"git branch" and friends learned to use the formatted text as
sorting key, not the underlying timestamp value, when the --sort
option is used with author or committer timestamp with a format
specifier (e.g., "--sort=creatordate:format:%H:%M:%S").
* vd/for-each-ref-sort-with-formatted-timestamp:
ref-filter.c: sort formatted dates by byte value
"git show-ref --verify" did not show things like "CHERRY_PICK_HEAD",
which has been corrected.
* pw/show-ref-pseudorefs:
t1400: use show-ref to check pseudorefs
show-ref --verify: accept pseudorefs
"git stash" sometimes was silent even when it failed due to
unwritable index file, which has been corrected.
* ps/report-failure-from-git-stash:
builtin/stash: report failure to write to index
A failed "git tag -s" did not necessarily result in an error
depending on the crypto backend, which has been corrected.
* jc/sign-buffer-failure-propagation-fix:
ssh signing: signal an error with a negative return value
tag: fix sign_buffer() call to create a signed tag
Command line completion support (in contrib/) has been
updated for "git bisect".
* bk/complete-bisect:
completion: bisect: recognize but do not complete view subcommand
completion: bisect: complete log opts for visualize subcommand
completion: new function __git_complete_log_opts
completion: bisect: complete missing --first-parent and - -no-checkout options
completion: bisect: complete custom terms and related options
completion: bisect: complete bad, new, old, and help subcommands
completion: tests: always use 'master' for default initial branch name
Code clean-up in various reftable code paths.
* ps/reftable-styles:
reftable/record: improve semantics when initializing records
reftable/merged: refactor initialization of iterators
reftable/merged: refactor seeking of records
reftable/stack: use `size_t` to track stack length
reftable/stack: use `size_t` to track stack slices during compaction
reftable/stack: index segments with `size_t`
reftable/stack: fix parameter validation when compacting range
reftable: introduce macros to allocate arrays
reftable: introduce macros to grow arrays
Write multi-level indices for reftable has been corrected.
* ps/reftable-multi-level-indices-fix:
reftable: document reading and writing indices
reftable/writer: fix writing multi-level indices
reftable/writer: simplify writing index records
reftable/writer: use correct type to iterate through index entries
reftable/reader: be more careful about errors in indexed seeks
Sideband demultiplexer fixes.
* jx/sideband-chomp-newline-fix:
pkt-line: do not chomp newlines for sideband messages
pkt-line: memorize sideband fragment in reader
test-pkt-line: add option parser for unpack-sideband
Doc update.
* js/contributor-docs-updates:
SubmittingPatches: hyphenate non-ASCII
SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub artifact format
SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub visual
SubmittingPatches: provide tag naming advice
SubmittingPatches: update extra tags list
SubmittingPatches: discourage new trailers
SubmittingPatches: drop ref to "What's in git.git"
CodingGuidelines: write punctuation marks
CodingGuidelines: move period inside parentheses
Remove unused header "#include".
* en/header-cleanup:
treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
treewide: add direct includes currently only pulled in transitively
trace2/tr2_tls.h: remove unnecessary include
submodule-config.h: remove unnecessary include
pkt-line.h: remove unnecessary include
line-log.h: remove unnecessary include
http.h: remove unnecessary include
fsmonitor--daemon.h: remove unnecessary includes
blame.h: remove unnecessary includes
archive.h: remove unnecessary include
treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
treewide: remove unnecessary includes from header files
Doc update.
* ml/doc-merge-updates:
Documentation/git-merge.txt: use backticks for command wrapping
Documentation/git-merge.txt: fix reference to synopsis
Doc updates to clarify what an "unborn branch" means.
* jc/orphan-unborn:
orphan/unborn: fix use of 'orphan' in end-user facing messages
orphan/unborn: add to the glossary and use them consistently
Code clean-up.
* la/trailer-cleanups:
trailer: use offsets for trailer_start/trailer_end
trailer: find the end of the log message
commit: ignore_non_trailer computes number of bytes to ignore
Doc updates.
* jc/doc-most-refs-are-not-that-special:
docs: MERGE_AUTOSTASH is not that special
docs: AUTO_MERGE is not that special
refs.h: HEAD is not that special
git-bisect.txt: BISECT_HEAD is not that special
git.txt: HEAD is not that special
Bunch of small fix-ups to the reftable code.
* ps/reftable-fixes:
reftable/block: reuse buffer to compute record keys
reftable/block: introduce macro to initialize `struct block_iter`
reftable/merged: reuse buffer to compute record keys
reftable/stack: fix use of unseeded randomness
reftable/stack: fix stale lock when dying
reftable/stack: reuse buffers when reloading stack
reftable/stack: perform auto-compaction with transactional interface
reftable/stack: verify that `reftable_stack_add()` uses auto-compaction
reftable: handle interrupted writes
reftable: handle interrupted reads
reftable: wrap EXPECT macros in do/while
Code clean-up around use of configuration variables.
* jk/config-cleanup:
sequencer: simplify away extra git_config_string() call
gpg-interface: drop pointless config_error_nonbool() checks
push: drop confusing configset/callback redundancy
config: use git_config_string() for core.checkRoundTripEncoding
diff: give more detailed messages for bogus diff.* config
config: use config_error_nonbool() instead of custom messages
imap-send: don't use git_die_config() inside callback
git_xmerge_config(): prefer error() to die()
config: reject bogus values for core.checkstat
Clean-up code that handles combinations of incompatible options.
* rs/incompatible-options-messages:
worktree: simplify incompatibility message for --orphan and commit-ish
worktree: standardize incompatibility messages
clean: factorize incompatibility message
revision, rev-parse: factorize incompatibility messages about - -exclude-hidden
revision: use die_for_incompatible_opt3() for - -graph/--reverse/--walk-reflogs
repack: use die_for_incompatible_opt3() for -A/-k/--cruft
push: use die_for_incompatible_opt4() for - -delete/--tags/--all/--mirror
Tests update.
* ps/ref-tests-update-more:
t6301: write invalid object ID via `test-tool ref-store`
t5551: stop writing packed-refs directly
t5401: speed up creation of many branches
t4013: simplify magic parsing and drop "failure"
t3310: stop checking for reference existence via `test -f`
t1417: make `reflog --updateref` tests backend agnostic
t1410: use test-tool to create empty reflog
t1401: stop treating FETCH_HEAD as real reference
t1400: split up generic reflog tests from the reffile-specific ones
t0410: mark tests to require the reffiles backend
Clean-up code that handles combinations of incompatible options.
* rs/i18n-cannot-be-used-together:
i18n: factorize even more 'incompatible options' messages
Clearing in-core repository (happens during e.g., "git fetch
--recurse-submodules" with commit graph enabled) made in-core
commit object in an inconsistent state by discarding the necessary
data from commit-graph too early, which has been corrected.
* jk/commit-graph-slab-clear-fix:
commit-graph: retain commit slab when closing NULL commit_graph
Unlike other environment variables that took the usual
true/false/yes/no as well as 0/1, GIT_FLUSH only understood 0/1,
which has been corrected.
* cp/git-flush-is-an-env-bool:
write-or-die: make GIT_FLUSH a Boolean environment variable
"git sparse-checkout set" added default patterns even when the
patterns are being fed from the standard input, which has been
corrected.
* jc/sparse-checkout-set-default-fix:
sparse-checkout: use default patterns for 'set' only !stdin
"git archive --list extra garbage" silently ignored excess command
line parameters, which has been corrected.
* jc/archive-list-with-extra-args:
archive: "--list" does not take further options
"git status" is taught to show both the branch being bisected and
being rebased when both are in effect at the same time.
cf. <xmqqil76kyov.fsf@gitster.g>
* rj/status-bisect-while-rebase:
status: fix branch shown when not only bisecting
Command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to work better
with the reftable backend.
* sh/completion-with-reftable:
completion: support pseudoref existence checks for reftables
completion: refactor existence checks for pseudorefs
"git fetch --atomic" issued an unnecessary empty error message,
which has been corrected.
cf. <ZX__e7VjyLXIl-uV@tanuki>
* jx/fetch-atomic-error-message-fix:
fetch: no redundant error message for atomic fetch
t5574: test porcelain output of atomic fetch
The code to parse the From e-mail header has been updated to avoid
recursion.
* jk/mailinfo-iterative-unquote-comment:
mailinfo: avoid recursion when unquoting From headers
t5100: make rfc822 comment test more careful
mailinfo: fix out-of-bounds memory reads in unquote_quoted_pair()
