Go to file
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 8d12851342 grep/pcre2: actually make pcre2 use custom allocator
Continue work started in 513f2b0bbd (grep: make PCRE2 aware of custom
allocator, 2019-10-16) and make PCREv2 use our pcre2_{malloc,free}().
functions for allocation. We'll now use it for all PCREv2 allocations.

The reason 513f2b0bbd worked as a bugfix for the USE_NED_ALLOCATOR
issue is because it targeted the allocation freed via free(), as
opposed to by a pcre2_*free() function. I.e. the pcre2_maketables()
and pcre2_maketables_free() pair.

For most of the rest we continued allocating with stock malloc()
inside PCREv2 itself, but didn't segfault because we'd use its
corresponding free().

In a preceding commit of mine I changed the free() to
pcre2_maketables_free() on versions of PCREv2 10.34 and newer. So as
far as fixing the segfault goes we could revert 513f2b0bbd. But then
we wouldn't use the desired allocator, let's just use it instead.

Before this patch we'd on e.g.:

    grep --threads=1 -iP æ.*var.*xyz

Only use pcre2_{malloc,free}() for 2 malloc() calls and 2
corresponding free() calls. Now it's 12 calls to each. This can be
observed with the GREP_PCRE2_DEBUG_MALLOC debug mode.

Reading the history of how this bug got introduced it wasn't present
in Johannes's original patch[1] to fix the issue.

My reading of that thread is that the approach the follow-up patches
to Johannes's original pursued were based on misunderstanding of how
the PCREv2 API works. In particular this part of [2]:

    "most of the time (like when using UTF-8) the chartable (and
    therefore the global context) is not needed (even when using
    alternate allocators)"

That's simply not how PCREv2 memory allocation works. It's easy to see
how the misunderstanding came about. It's because (as noted above) the
issue was noticed because of our use of free() in our own grep.c for
freeing the memory allocated by pcre2_maketables().

Thus the misunderstanding that PCREv2's compile context is something
only needed for pcre2_maketables(), and e.g. an aborted earlier
attempt[3] to only set it up when we ourselves called
pcre2_maketables().

That's not what PCREv2's compile context is. To quote PCREv2's
documentation:

    "This context just contains pointers to (and data for) external
    memory management functions that are called from several places in
    the PCRE2 library."

Thus the failed attempts to go down the route of only creating the
general context in cases where we ourselves call pcre2_maketables(),
before finally settling on the approach 513f2b0bbd took of always
creating it, but then mostly not using it.

Instead we should always create it, and then pass the general context
to those functions that accept it, so that they'll consistently use
our preferred memory allocation functions.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/3397e6797f872aedd18c6d795f4976e1c579514b.1565005867.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPUEsphMh_ZqcH3M7PXC9jHTfEdQN3mhTAK2JDkdvKBp53YBoA@mail.gmail.com/
3. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20190806085014.47776-3-carenas@gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-17 16:32:19 -08:00
.github Merge branch 'tb/ci-run-cocci-with-18.04' into maint 2021-02-11 13:57:36 -08:00
Documentation The eighth batch 2021-02-12 14:21:04 -08:00
block-sha1
builtin Merge branch 'tb/precompose-prefix-too' 2021-02-12 14:21:04 -08:00
ci Merge branch 'tb/pack-revindex-on-disk' 2021-02-12 14:21:04 -08:00
compat MacOS: precompose_argv_prefix() 2021-02-03 14:09:37 -08:00
contrib Merge branch 'jk/complete-branch-force-delete' 2021-02-12 14:21:04 -08:00
ewah bitmap: implement bitmap_is_subset() 2020-12-08 14:48:16 -08:00
git-gui Merge https://github.com/prati0100/git-gui 2020-12-18 15:07:10 -08:00
gitk-git
gitweb gitweb/Makefile: conditionally include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE 2020-12-08 16:56:56 -08:00
mergetools
negotiator
perl
po tests: remove support for GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON 2021-01-21 15:50:01 -08:00
ppc
refs refs/files-backend: don't peek into `struct lock_file` 2021-01-06 13:53:32 -08:00
sha1collisiondetection@855827c583
sha1dc
sha256
t Merge branch 'tb/precompose-prefix-too' 2021-02-12 14:21:04 -08:00
templates
trace2
vcs-svn
xdiff
.cirrus.yml
.clang-format
.editorconfig
.gitattributes CoC: explicitly take any whitespace breakage 2021-01-04 09:44:49 -08:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'fc/random-cleanup' 2020-12-08 15:11:21 -08:00
.gitmodules
.mailmap
.travis.yml ci: remove GETTEXT_POISON jobs 2021-01-21 15:50:00 -08:00
.tsan-suppressions
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md CoC: update to version 2.0 + local changes 2021-01-13 17:45:04 -08:00
COPYING
GIT-VERSION-GEN Git 2.30.1 2021-02-08 14:05:55 -08:00
INSTALL doc: mention Python 3.x supports 2020-12-14 15:01:03 -08:00
LGPL-2.1
Makefile Merge branch 'ab/grep-pcre-invalid-utf8' 2021-02-10 14:48:33 -08:00
README.md
RelNotes Prepare for 2.30.1 2021-02-05 16:31:28 -08:00
abspath.c abspath: add a function to resolve paths with missing components 2020-12-12 23:35:47 -08:00
aclocal.m4
add-interactive.c Merge branch 'js/add-i-color-fix' 2020-12-08 15:11:17 -08:00
add-interactive.h
add-patch.c Merge branch 'js/add-i-color-fix' 2020-12-08 15:11:17 -08:00
advice.c
advice.h
alias.c
alias.h
alloc.c
alloc.h
apply.c Merge branch 'ab/unreachable-break' 2020-12-18 15:15:18 -08:00
apply.h
archive-tar.c
archive-zip.c
archive.c Merge branch 'rs/archive-plug-leak-refname' 2020-11-25 15:24:53 -08:00
archive.h Merge branch 'rs/archive-plug-leak-refname' 2020-11-25 15:24:53 -08:00
attr.c
attr.h
banned.h banned.h: mark ctime_r() and asctime_r() as banned 2020-12-02 14:30:39 -08:00
base85.c
bisect.c hash-lookup: rename from sha1-lookup 2021-01-04 13:01:55 -08:00
bisect.h
blame.c
blame.h
blob.c
blob.h
bloom.c
bloom.h
branch.c
branch.h
builtin.h
bulk-checkin.c
bulk-checkin.h
bundle.c bundle: arguments can be read from stdin 2021-01-11 21:50:41 -08:00
bundle.h
cache-tree.c cache-tree: extract subtree_pos() 2021-01-23 17:14:07 -08:00
cache-tree.h cache-tree: extract subtree_pos() 2021-01-23 17:14:07 -08:00
cache.h Merge branch 'ds/more-index-cleanups' 2021-02-10 14:48:33 -08:00
chdir-notify.c
chdir-notify.h
check-builtins.sh
check_bindir
checkout.c
checkout.h
color.c
color.h
column.c
column.h
combine-diff.c
command-list.txt mailmap doc: create a new "gitmailmap(5)" man page 2021-01-12 14:04:39 -08:00
commit-graph.c Merge branch 'jk/use-oid-pos' 2021-02-10 14:48:31 -08:00
commit-graph.h
commit-reach.c
commit-reach.h
commit-slab-decl.h
commit-slab-impl.h
commit-slab.h
commit.c oid_pos(): access table through const pointers 2021-01-28 12:03:26 -08:00
commit.h commit_graft_pos(): take an oid instead of a bare hash 2021-01-28 11:21:07 -08:00
common-main.c
config.c Merge branch 'ab/detox-gettext-tests' 2021-02-10 14:48:33 -08:00
config.h Merge branch 'ps/config-env-pairs' 2021-01-25 14:19:19 -08:00
config.mak.dev
config.mak.in
config.mak.uname config.mak.uname: remove redundant NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT flag 2021-01-23 21:15:12 -08:00
configure.ac Remove support for v1 of the PCRE library 2021-01-23 21:15:43 -08:00
connect.c Merge branch 'jk/forbid-lf-in-git-url' into maint 2021-02-05 16:31:27 -08:00
connect.h
connected.c
connected.h
convert.c
convert.h
copy.c
credential.c
credential.h
csum-file.c
csum-file.h
ctype.c
daemon.c
date.c
decorate.c
decorate.h
delta-islands.c
delta-islands.h
delta.h
detect-compiler
diff-delta.c
diff-lib.c Merge branch 'rs/plug-diff-cache-leak' 2020-11-25 15:24:53 -08:00
diff-merges.c diff-merges: add '--diff-merges=1' as synonym for 'first-parent' 2020-12-21 13:47:32 -08:00
diff-merges.h diff-merges: get rid of now empty diff_merges_init_revs() 2020-12-21 13:47:31 -08:00
diff-no-index.c
diff.c Merge branch 'sj/untracked-files-in-submodule-directory-is-not-dirty' 2021-01-25 14:19:18 -08:00
diff.h Merge branch 'sj/untracked-files-in-submodule-directory-is-not-dirty' 2021-01-25 14:19:18 -08:00
diffcore-break.c
diffcore-delta.c
diffcore-order.c
diffcore-pickaxe.c
diffcore-rename.c merge-ort: begin performance work; instrument with trace2_region_* calls 2021-01-23 23:30:06 -08:00
diffcore.h
dir-iterator.c
dir-iterator.h
dir.c sparse-checkout: load sparse-checkout patterns 2021-01-23 17:14:07 -08:00
dir.h sparse-checkout: load sparse-checkout patterns 2021-01-23 17:14:07 -08:00
editor.c
entry.c
environment.c config: allow specifying config entries via envvar pairs 2021-01-15 13:03:45 -08:00
environment.h environment: make `getenv_safe()` a public function 2021-01-15 13:03:45 -08:00
exec-cmd.c
exec-cmd.h
fetch-negotiator.c
fetch-negotiator.h
fetch-pack.c fetch-pack: refactor writing promisor file 2021-01-12 16:01:07 -08:00
fetch-pack.h
fmt-merge-msg.c Merge branch 'so/log-diff-merge' 2021-02-05 16:40:44 -08:00
fmt-merge-msg.h
fsck.c Merge branch 'jk/forbid-lf-in-git-url' into maint 2021-02-05 16:31:27 -08:00
fsck.h fsck: make fsck_config() re-usable 2021-01-05 14:58:29 -08:00
fsmonitor.c fsmonitor: de-duplicate BUG()s around dirty bits 2021-01-23 17:14:07 -08:00
fsmonitor.h
fuzz-commit-graph.c
fuzz-pack-headers.c
fuzz-pack-idx.c
generate-cmdlist.sh
generate-configlist.sh
gettext.c Merge branch 'ab/detox-gettext-tests' 2021-02-10 14:48:33 -08:00
gettext.h tests: remove support for GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON 2021-01-21 15:50:01 -08:00
git-add--interactive.perl Merge branch 'js/add-i-color-fix' 2020-12-08 15:11:17 -08:00
git-archimport.perl
git-bisect.sh
git-compat-util.h Merge branch 'tb/precompose-prefix-too' 2021-02-12 14:21:04 -08:00
git-cvsexportcommit.perl
git-cvsimport.perl
git-cvsserver.perl
git-difftool--helper.sh
git-filter-branch.sh
git-instaweb.sh
git-merge-octopus.sh
git-merge-one-file.sh
git-merge-resolve.sh
git-mergetool--lib.sh Merge branch 'pb/mergetool-tool-help-fix' into maint 2021-02-05 16:31:24 -08:00
git-mergetool.sh
git-p4.py Merge branch 'dl/p4-encode-after-kw-expansion' into maint 2021-02-08 14:05:54 -08:00
git-quiltimport.sh
git-rebase--preserve-merges.sh
git-request-pull.sh
git-send-email.perl
git-sh-i18n.sh tests: remove support for GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON 2021-01-21 15:50:01 -08:00
git-sh-setup.sh
git-submodule.sh
git-svn.perl
git-web--browse.sh
git.c Merge branch 'tb/precompose-prefix-too' 2021-02-12 14:21:04 -08:00
git.rc
gpg-interface.c
gpg-interface.h
graph.c
graph.h
grep.c grep/pcre2: actually make pcre2 use custom allocator 2021-02-17 16:32:19 -08:00
grep.h grep/pcre2: use pcre2_maketables_free() function 2021-02-17 16:32:19 -08:00
hash-lookup.c oid_pos(): access table through const pointers 2021-01-28 12:03:26 -08:00
hash-lookup.h oid_pos(): access table through const pointers 2021-01-28 12:03:26 -08:00
hash.h cache.h: move hash/oid functions to hash.h 2020-12-04 13:55:14 -08:00
hashmap.c
hashmap.h
help.c
help.h
hex.c
http-backend.c
http-fetch.c
http-push.c
http-walker.c
http.c
http.h
ident.c
imap-send.c imap-send: parse default git config 2020-12-01 11:10:59 -08:00
iterator.h
json-writer.c
json-writer.h
khash.h
kwset.c
kwset.h
levenshtein.c
levenshtein.h
line-log.c
line-log.h
line-range.c
line-range.h
linear-assignment.c
linear-assignment.h
list-objects-filter-options.c
list-objects-filter-options.h
list-objects-filter.c object-name.c: rename from sha1-name.c 2021-01-04 13:01:55 -08:00
list-objects-filter.h
list-objects.c
list-objects.h
list.h
ll-merge.c
ll-merge.h
lockfile.c
lockfile.h
log-tree.c Merge branch 'so/log-diff-merge' 2021-02-05 16:40:44 -08:00
log-tree.h
ls-refs.c Merge branch 'tb/ls-refs-optim' 2021-02-05 16:40:45 -08:00
ls-refs.h
mailinfo.c
mailinfo.h
mailmap.c shortlog: remove unused(?) "repo-abbrev" feature 2021-01-12 14:04:42 -08:00
mailmap.h shortlog: remove unused(?) "repo-abbrev" feature 2021-01-12 14:04:42 -08:00
match-trees.c
mem-pool.c
mem-pool.h
merge-blobs.c
merge-blobs.h
merge-ort-wrappers.c
merge-ort-wrappers.h
merge-ort.c Merge branch 'en/ort-directory-rename' 2021-02-11 13:58:43 -08:00
merge-ort.h merge-ort: implement merge_incore_recursive() 2020-12-16 21:56:39 -08:00
merge-recursive.c commit: move reverse_commit_list() from merge-recursive 2020-12-16 21:56:39 -08:00
merge-recursive.h
merge.c
mergesort.c
mergesort.h
midx.c Merge branch 'ma/more-opaque-lock-file' 2021-01-25 14:19:17 -08:00
midx.h
name-hash.c name-hash: use trace2 regions for init 2021-01-23 17:14:07 -08:00
notes-cache.c
notes-cache.h
notes-merge.c
notes-merge.h
notes-utils.c
notes-utils.h
notes.c Merge branch 'na/notes-displayref-is-not-boolean' 2020-11-30 14:49:44 -08:00
notes.h
object-file.c hash-lookup: rename from sha1-lookup 2021-01-04 13:01:55 -08:00
object-name.c object-name.c: rename from sha1-name.c 2021-01-04 13:01:55 -08:00
object-store.h packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files 2021-01-25 18:32:43 -08:00
object.c bundle: lost objects when removing duplicate pendings 2021-01-11 21:50:41 -08:00
object.h
oid-array.c oid_pos(): access table through const pointers 2021-01-28 12:03:26 -08:00
oid-array.h oid-array: provide a for-loop iterator 2020-12-07 12:32:04 -08:00
oidmap.c
oidmap.h
oidset.c
oidset.h
pack-bitmap-write.c oid_pos(): access table through const pointers 2021-01-28 12:03:26 -08:00
pack-bitmap.c rebuild_existing_bitmaps(): convert to new revindex API 2021-01-13 21:53:46 -08:00
pack-bitmap.h pack-bitmap: factor out 'bitmap_for_commit()' 2020-12-08 14:49:04 -08:00
pack-check.c
pack-objects.c
pack-objects.h
pack-revindex.c pack-revindex: ensure that on-disk reverse indexes are given precedence 2021-01-25 18:32:44 -08:00
pack-revindex.h pack-revindex: ensure that on-disk reverse indexes are given precedence 2021-01-25 18:32:44 -08:00
pack-write.c pack-write.c: prepare to write 'pack-*.rev' files 2021-01-25 18:32:43 -08:00
pack.h pack-write.c: prepare to write 'pack-*.rev' files 2021-01-25 18:32:43 -08:00
packfile.c packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files 2021-01-25 18:32:43 -08:00
packfile.h packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files 2021-01-25 18:32:43 -08:00
pager.c
parse-options-cb.c
parse-options.c MacOS: precompose_argv_prefix() 2021-02-03 14:09:37 -08:00
parse-options.h parse-options: format argh like error messages 2021-01-06 15:10:27 -08:00
patch-delta.c
patch-ids.c Merge branch 'jk/log-cherry-pick-duplicate-patches' into maint 2021-02-05 16:31:28 -08:00
patch-ids.h patch-ids: handle duplicate hashmap entries 2021-01-12 11:13:32 -08:00
path.c
path.h
pathspec.c
pathspec.h
pkt-line.c
pkt-line.h
preload-index.c
pretty.c pretty: lazy-load commit data when expanding user-format 2021-01-28 14:07:35 -08:00
pretty.h
prio-queue.c
prio-queue.h
progress.c
progress.h
promisor-remote.c
promisor-remote.h
prompt.c
prompt.h
protocol.c
protocol.h
prune-packed.c
prune-packed.h
quote.c quote: make sq_dequote_step() a public function 2021-01-12 12:03:18 -08:00
quote.h quote: make sq_dequote_step() a public function 2021-01-12 12:03:18 -08:00
range-diff.c
range-diff.h
reachable.c
reachable.h
read-cache.c read-cache: try not to peek into `struct {lock_,temp}file` 2021-01-06 13:53:32 -08:00
rebase-interactive.c
rebase-interactive.h
rebase.c
rebase.h
ref-filter.c Merge branch 'tb/ls-refs-optim' 2021-02-05 16:40:45 -08:00
ref-filter.h branch: sort detached HEAD based on a flag 2021-01-07 15:13:21 -08:00
reflog-walk.c
reflog-walk.h
refs.c Merge branch 'tb/ls-refs-optim' 2021-02-05 16:40:45 -08:00
refs.h Merge branch 'tb/ls-refs-optim' 2021-02-05 16:40:45 -08:00
refspec.c Merge branch 'fc/atmark-in-refspec' 2020-12-14 10:21:36 -08:00
refspec.h
remote-curl.c
remote.c Merge branch 'nk/refspecs-negative-fix' 2020-12-23 13:59:46 -08:00
remote.h fetch: extract writing to FETCH_HEAD 2021-01-12 12:06:14 -08:00
replace-object.c
replace-object.h
repo-settings.c
repository.c repository: add repo reference to index_state 2021-01-23 17:14:07 -08:00
repository.h
rerere.c rerere: use strmap to store rerere directories 2021-01-28 11:26:20 -08:00
rerere.h
reset.c
reset.h
resolve-undo.c
resolve-undo.h
revision.c Merge branch 'ab/lose-grep-debug' 2021-02-10 14:48:31 -08:00
revision.h Merge branch 'so/log-diff-merge' 2021-02-05 16:40:44 -08:00
run-command.c
run-command.h run-command: document use_shell option 2021-01-22 14:21:32 -08:00
send-pack.c Merge branch 'js/trace2-session-id' 2020-12-08 15:11:20 -08:00
send-pack.h
sequencer.c Merge branch 'ds/more-index-cleanups' 2021-02-10 14:48:33 -08:00
sequencer.h
serve.c
serve.h
server-info.c
setup.c
sh-i18n--envsubst.c
sha1dc_git.c
sha1dc_git.h
shallow.c commit_graft_pos(): take an oid instead of a bare hash 2021-01-28 11:21:07 -08:00
shallow.h
shell.c
shortlog.h shortlog: remove unused(?) "repo-abbrev" feature 2021-01-12 14:04:42 -08:00
sideband.c
sideband.h
sigchain.c
sigchain.h
split-index.c
split-index.h
stable-qsort.c
strbuf.c
strbuf.h
streaming.c
streaming.h
string-list.c
string-list.h
strmap.c
strmap.h strmap: make callers of strmap_remove() to call it in void context 2020-12-15 15:30:44 -08:00
strvec.c
strvec.h
sub-process.c
sub-process.h
submodule-config.c
submodule-config.h
submodule.c Merge branch 'sj/untracked-files-in-submodule-directory-is-not-dirty' 2021-01-25 14:19:18 -08:00
submodule.h
symlinks.c
tag.c
tag.h
tar.h
tempfile.c
tempfile.h
thread-utils.c
thread-utils.h
tmp-objdir.c packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files 2021-01-25 18:32:43 -08:00
tmp-objdir.h
trace.c
trace.h
trace2.c
trace2.h
trailer.c pretty format %(trailers): add a "key_value_separator" 2020-12-09 14:16:42 -08:00
trailer.h pretty format %(trailers): add a "key_value_separator" 2020-12-09 14:16:42 -08:00
transport-helper.c
transport-internal.h
transport.c
transport.h
tree-diff.c
tree-walk.c tree-walk: report recursion counts 2021-01-04 15:23:08 -08:00
tree-walk.h
tree.c tree: enable cmp_cache_name_compare() to be used elsewhere 2020-12-13 14:18:20 -08:00
tree.h tree: enable cmp_cache_name_compare() to be used elsewhere 2020-12-13 14:18:20 -08:00
unicode-width.h
unimplemented.sh
unix-socket.c
unix-socket.h
unpack-trees.c sparse-checkout: load sparse-checkout patterns 2021-01-23 17:14:07 -08:00
unpack-trees.h
upload-pack.c Merge branch 'jv/upload-pack-filter-spec-quotefix' 2021-02-12 14:21:04 -08:00
upload-pack.h
url.c
url.h
urlmatch.c
urlmatch.h
usage.c Merge branch 'jt/trace-error-on-warning' 2020-12-08 15:11:17 -08:00
userdiff.c
userdiff.h
utf8.c
utf8.h
varint.c
varint.h
version.c
version.h
versioncmp.c
walker.c
walker.h
wildmatch.c
wildmatch.h
worktree.c worktree: teach worktree_lock_reason() to gently handle main worktree 2021-01-30 09:57:20 -08:00
worktree.h worktree: teach worktree to lazy-load "prunable" reason 2021-01-30 09:57:16 -08:00
wrap-for-bin.sh
wrapper.c
write-or-die.c
ws.c
wt-status.c Merge branch 'sj/untracked-files-in-submodule-directory-is-not-dirty' 2021-01-25 14:19:18 -08:00
wt-status.h branch: sort detached HEAD based on a flag 2021-01-07 15:13:21 -08:00
xdiff-interface.c
xdiff-interface.h
zlib.c

README.md

Build status

Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system

Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.

Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.

Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.

Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.

See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and Documentation/git-<commandname>.txt for documentation of each command. If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.

CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt (man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is installed).

The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission). To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at https://lore.kernel.org/git/, http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.

Issues which are security relevant should be disclosed privately to the Git Security mailing list git-security@googlegroups.com.

The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.

The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your mood):

  • random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
  • stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
  • "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
  • "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks