What's cooking (2025/08 #03)
Junio C Hamano committed
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To: git@vger.kernel.org
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-Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2025, #03; Thu, 7)
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+Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2025, #03; Fri, 8)
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X-master-at: 2c2ba49d55ff26c1082b8137b1ec5eeccb4337d1
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X-next-at: 2494970778f053be8e9f6fac27ec13d4d9dbf65d
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Bcc: lwn@lwn.net, gitster@pobox.com
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-What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2025, #03; Thu, 7)
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+What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2025, #03; Fri, 8)
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Here are the topics that have been cooking in my tree. Commits
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no activity (of course they can be resubmit when new interests
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arise).
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-As Git 2.51-rc0 was just tagged, I'd break my promise to avoid
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-sending a new issue of this "What's cooking" report with just a day
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-apart. This cycle is shorter than usual and will last only 8 weeks,
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-so we may leave many topics in flight for the next cycle, many of
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-them even outside 'next', and that is perfectly OK. Let's make sure
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-there aren't too many regressions in the tip of 'master' from now on
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-for a couple weeks.
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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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repositories have only a subset of branches.
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[New Topics]
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-* dl/push-missing-object-error (2025-08-04) 2 commits
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+* dl/push-missing-object-error (2025-08-08) 3 commits
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+ - remote.c: convert if-else ladder to switch
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- remote.c: remove BUG in show_push_unqualified_ref_name_error()
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- - t5516: introduce 'push ref expression with non-existent oid src'
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+ - t5516: remove surrounding empty lines in test bodies
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"git push" had a code path that led to BUG() but it should have
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been a die(), as it is a response to a usual but invalid end-user
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action to attempt pushing an object that does not exist.
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- Expecting a reroll to correct an overlong line.
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- source: <cover.1754375026.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>
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+ Will merge to 'next'.
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+ cf. <xmqqo6spiyqp.fsf@gitster.g>
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+ source: <cover.1754637849.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>
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* ja/doc-lint-sections-and-synopsis (2025-08-05) 7 commits
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- - fixup! doc: check for absence of multiple terms in each entry of desc list
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- - doc lint: check that synopsis manpages have synopsis inlines
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- - doc:git-for-each-ref: fix styling and typos
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- - doc: check for absence of the form --[no-]parameter
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- - doc: check for absence of multiple terms in each entry of desc list
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- - doc: check well-formedness of delimited sections
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- - doc: test linkgit macros for well-formedness
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+ . fixup! doc: check for absence of multiple terms in each entry of desc list
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+ . doc lint: check that synopsis manpages have synopsis inlines
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+ . doc:git-for-each-ref: fix styling and typos
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+ . doc: check for absence of the form --[no-]parameter
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+ . doc: check for absence of multiple terms in each entry of desc list
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+ . doc: check well-formedness of delimited sections
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+ . doc: test linkgit macros for well-formedness
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Doc lint updates to encourage the newer and easier-to-use
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`synopsis` format, with fixes to a handful of existing uses.
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source: <20250805092758.5321-1-meetsoni3017@gmail.com>
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+* kh/doc-git-log-markup-fix (2025-08-08) 1 commit
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+ - doc: git-log: fix description list
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+ Doc update.
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+ Will merge to 'next'.
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+ source: <aaa1734189ec8bab7cfa0965132e3d8e5909b1af.1754660514.git.code@khaugsbakk.name>
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+* ly/changed-path-traversal-with-magic-pathspec (2025-08-08) 2 commits
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+ - fixup! bloom: enable bloom filter with wildcard pathspec in revision traversal
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+ - bloom: enable bloom filter with wildcard pathspec in revision traversal
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+ Revision traversal limited with pathspec, like "git log dir/*",
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+ used to ignore changed-paths Bloom filter when the pathspec
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+ contained wildcards; now they take advantage of the filter when
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+ they can.
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+ Will merge to 'next'?
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+ source: <20250808065834.22743-1-yldhome2d2@gmail.com>
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+* ps/commit-graph-wo-globals (2025-08-07) 10 commits
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+ - commit-graph: stop passing in redundant repository
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+ - commit-graph: stop using `the_repository`
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+ - commit-graph: stop using `the_hash_algo`
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+ - commit-graph: refactor `parse_commit_graph()` to take a repository
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+ - commit-graph: store the hash algorithm instead of its length
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+ - commit-graph: stop using `the_hash_algo` via macros
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+ - commit-graph: fix sign comparison warnings
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+ - commit-graph: fix type for some write options
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+ - commit-graph: stop using signed integers to count Bloom filters
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+ - trace2: introduce function to trace unsigned integers
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+ Remove dependency on the_repository and other globals from the
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+ commit-graph code, and other changes unrelated to de-globaling.
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+ Will merge to 'next'?
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+ source: <20250807-b4-pks-commit-graph-wo-the-repository-v3-0-82edef830a1e@pks.im>
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+* tc/t0450-harden (2025-08-08) 2 commits
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+ . t0450: add allowlist for builtins with missing .adoc
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+ . t0450: fix test for out-of-tree builds
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+ Test updates.
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+ Will merge to 'next'.
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+ source: <20250804073002.1586332-1-toon@iotcl.com>
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+* gh/git-jump-pathname-with-sp (2025-08-08) 1 commit
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+ - git-jump: make `diff` work with filenames containing spaces
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+ source: <pull.1950.git.1754674979929.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
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+* jc/diff-no-index-in-subdir (2025-08-07) 1 commit
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+ - diff: --no-index should ignore the worktree
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+* je/doc-rebase (2025-08-08) 5 commits
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+ - doc: git-rebase: update discussion of internals
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+ - doc: git-rebase: move --onto explanation down
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+ - doc: git rebase: clarify arguments syntax
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+ - doc: git rebase: dedup merge conflict discussion
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+ - doc: git-rebase: start with an example
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+ source: <pull.1949.v2.git.1754680525.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
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+* rj/t6137-cygwin-fix (2025-08-08) 2 commits
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+ - git-jump: make `diff` work with filenames containing spaces
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+ - t6137-*.sh: fix test failure on cygwin
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[Cooking]
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-* tc/diff-tree-max-depth (2025-07-29) 3 commits
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- diff: teach tree-diff a max-depth parameter
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- combine-diff: zero memory used for callback filepairs
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-* dk/help-all (2025-08-03) 4 commits
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- builtin: also setup gently for --help-all
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- parse-options: refactor flags for usage_with_options_internal
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- diff: ensure consistent diff behavior with ignore options
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* rs/describe-with-prio-queue (2025-08-03) 2 commits
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-* ps/object-store-midx-dedup-info (2025-07-29) 9 commits
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+* ps/object-store-midx-dedup-info (2025-08-07) 10 commits
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- midx: compute paths via their source
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- midx: stop duplicating info redundant with its owning source
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- midx: write multi-pack indices via their source
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- midx: load multi-pack indices via their source
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- midx: drop redundant `struct repository` parameter
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+ - odb: simplify calling `link_alt_odb_entry()`
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- odb: return newly created in-memory sources
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- odb: allow `odb_find_source()` to fail
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- odb: store locality in object database sources
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* jc/strbuf-split (2025-07-31) 13 commits
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+* ag/send-email-imap-sent (2025-07-23) 2 commits
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+ - send-email: enable copying emails to IMAP folder without actually sending them
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- send-email: add ability to send a copy of sent emails to an IMAP folder
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- merge-ort: fix directory rename on top of source of other rename/delete
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- merge-ort: fix incorrect file handling
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- t6423: fix missed staging of file in testcases 12i,12j,12k
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- repo: add the --format flag
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- repo: add the field layout.shallow
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