GIT-VERSION-GEN tries to derive the version that Git is being built from
via multiple different sources in the following order:
1. A file called "version" in the source tree's root directory, if it
exists.
2. The current commit in case Git is built from a Git repository.
3. Otherwise, we use a fallback version stored in a variable which is
bumped whenever a new Git version is getting tagged.
It used to be possible to override the version by overriding the
`GIT_VERSION` Makefile variable (e.g. `make GIT_VERSION=foo`). This
worked somewhat by chance, only: `GIT-VERSION-GEN` would write the
actual Git version into `GIT-VERSION-FILE`, not the overridden value,
but when including the file into our Makefile we would not override the
`GIT_VERSION` variable because it has already been set by the user. And
because our Makefile used the variable to propagate the version to our
build tools instead of using `GIT-VERSION-FILE` the resulting build
artifacts used the overridden version.
But that subtle mechanism broke with 4838deab65 (Makefile: refactor
GIT-VERSION-GEN to be reusable, 2024-12-06) and subsequent commits
because the version information is not propagated via the Makefile
variable anymore, but instead via the files that `GIT-VERSION-GEN`
started to write. And as the script never knew about the `GIT_VERSION`
environment variable in the first place it uses one of the values listed
above instead of the overridden value.
Fix this issue by making `GIT-VERSION-GEN` handle the case where
`GIT_VERSION` has been set via the environment.
Note that this requires us to introduce a new GIT_VERSION_OVERRIDE
variable that stores a potential user-provided value, either via the
environment or via "config.mak". Ideally we wouldn't need it and could
just continue to use GIT_VERSION for this. But unfortunately, Makefiles
will first include all sub-Makefiles before figuring out whether it
needs to re-make any of them [1]. Consequently, if there already is a
GIT-VERSION-FILE, we would have slurped in its value of GIT_VERSION
before we call GIT-VERSION-GEN, and because GIT-VERSION-GEN now uses
that value as an override it would mean that the first generated value
for GIT_VERSION will remain unchanged.
Furthermore we have to move the include for "GIT-VERSION-FILE" after the
includes for "config.mak" and related so that GIT_VERSION_OVERRIDE can
be set to the value provided by "config.mak".
[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Remaking-Makefiles.html
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new template to call GIT-VERSION-GEN. This will allow us to
iterate on how exactly the script is called in subsequent commits
without having to adapt all call sites every time.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some of the callsites of GIT-VERSION-GEN generate the target file with a
"+" suffix first and then move the file into place when the new contents
are different compared to the old contents. This allows us to avoid a
needless rebuild by not updating timestamps of the target file when its
contents will remain unchanged anyway.
In fact though, this exact logic is already handled in GIT-VERSION-GEN,
so doing this manually is pointless. This is a leftover from an earlier
version of 4838deab65 (Makefile: refactor GIT-VERSION-GEN to be
reusable, 2024-12-06), where the script didn't handle that logic for us.
Drop the needless indirection.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We include "GIT-VERSION-FILE" in our docs Makefile, but don't actually
use the "GIT_VERSION" variable that it provides. This is a leftover from
the conversion to make "GIT-VERSION-GEN" generate version information
in-place by substituting placeholders in 4838deab65 (Makefile: refactor
GIT-VERSION-GEN to be reusable, 2024-12-06) and subsequent commits,
where all usages of the variable were removed.
Stop including the file.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce support for the Meson build system, a "modern" meta build
system that supports many different platforms, including Linux, macOS,
Windows and BSDs. Meson supports different backends, including Ninja,
Xcode and Microsoft Visual Studio. Several common IDEs provide an
integration with it.
The biggest contender compared to Meson is probably CMake as outlined in
our "Documentation/technical/build-systems.txt" file. Based on my own
personal experience from working with both build systems extensively I
strongly favor Meson over CMake. In my opinion, it feels significantly
easier to use with a syntax that feels more like a "real" programming
language. The second big reason is that Meson supports Rust natively,
which may prove to be important given that the project may pick up Rust
as another language eventually.
Using Meson is rather straight-forward. An example:
```
# Meson uses out-of-tree builds. You can set up multiple build
# directories, how you name them is completely up to you.
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ meson setup .. -Dprefix=/tmp/git-installation
# Build the project. This also provides several other targets like
e.g. `install` or `test`.
$ ninja
# Meson has been wired up to support execution of our test suites.
# Both our unit tests and our integration tests are supported.
# Running `meson test` without any arguments will execute all tests,
# but the syntax supports globbing to select only some tests.
$ meson test 't-*'
# Execute single test interactively to allow for debugging.
$ meson test 't0000-*' --interactive --test-args=-ix
```
The build instructions have been successfully tested on the following
systems, tests are passing:
- Apple macOS 10.15.
- FreeBSD 14.1.
- NixOS 24.11.
- OpenBSD 7.6.
- Ubuntu 24.04.
- Windows 10 with Cygwin.
- Windows 10 with MinGW64, except for t9700, which is also broken with
our Makefile.
- Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2022 toolchain, using the Native Tools
Command Prompt with `meson setup --vsenv`. Tests pass, except for
t9700.
- Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2022 solution, using the Native Tools
Command Prompt with `meson setup --backend vs2022`. Tests pass,
except for t9700.
- Windows 10 with VS Code, using the Meson plug-in.
It is expected that there will still be rough edges in the current
version. If this patch lands the expectation is that it will coexist
with our other build systems for a while. Like this, distributions can
slowly migrate over to Meson and report any findings they have to us
such that we can continue to iterate. A potential cutoff date for other
build systems may be Git 3.0.
Some notes:
- The installed distribution is structured somewhat differently than
how it used to be the case. All of our binaries are installed into
`$libexec/git-core`, while all binaries part of `$bindir` are now
symbolic links pointing to the former. This rule is consistent in
itself and thus easier to reason about.
- We do not install dashed binaries into `$libexec/git-core` anymore,
so there won't e.g. be a symlink for git-add(1). These are not
required by modern Git and there isn't really much of a use case for
those anymore. By not installing those symlinks we thus start the
deprecation of this layout.
- We're targeting Meson 1.3.0, which has been released relatively
recently November 2023. The only feature we use from that version is
`fs.relative_to()`, which we could replace if necessary. If so, we
could start to target Meson 1.0.0 and newer, released in December
2022.
- The whole build instructions count around 3300 lines, half of which
is listing all of our code and test files. Our Makefiles are around
5000 lines, autoconf adds another 1300 lines. CMake in comparison
has only 1200 linescode, but it avoids listing individual files and
does not wire up auto-configuration as extensively as the Meson
instructions do.
- We bundle a set of subproject wrappers for curl, expat, openssl,
pcre2 and zlib. This allows developers to build Git without these
dependencies preinstalled, and Meson will fetch and build them
automatically. This is especially helpful on Windows.
Helped-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We're contemplating whether to eventually replace our build systems with
a build system that is easier to use. Add a comparison of build systems
to our technical documentation as a baseline for discussion.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our "test-lib.sh" assumes that our build directory is the parent
directory of "t/". While true when using our Makefile, it's not when
using build systems that support out-of-tree builds.
In commit ee9e66e4e7 (cmake: avoid editing t/test-lib.sh, 2022-10-18),
we have introduce support for overriding the GIT_BUILD_DIR by creating
the file "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/GIT-BUILD-DIR" with its contents pointing to
the location of the build directory. The intent was to stop modifying
"t/test-lib.sh" with the CMake build systems while allowing out-of-tree
builds. But "$GIT_BUILD_DIR" is somewhat misleadingly named, as it in
fact points to the _source_ directory. So while that commit solved part
of the problem for out-of-tree builds, CMake still has to write files
into the source tree.
Solve the second part of the problem, namely not having to write any
data into the source directory at all, by also supporting an environment
variable that allows us to point to a different build directory. This
allows us to perform properly self-contained out-of-tree builds.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our in-tree builds used by the Makefile use various different build
directories scattered around different locations. The paths to those
build directories have to be propagated to our tests such that they can
find the contained files. This is done via a mixture of hardcoded paths
in our test library and injected variables in our bin-wrappers or
"GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS".
The latter two mechanisms are preferable over using hardcoded paths. For
one, we have all paths which are subject to change stored in a small set
of central files instead of having the knowledge of build paths in many
files. And second, it allows build systems which build files elsewhere
to adapt those paths based on their own needs. This is especially nice
in the context of build systems that use out-of-tree builds like CMake
or Meson.
Remove hardcoded knowledge of build paths from our test library and move
it into our bin-wrappers and "GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS".
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We include the list of available mergetools into our manpages. Extract
the script that performs this logic such that we can reuse it in other
build systems.
While at it, refactor the Makefile targets such that we don't create
"mergetools-list.made" anymore. It shouldn't be necessary, as we can
instead have other targets depend on "mergetools-{diff,merge}.txt"
directly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "cmd-list.perl" script generates a list of commands that can be
included into our manpages. The script doesn't know about out-of-tree
builds and instead writes resulting files into the source directory.
Adapt it such that we can read data from the source directory and write
data into the build directory.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our documentation uses "include::" directives to include parts that are
either reused across multiple documents or parts that we generate at
build time. Unfortunately, top-level includes are only ever resolved
relative to the base directory, which is typically the directory of the
including document. Most importantly, it is not possible to have either
asciidoc or asciidoctor search multiple directories.
It follows that both kinds of includes must live in the same directory.
This is of course a bummer for out-of-tree builds, because here the
dynamically-built includes live in the build directory whereas the
static includes live in the source directory.
Introduce a `build_dir` attribute and prepend it to all of our includes
for dynamically-built files. This attribute gets set to the build
directory and thus converts the include path to an absolute path, which
asciidoc and asciidoctor know how to resolve.
Note that this change also requires us to update "build-docdep.perl",
which tries to figure out included files such our Makefile can set up
proper build-time dependencies. This script simply scans through the
source files for any lines that match "^include::" and treats the
remainder of the line as included file path. But given that those may
now contain the "{build_dir}" variable we have to teach the script to
replace that attribute with the actual build directory.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we install Git we also install a set of default templates that both
git-init(1) and git-clone(1) populate into our build directories. The
way the pristine templates are laid out in our source directory is
somewhat weird though: instead of reconstructing the actual directory
hierarchy in "templates/", we represent directory separators with "--".
The only reason I could come up with for why we have this is the
"branches/" directory, which is supposed to be empty when installing it.
And as Git famously doesn't store empty directories at all we have to
work around this limitation.
Now the thing is that the "branches/" directory is a leftover to how
branches used to be stored in the dark ages. gitrepository-layout(5)
lists this directory as "slightly deprecated", which I would claim is a
strong understatement. I have never encountered anybody using it today
and would be surprised if it even works as expected. So having the "--"
hack in place for an item that is basically unused, unmaintained and
deprecated doesn't only feel unreasonable, but installing that entry by
default may also cause confusion for users that do not know what this is
supposed to be in the first place.
Remove this directory from our templates and, now that we do not require
the workaround anymore, restructure the templates to form a proper
hierarchy. This makes it way easier for build systems to install these
templates into place.
We should likely think about removing support for "branch/" altogether,
but that is outside of the scope of this patch series.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Write the absolute program path into our bin-wrappers. This allows us to
simplify the Meson build instructions we are about to introduce a bit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "bin-wrappers/" directory gets created by our build system and is
populated with one script for each of our binaries. There isn't anything
inherently wrong with the current layout, but it is somewhat hard to
adapt for out-of-tree build systems.
Adapt the layout such that our "bin-wrappers/" directory always exists
and contains our "wrap-for-bin.sh" script to make things a little bit
easier for subsequent steps.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have multiple scripts that generate headers from other data. All of
these scripts have the assumption built-in that they are executed in the
current source directory, which makes them a bit unwieldy to use during
out-of-tree builds.
Refactor them to instead take the source directory as well as the output
file as arguments.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to the preceding commit, also extract the script to generate the
"gitweb.js" file. While the logic itself is trivial, it helps us avoid
duplication of logic across build systems and ensures that the build
systems will remain in sync with each other in case the logic ever needs
to change.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to generate "gitweb.cgi" we have to replace various different
placeholders. This is done ad-hoc and is thus not easily reusable across
different build systems.
Introduce a new GITWEB-BUILD-OPTIONS.in template that we populate at
configuration time with the expected options. This script is then used
as input for a new "generate-gitweb.sh" script that generates the final
"gitweb.cgi" file. While this requires us to repeat the options multiple
times, it is in line to how we generate other build options like our
GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS file.
While at it, refactor how we replace the GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH. Even
though this variable is supposed to be an integer, the source file has
the value quoted. The quotes are eventually stripped via sed(1), which
replaces `"@GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH@"` with the actual value, which is
rather nonsensical. This is made clearer by just dropping the quotes in
the source file.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extract a script that massages Python scripts. This provides a couple of
benefits:
- The build logic is deduplicated across Make, CMake and Meson.
- CMake learns to rewrite scripts as-needed at build time instead of
only writing them at configure time.
Furthermore, we will use this script when introducing Meson to
deduplicate the logic across build systems.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Same as in the preceding commits, extract a script that allows us to
unify how we massage shell scripts.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extend "generate-perl.sh" such that it knows to also massage the Perl
library files. There are two major differences:
- We do not read in the Perl header. This is handled by matching on
whether or not we have a Perl shebang.
- We substitute some more variables, which we read in via our
GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS.
Adapt both our Makefile and the CMake build instructions to use this.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extract the script to inject various build-time parameters into our Perl
scripts into a standalone script. This is done such that we can reuse it
in other build systems.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When injecting the Perl path into our scripts we sometimes use '@PERL@'
while we othertimes use '@PERL_PATH@'. Refactor the code use the latter
consistently, which makes it easier to reuse the same logic for multiple
scripts.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation we generate embeds information for the exact Git
version used as well as the date of the commit. This information is
injected by injecting attributes into the build process via command line
argument.
Refactor the logic so that we write the information into "asciidoc.conf"
and "asciidoctor-extensions.rb" via `GIT-VERSION-GEN` for AsciiDoc and
AsciiDoctor, respectively.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "git.rc" is used on Windows to embed information like the project
name and version into the resulting executables. As such we need to
inject the version information, which we do by using preprocessor
defines. The logic to do so is non-trivial and needs to be kept in sync
with the different build systems.
Refactor the logic so that we generate "git.rc" via `GIT-VERSION-GEN`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We set up a couple of preprocessor macros when compiling Git that
propagate the version that Git was built from to `git version` et al.
The way this is set up makes it harder than necessary to reuse the
infrastructure across the different build systems.
Refactor this such that we generate a "version-def.h" header via
`GIT-VERSION-GEN` instead.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our "GIT-VERSION-GEN" script always writes the "GIT-VERSION-FILE" into
the current directory, where the expectation is that it should exist in
the source directory. But other build systems that support out-of-tree
builds may not want to do that to keep the source directory pristine,
even though CMake currently doesn't care.
Refactor the script such that it won't write the "GIT-VERSION-FILE"
directly anymore, but instead knows to replace @PLACEHOLDERS@ in an
arbitrary input file. This allows us to simplify the logic in CMake to
determine the project version, but can also be reused later on in order
to generate other files that need to contain version information like
our "git.rc" file.
While at it, change the format of the version file by removing the
spaces around the equals sign. Like this we can continue to include the
file in our Makefiles, but can also start to source it in shell scripts
in subsequent steps.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have a bunch of placeholders in our scripts that we replace at build
time, for example by using sed(1). These placeholders come in three
different formats: @PLACEHOLDER@, @@PLACEHOLDER@@ and ++PLACEHOLDER++.
Next to being inconsistent it also creates a bit of a problem with
CMake, which only supports the first syntax in its `configure_file()`
function. To work around that we instead manually replace placeholders
via string operations, which is a hassle and removes safeguards that
CMake has to verify that we didn't forget to replace any placeholders.
Besides that, other build systems like Meson also support the CMake
syntax.
Unify our codebase to consistently use the syntax supported by such
build systems.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS" file is generated by our build systems to
propagate built-in features and paths to our tests. The generation is
done ad-hoc, where both our Makefile and the CMake build instructions
simply echo a bunch of strings into the file. This makes it very hard to
figure out what variables are expected to exist and what format they
have, and the written variables can easily get out of sync between build
systems.
Introduce a new "GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS.in" template to address this issue.
This has multiple advantages:
- It demonstrates which built options exist in the first place.
- It can serve as a spot to document the build options.
- Some build systems complain when not all variables could be
substituted, alerting us of mismatches. Others don't, but if we
forgot to substitute such variables we now have a bogus string that
will likely cause our tests to fail, if they have any meaning in the
first place.
Backfill values that we didn't yet set in our CMake build instructions.
While at it, remove the `SUPPORTS_SIMPLE_IPC` variable that we only set
up in CMake as it isn't used anywhere.
This change requires us to adapt the setup of TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY in
"test-lib.sh" such that it does not get overwritten after sourcing when
it has been set up via the environment. This is the only instance I
could find where we rely on ordering on variables.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A double-free that may not trigger in practice by luck has been
corrected in the reference resolution code.
* sj/refs-symref-referent-fix:
ref-cache: fix invalid free operation in `free_ref_entry`
Documentation mark-up updates.
* ja/git-diff-doc-markup:
doc: git-diff: apply format changes to config part
doc: git-diff: apply format changes to diff-generate-patch
doc: git-diff: apply format changes to diff-format
doc: git-diff: apply format changes to diff-options
doc: git-diff: apply new documentation guidelines
Drop support for older libcURL and Perl.
* bc/drop-ancient-libcurl-and-perl:
gitweb: make use of s///r
Require Perl 5.26.0
INSTALL: document requirement for libcurl 7.61.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.56.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.53.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.52.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.44.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.43.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.39.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.34.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.25.0
git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.21.5
Built-in Git subcommands are supplied the repository object to work
with; they learned to do the same when they invoke sub-subcommands.
* kn/pass-repo-to-builtin-sub-sub-commands:
builtin: pass repository to sub commands
Work around Coverity warning that would not trigger in practice.
* ps/bisect-double-free-fix:
bisect: address Coverity warning about potential double free
"git fsck" learned to issue warnings on "curiously formatted" ref
contents that have always been taken valid but something Git
wouldn't have written itself (e.g., missing terminating end-of-line
after the full object name).
* sj/ref-contents-check:
ref: add symlink ref content check for files backend
ref: check whether the target of the symref is a ref
ref: add basic symref content check for files backend
ref: add more strict checks for regular refs
ref: port git-fsck(1) regular refs check for files backend
ref: support multiple worktrees check for refs
ref: initialize ref name outside of check functions
ref: check the full refname instead of basename
ref: initialize "fsck_ref_report" with zero
The migration procedure between two ref backends has been optimized.
* ps/ref-backend-migration-optim:
reftable: rename scratch buffer
refs: adapt `initial_transaction` flag to be unsigned
reftable/block: optimize allocations by using scratch buffer
reftable/block: rename `block_writer::buf` variable
reftable/writer: optimize allocations by using a scratch buffer
refs: don't normalize log messages with `REF_SKIP_CREATE_REFLOG`
refs: skip collision checks in initial transactions
refs: use "initial" transaction semantics to migrate refs
refs/files: support symbolic and root refs in initial transaction
refs: introduce "initial" transaction flag
refs/files: move logic to commit initial transaction
refs: allow passing flags when setting up a transaction
Leakfixes.
* ps/leakfixes-part-10: (27 commits)
t: remove TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK annotations
test-lib: unconditionally enable leak checking
t: remove unneeded !SANITIZE_LEAK prerequisites
t: mark some tests as leak free
t5601: work around leak sanitizer issue
git-compat-util: drop now-unused `UNLEAK()` macro
global: drop `UNLEAK()` annotation
t/helper: fix leaking commit graph in "read-graph" subcommand
builtin/branch: fix leaking sorting options
builtin/init-db: fix leaking directory paths
builtin/help: fix leaks in `check_git_cmd()`
help: fix leaking return value from `help_unknown_cmd()`
help: fix leaking `struct cmdnames`
help: refactor to not use globals for reading config
builtin/sparse-checkout: fix leaking sanitized patterns
split-index: fix memory leak in `move_cache_to_base_index()`
git: refactor builtin handling to use a `struct strvec`
git: refactor alias handling to use a `struct strvec`
strvec: introduce new `strvec_splice()` function
line-log: fix leak when rewriting commit parents
...
Give a bit of advice/hint message when "git maintenance" stops finding a
lock file left by another instance that still is potentially running.
* ps/gc-stale-lock-warning:
t7900: fix host-dependent behaviour when testing git-maintenance(1)
builtin/gc: provide hint when maintenance hits a stale schedule lock
The ref-transaction hook triggered for reflog updates, which has
been corrected.
* kn/ref-transaction-hook-with-reflog:
refs: don't invoke reference-transaction hook for reflogs
We now ensure "index-pack" is used with the "--promisor" option
only during a "git fetch".
* jt/index-pack-allow-promisor-only-while-fetching:
index-pack: teach --promisor to forbid pack name
"git fast-import" can be tricked into a replace ref that maps an
object to itself, which is a useless thing to do.
* en/fast-import-avoid-self-replace:
fast-import: avoid making replace refs point to themselves
GCC 15 compatibility updates.
* jk/gcc15:
object-file: inline empty tree and blob literals
object-file: treat cached_object values as const
object-file: drop oid field from find_cached_object() return value
object-file: move empty_tree struct into find_cached_object()
object-file: drop confusing oid initializer of empty_tree struct
object-file: prefer array-of-bytes initializer for hash literals
Fix for clar unit tests to support CMake build.
* ps/clar-build-improvement:
Makefile: let clar header targets depend on their scripts
cmake: use verbatim arguments when invoking clar commands
cmake: use SH_EXE to execute clar scripts
t/unit-tests: convert "clar-generate.awk" into a shell script
