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Patrick Steinhardt bcf7edee09 meson: generate articles
While the Meson build system already knows to generate man pages and our
user manual, it does not yet generate the random assortment of articles
that we have. Plug this gap.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-27 08:28:11 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 8922506cb2 Documentation: refactor "howto-index.sh" for out-of-tree builds
The "howto-index.sh" is used to generate an index of our how-to docs. It
receives as input the paths to these documents, which would typically be
relative to the "Documentation/" directory in Makefile-based builds. In
an out-of-tree build though it will get relative that may be rooted
somewhere else entirely.

The file paths do end up in the generated index, and the expectation is
that they should always start with "howto/". But for out-of-tree builds
we would populate it with the paths relative to the build directory,
which is wrong.

Fix the issue by using `$(basename "$file")` to generate the path. While
at it, move the script into "howto/" to align it with the location of
the comparable "api-index.sh" script.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-27 08:28:11 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 88e08b92e9 Documentation: refactor "api-index.sh" for out-of-tree builds
The "api-index.sh" script generates an index of API-related
documentation. The script does not handle out-of-tree builds and thus
cannot be used easily by Meson.

Refactor it to be independent of locations by both accepting a source
directory where the API docs live as well as a path to an output file.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-27 08:28:10 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt ae0b33939d meson: generate user manual
Our documentation contains a user manual that gives people a short
introduction to Git. Our Makefile knows to generate the manual into
three different formats: an HTML page, a PDF and an info page. The Meson
build instructions don't yet generate any of these.

While wiring up all these formats I hit a couple of road blocks with how
we generate our info pages. Even though I eventually resolved these, it
made me question whether anybody actually uses info pages in the first
place. Checking through a couple of downstream consumers I couldn't find
a single user of either the info pages nor of our PDF manual in Arch
Linux, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, FreeBSD or OpenBSDFedora. So it's rather
safe to assume that there aren't really any users out there, and thus
the added complexity does not seem worth it.

Wire up support for building the user manual in HTML format and
conciously skip over the other two formats. This is basically a form of
silent deprecation: if people out there use the other two formats they
will eventually complain about them missing in Meson, which means we can
wire them up at a later point. If they don't we can phase out these
formats eventually.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-27 08:28:10 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 851ecc4290 Documentation: inline user-manual.conf
When generating our user manual we set up a bit of extra configuration
compared to our normal configuration. This is done by having an extra
"user-manual.conf" file that Asciidoc seems to pull in automatically due
to matching filenames with "user-manual.txt". This dependency is quite
hidden though and thus easy to miss. Furthermore, it seems that Asciidoc
does not know to pull it in for out-of-tree builds where we use relative
paths.

The setup in AsciiDoctor is somewhat different: instead of having two
sets of configuration, we condition the use of manual-specific configs
based on whether the document type is "book". And as we only build our
user manual with that type this is sufficient.

Use the same trick for our user manual by inlining the configuration
into "asciidoc.conf.in" and making it conditional on whether or not
"doctype-book" is defined.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-27 08:28:10 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 0696ebe9ce meson: generate HTML pages for all man page categories
When generating HTML pages for our man pages we only generate them for
category 1 in Meson, which are the pages corresponding to our built-in
commands. I cannot tell why I added this filter though: our Makefile
installs all man pages, so a Meson-based build misses out on many of
them.

Fix this by removing the filter.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-27 08:28:10 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt b88540045c meson: fix generation of merge tools
Our buildsystems generate a list of diff and merge tools that ultimately
end up in our documentation. And while Meson does wire up the logic, it
tries to use the TOOL_MODE environment variable to set up the mode. This
is wrong though: the mode is set via an argument that we have fixed to
'diff' mode by accident.

Fix this such that merge tools are properly generated.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-27 08:28:09 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 2a8bd34c55 meson: properly wire up dependencies for our docs
A couple of Meson documentation targets use `meson.current_source_dir()`
to resolve inputs. This has the downside that it does not automagically
make Meson track these inputs as a dependency. After all, string
arguments really can be anything, even if they happen to match an actual
filesystem path.

Adapt these build targets to instead use inputs.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-27 08:28:09 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt d838d821c9 meson: wire up support for AsciiDoctor
While our Makefile supports both Asciidoc and AsciiDoctor, our Meson
build instructions only support the former. Wire up support for the
latter, as well.

Our Makefile always favors Asciidoc, but Meson will automatically figure
out which of both to use based on whether they are installed or not. To
keep compatibility with our Makefile it favors Asciidoc over Asciidoctor
in case both are available.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-27 08:28:09 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt d963ac98ec meson: enable auto-discovered "gitweb"
In 7d549fe317 (meson: skip gitweb build when Perl is disabled,
2024-12-20) we have started to conditionally enable "gitweb" based on
whether or not Perl is enabled. By accident though that change causes us
to not build gitweb in case its feature flag is set to "auto" even if
autoconfiguration determines that it could be built. This is because we
use "gitweb_option.enabled()", which only checks whether the feature has
been explicitly enabled.

Fix the issue by using `gitweb_option.allowed()` instead, which returns
true in case it is either explicitly enabled or set to "auto". This also
works for the case where the feature becomes auto-disabled due to Perl
not being present because we use `disable_auto_if(not perl.found())`.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-27 08:17:19 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt cbcc2f7911 GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS: wire up NO_GITWEB option
Building our "gitweb" interface is optional in our Makefile and in Meson
and not wired up at all with CMake, but disabling it causes a couple of
tests in the t950* range that pull in "t/lib-gitweb.sh". This is because
the test library knows to execute gitweb-tests based on whether or not
Perl is available, but we may have Perl available and still end up not
building gitweb e.g. with `make test NO_GITWEB=YesPlease`.

Fix this issue by wiring up a new "NO_GITWEB" build option so that we
can skip these tests in case gitweb is not built.

Note that this new build option requires us to move the configuration of
GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS to a later point in our Meson build instructions. But
as that file is only consumed by our tests at runtime this change does
not cause any issues.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-27 08:17:19 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt cfa1f2ae96 GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS: sort variables alphabetically
The variables declared and substituted in GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS are not
ordered in any obvious way. Sort them alphabetically so that it becomes
obvious where new variables should go.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-27 08:17:19 -08:00
Meet Soni cef3d4a89f t7611: replace test -f with test_path_is* helpers
Replace `test -f` and `test ! -f` with `test_path_is_file` and
`test_path_is_missing` for better debuggability.

While `test -f` ensures that the file exists and is a regular file,
`test_path_is_file` provides clearer error messages on failure.

On the other hand, `test ! -f` checks either the absence of a regular
file or the presence of any other filesystem object, but looking at
them in the test individually, all of them should've said `test ! -e`,
i.e. "there shouldn't be anything at given path on filesystem."

Replace these cases with `test_path_is_missing` for better
debuggability.

Helped-by: karthik nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Meet Soni <meetsoni3017@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-27 08:13:59 -08:00
Alexander Shopov b59358100c Update the official repo of gitk
Point out:
- current maintaner
- contribution flow is via the mailing list

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shopov <ash@kambanaria.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-26 08:06:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 76cf4f61c8 Merge https://github.com/j6t/git-gui
* 'master' of https://github.com/j6t/git-gui:
  git-gui: use system encoding to show console output
  git-gui: Remove forced rescan of stat-dirty files.
2024-12-26 08:02:23 -08:00
Alexander Shopov e76b53ef23 gitk: Update Bulgarian translation (327t)
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shopov <ash@kambanaria.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
2024-12-24 11:58:09 +01:00
Junio C Hamano 996f0c583b Hopefully the final batch before 2.48-rc1
Let's wait for git-gui, gitk, and possibly po/ and delay the tagging
of the -rc1.  Many people are already offline for the end-of-year
holidays and it is a slow week, and 'master' front has too many new
things graduated from 'next' a bit too early for me to feel
comfortable.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-23 10:13:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 6f8ae955bd Merge branch 'kn/reflog-migration'
"git refs migrate" learned to also migrate the reflog data across
backends.

* kn/reflog-migration:
  refs: mark invalid refname message for translation
  refs: add support for migrating reflogs
  refs: allow multiple reflog entries for the same refname
  refs: introduce the `ref_transaction_update_reflog` function
  refs: add `committer_info` to `ref_transaction_add_update()`
  refs: extract out refname verification in transactions
  refs/files: add count field to ref_lock
  refs: add `index` field to `struct ref_udpate`
  refs: include committer info in `ref_update` struct
2024-12-23 09:32:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano f74eae3e47 Merge branch 'ma/asciidoctor-build-fixes'
A topic to optionally build with meson, which has graduated to
'master' recently, broke Documentation pipeline with asciidoctor
for the normal Makefile build as well as meson-based one, which
have been corrected.

* ma/asciidoctor-build-fixes:
  asciidoctor-extensions.rb.in: inject GIT_DATE
  asciidoctor-extensions.rb.in: add missing word
  asciidoctor-extensions.rb.in: delete existing <refmiscinfo/>
2024-12-23 09:32:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano f074cdea46 Merge branch 'ps/build-hotfix'
A topic to optionally build with meson, which has graduated to
'master' recently, has regressed the normal Makefile build, which
is being corrected.

* ps/build-hotfix:
  meson: add options to override build information
  GIT-VERSION-GEN: fix overriding GIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT and GIT_DATE
  GIT-VERSION-GEN: fix overriding GIT_VERSION
  Makefile: introduce template for GIT-VERSION-GEN
  Makefile: drop unneeded indirection for GIT-VERSION-GEN outputs
  Makefile: stop including "GIT-VERSION-FILE" in docs
2024-12-23 09:32:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 83c8f76235 Merge branch 'ps/ci-meson'
The meson-build procedure is integrated into CI to catch and
prevent bitrotting.

* ps/ci-meson:
  ci: wire up Meson builds
  t: introduce compatibility options to clar-based tests
  t: fix out-of-tree tests for some git-p4 tests
  Makefile: detect missing Meson tests
  meson: detect missing tests at configure time
  t/unit-tests: rename clar-based unit tests to have a common prefix
  Makefile: drop -DSUPPRESS_ANNOTATED_LEAKS
  ci/lib: support custom output directories when creating test artifacts
2024-12-23 09:32:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano e9a4054320 Merge branch 'kl/doc-build-fix'
Build fix.

* kl/doc-build-fix:
  doc: remove extra quotes in generated docs
2024-12-23 09:32:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano a08ebf8b3e Merge branch 'tb/bitmap-fix-pack-reuse'
Code to reuse objects based on bitmap contents have been tightened
to avoid race condition even when multiple packs are involved.

* tb/bitmap-fix-pack-reuse:
  pack-bitmap.c: ensure pack validity for all reuse packs
2024-12-23 09:32:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 8650022fab Merge branch 'jk/prio-queue-sign-compare-fix'
Type clean-up.

* jk/prio-queue-sign-compare-fix:
  prio-queue: use size_t rather than int for size
2024-12-23 09:32:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 77825f7553 Merge branch 'ps/build-meson-gitweb'
meson-based build still tried to build and install gitweb even when
Perl is disabled, which has been corrected.

* ps/build-meson-gitweb:
  meson: skip gitweb build when Perl is disabled
2024-12-23 09:32:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 77edd59394 Merge branch 'sk/calloc-not-malloc-plus-memset'
Code clean-up.

* sk/calloc-not-malloc-plus-memset:
  git: use calloc instead of malloc + memset where possible
2024-12-23 09:32:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 88e59f8027 Merge branch 'js/range-diff-diff-merges'
"git range-diff" learned to optionally show and compare merge
commits in the ranges being compared, with the --diff-merges
option.

* js/range-diff-diff-merges:
  range-diff: introduce the convenience option `--remerge-diff`
  range-diff: optionally include merge commits' diffs in the analysis
2024-12-23 09:32:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano c4cc685a62 Merge branch 'js/mingw-rename-fix'
Update the way rename() emulation on Windows handle directories to
correct an earlier attempt to do the same.

* js/mingw-rename-fix:
  mingw_rename: do support directory renames
2024-12-23 09:32:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano bad5d1ad25 Merge branch 'js/github-windows-setup-fix'
Revert recent changes to the way windows environment is set up for
GitHub CI.

* js/github-windows-setup-fix:
  GitHub ci(windows): speed up initializing Git for Windows' minimal SDK again
2024-12-23 09:32:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 8cad35f353 Merge branch 'js/ps-build-cmake-fixup'
Build fixes for Windows.

* js/ps-build-cmake-fixup:
  cmake/vcxproj: stop special-casing `remote-ext`
  cmake: put the Perl modules into the correct location again
  cmake: use the correct file name for the Perl header
  cmake(mergetools): better support for out-of-tree builds
  cmake: better support for out-of-tree builds follow-up
2024-12-23 09:32:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 002a8a9d36 Merge branch 'as/show-index-uninitialized-hash'
Regression fix for 'show-index' when run outside of a repository.

* as/show-index-uninitialized-hash:
  t5300: add test for 'show-index --object-format'
  show-index: fix uninitialized hash function
2024-12-23 09:32:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 4156b6a741 Merge branch 'ps/build-sign-compare'
Start working to make the codebase buildable with -Wsign-compare.

* ps/build-sign-compare:
  t/helper: don't depend on implicit wraparound
  scalar: address -Wsign-compare warnings
  builtin/patch-id: fix type of `get_one_patchid()`
  builtin/blame: fix type of `length` variable when emitting object ID
  gpg-interface: address -Wsign-comparison warnings
  daemon: fix type of `max_connections`
  daemon: fix loops that have mismatching integer types
  global: trivial conversions to fix `-Wsign-compare` warnings
  pkt-line: fix -Wsign-compare warning on 32 bit platform
  csum-file: fix -Wsign-compare warning on 32-bit platform
  diff.h: fix index used to loop through unsigned integer
  config.mak.dev: drop `-Wno-sign-compare`
  global: mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`
  compat/win32: fix -Wsign-compare warning in "wWinMain()"
  compat/regex: explicitly ignore "-Wsign-compare" warnings
  git-compat-util: introduce macros to disable "-Wsign-compare" warnings
2024-12-23 09:32:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano f7c607fac3 Merge branch 'kn/reftable-writer-log-write-verify'
Reftable backend adds check for upper limit of log's update_index.

* kn/reftable-writer-log-write-verify:
  reftable/writer: ensure valid range for log's update_index
2024-12-23 09:32:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 19fbad7918 Merge branch 'ps/ci-gitlab-update'
GitLab CI updates.

* ps/ci-gitlab-update:
  ci/lib: fix "CI setup" sections with GitLab CI
  ci/lib: do not interpret escape sequences in `group ()` arguments
  ci/lib: remove duplicate trap to end "CI setup" group
  gitlab-ci: update macOS images to Sonoma
2024-12-23 09:32:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 3151e6a121 Merge branch 'ps/reftable-alloc-failures-zalloc-fix'
Recent reftable updates mistook a NULL return from a request for
0-byte allocation as OOM and died unnecessarily, which has been
corrected.

* ps/reftable-alloc-failures-zalloc-fix:
  reftable/basics: return NULL on zero-sized allocations
  reftable/stack: fix zero-sized allocation when there are no readers
  reftable/merged: fix zero-sized allocation when there are no readers
  reftable/stack: don't perform auto-compaction with less than two tables
2024-12-23 09:32:06 -08:00
Alexander Shopov f37c6dd44e git-gui i18n: Updated Bulgarian translation (579t)
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shopov <ash@kambanaria.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
2024-12-23 18:05:14 +01:00
Patrick Steinhardt d7282891f5 reftable/basics: return NULL on zero-sized allocations
In the preceding commits we have fixed a couple of issues when
allocating zero-sized objects. These issues were masked by
implementation-defined behaviour. Quoting malloc(3p):

  If size is 0, either:

    * A null pointer shall be returned and errno may be set to an
      implementation-defined value, or

    * A pointer to the allocated space shall be returned. The
      application shall ensure that the pointer is not used to access an
      object.

So it is perfectly valid that implementations of this function may or
may not return a NULL pointer in such a case.

Adapt both `reftable_malloc()` and `reftable_realloc()` so that they
return NULL pointers on zero-sized allocations. This should remove any
implementation-defined behaviour in our allocators and thus allows us to
detect such platform-specific issues more easily going forward.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-22 00:58:23 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 2d3cb4b4b5 reftable/stack: fix zero-sized allocation when there are no readers
Similar as the preceding commit, we may try to do a zero-sized
allocation when reloading a reftable stack that ain't got any tables.
It is implementation-defined whether malloc(3p) returns a NULL pointer
in that case or a zero-sized object. In case it does return a NULL
pointer though it causes us to think we have run into an out-of-memory
situation, and thus we return an error.

Fix this by only allocating arrays when they have at least one entry.

Reported-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-22 00:58:23 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 5ab83521cf reftable/merged: fix zero-sized allocation when there are no readers
It was reported [1] that Git started to fail with an out-of-memory error
when initializing repositories with the reftable backend on NonStop
platforms. A bisect led to 802c0646ac (reftable/merged: handle
allocation failures in `merged_table_init_iter()`, 2024-10-02), which
changed how we allocate memory when initializing a merged table.

The root cause of this seems to be that NonStop returns a `NULL` pointer
when doing a zero-sized allocation. This would've already happened
before the above change, but we never noticed because we did not check
the result. Now we do notice and thus return an out-of-memory error to
the caller.

Fix the issue by skipping the allocation altogether in case there are no
readers.

[1]: <00ad01db5017$aa9ce340$ffd6a9c0$@nexbridge.com>

Reported-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-22 00:58:23 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 8e27ee9220 reftable/stack: don't perform auto-compaction with less than two tables
In order to compact tables we need at least two tables. Bail out early
from `reftable_stack_auto_compact()` in case we have less than two
tables.

In the original, `stack_table_sizes_for_compaction()` yields an array
that has the same length as the number of tables. This array is then
passed on to `suggest_compaction_segment()`, which returns an empty
segment in case we have less than two tables. The segment is then passed
to `segment_size()`, which will return `0` because both start and end of
the segment are `0`. And because we only call `stack_compact_range()` in
case we have a positive segment size we don't perform auto-compaction at
all. Consequently, this change does not result in a user-visible change
in behaviour when called with a single table.

But when called with no tables this protects us against a potential
out-of-memory error: `stack_table_sizes_for_compaction()` would try to
allocate a zero-byte object when there aren't any tables, and that may
lead to a `NULL` pointer on some platforms like NonStop which causes us
to bail out with an out-of-memory error.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-22 00:58:23 -08:00
Johannes Sixt 5c95773eac Merge branch 'js/no-rescan-on-empty-diff'
* js/no-rescan-on-empty-diff:
  git-gui: Remove forced rescan of stat-dirty files.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
2024-12-21 14:06:33 +01:00
Martin Ågren beb8081f31 asciidoctor-extensions.rb.in: inject GIT_DATE
After a38edab7c8 (Makefile: generate doc versions via GIT-VERSION-GEN,
2024-12-06), we no longer inject GIT_DATE when building with
Asciidoctor.

Replace the <date/> tag in the XML to inject the value of GIT_DATE.
Unlike <refmiscinfo/> as handled in a recent commit, we have no reason
to expect that this tag might be missing, so there's no need for "maybe
remove, then add" and we can just outright replace the one that
Asciidoctor has generated based on the mtime of the source file.

Compared to pre-a38edab7c8, we now end up injecting this also in the
build of Git.3pm, which until now has been using the mtime of Git.pm.
That is arguably even a good change since it results in more
reproducible builds.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-20 17:34:35 -08:00
Martin Ågren c683924d06 asciidoctor-extensions.rb.in: add missing word
Commit a38edab7c8 (Makefile: generate doc versions via GIT-VERSION-GEN,
2024-12-06) stopped providing an attribute value "Git $(GIT_VERSION)" to
asciidoc/Asciidoctor over the command line. Instead, we now provide the
attribute to asciidoc through a generated asciidoc.conf, where the value
is generated as "Git @GIT_VERSION@".

In the similar mechanism for Asciidoctor, we forgot the "Git" prefix.
Restore it.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-20 17:34:35 -08:00
Martin Ågren 298805c823 asciidoctor-extensions.rb.in: delete existing <refmiscinfo/>
After the recent a38edab7c8 (Makefile: generate doc versions via
GIT-VERSION-GEN, 2024-12-06), building with Asciidoctor results in
manpages where the headers no longer contain "Git Manual" and the
footers no longer identify the built Git version.

Before a38edab7c8, we used to just provide a few attributes to
Asciidoctor (and asciidoc). Commit 7a30134358 (asciidoctor-extensions:
provide `<refmiscinfo/>`, 2019-09-16) noted that older versions of
Asciidoctor didn't propagate those attributes into the built XML files,
so we started injecting them ourselves from this script. With newer
versions of Asciidoctor, we'd end up with some harmless duplication
among the tags in the final XML.

Post-a38edab7c8, we don't provide these attributes and Asciidoctor
inserts empty-ish values. After our additions from 7a30134358, we get

  <refmiscinfo class="source">&#160;</refmiscinfo>
  <refmiscinfo class="manual">&#160;</refmiscinfo>
  <refmiscinfo class="source">2.47.1.[...]</refmiscinfo>
  <refmiscinfo class="manual">Git Manual</refmiscinfo>

When these are handled, it appears to be first come first served,
meaning that our additions have no effect and we regress as described in
the first paragraph.

Remove existing "source" or "manual" <refmiscinfo/> tags before adding
ours. I considered removing all <refmiscinfo/> to get a nice clean
slate, instead of just those two that we want to replace to be a bit
more precise. I opted for the latter. Maybe one day, Asciidoctor learns
to insert something useful there which `xmlto` can pick up and make good
use of -- let's not interfere.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-20 17:34:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano f5f82c0d5f Merge branch 'ps/build-hotfix' into ma/asciidoctor-build-fixes
* ps/build-hotfix:
  meson: add options to override build information
  GIT-VERSION-GEN: fix overriding GIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT and GIT_DATE
  GIT-VERSION-GEN: fix overriding GIT_VERSION
  Makefile: introduce template for GIT-VERSION-GEN
  Makefile: drop unneeded indirection for GIT-VERSION-GEN outputs
  Makefile: stop including "GIT-VERSION-FILE" in docs
2024-12-20 17:34:25 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 1bc815c3d0 meson: add options to override build information
We inject various different kinds of build information into build
artifacts, like the version string or the commit from which Git was
built. Add options to let users explicitly override this information
with Meson.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-20 12:36:46 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt cfa01e6da5 GIT-VERSION-GEN: fix overriding GIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT and GIT_DATE
Same as with the preceding commit, neither GIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT nor
GIT_DATE can be overridden via the environment. Especially the latter is
of importance given that we set it in our own "Documentation/doc-diff"
script.

Make the values of both variables overridable. Luckily we don't pull in
these values via any included Makefiles, so the fix is trivial compared
to the fix for GIT_VERSON.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-20 12:36:45 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 992bc5618f GIT-VERSION-GEN: fix overriding GIT_VERSION
GIT-VERSION-GEN tries to derive the version that Git is being built from
via multiple different sources in the following order:

  1. A file called "version" in the source tree's root directory, if it
     exists.

  2. The current commit in case Git is built from a Git repository.

  3. Otherwise, we use a fallback version stored in a variable which is
     bumped whenever a new Git version is getting tagged.

It used to be possible to override the version by overriding the
`GIT_VERSION` Makefile variable (e.g. `make GIT_VERSION=foo`). This
worked somewhat by chance, only: `GIT-VERSION-GEN` would write the
actual Git version into `GIT-VERSION-FILE`, not the overridden value,
but when including the file into our Makefile we would not override the
`GIT_VERSION` variable because it has already been set by the user. And
because our Makefile used the variable to propagate the version to our
build tools instead of using `GIT-VERSION-FILE` the resulting build
artifacts used the overridden version.

But that subtle mechanism broke with 4838deab65 (Makefile: refactor
GIT-VERSION-GEN to be reusable, 2024-12-06) and subsequent commits
because the version information is not propagated via the Makefile
variable anymore, but instead via the files that `GIT-VERSION-GEN`
started to write. And as the script never knew about the `GIT_VERSION`
environment variable in the first place it uses one of the values listed
above instead of the overridden value.

Fix this issue by making `GIT-VERSION-GEN` handle the case where
`GIT_VERSION` has been set via the environment.

Note that this requires us to introduce a new GIT_VERSION_OVERRIDE
variable that stores a potential user-provided value, either via the
environment or via "config.mak". Ideally we wouldn't need it and could
just continue to use GIT_VERSION for this. But unfortunately, Makefiles
will first include all sub-Makefiles before figuring out whether it
needs to re-make any of them [1]. Consequently, if there already is a
GIT-VERSION-FILE, we would have slurped in its value of GIT_VERSION
before we call GIT-VERSION-GEN, and because GIT-VERSION-GEN now uses
that value as an override it would mean that the first generated value
for GIT_VERSION will remain unchanged.

Furthermore we have to move the include for "GIT-VERSION-FILE" after the
includes for "config.mak" and related so that GIT_VERSION_OVERRIDE can
be set to the value provided by "config.mak".

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Remaking-Makefiles.html

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-20 12:36:45 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 114494ae2c Makefile: introduce template for GIT-VERSION-GEN
Introduce a new template to call GIT-VERSION-GEN. This will allow us to
iterate on how exactly the script is called in subsequent commits
without having to adapt all call sites every time.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-20 12:36:45 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt b329f2eb00 Makefile: drop unneeded indirection for GIT-VERSION-GEN outputs
Some of the callsites of GIT-VERSION-GEN generate the target file with a
"+" suffix first and then move the file into place when the new contents
are different compared to the old contents. This allows us to avoid a
needless rebuild by not updating timestamps of the target file when its
contents will remain unchanged anyway.

In fact though, this exact logic is already handled in GIT-VERSION-GEN,
so doing this manually is pointless. This is a leftover from an earlier
version of 4838deab65 (Makefile: refactor GIT-VERSION-GEN to be
reusable, 2024-12-06), where the script didn't handle that logic for us.

Drop the needless indirection.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-20 12:36:44 -08:00