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Junio C Hamano
dbb244e00c Merge branch 'mf/format-patch-cover-letter-format' into jch
"git format-patch --cover-letter" learns to use a simpler format
instead of the traditional shortlog format to list its commits with
a new --cover-letter-format option and format.commitListFormat
configuration variable.

* mf/format-patch-cover-letter-format:
  docs: add usage for the cover-letter fmt feature
  format-patch: add commitListFormat config
  format-patch: add ability to use alt cover format
  format-patch: move cover letter summary generation
  pretty.c: add %(count) and %(total) placeholders
2026-03-04 10:53:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0aa55420ca Merge branch 'kh/format-patch-noprefix-is-boolean' into jch
The configuration variable format.noprefix did not behave as a
proper boolean variable, which has now been fixed and documented.

* kh/format-patch-noprefix-is-boolean:
  doc: diff-options.adoc: make *.noprefix split translatable
  doc: diff-options.adoc: show format.noprefix for format-patch
  format-patch: make format.noprefix a boolean
2026-03-04 10:53:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2d843a2d3d Merge branch 'bk/mailmap-wo-the-repository'
Wean the mailmap code off of the_repository dependency.

* bk/mailmap-wo-the-repository:
  mailmap: drop global config variables
  mailmap: stop using the_repository
2026-03-04 10:53:00 -08:00
Mirko Faina
a6e4e1ac84 format-patch: add commitListFormat config
Using "--cover-letter" we can tell format-patch to generate a cover
letter, in this cover letter there's a list of commits included in the
patch series and the format is specified by the "--cover-letter-format"
option. Would be useful if this format could be configured from the
config file instead of always needing to pass it from the command line.

Teach format-patch how to read the format spec for the cover letter from
the config files. The variable it should look for is called
format.commitListFormat.

Possible values:
  - commitListFormat is set but no string is passed: it will default to
    "[%(count)/%(total)] %s"

  - if a string is passed: will use it as a format spec. Note that this
    is either "shortlog" or a format spec prefixed by "log:"
    e.g."log:%s (%an)"

  - if commitListFormat is not set: it will default to the shortlog
    format.

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-27 15:12:21 -08:00
Mirko Faina
c3a92d8896 format-patch: add ability to use alt cover format
Often when sending patch series there's a need to clarify to the
reviewer what's the purpose of said series, since it might be difficult
to understand it from reading the commits messages one by one.

"git format-patch" provides the useful "--cover-letter" flag to declare
if we want it to generate a template for us to use. By default it will
generate a "git shortlog" of the changes, which developers find less
useful than they'd like, mainly because the shortlog groups commits by
author, and gives no obvious chronological order.

Give the ability to format-patch to specify an alternative format spec
through the "--cover-letter-format" option. This option either takes
"shortlog", which is the current format, or a format spec prefixed with
"log:".

Example:
    git format-patch --cover-letter \
        --cover-letter-format="log:[%(count)/%(total)] %s (%an)" HEAD~3

    [1/3] this is a commit summary (Mirko Faina)
    [2/3] this is another commit summary (Mirko Faina)
    ...

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-27 15:12:20 -08:00
Mirko Faina
c69d6409d5 format-patch: move cover letter summary generation
As of now format-patch allows generation of a template cover letter for
patch series through "--cover-letter".

Move shortlog summary code generation to its own function. This is done
in preparation to other patches where we enable the user to format the
commit list using thier own format string.

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-27 15:12:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d64a20a1b1 Merge branch 'mf/format-patch-honor-from-for-cover-letter'
"git format-patch --from=<me>" did not honor the command line
option when writing out the cover letter, which has been corrected.

* mf/format-patch-honor-from-for-cover-letter:
  format-patch: fix From header in cover letter
2026-02-27 15:11:54 -08:00
Kristoffer Haugsbakk
04657ac029 format-patch: make format.noprefix a boolean
The config `format.noprefix` was added in 8d5213de (format-patch: add
format.noprefix option, 2023-03-09) to support no-prefix on paths.
That was immediately after making git-format-patch(1) not respect
`diff.noprefix`.[1]

The intent was to mirror `diff.noprefix`. But this config was
unintentionally[2] implemented by enabling no-prefix if any kind of
value is set.

† 1: c169af8f (format-patch: do not respect diff.noprefix, 2023-03-09)
† 2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260211073553.GA1867915@coredump.intra.peff.net/

Let’s indeed mirror `diff.noprefix` by treating it as a boolean.

This is a breaking change. And as far as breaking changes go it is
pretty benign:

• The documentation claims that this config is equivalent to
  `diff.noprefix`; this is just a bug fix if the documentation is
  what defines the application interface
• Only users with non-boolean values will run into problems when we
  try to parse it as a boolean. But what would (1) make them suspect
  they could do that in the first place, and (2) have motivated them to
  do it?
• Users who have set this to `false` and expect that to mean *enable
  format.noprefix* (current behavior) will now have the opposite
  experience. Which is not a reasonable setup.

Let’s only offer a breaking change fig leaf by advising about the
previous behavior before dying.

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-23 15:55:19 -08:00
Burak Kaan Karaçay
999b09348d mailmap: stop using the_repository
The 'read_mailmap' and 'read_mailmap_blob' functions rely on the global
'the_repository' variable. Update both functions to accept a
'struct repository' parameter.

Update all callers to pass 'the_repository' to retain the current
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Burak Kaan Karaçay <bkkaracay@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-20 08:13:58 -08:00
Mirko Faina
a8e89346a7 format-patch: fix From header in cover letter
"git format-patch" takes "--from=<user ident>" command line option
and uses the given ident for patch e-mails, but this is not applied
to the cover letter, the option is ignored and the committer ident
of the current user is used. This has been the case ever since
"--from" was introduced in a9080475 (teach format-patch to place
other authors into in-body "From", 2013-07-03).

Teach the make_cover_letter() function to honor the option, instead of
always using the current committer identity. Change variable name from
"committer" to "from" to better reflect the purpose of the variable.

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-17 15:29:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
354b8d89ac Merge branch 'rs/clean-includes'
Clean up redundant includes of header files.

* rs/clean-includes:
  remove duplicate includes
2026-02-17 13:30:42 -08:00
René Scharfe
10c68d2577 remove duplicate includes
The following command reports that some header files are included twice:

   $ git grep '#include' '*.c' | sort | uniq -cd

Remove the second #include line in each case, as it has no effect.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-08 15:03:06 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
9f18d089c5 commit: rename free_commit_list() to conform to coding guidelines
Our coding guidelines say that:

  Functions that operate on `struct S` are named `S_<verb>()` and should
  generally receive a pointer to `struct S` as first parameter.

While most of the functions related to `struct commit_list` already
follow that naming schema, `free_commit_list()` doesn't.

Rename the function to address this and adjust all of its callers. Add a
compatibility wrapper for the old function name to ease the transition
and avoid any semantic conflicts with in-flight patch series. This
wrapper will be removed once Git 2.53 has been released.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-15 05:32:31 -08:00
René Scharfe
052efdd60f log: use commit_stack
Calling commit_stack_push() to add commits is simpler and more efficient
than using REALLOC_ARRAY.  Calling commit_stack_pop() to consume them in
LIFO order is also a tad simpler than calculating the array index from
the end.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-12-25 08:29:27 +09:00
Patrick Steinhardt
1599b68d5e streaming: move into object database subsystem
The "streaming" terminology is somewhat generic, so it may not be
immediately obvious that "streaming.{c,h}" is specific to the object
database. Rectify this by moving it into the "odb/" directory so that it
can be immediately attributed to the object subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-23 12:56:46 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
c26da3446e streaming: get rid of the_repository
Subsequent commits will move the backend-specific logic of object
streaming into their respective subsystems. These subsystems have gotten
rid of `the_repository` already, but we still use it in two locations in
the streaming subsystem.

Prepare for the move by fixing those two cases. Converting the logic in
`open_istream_pack_non_delta()` is trivial as we already got the object
database as input.

But for `stream_blob_to_fd()` we have to add a new parameter to make it
accessible. So, as we already have to adjust all callers anyway, rename
the function to `odb_stream_blob_to_fd()` to indicate it's part of the
object subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-23 12:56:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
deb58e4fa3 Merge branch 'kh/format-patch-range-diff-notes'
"git format-patch --range-diff=... --notes=..." did not drive the
underlying range-diff with correct --notes parameter, ending up
comparing with different set of notes from its main patch output
you would get from "git format-patch --notes=..." for a singleton
patch.

* kh/format-patch-range-diff-notes:
  format-patch: handle range-diff on notes correctly for single patches
  revision: add rdiff_log_arg to rev_info
  range-diff: rename other_arg to log_arg
2025-10-14 12:56:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7ae9eaf806 Merge branch 'kh/you-still-use-whatchanged-fix'
The "do you still use it?" message given by a command that is
deeply deprecated and allow us to suggest alternatives has been
updated.

* kh/you-still-use-whatchanged-fix:
  BreakingChanges: remove claim about whatchanged reports
  whatchanged: remove not-even-shorter clause
  whatchanged: hint about git-log(1) and aliasing
  you-still-use-that??: help the user help themselves
  t0014: test shadowing of aliases for a sample of builtins
  git: allow alias-shadowing deprecated builtins
  git: move seen-alias bookkeeping into handle_alias(...)
  git: add `deprecated` category to --list-cmds
  Makefile: don’t add whatchanged after it has been removed
2025-10-02 12:26:12 -07:00
Kristoffer Haugsbakk
85bd88a7e8 revision: add rdiff_log_arg to rev_info
git-format-patch(1) supports Git notes by showing them beneath the
patch/commit message, similar to git-log(1). The command also supports
showing those same notes ref names in the range diff output.

Note *the same* ref names; any Git notes options or configuration
variables need to be handed off to the range-diff machinery. This works
correctly in the case when the range diff is on the cover letter. But it
does not work correctly when the output is a single patch with an
embedded range diff.

Concretely, git-format-patch(1) needs to pass `--[no-]notes` options
on to the range-diff subprocess in `range-diff.c`. This is handled in
`builtin/log.c` by the local variable `log_arg` in the case of mul-
tiple commits, but not in the single commit case where there is no
cover letter and the range diff is embedded in the patch output; the
range diff is then made in `log-tree.c`, whither `log_arg` has not
been propagated. This means that the range-diff subprocess reverts
to its default behavior, which is to act like git-log(1) w.r.t. notes.

We need to fix this. But first lay the groundwork by converting
`log_arg` to a struct member; next we can simply use that member
in `log-tree.c` without having to thread it from `builtin/log.c`.

No functional changes.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-25 11:34:12 -07:00
Kristoffer Haugsbakk
71fd6c695c range-diff: rename other_arg to log_arg
Rename `other_arg` to `log_arg` in `range_diff_options` and
related places.

“Other argument” comes from bd361918 (range-diff: pass through --notes
to `git log`, 2019-11-20) which introduced Git notes handling to
git-range-diff(1) by passing that option on to git-log(1). And that kind
of name might be fine in a local context. However, it was initially
spread among multiple files, and is now[1] part of the
`range_diff_options` struct. It is, prima facie, difficult to guess what
“other” means, especially when just looking at the struct.

But with a little reading we find out that it is used for `--[no-]notes`
and `--diff-merges`, which are both passed on to git-log(1). We should
just rename it to reflect this role; `log_arg` suggests, along with the
`strvec` type, that it is used to pass extra arguments to git-log(1).

† 1: since f1ce6c19 (range-diff: combine all options in a single data
     structure, 2021-02-05)

Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-25 11:34:11 -07:00
Kristoffer Haugsbakk
5a31252702 whatchanged: hint about git-log(1) and aliasing
There have been quite a few `--i-still-use-this` user reports since Git
2.51.0 was released.[1][2]  And it doesn’t seem like they are reading
the man page about the git-log(1) equivalent.

Tell them what options to plug into git-log(1), either as a replacement
command or as an alias.[3]  That template produces almost the same
output[4] and is arguably a plug-in replacement.  Concretely, add
an optional `hint` argument so that we can use it right after the
initial error line.

Also mention the same concrete options in the documentation while we’re
at it.

[1]: E.g.,
    • https://lore.kernel.org/git/e1a69dea-bcb6-45fc-83d3-9e50d32c410b@5y5.one/https://lore.kernel.org/git/1011073f-9930-4360-a42f-71eb7421fe3f@chrispalmer.uk/#thttps://lore.kernel.org/git/9fcbfcc4-79f9-421f-b9a4-dc455f7db485@acm.org/#thttps://lore.kernel.org/git/83241BDE-1E0D-489A-9181-C608E9FCC17B@gmail.com/
[2]: The error message on 2.51.0 does tell them to report it, unconditionally
[3]: We allow aliasing deprecated builtins now for people who are very
    used to the command name or just like it a lot
[4]: You only get different outputs if you happen to have empty
     commits (no changes)[4]
[5]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250825085428.GA367101@coredump.intra.peff.net/

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-17 13:47:24 -07:00
Paulo Casaretto
00727249ec range-diff: add configurable memory limit for cost matrix
When comparing large commit ranges (e.g., 250,000+ commits), range-diff
attempts to allocate an n×n cost matrix that can exhaust available
memory. For example, with 256,784 commits (n = 513,568), the matrix
would require approximately 256GB of memory (513,568² × 4 bytes),
causing either immediate segmentation faults due to integer overflow or
system hangs.

Add a memory limit check in get_correspondences() before allocating the
cost matrix. This check uses the total size in bytes (n² × sizeof(int))
and compares it against a configurable maximum, preventing both
excessive memory usage and integer overflow issues.

The limit is configurable via a new --max-memory option that accepts
human-readable sizes (e.g., "1G", "500M"). The default is 4GB for 64 bit
systems and 2GB for 32 bit systems. This allows comparing ranges of
approximately 32,000 (16,000) commits - generous for real-world use cases
while preventing impractical operations.

When the limit is exceeded, range-diff now displays a clear error
message showing both the requested memory size and the maximum allowed,
formatted in human-readable units for better user experience.

Example usage:
  git range-diff --max-memory=1G branch1...branch2
  git range-diff --max-memory=500M base..topic1 base..topic2

This approach was chosen over alternatives:
- Pre-counting commits: Would require spawning additional git processes
  and reading all commits twice
- Limiting by commit count: Less precise than actual memory usage
- Streaming approach: Would require significant refactoring of the
  current algorithm

This issue was previously discussed in:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/RFC-cover-v2-0.5-00000000000-20211210T122901Z-avarab@gmail.com/

Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Paulo Casaretto <pcasaretto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-29 09:46:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
540aaa607c Merge branch 'ps/config-wo-the-repository'
The config API had a set of convenience wrapper functions that
implicitly use the_repository instance; they have been removed and
inlined at the calling sites.

* ps/config-wo-the-repository: (21 commits)
  config: fix sign comparison warnings
  config: move Git config parsing into "environment.c"
  config: remove unused `the_repository` wrappers
  config: drop `git_config_set_multivar()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_get_multivar_gently()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_set_multivar_in_file_gently()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_set_in_file_gently()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_set()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_set_gently()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_set_in_file()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_get_bool()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_get_ulong()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_get_int()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_get_string()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_get_string()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_get_string_multi()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_get_value()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_get_value()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_get()` wrapper
  config: drop `git_config_clear()` wrapper
  ...
2025-08-04 08:10:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2346617382 Merge branch 'jk/revision-no-early-output'
Remove unsupported, unused, and unsupportable old option from "git
log".

* jk/revision-no-early-output:
  revision: drop early output option
2025-08-01 11:27:11 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
627d08cca7 config: drop git_config_get_string() wrapper
In 036876a106 (config: hide functions using `the_repository` by
default, 2024-08-13) we have moved around a bunch of functions in the
config subsystem that depend on `the_repository`. Those function have
been converted into mere wrappers around their equivalent function that
takes in a repository as parameter, and the intent was that we'll
eventually remove those wrappers to make the dependency on the global
repository variable explicit at the callsite.

Follow through with that intent and remove `git_config_get_string()`.
All callsites are adjusted so that they use
`repo_config_get_string(the_repository, ...)` instead. While some
callsites might already have a repository available, this mechanical
conversion is the exact same as the current situation and thus cannot
cause any regression. Those sites should eventually be cleaned up in a
later patch series.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-23 08:15:19 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
4f5ba823b8 config: drop git_config_get_string_multi() wrapper
In 036876a106 (config: hide functions using `the_repository` by
default, 2024-08-13) we have moved around a bunch of functions in the
config subsystem that depend on `the_repository`. Those function have
been converted into mere wrappers around their equivalent function that
takes in a repository as parameter, and the intent was that we'll
eventually remove those wrappers to make the dependency on the global
repository variable explicit at the callsite.

Follow through with that intent and remove
`git_config_get_string_multi()`. All callsites are adjusted so that they
use `repo_config_get_string_multi(the_repository, ...)` instead. While
some callsites might already have a repository available, this
mechanical conversion is the exact same as the current situation and
thus cannot cause any regression. Those sites should eventually be
cleaned up in a later patch series.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-23 08:15:19 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
9ce196e86b config: drop git_config() wrapper
In 036876a106 (config: hide functions using `the_repository` by
default, 2024-08-13) we have moved around a bunch of functions in the
config subsystem that depend on `the_repository`. Those function have
been converted into mere wrappers around their equivalent function that
takes in a repository as parameter, and the intent was that we'll
eventually remove those wrappers to make the dependency on the global
repository variable explicit at the callsite.

Follow through with that intent and remove `git_config()`. All callsites
are adjusted so that they use `repo_config(the_repository, ...)`
instead. While some callsites might already have a repository available,
this mechanical conversion is the exact same as the current situation
and thus cannot cause any regression. Those sites should eventually be
cleaned up in a later patch series.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-23 08:15:18 -07:00
Jeff King
54b18261eb revision: drop early output option
We added the --early-output feature long ago in cdcefbc971 (Add
"--early-output" log flag for interactive GUI use, 2007-11-03). The idea
was that GUIs could use it to progressively render a history view,
showing something quick-and-inaccurate at first and then enhancing it
later.

But we never documented it, and it appears never to have been used, even
by the projects which initially expressed interest. There was an RFC
patch for gitk to use it:

  http://public-inbox.org/git/18221.2285.259487.655684@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com/

but it was never merged. Likewise QGit had a patch in:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/e5bfff550711040225ne67c907r2023b1354c35f35@mail.gmail.com/

but it was never fully merged (to this day, QGit has a commented-out line to
add "--early-output" to the "log" invocation). Searching for other
mentions on the web or forges like github.com turns up nothing.

Meanwhile, the feature has been broken off and on over the years without
anybody noticing (and naturally, there are no tests, either). From 2011
to 2017 the option didn't even turn on via "--early-output"; this was
fixed in e35b6ac56f (revision.h: turn rev_info.early_output back into an
unsigned int, 2017-06-10).

It worked for a while then, but it does not interact well at all with
commit-graphs (which are turned on by default these days). The main
logic to count early commits is triggered by limit_list(), which we
traditionally invoked when showing output in topo-order (and
--early-output always enables --topo-order). But that changed in
f0d9cc4196 (revision.c: begin refactoring --topo-order logic,
2018-11-01). Now when we have generation numbers, we skip limit_list()
entirely, and the early-output code shows no commits, and just the final
header "Final output: 1 done". Which is syntactically OK, but
semantically wrong: that message should give the total number of commits
we're about to show.

So let's drop the feature. It is extra code that is untested and
undocumented, and makes working on the revision machinery more brittle.

Given the history above, it seems unlikely that anybody is using it (or
has used it), and we can drop it without the usual deprecation period.

A gentler option might be to "soft" drop it: keep accepting the option,
have it imply --topo-order as it does now, print "Final output: 1 done",
and then do our regular traversal. That would keep any hypothetical
caller working. But it doesn't seem worth the hassle to me.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-21 09:28:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
51b50c55a9 Merge branch 'ps/object-store'
Code clean-up around object access API.

* ps/object-store:
  odb: rename `read_object_with_reference()`
  odb: rename `pretend_object_file()`
  odb: rename `has_object()`
  odb: rename `repo_read_object_file()`
  odb: rename `oid_object_info()`
  odb: trivial refactorings to get rid of `the_repository`
  odb: get rid of `the_repository` when handling submodule sources
  odb: get rid of `the_repository` when handling the primary source
  odb: get rid of `the_repository` in `for_each()` functions
  odb: get rid of `the_repository` when handling alternates
  odb: get rid of `the_repository` in `odb_mkstemp()`
  odb: get rid of `the_repository` in `assert_oid_type()`
  odb: get rid of `the_repository` in `find_odb()`
  odb: introduce parent pointers
  object-store: rename files to "odb.{c,h}"
  object-store: rename `object_directory` to `odb_source`
  object-store: rename `raw_object_store` to `object_database`
2025-07-15 15:18:18 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
d4ff88aee3 odb: rename repo_read_object_file()
Rename `repo_read_object_file()` to `odb_read_object()` to match other
functions related to the object database and our modern coding
guidelines.

Introduce a compatibility wrapper so that any in-flight topics will
continue to compile.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-01 14:46:38 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
8f49151763 object-store: rename files to "odb.{c,h}"
In the preceding commits we have renamed the structures contained in
"object-store.h" to `struct object_database` and `struct odb_backend`.
As such, the code files "object-store.{c,h}" are confusingly named now.
Rename them to "odb.{c,h}" accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-01 14:46:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a5cc6a2bc5 Merge branch 'jc/you-still-use-whatchanged'
"git whatchanged" that is longer to type than "git log --raw"
which is its modern rough equivalent has outlived its usefulness
more than 10 years ago.  Plan to deprecate and remove it.

* jc/you-still-use-whatchanged:
  whatschanged: list it in BreakingChanges document
  whatchanged: remove when built with WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES
  whatchanged: require --i-still-use-this
  tests: prepare for a world without whatchanged
  doc: prepare for a world without whatchanged
  you-still-use-that??: help deprecating commands for removal
2025-06-25 14:07:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
07572f220a whatchanged: remove when built with WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES
As we made "git whatchanged" require "--i-still-use-this" and asked
the users to report if they still want to use it, the logical next
step is to allow us build Git without "whatchanged" to prepare for
its eventual removal.

If we were to follow the pattern established in 8ccc75c2 (remote:
announce removal of "branches/" and "remotes/", 2025-01-22), we can
do this together with the documentation update to officially list
that the command will be removed in the BreakingChanges document,
but let's just keep the changes separate just in case we want to
proceed a bit slower.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-05-12 15:30:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
731a2c7dda whatchanged: require --i-still-use-this
The documentation of "git whatchanged" is pretty explicit that the
command was retained for historical reasons to help those whose fingers
cannot be retrained.  Let's see if they still are finding it hard to
type "git log --raw" instead of "git whatchanged" by marking the
command as "nominated for removal", and require "--i-still-use-this"
on the command line.  Adjust the tests so that the option is passed
when we invoke the command.  In addition, we test that the command
fails when "--i-still-use-this" is not given.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-05-12 15:29:37 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
68cd492a3e object-store: merge "object-store-ll.h" and "object-store.h"
The "object-store-ll.h" header has been introduced to keep transitive
header dependendcies and compile times at bay. Now that we have created
a new "object-store.c" file though we can easily move the last remaining
additional bit of "object-store.h", the `odb_path_map`, out of the
header.

Do so. As the "object-store.h" header is now equivalent to its low-level
alternative we drop the latter and inline it into the former.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-15 08:24:37 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
1a99fe8010 object-file: move safe_create_leading_directories() into "path.c"
The `safe_create_leading_directories()` function and its relatives are
located in "object-file.c", which is not a good fit as they provide
generic functionality not related to objects at all. Move them into
"path.c", which already hosts `safe_create_dir()` and its relative
`safe_create_dir_in_gitdir()`.

"path.c" is free of `the_repository`, but the moved functions depend on
`the_repository` to read the "core.sharedRepository" config. Adapt the
function signature to accept a repository as argument to fix the issue
and adjust callers accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-15 08:24:35 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
74d414c9f1 object: stop depending on the_repository
There are a couple of functions exposed by "object.c" that implicitly
depend on `the_repository`. Remove this dependency by injecting the
repository via a parameter. Adapt callers accordingly by simply using
`the_repository`, except in cases where the subsystem is already free of
the repository. In that case, we instead pass the repository provided by
the caller's context.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-10 13:16:18 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
f1ce861c34 environment: move access to "core.sharedRepository" into repo settings
Similar as with the preceding commit, we track "core.sharedRepository"
via a pair of global variables. Move them into `struct repo_settings` so
that we can instead track them per-repository.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-28 13:54:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7b39a128c8 Merge branch 'ps/the-repository'
More code paths have a repository passed through the callchain,
instead of assuming the primary the_repository object.

* ps/the-repository:
  match-trees: stop using `the_repository`
  graph: stop using `the_repository`
  add-interactive: stop using `the_repository`
  tmp-objdir: stop using `the_repository`
  resolve-undo: stop using `the_repository`
  credential: stop using `the_repository`
  mailinfo: stop using `the_repository`
  diagnose: stop using `the_repository`
  server-info: stop using `the_repository`
  send-pack: stop using `the_repository`
  serve: stop using `the_repository`
  trace: stop using `the_repository`
  pager: stop using `the_repository`
  progress: stop using `the_repository`
2025-01-21 08:44:54 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
1ab5948141 builtin/log: fix remaining -Wsign-compare warnings
Fix remaining -Wsign-compare warnings in "builtin/log.c" and mark the
file as -Wsign-compare-clean. While most of the fixes are obvious, one
fix requires us to use `cast_size_t_to_int()`, which will cause us to
die in case the `size_t` cannot be represented as `int`. This should be
fine though, as the data would typically be set either via a config key
or via the command line, neither of which should ever exceed a couple of
kilobytes of data.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-27 08:11:46 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
0905ed201a builtin/log: use size_t to track indices
Similar as with the preceding commit, adapt "builtin/log.c" so that it
tracks array indices via `size_t` instead of using signed integers. This
fixes a couple of -Wsign-compare warnings and prepares the code for
a similar refactoring of `repo_get_merge_bases_many()` in a subsequent
commit.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-27 08:11:46 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4156b6a741 Merge branch 'ps/build-sign-compare'
Start working to make the codebase buildable with -Wsign-compare.

* ps/build-sign-compare:
  t/helper: don't depend on implicit wraparound
  scalar: address -Wsign-compare warnings
  builtin/patch-id: fix type of `get_one_patchid()`
  builtin/blame: fix type of `length` variable when emitting object ID
  gpg-interface: address -Wsign-comparison warnings
  daemon: fix type of `max_connections`
  daemon: fix loops that have mismatching integer types
  global: trivial conversions to fix `-Wsign-compare` warnings
  pkt-line: fix -Wsign-compare warning on 32 bit platform
  csum-file: fix -Wsign-compare warning on 32-bit platform
  diff.h: fix index used to loop through unsigned integer
  config.mak.dev: drop `-Wno-sign-compare`
  global: mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`
  compat/win32: fix -Wsign-compare warning in "wWinMain()"
  compat/regex: explicitly ignore "-Wsign-compare" warnings
  git-compat-util: introduce macros to disable "-Wsign-compare" warnings
2024-12-23 09:32:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cb89eebf3b Merge branch 'js/log-remerge-keep-ancestry'
"git log -p --remerge-diff --reverse" was completely broken.

* js/log-remerge-keep-ancestry:
  log: --remerge-diff needs to keep around commit parents
2024-12-19 10:58:31 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
59b6131a67 pager: stop using the_repository
Stop using `the_repository` in the "pager" subsystem by passing in a
repository when setting up the pager and when configuring it.

Adjust callers accordingly by using `the_repository`. While there may be
some callers that have a repository available in their context, this
trivial conversion allows for easier verification and bubbles up the use
of `the_repository` by one level.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-18 10:44:30 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
1f7e6478dc progress: stop using the_repository
Stop using `the_repository` in the "progress" subsystem by passing in a
repository when initializing `struct progress`. Furthermore, store a
pointer to the repository in that struct so that we can pass it to the
trace2 API when logging information.

Adjust callers accordingly by using `the_repository`. While there may be
some callers that have a repository available in their context, this
trivial conversion allows for easier verification and bubbles up the use
of `the_repository` by one level.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-18 10:44:30 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
f94bfa1516 log: --remerge-diff needs to keep around commit parents
To show a remerge diff, the merge needs to be recreated. For that to
work, the merge base(s) need to be found, which means that the commits'
parents have to be traversed until common ancestors are found (if any).

However, one optimization that hails all the way back to cb115748ec
(Some more memory leak avoidance, 2006-06-17) is to release the commit's
list of parents immediately after showing it _and to set that parent
list to `NULL`_. This can break the merge base computation.

This problem is most obvious when traversing the commits in reverse: In
that instance, if a parent of a merge commit has been shown as part of
the `git log` command, by the time the merge commit's diff needs to be
computed, that parent commit's list of parent commits will have been set
to `NULL` and as a result no merge base will be found (even if one
should be found).

Traversing commits in reverse is far from the only circumstance in which
this problem occurs, though. There are many avenues to traversing at
least one commit in the revision walk that will later be part of a merge
base computation, for example when not even walking any revisions in
`git show <merge1> <merge2>` where `<merge1>` is part of the commit
graph between the parents of `<merge2>`.

Another way to force a scenario where a commit is traversed before it
has to be traversed again as part of a merge base computation is to
start with two revisions (where the first one is reachable from the
second but not in a first-parent ancestry) and show the commit log with
`--topo-order` and `--first-parent`.

Let's fix this by special-casing the `remerge_diff` mode, similar to
what we did with reflogs in f35650dff6 (log: do not free parents when
walking reflog, 2017-07-07).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-13 06:56:10 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
41f43b8243 global: mark code units that generate warnings with -Wsign-compare
Mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`. This
allows for a structured approach to get rid of all such warnings over
time in a way that can be easily measured.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-06 20:20:02 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
b8e318ea58 Merge branch 'jc/pass-repo-to-builtins'
The convention to calling into built-in command implementation has
been updated to pass the repository, if known, together with the
prefix value.

* jc/pass-repo-to-builtins:
  add: pass in repo variable instead of global the_repository
  builtin: remove USE_THE_REPOSITORY for those without the_repository
  builtin: remove USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE from builtin.h
  builtin: add a repository parameter for builtin functions
2024-09-23 10:35:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
be8ca2848a Merge branch 'jc/range-diff-lazy-setup'
Code clean-up.

* jc/range-diff-lazy-setup:
  remerge-diff: clean up temporary objdir at a central place
  remerge-diff: lazily prepare temporary objdir on demand
2024-09-16 14:22:55 -07:00
John Cai
03eae9afb4 builtin: remove USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE from builtin.h
Instead of including USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE by default on every
builtin, remove it from builtin.h and add it to all the builtins that
include builtin.h (by definition, that means all builtins/*.c).

Also, remove the include statement for repository.h since it gets
brought in through builtin.h.

The next step will be to migrate each builtin
from having to use the_repository.

Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-13 14:32:24 -07:00