The git rev-list command has been augmented with a '--missing-only'
option that filters the output to only show missing objects,
stripping the leading '?' character and suppressing present objects,
which is useful when used in combination with '--missing=print' or
'--missing=print-info'.
* sa/rev-list-missing-only:
rev-list: add --missing-only option to filter output
"git maintenance" triggered "rerere gc" in unappropriate times and
interfered with "git rebase" etc. too much. The conditions "rerere
gc" gets triggered have been tweaked.
* ps/tune-rerere-gc:
builtin/maintenance: improve heuristic for "rerere gc"
rerere: extract logic to determine whether entries are stale
The autostash fallback in 'git checkout -m' has been refined to only
retry when there are local changes. Additionally, a blank line now
visually separates autostash conflict advice from the subsequent
branch-switch message.
* hn/checkout-m-autostash-refine:
checkout: separate autostash conflict advice from branch-switch message
stash: reserve exit status 1 for conflicts
The 'git imap-send' command has been taught to take the '--draft'
option to mark uploaded messages as drafts, which helps some email
clients render them properly for editing and sending.
* wf/imap-send-draft:
imap-send: add --draft to set IMAP \Draft flag
The development helper script to lint gitlink references in the
documentation has been updated to avoid a newer Perl regular
expression syntax that breaks on older Perl versions.
* ta/lint-gitlink-older-perl-fix:
lint-gitlink: don't use empty lower bound in .{0,8}
The documentation for 'git cherry-pick' has been updated to clarify
that the '--no-commit' option intentionally skips setting the
'CHERRY_PICK_HEAD' ref. A test has also been added to ensure this
behavior holds even when the operation stops for conflicts.
* as/cherry-pick-no-commit-doc:
doc: cherry-pick: note --no-commit skips CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
t3507: check no CHERRY_PICK_HEAD after conflicting --no-commit
The gitdatamodel documentation page has been linked from a handful
of key documentaiton pages.
* kh/doc-datamodel:
doc: datamodel: link to the glossary
doc: glossary: link four of the terms to gitdatamodel(7)
doc: git: link to the gitdatamodel(7) tutorial
doc: git: list gitdatamodel(7) as a concept guide
Fix conjoined bullet items for the maintenance strategies in
git-config(1). Reportedly, asciidoctor renders this document correctly
both before and after this patch. asciidoc renders it correctly only
_after_ this patch.
Signed-off-by: Brigham Campbell <me@brighamcampbell.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'git replay' command has been taught the '--linearize' option to
drop merge commits and linearize the replayed history, mimicking 'git
rebase --no-rebase-merges'.
* tc/replay-linearize:
replay: offer an option to linearize the commit topology
replay: resolve the replay base outside pick_regular_commit()
replay: add helper to put entry into replayed_commits
The regex quantifier {,n} was added in Perl 5.34.0 as a shorthand
for {0,n}. That makes it too new an introduction for Git which
targets Perl 5.26.0.
Even though Documentation/lint-gitlink.perl is a development helper
script, let's stick to the general Perl version requirement for
consistency, and use an explicit zero in .{0,8}.
Signed-off-by: Tuomas Ahola <taahol@utu.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git checkout' and 'git worktree add' makes guesses based on a name
of a remote-tracking branch, but does not give an error when such a
remote-tracking branch cannot be uniquely identified, which has
been corrected.
* yn/worktree-ambiguous-remote-advice:
worktree add: treat multiple matches with --guess-remote as an error
worktree add: improve message for ambiguous remote branch name
checkout: improve message for ambiguous remote branch name
checkout: extract function to display advice for ambiguous remotes
The list of what happens when a change is hard to apply states without
qualification that CHERRY_PICK_HEAD is set. Under --no-commit it is
not: d7e5c0cbfb (Introduce CHERRY_PICK_HEAD, 2011-02-19) skips the ref
on purpose there, presuming the user intends to further edit the
result and possibly pick more commits on top.
The option's own description says nothing about the ref or about
authorship. "git commit" reads the author of a cherry-pick from
CHERRY_PICK_HEAD, so without it a plain commit records you as the
author. Say so where the option is described, and say that this is
the point of the option rather than a wrinkle: what is being built is
the user's own work, not a reproduction of the original commit.
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We linked from the glossary to the data model page in the last commit.
It can also be useful to link the other way for readers who might want
to reference more terminology.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Four of the terms in the glossary are discussed in gitdatamodel(7).
Let’s link to the data model page from the glossary.
The phrasing needs to be tweaked based on what gitdatamodel(7) offers
for each term compared to the glossary, or even other pages (see the
git-reflog(1) mention). For instance, the ref/reference discussion can
be called a “see also” since the glossary here already goes into
detail. On the other hand, gitdatamodel(7) offers more details on
the subject of “the index”.
Let’s also add gitdatamodel(7) to See Also. It is at least as relevant
as the other tutorial pages that are already mentioned.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous commit added the first mention of gitdatamodel(7) here,
under Guides. But there are also other sections where a mention is
relevant.
Let’s mention it:
• under Description, since it is as useful as the other tutorials
already mentioned there for those who are interested;
• under Terminology, since it complements gitglossary(7) as a
pedagogical rather than reference source for the core terms;[1] and
• under See Also, since the other tutorials (plus the user manual) are
mentioned there.
We don’t need to mention it under Further Documentation since we now
mention it under Description.
† 1: See dee80940 (doc: add an explanation of Git's data model,
2025-11-12):
`gitglossary`. This makes a good effort, but it's an
alphabetically ordered dictionary and a dictionary is not a
good way to learn concepts. You have to jump around too much
and it's not possible to present the concepts in the order
that they should be explained.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "rerere-gc" maintenance task is responsible for pruning rerere
entries older than a certain configurable cutoff point. Whether or not
the task gets run during auto-maintenance can be configured via
"maintenance.rerere-gc.auto":
- A negative value indicates that maintenance should always run.
- A zero value indicates that maintenance should never run.
- Otherwise, a positive value indicates that maintenance should always
run in case we have at least a single rerere entry.
While the first two conditions are sensible, the last one is less so as
it does not account for whether we would even prune old entries in the
first place. Instead, it effectively implies that we unconditionally
spawn "git rerere gc" when rerere is enabled. Chances are high though
that there is nothing to prune, as the default cutoff dates are 60 days
for resolved rerere entries and 15 days for unresolved ones.
Besides being a waste of compute, it also obstructs concurrent processes
that want to write new resolutions as garbage collection takes a central
lock file, as reported in [1]. That race is a longstanding one that
existed even before we introduced fine-grained maintenance tasks, and
the proper fix is to use a locking timeout in the writing processes. But
the race is made worse by us performing garbage collection a lot more
often.
Refine the heuristic to take into account whether any entries can be
pruned in the first place. This ensures that we'll only ever run this
task in situations where it will do anything, and should thus result in
a lot less frequent invocations of "git rerere gc".
Furthermore, tweak the meaning of "maintenance.rerere-gc.auto" so that
positive values allow the user to configure the number of prunable
entries that need to exist before we run it and set the default value to
512. This number is pulled out of thin air, but it ensures that we know
to batch-delete entries instead of pruning every single entry that is
older than the cutoff point.
Note that this now requires us to actually open the rerere-entry
directories and stat the individual files in there, which does add a bit
of overhead when one has lots of rerere entries. To counteract this
overhead, we thus use the same sampling heuristic as we do for loose
objects, where we only consider those entries that start with a "17".
[1]: <pull.2214.git.1788337897490.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Thomas Bachem <mail@thomasbachem.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When working with partial clones, callers often need only the missing
object IDs. Today that means post-processing --missing=print to drop
present objects and strip the leading '?':
git rev-list --objects --all --missing=print | perl -ne 'print if s/^[?]//'
This is for a one-shot walk, not a fetch loop. Callers already have
--missing=print and strip the leading '?'. Gitaly does that when packing
a quarantine: '?' lines are objects that must already exist in the main
repo. Tests do the same (is this blob still missing). --missing-only is
just that list without the prefix.
Add --missing-only. Use it with --missing=print or --missing=print-info
to print only missing objects. --missing= still picks the format;
--missing-only only filters. The leading '?' is omitted. With
print-info, path= and type= are still shown.
Require --missing=print or --missing=print-info. Reject --count and
--disk-usage.
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git stash apply", "pop" and "branch" exit with status 1 both when
applying the stash entry resulted in conflicts and when they fail for
other reasons, so callers cannot tell the two apart.
Follow the convention of "git merge-tree" and the merge strategies,
which exit with status 1 to indicate conflicts and with a different
non-zero status for errors: those subcommands now exit with status 1
only when applying the stash entry resulted in conflicts, in which
case the stash entry is left in place, and exit with status 128, the
status die() uses, when they fail for other reasons. Document the
exit statuses.
The only subcommand implementations that can return a positive value
are "apply", "pop" and "branch", which return the value of
do_apply_stash(): "apply" returns it directly, and "pop" and "branch"
drop the stash entry, via do_drop_stash(), which always returns 0,
only when the application succeeded. do_apply_stash() only returns a
positive value when the three-way merge was unclean. cmd_stash() now
maps negative values to 128 and passes positive values through as the
exit status, so exit status 1 unambiguously indicates conflicts.
enum stash_apply_result makes the convention explicit, and the
autostash helpers use it to tell users that their stashed changes
were saved when applying them fails.
Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The global variable 'fetch_if_missing' has been moved to a member in
'struct repository', continuing the libification process and
allowing per-repository control (such as for submodules).
* ty/repository-fetch-if-missing:
repository: move fetch_if_missing into struct repository
The documented purpose of imap-send is to upload draft emails for sending
later, but it did not have any way to mark the messages as \Draft, so some
email clients presented the result as an un-editable, un-sendable email
even if it happened to be in a "Drafts" folder.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Faust <contrib-git@wolfgangfaust.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of the stated goals of git-replay(1) is to allow implementing the
git-rebase(1) functionality on the server side.
The default mode of git-rebase(1) is to act as if `--no-rebase-merges`
was given. This mode drops merge commits instead of replaying them, and
linearizes the history into a sequence of regular (single-parent)
commits.
Add option `--linearize` to git-replay(1) to do the same. Each replayed
commit is stacked on top of the previously replayed one. When a merge is
encountered, the commits reachable from all of its sides are replayed
into the single line and the merge itself is dropped.
If a ref was pointing to a merge commit, that ref is updated to the
merge's last replayed ancestor.
git-replay(1) accepts multiple branches, for example:
$ git replay --onto main topic1 topic2
Without `--linearize` this replays 'topic1' and 'topic2' onto 'main'
(keeping shared portions of history shared and divergent parts
divergent) and updates both refs.
Due to current implementation limitations, replaying multiple branches
with `--linearize` is disallowed to avoid concatenating unrelated
histories into a single line. For the same reason disallow the use of
`--contained` with `--linearize`.
Users who want to linearize multiple branches are advised to do this in
separate git-replay(1) invocations. Linearizing multiple branches at
once might be added later.
Note that `--linearize` is not modeled after git-rebase(1)'s
`--rebase-merges[=<mode>]` interface. Recreating merges, by preserving
their topology, is a distinct operation that would be a separate mode.
`--linearize` only drops merges and replays commits linearly. So
git-replay(1) uses its own option rather than reusing that interface.
Based-on-patches-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The threshold for geometric repacking to trigger based on loose
object count has been adjusted to match that of 'git gc --auto',
preventing over-aggressive repacking during concurrent writes.
* ps/odb-geometric-repack-loose-threshold:
odb/files: be less aggressive with geometric repacking
The trailer parsing machinery has been updated to avoid mistaking
lines that begin with a URL (e.g., 'https://...') as trailer lines.
This prevents intended textual URLs from being mangled or mistakenly
treated as metadata keys.
* kh/trailers-no-urls:
trailers: stop recognizing URLs as trailers
The documentation for 'git format-rev' has been updated to use the
[synopsis] block definition on code blocks to properly highlight
placeholders, and a quoting inconsistency in the running text has
been fixed.
* kh/format-rev-doc-synopsis:
doc: format-rev: use [synopsis] on code block
doc: format-rev: quote subject placeholder before and after
When 'git worktree add <path>' is invoked without <commit-ish> and
with the --guess-remote option (or when worktree.guessRemote is set to
true), it tries to find a remote-tracking branch matching the basename
of <path>.
Currently, the behavior when multiple matches are found is the same as
when no match is found: it falls back to creating a branch from
HEAD. This has been the behavior since 71d6682d8c (worktree: add
--guess-remote option to add subcommand, 2017-11-29), when the option
was first introduced.
However, if the specified <path> matches any remote-tracking branch,
we infer that the user intended to use one of the remote-tracking
branches as the start-point rather than HEAD. So we abort the creation
of the branch and worktree when there are multiple matches, and
instruct the user to choose the start-point.
Signed-off-by: Yoichi NAKAYAMA <yoichi.nakayama@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git repack' has been taught '--drop-filtered' to delete local
promisor blobs exceeding a limit (currently 'blob:limit=') in partial
clones, reclaiming space. Guards prevent running during other
operations or if referenced by the index.
* ss/repack-drop-filtered:
builtin/repack: add guards for --drop-filtered
builtin/repack: actually drop filtered promisor blobs
builtin/repack: enumerate promisor blobs for --drop-filtered
repack-promisor: allow excluding objects from the rebuilt promisor pack
list-objects-filter: add list_objects_filter__filter_oidset()
builtin/repack: add --drop-filtered and --dry-run options
The merge-base computation has been optimized by stopping the walk
early when one side's exclusive commits in the queue are exhausted,
yielding significant speedups for queries with one-sided histories.
* kk/merge-base-exhaustion:
commit-reach: remove commit-date ordering fallback
commit-reach: move min_generation check into paint_queue_get()
commit-reach: terminate merge-base walk when one paint side is exhausted
commit-reach: introduce struct paint_state with per-side counters
t6600: add clock-skew topologies and step counts for edge cases
commit-reach: add trace2 instrumentation to paint_down_to_common()
t6099: add side-exhaustion regression test
t6600: add test cases for side-exhaustion edge cases
test-lib-functions: improve diagnostic output for trace2 data assertions
Documentation/technical: add paint-down-to-common doc
The usage string of 'git fast-import' has been updated to use the
parse_options() API for displaying help, and its SYNOPSIS in the
documentation has been standardized to match.
* cc/fast-import-usage:
fast-import: remove useless from_stream argument
fast-import: use parse_options() for command line options
fast-import: use callbacks to parse some options
fast-import: use struct option for usage string
fast-import: move command state globals into 'struct fast_import_state'
fast-import: introduce 'struct fast_import_state'
fast-import: factor out option_*() functions
fast-import: use int for some bool flags
fast-import: localize 'i' into the 'for' loops using it
api-parse-options.adoc: document hidden and OPT_*_F option macros
api-parse-options.adoc: document per-option flags
parse-options: introduce OPT_HIDDEN_GROUP
The 'remote-object-info' command for 'git cat-file --batch-command'
has been extended to support the '%(objecttype)' placeholder.
* ps/cat-file-remote-object-info-type:
cat-file: unify default format
serve: advertise type capability
fetch-object-info: parse type from server response
protocol-caps: add type support to object-info
transport: drop remote object-info fields from transport struct
fetch-object-info: die() on the remaining error path
fetch-object-info: use dedicated struct for the results
fetch-object-info: pass arguments directly instead of a struct
fetch-object-info: detect malformed server responses
t5701: use test_file_size() to get the size of a file
When performing auto-maintenance with geometric repacking we have two
conditions that may trigger a repack:
- Either the geometric sequence of packfiles is invalidated.
- Or we have too many loose objects.
The first condition shouldn't trigger all that often: it may be hit when
we fetch a new packfile, but users tend to not do that all the time. The
second condition is what typically triggers more regularly though, as
every command that ends up writing new objects may cause us to cross the
threshold of loose objects. It is thus preferable to not be too
aggressive here, as otherwise we may end up repacking objects quite
often.
For the geometric-repacking strategy though we have a default of 100
objects, only. As we're approximating the count of objects by only
reading the "objects/17/" shared, we'd only need 2 objects in there
before we perform a repack by default, which is quite aggressive.
git-gc(1) on the other hand has a default of 6700, so it is quite a bit
more conservative here.
Being this aggressive is also causing problems as reported by our users.
When running lots of concurrent writers, those writes will constantly
end up spawning maintenance jobs that end up repacking objects. As we
also prune objects, a concurrently running process that tries to write
an object may see that the sharding directories get removed under their
feet. While we try re-creating such leading directories, we only do so a
single time, and it may happen that the directory vanishes again before
we had the chance to create the loose object. This is not a new problem,
but it is exacerbated by us running maintenance this aggressively.
Improve the status quo by reducing the frequency at which we pack loose
objects to the same frequency that git-gc(1) uses.
Reported-by: Stefan Haller <lists@haller-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An HTTPS URL starts with an alphanumeric scheme followed by a colon.
That means that they will be recognized as trailers in a trailer block.
That turns out to be a problem in practice. Let’s stop recognizing these
as trailers by failing the trailer parsing when we:
1. find the separator;
2. the separator and the next two characters form `://`; and
3. we haven’t parsed any whitespace yet.
The simplest example of how this can be a problem is for people who do
not use trailers but may leave URLs at the end of the commit message.
Now, while these authors might not use trailers themselves, other
authors may have used trailers and this metadata confusion can become a
problem once someone tries to extract that metadata (and non-metadata).
Let’s now look at some examples in the Linux Kernel[1] to see how this
is a problem in practice.
There are commits which contain intended non-trailer lines which start
with URLs. These are comments. Example with just the trailers:[2]
Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
[bhelgaas: squash fixes:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260108013956.14351-2-bagasdotme@gmail.comhttps://lore.kernel.org/r/20260108013956.14351-3-bagasdotme@gmail.com]
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251210132907.58799-4-xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com
Those `[]` pairs delimit the “squash fixes” comment.
Now, any of these two commands:
git log --format='%(trailers:only)' -1 <commit>
git log -1 --format=%B <commit> |
git interpret-trailers --only-trailers
Will both wrongly (according to the surmised user intent) include these
two URL lines as trailers and also mangle the URLs, e.g.:
https: //lore.kernel.org/r/20260108013956.14351-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Because the `--only-trailers` mode (or `only` for the git-log(1) format)
normalizes the output to a colon and a space.
Another example is linewrapping mistakes; a `Link` trailer with a
URL where the URL ended up on the next line, presumably because the
user’s editor linewrapped the “too long” line. Example with just the
trailers:[3]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216-work-xattr-socket-v1-4-c2efa4f74cb7@kernel.org
Link:
https://lore.kernel.org/3cnmtqmakpbb2uwhenrj7kdqu3uefykiykjllgfbtpkiwhaa4s@sghkevv7jned [1]
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Now, this intended trailer is already ruined, but interpreting the URL
as a standalone trailer only compounds the mistake.
Yet another example is the trailer machinery normalizing the trailer
block before application, resulting in a `https` trailer key in the
commit message itself. Example with just the trailers:[4]
https: //sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260429114208.941011-1-holger.brunck%40hitachienergy.com
Fixes: c19b6d246a35 ("drivers/net: support hdlc function for QE-UCC")
Signed-off-by: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck@hitachienergy.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507155332.3452319-1-holger.brunck@hitachienergy.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
We have a helpful `Link` that points to the original patch.[5] Following
it we can see that that `https` trailer was indeed a URL
originally (again just the trailer block here):
https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260429114208.941011-1-holger.brunck%40hitachienergy.com
Fixes: c19b6d246a35 ("drivers/net: support hdlc function for QE-UCC")
Signed-off-by: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck@hitachienergy.com>
So how did it end up as a `https` trailer? My theory is that the trailer
block was normalized on patch application, causing a URL comment to be
wrongly normalized and cemented in the commit message as a trailer.[6]
† 1: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/
† 2: commit 8236fc613d44e59f6736d6c3e9efffaf26ab7f00
† 3: commit 5bd97f5c5f241a5610c4412d1b93995a26241f81
† 4: commit 496c0c4c53bbe1bad97e82cd12103df61a6e459d
† 5: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507155332.3452319-1-holger.brunck@hitachienergy.com
† 6: There are only four commits in the Linux Kernel of this kind, and
three of them have the same recurring person in the signoff chain.
***
Note that this check has some benign false positives. A trailer key
can start with a digit, but a URL scheme can not start with a digit.
That means that a line that starts with `1://` will be rejected even
though it cannot be a URL. I don’t think this will reject any real
trailers, so I think the implementation simplicity is worth it.
And these false positives are just for a limited start fragment check;
a mere heuristic, not a URL parser.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation for 'git interpret-trailers' has been updated to explain
the format of trailer keys (alphanumeric characters and hyphens),
replace outdated terminology, define key terms upfront, and document
how comment lines in the input are treated.
* kh/doc-trailers:
doc: interpret-trailers: document comment line treatment
doc: interpret-trailers: rewrite new-trailers paragraphs
doc: interpret-trailers: commit to “trailer block” term
doc: interpret-trailers: join new-trailers again
doc: interpret-trailers: add key format example
doc: interpret-trailers: explain key format
doc: interpret-trailers: explain the format after the intro
doc: interpret-trailers: not just for commit messages
doc: interpret-trailers: use “metadata” in Name as well
doc: interpret-trailers: replace “lines” with “metadata”
doc: interpret-trailers: stop fixating on RFC 822
The 'git branch' command has been taught the '--delete-merged' option
to remove local branches that are already merged into their tracked
remote-tracking branches.
* hn/branch-delete-merged:
branch: add --dry-run for --delete-merged
branch: add branch.<name>.deleteMerged opt-out
branch: add --delete-merged <pattern>
branch: prepare delete_branches for a bulk caller
branch: let delete_branches skip unmerged branches on bulk refusal
branch: convert delete_branches() to a flags argument
branch: add --forked filter for --list mode
Junio C Hamano