What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2025, #03; Wed, 8)

Here are the topics that have been cooking in my tree. Commits prefixed with '+' are in 'next' (being in 'next' is a sign that a topic is stable enough to be used and are candidate to be in a future release). Commits prefixed with '-' are only in 'seen', and aren't considered "accepted" at all and may be annotated with an URL to a message that raises issues but they are no means exhaustive. A topic without enough support may be discarded after a long period of no activity (of course they can be resubmit when new interests arise).

Copies of the source code to Git live in many repositories, and the following is a list of the ones I push into or their mirrors. Some repositories have only a subset of branches.

With maint, master, next, seen, todo:

	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/
	git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git/
	https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git/
	https://github.com/git/git/
	https://gitlab.com/git-scm/git/

With all the integration branches and topics broken out:

https://github.com/gitster/git/

Even though the preformatted documentation in HTML and man format are not sources, they are published in these repositories for convenience (replace "htmldocs" with "manpages" for the manual pages):

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git-htmldocs.git/
https://github.com/gitster/git-htmldocs.git/

Release tarballs are available at:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

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[New Topics]

* cc/fast-import-strip-signed-tags (2025-10-07) 5 commits
- fast-import: add '--signed-tags=<mode>' option
- fast-export: handle all kinds of tag signatures
- t9350: properly count annotated tags
- lib-gpg: allow tests with the GPGSM prereq first
- doc: git-tag: stop focussing on GPG signed tags

"git fast-import" is taught to handle signed tags, just like it recently learned to handle signed commits, in different ways.

Comments?
source: <[email protected]>

* ps/ci-rust (2025-10-07) 8 commits
- rust: support for Windows
- ci: verify minimum supported Rust version
- ci: check for common Rust mistakes via Clippy
- rust/varint: add safety comments
- ci: check formatting of our Rust code
- ci: deduplicate calls to apt-get update
- Merge branch 'ps/gitlab-ci-windows-improvements' into ps/ci-rust
- Merge branch 'ps/rust-balloon' into ps/ci-rust
(this branch uses ps/gitlab-ci-windows-improvements.)

CI improvements to handle the recent Rust integration better.

Comments?
source: <[email protected]>

* ps/ref-peeled-tags (2025-10-07) 13 commits
- ref-filter: parse objects on demand
- ref-filter: detect broken tags when dereferencing them
- refs: don't store peeled object IDs for invalid tags
- object: add flag to peel_object() to verify object type
- refs: drop infrastructure to peel via iterators
- refs: drop current_ref_iter hack
- builtin/show-ref: convert to use reference_get_peeled_oid()
- ref-filter: propagate peeled object ID
- upload-pack: convert to use reference_get_peeled_oid()
- refs: expose peeled object ID via the iterator
- refs: refactor reference status flags
- refs: introduce .ref field for the base iterator
- refs: introduce wrapper struct for each_ref_fn

Some ref backend storage can hold not just the object name of an annotated tag, but the object name of the object the tag points at. The code to handle this information has been streamlined.

Expecting v2.
cf. <[email protected]>
source: <20251007-b4-pks-ref-filter-skip-parsing-objects-v1-0-916cc7c6886b@pks.im>

* ps/remove-packfile-store-get-packs (2025-10-07) 7 commits
- packfile: rename packfile_store_get_all_packs()
- packfile: introduce macro to iterate through packs
- packfile: drop packfile_store_get_packs()
- builtin/grep: simplify how we preload packs
- builtin/gc: convert to use packfile_store_get_all_packs()
- object-name: convert to use packfile_store_get_all_packs()
- Merge branch 'tb/incremental-midx-part-3.1' into ps/remove-packfile-store-get-packs (this branch uses tb/incremental-midx-part-3.1.)

Two slightly different ways to get at "all the packfiles" in API has been cleaned up.

Comments?
source: <[email protected]>

* tb/doc-submitting-patches (2025-10-07) 2 commits
- SubmittingPatches: guidance for multi-series efforts
- SubmittingPatches: extend release-notes experiment to topic names

A few more things that patch authors can do to help maintainer to keep track of their topics better.

Will merge to 'next'.
source: <[email protected]>

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[Graduated to 'master']

* je/doc-push (2025-09-23) 2 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2025-09-29 at 4ff1b675ed)
+ doc: git-push: rewrite refspec specification
+ doc: git-push: create PUSH RULES section

Doc updates.
source: <[email protected]>

* js/curl-off-t-fixes (2025-09-26) 3 commits (merged to 'next' on 2025-09-30 at 6d1e5fd288)
+ http-push: avoid new compile error
+ imap-send: be more careful when casting to curl_off_t
+ http: offer to cast size_t to curl_off_t safely

A few places where an size_t value was cast to curl_off_t without checking has been updated to use the existing helper function.
source: <[email protected]>

* jt/clang-format-foreach-wo-space-before-parenthesis (2025-09-27) 1 commit (merged to 'next' on 2025-09-30 at c32668ab36)
+ clang-format: exclude control macros from SpaceBeforeParens

Clang-format update to let our control macros formatted the way we had them traditionally, e.g., "for_each_string_list_item()" without space before the parentheses.
source: <[email protected]>

* kn/ref-cache-seek-fix (2025-10-01) 1 commit
(merged to 'next' on 2025-10-02 at 5896b8c896)
+ refs/ref-cache: fix SEGFAULT when seeking in empty directories

Handling of an empty subdirectory of .git/refs/ in the ref-files backend has been corrected.
source: <20251001-583-git-for-each-ref-start-after-v3-1-000f03837a92@gmail.com>

* mh/doc-credential-url-prefix (2025-10-01) 1 commit (merged to 'next' on 2025-10-02 at dd0d9a1c59)
+ docs/gitcredentials: describe URL prefix matching

Doc update to describe a feature that has already been implemented.
source: <[email protected]>

* ml/reflog-write-committer-info-fix (2025-09-30) 1 commit (merged to 'next' on 2025-10-02 at 9a61d07bac)
+ builtin/reflog: respect user config in "write" subcommand

"git reflog write" did not honor the configured user.name/email which has been corrected.
source: <[email protected]>

* ps/odb-clean-stale-wrappers (2025-09-10) 1 commit (merged to 'next' on 2025-09-30 at 90f1033b8c)
+ odb: drop deprecated wrapper functions

Code clean-up.
source: <[email protected]>

* ps/packfile-store (2025-09-23) 16 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2025-09-29 at 342bb57fc2)
+ packfile: refactor get_packed_git_mru() to work on packfile store
+ packfile: refactor get_all_packs() to work on packfile store
+ packfile: refactor get_packed_git() to work on packfile store
+ packfile: move get_multi_pack_index() into "midx.c"
+ packfile: introduce function to load and add packfiles
+ packfile: refactor install_packed_git() to work on packfile store
+ packfile: split up responsibilities of reprepare_packed_git()
+ packfile: refactor prepare_packed_git() to work on packfile store
+ packfile: reorder functions to avoid function declaration
+ odb: move kept cache into struct packfile_store
+ odb: move MRU list of packfiles into struct packfile_store
+ odb: move packfile map into struct packfile_store
+ odb: move initialization bit into struct packfile_store
+ odb: move list of packfiles into struct packfile_store
+ packfile: introduce a new struct packfile_store
+ Merge branch 'ps/object-store-midx-dedup-info' into ps/packfile-store (this branch is used by tb/incremental-midx-part-3.1.)

Code clean-up around the in-core list of all the pack files and object database(s).
cf. <[email protected]>
source: <[email protected]>

* ps/rust-balloon (2025-10-02) 9 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2025-10-02 at fe4cdc2dfa)
+ ci: enable Rust for breaking-changes jobs
+ ci: convert "pedantic" job into full build with breaking changes
+ BreakingChanges: announce Rust becoming mandatory
+ varint: reimplement as test balloon for Rust
+ varint: use explicit width for integers
+ help: report on whether or not Rust is enabled
+ Makefile: introduce infrastructure to build internal Rust library
+ Makefile: reorder sources after includes
+ meson: add infrastructure to build internal Rust library (this branch is used by ps/ci-rust.)

Dip our toes a bit to (optionally) use Rust implemented helper called from our C code.
cf. <[email protected]>
source: <[email protected]>

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[Cooking]

* en/doc-merge-tree-describe-merge-base (2025-10-02) 1 commit (merged to 'next' on 2025-10-06 at 787ff6f08a)
+ Documentation/git-merge-tree.adoc: clarify the --merge-base option

Clarify the "--merge-base" command line option in "git merge-tree".

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <[email protected]>

* je/doc-data-model (2025-10-07) 2 commits
- fixup! doc: add a explanation of Git's data model
- doc: add a explanation of Git's data model

Add a new manual that describes the data model.

Comments?
source: <[email protected]>

* rs/add-patch-options-fix (2025-10-06) 6 commits
- add-patch: reset "permitted" at loop start
- add-patch: let options a and d roll over like y and n
- add-patch: let options k and K roll over like j and J
- add-patch: let options y, n, j, and e roll over to next undecided
- add-patch: document that option J rolls over
- add-patch: improve help for options j, J, k, and K

The code in "git add -p" and friends to iterate over hunks was riddled with bugs, which has been corrected.

Will merge to 'next'.
source: <[email protected]>

* jn/doc-help-translaing-pretty-options (2025-10-05) 1 commit (merged to 'next' on 2025-10-08 at 8962b8d1f0)
+ doc: do not break sentences into "lego" pieces

Documentation for "git log --pretty" options has been updated to make it easier to translate.

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <[email protected]>

* jn/doc-synopsis (2025-10-05) 3 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2025-10-08 at fd4f96ff5e)
+ doc: convert git worktree to synopsis style
+ doc: convert git tag to synopsis style
+ doc: convert git-stash.adoc to synopis style

Doc-mark-up modernization continues.

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <[email protected]>

* tb/incremental-midx-part-3.1 (2025-09-29) 51 commits
- SQUASH??? play well with other topics by preemptively including "repository.h"
- builtin/repack.c: clean up unused #includes
- repack: move write_cruft_pack() out of the builtin
- repack: move write_filtered_pack() out of the builtin
- repack: move pack_kept_objects to struct pack_objects_args
- repack: move finish_pack_objects_cmd() out of the builtin
- builtin/repack.c: pass write_pack_opts to finish_pack_objects_cmd()
- repack: extract write_pack_opts_is_local()
- repack: move find_pack_prefix() out of the builtin
- builtin/repack.c: use write_pack_opts within write_cruft_pack()
- builtin/repack.c: introduce struct write_pack_opts
- repack: 'write_midx_included_packs' API from the builtin
- builtin/repack.c: inline packs within write_midx_included_packs()
- builtin/repack.c: pass repack_write_midx_opts to midx_included_packs
- builtin/repack.c: inline remove_redundant_bitmaps()
- builtin/repack.c: reorder remove_redundant_bitmaps()
- repack: keep track of MIDX pack names using existing_packs
- builtin/repack.c: use a string_list for 'midx_pack_names'
- builtin/repack.c: extract opts struct for 'write_midx_included_packs()'
- builtin/repack.c: remove ref snapshotting from builtin
- repack: remove pack_geometry API from the builtin
- builtin/repack.c: pass 'packdir' to pack_geometry_remove_redundant()
- builtin/repack.c: pass 'pack_kept_objects' to pack_geometry_init()
- builtin/repack.c: rename various pack_geometry functions
- builtin/repack.c: remove "repack_promisor_objects()" from the builtin
- builtin/repack.c: pass "packtmp" to repack_promisor_objects()
- repack: remove 'generated_pack' API from the builtin
- builtin/repack.c: provide pack locations to generated_pack_install()
- builtin/repack.c: pass "packtmp" to generated_pack_populate()
- builtin/repack.c: factor our "generated_pack_install"
- builtin/repack.c: rename "struct generated_pack_data"
- repack: remove 'existing_packs' API from the builtin
- builtin/repack.c: avoid unnecessary numeric casts in existing_packs
- builtin/repack.c: pass "packdir" when removing packs
- repack: remove 'remove_redundant_pack' from the builtin
- builtin/repack.c: rename many 'struct existing_packs' functions
- repack: remove 'prepare_pack_objects' from the builtin
- repack: move 'delta_base_offset' to 'struct pack_objects_args'
- builtin/repack.c: pass both pack_objects args to repack_config
- repack: introduce new compilation unit
- builtin/repack.c: avoid using hash_to_hex() in pack geometry
- builtin/repack.c: avoid "the_hash_algo" in finish_pack_objects_cmd()
- builtin/repack: avoid "the_hash_algo" in repack_promisor_objects()
- builtin/repack.c: avoid "the_hash_algo" in write_oid()
- builtin/repack.c: avoid "the_hash_algo" when deleting packs
- builtin/repack.c: avoid "the_repository" when repacking promisor objects
- builtin/repack.c: avoid "the_repository" when removing packs
- builtin/repack.c: avoid "the_repository" when taking a ref snapshot
- builtin/repack.c: avoid "the_repository" in existing packs API
- builtin/repack.c: avoid "the_repository" in cmd_repack()
- Merge branch 'ps/packfile-store' into tb/incremental-midx-part-3.1 (this branch is used by ps/remove-packfile-store-get-packs.)

Comments?
source: <[email protected]>

* cc/doc-submitting-patches-with-ai (2025-10-01) 1 commit
- SubmittingPatches: add section about AI

AI guidelines.

Perhaps we should adopt what QEMU uses for simplicity? cf. <[email protected]>
source: <[email protected]>

* ps/history (2025-10-01) 13 commits
- builtin/history: implement "split" subcommand
- cache-tree: allow writing in-memory index as tree
- 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"
- builtin/history: implement "reword" subcommand
- builtin: add new "history" command
- replay: parse commits before dereferencing them
- replay: stop using the_repository
- replay: extract logic to pick commits
- wt-status: provide function to expose status for trees
- Merge branch 'sa/replay-atomic-ref-updates' into ps/history (this branch uses sa/replay-atomic-ref-updates.)

"git history" history rewriting UI.
source: <[email protected]>

* en/make-libgit-a (2025-10-02) 2 commits
- make: delete REFTABLE_LIB, add reftable to LIB_OBJS
- make: delete XDIFF_LIB, add xdiff to LIB_OBJS

Instead of three library archives (one for git, one for reftable, and one for xdiff), roll everything into a single libgit.a archive. This would help later effort to FFI into Rust.

Will merge to 'next'.
source: <[email protected]>

* ms/doc-worktree-side-by-side (2025-10-02) 4 commits
- amend! doc: git-worktree: Add side by side branch checkout example
- doc: git-worktree: Add side by side branch checkout example
- amend! doc: git-worktree: Link to examples
- doc: git-worktree: Link to examples

Document "git worktree add" and use of out-of-tree worktrees with examples.

Comments?
source: <[email protected]>

* ps/gitlab-ci-windows-improvements (2025-10-02) 5 commits (merged to 'next' on 2025-10-03 at 6adb054d12)
+ t8020: fix test failure due to indeterministic tag sorting
+ gitlab-ci: upload Meson test logs as JUnit reports
+ gitlab-ci: drop workaround for Python certificate store on Windows
+ gitlab-ci: ignore failures to disable realtime monitoring
+ gitlab-ci: dedup instructions to disable realtime monitoring (this branch is used by ps/ci-rust.)

GitLab CI improvements.

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <20251002-pks-gitlab-ci-windows-improvements-v1-0-6a8b6b45d728@pks.im>

* rj/doc-missing-technical-docs (2025-10-02) 1 commit (merged to 'next' on 2025-10-06 at f639955fdc)
+ doc: add some missing technical documents (this branch is used by rj/doc-technical-fixes.)

Doc updates.

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <[email protected]>

* rj/doc-technical-fixes (2025-10-02) 3 commits
- doc: commit-graph.adoc: fix up some formatting
- doc: sparse-checkout.adoc: fix asciidoc warnings
- doc: remembering-renames.adoc: fix asciidoc warnings (this branch uses rj/doc-missing-technical-docs.)

Documentation mark-up fixes.

Expecting v3.
cf. <[email protected]>
source: <[email protected]>

* ja/doc-markup-attached-paragraph-fix (2025-10-07) 2 commits (merged to 'next' on 2025-10-07 at 5b991a7b14)
+ doc: fix indentation of refStorage item in git-config(1) (merged to 'next' on 2025-09-30 at a91ca5db03)
+ doc: change the markup of paragraphs following a nested list item

Documentation mark-up fix.
source: <[email protected]>
source: <[email protected]>

* jc/optional-path (2025-09-28) 4 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2025-10-08 at a1e8af9952)
+ parseopt: values of pathname type can be prefixed with :(optional)
+ config: values of pathname type can be prefixed with :(optional)
+ t7500: fix GIT_EDITOR shell snippet
+ t7500: make each piece more independent

Configuration variables that take a pathname as a value (e.g. blame.ignorerevsfile) can be marked as optional by prefixing ":(optoinal)" before its value.

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <[email protected]>

* kh/doc-patch-id-markup-fix (2025-09-29) 1 commit (merged to 'next' on 2025-10-08 at a81dc9f7e6)
+ doc: patch-id: fix accidental literal blocks

Documentation mark-up fix.

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <[email protected]>

* sa/replay-atomic-ref-updates (2025-09-26) 1 commit
- replay: make atomic ref updates the default behavior (this branch is used by ps/history.)

"git replay" (experimental) learned to perform ref updates itself in a transaction by default, instead of emitting where each refs should point at and leaving the actual update to another command.

Expecting v3.
cf. <[email protected]>
source: <[email protected]>

* kh/format-patch-range-diff-notes (2025-09-25) 3 commits (merged to 'next' on 2025-10-08 at e06aae4166)
+ format-patch: handle range-diff on notes correctly for single patches
+ revision: add rdiff_log_arg to rev_info
+ range-diff: rename other_arg to log_arg

"git format-patch --range-diff=... --notes=..." did not drive the underlying range-diff with correct --notes parameter, ending up comparing with different set of notes from its main patch output you would get from "git format-patch --notes=..." for a singleton patch.

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <[email protected]>

* je/doc-pull (2025-09-23) 4 commits
- doc: git-pull: clarify how to exit a conflicted merge
- doc: git-pull: delete the example
- doc: git-pull: clarify options for integrating remote branch
- doc: git-pull: move <repository> and <refspec> params

Documentation updates.

Will replace with v2.
source: <[email protected]>

* je/doc-push-upstream (2025-10-06) 5 commits (merged to 'next' on 2025-10-08 at 7bda6929b1)
+ doc: git-push: add explanation of git push origin main
+ doc: git-push: clarify "what to push"
+ doc: git-push: clarify "where to push"
+ doc: add an UPSTREAM BRANCHES section to pull/push/fetch
+ doc: git-push: clarify intro

Documentation updates.

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <[email protected]>

* jk/diff-no-index-with-pathspec-fix (2025-09-24) 1 commit
- diff --no-index: fix logic for paths ending in '/'

An earlier addition to "git diff --no-index A B" to limit the output with pathspec after the two directories misbehaved when these directories were given with a trailing slash, which has been corrected.
source: <20250924-jk-fix-no-index-path-with-slash-v1-1-6b2028c0de92@intel.com>

* jt/repo-stats (2025-09-27) 6 commits
- builtin/repo: add progress meter for stats
- builtin/repo: add keyvalue and nul format for stats
- builtin/repo: add object counts in stats output
- builtin/repo: introduce stats subcommand
- ref-filter: allow NULL filter pattern
- builtin/repo: rename repo_info() to cmd_repo_info()

"git repo stats", a new command.

Comments?
source: <[email protected]>

* kn/reftable-consistency-checks (2025-10-07) 7 commits (merged to 'next' on 2025-10-07 at b9f4bd79f9)
+ refs/reftable: add fsck check for checking the table name
+ reftable: add code to facilitate consistency checks
+ fsck: order 'fsck_msg_type' alphabetically
+ Documentation/fsck-msgids: remove duplicate msg id
+ reftable: check for trailing newline in 'tables.list'
+ refs: move consistency check msg to generic layer
+ refs: remove unused headers

The reftable backend learned to sanity check its on-disk data more carefully.

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <20251007-228-reftable-introduce-consistency-checks-v6-0-638cff42f0b0@gmail.com>

* bc/sha1-256-interop-01 (2025-10-02) 9 commits
- t1010: use BROKEN_OBJECTS prerequisite
- t: allow specifying compatibility hash
- fsck: consider gpgsig headers expected in tags
- rev-parse: allow printing compatibility hash
- docs: add documentation for loose objects
- docs: improve ambiguous areas of pack format documentation
- docs: reflect actual double signature for tags
- docs: update offset order for pack index v3
- docs: update pack index v3 format

The beginning of SHA1-SHA256 interoperability work.

Expecting v3.
cf. <[email protected]>
source: <[email protected]>

* pw/add-p-hunk-splitting-fix (2025-09-25) 2 commits (merged to 'next' on 2025-10-08 at 3fdb4a84ce)
+ add-patch: update hunk splitability after editing
+ add -p: mark split hunks as undecided

Marking a hunk 'selected' in "git add -p" and then splitting made all the split pieces 'selected'; this has been changed to make them all 'undecided', which gives better end-user experience.

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <[email protected]>

* en/xdiff-cleanup (2025-09-26) 12 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2025-10-08 at 5bc21d0f06)
+ xdiff: change type of xdfile_t.changed from char to bool
+ xdiff: add macros DISCARD(0), KEEP(1), INVESTIGATE(2) in xprepare.c
+ xdiff: rename rchg -> changed in xdfile_t
+ xdiff: delete chastore from xdfile_t
+ xdiff: delete fields ha, line, size in xdlclass_t in favor of an xrecord_t
+ xdiff: delete redundant array xdfile_t.ha
+ xdiff: delete struct diffdata_t
+ xdiff: delete local variables that alias fields in xrecord_t
+ xdiff: delete superfluous function xdl_get_rec() in xemit
+ xdiff: delete unnecessary fields from xrecord_t and xdfile_t
+ xdiff: delete local variables and initialize/free xdfile_t directly
+ xdiff: delete static forward declarations in xprepare

A lot of code clean-up of xdiff.
Split out of a larger topic.

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <[email protected]>

* ar/submodule-gitdir-tweak (2025-10-06) 5 commits
- submodule: error out if gitdir name is too long
- submodule: encode gitdir paths to avoid conflicts
- strbuf: bring back is_rfc3986_unreserved
- submodule: add gitdir path config override
- submodule--helper: use submodule_name_to_gitdir in add_submodule

Avoid local submodule repository directory paths overlapping with each other by encoding submodule names before using them as path components.

Expecting v4.
cf. <[email protected]>
source: <[email protected]>

* ps/commit-graph-per-object-source (2025-09-04) 5 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2025-10-07 at 6c9690a649)
+ commit-graph: pass graphs that are to be merged as parameter
+ commit-graph: return commit graph from repo_find_commit_pos_in_graph()
+ commit-graph: return the prepared commit graph from prepare_commit_graph()
+ revision: drop explicit check for commit graph
+ blame: drop explicit check for commit graph

Code clean-up around commit-graph.

Will merge to 'master'.
cf. <[email protected]>
cf. <[email protected]>
source: <[email protected]>

* sj/string-list (2025-10-05) 4 commits
(merged to 'next' on 2025-10-08 at cf0fc3ea18)
+ refs: enable sign compare warnings check
+ string-list: change "string_list_find_insert_index" return type to "size_t"
+ string-list: replace negative index encoding with "exact_match" parameter
+ string-list: use bool instead of int for "exact_match"

The "string-list" API function to find where a given string would be inserted got updated so that it can use unrealistically huge array index that would only fit in size_t but not int or ssize_t to achieve unstated goal.

Will merge to 'master'.
source: <aONhmrE0otiyZ16f@ArchLinux>

* ds/sparse-checkout-clean (2025-09-12) 7 commits (merged to 'next' on 2025-09-25 at 00b296f153)
+ t: expand tests around sparse merges and clean
+ sparse-index: point users to new 'clean' action
+ sparse-checkout: add --verbose option to 'clean'
+ dir: add generic "walk all files" helper
+ sparse-checkout: match some 'clean' behavior
+ sparse-checkout: add basics of 'clean' command
+ sparse-checkout: remove use of the_repository

"git sparse-checkout" subcommand learned a new "clean" action to prune otherwise unused working-tree files that are outside the areas of interest.

Expecting a (hopefully small) incremental update. cf. <[email protected]> cf. <[email protected]>
source: <[email protected]>

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These have been kept outside 'seen' for some time, and were removed for now, until they get resubmit in a shape that plays well with other topics in 'seen'.

* lc/rebase-trailer (2025-08-03) 2 commits
. rebase: support --trailer
. trailer: append trailers in-process and drop the fork to interpret-trailers

Has been expecting a reroll for way too long.
cf. <[email protected]> cf. <[email protected]>
cf. <[email protected]>
source: <[email protected]>

* ac/deglobal-sparse-variables (2025-07-18) 3 commits
. environment: remove the global variable 'sparse_expect_files_outside_of_patterns' . environment: move access to "core.sparsecheckoutcone" into repo_settings . environment: move access to "core.sparsecheckout" into repo_settings

Two global variables related to sparse checkout have been moved to the repository settings structure.

Has been expecting a reroll for way too long.
cf. <CAE7as+bnG6KgA8X_n36pqP15bmyM6re+xEb1MOXKvZSUdJ8Arg@mail.gmail.com> Ejected out of 'seen' for now.
source: <[email protected]>

I think we wanted a few cleanups on this one, which I haven’t had time to make. If all is good, then great!

While I’m here: I sent a new patch on top of dk/stash-apply-index with some more documentation. Looks like it’s been overlooked :) is there a better way for me to have sent that patch?