{"thread":{"id":"63275","subject":"\"What's cooking\" interim report","startedAt":"2025-04-09T23:10:06Z","lastAt":"2025-04-11T09:32:40Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Junio C Hamano","Karthik Nayak","Patrick Steinhardt"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"515939","messageId":"xmqqy0w9orsn.fsf@gitster.g","threadId":"63275","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"\"What's cooking\" interim report","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2025-04-09T23:10:00Z","receivedAt":"2025-04-09T23:10:06Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Since the issue #02 of this month, a handful of topics have been\npicked up, a few topics have been replaced by their newer\niterations, a topic that is already in 'next' gained an additional\ncommit on top, and a topic got its description extended.\n\n--------------------------------------------------\nBorn topics\n\n[New Topics]\n\n * kn/bundle-dedup-optim (2025-04-08) 2 commits\n - bundle: fix non-linear performance scaling with refs\n - t6020: test for duplicate refnames in bundle creation\n\n Optimize the code to dedup references recorded in a bundle file.\n\n Will merge to 'next'?\n source: <20250408-488-generating-bundles-with-many-references-has-non-linear-performance-v2-0-0802fc36a23d@gmail.com>\n\n * kn/meson-hdr-check (2025-04-08) 4 commits\n - meson: add support for 'headers-check'\n - meson: move headers definition from 'contrib/coccinelle'\n - coccinelle: meson: rename variables to be more specific\n - Merge branch 'es/meson-build-skip-coccinelle' into kn/meson-hdr-check\n\n Add an equivalent to \"make hdr-check\" target to meson based builds.\n\n Getting there.\n cf. \n source: <20250408-505-wire-up-sparse-via-meson-v1-0-17476e5cea3f@gmail.com>\n\n * ps/object-file-cleanup (2025-04-08) 10 commits\n - object-store: merge \"object-store-ll.h\" and \"object-store.h\"\n - object-store: remove global array of cached objects\n - object: split out functions relating to object store subsystem\n - object-file: split out functions relating to index subsystem\n - object-file: split up concerns of `HASH_*` flags\n - object-file: split out functions relating to object store subsystem\n - object-file: move `xmmap()` into \"wrapper.c\"\n - object-file: move `git_open_cloexec()` to \"compat/open.c\"\n - object-file: move `safe_create_leading_directories()` into \"dir.c\"\n - Merge branch 'ps/object-wo-the-repository' into ps/object-file-cleanup\n (this branch uses ps/object-wo-the-repository.)\n\n Code clean-up.\n\n Will merge to 'next'?\n cf. \n cf. \n source: <20250408-pks-split-object-file-v1-0-f1fd50191143@pks.im>\n\n * ab/environment-clean-header (2025-04-09) 1 commit\n - environment.h: remove unused variables\n\n Code clean-up.\n\n Will merge to 'next'.\n source: <2c547567-2b72-476c-9fc5-71cac050fa15@gmail.com>\n\n * cj/refname-avail-check-optim-typofix (2025-04-09) 1 commit\n - refs: fix duplicated word in comment\n\n Comment fix.\n\n Will merge to 'next'.\n source: \n\n * dd/sparse-glibc-workaround (2025-04-09) 1 commit\n - sparse: ignore warning from new glibc headers\n\n Squelch false-positive from sparse.\n\n Will merge to 'next'.\n source: \n\n * js/ci-github-update-ubuntu (2025-04-09) 1 commit\n - ci: upgrade `sparse` to supported build agents\n\n Adjust to the deprecation of use of Ubuntu 20.04 GitHub Actions CI.\n\n Will merge to 'next'.\n source: <77f82414-261c-d2bc-f911-ed3d4b06c86e@gmx.de>\n\n * ps/refname-avail-check-optim (2025-04-09) 1 commit\n - refs/packed: fix BUG when seeking refs with UTF-8 characters\n\n Incorrect sorting of refs with bytes with high-bit set on platforms\n with signed char led to a BUG, which has been corrected.\n\n Will merge to 'next'.\n cf. <20250404205740.GA780449@coredump.intra.peff.net>\n source: <20250404-b4-pks-packed-backend-seek-with-utf8-v1-1-6ceb694e3bd7@pks.im>\n\n * rj/build-tweaks (2025-04-09) 13 commits\n - config.mak.uname: set CSPRNG_METHOD to getrandom on Linux\n - config.mak.uname: add arc4random to the cygwin build\n - config.mak.uname: add sysinfo() configuration for cygwin\n - builtin/gc.c: correct RAM calculation when using sysinfo\n - config.mak.uname: add clock_gettime() to the cygwin build\n - config.mak.uname: add HAVE_GETDELIM to the cygwin section\n - config.mak.uname: only set NO_REGEX on cygwin for v1.7\n - config.mak.uname: add a note about NO_STRLCPY for Linux\n - Makefile: remove NEEDS_LIBRT build variable\n - meson.build: set default help format to html on windows\n - meson.build: only set build variables for non-default values\n - Makefile: only set some BASIC_CFLAGS when RUNTIME_PREFIX is set\n - meson.build: remove -DCURL_DISABLE_TYPECHECK\n\n Various build tweaks, including CSPRNG selection on some platforms.\n\n Comments?\n source: \n\n--------------------------------------------------\nOther topics that had seen changes.\n\n[Cooking]\n\n * pb/status-rebase-fixes (2025-03-28) 4 commits\n - wt-status: suggest 'git rebase --continue' to conclude 'merge' instruction\n - wt-status: also abbreviate 'merge' and 'fixup -C' lines during rebase\n - SQUASH??? - \n - rebase -r: do create merge commit after empty resolution\n \n- A few fixes around \"git status\" while \"git rebase\" is running.\n+ A few fixes around \"git status\" while \"git rebase\" is running,\n+ plus a corner case bug fix for \"git rebase -r\".\n \n- Comments? It probably deserves a clarifying reroll.\n+ Expecting a (small and hopefully final) clarifying reroll.\n cf. \n+ cf. \n source: \n\n-* ua/update-update-server-info (2025-03-29) 1 commit\n+* ua/update-update-server-info (2025-04-08) 1 commit\n - builtin/update-server-info: remove unnecessary if statement\n \n- Expecting a (hopefully minor and final) reroll.\n- cf. \n- source: <20250329120327.105925-2-usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com>\n+ Code simplification.\n+\n+ Will merge to 'next'.\n+ source: <20250407195850.299348-2-usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com>\n\n-* en/merge-recursive-debug (2025-04-07) 8 commits\n+* en/merge-recursive-debug (2025-04-08) 8 commits\n - builtin/{merge,rebase,revert}: remove GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM\n - tests: remove GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM and test_expect_merge_algorithm\n - merge-recursive.[ch]: thoroughly debug these\n - merge, sequencer: switch recursive merges over to ort\n - sequencer: switch non-recursive merges over to ort\n - merge-ort: enable diff-algorithms other than histogram\n - builtin/merge-recursive: switch to using merge_ort_generic()\n - checkout: replace merge_trees() with merge_ort_nonrecursive()\n \n- Expecting a reroll.\n- cf. \n- source: \n+ Remove remnants of the recursive merge strategy backend, which was\n+ superseded by the ort merge strategy.\n+\n+ Will merge to 'next'.\n+ source: \n\n-* jk/fetch-follow-remote-head-fix (2025-03-18) 3 commits\n+* jk/fetch-follow-remote-head-fix (2025-04-09) 4 commits\n+ - fetch: make set_head() call easier to read\n (merged to 'next' on 2025-04-07 at ba5ac342a5)\n + fetch: don't ask for remote HEAD if followRemoteHEAD is \"never\"\n + fetch: only respect followRemoteHEAD with configured refspecs\n + Merge branch 'jk/fetch-ref-prefix-cleanup' into jk/fetch-follow-remote-head-fix\n \n \"git fetch []\" with only the configured fetch refspec\n should be the only thing to update refs/remotes//HEAD,\n but the code was overly eager to do so in other cases.\n \n- Will merge to 'master'.\n+ Will merge to 'next' and then to 'master'.\n cf. \n source: <20250318053905.GA2051217@coredump.intra.peff.net>\n"},{"id":"515944","messageId":"CAOLa=ZRMmEjPoD9-M=XFU37_VoGebYDnH-=nfCyPx0nTvD1=oQ@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"63275","inReplyTo":"xmqqy0w9orsn.fsf@gitster.g","subject":"Re: \"What's cooking\" interim report","fromName":"Karthik Nayak","fromEmail":"karthik.188@gmail.com","sentAt":"2025-04-10T09:10:28Z","receivedAt":"2025-04-10T09:10:30Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"karthik.188@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1786334?v=4"},"body":"Junio C Hamano writes:\n\n> Since the issue #02 of this month, a handful of topics have been\n> picked up, a few topics have been replaced by their newer\n> iterations, a topic that is already in 'next' gained an additional\n> commit on top, and a topic got its description extended.\n>\n> --------------------------------------------------\n> Born topics\n>\n> [New Topics]\n>\n> * kn/bundle-dedup-optim (2025-04-08) 2 commits\n> - bundle: fix non-linear performance scaling with refs\n> - t6020: test for duplicate refnames in bundle creation\n>\n> Optimize the code to dedup references recorded in a bundle file.\n>\n> Will merge to 'next'?\n> source: <20250408-488-generating-bundles-with-many-references-has-non-linear-performance-v2-0-0802fc36a23d@gmail.com>\n>\n\nToon approved/tested the newer version. I'm still wary if some edge-case\nwas missed. However the series has added more tests and everything seems\nto be good. So we could merge to next.\n\n> * kn/meson-hdr-check (2025-04-08) 4 commits\n> - meson: add support for 'headers-check'\n> - meson: move headers definition from 'contrib/coccinelle'\n> - coccinelle: meson: rename variables to be more specific\n> - Merge branch 'es/meson-build-skip-coccinelle' into kn/meson-hdr-check\n>\n> Add an equivalent to \"make hdr-check\" target to meson based builds.\n>\n> Getting there.\n> cf. \n> source: <20250408-505-wire-up-sparse-via-meson-v1-0-17476e5cea3f@gmail.com>\n>\n\nYeah, I need to send in a new version here. Will do that soon!\n\nThanks!\n"},{"id":"515979","messageId":"Z_jg0KHpBelL6UXl@pks.im","threadId":"63275","inReplyTo":"CAOLa=ZRMmEjPoD9-M=XFU37_VoGebYDnH-=nfCyPx0nTvD1=oQ@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: \"What's cooking\" interim report","fromName":"Patrick Steinhardt","fromEmail":"ps@pks.im","sentAt":"2025-04-11T09:28:48Z","receivedAt":"2025-04-11T09:28:55Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"ps@pks.im","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4056630?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 02:10:28AM -0700, Karthik Nayak wrote:\n> Junio C Hamano writes:\n> \n> > Since the issue #02 of this month, a handful of topics have been\n> > picked up, a few topics have been replaced by their newer\n> > iterations, a topic that is already in 'next' gained an additional\n> > commit on top, and a topic got its description extended.\n> >\n> > --------------------------------------------------\n> > Born topics\n> >\n> > [New Topics]\n> >\n> > * kn/bundle-dedup-optim (2025-04-08) 2 commits\n> > - bundle: fix non-linear performance scaling with refs\n> > - t6020: test for duplicate refnames in bundle creation\n> >\n> > Optimize the code to dedup references recorded in a bundle file.\n> >\n> > Will merge to 'next'?\n> > source: <20250408-488-generating-bundles-with-many-references-has-non-linear-performance-v2-0-0802fc36a23d@gmail.com>\n> >\n> \n> Toon approved/tested the newer version. I'm still wary if some edge-case\n> was missed. However the series has added more tests and everything seems\n> to be good. So we could merge to next.\n\nI had also reviewed it internally before it was sent to the mailing list\nand couldn't spot anything wrong with the current version.\n\nPatrick\n"},{"id":"515990","messageId":"Z_jhsVJi5U0qinbp@pks.im","threadId":"63275","inReplyTo":"xmqqy0w9orsn.fsf@gitster.g","subject":"Re: \"What's cooking\" interim report","fromName":"Patrick Steinhardt","fromEmail":"ps@pks.im","sentAt":"2025-04-11T09:32:33Z","receivedAt":"2025-04-11T09:32:40Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"ps@pks.im","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4056630?v=4"},"body":"On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 04:10:00PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> [New Topics]\n> * ps/object-file-cleanup (2025-04-08) 10 commits\n> - object-store: merge \"object-store-ll.h\" and \"object-store.h\"\n> - object-store: remove global array of cached objects\n> - object: split out functions relating to object store subsystem\n> - object-file: split out functions relating to index subsystem\n> - object-file: split up concerns of `HASH_*` flags\n> - object-file: split out functions relating to object store subsystem\n> - object-file: move `xmmap()` into \"wrapper.c\"\n> - object-file: move `git_open_cloexec()` to \"compat/open.c\"\n> - object-file: move `safe_create_leading_directories()` into \"dir.c\"\n> - Merge branch 'ps/object-wo-the-repository' into ps/object-file-cleanup\n> (this branch uses ps/object-wo-the-repository.)\n> \n> Code clean-up.\n> \n> Will merge to 'next'?\n> cf. \n> cf. \n> source: <20250408-pks-split-object-file-v1-0-f1fd50191143@pks.im>\n\nI have sent out v2 just now to fix a single grammar issue in a commit\nmessage as pointed out by Elijah. So I think it's ready.\n\n> * ps/refname-avail-check-optim (2025-04-09) 1 commit\n> - refs/packed: fix BUG when seeking refs with UTF-8 characters\n> \n> Incorrect sorting of refs with bytes with high-bit set on platforms\n> with signed char led to a BUG, which has been corrected.\n> \n> Will merge to 'next'.\n> cf. <20250404205740.GA780449@coredump.intra.peff.net>\n> source: <20250404-b4-pks-packed-backend-seek-with-utf8-v1-1-6ceb694e3bd7@pks.im>\n\nYup, makes sense.\n\n> * rj/build-tweaks (2025-04-09) 13 commits\n> - config.mak.uname: set CSPRNG_METHOD to getrandom on Linux\n> - config.mak.uname: add arc4random to the cygwin build\n> - config.mak.uname: add sysinfo() configuration for cygwin\n> - builtin/gc.c: correct RAM calculation when using sysinfo\n> - config.mak.uname: add clock_gettime() to the cygwin build\n> - config.mak.uname: add HAVE_GETDELIM to the cygwin section\n> - config.mak.uname: only set NO_REGEX on cygwin for v1.7\n> - config.mak.uname: add a note about NO_STRLCPY for Linux\n> - Makefile: remove NEEDS_LIBRT build variable\n> - meson.build: set default help format to html on windows\n> - meson.build: only set build variables for non-default values\n> - Makefile: only set some BASIC_CFLAGS when RUNTIME_PREFIX is set\n> - meson.build: remove -DCURL_DISABLE_TYPECHECK\n> \n> Various build tweaks, including CSPRNG selection on some platforms.\n> \n> Comments?\n> source: \n\nI'm currently traveling, so I didn't yet have time to review this. But I\ndo plan to do so on Monday.\n\nPatrick\n"}]}