What's cooking (2026/04 #07)
Junio C Hamano committed
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To: git@vger.kernel.org
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-Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2026, #06)
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+Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2026, #07)
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X-master-at: 94f057755b7941b321fd11fec1b2e3ca5313a4e0
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-X-next-at: f703ff30bc5e33a20cacd2b6ec9f4b2e71eee37e
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+X-next-at: 6539524ca2a07762a89180718112132867e16309
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Bcc: lwn@lwn.net, gitster@pobox.com
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-What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2026, #06)
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+What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2026, #07)
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Here are the topics that have been cooking in my tree. Commits
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of no activity (of course they can be resubmitted when new interests
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arise).
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-Git 2.54 (final) has been tagged. Thank you, everybody, for
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-participating. I will go offline for a couple of weeks starting
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-this evening, hopefully after updating 'next' and possibly also
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-pushing out the first batch of the new cycle. There is no
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-designated interim maintainer this time, but I trust that the
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-community can self organize if the shape of the release and the tree
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-turns out to be super bad ;-).
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+Git 2.54 has been released, and the tip of 'next' has acquired a
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+handful more topics, but no update to 'master' yet to kick off the
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+new cycle has happened (yet). I will go offline for a couple of
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+weeks starting this evening. There is no designated interim
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+maintainer this time, but I trust that the community can self
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+organize if the shape of the release and the tree turns out to be
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+super bad ;-).
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Copies of the source code to Git live in many repositories, and the
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following is a list of the ones I push into or their mirrors. Some
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https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
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+[New Topics]
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+* pw/status-rebase-todo (2026-04-20) 2 commits
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+ - status: improve rebase todo list parsing
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+ - sequencer: factor out parsing of todo commands
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+ The display of the rebase todo list in "git status" has been
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+ improved to correctly abbreviate object IDs for more commands and
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+ avoid misinterpreting refs as object IDs.
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+ Needs review.
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+ source: <cover.1776697483.git.phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
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[Cooking]
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* sb/userdiff-lisp-family (2026-04-14) 2 commits
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- - userdiff: extend Scheme support to cover other Lisp dialects
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- - userdiff: tighten word-diff test case of the scheme driver
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2026-04-20 at 5897c04899)
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+ + userdiff: extend Scheme support to cover other Lisp dialects
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+ + userdiff: tighten word-diff test case of the scheme driver
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The userdiff driver for the Scheme language has been extended to
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cover other Lisp dialects.
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- Will merge to 'next'.
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+ Will merge to 'master'.
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source: <pull.2000.v4.git.1776220063.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
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* mc/http-emptyauth-negotiate-fix (2026-04-16) 3 commits
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- - http: attempt Negotiate auth in http.emptyAuth=auto mode
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- - http: extract http_reauth_prepare() from retry paths
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2026-04-20 at 6539524ca2)
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+ + t5563: add tests for http.emptyAuth with Negotiate
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+ + http: attempt Negotiate auth in http.emptyAuth=auto mode
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+ + http: extract http_reauth_prepare() from retry paths
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The 'http.emptyAuth=auto' configuration now correctly attempts
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Negotiate authentication before falling back to manual credentials.
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This allows seamless Kerberos ticket-based authentication without
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source: <pull.2087.git.1776331259.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
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-* en/diffstat-utf8-truncation-fix (2026-04-17) 1 commit
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- diff: fix out-of-bounds reads and NULL deref in diffstat UTF-8 truncation
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The computation to shorten the filenames shown in diffstat measured
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- source: <pull.2093.v2.git.1776465910538.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
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+ source: <pull.2093.v3.git.1776699778177.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
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* sp/refs-reduce-the-repository (2026-04-04) 3 commits
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Code clean-up to use the right instance of a repository instance in
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source: <20260404135914.61195-1-shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail.com>
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* jc/doc-timestamps-in-stat (2026-04-10) 1 commit
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source: <xmqqzf3aofdj.fsf_-_@gitster.g>
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-* ps/test-set-e-clean (2026-04-17) 12 commits
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- t: detect errors outside of test cases
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- t9902: fix use of `read` with `set -e`
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- t6002: fix use of `expr` with `set -e`
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- cf. <aeXTcZ7K9a6kUIbk@pks.im>
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* js/adjust-tests-to-explicitly-access-bare-repo (2026-04-02) 17 commits
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Rust support is enabled by default (but still allows opting out) in
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source: <20260409224434.1861422-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
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is fully ready to write out a tree object was broken, which has
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source: <20260406192711.68870-1-davidlin@stripe.com>
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-* ps/setup-wo-the-repository (2026-03-30) 18 commits
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- setup: stop using `the_repository` in `init_db()`
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* kh/doc-trailers (2026-04-13) 9 commits
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source: <20260407115243.358642-1-christian.couder@gmail.com>
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