Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jul 2026 22:50:23 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'wy/doc-clarify-review-replies'
Documentation on community contribution guidelines has been updated to
encourage replying to review comments before rerolling, and to advise
a default limit of at most one reroll per day to give reviewers across
different time zones enough time to participate.
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jul 2026 22:50:23 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jk/repo-info-path-keys'
The "git repo info" command has been taught new keys to output both
absolute and relative paths for "gitdir" and "commondir", supported by
a new path-formatting helper extracted from "git rev-parse".
* jk/repo-info-path-keys:
repo: add path.gitdir with absolute and relative suffix formatting
repo: add path.commondir with absolute and relative suffix formatting
path: extract format_path() and use in rev-parse
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jul 2026 22:50:23 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'mv/log-follow-mergy'
"git log --follow" has been updated to better handle non-linear
history, in which the path being tracked gets renamed differently in
multiple history lines.
* mv/log-follow-mergy:
log: improve --follow following renames for non-linear history
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jul 2026 22:50:23 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'pw/status-rebase-todo'
The display of the rebase todo list in "git status" has been
improved to correctly abbreviate object IDs for more commands and
avoid misinterpreting refs as object IDs.
* pw/status-rebase-todo:
status: improve rebase todo list parsing
sequencer: factor out parsing of todo commands
The pack-objects command has been updated to support reachability
bitmaps and delta-islands concurrently with the `--path-walk` option,
allowing faster packaging by falling back to path-walk when bitmaps
cannot fully satisfy the request.
* tb/pack-path-walk-bitmap-delta-islands:
pack-objects: support `--delta-islands` with `--path-walk`
pack-objects: extract `record_tree_depth()` helper
pack-objects: support reachability bitmaps with `--path-walk`
t/perf: drop p5311's lookup-table permutation
The documentation in SubmittingPatches has been updated to clarify how
patch contributors should respond to design and viability critiques,
and how the resolution of such critiques should be recorded in the
final commit messages.
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jul 2026 22:50:22 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'kh/submittingpatches-trailers'
The trailer sections in SubmittingPatches have been updated to
encourage use of standard trailers.
* kh/submittingpatches-trailers:
SubmittingPatches: note that trailer order matters
SubmittingPatches: be consistent with trailer markup
SubmittingPatches: document Based-on-patch-by trailer
SubmittingPatches: discourage common Linux trailers
SubmittingPatches: encourage trailer use for substantial help
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jul 2026 22:50:21 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'po/hash-object-size-t'
Support for hashing loose or packed objects larger than 4GB on Windows
and other LLP64 platforms has been improved by converting object header
buffers and data-handling functions from 'unsigned long' to 'size_t'.
* po/hash-object-size-t:
hash-object: add a >4GB/LLP64 test case using filtered input
hash-object: add another >4GB/LLP64 test case
hash-object --stdin: verify that it works with >4GB/LLP64
hash algorithms: use size_t for section lengths
object-file.c: use size_t for header lengths
hash-object: demonstrate a >4GB/LLP64 problem
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jul 2026 22:50:21 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ty/move-protect-hfs-ntfs'
The global configuration variables protect_hfs and protect_ntfs have
been migrated into struct repo_config_values to tie them to
per-repository configuration state.
* ty/move-protect-hfs-ntfs:
environment: use 'repo->initialized' for repo_protect_hfs() and repo_protect_ntfs()
environment: move 'protect_hfs' and 'protect_ntfs' into 'repo_config_values'
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jul 2026 22:50:21 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/odb-source-packed'
The packed object source has been refactored into a proper struct
odb_source.
* ps/odb-source-packed:
odb/source-packed: drop pointer to "files" parent source
midx: refactor interfaces to work on "packed" source
odb/source-packed: stub out remaining functions
odb/source-packed: wire up `freshen_object()` callback
odb/source-packed: wire up `find_abbrev_len()` callback
odb/source-packed: wire up `count_objects()` callback
odb/source-packed: wire up `for_each_object()` callback
odb/source-packed: wire up `read_object_stream()` callback
odb/source-packed: wire up `read_object_info()` callback
packfile: use higher-level interface to implement `has_object_pack()`
odb/source-packed: wire up `reprepare()` callback
odb/source-packed: wire up `close()` callback
odb/source-packed: start converting to a proper `struct odb_source`
odb/source-packed: store pointer to "files" instead of generic source
packfile: move packed source into "odb/" subsystem
packfile: split out packfile list logic
packfile: rename `struct packfile_store` to `odb_source_packed`
Commands that list branches and tags (like git branch and git tag)
have been optimized to pass the namespace prefix when initializing
their ref iterator, avoiding a loose-ref scaling regression in
repositories with many unrelated loose references.
The 'ort' merge backend has been hardened against corrupt trees by
ensuring it aborts under appropriate error conditions.
* en/ort-harden-against-corrupt-trees:
cache-tree: fix verify_cache() to catch non-adjacent D/F conflicts
merge-ort: abort merge when trees have duplicate entries
merge-ort: free diff pairs queue in clear_or_reinit_internal_opts()
merge-ort: drop unnecessary show_all_errors from collect_merge_info()
merge-ort: propagate callback errors from traverse_trees_wrapper()
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jul 2026 22:50:20 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jk/setup-gitfile-diag-fix'
A regression in the error diagnosis code for invalid .git files has
been fixed, avoiding a potential NULL-pointer crash when reporting
that a .git file does not point to a valid repository.
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jul 2026 22:50:20 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'rs/cat-file-default-format-optim'
The default format path of git cat-file --batch has been optimized
to use strbuf_add_oid_hex() and strbuf_add_uint() instead of
strbuf_addf(), yielding a noticeable speedup.
* rs/cat-file-default-format-optim:
cat-file: speed up default format
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jul 2026 22:50:19 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/doc-recommend-b4'
Project-specific configuration for b4 has been introduced, and the
documentation has been updated to recommend using it as a
streamlined method for submitting patches.
* ps/doc-recommend-b4:
b4: introduce configuration for the Git project
MyFirstContribution: recommend the use of b4
MyFirstContribution: recommend shallow threading of cover letters
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jul 2026 22:50:19 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/setup-drop-global-state'
The refactoring of 'setup.c' has been continued to drop remaining
global state (`git_work_tree_cfg`, `is_bare_repository_cfg`), updating
`is_bare_repository()` to no longer implicitly rely on
`the_repository`.
* ps/setup-drop-global-state:
treewide: drop USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE
environment: stop using `the_repository` in `is_bare_repository()`
environment: split up concerns of `is_bare_repository_cfg`
builtin/init: stop modifying `is_bare_repository_cfg`
setup: remove global `git_work_tree_cfg` variable
builtin/init: simplify logic to configure worktree
builtin/init: stop modifying global `git_work_tree_cfg` variable
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jul 2026 22:50:19 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'cc/promisor-auto-config-url-more'
The handling of promisor-remote protocol capability has been updated
to allow the other side to add to the list of promisor remotes via the
'promisor.acceptFromServerURL' configuration variable.
* cc/promisor-auto-config-url-more:
doc: promisor: improve acceptFromServer entry
promisor-remote: auto-configure unknown remotes
promisor-remote: trust known remotes matching acceptFromServerUrl
promisor-remote: introduce promisor.acceptFromServerUrl
promisor-remote: add 'local_name' to 'struct promisor_info'
urlmatch: add url_normalize_pattern() helper
urlmatch: change 'allow_globs' arg to bool
t5710: simplify 'mkdir X' followed by 'git -C X init'
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 6 Jul 2026 22:50:18 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'hn/status-pull-advice-qualified'
Advice shown by "git status" when the local branch is behind or has
diverged from its push branch has been updated to suggest "git pull
<remote> <branch>".
* hn/status-pull-advice-qualified:
remote: qualify "git pull" advice for non-upstream compareBranches
The Apache timeout in HTTP tests has been increased to prevent test
failures on heavily loaded CI runners. The tests creating an
enormous number of refs have been isolated to their own repositories
to avoid slowing down subsequent tests.
* jk/t5551-expensive-test-timeouts-fix:
t5551: put many-tags case into its own repo
t/lib-httpd: bump apache timeout
Jeff King [Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:03:45 +0000 (04:03 -0400)]
t5551: put many-tags case into its own repo
Most of the t5551 http fetch tests use a handful of refs. But there are
a few test cases which check our handling of large numbers of refs.
These tests use the same server-side repo, so all subsequent tests end
up having to consider those extra refs, too.
The result is that the test script is a bit slower than it needs to be.
In a normal run, moving the "2,000 tags" test into its own repo drops my
runtime for the whole script from ~2.7s to ~1.9s.
This is a modest gain, but when we add the "--long" flag it gets much
bigger. There we trigger a test (marked with EXPENSIVE) that adds
100,000 tags, and the script runtime jumps to ~95s. But if we use the
same "many tags" repo for that, our runtime drops to just ~37s.
This is a pretty easy win to drop the cost of the script. It may even be
a larger gain on a heavily loaded system, since one of the main costs
here is unpacked refs, which are heavy on system time and I/O costs.
It's possible we are reducing test coverage, since all of those other
tests were inadvertently using large ref advertisements (and thus could
have uncovered some unexpected interaction). But that seems somewhat
unlikely; the tests targeted at the large number of refs are doing
roughly similar things to the other tests.
Note that the real performance culprit is the 100k-tag --long test, not
the 2k-tag one. So we could just let the 100k one use its own repo, and
keep the 2k tags in the main repo. But since these two tests are
somewhat interlinked, it's easier to just move them both (and it does
provide a small gain even for the 2000-tag test). I also notice that the
2000-tag test is gated on the CMDLINE_LIMIT prereq, and without that the
later EXPENSIVE test will fail (since we won't have a too-many-refs
clone). Nobody seems to have noticed or complained after many years, and
I left it alone for this patch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted>
[jc: made the new "many-tags.git" bare to match the original "repo.git"] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Jeff King [Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:00:09 +0000 (04:00 -0400)]
t/lib-httpd: bump apache timeout
Since enabling more tests with 7a094d68a2 (ci: run expensive tests on
push builds to integration branches, 2026-05-08), we sometimes see test
failures or timeouts in GitHub CI. The culprit seems to be the "enormous
ref negotiation" test in t5551, which creates ~100k tag refs in our http
server-side repo.
Iterating through the loose refs of this repo to generate a ref
advertisement can take a long time, especially on a platform with slow
I/O. On my otherwise unloaded local machine, a cold cache ref
advertisement takes ~10s. On a busy CI machine running tests in
parallel, it can presumably top 60s, which runs afoul of Apache's
default CGI timeout.
The result in t5551 is a test failure, where Apache simply hangs up the
connection and the client reports an error. But worse, t5559 runs the
same test with HTTP/2, and a bug in Apache causes the connection to hang
indefinitely! We eventually see this as a CI timeout after 6 hours.
Let's bump Apache's timeout to something much larger: 600 seconds. This
doesn't eliminate the possibility of a timeout, but it makes it much
less likely. It should eliminate both the test failures and the CI
timeouts in practice, and it protects us from running into similar
problems with other tests in the future.
There are two counter-arguments to consider.
One, could/should we just make the test faster? Probably yes. The
biggest mistake here is having such an absurd number of unpacked refs on
a system which is bottle-necked on I/O. But I think it's worth bumping
the timeout so that we can fix this (and possibly other) correctness
issues, and then consider performance separately (which we'll do in
subsequent patches).
And two, is this just papering over a problem that users might see in
the real world? We could teach Git to handle this case more gracefully
with optimizations or keep-alives. But I think it's really an artificial
situation. You need a combination of this silly number of loose refs,
plus a very heavily loaded system. If you were trying to run a real
server and it took more than 60s to generate the ref advertisement, I
don't think the timeout is your biggest problem. Your crappy service is,
and you should adjust your resources to match your load. I.e., it is
probably reasonable for Git to assume that advertisements happen
fast-ish and don't need protocol-level keepalives.
Though the patch here is small, tons of work went into analyzing the
problem. Many thanks to the contributors credited below.
Helped-by: Michael Montalbo <redacted> Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <redacted> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Since 663d7abe07ea (http: reject unsupported proxy URL schemes,
2026-05-05), set_curl_proxy_type() returns 0 only for the "http"
and SOCKS variants via dedicated early returns, and -1 for
everything else. The "https" branch configures the CURL handle for
HTTPS proxying but then falls through to the trailing `return -1`
intended for unknown schemes, so the caller in get_curl_handle()
treats a perfectly valid https:// proxy URL as unsupported and
refuses to use it.
Noticed while looking into a Coverity report against the same
function; the unchecked curl_easy_setopt() return values it flags
are orthogonal to this fix.
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Jiang Xin [Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:57:52 +0000 (19:57 +0800)]
l10n: AGENTS.md: add quotation mark preservation guidelines
Add a "Preserving Quotation Marks" section to prevent AI-assisted
translation and review from incorrectly converting language-specific
UTF-8 curly quotes (e.g., „ U+201E, " U+201C for Bulgarian) into
ASCII straight quotes " (U+0022), which would cause PO string
truncation and syntax errors.
Also update the "Special characters" item in the Quality checklist
to reference the new section.
In t4216 we have have a prerequisite that is active in case the system's
`char` type is signed by default. This prerequisite isn't really used by
anything though: while it is used to guard one of our tests, that
specific test is essentially a no-op. So all this infrastructure does is
to provide some debugging hint to a reader that pays a lot of attention.
Besides that, the way we set up the prerequisite also results in broken
TAP output on systems where `char` is unsigned by default: we use
`test_cmp()` to diff two files outside of of any test body, and if the
files differ we enable the prerequisite. If so, the call to `test_cmp()`
would also print output, and that output is of course not valid TAP
output.
That wasn't a problem before 389c83025d (t: let prove fail when parsing
invalid TAP output, 2026-06-04), because our TAP parser was configured
to be lenient. But starting with that commit, t4216 is now failing on
systems with unsigned chars.
Drop the whole infrastructure. The prerequisite is not used anywhere
else, and the only location where it's used doesn't really provide much
value.
Reported-by: Todd Zullinger <redacted> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <redacted> Tested-by: Todd Zullinger <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
K Jayatheerth [Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:37:48 +0000 (09:07 +0530)]
repo: add path.gitdir with absolute and relative suffix formatting
Scripts need a stable way to locate the git directory without
parsing rev-parse output or relying on its flag-driven path format
selection. There is no way to retrieve this path from git repo info
today.
Introduce path.gitdir.absolute and path.gitdir.relative keys,
consistent with the path.commondir keys added in the previous patch.
Reuse the test_repo_info_path helper introduced there to validate
both variants.
Mentored-by: Justin Tobler <redacted> Mentored-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <redacted> Signed-off-by: K Jayatheerth <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
K Jayatheerth [Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:37:47 +0000 (09:07 +0530)]
repo: add path.commondir with absolute and relative suffix formatting
Scripts working with worktree setups need a reliable way to discover
the common directory, which diverges from the git directory when
multiple worktrees are in use. There is no way to retrieve this path
from git repo info today.
Introduce path.commondir.absolute and path.commondir.relative keys.
Exposing explicit format variants rather than a single key with a
default avoids ambiguity for scripts that require predictable output.
Mentored-by: Justin Tobler <redacted> Mentored-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <redacted> Signed-off-by: K Jayatheerth <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
K Jayatheerth [Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:37:46 +0000 (09:07 +0530)]
path: extract format_path() and use in rev-parse
Path formatting logic in builtin/rev-parse.c writes directly to
stdout. Other builtins cannot reuse it.
Extract this logic into format_path() in path.c and expose
a path_format enum in path.h.
Convert rev-parse to use the new helper in the same step to validate
the API against existing tests and avoid introducing dead code.
Mentored-by: Justin Tobler <redacted> Mentored-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <redacted> Signed-off-by: K Jayatheerth <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Phillip Wood [Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:53:57 +0000 (16:53 +0100)]
status: improve rebase todo list parsing
When there is rebase in progress "git status" displays the last couple
of completed and the next couple of pending commands from the todo
list. When it does this it tries to abbreviate the object ids of
the commits to be picked. Unfortunately it does not abbreviate the
object ids when the line starts with "fixup -C" or "merge -C". It
also mistakenly replaces the refname in "reset main" and "update-ref
refs/heads/main" with the object id that the ref points to.
Fix this by using the function added in the last commit to parse the
command name and only try to abbreviate the argument for commands that
take an object id. If a command accepts a label then try to resolve the
object name as a label first and only if that fails try to resolve it
as an object_id. When trying to abbreviate an object id, only replace
the object name if it starts with the abbreviated object id so that
tag or branch names that contain only hex digits are left unchanged.
Comments are now processed after stripping any leading
whitespace from the line. This matches what the sequencer does in
parse_insn_line(). The existing test cases are updated to test a
wider variety of commands. Only the pending commands in the tests
are changed to avoid removing existing coverage.
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <redacted> Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Phillip Wood [Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:53:56 +0000 (16:53 +0100)]
sequencer: factor out parsing of todo commands
Move the code that parses todo commands into a separate function so
that it can be shared with "git status" in the next commit. As we
know the input is NUL terminated we do not pass a pointer to the end
of the line and instead test for a blank line by looking for NUL, CR
LF, or LF. We use starts_with() instead of starts_with_mem() for the
same reason. This results in slightly different behavior when there
a CR at the start of the line that is not followed by LF. Previously
such a line was treated as a comment rather than an invalid line.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
win32: ensure that `localtime_r()` is declared even in i686 builds
The `__MINGW64__` constant is defined, surprise, surprise, only when
building for a 64-bit CPU architecture.
Therefore using it as a guard to define `_POSIX_C_SOURCE` (so that
`localtime_r()` is declared, among other functions) is not enough, we
also need to check `__MINGW32__`.
Technically, the latter constant is defined even for 64-bit builds. But
let's make things a bit easier to understand by testing for both
constants.
Making it so fixes this compile warning (turned error in GCC v14.1):
archive-zip.c: In function 'dos_time':
archive-zip.c:612:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'localtime_r';
did you mean 'localtime_s'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
612 | localtime_r(&time, &tm);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
| localtime_s
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Miklos Vajna [Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:23:31 +0000 (08:23 +0200)]
log: improve --follow following renames for non-linear history
Have a repo with a subtree merge, do a 'git log --follow prefix/test.c',
the output only contains history in the outer repo, not commits that
were merged via a subtree merge.
What happens is that 'git log --follow' stores the followed path only in
opt->diffopt.pathspec, so in case the commit history is non-linear, and
multiple parents have renames to the followed path, then the end result
isn't really defined: the first commit that happens to be visited in one
of the parents update opt->diffopt.pathspec, and from that point, only
that updated path is visited.
Fix the problem by introducing a commit -> path map
(follow_pathspec_slab) that stores what will be a path to follow when
visiting that parent. At the top of log_tree_commit(), if the slab has
an entry for this commit, we replace opt->diffopt.pathspec with a path
from this entry, so the correct path is followed, even if an unrelated
sub-tree changed the path to be followed to something else. After
log_tree_diff() runs, we record each parent's path in the slab. As a
result, the walk order doesn't matter, which was exactly the source of
problems previously.
This helps with subtree merges (rename happens inside the merge commit),
but also fixes the general case when the rename happens in the history
of parents, not in the merge commit itself.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
* js/objects-larger-than-4gb-on-windows-more:
odb: use size_t for object_info.sizep and the size APIs
packfile,delta: drop the `cast_size_t_to_ulong()` wrappers
pack-objects: use size_t for in-core object sizes
packfile: widen unpack_entry()'s size out-parameter to size_t
pack-objects(check_pack_inflate()): use size_t instead of unsigned long
patch-delta: use size_t for sizes
compat/msvc: use _chsize_s for ftruncate
Taylor Blau [Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:03:10 +0000 (19:03 -0400)]
pack-objects: support `--delta-islands` with `--path-walk`
Since the inception of `--path-walk`, this option has had a documented
incompatibility with `--delta-islands`.
When discussing those original patches on the list, a message from
Stolee in [1] noted the following:
this could be remedied by [...] doing a separate walk to identify
islands using the normal method
In a related portion of the thread, Peff explains[2]:
The delta islands code already does its own tree walk to propagate
the bits down (it does rely on the base walk's show_commit() to
propagate through the commits).
Once each object has its island bitmaps, I think however you
choose to come up with delta candidates [...] you should be able
to use it. It's fundamentally just answering the question of "am
I allowed to delta between these two objects".
That is similar to what this patch does, and it turns out the cheaper
option is sufficient: perform the same island side effects from the
path-walk callback rather than doing a second walk.
Recall how delta-islands are computed during a normal repack:
- `show_commit()` calls `propagate_island_marks()` for each commit,
which merges the commit's island bitset onto its root tree object and
onto each of its parent commits.
- `show_object()` for a tree records the tree's depth derived from the
slash-separated pathname. Subsequent `resolve_tree_islands()` uses
that depth to walk trees in increasing-depth order, propagating each
tree's marks to its children.
- At delta-search time, `in_same_island()` enforces that a delta
target's island bitmap is a subset of its base's: every island that
reaches the target must also reach the base.
Path-walk's enumeration callback is `add_objects_by_path()`. It already
adds objects to `to_pack`, but until now did not perform the
island-related side effects. Two things are needed:
- For each commit batch, call `propagate_island_marks()` on commits,
exactly as `show_commit()` does.
We have to be careful about the order in which we call this function,
and we must see a commit before its parents in order to have
island marks to propagate.
The path-walk batch preserves that order. Path-walk appends commits
to its `OBJ_COMMIT` batch as they come back from the same
`get_revision()` loop the regular traversal uses, and
`add_objects_by_path()` iterates the batch in array order. So every
commit reaches `propagate_island_marks()` in the same sequence that
`show_commit()` would have seen it, and the descendant-first chain
that the algorithm relies on is intact.
Skip island propagation for excluded commits to match the regular
traversal, whose `show_commit()` callback is only invoked for
interesting commits. Boundary commits may still be present in
path-walk's callback so they can serve as thin-pack bases, but they
should not contribute island marks.
- For each tree batch, record the tree's depth from the path. Use the
`record_tree_depth()` helper from the previous commit so both
callbacks behave identically, including the max-depth-wins behavior
when a tree is reached via more than one path. The helper accepts
both the `show_object()` path shape ("foo", "foo/bar") and the
path-walk shape with a trailing slash ("foo/", "foo/bar/"), so depths
recorded from either traversal mode are directly comparable.
This is implicit in the implementation sketch from Peff above.
`resolve_tree_islands()` sorts trees by `oe->tree_depth` in
increasing-depth order before propagating marks down, so that a
parent tree's marks are finalized before its children inherit them.
Without recording the depth at path-walk time, every
path-walk-discovered tree would land at depth 0 in `to_pack`, the
sort would lose its ordering, and children could inherit marks from
parents whose own contributions had not yet been merged in.
With those two pieces in place, `resolve_tree_islands()` receives the
same island inputs from path-walk as it would from the regular
traversal, so the existing island checks can be reused unchanged.
Drop the documented incompatibility between `--path-walk` and
`--delta-islands`, and add t5320 coverage for path-walk island repacks
with and without bitmap writing, as well as the same-island case where a
delta remains allowed.
Prepare for a subsequent change that needs to record tree depths from a
second call site by factoring the delta-islands tree-depth bookkeeping
out of `show_object()` and into a helper, `record_tree_depth()`.
The helper looks up the object in `to_pack`, returns early when the
object was not added there, computes the depth from the slash count in
the supplied name, and preserves the existing max-depth-wins behavior
when a tree is reached by more than one path.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Taylor Blau [Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:03:03 +0000 (19:03 -0400)]
pack-objects: support reachability bitmaps with `--path-walk`
When 'pack-objects' is invoked with '--path-walk', it prevents us from
using reachability bitmaps.
This behavior dates back to 70664d2865c (pack-objects: add --path-walk
option, 2025-05-16), which included a comment in the relevant portion of
the command-line arguments handling that read as follows:
/*
* We must disable the bitmaps because we are removing
* the --objects / --objects-edge[-aggressive] options.
*/
In fb2c309b7d3 (pack-objects: pass --objects with --path-walk,
2026-05-02), path-walk learned to pass '--objects' again, but still
kept bitmap traversal disabled. That leaves two useful cases
unsupported:
* A path-walk repack that writes bitmaps does not give the bitmap
selector any commits, because path-walk reveals commits through
`add_objects_by_path()` rather than through `show_commit()`, where
`index_commit_for_bitmap()` is normally called.
* An invocation like "git pack-objects --use-bitmap-index --path-walk"
never tries an existing bitmap, even when one is available and could
answer the request.
Fortunately for us, neither restriction is required.
* On the writing side: teach the path-walk object callback to call
`index_commit_for_bitmap()` for commits that it adds to the pack.
That gives the bitmap selector the commit candidates it would have
seen from the regular traversal.
* For bitmap reading, keep passing '--objects' to the internal rev_list
machinery, but stop clearing `use_bitmap_index`. If an existing
bitmap can answer the request, use it; otherwise fall back to
path-walk's own enumeration.
As a result, we can see significantly reduced pack generation times from
p5311 (with our `GIT_PERF_REPO` set to a recent clone of the fluentui
repository) before this commit:
We get the same size of output pack, but this commit allows us to do so
in a significantly shorter amount of time. Intuitively, we're generating
the same pack (hence the unchanged 'test_size' output from run to run),
but varying how we get there. Before this commit, pack-objects prefers
'--path-walk' to '--use-bitmap-index', so we generate the output pack by
performing a normal '--path-walk' traversal. With this commit, we are
operating over a *repacked* state (that itself was done with a
'--path-walk' traversal), but are able to perform pack-reuse on that
repacked state via bitmaps.
When comparing the size of the repacked pack with/without '--path-walk'
on the previous commit versus this one, we see that (a) the repacked size
improves significantly with '--path-walk', and that (b) writing bitmaps
during repacking does not regress this improvement:
Test HEAD^ HEAD
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5311.3: size of bitmapped pack 558.4M 558.5M +0.0%
5311.38: size of bitmapped pack (--path-walk) 164.4M 164.4M +0.0%
(Note that to observe an improvement here, we must repack with '-F' in
order to avoid reusing non-'--path-walk' deltas, which would otherwise
skew our results.)
There is one wrinkle when it comes to '--boundary', which we must not
pass into the bitmap walk in the presence of both '--path-walk' and
'--use-bitmap-index'. Path-walk needs boundary commits when it performs
its own traversal, in order to discover bases for thin packs, but the
bitmap traversal does not expect this. Work around this by setting
`revs->boundary` as late as possible within the '--path-walk' traversal,
after any bitmap attempt has either succeeded or declined to answer the
request.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Taylor Blau [Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:02:59 +0000 (19:02 -0400)]
t/perf: drop p5311's lookup-table permutation
p5311 measures the cost of serving a fetch from a bitmapped pack and
indexing the resulting pack on the client. Since 761416ef91d
(bitmap-lookup-table: add performance tests for lookup table,
2022-08-14), p5311 effectively runs itself twice: once with the bitmap's
lookup table extension enabled, and again with it disabled.
This comparison has served its useful purpose, as the lookup table is
almost four years old, and the de-facto default in server-side Git
deployments.
A following commit will want to test a different combination (repacking
with and without '--path-walk' instead of the lookup table). Instead of
multiplying the current test count by two again to produce four
variations of `test_fetch_bitmaps()`, drop the lookup table option to
reduce the number of perf tests we run. Retain `test_fetch_bitmaps()`
itself, since we will use this in the future for the new
parameterization.
(As an aside, a future commit outside of this series will adjust the
default value of 'pack.writeBitmapLookupTable' to "true", matching the
de-facto norm for deployments where the existence of bitmap lookup
tables is meaningful. Punt on that to a later series and instead make
the minimal change for now.)
Suggested-by: Derrick Stolee <redacted> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Weijie Yuan [Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:05:34 +0000 (16:05 +0800)]
doc: advise batching patch rerolls
Contributors often need guidance on how quickly to send later iterations
of a patch series. Add a rough default of no more than one new version
of the same series per day so feedback can be batched and reviewers have
time to comment regardless of their time zones.
Mention factors that can affect the timing, such as series size, review
depth, and substantial rework. Also point out that avoiding rapid
rerolls encourages authors to polish each version before sending it, so
reviewers can focus on substantial issues.
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <redacted> Signed-off-by: Weijie Yuan <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Weijie Yuan [Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:05:06 +0000 (16:05 +0800)]
doc: encourage review replies before rerolling
Review feedback should not be answered only by sending a new patch
version. Encourage contributors to discuss their planned response in the
mailing-list thread before rerolling.
This makes the author's reasoning explicit before the next version is
prepared, instead of forcing reviewers to infer it from the rerolled
patches. It also encourages more direct social interaction between
contributors and helps foster a more collaborative review process.
Signed-off-by: Weijie Yuan <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Junio C Hamano [Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:43:00 +0000 (16:43 -0700)]
SubmittingPatches: address design critiques
Contributors sometimes fail to answer fundamental design or
viability comments from reviewers and submit subsequent rounds
without addressing them. When design decisions are resolved on the
mailing list, the final justification should be recorded in the
commit messages.
Instruct authors to be particularly mindful of critiques regarding
high-level design or viability, to defend their choices on the list,
and to accompany new iterations with clearer explanations in the cover
letter, responses, and revised commit messages. Also instruct them to
explicitly document the resolution of these concerns in the commit
message body to keep the historical record complete.
Tian Yuchen [Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:09:57 +0000 (22:09 +0800)]
environment: use 'repo->initialized' for repo_protect_hfs() and repo_protect_ntfs()
To match how we refrain from calling repo_config_values() on an
uninitialized instance of a repository object in other two topics
that deal with ignore_case and trust_executable_bit, check the
repo->initialized bit instead of the repo->gitdir member.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <redacted> Mentored-by: Ayush Chandekar <redacted> Mentored-by: Olamide Caleb Bello <redacted> Signed-off-by: Tian Yuchen <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Some link recipes list the same archive twice, which is harmless.
Quiet the warning instead.
Pass -Wl,-no_warn_duplicate_libraries on Xcode 15 and newer, whose
linkers added both the warning and the suppression flag (ld64-907
and dyld-1009). Earlier linkers reject the flag, so gate on the
linker version. Broaden the existing -fno-common version probe to
also match the "ld64-NNN" and "dyld-NNN" forms Xcode 15 reports.
Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
'fetch.followRemoteHEAD' is added as a generic setting used by all
remotes for which 'remote.<name>.followRemoteHEAD' is undefined. If
both variables are undefined, a builtin default of "create" is in
effect, matching the previous behavior.
As mentioned in the previous patch, 'fetch.followRemoteHEAD' supports
all of the values that its 'remote' counterpart does _except_
warn-if-not-$branch, due to its tighter coupling to individual remote
repositories.
This setting interacts with the do_fetch mechanism in the same way as
the previous does, but there are opportunities for improved
user-experience discussed in [1]. See the included NEEDSWORK comment as
well.
Documentation and advice messages for both of the followRemoteHEAD
variables are reworded to better capture the relationship between the
two.
The added tests assert feature parity between the two followRemoteHEAD
variables, as well as the fact that 'remote.<name>.followRemoteHEAD'
always supersedes this new configurable default.
Matt Hunter [Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:44:25 +0000 (05:44 -0400)]
fetch: refactor do_fetch handling of followRemoteHEAD
Update enum follow_remote_head_settings to include the value
FOLLOW_REMOTE_UNCONFIGURED as the new zero-initialized value for
followRemoteHEAD. This will allow us to distinguish between the
variable being unset vs. explicitly set to 'create', which is ultimately
the system default. The unnecessary indentation is removed.
The do_fetch function is likewise updated to perform its own decision
making to determine the effective followRemoteHEAD mode, falling back to
the system default if necessary. This will enable the next patch to
introduce a user-configurable default.
Function set_head now accepts the mode as an argument rather than only
considering the value defined by the remote.
The use of the 'warn-if-not-$branch' value is awkward in the context of
a global default, since the branches will differ between individual
remotes. For this reason, it's left out of this scheme and handling of
the no_warn_branch variable is untouched. Since a remote-specific
value for followRemoteHEAD takes priority, we can assume that if
remote->no_warn_branch is set, then the remote is also asserting
FOLLOW_REMOTE_WARN as the effective operating mode, and it will be
honored by do_fetch.
Signed-off-by: Matt Hunter <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Matt Hunter [Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:44:24 +0000 (05:44 -0400)]
fetch: return 0 on known git_fetch_config
The git config callback for git-fetch should only forward calls to
git_default_config when an unknown key is given. Prevent this in the
case of 'fetch.output' by returning '0', as the other known keys do.
Signed-off-by: Matt Hunter <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Matt Hunter [Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:44:22 +0000 (05:44 -0400)]
t5510: cleanup remote in followRemoteHEAD dangling ref test
A later patch will introduce a new test which closely mirrors this one.
Update this test to remove the 'custom-head' remote it creates.
Otherwise, the two tests will conflict with each other, as the second
one to execute will fail to create this remote (which already exists,
thanks to the first test).
Signed-off-by: Matt Hunter <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Matt Hunter [Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:44:21 +0000 (05:44 -0400)]
doc: explain fetchRemoteHEADWarn advice
When the user sets 'remote.<name>.followRemoteHEAD' to
'warn[-if-not-$branch]', git-fetch will report when a fetched HEAD
disagrees with the locally-configured remote's HEAD. This additional
advice instructs the user how to deal with these warnings, but was
previously undocumented in git-config.
Signed-off-by: Matt Hunter <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
SubmittingPatches: note that trailer order matters
It matters where you put new trailers: they should be added in
chronological order, and each person who passes on a patch should add
their s-o-b last. You are signing off on the patch as well as the whole
message up to that point.
This also makes it clear who added what:
Acked-by: The Reviewer <redacted> Signed-off-by: The Contributor <redacted> Acked-by: The (Late) Reviewer <redacted> Signed-off-by: The Maintainer <redacted>
The first ack was added by the contributor and the second one was added
by the maintainer.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted> Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
SubmittingPatches: be consistent with trailer markup
The rest of this section and (most importantly) the list has decided to
use `<key>:`. So let’s use backticks (`) and a colon (:) throughout the
document.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
This trailer comes up often enough and the use case is not fully covered
by the other trailers here. For example, it is sometimes better to use
this trailer instead of `Co-authored-by:`.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
SubmittingPatches: discourage common Linux trailers
The Linux Kernel regularly uses trailers (or “tags”) `Fixes` and
`Link`. Sometimes people submit patches to this project with them.
They have their use in that project but it is not clear what purpose
they would serve here.
For `Fixes`: Linux has many trees, and applying patches with
cherry-picks is common. A `Fixes` trailer in commit C2 pointing to
commit C1 helps the cherry-picker figure out that she probably needs
C2 if she wants to apply C1. See linux/d5d6281a (checkpatch: check for
missing Fixes tags, 2024-06-11):[1]
Why are stable patches encouraged to have a fixes tag? Some people
mark their stable patches as "# 5.10" etc. This is useful but a
Fixes tag is still a good idea. For example, the Fixes tag helps in
review. It helps people to not cherry-pick buggy patches without
also cherry-picking the fix.
In contrast the Git project has few trees (to my knowledge), and there
is much less need to cherry-pick fixes as opposed to either using
backmerges or rebasing all of the downstream tree’s commits on top of
git.git `master` from time to time.
This project does regularly mention what commits a patch/commit fixes,
but that is done inline in the commit message proper (cf. the trailer
block of the message).
For `Link`: These are used both to link back to the patch submission as
well as with footnotes. In contrast this project has `refs/notes/amlog`
for linking back to the patch submissions, and footnotes are only used
in the commit message proper.
† 1: Commit linux/d5d6281a has “linux” in front of it since this commit
is from the Linux Kernel, not Git. Example of a Linux tree—as well
as an example of `Link`—is [2].
SubmittingPatches: encourage trailer use for substantial help
Trailers beyond the mandatory s-o-b are regularly used based on my
last two years of reading the mailing list. Moreover, reviewers might
encourage it.[1]
This is also in line with the project crediting both commit authors and
people mentioned in trailers each release; “Nobody is THE one making
contribution”.[2]
Adding trailers is already encouraged, but in the section `send-patches`.
Let’s replace “If you like” with outright encouragement in this section
so that all trailer discussion (except s-o-b; see `sign-off` section) is
contained in this section; a link to from `send-patches` makes this
information equally visible.
Now we need to make a heading for `commit-trailers` in order for the
HTML output to make sense.
At the same time, it is important to temper this recommendation to a
significant enough contribution; in my experience beginners can be eager
to add a trailer for everyone who replies with an action point that is
followed up on.
Let’s also spell out that these trailers should follow the Git author/
committer format. One might naturally just write the name, but in that
case it will not be picked up by:
git shortlog --group=trailer:<key>
and normalization via `.mailmap` will not work.
Also introduce the list of common trailers as such. Granted, this is
already implied by the later paragraph about “create your own trailer”,
so this just frontloads this information.
On platforms where `unsigned long` and `size_t` differ in bit size, we
want to clamp the buffers we pass to zlib to the former's size, as per d05d666977 (git-zlib: handle data streams larger than 4GB, 2026-05-08).
The logic introduced in that commit performs a clamping to the bits,
though, which fails to do what is needed here: If too many bytes are
available in the buffers, we need to clamp to the maximum value of an
`unsigned long`. Otherwise, we ask zlib to use too small buffers, in the
worst case using 0 as the size (think: a value whose 32 lowest bits are
all zero).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <redacted> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
gitlab-ci: migrate Windows builds away from Chocolatey
The Windows builds in GitLab CI use Chocolatey to install dependencies.
Unfortunately, Chocolatey seems to be very unreliable, which causes the
jobs to fail very regularly. This is a limitation that seems to be
somewhat known [1]:
As an organization, you want 100% reliability (or at least that
potential), and you may want full trust and control as well. This is
something you can get with internally hosted packages, and you are
unlikely to achieve from use of the Community Package Repository.
So using the Community Package Repository is kind of discouraged in case
one wants reliability. We _do_ want reliability though, and we cannot
easily switch to an enterprise license to fix this issue.
Introduce a new script that downloads and installs dependencies
directly. This has a couple of benefits:
- We can drop our dependency on Chocolatey completely, thus improving
reliability.
- We can easily cache the installers.
- We get direct control over the exact versions we install.
- Installing dependencies is sped up from roundabout 3 minutes to 1
minute.
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:10:12 +0000 (11:10 -0700)]
Merge branch 'en/commit-graph-timestamp-fix'
compute_reachable_generation_numbers() in commit-graph used a 32-bit
integer to accumulate parent generations, which is OK for generation
number v1 (topological levels), but with generation number v2
(adjusted committer timestamps), it truncated timestamps beyond
2106. Fixed by widening the accumulator to timestamp_t.
* en/commit-graph-timestamp-fix:
commit-graph: use timestamp_t for max parent generation accumulator
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:10:12 +0000 (11:10 -0700)]
Merge branch 'dl/posix-unused-warning-clang'
The UNUSED macro in 'compat/posix.h' has been updated to use a
newly introduced GIT_CLANG_PREREQ macro for compiler version
checks, and the existing GIT_GNUC_PREREQ macro has been modernized
to use explicit major/minor comparisons rather than bit-shifting.
* dl/posix-unused-warning-clang:
compat/posix.h: simplify GIT_GNUC_PREREQ() comparison
compat/posix.h: clean up GIT_GNUC_PREREQ() and UNUSED
compat/posix.h: enable UNUSED warning messages for Clang
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:10:11 +0000 (11:10 -0700)]
Merge branch 'td/ls-files-pathspec-prefilter'
`git ls-files --modified` and `git ls-files --deleted` have been
optimized to filter with pathspec before calling lstat() when there is
only a single pathspec item, avoiding unnecessary filesystem access
for entries that will not be shown.
* td/ls-files-pathspec-prefilter:
ls-files: filter pathspec before lstat
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:10:11 +0000 (11:10 -0700)]
Merge branch 'td/describe-tag-iteration'
'git describe' has been taught to pass the 'refs/tags/' prefix down to
the ref iterator when '--all' is not requested, avoiding unnecessary
iteration over non-tag refs.
* td/describe-tag-iteration:
describe: limit default ref iteration to tags
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:10:11 +0000 (11:10 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ps/transport-helper-tsan-fix'
The TSAN race in transfer_debug() within transport-helper.c has been
resolved by initializing the debug flag early in
bidirectional_transfer_loop() before spawning worker threads, allowing
the removal of a TSAN suppression.
* ps/transport-helper-tsan-fix:
transport-helper: fix TSAN race in transfer_debug()
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