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2022-06-13Git 2.37-rc0v2.37.0-rc0Junio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-13Merge branch 'gc/document-config-worktree-scope'Junio C Hamano
Doc update. * gc/document-config-worktree-scope: config: document and test the 'worktree' scope
2022-06-13Merge branch 'js/wait-or-whine-can-fail'Junio C Hamano
We used to log an error return from wait_or_whine() as process termination of the waited child, which was incorrect. * js/wait-or-whine-can-fail: run-command: don't spam trace2_child_exit()
2022-06-13Merge branch 'ab/remote-free-fix'Junio C Hamano
Use-after-free (with another forget-to-free) fix. * ab/remote-free-fix: remote.c: don't dereference NULL in freeing loop remote.c: remove braces from one-statement "for"-loops
2022-06-13Merge branch 'sn/fsmonitor-missing-clock'Junio C Hamano
Sample watchman interface hook sometimes failed to produce correctly formatted JSON message, which has been corrected. * sn/fsmonitor-missing-clock: fsmonitor: query watchman with right valid json
2022-06-13Merge branch 'zh/read-cache-copy-name-entry-fix'Junio C Hamano
Remove redundant copying (with index v3 and older) or possible over-reading beyond end of mmapped memory (with index v4) has been corrected. * zh/read-cache-copy-name-entry-fix: read-cache.c: reduce unnecessary cache entry name copying
2022-06-13Merge branch 'tb/show-ref-optim'Junio C Hamano
"git show-ref --heads" (and "--tags") still iterated over all the refs only to discard refs outside the specified area, which has been corrected. * tb/show-ref-optim: builtin/show-ref.c: avoid over-iterating with --heads, --tags
2022-06-13Merge branch 'ds/credentials-in-url'Junio C Hamano
The "fetch.credentialsInUrl" configuration variable controls what happens when a URL with embedded login credential is used. * ds/credentials-in-url: remote: create fetch.credentialsInUrl config
2022-06-13Merge branch 'jt/unparse-commit-upon-graft-change'Junio C Hamano
Updating the graft information invalidates the list of parents of in-core commit objects that used to be in the graft file. * jt/unparse-commit-upon-graft-change: commit,shallow: unparse commits if grafts changed
2022-06-13Merge branch 'ab/hooks-regression-fix'Junio C Hamano
In Git 2.36 we revamped the way how hooks are invoked. One change that is end-user visible is that the output of a hook is no longer directly connected to the standard output of "git" that spawns the hook, which was noticed post release. This is getting corrected. * ab/hooks-regression-fix: hook API: fix v2.36.0 regression: hooks should be connected to a TTY run-command: add an "ungroup" option to run_process_parallel()
2022-06-13Merge branch 'tl/ls-tree-oid-only'Junio C Hamano
Add tests for a regression fixed earlier. * tl/ls-tree-oid-only: ls-tree: test for the regression in 9c4d58ff2c3
2022-06-13Merge branch 'pb/range-diff-with-submodule'Junio C Hamano
"git -c diff.submodule=log range-diff" did not show anything for submodules that changed in the ranges being compared, and "git -c diff.submodule=diff range-diff" did not work correctly. Fix this by including the "--submodule=short" output unconditionally to be compared. * pb/range-diff-with-submodule: range-diff: show submodule changes irrespective of diff.submodule
2022-06-10Ninth batchJunio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-10Merge branch 'ab/bug-if-bug'Junio C Hamano
A new bug() and BUG_if_bug() API is introduced to make it easier to uniformly log "detect multiple bugs and abort in the end" pattern. * ab/bug-if-bug: cache-tree.c: use bug() and BUG_if_bug() receive-pack: use bug() and BUG_if_bug() parse-options.c: use optbug() instead of BUG() "opts" check parse-options.c: use new bug() API for optbug() usage.c: add a non-fatal bug() function to go with BUG() common-main.c: move non-trace2 exit() behavior out of trace2.c
2022-06-10Merge branch 'jy/gitweb-xhtml5'Junio C Hamano
Update the doctype written in gitweb output to xhtml5. * jy/gitweb-xhtml5: gitweb: switch to an XHTML5 DOCTYPE
2022-06-10Merge branch 'jh/builtin-fsmonitor-part3'Junio C Hamano
More fsmonitor--daemon. * jh/builtin-fsmonitor-part3: (30 commits) t7527: improve implicit shutdown testing in fsmonitor--daemon fsmonitor--daemon: allow --super-prefix argument t7527: test Unicode NFC/NFD handling on MacOS t/lib-unicode-nfc-nfd: helper prereqs for testing unicode nfc/nfd t/helper/hexdump: add helper to print hexdump of stdin fsmonitor: on macOS also emit NFC spelling for NFD pathname t7527: test FSMonitor on case insensitive+preserving file system fsmonitor: never set CE_FSMONITOR_VALID on submodules t/perf/p7527: add perf test for builtin FSMonitor t7527: FSMonitor tests for directory moves fsmonitor: optimize processing of directory events fsm-listen-darwin: shutdown daemon if worktree root is moved/renamed fsm-health-win32: force shutdown daemon if worktree root moves fsm-health-win32: add polling framework to monitor daemon health fsmonitor--daemon: stub in health thread fsmonitor--daemon: rename listener thread related variables fsmonitor--daemon: prepare for adding health thread fsmonitor--daemon: cd out of worktree root fsm-listen-darwin: ignore FSEvents caused by xattr changes on macOS unpack-trees: initialize fsmonitor_has_run_once in o->result ...
2022-06-10Merge branch 'gc/zero-length-branch-config-fix'Junio C Hamano
A misconfigured 'branch..remote' led to a bug in configuration parsing. * gc/zero-length-branch-config-fix: remote.c: reject 0-length branch names remote.c: don't BUG() on 0-length branch names
2022-06-10Merge branch 'ab/env-array'Junio C Hamano
Rename .env_array member to .env in the child_process structure. * ab/env-array: run-command API users: use "env" not "env_array" in comments & names run-command API: rename "env_array" to "env"
2022-06-10Merge branch 'cb/buggy-gcc-12-workaround'Junio C Hamano
With a more targetted workaround in http.c in another topic, we may be able to lift this blanket "GCC12 dangling-pointer warning is broken and unsalvageable" workaround. * cb/buggy-gcc-12-workaround: Revert -Wno-error=dangling-pointer
2022-06-08Sync with 'maint'Junio C Hamano
2022-06-08Prepare for 2.36.2Junio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-08Merge branch 'jc/clone-remote-name-leak-fix' into maintJunio C Hamano
"git clone --origin X" leaked piece of memory that held value read from the clone.defaultRemoteName configuration variable, which has been plugged. source: <xmqqlevl4ysk.fsf@gitster.g> * jc/clone-remote-name-leak-fix: clone: plug a miniscule leak
2022-06-08Merge branch 'ds/midx-normalize-pathname-before-comparison' into maintJunio C Hamano
The path taken by "git multi-pack-index" command from the end user was compared with path internally prepared by the tool withut first normalizing, which lead to duplicated paths not being noticed, which has been corrected. source: <pull.1221.v2.git.1650911234.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> * ds/midx-normalize-pathname-before-comparison: cache: use const char * for get_object_directory() multi-pack-index: use --object-dir real path midx: use real paths in lookup_multi_pack_index()
2022-06-08Merge branch 'ah/rebase-keep-base-fix' into maintJunio C Hamano
"git rebase --keep-base <upstream> <branch-to-rebase>" computed the commit to rebase onto incorrectly, which has been corrected. source: <20220421044233.894255-1-alexhenrie24@gmail.com> * ah/rebase-keep-base-fix: rebase: use correct base for --keep-base when a branch is given
2022-06-08Merge branch 'pw/test-malloc-with-sanitize-address' into maintJunio C Hamano
Avoid problems from interaction between malloc_check and address sanitizer. source: <pull.1210.git.1649507317350.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> * pw/test-malloc-with-sanitize-address: tests: make SANITIZE=address imply TEST_NO_MALLOC_CHECK
2022-06-08Merge branch 'rs/commit-summary-wo-break-rewrite' into maintJunio C Hamano
The commit summary shown after making a commit is matched to what is given in "git status" not to use the break-rewrite heuristics. source: <c35bd0aa-2e46-e710-2b39-89f18bad0097@web.de> * rs/commit-summary-wo-break-rewrite: commit, sequencer: turn off break_opt for commit summary
2022-06-08Merge branch 'mg/detect-compiler-in-c-locale' into maintJunio C Hamano
Build procedure fixup. source: <f306f43f375bc9b9c98e85260587442e5d9ef0ba.1652094958.git.git@grubix.eu> * mg/detect-compiler-in-c-locale: detect-compiler: make detection independent of locale
2022-06-08Merge branch 'cb/ci-make-p4-optional' into maintJunio C Hamano
macOS CI jobs have been occasionally flaky due to tentative version skew between perforce and the homebrew packager. Instead of failing the whole CI job, just let it skip the p4 tests when this happens. source: <20220512223940.238367-1-gitster@pobox.com> * cb/ci-make-p4-optional: ci: use https, not http to download binaries from perforce.com ci: reintroduce prevention from perforce being quarantined in macOS ci: avoid brew for installing perforce ci: make failure to find perforce more user friendly
2022-06-08Merge branch 'ab/valgrind-fixes' into maintJunio C Hamano
A bit of test framework fixes with a few fixes to issues found by valgrind. source: <20220512223218.237544-1-gitster@pobox.com> * ab/valgrind-fixes: commit-graph.c: don't assume that stat() succeeds object-file: fix a unpack_loose_header() regression in 3b6a8db3b03 log test: skip a failing mkstemp() test under valgrind tests: using custom GIT_EXEC_PATH breaks --valgrind tests
2022-06-08Merge branch 'jc/archive-add-file-normalize-mode' into maintJunio C Hamano
"git archive --add-file=<path>" picked up the raw permission bits from the path and propagated to zip output in some cases, without normalization, which has been corrected (tar output did not have this issue). source: <xmqqmtfme8v6.fsf@gitster.g> * jc/archive-add-file-normalize-mode: archive: do not let on-disk mode leak to zip archives
2022-06-08Merge branch 'jc/show-branch-g-current' into maintJunio C Hamano
The "--current" option of "git show-branch" should have been made incompatible with the "--reflog" mode, but this was not enforced, which has been corrected. source: <xmqqh76mf7s4.fsf_-_@gitster.g> * jc/show-branch-g-current: show-branch: -g and --current are incompatible
2022-06-08Merge branch 'jc/update-ozlabs-url' into maintJunio C Hamano
Update URL to the gitk repository. * jc/update-ozlabs-url: SubmittingPatches: use more stable git.ozlabs.org URL
2022-06-08Merge branch 'jc/http-clear-finished-pointer' into maintJunio C Hamano
Meant to go with js/ci-gcc-12-fixes. source: <xmqq7d68ytj8.fsf_-_@gitster.g> * jc/http-clear-finished-pointer: http.c: clear the 'finished' member once we are done with it
2022-06-08Merge branch 'js/ci-gcc-12-fixes' into maintJunio C Hamano
Fixes real problems noticed by gcc 12 and works around false positives. source: <pull.1238.git.1653351786.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> * js/ci-gcc-12-fixes: dir.c: avoid "exceeds maximum object size" error with GCC v12.x nedmalloc: avoid new compile error compat/win32/syslog: fix use-after-realloc
2022-06-07config: document and test the 'worktree' scopeGlen Choo
Test that "git config --show-scope" shows the "worktree" scope, and add it to the list of scopes in Documentation/git-config.txt. "git config --help" does not need to be updated because it already mentions "worktree". Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-07Eighth batchJunio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-07Merge branch 'jc/all-negative-pathspec'Junio C Hamano
A git subcommand like "git add -p" spawns a separate git process while relaying its command line arguments. A pathspec with only negative elements was mistakenly passed with an empty string, which has been corrected. * jc/all-negative-pathspec: pathspec: correct an empty string used as a pathspec element
2022-06-07Merge branch 'js/scalar-diagnose'Junio C Hamano
Implementation of "scalar diagnose" subcommand. * js/scalar-diagnose: scalar: teach `diagnose` to gather loose objects information scalar: teach `diagnose` to gather packfile info scalar diagnose: include disk space information scalar: implement `scalar diagnose` scalar: validate the optional enlistment argument archive --add-virtual-file: allow paths containing colons archive: optionally add "virtual" files
2022-06-07Merge branch 'rs/document-archive-prefix'Junio C Hamano
The documentation on the interaction between "--add-file" and "--prefix" options of "git archive" has been improved. * rs/document-archive-prefix: archive: improve documentation of --prefix
2022-06-07Merge branch 'fh/transport-push-leakfix'Junio C Hamano
Leakfix. * fh/transport-push-leakfix: transport: free local and remote refs in transport_push() transport: unify return values and exit point from transport_push() transport: remove unnecessary indenting in transport_push()
2022-06-07Merge branch 'js/ci-github-workflow-markup'Junio C Hamano
Update the GitHub workflow support to make it quicker to get to the failing test. * js/ci-github-workflow-markup: ci: call `finalize_test_case_output` a little later ci(github): mention where the full logs can be found ci: use `--github-workflow-markup` in the GitHub workflow ci(github): avoid printing test case preamble twice ci(github): skip the logs of the successful test cases ci: optionally mark up output in the GitHub workflow ci/run-build-and-tests: add some structure to the GitHub workflow output ci: make it easier to find failed tests' logs in the GitHub workflow ci/run-build-and-tests: take a more high-level view test(junit): avoid line feeds in XML attributes tests: refactor --write-junit-xml code ci: fix code style
2022-06-07Merge branch 'ab/plug-leak-in-revisions'Junio C Hamano
Plug the memory leaks from the trickiest API of all, the revision walker. * ab/plug-leak-in-revisions: (27 commits) revisions API: add a TODO for diff_free(&revs->diffopt) revisions API: have release_revisions() release "topo_walk_info" revisions API: have release_revisions() release "date_mode" revisions API: call diff_free(&revs->pruning) in revisions_release() revisions API: release "reflog_info" in release revisions() revisions API: clear "boundary_commits" in release_revisions() revisions API: have release_revisions() release "prune_data" revisions API: have release_revisions() release "grep_filter" revisions API: have release_revisions() release "filter" revisions API: have release_revisions() release "cmdline" revisions API: have release_revisions() release "mailmap" revisions API: have release_revisions() release "commits" revisions API users: use release_revisions() for "prune_data" users revisions API users: use release_revisions() with UNLEAK() revisions API users: use release_revisions() in builtin/log.c revisions API users: use release_revisions() in http-push.c revisions API users: add "goto cleanup" for release_revisions() stash: always have the owner of "stash_info" free it revisions API users: use release_revisions() needing REV_INFO_INIT revision.[ch]: document and move code declared around "init" ...
2022-06-07Merge branch 'yw/cmake-updates'Junio C Hamano
CMake updates. * yw/cmake-updates: cmake: remove (_)UNICODE def on Windows in CMakeLists.txt cmake: add pcre2 support cmake: fix CMakeLists.txt on Linux
2022-06-07run-command: don't spam trace2_child_exit()Josh Steadmon
In rare cases[1], wait_or_whine() cannot determine a child process's status (and will return -1 in this case). This can cause Git to issue trace2 child_exit events despite the fact that the child may still be running. In pathological cases, we've seen > 80 million exit events in our trace logs for a single child process. Fix this by only issuing trace2 events in finish_command_in_signal() if we get a value other than -1 from wait_or_whine(). This can lead to missing child_exit events in such a case, but that is preferable to duplicating events on a scale that threatens to fill the user's filesystem with invalid trace logs. [1]: This can happen when: * waitpid() returns -1 and errno != EINTR * waitpid() returns an invalid PID * the status set by waitpid() has neither the WIFEXITED() nor WIFSIGNALED() flags Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-07hook API: fix v2.36.0 regression: hooks should be connected to a TTYÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Fix a regression reported[1] against f443246b9f2 (commit: convert {pre-commit,prepare-commit-msg} hook to hook.h, 2021-12-22): Due to using the run_process_parallel() API in the earlier 96e7225b310 (hook: add 'run' subcommand, 2021-12-22) we'd capture the hook's stderr and stdout, and thus lose the connection to the TTY in the case of e.g. the "pre-commit" hook. As a preceding commit notes GNU parallel's similar --ungroup option also has it emit output faster. While we're unlikely to have hooks that emit truly massive amounts of output (or where the performance thereof matters) it's still informative to measure the overhead. In a similar "seq" test we're now ~30% faster: $ cat .git/hooks/seq-hook; git hyperfine -L rev origin/master,HEAD~0 -s 'make CFLAGS=-O3' './git hook run seq-hook' #!/bin/sh seq 100000000 Benchmark 1: ./git hook run seq-hook' in 'origin/master Time (mean ± σ): 787.1 ms ± 13.6 ms [User: 701.6 ms, System: 534.4 ms] Range (min … max): 773.2 ms … 806.3 ms 10 runs Benchmark 2: ./git hook run seq-hook' in 'HEAD~0 Time (mean ± σ): 603.4 ms ± 1.6 ms [User: 573.1 ms, System: 30.3 ms] Range (min … max): 601.0 ms … 606.2 ms 10 runs Summary './git hook run seq-hook' in 'HEAD~0' ran 1.30 ± 0.02 times faster than './git hook run seq-hook' in 'origin/master' 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/CA+dzEBn108QoMA28f0nC8K21XT+Afua0V2Qv8XkR8rAeqUCCZw@mail.gmail.com/ Reported-by: Anthony Sottile <asottile@umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> [jc: minor fix-up to tests for consistency] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-07remote.c: don't dereference NULL in freeing loopÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Fix a bug in fd3cb0501e1 (remote: move static variables into per-repository struct, 2021-11-17) where we'd free(remote->pushurl[i]) after having NULL'd out remote->pushurl. itself. We free "remote->pushurl" in the next "for"-loop, so doing this appears to have been a copy/paste error. Before this change GCC 12's -fanalyzer would correctly note that we'd dereference NULL in this case, this change fixes that: remote.c: In function ‘remote_clear’: remote.c:153:17: error: dereference of NULL ‘*remote.pushurl’ [CWE-476] [-Werror=analyzer-null-dereference] 153 | free((char *)remote->pushurl[i]); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [...] Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-07remote.c: remove braces from one-statement "for"-loopsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Remove braces that don't follow the CodingGuidelines from code added in fd3cb0501e1 (remote: move static variables into per-repository struct, 2021-11-17). A subsequent commit will edit code adjacent to this. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-07run-command: add an "ungroup" option to run_process_parallel()Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Extend the parallel execution API added in c553c72eed6 (run-command: add an asynchronous parallel child processor, 2015-12-15) to support a mode where the stdout and stderr of the processes isn't captured and output in a deterministic order, instead we'll leave it to the kernel and stdio to sort it out. This gives the API same functionality as GNU parallel's --ungroup option. As we'll see in a subsequent commit the main reason to want this is to support stdout and stderr being connected to the TTY in the case of jobs=1, demonstrated here with GNU parallel: $ parallel --ungroup 'test -t {} && echo TTY || echo NTTY' ::: 1 2 TTY TTY $ parallel 'test -t {} && echo TTY || echo NTTY' ::: 1 2 NTTY NTTY Another is as GNU parallel's documentation notes a potential for optimization. As demonstrated in next commit our results with "git hook run" will be similar, but generally speaking this shows that if you want to run processes in parallel where the exact order isn't important this can be a lot faster: $ hyperfine -r 3 -L o ,--ungroup 'parallel {o} seq ::: 10000000 >/dev/null ' Benchmark 1: parallel seq ::: 10000000 >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 220.2 ms ± 9.3 ms [User: 124.9 ms, System: 96.1 ms] Range (min … max): 212.3 ms … 230.5 ms 3 runs Benchmark 2: parallel --ungroup seq ::: 10000000 >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 154.7 ms ± 0.9 ms [User: 136.2 ms, System: 25.1 ms] Range (min … max): 153.9 ms … 155.7 ms 3 runs Summary 'parallel --ungroup seq ::: 10000000 >/dev/null ' ran 1.42 ± 0.06 times faster than 'parallel seq ::: 10000000 >/dev/null ' A large part of the juggling in the API is to make the API safer for its maintenance and consumers alike. For the maintenance of the API we e.g. avoid malloc()-ing the "pp->pfd", ensuring that SANITIZE=address and other similar tools will catch any unexpected misuse. For API consumers we take pains to never pass the non-NULL "out" buffer to an API user that provided the "ungroup" option. The resulting code in t/helper/test-run-command.c isn't typical of such a user, i.e. they'd typically use one mode or the other, and would know whether they'd provided "ungroup" or not. We could also avoid the strbuf_init() for "buffered_output" by having "struct parallel_processes" use a static PARALLEL_PROCESSES_INIT initializer, but let's leave that cleanup for later. Using a global "run_processes_parallel_ungroup" variable to enable this option is rather nasty, but is being done here to produce as minimal of a change as possible for a subsequent regression fix. This change is extracted from a larger initial version[1] which ends up with a better end-state for the API, but in doing so needed to modify all existing callers of the API. Let's defer that for now, and narrowly focus on what we need for fixing the regression in the subsequent commit. It's safe to do this with a global variable because: A) hook.c is the only user of it that sets it to non-zero, and before we'll get any other API users we'll refactor away this method of passing in the option, i.e. re-roll [1]. B) Even if hook.c wasn't the only user we don't have callers of this API that concurrently invoke this parallel process starting API itself in parallel. As noted above "A" && "B" are rather nasty, and we don't want to live with those caveats long-term, but for now they should be an acceptable compromise. 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover-v2-0.8-00000000000-20220518T195858Z-avarab@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-07fsmonitor: query watchman with right valid jsonSon Luong Ngoc
In rare circumstances where the current git index does not carry the last_update_token, the fsmonitor v2 hook will be invoked with an empty string which would caused the final rendered json to be invalid. ["query", "/path/to/my/git/repository/", { "since": , "fields": ["name"], "expression": ["not", ["dirname", ".git"]] }] Which will left user with the following error message > git status failed to parse command from stdin: line 2, column 13, position 67: unexpected token near ',' Watchman: command returned no output. Falling back to scanning... Hide the "since" field in json query when "last_update_token" is empty. Co-authored-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Son Luong Ngoc <sluongng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-06range-diff: show submodule changes irrespective of diff.submodulePhilippe Blain
After generating diffs for each range to be compared using a 'git log' invocation, range-diff.c::read_patches looks for the "diff --git" header in those diffs to recognize the beginning of a new change. In a project with submodules, and with 'diff.submodule=log' set in the config, this header is missing for the diff of a changed submodule, so any submodule changes are quietly ignored in the range-diff. When 'diff.submodule=diff' is set in the config, the "diff --git" header is also missing for the submodule itself, but is shown for submodule content changes, which can easily confuse 'git range-diff' and lead to errors such as: error: git apply: bad git-diff - inconsistent old filename on line 1 error: could not parse git header 'diff --git path/to/submodule/and/some/file/within ' error: could not parse log for '@{u}..@{1}' Force the submodule diff format to its default ("short") when invoking 'git log' to generate the patches for each range, such that submodule changes are always detected. Add a test, including an invocation with '--creation-factor=100' to force the second commit in the range not to be considered a complete rewrite, in order to verify we do indeed get the "short" format. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>