The fsmonitor daemon has been implemented for Linux.
* pt/fsmonitor-linux:
fsmonitor: convert shown khash to strset in do_handle_client
fsmonitor: add tests for Linux
fsmonitor: add timeout to daemon stop command
fsmonitor: close inherited file descriptors and detach in daemon
run-command: add close_fd_above_stderr option
fsmonitor: implement filesystem change listener for Linux
fsmonitor: rename fsm-settings-darwin.c to fsm-settings-unix.c
fsmonitor: rename fsm-ipc-darwin.c to fsm-ipc-unix.c
fsmonitor: use pthread_cond_timedwait for cookie wait
compat/win32: add pthread_cond_timedwait
fsmonitor: fix hashmap memory leak in fsmonitor_run_daemon
fsmonitor: fix khash memory leak in do_handle_client
t9210, t9211: disable GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX for scalar clone tests
Promisor remote handling has been refactored and fixed in
preparation for auto-configuration of advertised remotes.
* cc/promisor-auto-config-url:
t5710: use proper file:// URIs for absolute paths
promisor-remote: remove the 'accepted' strvec
promisor-remote: keep accepted promisor_info structs alive
promisor-remote: refactor accept_from_server()
promisor-remote: refactor has_control_char()
promisor-remote: refactor should_accept_remote() control flow
promisor-remote: reject empty name or URL in advertised remote
promisor-remote: clarify that a remote is ignored
promisor-remote: pass config entry to all_fields_match() directly
promisor-remote: try accepted remotes before others in get_direct()
The check that implements the logic to see if an in-core cache-tree
is fully ready to write out a tree object was broken, which has
been corrected.
* dl/cache-tree-fully-valid-fix:
cache-tree: fix inverted object existence check in cache_tree_fully_valid
The glossary entry is a list of terms and their definitions, so
multi-paragraph definitions need "+" continuation lines to indicate
that they are part of a single entry.
When an entry contains a sub-list (say, a bulleted list), the final "+"
may become ambiguous: is it connecting the next paragraph to the final
entry of the sub-list, or to the original list of definition paragraphs?
Asciidoc generally connects it to the former, even when we mean the
latter, and you end up with the next paragraph indented incorrectly,
like this:
glob
...defines glob...
Two consecutive asterisks ("**") in patterns matched
against full pathname may have special meaning:
- ...some special meaning of **...
- ...another special meaning of **...
- Other consecutive asterisks are considered invalid.
Glob magic is incompatible with literal magic.
That final "Glob magic is incompatible" paragraph is in the wrong spot.
It should be at the same level as "Two consecutive asterisks", as it is
not part of the final "Other consecutive asterisks" bullet point.
The same problem appears in several other spots in the glossary.
Usually we'd fix this by using "--" markers, which put the sub-list into
its own block. But there's a catch: in some of these spots we are
already in an open block, and nesting open blocks is a problem. It seems
to work for me using Asciidoc 10.2.1, but Asciidoctor 2.0.26 makes a
mess of it (our intent to open a new block seems to close the old one).
Fortunately there's a work-around: when using a "+" list-continuation,
the number of empty lines above the continuation indicates which level
of parent list to continue. So by adding an empty line after our
unordered list (before the "+"), we should be able to continue the
definition list item.
But asciidoc being asciidoc, of course that is not the end of the story.
That technique works fine for the "glob" and "attr" lists in this patch,
but under the "refs" item it works for only 1 of the 2 lists! I can't
figure out why, and this may be an asciidoctor bug. But we can work
around it by using "--" open-block markers here, since we're not
already in an open block.
So using the extra blank line for the first two instances, and "--"
markers for the second two, this patch produces identical output from
"doc-diff HEAD^ HEAD" for both --asciidoctor and --asciidoc modes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
GitHub Actions started complaining about use of Node.js 20 and I was
wondering why only one job uses actions/checkout@v4, while everybody
else already uses actions/checkout@v5.
It turns out that it is caused by a semantic mismerge between
e75cd059 (ci: check formatting of our Rust code, 2025-10-15) that
added a new use of actions/checkout@v4 that happened very close to
another change 63541ed9 (build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4
to 5, 2025-10-16) that updated all uses of actions/checkout@v4 to
use vactions/checkout@v5.
Update the leftover and the last use of actions/checkout@v4 to use
actions/checkout@v5 to help ourselves to move away from Node.js 20.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git checkout -m another-branch" was invented to deal with local
changes to paths that are different between the current and the new
branch, but it gave only one chance to resolve conflicts. The command
was taught to create a stash to save the local changes.
* hn/git-checkout-m-with-stash:
checkout: -m (--merge) uses autostash when switching branches
sequencer: teach autostash apply to take optional conflict marker labels
sequencer: allow create_autostash to run silently
stash: add --label-ours, --label-theirs, --label-base for apply
I claimed in 3c18135b (doc: am: say that --message-id adds a trailer,
2026-02-09) that `git am --message-id` adds a Git trailer. But that
isn’t the case; for the case of a commit message with a subject, body,
and no trailer block:
<subject>
<paragrah>
It just appends the line right after `paragraph`:
<subject>
<paragraph>
Message-ID: <message-id_trailer.323@msgid.xyz>
It does work for two other cases though, namely subject-only and with an
existing trailer block.
This is at best an inconsistency and arguably a bug, but we’re at the
trailing end of the release cycle now. So reverting the doc is safer
than making msg-id act as a trailer, for now.
Revert this hunk from commit 3c18135b except the only useful
change (“Also use inline-verbatim for `Message-ID`”).
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When switching branches with "git checkout -m", local modifications
can block the switch. Teach the -m flow to create a temporary stash
before switching and reapply it after. On success, only "Applied
autostash." is shown. If reapplying causes conflicts, the stash is
kept and the user is told they can resolve and run "git stash drop",
or run "git reset --hard" and later "git stash pop" to recover their
changes.
Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add label_ours, label_theirs, and label_base parameters to the autostash
apply machinery so callers can pass custom conflict marker labels
through to "git stash apply --label-ours/--label-theirs/--label-base".
Introduce apply_autostash_ref_with_labels() for callers that want
to pass labels.
Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a silent parameter to create_autostash_internal and introduce
create_autostash_ref_silent so that callers can create an autostash
without printing the "Created autostash" message.
Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow callers of "git stash apply" to pass custom labels for conflict
markers instead of the default "Updated upstream" and "Stashed changes".
Document the new options and add a test.
Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We used writev() in limited code paths and supplied emulation for
platforms without working writev(), but the emulation was too
faithful to the spec to make the result useless to send even 64kB;
revert the topic and plan to restart the effort later.
* jc/no-writev-does-not-work:
Revert "compat/posix: introduce writev(3p) wrapper"
Revert "wrapper: introduce writev(3p) wrappers"
Revert "sideband: use writev(3p) to send pktlines"
Revert "cmake: use writev(3p) wrapper as needed"
We used writev() in limited code paths and supplied emulation for
platforms without working writev(), but the emulation was too
faithful to the spec to make the result useless to send even 64kB;
revert the topic and plan to restart the effort later.
* jc/no-writev-does-not-work:
Revert "compat/posix: introduce writev(3p) wrapper"
Revert "wrapper: introduce writev(3p) wrappers"
Revert "sideband: use writev(3p) to send pktlines"
Revert "cmake: use writev(3p) wrapper as needed"
Earlier we timelined that we'd tune our build procedures to build
with Rust by default in Git 2.53, but we are already in prerelease
freeze for 2.54 now. Update the BreakingChanges document to delay
it until Git 2.55 (slated for the end of June 2026).
Noticed-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The emulation layer we added for writev(3p) tries to be too faithful
to the spec that on systems with SSIZE_MAX set to lower than 64kB to
fit a single sideband packet would fail just like the real system
writev(), which makes our use of writev() for sideband messages
unworkable.
Let's revert them and reboot the effort after the release. The
reverted commits are:
$ git log -Swritev --oneline 8023abc632^..v2.52.0-rc1
89152af176 cmake: use writev(3p) wrapper as needed
26986f4cba sideband: use writev(3p) to send pktlines
1970fcef93 wrapper: introduce writev(3p) wrappers
3b9b2c2a29 compat/posix: introduce writev(3p) wrapper
8023abc632 is the merge of ps/upload-pack-buffer-more-writes topic to
the mainline.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up to use the right instance of a repository instance in
calls inside refs subsystem.
* sp/refs-reduce-the-repository:
refs/reftable-backend: drop uses of the_repository
refs: remove the_hash_algo global state
refs: add struct repository parameter in get_files_ref_lock_timeout_ms()
"git rev-list --maximal-only" has been optimized by borrowing the
logic used by "git show-branch --independent", which computes the
same kind of information much more efficiently.
* ds/rev-list-maximal-only-optim:
rev-list: use reduce_heads() for --maximal-only
p6011: add perf test for rev-list --maximal-only
t6600: test --maximal-only and --independent
"git config list" is the official way to spell "git config -l" and
"git config --list". Use it to update the documentation.
* kh/doc-config-list:
doc: gitcvs-migration: rephrase “man page”
doc: replace git config --list/-l with `list`
Further work to adjust the codebase for C23 that changes functions
like strchr() that discarded constness when they return a pointer into
a const string to preserve constness.
* jk/c23-const-preserving-fixes-more:
git-compat-util: fix CONST_OUTPARAM typo and indentation
refs/files-backend: drop const to fix strchr() warning
http: drop const to fix strstr() warning
range-diff: drop const to fix strstr() warnings
pkt-line: make packet_reader.line non-const
skip_prefix(): check const match between in and out params
pseudo-merge: fix disk reads from find_pseudo_merge()
find_last_dir_sep(): convert inline function to macro
run-command: explicitly cast away constness when assigning to void
pager: explicitly cast away strchr() constness
transport-helper: drop const to fix strchr() warnings
http: add const to fix strchr() warnings
convert: add const to fix strchr() warnings
Replace the khash-based string set used for deduplicating pathnames
in do_handle_client() with a strset, which provides a cleaner
interface for the same purpose.
Since the paths are interned strings from the batch data, use
strdup_strings=0 to avoid unnecessary copies.
Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a smoke test that verifies the filesystem actually delivers
inotify events to the daemon. On some configurations (e.g.,
overlayfs with older kernels), inotify watches succeed but events
are never delivered. The daemon cookie wait will time out, but
every subsequent test would fail. Skip the entire test file early
when this is detected.
Add a test that exercises rapid nested directory creation to verify
the daemon correctly handles the EEXIST race between recursive scan
and queued inotify events. When IN_MASK_CREATE is available and a
directory watch is added during recursive registration, the kernel
may also deliver a queued IN_CREATE event for the same directory.
The second inotify_add_watch() returns EEXIST, which must be treated
as harmless. An earlier version of the listener crashed in this
scenario.
Reduce --start-timeout from the default 60 seconds to 10 seconds so
that tests fail promptly when the daemon cannot start.
Harden the test helpers to work in environments without procps
(e.g., Fedora CI): fall back to reading /proc/$pid/stat for the
process group ID when ps is unavailable, guard stop_git() against
an empty pgid, and redirect stderr from kill to /dev/null to avoid
noise when processes have already exited.
Use set -m to enable job control in the submodule-pull test so that
the background git pull gets its own process group, preventing the
shell wait from blocking on the daemon. setsid() in the previous
commit detaches the daemon itself, but the intermediate git pull
process still needs its own process group for the test shell to
manage it correctly.
Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "fsmonitor--daemon stop" command polls in a loop waiting for the
daemon to exit after sending a "quit" command over IPC. If the daemon
fails to shut down (e.g. it is stuck or wedged), this loop spins
forever.
Add a 30-second timeout so the stop command returns an error instead
of blocking indefinitely.
Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the fsmonitor daemon is spawned as a background process, it may
inherit file descriptors from its parent that it does not need. In
particular, when the test harness or a CI system captures output through
pipes, the daemon can inherit duplicated pipe endpoints. If the daemon
holds these open, the parent process never sees EOF and may appear to
hang.
Set close_fd_above_stderr on the child process at both daemon startup
paths: the explicit "fsmonitor--daemon start" command and the implicit
spawn triggered by fsmonitor-ipc when a client finds no running daemon.
Also suppress stdout and stderr on the implicit spawn path to prevent
the background daemon from writing to the client's terminal.
Additionally, call setsid() when the daemon starts with --detach to
create a new session and process group. This prevents the daemon
from being part of the spawning shell's process group, which could
cause the shell's "wait" to block until the daemon exits.
Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a close_fd_above_stderr flag to struct child_process. When set,
the child closes file descriptors 3 and above between fork and exec
(skipping the child-notifier pipe), capped at sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX)
or 4096, whichever is smaller. This prevents the child from
inheriting pipe endpoints or other descriptors from the parent
environment (e.g., the test harness).
Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implement the built-in fsmonitor daemon for Linux using the inotify
API, bringing it to feature parity with the existing Windows and macOS
implementations.
The implementation uses inotify rather than fanotify because fanotify
requires either CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_PERFMON capabilities, making it
unsuitable for an unprivileged user-space daemon. While inotify has
the limitation of requiring a separate watch on every directory (unlike
macOS's FSEvents, which can monitor an entire directory tree with a
single watch), it operates without elevated privileges and provides
the per-file event granularity needed for fsmonitor.
The listener uses inotify_init1(O_NONBLOCK) with a poll loop that
checks for events with a 50-millisecond timeout, keeping the inotify
queue well-drained to minimize the risk of overflows. Bidirectional
hashmaps map between watch descriptors and directory paths for efficient
event resolution. Directory renames are tracked using inotify's cookie
mechanism to correlate IN_MOVED_FROM and IN_MOVED_TO event pairs; a
periodic check detects stale renames where the matching IN_MOVED_TO
never arrived, forcing a resync.
New directory creation triggers recursive watch registration to ensure
all subdirectories are monitored. The IN_MASK_CREATE flag is used
where available to prevent modifying existing watches, with a fallback
for older kernels. When IN_MASK_CREATE is available and
inotify_add_watch returns EEXIST, it means another thread or recursive
scan has already registered the watch, so it is safe to ignore.
Remote filesystem detection uses statfs() to identify network-mounted
filesystems (NFS, CIFS, SMB, FUSE, etc.) via their magic numbers.
Mount point information is read from /proc/mounts and matched against
the statfs f_fsid to get accurate, human-readable filesystem type names
for logging. When the .git directory is on a remote filesystem, the
IPC socket falls back to $HOME or a user-configured directory via the
fsmonitor.socketDir setting.
Based-on-patch-by: Eric DeCosta <edecosta@mathworks.com>
Based-on-patch-by: Marziyeh Esipreh <marziyeh.esipreh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The fsmonitor settings logic in fsm-settings-darwin.c is not
Darwin-specific and will be reused by the upcoming Linux
implementation. Rename it to fsm-settings-unix.c to reflect that it
is shared by all Unix platforms.
Update the build files (meson.build and CMakeLists.txt) to use
FSMONITOR_OS_SETTINGS for fsm-settings, matching the approach already
used for fsm-ipc.
Based-on-patch-by: Eric DeCosta <edecosta@mathworks.com>
Based-on-patch-by: Marziyeh Esipreh <marziyeh.esipreh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The fsmonitor IPC path logic in fsm-ipc-darwin.c is not
Darwin-specific and will be reused by the upcoming Linux
implementation. Rename it to fsm-ipc-unix.c to reflect that it
is shared by all Unix platforms.
Introduce FSMONITOR_OS_SETTINGS (set to "unix" for non-Windows, "win32"
for Windows) as a separate variable from FSMONITOR_DAEMON_BACKEND so
that the build files can distinguish between platform-specific files
(listen, health, path-utils) and shared Unix files (ipc, settings).
Move fsm-ipc to the FSMONITOR_OS_SETTINGS section in the Makefile, and
switch fsm-path-utils to use FSMONITOR_DAEMON_BACKEND since path-utils
is platform-specific (there will be separate darwin and linux versions).
Based-on-patch-by: Eric DeCosta <edecosta@mathworks.com>
Based-on-patch-by: Marziyeh Esipreh <marziyeh.esipreh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The cookie wait in with_lock__wait_for_cookie() uses an infinite
pthread_cond_wait() loop. The existing comment notes the desire
to switch to pthread_cond_timedwait(), but the routine was not
available in git thread-utils.
On certain container or overlay filesystems, inotify watches may
succeed but events are never delivered. In this case the daemon
would hang indefinitely waiting for the cookie event, which in
turn causes the client to hang.
Replace the infinite wait with a one-second timeout using
pthread_cond_timedwait(). If the timeout fires, report an
error and let the client proceed with a trivial (full-scan)
response rather than blocking forever.
Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a pthread_cond_timedwait() implementation to the Windows pthread
compatibility layer using SleepConditionVariableCS() with a millisecond
timeout computed from the absolute deadline.
Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `state.cookies` hashmap is initialized during daemon startup but
never freed during cleanup in the `done:` label of
fsmonitor_run_daemon(). The cookie entries also have names allocated
via strbuf_detach() that must be freed individually.
Iterate the hashmap to free each cookie name, then call
hashmap_clear_and_free() to release the entries and table.
Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `shown` kh_str_t was freed with kh_release_str() at a point in
the code only reachable in the non-trivial response path. When the
client receives a trivial response, the code jumps to the `cleanup`
label, skipping the kh_release_str() call entirely and leaking the
hash table.
Fix this by initializing `shown` to NULL and moving the cleanup to the
`cleanup` label using kh_destroy_str(), which is safe to call on NULL.
This ensures the hash table is freed regardless of which code path is
taken.
Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
index.skipHash (Scalar default) and split-index are incompatible:
the shared index gets a null OID when skipHash skips computing the
hash, and the null OID causes the shared index to not be loaded on
re-read. This triggers a BUG assertion in fsmonitor when the
fsmonitor_dirty bitmap references more entries than the (now empty)
index has.
Disable GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX in the scalar clone tests that hit
this: tests 12, 13, and 22 in t9210 (matching the existing
workaround in test 16), and all of t9211 (every test does scalar
clone).
Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify that --prefix is used as given and is not normalized,
and may include leading slashes or parent directory components.
Signed-off-by: Pushkar Singh <pushkarkumarsingh1970@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>