# Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón

GitHub: https://github.com/carenas
Addresses: carenas@gmail.com
Messages: 1006. Patches: 451. Threads started: 116.
First message: 2018-10-18T18:46:34Z. Latest: 2026-01-31T23:14:01Z.

## Messages per year

| Year | Messages | Patches |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 81 | 47 |
| 2019 | 140 | 60 |
| 2020 | 155 | 64 |
| 2021 | 314 | 156 |
| 2022 | 167 | 52 |
| 2023 | 25 | 8 |
| 2024 | 8 | 5 |
| 2025 | 115 | 58 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |

## Patch series

63 merged, 63 not merged, 0 in review (posted in the last 90 days); acceptance rate 50%. Re-rolls count once; merged means a patch matches a commit on master by the same author.

- 2026-01-31 merged: [RelNotes: fully spell negation](https://gitlist.dev/t/64872) commit 239b7f686cf6
- 2025-08-23 not merged: [progress: replace setitimer() with alarm()](https://gitlist.dev/t/64019)
- 2025-07-31 merged (v2): [git-gui: workaround deprecation of Tcl/TK 8.5 in macOS](https://gitlist.dev/t/63879) commit 8c02ecc6f66d
- 2025-07-18 merged (v6): [meson: disable PCRE2 dependency by default](https://gitlist.dev/t/63788) commit 8c3add51a873
- 2025-07-10 merged (v4): [daemon: explicitly allow EINTR during poll()](https://gitlist.dev/t/63688) commit d83e1eef3bbf
- 2025-07-07 merged (v5): [builtin/gc: improve total_ram calculation for HAVE_BSD_SYSCTL](https://gitlist.dev/t/63728) commit 781c1cf5712f
- 2025-07-02 merged (v4): [config.mak.uname: update settings for FreeBSD](https://gitlist.dev/t/63633) commit 46a3ab744b9d
- 2025-07-01 merged: [ci: update FreeBSD image to 14.3](https://gitlist.dev/t/63718) commit 1e77de1864e8
- 2025-06-30 not merged: [daemon: handle EINTR failures from waitpid()](https://gitlist.dev/t/63710)
- 2025-06-27 merged (v3): [daemon: correctly handle soft accept() errors](https://gitlist.dev/t/63700) commit 78b6601ca390
- 2025-06-26 merged: [daemon: remove unnecesary restriction for listener fd](https://gitlist.dev/t/63697) commit 0c856224d202
- 2025-06-19 not merged: [fixup! repack: exclude cruft pack(s) from the MIDX where possible](https://gitlist.dev/t/63286)
- 2025-06-18 not merged: [portability: allow building in systems without d_type](https://gitlist.dev/t/63663)
- 2025-05-29 merged: [reftable: make REFTABLE_UNUSED C99 compatible](https://gitlist.dev/t/63542) commit f1228cd12c12
- 2024-09-20 merged (v2): [ci: update FreeBSD image to 13.4](https://gitlist.dev/t/62159) commit 2eeb29702e8f
- 2024-01-31 merged: [ci: update FreeBSD cirrus job](https://gitlist.dev/t/60825) commit 81fffb66d3f7
- 2024-01-22 not merged: [editorconfig: limit code lines to 80 characters](https://gitlist.dev/t/60781)
- 2024-01-01 not merged: [grep: default to posix digits with -P](https://gitlist.dev/t/60675)
- 2023-04-26 not merged: [developer: remove gcc 12 workaround](https://gitlist.dev/t/59656)
- 2023-01-20 not merged (v4): [builtin/checkout: check the branch used in -B with worktrees](https://gitlist.dev/t/59095)
- 2023-01-17 merged (v3): [grep: correctly identify utf-8 characters with \{b,w} in -P](https://gitlist.dev/t/59048) commit acabd2048ee0
- 2022-06-17 merged (v6): [fix `sudo make install` regression in maint](https://gitlist.dev/t/57799) commit ae9abbb63eea
- 2022-05-05 merged (v2): [setup: tighten ownership checks post CVE-2022-24765](https://gitlist.dev/t/57845) commit 3b0bf2704980
- 2022-04-27 not merged: [setup: avoid uninitialized use of is_safe in ensure_valid_ownership](https://gitlist.dev/t/57804)
- 2022-04-23 not merged: [fixup! CI: move p4 and git-lfs variables to ci/install-dependencies.sh](https://gitlist.dev/t/57451)
- 2022-04-23 not merged: [fixup! CI: use https, not http to download binaries from perforce.com](https://gitlist.dev/t/57786)
- 2022-04-23 merged (v3): [ci: avoid perforce/brew issues affecting macOS](https://gitlist.dev/t/57778) commit cde6b9b78d8c
- 2022-04-15 merged: [ci: avoid failures for pedantic job with fedora 36](https://gitlist.dev/t/57740) commit 846a29afb0b1
- 2022-04-15 merged (v2): [reftable: avoid undefined behaviour breaking t0032](https://gitlist.dev/t/57736) commit e6b2582da30b
- 2022-03-08 not merged: [test-lib.sh: use awk instead of expr for a POSIX non integer check](https://gitlist.dev/t/57510)

## Recent emails

- 2026-01-31 [[PATCH] RelNotes: fully spell negation](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260131230848.4790-1-carenas%40gmail.com)
- 2025-12-18 [Re: [PATCH] odb: do not use "blank" substitute for NULL](https://gitlist.dev/e/aUPbgCSTgWJAe0wu%40Carlos-MacBook-Air.local)
- 2025-12-14 [Re: Would it make sense to add a commit.signOff config?](https://gitlist.dev/e/aT7lkXl65-TBIsRS%40Carlos-MacBook-Air.local)
- 2025-12-12 [Re: [PATCH] config.mak.uname: use iconv from Homebrew on macOS](https://gitlist.dev/e/mmbxugkhxhioxdx46yz47syj2cvj6cfukmzfxtdx5yqolmsc65%40ftfrd26tenco)
- 2025-12-11 [Re: [PATCH] config.mak.uname: use iconv from Homebrew on macOS](https://gitlist.dev/e/vxi7g67b322sre7ylkcfwujf3n34j3f5vtpl62zhrj4ds6f675%40hyyh2rxhaib6)
- 2025-12-10 [Re: [PATCH] config.mak.uname: use iconv from Homebrew on macOS](https://gitlist.dev/e/qnb77j3b5m6rfbzr3qhmwalo5lha4gqslvzqsfuq6zur74ze7j%40wqriu4w7wbzw)
- 2025-12-09 [Re: [PATCH 0/2] Few fixes for cross-compiling with Meson](https://gitlist.dev/e/CAPUEspjifD8MYp6UR4pE91OqcJQdFafpeG8zNo1kfdxhnch_3A%40mail.gmail.com)
- 2025-12-07 [Re: [PATCH 0/2] Few fixes for cross-compiling with Meson](https://gitlist.dev/e/3tucvydzaelj2mngkocb75l52nssxkkdtt3dj4paviatd3uvnc%40u2sy4vig7owz)
- 2025-09-13 [Re: safe.directory does not work at all (git 2.39.5, 2.51.0)](https://gitlist.dev/e/lamzerhpp6kbgzbhztgaqvdcymaqvec232sen67t6wx4rmobih%40lqqivgroonmp)
- 2025-08-25 [Re: [PATCH] progress: pay attention to (customized) delay time](https://gitlist.dev/e/jq5ul4zwdex6peuub3upwzxz3d5zcnuh7adseyg6wa6dpiu4ci%40fuwe2t2vbguo)
- 2025-08-23 [Re: [PATCH 0/2] progress: replace setitimer() with alarm()](https://gitlist.dev/e/ubouc4oefkouvoikedo2lcui3wgjgjovbilxnf67g76gmrp75e%40ujkfg5asyy76)
- 2025-08-23 [[PATCH 2/2] progress: add a shutting down state to the SIGALRM handler](https://gitlist.dev/e/0db98c3478e5e2f1aadcf6d773cf6519af482630.1755955378.git.gitgitgadget%40gmail.com)
- 2025-08-23 [[PATCH 0/2] progress: replace setitimer() with alarm()](https://gitlist.dev/e/pull.1960.git.1755955377.gitgitgadget%40gmail.com)
- 2025-08-23 [[PATCH 1/2] progress: replace setitimer() with alarm()](https://gitlist.dev/e/493f69caddacea3f31e458fc5c5c1e151d28b6f3.1755955378.git.gitgitgadget%40gmail.com)
- 2025-08-12 [Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] reftable: a couple of improvements for libgit2](https://gitlist.dev/e/CAPUEsph_rWfbxobf0fWuGcWF%3DXNa4911FAXvB7agbfyUiZDr6Q%40mail.gmail.com)
- 2025-08-12 [Re: [PATCH 3/5] reftable/stack: fix compiler warning due to missing braces](https://gitlist.dev/e/qruwf2zjl2uvf33mp4ajklvgx7wq7ctghu53rxzbgndfojudvh%40ylr4otznu2og)
- 2025-07-31 [[PATCH v2 5/5] git-gui: ensure own version of git-gui--askpass is used](https://gitlist.dev/e/20250731080628.27917-6-carenas%40gmail.com)
- 2025-07-31 [[PATCH v2 4/5] git-gui: honor TCLTK_PATH in git-gui--askpass](https://gitlist.dev/e/20250731080628.27917-5-carenas%40gmail.com)
- 2025-07-31 [[PATCH v2 3/5] git-gui: retire Git Gui.app](https://gitlist.dev/e/20250731080628.27917-4-carenas%40gmail.com)
- 2025-07-31 [[PATCH v2 2/5] git-gui: fix dependency of GITGUI_MAIN on generator](https://gitlist.dev/e/20250731080628.27917-3-carenas%40gmail.com)
- 2025-07-31 [[PATCH v2 1/5] git-gui: remove uname_O in Makefile](https://gitlist.dev/e/20250731080628.27917-2-carenas%40gmail.com)
- 2025-07-31 [[PATCH v2 0/5] git-gui: workaround deprecation of Tcl/Tk 8.5 in macOS](https://gitlist.dev/e/20250731080628.27917-1-carenas%40gmail.com)
- 2025-07-30 [Re: [PATCH 0/5] git-gui: workaround deprecation of Tcl/TK 8.5 in macOS](https://gitlist.dev/e/CAPUEspgpF5%3Dw-%3Dw1zofkO1P3%2BHYdvRUxZfpnM2pcJGYOOoEmdg%40mail.gmail.com)
- 2025-07-30 [Re: [PATCH 0/5] git-gui: workaround deprecation of Tcl/TK 8.5 in macOS](https://gitlist.dev/e/CAPUEspiP%2BXoz_W-X4QrStAFS1BqSF4pws7d6dxaf6m0OeLtM_w%40mail.gmail.com)
- 2025-07-30 [[PATCH 5/5] git-gui: ensure own version of git-gui--askpass is used](https://gitlist.dev/e/20250730164052.15371-6-carenas%40gmail.com)
- 2025-07-30 [[PATCH 4/5] git-gui: honor TCLTK_PATH in git-gui--askpass](https://gitlist.dev/e/20250730164052.15371-5-carenas%40gmail.com)
- 2025-07-30 [[PATCH 3/5] git-gui: retire Git Gui.app](https://gitlist.dev/e/20250730164052.15371-4-carenas%40gmail.com)
- 2025-07-30 [[PATCH 2/5] git-gui: fix dependency of GITGUI_MAIN on generator](https://gitlist.dev/e/20250730164052.15371-3-carenas%40gmail.com)
- 2025-07-30 [[PATCH 1/5] git-gui: remove uname_O in Makefile](https://gitlist.dev/e/20250730164052.15371-2-carenas%40gmail.com)
- 2025-07-30 [[PATCH 0/5] git-gui: workaround deprecation of Tcl/TK 8.5 in macOS](https://gitlist.dev/e/20250730164052.15371-1-carenas%40gmail.com)