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2026-03-24Merge branch 'ps/history-split'Junio C Hamano
"git history" learned the "split" subcommand. * ps/history-split: builtin/history: implement "split" subcommand builtin/history: split out extended function to create commits cache-tree: allow writing in-memory index as tree add-patch: allow disabling editing of hunks add-patch: add support for in-memory index patching add-patch: remove dependency on "add-interactive" subsystem add-patch: split out `struct interactive_options` add-patch: split out header from "add-interactive.h"
2026-03-19Merge branch 'lc/rebase-trailer'Junio C Hamano
"git rebase" learns "--trailer" command to drive the interpret-trailers machinery. * 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
2026-03-12run-command: wean auto_maintenance() functions off the_repositoryBurak Kaan Karaçay
The prepare_auto_maintenance() relies on the_repository to read configurations. Since run_auto_maintenance() calls prepare_auto_maintenance(), it also implicitly depends the_repository. Add 'struct repository *' as a parameter to both functions and update all callers to pass the_repository. With no global repository dependencies left in this file, remove the USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE macro. Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Burak Kaan Karaçay <bkkaracay@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-09Merge branch 'cs/add-skip-submodule-ignore-all'Junio C Hamano
"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
2026-03-06commit, tag: parse --trailer with OPT_STRVECLi Chen
Now that amend_file_with_trailers() expects raw trailer lines, do not store argv-style "--trailer=<trailer>" strings in git commit and git tag. Parse --trailer using OPT_STRVEC so trailer_args contains only the trailer value, and drop the temporary prefix stripping in amend_file_with_trailers(). Signed-off-by: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06trailer: append trailers without fork/execLi Chen
Introduce amend_strbuf_with_trailers() to apply trailer additions to a message buffer via process_trailers(), avoiding the need to run git interpret-trailers as a child process. Update amend_file_with_trailers() to use the in-process helper and rewrite the target file via tempfile+rename, preserving the previous in-place semantics. As the trailers are no longer added in a separate process and trailer_config_init() die()s on missing config values it is called early on in cmd_commit() and cmd_tag() so that they die() early before writing the message file. The trailer arguments are now also sanity checked. Keep existing callers unchanged by continuing to accept argv-style --trailer=<trailer> entries and stripping the prefix before feeding the in-process implementation. 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>
2026-03-03add-patch: split out `struct interactive_options`Patrick Steinhardt
The `struct add_p_opt` is reused both by our infra for "git add -p" and "git add -i". Users of `run_add_i()` for example are expected to pass `struct add_p_opt`. This is somewhat confusing and raises the question of which options apply to what part of the stack. But things are even more confusing than that: while callers are expected to pass in `struct add_p_opt`, these options ultimately get used to initialize a `struct add_i_state` that is used by both subsystems. So we are basically going full circle here. Refactor the code and split out a new `struct interactive_options` that hosts common options used by both. These options are then applied to a `struct interactive_config` that hosts common configuration. This refactoring doesn't yet fully detangle the two subsystems from one another, as we still end up calling `init_add_i_state()` in the "git add -p" subsystem. This will be fixed in a subsequent commit. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-20mailmap: stop using the_repositoryBurak Kaan Karaçay
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>
2026-02-13Merge branch 'ps/commit-list-functions-renamed'Junio C Hamano
Rename three functions around the commit_list data structure. * ps/commit-list-functions-renamed: commit: rename `free_commit_list()` to conform to coding guidelines commit: rename `reverse_commit_list()` to conform to coding guidelines commit: rename `copy_commit_list()` to conform to coding guidelines
2026-02-06read-cache: update add_files_to_cache take param ignored_tooClaus Schneider(Eficode)
The ignored_too parameter is added to the function add_files_to_cache for usage of explicit updating the index for the updated submodule using the explicit patchspec to the submodule. Signed-off-by: Claus Schneider(Eficode) <claus.schneider@eficode.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-05global: constify some pointers that are not written toCollin Funk
The recent glibc 2.43 release had the following change listed in its NEWS file: For ISO C23, the functions bsearch, memchr, strchr, strpbrk, strrchr, strstr, wcschr, wcspbrk, wcsrchr, wcsstr and wmemchr that return pointers into their input arrays now have definitions as macros that return a pointer to a const-qualified type when the input argument is a pointer to a const-qualified type. When compiling with GCC 15, which defaults to -std=gnu23, this causes many warnings like this: merge-ort.c: In function ‘apply_directory_rename_modifications’: merge-ort.c:2734:36: warning: initialization discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers] 2734 | char *last_slash = strrchr(cur_path, '/'); | ^~~~~~~ This patch fixes the more obvious ones by making them const when we do not write to the returned pointer. Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-15commit: rename `free_commit_list()` to conform to coding guidelinesPatrick Steinhardt
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>
2026-01-15commit: rename `copy_commit_list()` to conform to coding guidelinesPatrick Steinhardt
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, `copy_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>
2026-01-09cocci: convert parse_tree functions to repo_ variantsRené Scharfe
Add and apply a semantic patch to convert calls to parse_tree() and friends to the corresponding variant that takes a repository argument, to allow the functions that implicitly use the_repository to be retired once all potential in-flight topics are settled and converted as well. The changes in .c files were generated by Coccinelle, but I fixed a whitespace bug it would have introduced to builtin/commit.c. Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-29Merge branch 'jk/color-variable-fixes'Junio C Hamano
Some places in the code confused a variable that is *not* a boolean to enable color but is an enum that records what the user requested to do about color. A couple of bugs of this sort have been fixed, while the code has been cleaned up to prevent similar bugs in the future. * jk/color-variable-fixes: config: store want_color() result in a separate bool add-interactive: retain colorbool values longer color: return bool from want_color() color: use git_colorbool enum type to store colorbools pretty: use format_commit_context.auto_color as colorbool diff: stop passing ecbdata->use_color as boolean diff: pass o->use_color directly to fill_metainfo() diff: don't use diff_options.use_color as a strict bool diff: simplify color_moved check when flushing grep: don't treat grep_opt.color as a strict bool color: return enum from git_config_colorbool() color: use GIT_COLOR_* instead of numeric constants
2025-09-18Merge branch 'pw/3.0-commentchar-auto-deprecation'Junio C Hamano
"core.commentChar=auto" that attempts to dynamically pick a suitable comment character is non-workable, as it is too much trouble to support for little benefit, and is marked as deprecated. * pw/3.0-commentchar-auto-deprecation: commit: print advice when core.commentString=auto config: warn on core.commentString=auto breaking-changes: deprecate support for core.commentString=auto
2025-09-16color: use git_colorbool enum type to store colorboolsJeff King
We traditionally used "int" to store and pass around the values defined by "enum git_colorbool" (which were originally just #define macros). Using an int doesn't produce incorrect results, but using the actual enum makes the intent of the code more clear. It would be nice if the compiler could catch cases where we used the enum and an int interchangeably, since it's very easy to accidentally check the boolean true/false of a colorbool like: if (branch_use_color) This is wrong because GIT_COLOR_UNKNOWN and GIT_COLOR_AUTO evaluate to true in C, even though we may ultimately decide not to use color. But C is pretty happy to convert between ints and enums (even with various -Wenum-* warnings). So this sadly doesn't protect us from such mistakes, but it hopefully does make the code easier to read. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-16color: use GIT_COLOR_* instead of numeric constantsJeff King
Long ago Git's decision to show color for a subsytem was stored in a tri-state variable: it could be true (1), false (0), or unknown (-1). But since daa0c3d971 (color: delay auto-color decision until point of use, 2011-08-17) we want to carry around a new state, "auto", which bases the decision on the tty-ness of stdout (rather than collapsing that "auto" state to a true/false immediately). That commit introduced a set of GIT_COLOR_* defines to represent each state: UNKNOWN, ALWAYS, NEVER, and AUTO. But it only used the AUTO value, and left alone code using bare 0/1/-1 values. And of course since then we've grown many new spots that use those bare values. Let's switch all of these to use the named constants. That should make the code a bit easier to read, as it is more obvious that we're representing a color decision. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-26config: warn on core.commentString=autoPhillip Wood
As support for this setting was deprecated in the last commit print a warning (or die when WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES is enabled) if it is set. Avoid bombarding the user with warnings by only printing it (a) when running commands that call "git commit" and (b) only once per command. Some scaffolding is added to repo_read_config() to allow it to detect deprecated config settings and warn about them. As both "core.commentChar" and "core.commentString" set the comment character we record which one of them is used and tailor the warning message appropriately. Note the odd combination of die_message() followed by die(NULL) is to allow the next commit to insert a call to advise() in the middle. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-26breaking-changes: deprecate support for core.commentString=autoPhillip Wood
When "core.commentString" is set to "auto" then "git commit" will automatically select the comment character ensuring that it is not the first character on any of the lines in the commit message. This was introduced by commit 84c9dc2c5a2 (commit: allow core.commentChar=auto for character auto selection, 2014-05-17). The motivation seems to be to avoid commenting out lines from the existing message when amending a commit that was created with a message from a file. Unfortunately this feature does not work with: * commit message templates that contain comments. * prepare-commit-msg hooks that introduce comments. * "git commit --cleanup=strip --edit -F <file>" which means that it is incompatible with - the "fixup" and "squash" commands of "git rebase -i" as the comments added by those commands are then treated as part of the commit message. - the conflict comments added to the commit message by "git cherry-pick", "git rebase" etc. as these comments are then treated as part of the commit message. It is also ignored by "git notes" when amending a note. The issues with comments coming from a template, hook or file are a consequence of the design of this feature and are therefore hard to fix. As the costs of this feature outweigh the benefits, deprecate it and remove it in Git 3.0. If someone comes up with some patches that fix all the issues in a maintainable way then I'd be happy to see this change reverted. The next commits will add a warning and some advice for users on how they can update their config settings. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-15commit-graph: stop using `the_repository`Patrick Steinhardt
There's still a bunch of uses of `the_repository` in "commit-graph.c", which we want to stop using due to it being a global variable. Refactor the code to stop using `the_repository` in favor of the repository provided via the calling context. This allows us to drop the `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-04Merge branch 'lm/add-p-context'Junio C Hamano
"git add/etc -p" now honor the diff.context configuration variable, and also they learn to honor the -U<n> command-line option. * lm/add-p-context: add-patch: add diff.context command line overrides add-patch: respect diff.context configuration t: use test_config in t4055 t: use test_grep in t3701 and t4055
2025-08-04Merge branch 'ps/config-wo-the-repository'Junio C Hamano
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 ...
2025-07-31Merge branch 'ps/config-wo-the-repository' into ↵Junio C Hamano
pw/3.0-commentchar-auto-deprecation * 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 ...
2025-07-29add-patch: add diff.context command line overridesLeon Michalak
This patch compliments the previous commit, where builtins that use add-patch infrastructure now respect diff.context and diff.interHunkContext file configurations. In particular, this patch helps users who don't want to set persistent context configurations or just want a way to override them on a one-time basis, by allowing the relevant builtins to accept corresponding command line options that override the file configurations. This mimics commands such as diff and log, which allow for both context file configuration and command line overrides. Signed-off-by: Leon Michalak <leonmichalak6@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-23config: drop `git_config()` wrapperPatrick Steinhardt
In 036876a1067 (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>
2025-07-16commit: avoid scanning trailing comments when 'core.commentChar' is "auto"Ayush Chandekar
When core.commentChar is set to "auto", Git selects a comment character by scanning the commit message contents and avoiding any character already present in the message. If the message still contains old conflict comments (starting with a comment character), Git assumes that character is in use and chooses a different one. As a result, those existing comment lines are no longer recognized as comments and end up being included in the final commit message. To avoid this, skip scanning the trailing comment block when selecting the comment character. This allows Git to safely reuse the original character when appropriate, keeping the commit message clean and free of leftover conflict information. Background: The "auto" value for core.commentchar was introduced in the commit 84c9dc2c5a (commit: allow core.commentChar=auto for character auto selection, 2014-05-17) but did not exhibit this issue at that time. The bug was introduced in commit a6c2654f83 (rebase -m: fix --signoff with conflicts, 2024-04-18) where Git started writing conflict comments to the file at 'rebase_path_message()'. Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Ghanshyam Thakkar <shyamthakkar001@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ayush Chandekar <ayu.chandekar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-05-15commit: simplify codeJohannes Schindelin
The difference of two unsigned integers is defined to be unsigned, and therefore it is misleading to check whether it is greater than zero (instead, the more natural way would be to check whether the difference is zero or not). Let's instead avoid the subtraction altogether, and compare the two operands directly, which makes the code more obvious as a side effect. Pointed out by CodeQL's rule with the ID `cpp/unsigned-difference-expression-compared-zero`. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-17global: use designated initializers for optionsPatrick Steinhardt
While we expose macros for most of our different option types understood by the "parse-options" subsystem, not every combination of fields that has one as that would otherwise quickly lead to an explosion of macros. Instead, we just initialize structures manually for those variants of fields that don't have a macro. Callsites that open-code these structure initialization don't use designated initializers though and instead just provide values for each of the fields that they want to initialize. This has three significant downsides: - Callsites need to specify all values up to the last field that they care about. This often includes fields that should simply be left at their default zero-initialized state, which adds distraction. - Any reader not deeply familiar with the layout of the structure has a hard time figuring out what the respective initializers mean. - Reordering or introducing new fields in the middle of the structure is impossible without adapting all callsites. Convert all sites to instead use designated initializers, which we have started using in our codebase quite a while ago. This allows us to skip any default-initialized fields, gives the reader context by specifying the field names and allows us to reorder or introduce new fields where we want to. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-28path: drop `git_path()` in favor of `repo_git_path()`Patrick Steinhardt
Remove `git_path()` in favor of the `repo_git_path()` family of functions, which makes the implicit dependency on `the_repository` go away. Note that `git_path()` returned a string allocated via `get_pathname()`, which uses a rotating set of statically allocated buffers. Consequently, callers didn't have to free the returned string. The same isn't true for `repo_common_path()`, so we also have to add logic to free the returned strings. This refactoring also allows us to remove `repo_common_pathv()` as well as `get_pathname()` from the public interface. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-29Merge branch 'ja/doc-commit-markup-updates'Junio C Hamano
Doc updates. * ja/doc-commit-markup-updates: doc: migrate git-commit manpage secondary files to new format doc: convert git commit config to new format doc: make more direct explanations in git commit options doc: the mode param of -u of git commit is optional doc: apply new documentation guidelines to git commit
2025-01-17builtins: send usage_with_options() help text to standard outputJunio C Hamano
Using the show_usage_with_options_if_asked() helper we introduced earlier, fix callers of usage_with_options() that want to show the help text when explicitly asked by the end-user. The help text now goes to the standard output stream for them. The test in t7600 for "git merge -h" may want to be retired, as the same is covered by t0012 already, but it is specifically testing that the "-h" option gets a response even with a corrupt index file, so for now let's leave it there. Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-15doc: the mode param of -u of git commit is optionalJean-Noël Avila
Fix the synopsis to reflect the option description. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-06global: mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`Patrick Steinhardt
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>
2024-11-04builtin/commit: fix leaking cleanup configPatrick Steinhardt
The cleanup string set by the config is leaking when it is being overridden by an option. Fix this by tracking these via two separate variables such that we can free the old value. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-04builtin/commit: fix leaking change data contentsPatrick Steinhardt
While we free the worktree change data, we never free its contents. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-23Merge branch 'jc/pass-repo-to-builtins'Junio C Hamano
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
2024-09-13add: pass in repo variable instead of global the_repositoryJohn Cai
With the repository variable available in the builtin function as an argument, pass this down into helper functions instead of using the global the_repository. Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-13builtin: remove USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE from builtin.hJohn Cai
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>
2024-09-13builtin: add a repository parameter for builtin functionsJohn Cai
In order to reduce the usage of the global the_repository, add a parameter to builtin functions that will get passed a repository variable. This commit uses UNUSED on most of the builtin functions, as subsequent commits will modify the actual builtins to pass the repository parameter down. Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-12environment: make `get_index_file()` accept a repositoryPatrick Steinhardt
The `get_index_file()` function retrieves the path to the index file of `the_repository`. Make it accept a `struct repository` such that it can work on arbitrary repositories and make it part of the repository subsystem. This reduces our reliance on `the_repository` and clarifies scope. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-12environment: make `get_git_dir()` accept a repositoryPatrick Steinhardt
The `get_git_dir()` function retrieves the path to the Git directory for `the_repository`. Make it accept a `struct repository` such that it can work on arbitrary repositories and make it part of the repository subsystem. This reduces our reliance on `the_repository` and clarifies scope. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-14config: fix leaking comment character configPatrick Steinhardt
When the comment line character has been specified multiple times in the configuration, then `git_default_core_config()` will cause a memory leak because it unconditionally copies the string into `comment_line_str` without free'ing the previous value. In fact, it can't easily free the value in the first place because it may contain a string constant. Refactor the code such that we track allocated comment character strings via a separate non-constant variable `comment_line_str_to_free`. Adapt sites that set `comment_line_str` to set both and free the old value that was stored in `comment_line_str_to_free`. This memory leak is being hit in t3404. As there are still other memory leaks in that file we cannot yet mark it as passing with leak checking enabled. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-31Merge branch 'tn/doc-commit-fix'Junio C Hamano
Docfix. * tn/doc-commit-fix: doc: remove dangling closing parenthesis
2024-07-22doc: remove dangling closing parenthesisTomas Nordin
The second line of the synopsis, starting with [--dry-run] has a dangling closing paren in the second optional group. Probably added by mistake, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-08Merge branch 'ps/leakfixes-more'Junio C Hamano
More memory leaks have been plugged. * ps/leakfixes-more: (29 commits) builtin/blame: fix leaking ignore revs files builtin/blame: fix leaking prefixed paths blame: fix leaking data for blame scoreboards line-range: plug leaking find functions merge: fix leaking merge bases builtin/merge: fix leaking `struct cmdnames` in `get_strategy()` sequencer: fix memory leaks in `make_script_with_merges()` builtin/clone: plug leaking HEAD ref in `wanted_peer_refs()` apply: fix leaking string in `match_fragment()` sequencer: fix leaking string buffer in `commit_staged_changes()` commit: fix leaking parents when calling `commit_tree_extended()` config: fix leaking "core.notesref" variable rerere: fix various trivial leaks builtin/stash: fix leak in `show_stash()` revision: free diff options builtin/log: fix leaking commit list in git-cherry(1) merge-recursive: fix memory leak when finalizing merge builtin/merge-recursive: fix leaking object ID bases builtin/difftool: plug memory leaks in `run_dir_diff()` object-name: free leaking object contexts ...
2024-06-11commit: fix leaking parents when calling `commit_tree_extended()`Patrick Steinhardt
When creating commits via `commit_tree_extended()`, the caller passes in a string list of parents. This call implicitly transfers ownership of that list to the function, which is quite surprising to begin with. But to make matters worse, `commit_tree_extended()` doesn't even bother to free the list of parents in error cases. The result is a memory leak, and one that the caller cannot fix by themselves because they do not know whether parts of the string list have already been released. Refactor the code such that callers can keep ownership of the list of parents, which is getting indicated by parameter being a constant pointer now. Free the lists at the calling site and add a common exit path to those sites as required. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-06-11parse-options: fix leaks for users of OPT_FILENAMEPatrick Steinhardt
The `OPT_FILENAME()` option will, if set, put an allocated string into the user-provided variable. Consequently, that variable thus needs to be free'd by the caller of `parse_options()`. Some callsites don't though and thus leak memory. Fix those. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-06-07global: improve const correctness when assigning string constantsPatrick Steinhardt
We're about to enable `-Wwrite-strings`, which changes the type of string constants to `const char[]`. Fix various sites where we assign such constants to non-const variables. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-05-27config: clarify memory ownership in `git_config_string()`Patrick Steinhardt
The out parameter of `git_config_string()` is a `const char **` even though we transfer ownership of memory to the caller. This is quite misleading and has led to many memory leaks all over the place. Adapt the parameter to instead be `char **`. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>