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Jeff King
6375a00ef1 bisect: simplify string_list memory handling
We declare the refs_for_removal string_list as NODUP, forcing us to
manually allocate strings we insert. And then when it comes time to
clean up, we set strdup_strings so that string_list_clear() will free
them for us.

This is a confusing pattern, and can be done much more simply by just
declaring the list with the DUP initializer in the first place.

It was written this way originally because one of the callsites
generated the item using xstrfmt(). But that spot switched to a plain
xstrdup() in the preceding commit. That means we can now just let the
string_list code handle allocation itself.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-19 10:41:18 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
9e86e1a05b bisect: fix misuse of refs_for_each_ref_in()
All callers of `refs_for_each_ref_in()` pass in a string that is
terminated with a trailing slash to indicate that they only want to see
refs in that specific ref hierarchy. This is in fact a requirement if
one wants to use this function, as the function trims the prefix from
each yielded ref. So if there was a reference that was called
"refs/bisect" as in our example, the result after trimming would be the
empty string, and that's something we disallow.

Fix this by adding the trailing slash.

Furthermore, taking a closer look, we strip the prefix only to re-add it
in `mark_for_removal()`. This is somewhat roundabout, as we can instead
call `refs_for_each_fullref_in()` to not do any stripping at all. Do so
to simplify the code a bit.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-19 10:41:18 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
7174098834 pack-bitmap: fix bug with exact ref match in "pack.preferBitmapTips"
The "pack.preferBitmapTips" configuration allows the user to specify
which references should be preferred when generating bitmaps. This
option is typically expected to be set to a reference prefix, like for
example "refs/heads/".

It's not unreasonable though for a user to configure one specific
reference as preferred. But if they do, they'll hit a `BUG()`:

    $ git -c pack.preferBitmapTips=refs/heads/main repack -adb
    BUG: ../refs/iterator.c:366: attempt to trim too many characters
    error: pack-objects died of signal 6

The root cause for this bug is how we enumerate these references. We
call `refs_for_each_ref_in()`, which will:

  - Yield all references that have a user-specified prefix.

  - Trim each of these references so that the prefix is removed.

Typically, this function is called with a trailing slash, like
"refs/heads/", and in that case things work alright. But if the function
is called with the name of an existing reference then we'll try to trim
the full reference name, which would leave us with an empty name. And as
this would not really leave us with anything sensible, we call `BUG()`
instead of yielding this reference.

One could argue that this is a bug in `refs_for_each_ref_in()`. But the
question then becomes what the correct behaviour would be:

  - Do we want to skip exact matches? In our case we certainly don't
    want that, as the user has asked us to generate a bitmap for it.

  - Do we want to yield the reference with the empty refname? That would
    lead to a somewhat weird result.

Neither of these feel like viable options, so calling `BUG()` feels like
a sensible way out. The root cause ultimately is that we even try to
trim the whole refname in the first place. There are two possible ways
to fix this issue:

  - We can fix the bug by using `refs_for_each_fullref_in()` instead,
    which does not strip the prefix at all. Consequently, we would now
    start to accept all references that start with the configured
    prefix, including exact matches. So if we had "refs/heads/main", we
    would both match "refs/heads/main" and "refs/heads/main-branch".

  - Or we can fix the bug by appending a slash to the prefix if it
    doesn't already have one. This would mean that we only match
    ref hierarchies that start with this prefix.

While the first fix leaves the user with strictly _more_ configuration
options, we have already fixed a similar case in 10e8a9352b (refs.c:
stop matching non-directory prefixes in exclude patterns, 2025-03-06) by
using the second option. So for the sake of consistency, let's apply the
same fix here.

Clarify the documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-19 10:41:18 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
ed693078e9 pack-bitmap: deduplicate logic to iterate over preferred bitmap tips
We have two locations that iterate over the preferred bitmap tips as
configured by the user via "pack.preferBitmapTips". Both of these
callsites are subtly wrong: when the preferred bitmap tips contain an
exact refname match, then we will hit a `BUG()`.

Prepare for the fix by unifying the two callsites into a new
`for_each_preferred_bitmap_tip()` function.

This removes the last callsite of `bitmap_preferred_tips()` outside of
"pack-bitmap.c". As such, convert the function to be local to that file
only. Note that the function is still used by a second caller, so we
cannot just inline it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-19 10:41:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ea717645d1 RelNotes: a few spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-27 12:12:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ab380cb80b Git 2.53-rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
v2.53.0-rc2
2026-01-26 22:26:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ab689ea7f9 Revert "Merge branch 'cs/rebased-subtree-split'"
This reverts commit 79e3055bab, reversing
changes made to 9813aace1e.

Regresison report

    https://lore.kernel.org/git/755578cb-07e0-4b40-aa90-aacf4d45ccaa@heusel.eu/
2026-01-25 22:37:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6959eee16e Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/j6t/git-gui
* 'master' of https://github.com/j6t/git-gui:
  git-gui: mark *.po files at any directory level as UTF-8
  git-gui i18n: Update Bulgarian translation (558t)
  git-gui i18n: Update Bulgarian translation (557t)
2026-01-25 09:08:06 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
1a729ccb93 git-gui: mark *.po files at any directory level as UTF-8
When a commit is viewed in Gitk that changes a file in po/glossary, the
patch text shows mojibake instead of correctly decoded UTF-8 text.
Gitk retrieves the encoding attribute to decide how to treat the bytes
that make up the patch text. There is an attribute definition that all
files are US-ASCII, and a later attribute definition overrides this.
But the override, which specifies UTF-8, applies only to *.po files in
directory po/ and does not apply to subdirectories.

Widen the pattern to apply to all directory levels.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
2026-01-25 10:53:08 +01:00
Johannes Sixt
4b700c24e8 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:alshopov/git-gui
* 'master' of github.com:alshopov/git-gui:
  git-gui i18n: Update Bulgarian translation (558t)
2026-01-25 10:32:21 +01:00
Alexander Shopov
539e6337b8 git-gui i18n: Update Bulgarian translation (558t)
- Translate new string (558t)
- Add graves for disambiguation
- Improve glossary translation (96t) and synchonize with git

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shopov <ash@kambanaria.org>
2026-01-24 21:47:12 +01:00
Johannes Sixt
453fd8d14c Merge branch 'master' of github.com:alshopov/git-gui
* 'master' of github.com:alshopov/git-gui:
  git-gui i18n: Update Bulgarian translation (557t)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
2026-01-24 09:25:29 +01:00
Junio C Hamano
ea24e2c554 A bit more before -rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-23 13:34:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a85b5220e1 Merge branch 'dk/replay-doc-omit-irrelevant-rev-list-options'
Documentation clean-up.

* dk/replay-doc-omit-irrelevant-rev-list-options:
  lint-gitlink: preemptively ignore all /ifn?def|endif/ macros
  replay: drop rev-list formatting options from manual
2026-01-23 13:34:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
26f50ef98f Merge branch 'js/symlink-windows'
Upstream symbolic link support on Windows from Git-for-Windows.

* js/symlink-windows:
  mingw: special-case index entries for symlinks with buggy size
  mingw: emulate `stat()` a little more faithfully
  mingw: try to create symlinks without elevated permissions
  mingw: add support for symlinks to directories
  mingw: implement basic `symlink()` functionality (file symlinks only)
  mingw: implement `readlink()`
  mingw: allow `mingw_chdir()` to change to symlink-resolved directories
  mingw: support renaming symlinks
  mingw: handle symlinks to directories in `mingw_unlink()`
  mingw: add symlink-specific error codes
  mingw: change default of `core.symlinks` to false
  mingw: factor out the retry logic
  mingw: compute the correct size for symlinks in `mingw_lstat()`
  mingw: teach dirent about symlinks
  mingw: let `mingw_lstat()` error early upon problems with reparse points
  mingw: drop the separate `do_lstat()` function
  mingw: implement `stat()` with symlink support
  mingw: don't call `GetFileAttributes()` twice in `mingw_lstat()`
2026-01-23 13:34:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f2e92f7b04 Merge branch 'pw/mailmap-self'
Unify entries in .mailmap file for Phillip Wood.

* pw/mailmap-self:
  mailmap: add an entry for Phillip Wood
2026-01-23 13:34:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1f047a6fba Merge branch 'js/ci-leak-skip-svn'
Dscho observed that SVN tests are taking too much time in CI leak
checking tasks, but most time is spent not in our code but in libsvn
code (which happen to be written in Perl), whose leaks have little
value to discover for us.  Skip SVN, P4, and CVS tests in the leak
checking tasks.

* js/ci-leak-skip-svn:
  ci: skip CVS and P4 tests in leaks job, too
  ci(*-leaks): skip the git-svn tests to save time
2026-01-23 13:34:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3d95282129 Merge branch 'jx/build-options-gettext'
"git bugreport" and "git version --build-options" learned to
include use of 'gettext' feature, to make it easier to diagnose
problems around l10n.

* jx/build-options-gettext:
  help: report on whether or not gettext is enabled
2026-01-23 13:34:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
62627a3484 Merge branch 'ty/t1005-test-path-is-helpers'
Test clean-up.

* ty/t1005-test-path-is-helpers:
  t1005: modernize "! test -f" to "test_path_is_missing"
2026-01-23 13:34:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cd8b8cba47 Merge branch 'rj/cygwin-test-fixes-for-2.53'
Test fixup.

* rj/cygwin-test-fixes-for-2.53:
  t0610-reftable-basics: mitigate a flaky test on cygwin
  t9700/test.pl: fix path type expectation on cygwin
2026-01-23 13:34:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cfa173a5fa Merge branch 'sb/doc-update-ref-markup-fix'
Doc mark-up fix.

* sb/doc-update-ref-markup-fix:
  doc: fix `update-ref` `symref-create` formatting
2026-01-23 13:34:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b3722b381e Merge branch 'kh/mailmap-avila'
* kh/mailmap-avila:
  .mailmap: fix and expand mappings for Jean-Noël Avila
2026-01-23 13:34:35 -08:00
Alexander Shopov
83a705b687 git-gui i18n: Update Bulgarian translation (557t)
Fix the meaning of a string

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shopov <ash@kambanaria.org>
2026-01-23 11:14:01 +01:00
Junio C Hamano
1faf5b085a A few on top of -rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-21 16:16:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
214cbb7b1d Merge branch 'rs/tree-wo-the-repository'
Remove implicit reliance on the_repository global in the APIs
around tree objects and make it explicit which repository to work
in.

* rs/tree-wo-the-repository:
  cocci: remove obsolete the_repository rules
  cocci: convert parse_tree functions to repo_ variants
  tree: stop using the_repository
  tree: use repo_parse_tree()
  path-walk: use repo_parse_tree_gently()
  pack-bitmap-write: use repo_parse_tree()
  delta-islands: use repo_parse_tree()
  bloom: use repo_parse_tree()
  add-interactive: use repo_parse_tree_indirect()
  tree: add repo_parse_tree*()
  environment: move access to core.maxTreeDepth into repo settings
2026-01-21 16:16:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c0b4d20979 Merge branch 'ps/config-doc-get-urlmatch-fix'
Docfix.

* ps/config-doc-get-urlmatch-fix:
  Documentation/config: fix replacement for --get-urlmatch
2026-01-21 16:16:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e13de9ed8e Merge branch 'tb/midx-write-corrupt-checksum-fix'
The logic that avoids reusing MIDX files with a wrong checksum was
broken, which has been corrected.

* tb/midx-write-corrupt-checksum-fix:
  midx-write.c: assume checksum-invalid MIDXs require an update
  t/t5319-multi-pack-index.sh: drop early 'test_done'
2026-01-21 16:16:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
070fa41675 Merge branch 'ps/geometric-repacking-with-promisor-remotes'
"git repack --geometric" did not work with promisor packs, which
has been corrected.

* ps/geometric-repacking-with-promisor-remotes:
  builtin/repack: handle promisor packs with geometric repacking
  repack-promisor: extract function to remove redundant packs
  repack-promisor: extract function to finalize repacking
  repack-geometry: extract function to compute repacking split
  builtin/pack-objects: exclude promisor objects with "--stdin-packs"
2026-01-21 16:16:27 -08:00
Kristoffer Haugsbakk
7dfd1b4c13 .mailmap: fix and expand mappings for Jean-Noël Avila
The latest release candidate notes say that there is a new contributor:

    Jean-Noël Avila via GitGitGadget, ...

But this is a familiar face, just in a G.G. Gadget trench coat.

Also map the rest of the idents in the history.

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-21 15:12:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
83a69f1935 Git 2.53-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
v2.53.0-rc1
2026-01-21 08:29:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
39d66ddffd Merge branch 'js/prep-symlink-windows'
Further preparation to upstream symbolic link support on Windows.

* js/prep-symlink-windows:
  trim_last_path_component(): avoid hard-coding the directory separator
  strbuf_readlink(): support link targets that exceed 2*PATH_MAX
  strbuf_readlink(): avoid calling `readlink()` twice in corner-cases
  init: do parse _all_ core.* settings early
  mingw: do resolve symlinks in `getcwd()`
2026-01-21 08:29:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bc5cbbe246 Merge branch 'ps/read-object-info-improvements'
The object-info API has been cleaned up.

* ps/read-object-info-improvements:
  packfile: drop repository parameter from `packed_object_info()`
  packfile: skip unpacking object header for disk size requests
  packfile: disentangle return value of `packed_object_info()`
  packfile: always populate pack-specific info when reading object info
  packfile: extend `is_delta` field to allow for "unknown" state
  packfile: always declare object info to be OI_PACKED
  object-file: always set OI_LOOSE when reading object info
2026-01-21 08:29:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d627023d80 Merge branch 'ps/packfile-store-in-odb-source'
The packfile_store data structure is moved from object store to odb
source.

* ps/packfile-store-in-odb-source:
  packfile: move MIDX into packfile store
  packfile: refactor `find_pack_entry()` to work on the packfile store
  packfile: inline `find_kept_pack_entry()`
  packfile: only prepare owning store in `packfile_store_prepare()`
  packfile: only prepare owning store in `packfile_store_get_packs()`
  packfile: move packfile store into object source
  packfile: refactor misleading code when unusing pack windows
  packfile: refactor kept-pack cache to work with packfile stores
  packfile: pass source to `prepare_pack()`
  packfile: create store via its owning source
2026-01-21 08:28:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ab72d23880 Merge branch 'kt/http-backend-errors'
Some error messages from the http transport layer lacked the
terminating newline, which has been corrected.

* kt/http-backend-errors:
  http-backend: write newlines to stderr when responding with errors
2026-01-21 08:28:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e01178bb1a Merge branch 'ps/t1410-cleanup'
Test clean-up.

* ps/t1410-cleanup:
  t1410: use test helpers in reflog rewind test
2026-01-21 08:28:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dc861c97c3 Merge branch 'ps/ref-consistency-checks'
Update code paths that check data integrity around refs subsystem.
cf. <CAOLa=ZShPP3BPXa=YnC-vuX4zF=pUTFdUidZwOdna8bfVTNM9w@mail.gmail.com>

* ps/ref-consistency-checks:
  builtin/fsck: drop `fsck_head_link()`
  builtin/fsck: move generic HEAD check into `refs_fsck()`
  builtin/fsck: move generic object ID checks into `refs_fsck()`
  refs/reftable: introduce generic checks for refs
  refs/reftable: fix consistency checks with worktrees
  refs/reftable: extract function to retrieve backend for worktree
  refs/reftable: adapt includes to become consistent
  refs/files: introduce function to perform normal ref checks
  refs/files: extract generic symref target checks
  fsck: drop unused fields from `struct fsck_ref_report`
  refs/files: perform consistency checks for root refs
  refs/files: improve error handling when verifying symrefs
  refs/files: extract function to check single ref
  refs/files: remove useless indirection
  refs/files: remove `refs_check_dir` parameter
  refs/files: move fsck functions into global scope
  refs/files: simplify iterating through root refs
2026-01-21 08:28:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0a5dcc1259 Merge branch 'tb/macos-iconv-workarounds'
The iconv library on macOS fails to correctly handle stateful
ISO/IEC 2022 encoded strings.  Work it around instead of replacing
it wholesale from homebrew.

* tb/macos-iconv-workarounds:
  utf8.c: enable workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15
  utf8.c: prepare workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15
2026-01-21 08:28:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
79e3055bab Merge branch 'cs/rebased-subtree-split'
The split command in "git subtree" (in contrib/) has been taught to
deal better with rebased history.

* cs/rebased-subtree-split:
  contrib/subtree: detect rewritten subtree commits
2026-01-21 08:28:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9813aace1e Merge branch 'je/doc-reset'
Documentation updates.

* je/doc-reset:
  doc: git-reset: clarify `git reset <pathspec>`
  doc: git-reset: clarify `git reset [mode]`
  doc: git-reset: clarify intro
  doc: git-reset: reorder the forms
2026-01-21 08:28:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6edbb7b1d0 Merge branch 'en/fsck-snapshot-ref-state'
"git fsck" used inconsistent set of refs to show a confused
warning, which has been corrected.

* en/fsck-snapshot-ref-state:
  fsck: snapshot default refs before object walk
2026-01-21 08:28:57 -08:00
Jean-Noël Avila
46933bf182 lint-gitlink: preemptively ignore all /ifn?def|endif/ macros
Instead of testing if the macro name is ifn?def:: as if it were a inline
macro, it is faster and safer to just ignore such block macro lines before
hand.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-21 08:26:00 -08:00
D. Ben Knoble
ad228c24df replay: drop rev-list formatting options from manual
The rev-list options in our manuals are quite long; git-replay's manual
is no exception. Since replay doesn't use the formatting options at all
(it has its own output format), drop them.

This is the first time we have needed compound tests [1] for if[n]def in
our documentation:

    git grep '^ifn\?def::' Documentation | grep '[,+]'

[1]: https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/directives/ifdef-ifndef/

For both ifdef and ifndef, the "," takes on the intuitive meaning:
- ifdef: if any of the listed attributes are set…
- ifndef: unless any of the listed attributes are set

(Use "+" for "all".)

Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-20 09:38:56 -08:00
Phillip Wood
28cfac364f mailmap: add an entry for Phillip Wood
While all my commits appear under the same address, other addresses
appear in some commit trailers. Map those addresses to the canonical
one.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-20 07:45:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
047bd7dfe3 ci: skip CVS and P4 tests in leaks job, too
Looking at the CI logs, the p4 and cvs tests account for another 24
minutes of test time and they offer minimal value for quite a
similar reason as the previous step.

Let's introduce and use a mechanism to skip these tests to save
some resources.

Suggested-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-19 11:02:31 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
d7971544fe ci(*-leaks): skip the git-svn tests to save time
I noticed recently that the leak-checking jobs still take a lot of time,
and upon analysis, the git-svn tests contribute significantly to this.

Analyzing a recent CI run, I saw that the Git test suite contains
1,017 tests, running for approximately 5¼ hours total. Of these, 65
git-svn-related tests (~6% of test count) took 42.24 minutes combined,
accounting for ~13.% of the total runtime. This implies that the git-svn
tests are roughly twice as expernsive compared to the other tests.

However, testing git-svn in the leak-checking jobs provides minimal
value: git-svn is implemented as a Perl script, and leak checking only
handles C code. While git-svn does call into Git's built-in commands
that are implemented in C, these are standard Git operations that are
already thoroughly exercised elsewhere in the test suite. Therefore,
running the git-svn tests in the leak-checking jobs only adds to the
overall run time with little value in return.

Given that the leak-checking jobs are particularly time-intensive and
these 42+ minutes of SVN tests per job provide no additional leak
detection value, skip them in the *-leaks jobs to reduce CI runtime.

Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-17 10:23:59 -08:00
Tian Yuchen
bc8556d066 t1005: modernize "! test -f" to "test_path_is_missing"
Replace instances of "! test -f <file>" with "test_path_is_missing <file>".
This macro provides better diagnostics when the test fails (it prints
"Path exists:" instead of silently failing).

Signed-off-by: Tian Yuchen <a3205153416@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-17 10:01:14 -08:00
Jiang Xin
de985d69f6 help: report on whether or not gettext is enabled
When users report that Git has no localized output, we need to check not
only their locale settings, but also whether Git was built with GETTEXT
support in the first place.

Expose this information via the existing build info output by adding a
"gettext: enabled" line to `git version --build-options` (and therefore
also to `git bugreport`) when `NO_GETTEXT` is not defined at build time.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <zhiyou.jx@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-17 09:57:59 -08:00
Ramsay Jones
59da9f292a t0610-reftable-basics: mitigate a flaky test on cygwin
Test #29 ('ref transaction: corrupted tables cause failure') started to
fail intermittently for me (from v2.52.0-rc0) when running the testsuite
with '-j8'. (Also, having moved to a new laptop and windows 11, rather
than windows 10). If the test is run by hand, or without any parallelism,
then it passes without issue.

When the test fails (e.g. 1 out of 32 parallel runs) the cause is due to
a permission error while corrupting a table file:

  ./test-lib.sh: line 1010: .git/reftable/0x000000000001-0x000000000002-d89bb8ee.ref: Permission denied

This corruption is done in a shell loop, directly after a 'test_commit',
which uses an ': >"$f"' expression to truncate the file. Adding a sleep
of one second after the 'test_commit' and before the shell loop fixes
the test (it is not clear why). Replacing the redirection shell expression
with a 'test-tool truncate "$f" 0' invocation also provides a fix, which
could simply be another way to change the timing sufficiently to win the
race.

During a debug session, I tried looking at the strace output for the
shell redirection:

  $ rm /tmp/hello; echo hello >/tmp/hello; ls -l /tmp/hello
  -rw-r--r-- 1 ramsay None 6 Nov 10 17:25 /tmp/hello
  $

  $ strace -o zzz bash -c ': >/tmp/hello'
  $

Similarly, for the test-tool solution:

  $ strace -o xxx ./t/helper/test-tool truncate /tmp/hello 0
  $

When comparing the output, the differences seemed to be what you would
expect and, if anything, the shell redirect probably would have taken
longer than the test-tool solution (many fcntl() calls to dup the stdout
to the <fd>).  The call to the win32 api NtCreateFile() was identical,
apart from the first (FileHandle) parameter, of course.

In order to fix this flaky test on cygwin, despite not knowing why it
works, replace the shell redirection with the above 'test-tool truncate'
invocation.

Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-16 14:01:42 -08:00
Ramsay Jones
c381a21490 t9700/test.pl: fix path type expectation on cygwin
Commit 4ec7ac101b ("t9700: accommodate for Windows paths", 2025-12-17)
changed the type of the absolute path to the git directory from unix to
win32 for both GfW and cygwin. This fixed the test for GfW but causes
new failures on cygwin, since the test expectation is that it uses unix
paths on cygwin. In order to not break cygwin, disable the new code by
removing the "or $^O eq 'cygwin'" sub-expression from the conditional
part of the fix.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-16 13:59:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b5c409c40f Merge a handful more topics after -rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-16 12:40:28 -08:00