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Junio C Hamano ca39da6997 Merge branch 'ps/meson-contrib-bits'
Update meson-based build procedure to cover contrib/ and other
places as well.

* ps/meson-contrib-bits:
  ci: exercise credential helpers
  ci: fix propagating UTF-8 test locale in musl-based Meson job
  meson: wire up static analysis via Coccinelle
  meson: wire up git-contacts(1)
  meson: wire up credential helpers
  contrib/credential: fix compilation of "osxkeychain" helper
  contrib/credential: fix compiling "libsecret" helper
  contrib/credential: fix compilation of wincred helper with MSVC
  contrib/credential: fix "netrc" tests with out-of-tree builds
  GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS: propagate project's source directory
2025-03-03 08:53:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 85e342adbd Merge branch 'ms/merge-recursive-string-list-micro-optimization'
Rename processing in the recursive merge backend has seen a micro
optimization.

* ms/merge-recursive-string-list-micro-optimization:
  merge-recursive: optimize time complexity for process_renames
2025-03-03 08:53:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 238c8d3984 Merge branch 'lo/doc-merge-submodule-update'
What happens to submodules during merge has been documented in a
bit more detail.

* lo/doc-merge-submodule-update:
  merge-strategies.adoc: detail submodule merge
2025-03-03 08:53:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano ab09eddf60 Merge branch 'ps/build-meson-fixes-0130'
Assorted fixes and improvements to the build procedure based on
meson.

* ps/build-meson-fixes-0130:
  gitlab-ci: restrict maximum number of link jobs on Windows
  meson: consistently use custom program paths to resolve programs
  meson: fix overwritten `git` variable
  meson: prevent finding sed(1) in a loop
  meson: improve handling of `sane_tool_path` option
  meson: improve PATH handling
  meson: drop separate version library
  meson: stop linking libcurl into all executables
  meson: introduce `libgit_curl` dependency
  meson: simplify use of the common-main library
  meson: inline the static 'git' library
  meson: fix OpenSSL fallback when not explicitly required
  meson: fix exec path with enabled runtime prefix
2025-03-03 08:53:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 1aabec0b48 Merge branch 'dk/test-aggregate-results-paste-fix'
The use of "paste" command for aggregating the test results have
been corrected.

* dk/test-aggregate-results-paste-fix:
  t/aggregate-results: fix paste(1) invocation
2025-03-03 08:53:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano cb0ae672ae A bit more post -rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-27 15:23:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 9f280bea98 Merge branch 'jc/3.0-branches-remotes-update'
Removal of ".git/branches" and ".git/remotes" support in the
BreakingChanges document has been further clarified.

* jc/3.0-branches-remotes-update:
  BreakingChanges: clarify branches/ and remotes/
2025-02-27 15:23:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 68c3be61fc Merge branch 'bc/http-push-auth-netrc-fix'
The netrc support (via the cURL library) for the HTTP transport has
been re-enabled.

* bc/http-push-auth-netrc-fix:
  http: allow using netrc for WebDAV-based HTTP protocol
2025-02-27 15:23:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 16b2e579f9 Merge branch 'rs/clear-commit-marks-optim'
A micro-optimization.

* rs/clear-commit-marks-optim:
  commit: avoid parent list buildup in clear_commit_marks_many()
2025-02-27 15:23:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano c51a0b47c9 Merge branch 'pw/rebase-i-ff-empty-commit'
"git rebase -i" failed to allow rewording an empty commit that has
been fast-forwarded.

* pw/rebase-i-ff-empty-commit:
  rebase -i: reword empty commit after fast-forward
2025-02-27 15:23:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 3c0f4abaf5 Merge branch 'kn/ref-migrate-skip-reflog'
"git refs migrate" can optionally be told not to migrate the reflog.

* kn/ref-migrate-skip-reflog:
  builtin/refs: add '--no-reflog' flag to drop reflogs
2025-02-27 15:23:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 9d8cce051a Merge branch 'ua/os-version-capability'
The value of "uname -s" is by default sent over the wire as a part
of the "version" capability.

* ua/os-version-capability:
  agent: advertise OS name via agent capability
  t5701: add setup test to remove side-effect dependency
  version: extend get_uname_info() to hide system details
  version: refactor get_uname_info()
  version: refactor redact_non_printables()
  version: replace manual ASCII checks with isprint() for clarity
2025-02-27 15:23:00 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 9350423982 gitlab-ci: restrict maximum number of link jobs on Windows
The hosted Windows runners on GitLab.com only have 7.5GB of RAM. Given
that "link.exe" provided by Microsoft Visual Studio is multi-threaded by
itself already and thus quite memory hungry this can quickly lead to
memory starvation, out-of-memory situations and thus failed CI jobs.

Fix the issue by limiting the number of concurrent linker jobs. The same
issue hasn't been observed on GitHub Actions yet, probably because it
got more than twice the amount of RAM with 16GB.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-26 09:09:37 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 2c374ea4bb meson: consistently use custom program paths to resolve programs
The calls to `find_program()` in our documentation don't use our custom
program path. This variable gets populated on Windows with the location
of Git for Windows so that we can use it to provide our build tools.
Consequently, we may not be able to find all necessary binaries on
Windows.

Adapt the calls to use the program path to fix this. While at it, drop
`required: true` arguments, which are the default anyway.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-26 09:09:37 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 3ee3a6eb52 meson: fix overwritten `git` variable
We're assigning the `git` variable in three places:

  - In "meson.build" to store the external Git executable.

  - In "meson.build" to store the compiled Git executable.

  - In "Documentation/meson.build" to store the external Git executable,
    a second time.

The last case is only needed because we overwrite the original variable
with the built version. Rename the variable used for the built Git
executable so that we don't have to resolve the external Git executable
multiple times.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-26 09:09:37 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 16c89dcf80 meson: prevent finding sed(1) in a loop
We're searching for the sed(1) executable in a loop, which will make us
try to find it multiple times. Starting with the preceding commit we
already declare a variable for that program in the top-level build file.
Use it so that we only need to search for the program once.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-26 09:09:36 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 42846efc3b meson: improve handling of `sane_tool_path` option
The `sane_tool_path` option can be used to override the PATH variable
from which the build process, tests and ultimately Git will end up
picking programs from. It is currently lacking though because we only
use it to populate the PATH environment variable for executed scripts
and for the `BROKEN_PATH_FIX` mechanism, but we don't use it to find
programs used in the build process itself.

Fix this issue by treating it similar to the Windows-specific paths,
which will make us use it both to find programs and to populate the PATH
environment variable.

To help with this fix, change the type of the option to be an array of
paths, which makes the handling a bit easier for us. It's also the
correct thing to do as the input indeed is a list of paths.

Furthermore, the option now overrides the default behaviour on Windows,
which si to pick up tools from Git for Windows. This is done so that it
becomes easier to override that default behaviour in case it's not
desired.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-26 09:09:36 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 454d79b61b meson: improve PATH handling
When locating programs required for the build we give some special
treatment to Windows systems so that we know to also look up tools
provided by a Git for Windows installation. This ensures that the build
doesn't have any prerequisites other than Microsoft Visual Studio, Meson
and Git for Windows.

Consequently, some of the programs returned by `find_program()` may not
be found via PATH, but via these extra directories. But while Meson can
use these tools directly without any special treatment, any scripts that
we execute may not be able to find those programs. To help them we thus
prepend the directories of a subset of the found programs to PATH.

This doesn't make much sense though: we don't need to prepend PATH for
any program that was found via PATH, but we really only need to do so
for programs located via the extraneous Windows-specific paths. So
instead of prepending all programs paths, we really only need to prepend
the Windows-specific paths.

Adapt the code accordingly by only prepeding Windows-specific paths to
PATH, which both simplifies the code and clarifies intent.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-26 09:09:36 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt eee25bbd84 meson: drop separate version library
When building `libgit.a` we link it against a `libgit_version.a` library
that contains the version information that we inject at build time. The
intent of this is to avoid rebuilding all of `libgit.a` whenever the
version changes. But that wouldn't happen in the first place, as we know
to just rebuild the files that depend on the generated "version-def.h"
file.

This is an artifact of an earlier version of the Meson build infra that
didn't ultimately land. We didn't yet have "version-def.h", and instead
injected the version via preprocessor directives. And here we would have
rebuilt all of `libgit.a` indeed in case the version changes, because
the preprocessor directive applied to all files.

Stop building the separate library and instead add "version-def.h" to
the list of source files directly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-26 09:09:36 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt f5fac42e07 meson: stop linking libcurl into all executables
We set up libcurl via the `libgit_dependencies` variable, which gets
propagated into every user of the `libgit` dependency. This is not
necessary though, as most of our executables aren't even supposed to
link against libcurl.

Fix this by only propagating include directories as a libgit dependency
and propagating the full curl dependency via `libgit_curl`.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-26 09:09:35 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt dfc88bd647 meson: introduce `libgit_curl` dependency
We've got a set of common source files that we use for those executables
that link against libcurl. The setup is somewhat repetitive though.
Simplify it by declaring a `libgit_curl` dependency that bundles all of
it together.

Note that we don't include curl itself as a dependency. This is because
we already pull it in transitively via the libgit dependency, which is
unfortunate because libgit itself shouldn't actually link against curl
in the first place. This will get fixed in the next commit.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-26 09:09:35 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt ebb35369f1 meson: simplify use of the common-main library
The "common-main.c" file is used by multiple executables. In order to
make it easy to set it up we have created a separate library that these
executables can link against. All of these executables also want to link
against `libgit.a` though, which makes it necessary to specify both of
these as dependencies for every executable.

Simplify this a bit by declaring the library as a source dependency:
instead of creating a static library, we now instead compile the common
set of files into each executable separately.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-26 09:09:35 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt ce9432889c meson: inline the static 'git' library
When setting up `libgit.a` we first create the static library itself,
and then declare it as part of a dependency such that compile arguments,
include directories and transitive dependencies get propagated to the
users of that library. As such, the static library isn't expected to be
used by anything but the declared dependency.

Inline the static library so that we don't even use a separate variable
for it. This avoids any kind of confusion that may arise and clarifies
how the library is supposed to be used.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-26 09:09:35 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 6128301075 meson: fix OpenSSL fallback when not explicitly required
When OpenSSL isn't provided by the system we know to fall back to the
subproject wrapper. This is especially helpful on Windows systems, where
you typically don't have OpenSSL available, in order to reduce the
number of required dependencies.

The fallback is broken though when the OpenSSL backend is set to 'auto'
as we end up calling `dependency('openssl', required: false)` in that
case, which implicitly disables falling back to the wrapper.

Fix the issue by re-allowing the fallback in case either OpenSSL is
required or in case the backend is set to 'auto'. While at it, fix
reporting of the backend in case the user asked us to pick no HTTPS
backend at all.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-26 09:09:35 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt bd262d07b6 meson: fix exec path with enabled runtime prefix
When the runtime prefix option is enabled, Git is built such that it
knows to locate its binaries relative to the directory a binary is being
executed from. This requires us to figure out relative paths, which is
handled in `system_prefix()` by trying to strip a couple of well-known
paths.

One of these paths, GIT_EXEC_PATH, is expected to be absolute when
runtime prefixes are enabled, but relative otherwise. And while our
Makefile gets this correctly, in Meson we always wire up the absolute
path, which may result in us not being able to find binaries.

Fix this by conditionally injecting the paths depending on whether or
not the `runtime_prefix` option is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-26 09:09:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 08bdfd4535 Git 2.49-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-26 08:55:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano e24570b0a3 Merge branch 'jk/check-mailmap-wo-name-fix'
"git check-mailmap" segfault fix.

* jk/check-mailmap-wo-name-fix:
  mailmap: fix check-mailmap with full mailmap line
2025-02-26 08:51:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano bbca240cbf Merge branch 'ek/mingw-rename-symlink'
Symlink renaming fix.

* ek/mingw-rename-symlink:
  compat/mingw: rename the symlink, not the target
2025-02-26 08:50:37 -08:00
Lucas Seiki Oshiro 4ebba56419 merge-strategies.adoc: detail submodule merge
Submodule merges are, in general, similar to other merges based on oid
three-way-merge. When a conflict happens, however, Git has two special
cases (introduced in 68d03e4a6e) on handling the conflict before
yielding it to the user. From the merge-ort and merge-recursive sources:

- "Case #1: a is contained in b or vice versa": both strategies try to
perform a fast-forward in the submodules if the commit referred by the
conflicted submodule is descendant of another;

- "Case #2: There are one or more merges that contain a and b in the
submodule.  If there is only one, then present it as a suggestion to the
user, but leave it marked unmerged so the user needs to confirm the
resolution."

Add a small paragraph on merge-strategies.adoc describing this behavior.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-25 16:06:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 887758c998 BreakingChanges: clarify branches/ and remotes/
As we have created an empty .git/branches/ hierarchy until fairly
recently, these directories may be found in modern repositories, but
it is highly unlikely that they are being used.

Reported-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-25 15:48:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 5a526e5e18 The fourteenth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-25 14:19:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano f65d9cfd3f Merge branch 'po/meson-perl-fix'
Upgrade the minimum Perl version enforced by meson-based build to
match what Makefile-based build uses.

* po/meson-perl-fix:
  meson: fix Perl version check for Meson versions before 1.7.0
  meson: bump minimum required Perl version to 5.26.0
2025-02-25 14:19:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 2ebbe2b2db Merge branch 'ms/rename-match-name-with-pattern'
Code renaming.

* ms/rename-match-name-with-pattern:
  refspec: clarify function naming and documentation
2025-02-25 14:19:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 092180990d Merge branch 'ad/set-default-target-in-makefiles'
Correct the default target in Documentation/Makefile, and
future-proof all Makefiles from similar breakages by declaring the
default target (which happens to be "all") upfront.

* ad/set-default-target-in-makefiles:
  Makefile: set default goals in makefiles
2025-02-25 14:19:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 9b07c152df Merge branch 'pw/merge-tree-stdin-deadlock-fix'
"git merge-tree --stdin" has been improved (including a workaround
for a deadlock).

* pw/merge-tree-stdin-deadlock-fix:
  merge-tree: fix link formatting in html docs
  merge-tree: improve docs for --stdin
  merge-tree: only use basic merge config
  merge-tree: remove redundant code
  merge-tree --stdin: flush stdout to avoid deadlock
2025-02-25 14:19:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 37b34c4e99 Merge branch 'mh/doc-commit-title-not-subject'
The documentation of "git commit" and "git rebase" now refer to
commit titles as such, not "subject".

* mh/doc-commit-title-not-subject:
  doc: use 'title' consistently
2025-02-25 14:19:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano a8a5bb1f78 Merge branch 'bc/diff-reject-empty-arg-to-pickaxe'
The -G/-S options to the "diff" family of commands caused us to hit
a BUG() when they get no values; they have been corrected.

* bc/diff-reject-empty-arg-to-pickaxe:
  diff: don't crash with empty argument to -G or -S
2025-02-25 14:19:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 5ce6e0e242 Merge branch 'tb/new-make-fix'
Workaround the overly picky HT/SP rule in newer GNU Make.

* tb/new-make-fix:
  Makefile: remove accidental recipe prefix in conditional
2025-02-25 14:19:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano f52abcda95 Merge branch 'da/xdiff-w-sign-compare-workaround'
Noises from "-Wsign-compare" in the borrowed xdiff code has been
squelched.

* da/xdiff-w-sign-compare-workaround:
  xdiff: avoid signed vs. unsigned comparisons in xutils.c
  xdiff: avoid signed vs. unsigned comparisons in xpatience.c
  xdiff: avoid signed vs. unsigned comparisons in xhistogram.c
  xdiff: avoid signed vs. unsigned comparisons in xemit.c
  xdiff: avoid signed vs. unsigned comparisons in xdiffi.c
  xdiff: move sign comparison warning guard into each file
2025-02-25 14:19:35 -08:00
D. Ben Knoble ce98863204 t/aggregate-results: fix paste(1) invocation
When running `make test`, when missing prereqs the following is emitted:

    make aggregate-results
    usage: paste [-s] [-d delimiters] file ...
    fixed   1
    success 30066
    failed  0
    broken  218
    total   31274

POSIX says that `paste` requires a file operand; stdin was clearly
intended by 49da404070 (test-lib: show missing prereq summary,
2021-11-20). Use it.

Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-24 12:24:16 -08:00
René Scharfe 1ca727f230 commit: avoid parent list buildup in clear_commit_marks_many()
clear_commit_marks_1() clears the marks of the first parent and its
first parent and so on, and saves the higher numbered parents in a list
for later.  There is no benefit in keeping that list growing with each
handled commit.  Clear it after each run to reduce peak memory usage.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-24 08:51:18 -08:00
brian m. carlson 3306edb380 http: allow using netrc for WebDAV-based HTTP protocol
For an extended period of time, we've enabled libcurl's netrc
functionality, which will read credentials from the netrc file if none
are provided.  Unfortunately, we have also not documented this fact or
written any tests for it, but people have come to rely on it.

In 610cbc1dfb ("http: allow authenticating proactively", 2024-07-10), we
accidentally broke the ability of users to use the netrc file for the
WebDAV-based HTTP protocol.  Notably, it works on the initial request
but does not work on subsequent requests, which causes failures because
that version of the protocol will necessarily make multiple requests.

This happens because curl_empty_auth_enabled never returns -1, only 0 or
1, and so if http.proactiveAuth is not enabled, the username and
password are always set to empty credentials, which prevents libcurl's
fallback to netrc from working.  However, in other cases, the server
continues to get a 401 response and the credential helper is invoked,
which is the normal behavior, so this was not noticed earlier.

To fix this, change the condition to check for enabling empty auth and
also not having proactive auth enabled, which should result in the
username and password not being set to a single colon in the typical
case, and thus the netrc file being used.

Reported-by: Peter Georg <peter.georg@physik.uni-regensburg.de>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-24 08:49:10 -08:00
Jacob Keller bb60c52131 mailmap: fix check-mailmap with full mailmap line
I recently had reported to me a crash from a coworker using the recently
added sendemail mailmap support:

  3724814 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) git check-mailmap "bugs@company.xx"

This appears to happen because of the NULL pointer name passed into
map_user(). Fix this by passing "" instead of NULL so that we have a
valid pointer.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-21 18:27:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 2d2a71ce85 The thirteenth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-21 10:35:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 84a5ce3f03 Merge branch 'ac/doc-http-ssl-type-config'
Two configuration variables about SSL authentication material that
weren't mentioned in the documentations are now mentioned.

* ac/doc-http-ssl-type-config:
  docs: indicate http.sslCertType and sslKeyType
2025-02-21 10:35:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 55b5ba87f1 Merge branch 'en/doc-renormalize'
Doc updates.

* en/doc-renormalize:
  doc: clarify the intent of the renormalize option in the merge machinery
2025-02-21 10:35:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 0fbe93b36c Merge branch 'jc/doc-boolean-synonyms'
Doc updates.

* jc/doc-boolean-synonyms:
  doc: centrally document various ways tospell `true` and `false`
2025-02-21 10:35:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano ee8020ff40 Merge branch 'ua/update-server-info-sans-the-repository'
Code clean-up.

* ua/update-server-info-sans-the-repository:
  builtin/update-server-info: remove the_repository global variable
2025-02-21 10:35:53 -08:00
Eliah Kagan 975fc0471a compat/mingw: rename the symlink, not the target
Since 183ea3ea (Merge branch 'ps/mingw-rename', 2024-11-13),
a new technique is used on Windows to rename files, where supported.
The first step of this technique is to open the file with
`CreateFileW`. At that time, `FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL` was passed as
the value of the `dwFlagsAndAttributes` argument. In b30404df [2], this
was improved by passing `FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS`, to support
directories as well as regular files.

However, neither value of `dwFlagsAndAttributes` is sufficient to open
a symbolic link with the correct semantics to rename it. Symlinks on
Windows are reparse points. Attempting to open a reparse point with
`CreateFileW` dereferences the reparse point and opens the target
instead, unless `FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT` is included in
`dwFlagsAndAttributes`. This is documented for that flag and in the
"Symbolic Link Behavior" section of the `CreateFileW` docs [3].

This produces a regression where attempting to rename a symlink on
Windows renames its target to the intended new name and location of the
symlink. For example, if `symlink` points to `file`, then running

    git mv symlink symlink-renamed

leaves `symlink` in place and unchanged, but renames `file` to
`symlink-renamed` [4].

This regression is detectable by existing tests in `t7001-mv.sh`, but
the tests must be run by a Windows user with the ability to create
symlinks, and the `ln -s` command used to create the initial symlink
must also be able to create a real symlink (such as by setting the
`MSYS` environment variable to `winsymlinks:nativestrict`). Then
these two tests fail if the regression is present, and pass otherwise:

    38 - git mv should overwrite file with a symlink
    39 - check moved symlink

Let's fix this, so that renaming a symlink again renames the symlink
itself and leaves the target unchanged, by passing

    FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS | FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT

as the `dwFlagsAndAttributes` argument. This is sufficient (and safe)
because including `FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT` causes no harm even
when used to open a file or directory that is not a reparse point. In
that case, as noted in [3], this flag is simply ignored.

[1]: 183ea3eabf
[2]: b30404dfc0
[3]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-createfilew
[4]: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5436

Signed-off-by: Eliah Kagan <eliah.kagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-21 10:24:43 -08:00
Karthik Nayak 89be7d2774 builtin/refs: add '--no-reflog' flag to drop reflogs
The "git refs migrate" subcommand converts the backend used for ref
storage. It always migrates reflog data as well as refs. Introduce an
option to exclude reflogs from migration, allowing them to be discarded
when they are unnecessary.

This is particularly useful in server-side repositories, where reflogs
are typically not expected. However, some repositories may still have
them due to historical reasons, such as bugs, misconfigurations, or
administrative decisions to enable reflogs for debugging. In such
repositories, it would be optimal to drop reflogs during the migration.

To address this, introduce the '--no-reflog' flag, which prevents reflog
migration. When this flag is used, reflogs from the original reference
backend are migrated. Since only the new reference backend remains in
the repository, all previous reflogs are permanently discarded.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-21 09:55:02 -08:00