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Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2024, #11; Mon, 30)
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What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2024, #11; Mon, 30)
What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2025, #01; Fri, 3)
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Here are the topics that have been cooking in my tree. Commits
@ -55,6 +55,71 @@ Release tarballs are available at:
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[New Topics]

* ja/doc-commit-markup-updates (2025-01-03) 3 commits
- doc: git-commit: migrate secondary files to new format
- doc: git-commit.txt: convert git commit config to new format
- doc: git-commit: apply new documentation guidelines

Doc updates.

source: <pull.1845.git.1735912046.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>


* jc/doc-opt-tilde-expand (2025-01-03) 1 commit
(merged to 'next' on 2025-01-03 at b3e6e7acbc)
+ gitcli.txt: typeset pathnames as monospace

Docfix.

Will merge to 'next' and then to 'master'.
source: <6e0abe96b60a94d4fdee15a45b7d53c2f44a0c69.1735903029.git.martin.agren@gmail.com>


* mh/doc-windows-home-env (2025-01-03) 1 commit
(merged to 'next' on 2025-01-03 at 1d4db69ce0)
+ git.txt: fix heading line of tildes

Docfix.

Will merge to 'next' and then to 'master'.
source: <50e47d14a8a0a2ca0dd158f01b833a28c7b46887.1735903029.git.martin.agren@gmail.com>


* ps/ci-misc-updates (2025-01-03) 10 commits
- ci: remove stale code for Azure Pipelines
- ci: use latest Ubuntu release
- ci: stop special-casing for Ubuntu 16.04
- gitlab-ci: add linux32 job testing against i386
- gitlab-ci: remove the "linux-old" job
- github: simplify computation of the job's distro
- github: convert all Linux jobs to be containerized
- github: adapt containerized jobs to be rootless
- t7422: fix flaky test caused by buffered stdout
- t0060: fix EBUSY in MinGW when setting up runtime prefix

CI updates (containerization, dropping stale ones, etc.).

source: <20250103-b4-pks-ci-fixes-v1-0-a9bb95dff833@pks.im>

--------------------------------------------------
[Graduated to 'master']

* jk/lsan-race-ignore-false-positive (2025-01-01) 5 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2025-01-02 at 7b5c9e281e)
+ test-lib: ignore leaks in the sanitizer's thread code
+ test-lib: check leak logs for presence of DEDUP_TOKEN
+ test-lib: simplify leak-log checking
+ test-lib: rely on logs to detect leaks
+ Revert barrier-based LSan threading race workaround

CI jobs that run threaded programs under LSan has been giving false
positives from time to time, which has been worked around.

This is an alternative to the jk/lsan-race-with-barrier topic with
much smaller change to the production code.
source: <20250101201226.GA3304465@coredump.intra.peff.net>


* jk/lsan-race-with-barrier (2024-12-30) 5 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2024-12-30 at 3fc0e14928)
+ grep: work around LSan threading race with barrier
@ -65,38 +130,27 @@ Release tarballs are available at:

CI jobs that run threaded programs under LSan has been giving false
positives from time to time, which has been worked around.

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <20241230042325.GA112439@coredump.intra.peff.net>


* ps/meson-weak-sha1-build (2024-12-30) 8 commits
- meson: provide a summary of configured backends
- meson: wire up unsafe SHA1 backend
- meson: add missing dots for build options
- meson: simplify conditions for HTTPS and SHA1 dependencies
- meson: require SecurityFramework when it's used as SHA1 backend
- meson: deduplicate access to SHA1/SHA256 backend options
- meson: consistenlty spell 'CommonCrypto'
- Merge branch 'ps/weak-sha1-for-tail-sum-fix' into ps/meson-weak-sha1-build
(this branch uses ps/weak-sha1-for-tail-sum-fix.)
* ps/build-meson-html (2024-12-27) 12 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2025-01-02 at 115458a58b)
+ Documentation: wire up sanity checks for Meson
+ t/Makefile: make "check-meson" work with Dash
+ meson: install static files for HTML documentation
+ meson: generate articles
+ Documentation: refactor "howto-index.sh" for out-of-tree builds
+ Documentation: refactor "api-index.sh" for out-of-tree builds
+ meson: generate user manual
+ Documentation: inline user-manual.conf
+ meson: generate HTML pages for all man page categories
+ meson: fix generation of merge tools
+ meson: properly wire up dependencies for our docs
+ meson: wire up support for AsciiDoctor

meson-based build now supports the unsafe-sha1 build knob.

Will merge to 'next'.
source: <20241230-pks-meson-sha1-unsafe-v1-0-efb276e171f5@pks.im>


* ps/object-collision-check (2024-12-30) 1 commit
(merged to 'next' on 2024-12-30 at e083ea3154)
+ object-file: fix race in object collision check

CI jobs gave sporadic failures, which turns out that that the
object finalization code was giving an error when it did not have
to.

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <20241230-b4-pks-object-file-racy-collision-check-v1-1-11571294e60a@pks.im>
The build procedure based on meson learned to generate HTML
documention pages.
source: <20241227-b4-pks-meson-docs-v2-0-f61e63edbfa1@pks.im>


* ps/weak-sha1-for-tail-sum-fix (2024-12-30) 3 commits
@ -110,34 +164,55 @@ Release tarballs are available at:
sha1dc" topic had a few code paths that had initialized an
implementation of a hash function to be used by an unmatching hash
by mistake, which have been corrected.

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <20241230-pks-meson-sha1-unsafe-v1-0-efb276e171f5@pks.im>

--------------------------------------------------
[Graduated to 'master']

* ms/t7611-test-path-is-file (2024-12-27) 1 commit
(merged to 'next' on 2024-12-28 at b08a0c8e23)
+ t7611: replace test -f with test_path_is* helpers
* rs/reftable-realloc-errors (2024-12-28) 4 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2024-12-30 at ebc9625a4c)
+ t-reftable-merged: handle realloc errors
+ reftable: handle realloc error in parse_names()
+ reftable: fix allocation count on realloc error
+ reftable: avoid leaks on realloc error

Test modernization.
source: <20241227105345.10184-1-meetsoni3017@gmail.com>


* ps/meson-test-wo-gitweb (2024-12-27) 3 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2024-12-28 at 39938f41fd)
+ meson: enable auto-discovered "gitweb"
+ GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS: wire up NO_GITWEB option
+ GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS: sort variables alphabetically

meson-based build without GitWeb failed the self tests.
source: <20241227-b4-pks-meson-wo-gitweb-v1-0-14ca8515bb3b@pks.im>
The custom allocator code in the reftable library did not handle
failing realloc() very well, which has been addressed.
cf. <Z3JLdIG4C9D2-1ZT@pks.im>
source: <f4677194-0a3a-4f07-b003-c0295b51c100@web.de>

--------------------------------------------------
[Cooking]

* ps/meson-weak-sha1-build (2024-12-30) 8 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2025-01-01 at e01db872e4)
+ meson: provide a summary of configured backends
+ meson: wire up unsafe SHA1 backend
+ meson: add missing dots for build options
+ meson: simplify conditions for HTTPS and SHA1 dependencies
+ meson: require SecurityFramework when it's used as SHA1 backend
+ meson: deduplicate access to SHA1/SHA256 backend options
+ meson: consistenlty spell 'CommonCrypto'
+ Merge branch 'ps/weak-sha1-for-tail-sum-fix' into ps/meson-weak-sha1-build

meson-based build now supports the unsafe-sha1 build knob.

Will cook in 'next'.
source: <20241230-pks-meson-sha1-unsafe-v1-0-efb276e171f5@pks.im>


* ps/object-collision-check (2025-01-03) 3 commits
- object-file: retry linking file into place when occluding file vanishes
- object-file: rename variables in `check_collision()`
(merged to 'next' on 2024-12-30 at e083ea3154)
+ object-file: fix race in object collision check

CI jobs gave sporadic failures, which turns out that that the
object finalization code was giving an error when it did not have
to.

source: <20241230-b4-pks-object-file-racy-collision-check-v1-1-11571294e60a@pks.im>
source: <20250103-b4-pks-object-file-racy-collision-check-v1-0-6ef9e2da1f87@pks.im>


* sk/strlen-returns-size_t (2024-12-26) 1 commit
- date.c: Fix type missmatch warings from msvc

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* ps/more-sign-compare (2024-12-27) 10 commits
- sign-compare: avoid comparing ptrdiff with an int/unsigned
- commit-reach: use `size_t` to track indices when computing merge bases
- shallow: fix -Wsign-compare warnings
- builtin/log: fix remaining -Wsign-compare warnings
- builtin/log: use `size_t` to track indices
- commit-reach: use `size_t` to track indices in `get_reachable_subset()`
- commit-reach: use `size_t` to track indices in `remove_redundant()`
- commit-reach: fix type of `min_commit_date`
- commit-reach: fix index used to loop through unsigned integer
- prio-queue: fix type of `insertion_ctr`
(merged to 'next' on 2025-01-01 at 41c78cf690)
+ sign-compare: avoid comparing ptrdiff with an int/unsigned
+ commit-reach: use `size_t` to track indices when computing merge bases
+ shallow: fix -Wsign-compare warnings
+ builtin/log: fix remaining -Wsign-compare warnings
+ builtin/log: use `size_t` to track indices
+ commit-reach: use `size_t` to track indices in `get_reachable_subset()`
+ commit-reach: use `size_t` to track indices in `remove_redundant()`
+ commit-reach: fix type of `min_commit_date`
+ commit-reach: fix index used to loop through unsigned integer
+ prio-queue: fix type of `insertion_ctr`

More -Wsign-compare fixes.

Will merge to 'next'.
Will cook in 'next'.
cf. https://staticthinking.wordpress.com/2023/07/25/wsign-compare-is-garbage/
source: <20241227-b4-pks-commit-reach-sign-compare-v1-0-07c59c2aa632@pks.im>

@ -189,21 +265,6 @@ Release tarballs are available at:
source: <pull.1838.v2.git.1735380461980.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>


* rs/reftable-realloc-errors (2024-12-28) 4 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2024-12-30 at ebc9625a4c)
+ t-reftable-merged: handle realloc errors
+ reftable: handle realloc error in parse_names()
+ reftable: fix allocation count on realloc error
+ reftable: avoid leaks on realloc error

The custom allocator code in the reftable library did not handle
failing realloc() very well, which has been addressed.

Will merge to 'master'?
cf. <Z3JLdIG4C9D2-1ZT@pks.im>
source: <f4677194-0a3a-4f07-b003-c0295b51c100@web.de>


* jc/show-index-h-update (2024-12-20) 1 commit
- show-index: the short help should say the command reads from its input

@ -236,27 +297,6 @@ Release tarballs are available at:
source: <20241217-pks-use-the-repository-conversion-v1-0-0dba48bcc239@pks.im>


* ps/build-meson-html (2024-12-27) 12 commits
- Documentation: wire up sanity checks for Meson
- t/Makefile: make "check-meson" work with Dash
- meson: install static files for HTML documentation
- meson: generate articles
- Documentation: refactor "howto-index.sh" for out-of-tree builds
- Documentation: refactor "api-index.sh" for out-of-tree builds
- meson: generate user manual
- Documentation: inline user-manual.conf
- meson: generate HTML pages for all man page categories
- meson: fix generation of merge tools
- meson: properly wire up dependencies for our docs
- meson: wire up support for AsciiDoctor

The build procedure based on meson learned to generate HTML
documention pages.

Needs review. On hold.
source: <20241227-b4-pks-meson-docs-v2-0-f61e63edbfa1@pks.im>


* jc/doc-attr-tree (2024-12-14) 1 commit
- doc: give attr.tree a bit more visibility