e15fcdae Graph: * 033585d (HEAD -> main) Merge branch 'branch' |\ | * 984f8b1 five | * ecb578a four |/ * 0cb5d20 (grafted) three --- Note that second shallow commit 61ba98be443fd51c542eb66585a1f6d7e15fcdae is not reachable. On the other hand, it seems that equivalent absolute depth driven fetches result in all the correct shallows. That led to this proposal, which unifies absolute and relative deepening in a way that the same get_shallow_commits() call is used in both cases. The difference is only that depth is adapted for relative deepening by measuring equivalent depth of current local shallow commits in the current remote repo. Thus a new function get_shallows_depth() has been added and the function get_reachable_list() became redundant / removed. Same example showing the corrected second step: 2. Deepen shallow clone with fetch --deepen=1 (all good) Shallow: 61ba98be443fd51c542eb66585a1f6d7e15fcdae Graph: * 033585d (HEAD -> main) Merge branch 'branch' |\ | * 984f8b1 five | * ecb578a four |/ * 0cb5d20 three * 2b4e70d two * 61ba98b (grafted) one The get_shallows_depth() function also shares the logic of the get_shallow_commits() function, but it focuses on counting depth of each existing shallow commit. The minimum result is stored as 'data->deepen_relative', which is set not to be zero for relative deepening anyway. That way we can always sum 'data->deepen_relative' and 'depth' values, because 'data->deepen_relative' is always 0 in absolute deepening. To avoid duplicating logic between get_shallows_depth() and get_shallow_commits(), get_shallow_commits() was modified so that it is used by get_shallows_depth(). Signed-off-by: Samo Pogačnik <samo_pogacnik@t-2.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17shallow: free local object_array allocationsSamo Pogačnik1-0/+1
The local object_array 'stack' in get_shallow_commits() function does not free its dynamic elements before the function returns. As a result elements remain allocated and their reference forgotten. Also note, that test 'fetching deepen beyond merged branch' added by 'shallow: handling fetch relative-deepen' patch fails without this correction in linux-leaks and linux-reftable-leaks test runs. Signed-off-by: Samo Pogačnik <samo_pogacnik@t-2.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17doc: patch-id: see also git-cherry(1)Kristoffer Haugsbakk1-0/+4
git-cherry(1) links to this command. These two commands are similar and we also mention it in the “Examples” section now. Let’s link to it. Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17doc: patch-id: add script exampleKristoffer Haugsbakk1-0/+40
The utility and usability of git-patch-id(1) was discussed relatively recently:[1] Using "git patch-id" is definitely in the "write a script for it" category. I don't think I've ever used it as-is from the command line as part of a one-liner. It's very much a command that is designed purely for scripting, the interface is just odd and baroque and doesn't really make sense for one-liners. The typical use of patch-id is to generate two *lists* of patch-ids, then sort them and use the patch-id as a key to find commits that look the same. The command doc *could* use an example, and since it is a mapper command it makes sense for that example to be a little script. Mapping the commits of some branch to an upstream ref allows us to demonstrate generating two lists, sorting them, joining them, and finally discarding the patch ID lookup column with cut(1). † 1: https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/CAHk-=wiN+8EUoik4UeAJ-HPSU7hczQP+8+_uP3vtAy_=YfJ9PQ@mail.gmail.com/ Inspired-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17doc: patch-id: emphasize multi-patch processingKristoffer Haugsbakk1-3/+4
Emphasize that you can pass multiple patches or diffs to this command. git-patch-id(1) is an efficient pID–commit mapper, able to map thousands of commits in seconds. But discussions on the command seem to typically[1] use the standard loop-over-rev-list-and- shell-out pattern: for commit in rev-list: prepare a diff from commit | git patch-id This is unnecessary; we can bulk-process the patches: git rev-list --no-merges <ref> | git diff-tree --patch --stdin | git patch-id --stable The first version (translated to shell) takes a little over nine minutes for a commit history of about 78K commits.[2] The other one, by contrast, takes slightly less than a minute. Also drop “the” from “standard input”. † 1: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19758159 † 2: This is `master` of this repository on 2025-10-02 Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17add-patch: allow interfile navigation when selecting hunksAbraham Samuel Adekunle2-5/+161
After deciding on all hunks in a file, the interactive session advances automatically to the next file if there is another, or the process ends. Now using the `--no-auto-advance` flag with `--patch`, the process does not advance automatically. A user can choose to go to the next file by pressing '>' or the previous file by pressing '<', before or after deciding on all hunks in the current file. After all hunks have been decided in a file, the user can still rework with the file by applying the options available in the permit set for that hunk, and after all the decisions, the user presses 'q' to submit. After all hunks have been decided, the user can press '?' which will show the hunk selection summary in the help patch remainder text including the total hunks, number of hunks marked for use and number of hunks marked for skip. This feature is enabled by passing the `--no-auto-advance` flag to `--patch` option of the subcommands add, stash, reset, and checkout. Signed-off-by: Abraham Samuel Adekunle <abrahamadekunle50@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17add-patch: allow all-or-none application of patchesAbraham Samuel Adekunle1-27/+35
When the flag `--no-auto-advance` is used with `--patch`, if the user has decided `USE` on a hunk in a file, goes to another file, and then returns to this file and changes the previous decision on the hunk to `SKIP`, because the patch has already been applied, the last decision is not registered and the now SKIPPED hunk is still applied. Move the logic for applying patches into a function so that we can reuse this logic to implement the all or non application of the patches after the user is done with the hunk selection. Signed-off-by: Abraham Samuel Adekunle <abrahamadekunle50@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17add-patch: modify patch_update_file() signatureAbraham Samuel Adekunle1-13/+19
The function `patch_update_file()` takes the add_p_state struct pointer and the current `struct file_diff` pointer and returns an int. When using the `--no-auto-advance` flag, we want to be able to request the next or previous file from the caller. Modify the function signature to instead take the index of the current `file_diff` and the `add_p_state` struct pointer so that we can compute the `file_diff` from the index while also having access to the file index. This will help us request the next or previous file from the caller. Signed-off-by: Abraham Samuel Adekunle <abrahamadekunle50@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17interactive -p: add new `--auto-advance` flagAbraham Samuel Adekunle7-1/+29
When using the interactive add, reset, stash or checkout machinery, we do not have the option of reworking with a file when selecting hunks, because the session automatically advances to the next file or ends if we have just one file. Introduce the flag `--auto-advance` which auto advances by default, when interactively selecting patches with the '--patch' option. However, the `--no-auto-advance` option does not auto advance, thereby allowing users the option to rework with files. Signed-off-by: Abraham Samuel Adekunle <abrahamadekunle50@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17ref-filter: avoid strrchr() in rstrip_ref_components()Jeff King1-8/+6
To strip path components from our refname string, we repeatedly call strrchr() to find the trailing slash, shortening the string each time by assigning NUL over it. This has two downsides: 1. Calling strrchr() in a loop is quadratic, since each call has to call strlen() under the hood to find the end of the string (even though we know exactly where it is from the last loop iteration). 2. We need a temporary buffer, since we're munging the string with NUL as we shorten it (which we must do, because strrchr() has no other way of knowing what we consider the end of the string). Using memrchr() would let us fix both of these, but it isn't portable. So instead, let's just open-code the string traversal from back to front as we loop. I doubt that the quadratic nature is a serious concern. You can see it in practice with something like: git init git commit --allow-empty -m foo echo "$(git rev-parse HEAD) refs/heads$(perl -e 'print "/a" x 500_000')" >.git/packed-refs time git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:rstrip=-1)' That takes ~5.5s to run on my machine before this patch, and ~11ms after. But I don't think there's a reasonable way for somebody to infect you with such a garbage ref, as the wire protocol is limited to 64k pkt-lines. The difference is measurable for me for a 32k-component ref (about 19ms vs 7ms), so perhaps you could create some chaos by pushing a lot of them. But we also run into filesystem limits (if the loose backend is in use), and in practice it seems like there are probably simpler and more effective ways to waste CPU. Likewise the extra allocation probably isn't really measurable. In fact, since our goal is to return an allocated string, we end up having to make the same allocation anyway (though it is sized to the result, rather than the input). My main goal was simplicity in avoiding the need to handle cleaning it up in the early return path. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17ref-filter: simplify rstrip_ref_components() memory handlingJeff King1-3/+2
We're stripping path components from the end of a string, which we do by assigning a NUL as we parse each component, shortening the string. This requires an extra temporary buffer to avoid munging our input string. But the way that we allocate the buffer is unusual. We have an extra "to_free" variable. Usually this is used when the access variable is conceptually const, like: const char *foo; char *to_free = NULL; if (...) foo = to_free = xstrdup(...); else foo = some_const_string; ... free(to_free); But that's not what's happening here. Our "start" variable always points to the allocated buffer, and to_free is redundant. Worse, it is marked as const itself, requiring a cast when we free it. Let's drop to_free entirely, and mark "start" as non-const, making the memory handling more clear. As a bonus, this also silences a warning from glibc-2.43 that our call to strrchr() implicitly strips away the const-ness of "start". Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17ref-filter: simplify lstrip_ref_components() memory handlingJeff King1-7/+2
We're walking forward in the string, skipping path components from left-to-right. So when we've stripped as much as we want, the pointer we have is a complete NUL-terminated string and we can just return it (after duplicating it, of course). So there is no need for a temporary allocated string. But we do make an extra temporary copy due to f0062d3b74 (ref-filter: free item->value and item->value->s, 2018-10-18). This is probably from cargo-culting the technique used in rstrip_ref_components(), which _does_ need a separate string (since it is stripping from the end and ties off the temporary string with a NUL). Let's drop the extra allocation. This is slightly more efficient, but more importantly makes the code much simpler. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17ref-filter: factor out refname component countingJeff King1-23/+11
The "lstrip" and "rstrip" options to the %(refname) placeholder both accept a negative length, which asks us to keep that many path components (rather than stripping that many). The code to count components and convert the negative value to a positive was copied from lstrip to rstrip in 1a34728e6b (ref-filter: add an 'rstrip=<N>' option to atoms which deal with refnames, 2017-01-10). Let's factor it out into a separate function. This reduces duplication and also makes the lstrip/rstrip functions much easier to follow, since the bulk of their code is now the actual stripping. Note that the computed "remaining" value is currently stored as a "long", so in theory that's what our function should return. But this is purely historical. When the variable was added in 0571979bd6 (tag: do not show ambiguous tag names as "tags/foo", 2016-01-25), we parsed the value from strtol(), and thus used a long. But these days we take "len" as an int, and also use an int to count up components. So let's just consistently use int here. This value could only overflow in a pathological case (e.g., 4GB worth of "a/a/...") and even then will not result in out-of-bounds memory access (we keep stripping until we run out of string to parse). The minimal Myers diff here is a little hard to read; with --patience the code movement is shown much more clearly. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17Documentation/git-history: document default for "--update-refs="Patrick Steinhardt1-1/+1
While we document the values that can be passed to the "--update-refs=" option, we don't give the user any hint what the default behaviour is. Document it. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17builtin/history: rename "--ref-action=" to "--update-refs="Patrick Steinhardt3-10/+10
With the preceding commit we have changed "--ref-action=" to only control which refs are supposed to be updated, not what happens with them. As a consequence, the option is now somewhat misnamed, as we don't control the action itself anymore. Rename it to "--update-refs=" to better align it with its new use. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17builtin/history: replace "--ref-action=print" with "--dry-run"Patrick Steinhardt3-77/+97
The git-history(1) command has the ability to perform a dry-run that will not end up modifying any references. Instead, we'll only print any ref updates that would happen as a consequence of performing the operation. This mode is somewhat hidden though behind the "--ref-action=print" option. This command line option has its origin in git-replay(1), where it's probably an okayish interface as this command is sitting more on the plumbing side of tools. But git-history(1) is a user-facing tool, and this way of achieving a dry-run is way too technical and thus not very discoverable. Besides usability issues, it also has another issue: the dry-run mode will always operate as if the user wanted to rewrite all branches. But in fact, the user also has the option to only update the HEAD reference, and they might want to perform a dry-run of such an operation, too. We could of course introduce "--ref-action=print-head", but that would become even less ergonomic. Replace "--ref-action=print" with a new "--dry-run" toggle. This new toggle works with both "--ref-action={head,branches}" and is way more discoverable. Add a test to verify that both "--ref-action=" values behave as expected. This patch is best viewed with "--ignore-space-change". Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17builtin/history: check for merges before asking for user inputPatrick Steinhardt2-1/+40
The replay infrastructure is not yet capable of replaying merge commits. Unfortunately, we only notice that we're about to replay merges after we have already asked the user for input, so any commit message that the user may have written will be discarded in that case. Fix this by checking whether the revwalk contains merge commits before we ask for user input. Adapt one of the tests that is expected to fail because of this check to use false(1) as editor. If the editor had been executed by Git, it would fail with the error message "Aborting commit as launching the editor failed." Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17builtin/history: perform revwalk checks before asking for user inputPatrick Steinhardt2-27/+44
When setting up the revision walk in git-history(1) we also perform some verifications whether the request actually looks sane. Unfortunately, these verifications come _after_ we have already asked the user for the commit message of the commit that is to be rewritten. So in case any of the verifications fails, the user will have lost their modifications. Extract the function to set up the revision walk and call it before we ask for user input to fix this. Adapt one of the tests that is expected to fail because of this check to use false(1) as editor. If the editor had been executed by Git, it would fail with the error message "Aborting commit as launching the editor failed." Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17git-gui: wire up "git-gui--askyesno" with MesonPatrick Steinhardt1-13/+15
The new "git-gui--askyesno" helper script has only been wired up for our Makefile, not for Meson. Wire it up properly to bring both build systems on par with each other again. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
2026-02-17git-gui: massage "git-gui--askyesno" with "generate-script.sh"Patrick Steinhardt3-2/+6
In e749c87 (git-gui: provide question helper for retry fallback on Windows, 2025-08-28) we have introudced a new "git-gui--askyesno" helper script. While the script is conceptually similar to our existing helper script "git-gui--askpass", we don't massage it via "generate-script.sh". This means that build options like the path to the wish shell are not propagated correctly. Fix this issue. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
2026-02-17git-gui: prefer shell at "/bin/sh" with MesonPatrick Steinhardt1-1/+1
Meson detects the path of the target shell via `find_program("sh")`, which essentially does a lookup via `PATH`. We know that almost all systems have "/bin/sh" available though, which makes it the superior choice as a default value. Adapt `find_program()` to prefer "/bin/sh" over any other "sh" executable. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
2026-02-17git-gui: fix use of GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIESPatrick Steinhardt4-5/+16
The GIT-VERSION-GEN script sets up GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES so that we won't accidentally parse version information from an unrelated parent repository. The ceiling is derived from the source directory by simply appendign "/.." to it, which mean that we'll only consider the current directory for repository discovery. This works alright in the case where git-gui is built as a standalone project, but it breaks when git-gui is embedded into a _related_ parent project. This is for example how git-gui is distributed via Git. Interestingly enough, the version information is still derived properly when building git-gui via Git's Makefile. In that case we eventually end up specifying the ceiling directory as "./.." as we use relative paths there, and that seems to not restrict the repository discovery. But when building via Meson we specify the source directory as an absolute path, and if so the repository discovery _is_ stopped. The consequence is that we won't be able to derive the version in that case. Fix the issue by adding a new optional parameter to GIT-VERSION-GEN that allows the caller to override the parent project directory and wire up new build options for Meson and Make that allows users to specify it. Note that by default we won't set the parent project directory. This isn't required for Meson anyway as we already use absolute paths there, but for our Makefile it means that we still end up with "./.." as ceiling directory, which is ineffective. But using e.g. pwd(1) as the default value would break downstream's version generation, unless we updated git-gui and the Makefile at the same point in time. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
2026-02-14repo: add new flag --keys to git-repo-infoLucas Seiki Oshiro3-11/+72
If the user wants to find what are the available keys, they need to either check the documentation or to ask for all the key-value pairs by using --all. Add a new flag --keys for listing only the available keys without listing the values. Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-14repo: rename the output format "keyvalue" to "lines"Lucas Seiki Oshiro4-23/+25
Both subcommands in git-repo(1) accept the "keyvalue" format. This format is newline-delimited, where the key is separated from the value with an equals sign. The name of this option is suboptimal though, as it is both too limiting while at the same time not really indicating what it actually does: - There is no mention of the format being newline-delimited, which is the key differentiator to the "nul" format. - Both "nul" and "keyvalue" have a key and a value, so the latter is not exactly giving any hint what makes it so special. - "keyvalue" requires there to be, well, a key and a value, but we want to add additional output that is only going to be newline delimited. Taken together, "keyvalue" is kind of a bad name for this output format. Luckily, the git-repo(1) command is still rather new and marked as experimental, so things aren't cast into stone yet. Rename the format to "lines" instead to better indicate that the major difference is that we'll get newline-delimited output. This new name will also be a better fit for a subsequent extension in git-repo(1). Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-14CodingGuidelines: document NEEDSWORK commentsJunio C Hamano1-0/+10
We often say things like /* NEEDSWORK: further _do_ _this_ */ in comments, but it is a short-hand to say "We might later want to do this. We might not. We do not have to decide it right now at this moment in the commit this comment was added. If somebody is inclined to work in this area further, the first thing they need to do is to figure out if it truly makes sense to do so, before blindly doing it." This seems to have never been documented. Do so now. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-13The 4th batchJunio C Hamano1-0/+35
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-13Merge branch 'sb/merge-ours-sparse'Junio C Hamano2-6/+23
"git merge-ours" is taught to work better in a sparse checkout. * sb/merge-ours-sparse: merge-ours: integrate with sparse-index merge-ours: drop USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE