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Junio C Hamano
abc4bbde56 Merge branch 'vp/http-rate-limit-retries' into seen
The HTTP transport learned to react to "429 Too Many Requests".

* vp/http-rate-limit-retries:
  http: add support for HTTP 429 rate limit retries
  remote-curl: introduce show_http_message_fatal() helper
  strbuf_attach: fix call sites to pass correct alloc
  strbuf: pass correct alloc to strbuf_attach() in strbuf_reencode()
2026-03-06 21:30:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
525f63d9c2 Merge branch 'jc/neuter-sideband-post-3.0' into seen
The final step, split from earlier attempt by Dscho, to loosen the
sideband restriction for now and tighten later at Git v3.0 boundary.

* jc/neuter-sideband-post-3.0:
  sideband: delay sanitizing by default to Git v3.0
2026-03-06 21:30:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
435329ba13 Merge branch 'ab/clone-default-object-filter' into seen
"git clone" learns to pay attention to "clone.<url>.defaultObjectFilter"
configuration and behave as if the "--filter=<filter-spec>" option
was given on the command line.

Comments?

* ab/clone-default-object-filter:
  clone: add clone.<url>.defaultObjectFilter config
2026-03-06 21:30:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
51f796f122 Merge branch 'jc/neuter-sideband-fixup' into jch
Try to resurrect and reboot a stalled "avoid sending risky escape
sequences taken from sideband to the terminal" topic by Dscho.  The
plan is to keep it in 'next' long enough to see if anybody screams
with the "everything dropped except for ANSI color escape sequence"
default.

Comments?

* jc/neuter-sideband-fixup:
  sideband: drop 'default' configuration
  sideband: offer to configure sanitizing on a per-URL basis
  sideband: add options to allow more control sequences to be passed through
  sideband: do allow ANSI color sequences by default
  sideband: introduce an "escape hatch" to allow control characters
  sideband: mask control characters
2026-03-06 21:29:45 -08:00
Alan Braithwaite
79d2167e8d clone: add clone.<url>.defaultObjectFilter config
Add a new configuration option that lets users specify a default
partial clone filter, optionally scoped by URL pattern.  When
cloning a repository whose URL matches a configured pattern,
git-clone automatically applies the filter, equivalent to passing
--filter on the command line.

    [clone]
        defaultObjectFilter = blob:limit=1m

    [clone "https://github.com/"]
        defaultObjectFilter = blob:limit=5m

    [clone "https://internal.corp.com/large-project/"]
        defaultObjectFilter = blob:none

The bare clone.defaultObjectFilter applies to all clones.  The
URL-qualified form clone.<url>.defaultObjectFilter restricts the
setting to matching URLs.  URL matching uses the existing
urlmatch_config_entry() infrastructure, following the same rules as
http.<url>.* — a domain, namespace, or specific project can be
matched, and the most specific match wins.

The config only affects the initial clone.  Once the clone completes,
the filter is recorded in remote.<name>.partialCloneFilter, so
subsequent fetches inherit it automatically.  An explicit --filter
on the command line takes precedence, and --no-filter defeats the
configured default entirely.

Signed-off-by: Alan Braithwaite <alan@braithwaite.dev>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 18:02:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0d555be633 Merge branch 'pt/fsmonitor-linux' into jch
The fsmonitor daemon has been implemented for Linux.

* pt/fsmonitor-linux:
  fsmonitor: convert shown khash to strset in do_handle_client
  fsmonitor: add tests for Linux
  fsmonitor: add timeout to daemon stop command
  fsmonitor: close inherited file descriptors and detach in daemon
  run-command: add close_fd_above_stderr option
  fsmonitor: implement filesystem change listener for Linux
  fsmonitor: rename fsm-settings-darwin.c to fsm-settings-unix.c
  fsmonitor: rename fsm-ipc-darwin.c to fsm-ipc-unix.c
  fsmonitor: use pthread_cond_timedwait for cookie wait
  compat/win32: add pthread_cond_timedwait
  fsmonitor: fix hashmap memory leak in fsmonitor_run_daemon
  fsmonitor: fix khash memory leak in do_handle_client
2026-03-06 17:45:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b7bbf99ec0 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
2026-03-06 17:45:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
736992bf0b Merge branch 'tb/incremental-midx-part-3.2' into jch
Further work on incremental repacking using MIDX/bitmap

* tb/incremental-midx-part-3.2:
  midx: enable reachability bitmaps during MIDX compaction
  midx: implement MIDX compaction
  t/helper/test-read-midx.c: plug memory leak when selecting layer
  midx-write.c: factor fanout layering from `compute_sorted_entries()`
  midx-write.c: enumerate `pack_int_id` values directly
  midx-write.c: extract `fill_pack_from_midx()`
  midx-write.c: introduce `midx_pack_perm()` helper
  midx: do not require packs to be sorted in lexicographic order
  midx-write.c: introduce `struct write_midx_opts`
  midx-write.c: don't use `pack_perm` when assigning `bitmap_pos`
  t/t5319-multi-pack-index.sh: fix copy-and-paste error in t5319.39
  git-multi-pack-index(1): align SYNOPSIS with 'git multi-pack-index -h'
  git-multi-pack-index(1): remove non-existent incompatibility
  builtin/multi-pack-index.c: make '--progress' a common option
  midx: introduce `midx_get_checksum_hex()`
  midx: rename `get_midx_checksum()` to `midx_get_checksum_hash()`
  midx: mark `get_midx_checksum()` arguments as const
2026-03-06 17:45:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
34b3d7d813 Merge branch 'lc/rebase-trailer' into jch
"git rebase" learns "--trailer" command to drive the
interpret-trailers machinery.

Comments?

* lc/rebase-trailer:
  rebase: support --trailer
  commit, tag: parse --trailer with OPT_STRVEC
  trailer: append trailers without fork/exec
  trailer: libify a couple of functions
  interpret-trailers: refactor create_in_place_tempfile()
  interpret-trailers: factor trailer rewriting
2026-03-06 17:45:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a20b60df1b Merge branch 'jt/repo-structure-extrema' into jch
"git repo structure" command learns to report maximum values on
various aspects of objects it inspects.

* jt/repo-structure-extrema:
  builtin/repo: find tree with most entries
  builtin/repo: find commit with most parents
  builtin/repo: add OID annotations to table output
  builtin/repo: collect largest inflated objects
  builtin/repo: add helper for printing keyvalue output
  builtin/repo: update stats for each object
2026-03-06 17:45:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
964950c58d Merge branch 'sa/replay-revert' into jch
"git replay" (experimental) learns, in addition to "pick" and
"replay", a new operating mode "revert".

* sa/replay-revert:
  replay: add --revert mode to reverse commit changes
  sequencer: extract revert message formatting into shared function
2026-03-06 17:45:46 -08:00
Mirko Faina
51ed9f7e72 docs: add usage for the cover-letter fmt feature
Document the new "--cover-letter-format" option in format-patch and its
related configuration variable "format.commitListFormat".

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 17:16:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fb5d8c355d Merge branch 'dt/send-email-client-cert' into jch
"git send-email" learns to support use of client-side certificates.

* dt/send-email-client-cert:
  send-email: add client certificate options
2026-03-06 14:41:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
484eafb508 Merge branch 'jt/doc-submitting-patches-study-before-sending' into jch
Doc update for our contributors.

* jt/doc-submitting-patches-study-before-sending:
  Documentation: extend guidance for submitting patches
2026-03-06 14:40:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cb5cc5a171 Merge branch 'hn/status-compare-with-push' into jch
"git status" learned to show comparison between the current branch
and various other branches listed on status.compareBranches
configuration.

* hn/status-compare-with-push:
  status: clarify how status.compareBranches deduplicates
2026-03-06 14:40:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c736cacdb1 Merge branch 'os/doc-custom-subcommand-on-path' into jch
The way end-users can add their own "git <cmd>" subcommand by
storing "git-<cmd>" in a directory on their $PATH has not been
documented clearly, which has been corrected.

* os/doc-custom-subcommand-on-path:
  doc: add information regarding external commands
2026-03-06 14:40:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6525321cee Merge branch 'lp/doc-gitprotocol-pack-fixes' into jch
Doc update.

* lp/doc-gitprotocol-pack-fixes:
  doc: gitprotocol-pack: normalize italic formatting
  doc: gitprotocol-pack: improve paragraphs structure
  doc: gitprotocol-pack: fix pronoun-antecedent agreement
2026-03-06 14:40:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ba3e2ed1e8 Merge branch 'bc/sha1-256-interop-02' into jch
The code to maintain mapping between object names in multiple hash
functions is being added, written in Rust.

* bc/sha1-256-interop-02:
  object-file-convert: always make sure object ID algo is valid
  rust: add a small wrapper around the hashfile code
  rust: add a new binary object map format
  rust: add functionality to hash an object
  rust: add a build.rs script for tests
  rust: fix linking binaries with cargo
  hash: expose hash context functions to Rust
  write-or-die: add an fsync component for the object map
  csum-file: define hashwrite's count as a uint32_t
  rust: add additional helpers for ObjectID
  hash: add a function to look up hash algo structs
  rust: add a hash algorithm abstraction
  rust: add a ObjectID struct
  hash: use uint32_t for object_id algorithm
  conversion: don't crash when no destination algo
  repository: require Rust support for interoperability
2026-03-06 14:40:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2a8a731342 Merge branch 'jh/alias-i18n-fixes' into jch
Further update to the i18n alias support to avoid regressions.

* jh/alias-i18n-fixes:
  doc: fix list continuation in alias.adoc
2026-03-06 14:40:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ae079643e8 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
2026-03-06 14:40:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c2421e5c8c Merge branch 'jh/alias-i18n-fixes' (early part) into jch
* 'jh/alias-i18n-fixes' (early part):
  git, help: fix memory leaks in alias listing
  alias: treat empty subsection [alias ""] as plain [alias]
  doc: fix list continuation in alias subsection example
2026-03-06 14:40:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
64279deb16 Merge branch 'cs/add-skip-submodule-ignore-all' into jch
"git add <submodule>" has been taught to honor
submodule.<name>.ignore that is set to "all" (and requires "git add
-f" to override it).

* cs/add-skip-submodule-ignore-all:
  Documentation: update add --force option + ignore=all config
  tests: fix existing tests when add an ignore=all submodule
  tests: t2206-add-submodule-ignored: ignore=all and add --force tests
  read-cache: submodule add need --force given ignore=all configuration
  read-cache: update add_files_to_cache take param ignored_too
2026-03-06 14:40:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b4bd57f2fb Merge branch 'ar/config-hooks' (early part) into jch
* 'ar/config-hooks' (early part):
  hook: add -z option to "git hook list"
  hook: allow out-of-repo 'git hook' invocations
  hook: allow event = "" to overwrite previous values
  hook: allow disabling config hooks
  hook: include hooks from the config
  hook: add "git hook list" command
  hook: run a list of hooks to prepare for multihook support
  hook: add internal state alloc/free callbacks
2026-03-06 14:40:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d8d99ef37b Merge branch 'hn/status-compare-with-push' (early part) into jch
* 'hn/status-compare-with-push' (early part):
  status: add status.compareBranches config for multiple branch comparisons
  refactor format_branch_comparison in preparation
2026-03-06 14:40:50 -08:00
Justin Tobler
a190f01f57 Documentation: extend guidance for submitting patches
Before submitting patches on the mailing list, it is often a good idea
to check for previous related discussions or if similar work is already
in progress. This enables better coordination amongst contributors and
could avoid duplicating work.

Additionally, it is often recommended to give reviewers some time to
reply to a patch series before sending new versions. This helps collect
broader feedback and reduces unnecessary churn from rapid rerolls.

Document this guidance in "Documentation/SubmittingPatches" accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 14:27:05 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
818fbfd208 sideband: delay sanitizing by default to Git v3.0
The sideband sanitization patches allow ANSI color sequences through
by default, preserving compatibility with pre-receive hooks that
provide colored output during `git push`.

Even so, there is concern that changing any default behavior in a
minor release may have unforeseen consequences. To accommodate this,
defer the secure-by-default behavior to Git v3.0, where breaking
changes are expected.

This gives users and tooling time to prepare, while committing to
address CVE-2024-52005 in Git v3.0.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
[jc: adjusted for the removal of 'default' value]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 13:54:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
826cc47220 sideband: drop 'default' configuration
The topic so far allows users to tweak the configuration variable
sideband.allowControlCharacters to override the hardcoded default,
but among which there is the value called 'default'.  The plan [*]
of the series is to loosen the setting by a later commit in the
series and schedule it to tighten at the Git 3.0 boundary for end
users, at which point, the meaning of this 'default' value will
change.

Which is a dubious design.

A user expresses their preference by setting configuration variable
in order to guard against sudden change brought in by changes to the
hardcoded default behaviour, and letting them set it to 'default'
that will change at the Git 3.0 boundary defeats its purpose.  If a
user wants to say "I am easy and can go with whatever hardcoded
default Git implementors choose for me", they simply leave the
configuration variable unspecified.

Let's remove it from the state before Git 3.0 so that those users
who set it to 'default' will not see the behaviour changed under
their feet all of sudden.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 13:52:28 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
602c83f0ef sideband: offer to configure sanitizing on a per-URL basis
The main objection against sanitizing the sideband that was raised
during the review of the sideband sanitizing patches, first on the
git-security mailing list, then on the public mailing list, was that
there are some setups where server-side `pre-receive` hooks want to
error out, giving colorful messages to the users on the client side (if
they are not redirecting the output into a file, that is).

To avoid breaking such setups, the default chosen by the sideband
sanitizing patches is to pass through ANSI color sequences.

Still, there might be some use case out there where that is not enough.
Therefore the `sideband.allowControlCharacters` config setting allows
for configuring  levels of sanitizing.

As Junio Hamano pointed out, to keep users safe by default, we need to
be able to scope this to some servers because while a user may trust
their company's Git server, the same might not apply to other Git
servers.

To allow for this, let's imitate the way `http.<url>.*` offers
to scope config settings to certain URLs, by letting users
override the `sideband.allowControlCharacters` setting via
`sideband.<url>.allowControlCharacters`.

Suggested-by: Junio Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 13:52:28 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
128914438a sideband: add options to allow more control sequences to be passed through
Even though control sequences that erase characters are quite juicy for
attack scenarios, where attackers are eager to hide traces of suspicious
activities, during the review of the side band sanitizing patch series
concerns were raised that there might be some legimitate scenarios where
Git server's `pre-receive` hooks use those sequences in a benign way.

Control sequences to move the cursor can likewise be used to hide tracks
by overwriting characters, and have been equally pointed out as having
legitimate users.

Let's add options to let users opt into passing through those ANSI
Escape sequences: `sideband.allowControlCharacters` now supports also
`cursor` and `erase`, and it parses the value as a comma-separated list.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 13:52:28 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
12f0fda905 sideband: do allow ANSI color sequences by default
The preceding two commits introduced special handling of the sideband
channel to neutralize ANSI escape sequences before sending the payload
to the terminal, and `sideband.allowControlCharacters` to override that
behavior.

However, as reported by brian m. carlson, some `pre-receive` hooks that
are actively used in practice want to color their messages and therefore
rely on the fact that Git passes them through to the terminal, even
though they have no way to determine whether the receiving side can
actually handle Escape sequences (think e.g. about the practice
recommended by Git that third-party applications wishing to use Git
functionality parse the output of Git commands).

In contrast to other ANSI escape sequences, it is highly unlikely that
coloring sequences can be essential tools in attack vectors that mislead
Git users e.g. by hiding crucial information.

Therefore we can have both: Continue to allow ANSI coloring sequences to
be passed to the terminal by default, and neutralize all other ANSI
Escape sequences.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 13:52:28 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
9ed1625a58 sideband: introduce an "escape hatch" to allow control characters
The preceding commit fixed the vulnerability whereas sideband messages
(that are under the control of the remote server) could contain ANSI
escape sequences that would be sent to the terminal verbatim.

However, this fix may not be desirable under all circumstances, e.g.
when remote servers deliberately add coloring to their messages to
increase their urgency.

To help with those use cases, give users a way to opt-out of the
protections: `sideband.allowControlCharacters`.

Suggested-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 13:52:28 -08:00
Li Chen
e4f9d6b0ab rebase: support --trailer
Add a new --trailer=<trailer> option to git rebase to append trailer
lines to each rewritten commit message (merge backend only).

Because the apply backend does not provide a commit-message filter,
reject --trailer when --apply is in effect and require the merge backend
instead.

This option implies --force-rebase so that fast-forwarded commits are
also rewritten. Validate trailer arguments early to avoid starting an
interactive rebase with invalid input.

Add integration tests covering error paths and trailer insertion across
non-interactive and interactive rebases.

Signed-off-by: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 13:02:20 -08:00
Paul Tarjan
87d6a75010 fsmonitor: implement filesystem change listener for Linux
Implement the built-in fsmonitor daemon for Linux using the inotify
API, bringing it to feature parity with the existing Windows and macOS
implementations.

The implementation uses inotify rather than fanotify because fanotify
requires either CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_PERFMON capabilities, making it
unsuitable for an unprivileged user-space daemon.  While inotify has
the limitation of requiring a separate watch on every directory (unlike
macOS's FSEvents, which can monitor an entire directory tree with a
single watch), it operates without elevated privileges and provides
the per-file event granularity needed for fsmonitor.

The listener uses inotify_init1(O_NONBLOCK) with a poll loop that
checks for events with a 50-millisecond timeout, keeping the inotify
queue well-drained to minimize the risk of overflows.  Bidirectional
hashmaps map between watch descriptors and directory paths for efficient
event resolution.  Directory renames are tracked using inotify's cookie
mechanism to correlate IN_MOVED_FROM and IN_MOVED_TO event pairs; a
periodic check detects stale renames where the matching IN_MOVED_TO
never arrived, forcing a resync.

New directory creation triggers recursive watch registration to ensure
all subdirectories are monitored.  The IN_MASK_CREATE flag is used
where available to prevent modifying existing watches, with a fallback
for older kernels.  When IN_MASK_CREATE is available and
inotify_add_watch returns EEXIST, it means another thread or recursive
scan has already registered the watch, so it is safe to ignore.

Remote filesystem detection uses statfs() to identify network-mounted
filesystems (NFS, CIFS, SMB, FUSE, etc.) via their magic numbers.
Mount point information is read from /proc/mounts and matched against
the statfs f_fsid to get accurate, human-readable filesystem type names
for logging.  When the .git directory is on a remote filesystem, the
IPC socket falls back to $HOME or a user-configured directory via the
fsmonitor.socketDir setting.

Based-on-patch-by: Eric DeCosta <edecosta@mathworks.com>
Based-on-patch-by: Marziyeh Esipreh <marziyeh.esipreh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-05 11:03:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
795c338de7 The 12th batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-05 10:04:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
628a66ccf6 The 11th batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-04 10:53:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a31d4f1860 Merge branch 'ds/config-list-with-type'
"git config list" is taught to show the values interpreted for
specific type with "--type=<X>" option.

* ds/config-list-with-type:
  config: use an enum for type
  config: restructure format_config()
  config: format colors quietly
  color: add color_parse_quietly()
  config: format expiry dates quietly
  config: format paths gently
  config: format bools or strings in helper
  config: format bools or ints gently
  config: format bools gently
  config: format int64s gently
  config: make 'git config list --type=<X>' work
  config: add 'gently' parameter to format_config()
  config: move show_all_config()
2026-03-04 10:53:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
34af1d6e87 Merge branch 'lo/repo-leftover-bits'
Clean-up the code around "git repo info" command.

* lo/repo-leftover-bits:
  Documentation/git-repo: capitalize format descriptions
  Documentation/git-repo: replace 'NUL' with '_NUL_'
  t1901: adjust nul format output instead of expected value
  t1900: rename t1900-repo to t1900-repo-info
  repo: rename struct field to repo_info_field
  repo: replace get_value_fn_for_key by get_repo_info_field
  repo: rename repo_info_fields to repo_info_field
  CodingGuidelines: instruct to name arrays in singular
2026-03-04 10:53:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
50d7425767 Merge branch 'ps/maintenance-geometric-default'
"git maintenance" starts using the "geometric" strategy by default.

* ps/maintenance-geometric-default:
  builtin/maintenance: use "geometric" strategy by default
  t7900: prepare for switch of the default strategy
  t6500: explicitly use "gc" strategy
  t5510: explicitly use "gc" strategy
  t5400: explicitly use "gc" strategy
  t34xx: don't expire reflogs where it matters
  t: disable maintenance where we verify object database structure
  t: fix races caused by background maintenance
2026-03-04 10:53:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1d0a2acb78 Merge branch 'kn/ref-location'
Allow the directory in which reference backends store their data to
be specified.

* kn/ref-location:
  refs: add GIT_REFERENCE_BACKEND to specify reference backend
  refs: allow reference location in refstorage config
  refs: receive and use the reference storage payload
  refs: move out stub modification to generic layer
  refs: extract out `refs_create_refdir_stubs()`
  setup: don't modify repo in `create_reference_database()`
2026-03-04 10:52:59 -08:00
Harald Nordgren
68791d7506 status: clarify how status.compareBranches deduplicates
The order of output when multiple branches are specified on the
configuration variable was not clearly spelled out in the
documentation.

Add a paragraph to describe the order and also how the branches are
deduplicated.  Update t6040 with additional tests to illustrate how
multiple branches are shown and deduplicated.

Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
[jc: made a whole replacement into incremental; wrote log message.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-04 10:13:33 -08:00
Omri Sarig
9c6569a895 doc: add information regarding external commands
Git supports running external commands in the user's PATH as if they
were built-in commands (see execv_dashed_external in git.c).

This feature was not fully documented in Git's user-facing
documentation.

Add a short documentation to describe how PATH is used to find a custom
subcommand.

Signed-off-by: Omri Sarig <omri.sarig13@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-04 09:21:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
50d063e335 The 10th batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-03 11:08:13 -08:00
Jonatan Holmgren
73cc549559 doc: fix list continuation in alias.adoc
Add missing list continuation marks ('+') after code blocks and shell examples
so paragraphs render correctly as part of the preceding list item.

Signed-off-by: Jonatan Holmgren <jonatan@jontes.page>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-03 09:59:31 -08:00
LorenzoPegorari
a56fa1ca05 doc: gitprotocol-pack: normalize italic formatting
Uniform italic style usage for command and process names.

Signed-off-by: LorenzoPegorari <lorenzo.pegorari2002@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-02 21:35:05 -08:00
LorenzoPegorari
b8091b7935 doc: gitprotocol-pack: improve paragraphs structure
Logically separate the introductory sentence from the first transport
description to improve readability and structural clarity.

Signed-off-by: LorenzoPegorari <lorenzo.pegorari2002@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-02 21:35:04 -08:00
LorenzoPegorari
267807eae1 doc: gitprotocol-pack: fix pronoun-antecedent agreement
Fix "pronoun-antecedent agreement" errors.

Signed-off-by: LorenzoPegorari <lorenzo.pegorari2002@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-02 21:35:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4805bb9930 The 9th batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-02 17:06:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
34113149cf Merge branch 'kh/doc-patch-id-4'
Doc update.

* kh/doc-patch-id-4:
  doc: patch-id: see also git-cherry(1)
  doc: patch-id: add script example
  doc: patch-id: emphasize multi-patch processing
2026-03-02 17:06:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
112252c844 Merge branch 'pw/meson-doc-mergetool'
Update build precedure for mergetool documentation in meson-based builds.

* pw/meson-doc-mergetool:
  meson: fix building mergetool docs
2026-03-02 17:06:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
05c4af5c8f Merge branch 'kh/doc-am-xref'
Doc update.

* kh/doc-am-xref:
  doc: am: fill out hook discussion
  doc: am: add missing config am.messageId
  doc: am: say that --message-id adds a trailer
  doc: am: normalize git(1) command links
2026-03-02 17:06:52 -08:00