Recent OpenSSH creates the Unix domain socket to communicate with
ssh-agent under $HOME instead of /tmp, which causes our test to
fail doe to overly long pathname in our test environment, which has
been worked around by using "ssh-agent -T".
* ps/t7528-ssh-agent-uds-workaround:
t7528: work around ETOOMANY in OpenSSH 10.1 and newer
Build procedure for a few credential helpers (in contrib/) have
been updated.
* tu/credential-makefile-updates:
contrib/credential: harmonize Makefiles
The "--short" option of "git status" that meant output for humans
and "-z" option to show NUL delimited output format did not mix
well, and colored some but not all things. The command has been
updated to color all elements consistently in such a case.
* jk/status-z-short-fix:
status: make coloring of "-z --short" consistent
The code to squelch output from "git diff -w --name-status"
etc. for paths that "git diff -w -p" would have stayed silent
leaked output from dry-run patch generation, which has been
corrected.
* jc/diff-from-contents-fix:
diff: make sure the other caller of diff_flush_patch_quietly() is silent
Recently we attempted to improve "git diff -w" and friends to
handle cases where patch output would be suppressed, but it
introduced a bug that emits unnecessary output, which has been
corrected.
* jk/diff-from-contents-fix:
diff: restore redirection to /dev/null for diff_from_contents
In t7528 we spawn an SSH agent to verify that we can sign a commit via
it. This test has started to fail on some machines:
+++ ssh-agent
unix_listener_tmp: path "/home/pks/Development/git/build/test-output/trash directory.t7528-signed-commit-ssh/.ssh/agent/s.UTulegefEg.agent.UrPHumMXPq" too long for Unix domain socket
main: Couldn't prepare agent socket
As it turns out this is caused by a change in OpenSSH 10.1 [1]:
* ssh-agent(1), sshd(8): move agent listener sockets from /tmp to
under ~/.ssh/agent for both ssh-agent(1) and forwarded sockets
in sshd(8).
Instead of creating the socket in "/tmp", OpenSSH now creates the socket
in our home directory. And as the home directory gets modified to be
located in our test output directory we end up with paths that are
somewhat long. But Linux has a rather short limit of 108 characters for
socket paths, and other systems have even lower limits, so it is very
easy now to exceed the limit and run into the above error.
Work around the issue by using `ssh-agent -T`, which instructs it to
use the old behaviour and create the socket in "/tmp" again. This switch
has only been introduced with 10.1 though, so for older versions we have
to fall back to not using it. That's fine though, as older versions know
to put the socket into "/tmp" already.
An alternative approach would be to abbreviate the socket name itself so
that we create it as e.g. "sshsock" in the trash directory. But taking
the above example we'd still end up with a path that is 91 characters
long. So we wouldn't really have a lot of headroom, and it is quite
likely that some developers would see the issue on their machines.
[1]: https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-10.1
Reported-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
Suggested-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Lauri Tirkkonen <lauri@hacktheplanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier, we added is a protection for the loop that computes "git
diff --quiet -w" to ensure calls to the diff_flush_patch_quietly()
helper stays quiet. Do the same for another loop that deals with
options like "--name-status" to make calls to the same helper.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation updates.
* je/doc-pull:
doc: git-pull: clarify how to exit a conflicted merge
doc: git-pull: delete the example
doc: git-pull: clarify options for integrating remote branch
doc: git-pull: move <repository> and <refspec> params
The beginning of SHA1-SHA256 interoperability work.
* bc/sha1-256-interop-01:
t1010: use BROKEN_OBJECTS prerequisite
t: allow specifying compatibility hash
fsck: consider gpgsig headers expected in tags
rev-parse: allow printing compatibility hash
docs: add documentation for loose objects
docs: improve ambiguous areas of pack format documentation
docs: reflect actual double signature for tags
docs: update offset order for pack index v3
docs: update pack index v3 format
CI update.
* js/ci-github-actions-update:
build(deps): bump actions/github-script from 7 to 8
build(deps): bump actions/setup-python from 5 to 6
build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5
build(deps): bump actions/download-artifact from 4 to 5
Update these Makefiles to be in line with other Makefiles from contrib
such as for contacts or subtree by making the following changes:
* Make the default settings after including config.mak.autogen and
config.mak.
* Add the missing $(CPPFLAGS) to the compiler command as well as the
missing $(CFLAGS) to the linker command.
* Use a pattern rule for compilation instead of a dedicated rule for
each compile unit.
* Get rid of $(MAIN), $(SRCS) and $(OBJS) and simply use their values
such as git-credential-libsecret and git-credential-libsecret.o.
* Strip @ from $(RM) to let the clean target rule be verbose.
* Define .PHONY for all special targets (all, clean).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Uhle <thomas.uhle@mailbox.tu-dresden.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On Windows, the MSYS layer translates absolute path names generated by
a shell script from the POSIX style /c/dir/file to the Windows style
C:/dir/file form that is understood by git.exe. This happens only when
the absolute path stands on its own as a program argument or a value of
an environment variable.
The earlier commits 749d6d166d (config: values of pathname type can be
prefixed with :(optional), 2025-09-28) and ccfcaf399f (parseopt: values
of pathname type can be prefixed with :(optional), 2025-09-28) added
test cases where ":(optional)" is inserted before an absolute path.
$PWD is used to construct the absolute paths, which gives the POSIX
form, and the result is ":(optional)/c/dir/template". Such command line
arguments are no longer recognized as absolute paths and do not undergo
translation.
Existing test cases that expect that the specified file does not exist
are not incorrect (after all, git.exe will not find /c/dir/template).
Yet, they are conceptually incorrect. That the use of $PWD is erroneous
is revealed by a test case that expects that the optional file exists.
Since no such test case is present, add one. Use "$(pwd)" to generate
the absolute paths, so that the command line arguments become
":(optional)C:/dir/template".
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running "git status -z --short", the marker on modified index
entries (e.g., "M") is colorized, but the "??" marker for untracked
entries is not. Let's fix the "??" entries to show color here.
At first glance you might think that neither should be colorized, as
usually one would use "-z" to get machine-readable output. But this is a
tricky and unusual case. We have two output formats, "--short" and
"--porcelain" which are substantially similar, but differ in that
"--short" is for humans who want something short and "--porcelain" is
for machines. And "-z" by itself, without any other output option, does
default to "--porcelain", so "git status -z" will not colorize anything.
But if you explicitly ask for "-z" and "--short" together, then that is
asking for the human-readable output, but separated by NULs. This is
unlikely to be useful directly, but could for example be used if the
output will be shown to a human outside of the terminal. At any rate,
the current behavior is clearly wrong (since we colorize some things but
not others), and I think colorizing everything is the least-surprising
thing we can do here.
Reported-by: Langbart <Langbart@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier addition to "git diff --no-index A B" to limit the
output with pathspec after the two directories misbehaved when
these directories were given with a trailing slash, which has been
corrected.
* jk/diff-no-index-with-pathspec-fix:
diff --no-index: fix logic for paths ending in '/'
A few more things that patch authors can do to help maintainer to
keep track of their topics better.
* tb/doc-submitting-patches:
SubmittingPatches: guidance for multi-series efforts
SubmittingPatches: extend release-notes experiment to topic names
The code in "git add -p" and friends to iterate over hunks was
riddled with bugs, which has been corrected.
* rs/add-patch-options-fix:
add-patch: reset "permitted" at loop start
add-patch: let options a and d roll over like y and n
add-patch: let options k and K roll over like j and J
add-patch: let options y, n, j, and e roll over to next undecided
add-patch: document that option J rolls over
add-patch: improve help for options j, J, k, and K
Instead of three library archives (one for git, one for reftable,
and one for xdiff), roll everything into a single libgit.a archive.
This would help later effort to FFI into Rust.
* en/make-libgit-a:
make: delete REFTABLE_LIB, add reftable to LIB_OBJS
make: delete XDIFF_LIB, add xdiff to LIB_OBJS
In --quiet mode, since we produce only an exit code for "something was
changed" and no actual output, we can often get by with just a
tree-level diff. However, certain options require us to actually look at
the file contents (e.g., if we are ignoring whitespace changes). We have
a flag "diff_from_contents" for that, and if it is set we call
diff_flush() on each path.
To avoid producing any output (since we were asked to be --quiet), we
traditionally just redirected the output to /dev/null. That changed in
b55e6d36eb (diff: ensure consistent diff behavior with ignore options,
2025-08-08), which replaced that with a "dry_run" flag. In theory, with
dry_run set, we should produce no output. But it carries a risk of
regression: if we forget to respect dry_run in any of the output paths,
we'll accidentally produce output.
And indeed, there is at least one such regression in that commit, as it
covered only the case where we actually call into xdiff, and not
creation or deletion diffs, where we manually generate the headers. We
even test this case in t4035, but only with diff-tree, which does not
show the bug by default because it does not require diff_from_contents.
But git-diff does, because it allows external diff programs by default
(so we must dig into each diff filepair to decide if it requires running
an external diff that may declare two distinct blobs to actually be the
same).
We should fix all of those code paths to respect dry_run correctly, but
in the meantime we can protect ourselves more fully by restoring the
redirection to /dev/null. This gives us an extra layer of protection
against regressions dues to other code paths we've missed.
Though the original issue was reported with "git diff" (and due to its
default of --ext-diff), I've used "diff-tree -w" in the new test. It
triggers the same issue, but I think the fact that "-w" implies
diff_from_contents is a bit more obvious, and fits in with the rest of
t4035.
Reported-by: Jake Zimmerman <jake@zimmerman.io>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 5040f9f164 ("doc: add technical design doc for large object
promisors", 2025-02-18) added the large object promisors document
as a technical document (with a '.txt' extension). The merge commit
2c6fd30198 ("Merge branch 'cc/lop-remote'", 2025-03-05) seems to
have renamed the file with an '.adoc' extension.
Despite the '.adoc' extension, this document was not being formatted
by asciidoc(tor) as part of the docs build. In order to do so, add
the document to the make and meson build files.
Having added the document to the build, asciidoc and asciidoctor find
(slightly different) problems with the syntax of the input document.
The first set of warnings (only issued by asciidoc) relate to some
'section title out of sequence: expected level 3, got level 4'. This
document uses 'setext' style of section headers, using a series of
underline characters, where the character used denotes the level of
the title. From document title to level 5 (see [1]), these characters
are =, -, ~, ^, +. This does not seem to fit the error message, which
implies that those characters denote levels 0 -> 4. Replacing the headings
underlined with '+' by the '^' character eliminates these warnings.
The second set of warnings (only issued by asciidoctor) relate to some
headings which seem to use both arabic and roman numerals as part of
a single 'list' sequence. This elicited either 'unterminated listing
block' or (for example) 'list item index: expected I, got II' warnings.
In order not to mix arabic and roman numerals, remove the numeral from
the '0) Non goals' heading. Similarly, the remaining roman numeral
entries had the ')' removed and turned into regular headings with I, II,
III ... at the beginning.
[1] https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-recommended-practices/
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The formatting markup syntax used in this document (markdown?) is not
interpreted correctly by asciidoc or asciidoctor. The main problem is
the use of a '## ' prefix markup for some sub-headings, along with the
use of '```' code markup and some missing literal blocks.
In order to improve the (html) document formatting:
- replace the '## ' prefix sub-title syntax with the '~~' underlining
syntax for the relevant sub-headings.
- replace the '```' code markup, which causes asciidoc(tor) to simply
remove the marked up text, with a literal block '----' markup.
- the second ascii diagram, in the 'Merging commit-graph files'
section, is not rendered correctly by asciidoctor (asciidoc is fine)
so enclose it in a '....' block.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both asciidoc and asciidoctor issue warnings about 'list item index:
expected n got n-1' for n=1->7 on lines 928, 931, 951, 974, 980, 1033
and 1049. In asciidoc, numbered lists must start at one, whereas this
file has a list starting at zero. Also, asciidoc and asciidoctor warn
about 'section title out of sequence: expected level 1, got level 2'
on line 17. (asciidoc only complains about the first instance of this,
while asciidoctor complains about them all, on lines 95, 258, 303, 316,
545, 612, 752, 824, 895, 923 and 1053). These warnings stem from the
section titles not being correctly nested within a document/chapter
title.
In order to address the first set of warnings, simply renumber the list
from one to seven, rather than zero to six. Fortunately, this does not
require altering additional text, since the enumeration of 'Known Bugs'
is not referred to anywhere else in the document.
In order to address the second set of warnings, change the section title
syntax from '=== title ===' to '== title ==', effectively reducing the
nesting level of the title by one. Also, some apparent (sub-)titles are
not marked up with sub-title syntax, so add some '=== ' prefix(s) to the
relevant headings.
In addition to the warnings, address some other formatting issues:
- the use of heavily nested unordered lists is not reflected in the
output (making the file totally unreadable) because each level of
nesting requires a different syntax. (i.e. replace '*' with '**'
for the second level, '*' with '***' for the third level, etc.)
- make use of literal blocks and manual indentation to get asciidoc
and asciidoctor to display even remotely similar output.
- make use of labelled lists, in some places, to get a similar looking
output to the input, for both asciidoc and asciidoctor.
- replace the trailing space in: `git grep ${SEARCH_TERM} OLDREV `
otherwise the entire line in which that appears is removed from
the output.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both asciidoc and ascidoctor issue warnings about 'list item index:
expected n got n-1' for n=1->9 on lines 13, 15, 17, 20, 23, 25, 29,
31 and 33. In asciidoc, numbered lists must start at one, whereas this
file has a list starting at zero. Also, asciidoc and asciidoctor warn
about 'section title out of sequence: expected level 1, got level 2'
on line 38. (asciidoc only complains about the first instance of this,
while asciidoctor complains about them all, on lines 94, 141, 142,
184, 185, 257, 288, 289, 290, 397, 424, 485, 486 and 487). These
warnings stem from the section titles not being correctly nested within
a document/chapter title.
In order to address the first set of warnings, simply renumber the list
from one to nine, rather than zero to eight. This also requires altering
the text which refers to the section numbers, including other section
titles.
In order to address the second set of warnings, change the section title
syntax from '=== title ===' to '== title ==', effectively reducing the
nesting level of the title by one. Also, some of the titles are given
over multiple lines (they are very long), with an title '===' prefix
on each line. This leads to them being treated as separate sections
with no body text (as you can see from the line numbers given for the
asciidoctor warnings, above). So, for these titles, turn them into a
single (long) line of text.
In addition to the warnings, address some other formatting issues:
- the ascii branch diagrams didn't format correctly on asciidoctor
so include them in a literal block.
- several blocks of text were intended to be formatted 'as is' but
were not included in a literal block.
- in section 8, format the (A)->(D) in the text description as a
literal with `` marks, since (C) is rendered as a copyright
symbol in html otherwise.
- in section 9, a sub-list of two items is not formatted as such.
change the '*' introducer to '**' to correct the sub-list format.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Carry over the fixups from 8c3d7c5f (RelNotes: minor fixups before
2.51.1, 2025-10-15).
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update old-style shell path checks to use the modern test
helpers 'test_path_is_file' and 'test_path_is_dir' for improved
runtime diagnosis.
Signed-off-by: Solly <solobarine@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
From user feedback:
- One user is confused about why `git reset --merge`
(why not just `git reset`?). Handle this by mentioning
`git merge --abort` and `git reset --abort` instead, which have a
more obvious meaning.
- 2 users want to know what "In older versions of Git" means exactly
(in versions older than 1.7.0). Handle this by removing the warning
since it was added 15 years ago (in 3f8fc184c0)
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
From user feedback: this example is confusing because it implies that
`git pull` will run `git merge` by default, but the default is
`--ff-only`.
We could instead show an example of a fast-forward merge, but that may
not add a lot since fast-forward merges are relatively simple. This lets
us keep the description short.
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
From user feedback:
- One user is confused about the current default ("I was convinced that
the git default was still to merge on pull")
- One user is confused about why "git fetch" isn't mentioned earlier
- One user says they always forget what the arguments to `git pull` are
and that it's not immediately obvious that `--no-rebase` means "merge"
- One user wants `--ff-only` to be mentioned
Resolve this by listing the options for integrating the the remote
branch. This should help users figure out at a glance which one they
want to do, and make it clearer that --ff-only is the default.
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano