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2025-05-20builtin/receive-pack: add option to skip connectivity checkJustin Tobler1-0/+12
During git-receive-pack(1), connectivity of the object graph is validated to ensure that the received packfile does not leave the repository in a broken state. This is done via git-rev-list(1) and walking the objects, which can be expensive for large repositories. Generally, this check is critical to avoid an incomplete received packfile from corrupting a repository. Server operators may have additional knowledge though around exactly how Git is being used on the server-side which can be used to facilitate more efficient connectivity computation of incoming objects. For example, if it can be ensured that all objects in a repository are connected and do not depend on any missing objects, the connectivity of newly written objects can be checked by walking the object graph containing only the new objects from the updated tips and identifying the missing objects which represent the boundary between the new objects and the repository. These boundary objects can be checked in the canonical repository to ensure the new objects connect as expected and thus avoid walking the rest of the object graph. Git itself cannot make the guarantees required for such an optimization as it is possible for a repository to contain an unreachable object that references a missing object without the repository being considered corrupt. Introduce the --skip-connectivity-check option for git-receive-pack(1) which bypasses this connectivity check to give more control to the server-side. Note that without proper server-side validation of newly received objects handled outside of Git, usage of this option risks corrupting a repository. Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-21doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc filesbrian m. carlson1-0/+261
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>