This option could create a commit history which violates the assumption
that commits have non-decreasing commit timestamps. Warn against that in
both git-am(1) and git-rebase(1).
The genesis of this option is from git-am(1) and was added in
3f01ad66 (am: Add --committer-date-is-author-date option,
2009-01-22). The commit message doesn’t give us an example
of a use case, but the thread starter does:[1]
I've a big set of patches in a mbox file: there's sufficient info
inside for git-am to work.
Yet, each time I do import these, my sha1sums are changing because of
different commit dates.
I'd like to force the commit date to match the info/date from the time
I received the email (and therefore always get back the right
sha1sums).
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/46d6db660901221441q60eb90bdge601a7a250c3a247@mail.gmail.com/
So the motivation was to treat git-am(1) as an import command that
creates the same commit IDs.
Putting aside the question of whether you should be using git-am(1) for
importing commits, this approach is problematic:
• you still need to apply the commits to the same base if you want the
same hashes; and
• you need the same committer.
And if you expect the same committer, why is this person applying the
same patches multiple times with the goal of making *identical* commits?
That was all for git-am(1).
It was added to git-rebase(1) in 570ccad3 (rebase: add options passed to
git-am, 2009-03-18)[2] in order to plug options that could not be sent
on to git-am(1). At this point the utility of the option graduated to
making no sense; a use case for `git rebase --committer-date-is-author-
date` is still yet to be found.
Just warn against using this option on both commands and remind the user
to consider whether they really need it.
† 2: See also 7573cec5 (rebase -i: support
--committer-date-is-author-date, 2020-08-17) for the commit for the
merge backend
Suggested-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This turns into a no-op merge, since more recent versions of Git
newer than 2.46 track do support the newer "git config" syntax.
* maint-2.45:
t: avoid git config syntax from newer releases
In a recent security release, 05e9cd64ee (config: quote values
containing CR character, 2025-05-19) added calls to `git config get`,
`git config set`, and `git config unset` which are not present on the
maint-2.43 branch.
These subcommands were added in the following commits, released in
git-2.46.0:
4e51389000 (builtin/config: introduce "get" subcommand, 2024-05-06),
00bbdde141 (builtin/config: introduce "set" subcommand, 2024-05-06),
95ea69c67b (builtin/config: introduce "unset" subcommand, 2024-05-06)
Revert to the previous `git config` syntax for older maintenance
branches.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When preparing the latest round of security fixes, we wrote release
notes in v2.43.7, and then successively merged those up through to the
various 'maint' branches.
However, the 2.49 release series is the first to have commit 1f010d6bdf
(doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc files, 2025-01-20). This means
that we should have renamed the new-but-historical release notes from
*.txt to *.adoc during the merge into the 'maint-2.49' branch, but
neglected to do so.
Rename them accordingly to match the convention introduced by
1f010d6bdf. Since the release materials in question here were prepared
before v2.50.0 was tagged, the 'maint' track for that release series is
OK as is.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fixes for GitHub Actions Coverity job.
* js/github-ci-win-coverity-fix:
ci(coverity): output the build log upon error
ci(coverity): fix building on Windows
Revert a botched bswap.h change that broke ntohll() functions on
big-endian systems with __builtin_bswap32/64().
* ss/revert-builtin-bswap-stuff:
Revert "bswap.h: add support for built-in bswap functions"
* maint-2.48:
Git 2.48.2
Git 2.47.3
Git 2.46.4
Git 2.45.4
Git 2.44.4
Git 2.43.7
wincred: avoid buffer overflow in wcsncat()
bundle-uri: fix arbitrary file writes via parameter injection
config: quote values containing CR character
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: convert new 'cygpath' calls
git-gui: do not mistake command arguments as redirection operators
git-gui: introduce function git_redir for git calls with redirections
git-gui: pass redirections as separate argument to git_read
git-gui: pass redirections as separate argument to _open_stdout_stderr
git-gui: convert git_read*, git_write to be non-variadic
git-gui: override exec and open only on Windows
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: revisit recently updated 'open' calls
git-gui: use git_read in githook_read
git-gui: sanitize $PATH on all platforms
git-gui: break out a separate function git_read_nice
git-gui: assure PATH has only absolute elements.
git-gui: remove option --stderr from git_read
git-gui: cleanup git-bash menu item
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: background
git-gui: avoid auto_execok in do_windows_shortcut
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: simple cases
git-gui: avoid auto_execok for git-bash menu item
git-gui: treat file names beginning with "|" as relative paths
git-gui: remove unused proc is_shellscript
git-gui: remove git config --list handling for git < 1.5.3
git-gui: remove special treatment of Windows from open_cmd_pipe
git-gui: remove HEAD detachment implementation for git < 1.5.3
git-gui: use only the configured shell
git-gui: remove Tcl 8.4 workaround on 2>@1 redirection
git-gui: make _shellpath usable on startup
git-gui: use [is_Windows], not bad _shellpath
git-gui: _which, only add .exe suffix if not present
gitk: encode arguments correctly with "open"
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: command pipeline
gitk: collect construction of blameargs into a single conditional
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands, readable and writable
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands with redirections
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirect to process
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirections and background
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirections
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: 'eval exec'
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: simple cases
gitk: have callers of diffcmd supply pipe symbol when necessary
gitk: treat file names beginning with "|" as relative paths
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Recently generating the version-def.h file and the config-list.h
file have been updated, which broke versions of "sed" that do not
want to be fed a file that ends with an incomplete line, and/or that
do not understand the more recent "-E" option to use extended
regular expression.
Fix them in response to a build-failure reported on Solaris boxes.
cf. https://lore.kernel.org/git/09f954b8-d9c3-418f-ad4b-9cb9b063f4ae@comstyle.com/
Reported-by: Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>
Reviewed-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 6547d1c9 (bswap.h: add support for built-in bswap
functions, 2025-04-23) tweaked the way the bswap32/64 macros are
defined, on platforms with __builtin_bswap32/64 supported, the
bswap32/64 macros are defined even on big endian platforms.
However the rest of this file assumes that bswap32/64() are defined
ONLY on little endian machines and uses that assumption to redefine
ntohl/ntohll macros. The said commit broke t4014-format-patch.sh test,
among many others on s390x.
Revert the commit.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
• Replace with phrases that are more standard (“all-or-nothing”
instead of “-none”)
• Add coordinating words that make it less likely for you to trip
over the sentence (“*that* "gc" can do”)
• Use “SMTP” instead of both SMTP and smtp
• Don’t mention `git fsck --reference` since the previous release
was not affected by this minor bug. Also say “errored out” since
the git-refs(1) bug was there in v2.48.0 as well
• Use the more widespread “linked” instead of “secondary worktree”
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is quite helpful to know what Coverity said, exactly, in case it
fails to analyze the code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When I added the Coverity workflow in a56b6230d0 (ci: add a GitHub
workflow to submit Coverity scans, 2023-09-25), I merely converted an
Azure Pipeline definition that had been running successfully for ages.
In the meantime, the current Coverity documentation describes a very
different way to install the analysis tool, recommending to add the
`bin/` directory to the _end_ of `PATH` (when originally, IIRC, it was
recommended to add it to the _beginning_ of the `PATH`).
This is crucial! The reason is that the current incarnation of the
Windows variant of Coverity's analysis tools come with a _lot_ of DLL
files in their `bin/` directory, some of them interferring rather badly
with the `gcc.exe` in Git for Windows' SDK that we use to run the
Coverity build. The symptom is a cryptic error message:
make: *** [Makefile:2960: headless-git.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
D:\git-sdk-64-minimal\mingw64\bin\windres.exe: preprocessing failed.
make: *** [Makefile:2679: git.res] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:2893: git.o] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:2893: builtin/add.o] Error 1
Attempting to detect unconfigured compilers in build
|0----------25-----------50----------75---------100|
****************************************************
Warning: Build command make.exe exited with code 2. Please verify that the build completed successfully.
Warning: Emitted 0 C/C++ compilation units (0%) successfully
0 C/C++ compilation units (0%) are ready for analysis
For more details, please look at:
D:/a/git/git/cov-int/build-log.txt
The log (which the workflow is currently not configured to reveal) then
points out that the `windows.h` header cannot be found, which is _still_
not very helpful. The underlying root cause is that the `gcc.exe` in Git
for Windows' SDK determines the location of the header files via the
location of certain DLL files, and finding the "wrong" ones first on the
`PATH` misleads that logic.
Let's fix this problem by following Coverity's current recommendation
and append the `bin/` directory in which `cov-int` can be found to the
_end_ of `PATH`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tests that compare $HOME and $(pwd), which should be the same
directory unless the tests chdir's around, would fail when the user
enters the test directory via symbolic links, which has been
corrected.
* mm/test-in-absolute-home:
t: run tests from a normalized working directory
Adjust to newer version of libcURL.
* jk/curl-easy-setopt-typefix:
curl: fix symbolic constant typechecks with curl_easy_setopt()
curl: fix integer variable typechecks with curl_easy_setopt()
curl: fix integer constant typechecks with curl_easy_setopt()
