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Ben Boeckel
8a44790faf clean: suggest using core.longPaths if paths are too long to remove
On Windows, git repositories may have extra files which need cleaned
(e.g., a build directory) that may be arbitrarily deep. Suggest using
`core.longPaths` if such situations are encountered.

Fixes: #2715
Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
2026-04-10 18:48:10 +00:00
Karsten Blees
3357b76b8d mingw: support long paths
Windows paths are typically limited to MAX_PATH = 260 characters, even
though the underlying NTFS file system supports paths up to 32,767 chars.
This limitation is also evident in Windows Explorer, cmd.exe and many
other applications (including IDEs).

Particularly annoying is that most Windows APIs return bogus error codes
if a relative path only barely exceeds MAX_PATH in conjunction with the
current directory, e.g. ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND / ENOENT instead of the
infinitely more helpful ERROR_FILENAME_EXCED_RANGE / ENAMETOOLONG.

Many Windows wide char APIs support longer than MAX_PATH paths through the
file namespace prefix ('\\?\' or '\\?\UNC\') followed by an absolute path.
Notable exceptions include functions dealing with executables and the
current directory (CreateProcess, LoadLibrary, Get/SetCurrentDirectory) as
well as the entire shell API (ShellExecute, SHGetSpecialFolderPath...).

Introduce a handle_long_path function to check the length of a specified
path properly (and fail with ENAMETOOLONG), and to optionally expand long
paths using the '\\?\' file namespace prefix. Short paths will not be
modified, so we don't need to worry about device names (NUL, CON, AUX).

Contrary to MSDN docs, the GetFullPathNameW function doesn't seem to be
limited to MAX_PATH (at least not on Win7), so we can use it to do the
heavy lifting of the conversion (translate '/' to '\', eliminate '.' and
'..', and make an absolute path).

Add long path error checking to xutftowcs_path for APIs with hard MAX_PATH
limit.

Add a new MAX_LONG_PATH constant and xutftowcs_long_path function for APIs
that support long paths.

While improved error checking is always active, long paths support must be
explicitly enabled via 'core.longpaths' option. This is to prevent end
users from shooting themselves in the foot by checking out files that Windows
Explorer, cmd/bash or their favorite IDE cannot handle.

Test suite:
Test the case is when the full pathname length of a dir is close
to 260 (MAX_PATH).
Bug report and an original reproducer by Andrey Rogozhnikov:
https://github.com/msysgit/git/pull/122#issuecomment-43604199

[jes: adjusted test number to avoid conflicts, added support for
chdir(), etc]

Thanks-to: Martin W. Kirst <maki@bitkings.de>
Thanks-to: Doug Kelly <dougk.ff7@gmail.com>
Original-test-by: Andrey Rogozhnikov <rogozhnikov.andrey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
2026-04-10 18:48:10 +00:00
Karsten Blees
4cd0c73964 mingw: add infrastructure for read-only file system level caches
Add a macro to mark code sections that only read from the file system,
along with a config option and documentation.

This facilitates implementation of relatively simple file system level
caches without the need to synchronize with the file system.

Enable read-only sections for 'git status' and preload_index.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2026-04-10 18:48:09 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
8f4a523a4a Merge branch 'disallow-ntlm-auth-by-default'
This topic branch addresses the following vulnerability:

- **CVE-2025-66413**:
  When a user clones a repository from an attacker-controlled server,
  Git may attempt NTLM authentication and disclose the user's NTLMv2 hash
  to the remote server. Since NTLM hashing is weak, the captured hash can
  potentially be brute-forced to recover the user's credentials. This is
  addressed by disabling NTLM authentication by default.
  (https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/security/advisories/GHSA-hv9c-4jm9-jh3x)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-10 18:48:09 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
3df35d640b Add experimental 'git survey' builtin (#5174)
This introduces `git survey` to Git for Windows ahead of upstream for
the express purpose of getting the path-based analysis in the hands of
more folks.

The inspiration of this builtin is
[`git-sizer`](https://github.com/github/git-sizer), but since that
command relies on `git cat-file --batch` to get the contents of objects,
it has limits to how much information it can provide.

This is mostly a rewrite of the `git survey` builtin that was introduced
into the `microsoft/git` fork in microsoft/git#667. That version had a
lot more bells and whistles, including an analysis much closer to what
`git-sizer` provides.

The biggest difference in this version is that this one is focused on
using the path-walk API in order to visit batches of objects based on a
common path. This allows identifying, for instance, the path that is
contributing the most to the on-disk size across all versions at that
path.

For example, here are the top ten paths contributing to my local Git
repository (which includes `microsoft/git` and `gitster/git`):

```
TOP FILES BY DISK SIZE
============================================================================
                                    Path | Count | Disk Size | Inflated Size
-----------------------------------------+-------+-----------+--------------
                       whats-cooking.txt |  1373 |  11637459 |      37226854
             t/helper/test-gvfs-protocol |     2 |   6847105 |      17233072
                      git-rebase--helper |     1 |   6027849 |      15269664
                          compat/mingw.c |  6111 |   5194453 |     463466970
             t/helper/test-parse-options |     1 |   3420385 |       8807968
                  t/helper/test-pkt-line |     1 |   3408661 |       8778960
      t/helper/test-dump-untracked-cache |     1 |   3408645 |       8780816
            t/helper/test-dump-fsmonitor |     1 |   3406639 |       8776656
                                po/vi.po |   104 |   1376337 |      51441603
                                po/de.po |   210 |   1360112 |      71198603
```

This kind of analysis has been helpful in identifying the reasons for
growth in a few internal monorepos. Those findings motivated the changes
in #5157 and #5171.

With this early version in Git for Windows, we can expand the reach of
the experimental tool in advance of it being contributed to the upstream
project.

Unfortunately, this will mean that in the next `microsoft/git` rebase,
Jeff Hostetler's version will need to be pulled out since there are
enough conflicts. These conflicts include how tables are stored and
generated, as the version in this PR is slightly more general to allow
for different kinds of data.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-10 18:48:09 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
18f21c8004 Merge branch 'optionally-dont-append-atomically-on-windows'
Fix append failure issue under remote directories #2753

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-10 18:48:08 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
3293878399 Merge pull request #3293 from pascalmuller/http-support-automatically-sending-client-certificate
http: Add support for enabling automatic sending of SSL client certificate
2026-04-10 18:48:08 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
fc1d346bd3 Merge pull request #2535 from dscho/schannel-revoke-best-effort
Introduce and use the new "best effort" strategy for Secure Channel revoke checking
2026-04-10 18:48:08 +00:00
Derrick Stolee
ee8a033130 survey: add --top=<N> option and config
The 'git survey' builtin provides several detail tables, such as "top
files by on-disk size". The size of these tables defaults to 10,
currently.

Allow the user to specify this number via a new --top=<N> option or the
new survey.top config key.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-10 18:48:07 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
ba774ef039 http: disallow NTLM authentication by default
NTLM authentication is relatively weak. This is the case even with the
default setting of modern Windows versions, where NTLMv1 and LanManager
are disabled and only NTLMv2 is enabled: NTLMv2 hashes of even
reasonably complex 8-character passwords can be broken in a matter of
days, given enough compute resources.

Even worse: On Windows, NTLM authentication uses Security Support
Provider Interface ("SSPI"), which provides the credentials without
requiring the user to type them in.

Which means that an attacker could talk an unsuspecting user into
cloning from a server that is under the attacker's control and extracts
the user's NTLMv2 hash without their knowledge.

For that reason, let's disallow NTLM authentication by default.

NTLM authentication is quite simple to set up, though, and therefore
there are still some on-prem Azure DevOps setups out there whose users
and/or automation rely on this type of authentication. To give them an
escape hatch, introduce the `http.<url>.allowNTLMAuth` config setting
that can be set to `true` to opt back into using NTLM for a specific
remote repository.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-10 18:48:07 +00:00
Jeff Hostetler
957fdf42af survey: stub in new experimental 'git-survey' command
Start work on a new 'git survey' command to scan the repository
for monorepo performance and scaling problems.  The goal is to
measure the various known "dimensions of scale" and serve as a
foundation for adding additional measurements as we learn more
about Git monorepo scaling problems.

The initial goal is to complement the scanning and analysis performed
by the GO-based 'git-sizer' (https://github.com/github/git-sizer) tool.
It is hoped that by creating a builtin command, we may be able to take
advantage of internal Git data structures and code that is not
accessible from GO to gain further insight into potential scaling
problems.

Co-authored-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
2026-04-10 18:48:07 +00:00
孙卓识
6cf3d3cbd3 Add config option windows.appendAtomically
Atomic append on windows is only supported on local disk files, and it may
cause errors in other situations, e.g. network file system. If that is the
case, this config option should be used to turn atomic append off.

Co-Authored-By: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: 孙卓识 <sunzhuoshi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-10 18:48:06 +00:00
Pascal Muller
ed5d79e26d http: optionally send SSL client certificate
This adds support for a new http.sslAutoClientCert config value.

In cURL 7.77 or later the schannel backend does not automatically send
client certificates from the Windows Certificate Store anymore.

This config value is only used if http.sslBackend is set to "schannel",
and can be used to opt in to the old behavior and force cURL to send
client certificates.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/3292

Signed-off-by: Pascal Muller <pascalmuller@gmail.com>
2026-04-10 18:48:06 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
7fea40319d http: use new "best effort" strategy for Secure Channel revoke checking
The native Windows HTTPS backend is based on Secure Channel which lets
the caller decide how to handle revocation checking problems caused by
missing information in the certificate or offline CRL distribution
points.

Unfortunately, cURL chose to handle these problems differently than
OpenSSL by default: while OpenSSL happily ignores those problems
(essentially saying "¯\_(ツ)_/¯"), the Secure Channel backend will error
out instead.

As a remedy, the "no revoke" mode was introduced, which turns off
revocation checking altogether. This is a bit heavy-handed. We support
this via the `http.schannelCheckRevoke` setting.

In https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/4981, we contributed an opt-in
"best effort" strategy that emulates what OpenSSL seems to do.

In Git for Windows, we actually want this to be the default. This patch
makes it so, introducing it as a new value for the
`http.schannelCheckRevoke" setting, which now becmes a tristate: it
accepts the values "false", "true" or "best-effort" (defaulting to the
last one).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-10 18:48:06 +00:00
Thomas Braun
3b831c00b5 transport: optionally disable side-band-64k
Since commit 0c499ea60f (send-pack: demultiplex a sideband stream with
status data, 2010-02-05) the send-pack builtin uses the side-band-64k
capability if advertised by the server.

Unfortunately this breaks pushing over the dump git protocol if used
over a network connection.

The detailed reasons for this breakage are (by courtesy of Jeff Preshing,
quoted from https://groups.google.com/d/msg/msysgit/at8D7J-h7mw/eaLujILGUWoJ):

	MinGW wraps Windows sockets in CRT file descriptors in order to
	mimic the functionality of POSIX sockets. This causes msvcrt.dll
	to treat sockets as Installable File System (IFS) handles,
	calling ReadFile, WriteFile, DuplicateHandle and CloseHandle on
	them. This approach works well in simple cases on recent
	versions of Windows, but does not support all usage patterns. In
	particular, using this approach, any attempt to read & write
	concurrently on the same socket (from one or more processes)
	will deadlock in a scenario where the read waits for a response
	from the server which is only invoked after the write. This is
	what send_pack currently attempts to do in the use_sideband
	codepath.

The new config option `sendpack.sideband` allows to override the
side-band-64k capability of the server, and thus makes the dumb git
protocol work.

Other transportation methods like ssh and http/https still benefit from
the sideband channel, therefore the default value of `sendpack.sideband`
is still true.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@byte-physics.de>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Schneider <oliver@assarbad.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-10 18:48:05 +00:00
Junio C Hamano
8f775bd513 Merge branch 'mf/format-patch-commit-list-format-doc' into next
Doc updates.

* mf/format-patch-commit-list-format-doc:
  format-patch: removing unconditional wrapping
  docs: fix --commit-list-format related entries
2026-03-31 13:00:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c128948b16 Merge branch 'ar/config-hook-cleanups' into next
Code clean-up around the recent "hooks defined in config" topic.

* ar/config-hook-cleanups:
  hook: reject unknown hook names in git-hook(1)
  hook: show disabled hooks in "git hook list"
  hook: show config scope in git hook list
  hook: introduce hook_config_cache_entry for per-hook data
  t1800: add test to verify hook execution ordering
  hook: make consistent use of friendly-name in docs
  hook: replace hook_list_clear() -> string_list_clear_func()
  hook: detect & emit two more bugs
  hook: rename cb_data_free/alloc -> hook_data_free/alloc
  hook: fix minor style issues
  builtin/receive-pack: properly init receive_hook strbuf
  hook: move unsorted_string_list_remove() to string-list.[ch]
2026-03-30 14:04:21 -07:00
Mirko Faina
acee42d3e5 docs: fix --commit-list-format related entries
Documentation specifies that "git format-patch" would default to
format.commitListFormat if --commit-list-format is not given, but
doesn't specify the default if the format.commitListFormat is not set.
The text for --cover-letter is also obsolete as the commit list can now
be something other than a shortlog.

Document to reflect changes.

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-27 13:09:50 -07:00
Adrian Ratiu
2e5dbaff16 hook: make consistent use of friendly-name in docs
Both `name` and `friendly-name` is being used. Standardize on
`friendly-name` for consistency since name is rather generic,
even when used in the hooks namespace.

Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-25 14:00:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0f5b6702eb Merge branch 'mf/format-patch-commit-list-format' into next
Improve the recently introduced `git format-patch
--commit-list-format` (formerly `--cover-letter-format`) option,
including a new "modern" preset and better CLI ergonomics.

* mf/format-patch-commit-list-format:
  format-patch: --commit-list-format without prefix
  format-patch: add preset for --commit-list-format
  format-patch: wrap generate_commit_list_cover()
  format.commitListFormat: strip meaning from empty
  docs/pretty-formats: add %(count) and %(total)
  format-patch: rename --cover-letter-format option
  format-patch: refactor generate_commit_list_cover
  pretty.c: better die message %(count) and %(total)
2026-03-24 14:24:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9cb4ec5fad Merge branch 'vp/http-rate-limit-retries' into next
The HTTP transport learned to react to "429 Too Many Requests".

* vp/http-rate-limit-retries:
  http: add support for HTTP 429 rate limit retries
  strbuf_attach: fix call sites to pass correct alloc
  strbuf: pass correct alloc to strbuf_attach() in strbuf_reencode()
2026-03-24 14:24:06 -07:00
Mirko Faina
d022dc77ab format-patch: add preset for --commit-list-format
"git format-patch --commit-list-format" enables the user to make their
own format for the commit list in the cover letter. It would be nice to
have a ready to use format to replace shortlog.

Teach make_cover_letter() the "modern" format preset.
This new format is the same as: "log:[%(count)/%(total)] %s".

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-23 13:06:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6acc8b5a8a Merge branch 'kh/doc-interpret-trailers-1' into next
Doc updates.

* kh/doc-interpret-trailers-1:
  interpret-trailers: use placeholder instead of *
  doc: config: convert trailers section to synopsis style
  doc: interpret-trailers: normalize and fill out options
  doc: interpret-trailers: convert to synopsis style
2026-03-20 14:49:14 -07:00
Vaidas Pilkauskas
640657ffd0 http: add support for HTTP 429 rate limit retries
Add retry logic for HTTP 429 (Too Many Requests) responses to handle
server-side rate limiting gracefully. When Git's HTTP client receives
a 429 response, it can now automatically retry the request after an
appropriate delay, respecting the server's rate limits.

The implementation supports the RFC-compliant Retry-After header in
both delay-seconds (integer) and HTTP-date (RFC 2822) formats. If a
past date is provided, Git retries immediately without waiting.

Retry behavior is controlled by three new configuration options
(http.maxRetries, http.retryAfter, and http.maxRetryTime) which are
documented in git-config(1).

The retry logic implements a fail-fast approach: if any delay
(whether from server header or configuration) exceeds maxRetryTime,
Git fails immediately with a clear error message rather than capping
the delay. This provides better visibility into rate limiting issues.

The implementation includes extensive test coverage for basic retry
behavior, Retry-After header formats (integer and HTTP-date),
configuration combinations, maxRetryTime limits, invalid header
handling, environment variable overrides, and edge cases.

Signed-off-by: Vaidas Pilkauskas <vaidas.pilkauskas@shopify.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-17 09:14:19 -07:00
Kristoffer Haugsbakk
95bd86772e doc: config: convert trailers section to synopsis style
Convert this part of the configuration documentation to synopsis style
so that all of git-interpret-trailers(1) is consistent.

See the commit message from two commits ago.

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-16 15:04:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b3c222ed91 Merge branch 'mf/format-patch-cover-letter-format' into mf/format-patch-commit-list-format
* mf/format-patch-cover-letter-format:
  docs: add usage for the cover-letter fmt feature
  format-patch: add commitListFormat config
  format-patch: add ability to use alt cover format
  format-patch: move cover letter summary generation
  pretty.c: add %(count) and %(total) placeholders
2026-03-16 12:42:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5a4098b0cd Merge branch 'jc/neuter-sideband-fixup' into next
Try to resurrect and reboot a stalled "avoid sending risky escape
sequences taken from sideband to the terminal" topic by Dscho.  The
plan is to keep it in 'next' long enough to see if anybody screams
with the "everything dropped except for ANSI color escape sequence"
default.

* jc/neuter-sideband-fixup:
  sideband: drop 'default' configuration
  sideband: offer to configure sanitizing on a per-URL basis
  sideband: add options to allow more control sequences to be passed through
  sideband: do allow ANSI color sequences by default
  sideband: introduce an "escape hatch" to allow control characters
  sideband: mask control characters
2026-03-13 13:34:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8985491423 Merge branch 'dt/send-email-client-cert'
"git send-email" learns to support use of client-side certificates.

* dt/send-email-client-cert:
  send-email: add client certificate options
2026-03-12 10:56:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
42afcb954b Merge branch 'jh/alias-i18n-fixes'
Further update to the i18n alias support to avoid regressions.

* jh/alias-i18n-fixes:
  doc: fix list continuation in alias.adoc
  git, help: fix memory leaks in alias listing
  alias: treat empty subsection [alias ""] as plain [alias]
  doc: fix list continuation in alias subsection example
2026-03-10 14:23:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f330d46dee Merge branch 'ar/config-hooks'
Allow hook commands to be defined (possibly centrally) in the
configuration files, and run multiple of them for the same hook
event.

* ar/config-hooks:
  hook: add -z option to "git hook list"
  hook: allow out-of-repo 'git hook' invocations
  hook: allow event = "" to overwrite previous values
  hook: allow disabling config hooks
  hook: include hooks from the config
  hook: add "git hook list" command
  hook: run a list of hooks to prepare for multihook support
  hook: add internal state alloc/free callbacks
2026-03-10 14:23:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e872adca7b Merge branch 'mf/format-patch-cover-letter-format' into next
"git format-patch --cover-letter" learns to use a simpler format
instead of the traditional shortlog format to list its commits with
a new --cover-letter-format option and format.commitListFormat
configuration variable.

* mf/format-patch-cover-letter-format:
  docs: add usage for the cover-letter fmt feature
  format-patch: add commitListFormat config
  format-patch: add ability to use alt cover format
  format-patch: move cover letter summary generation
  pretty.c: add %(count) and %(total) placeholders
2026-03-09 14:42:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3fe08b8fd1 Merge branch 'cs/add-skip-submodule-ignore-all'
"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
2026-03-09 14:36:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
83677335ae Merge branch 'ar/config-hooks' into ar/config-hook-cleanups
* ar/config-hooks: (21 commits)
  builtin/receive-pack: avoid spinning no-op sideband async threads
  hook: add -z option to "git hook list"
  hook: allow out-of-repo 'git hook' invocations
  hook: allow event = "" to overwrite previous values
  hook: allow disabling config hooks
  hook: include hooks from the config
  hook: add "git hook list" command
  hook: run a list of hooks to prepare for multihook support
  hook: add internal state alloc/free callbacks
  receive-pack: convert receive hooks to hook API
  receive-pack: convert update hooks to new API
  run-command: poll child input in addition to output
  hook: add jobs option
  reference-transaction: use hook API instead of run-command
  transport: convert pre-push to hook API
  hook: allow separate std[out|err] streams
  hook: convert 'post-rewrite' hook in sequencer.c to hook API
  hook: provide stdin via callback
  run-command: add stdin callback for parallelization
  run-command: add helper for pp child states
  ...
2026-03-09 13:07:50 -07:00
Mirko Faina
51ed9f7e72 docs: add usage for the cover-letter fmt feature
Document the new "--cover-letter-format" option in format-patch and its
related configuration variable "format.commitListFormat".

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 17:16:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2a47df2166 Merge branch 'dt/send-email-client-cert' into next
"git send-email" learns to support use of client-side certificates.

* dt/send-email-client-cert:
  send-email: add client certificate options
2026-03-06 14:43:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
826cc47220 sideband: drop 'default' configuration
The topic so far allows users to tweak the configuration variable
sideband.allowControlCharacters to override the hardcoded default,
but among which there is the value called 'default'.  The plan [*]
of the series is to loosen the setting by a later commit in the
series and schedule it to tighten at the Git 3.0 boundary for end
users, at which point, the meaning of this 'default' value will
change.

Which is a dubious design.

A user expresses their preference by setting configuration variable
in order to guard against sudden change brought in by changes to the
hardcoded default behaviour, and letting them set it to 'default'
that will change at the Git 3.0 boundary defeats its purpose.  If a
user wants to say "I am easy and can go with whatever hardcoded
default Git implementors choose for me", they simply leave the
configuration variable unspecified.

Let's remove it from the state before Git 3.0 so that those users
who set it to 'default' will not see the behaviour changed under
their feet all of sudden.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 13:52:28 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
602c83f0ef sideband: offer to configure sanitizing on a per-URL basis
The main objection against sanitizing the sideband that was raised
during the review of the sideband sanitizing patches, first on the
git-security mailing list, then on the public mailing list, was that
there are some setups where server-side `pre-receive` hooks want to
error out, giving colorful messages to the users on the client side (if
they are not redirecting the output into a file, that is).

To avoid breaking such setups, the default chosen by the sideband
sanitizing patches is to pass through ANSI color sequences.

Still, there might be some use case out there where that is not enough.
Therefore the `sideband.allowControlCharacters` config setting allows
for configuring  levels of sanitizing.

As Junio Hamano pointed out, to keep users safe by default, we need to
be able to scope this to some servers because while a user may trust
their company's Git server, the same might not apply to other Git
servers.

To allow for this, let's imitate the way `http.<url>.*` offers
to scope config settings to certain URLs, by letting users
override the `sideband.allowControlCharacters` setting via
`sideband.<url>.allowControlCharacters`.

Suggested-by: Junio Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 13:52:28 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
128914438a sideband: add options to allow more control sequences to be passed through
Even though control sequences that erase characters are quite juicy for
attack scenarios, where attackers are eager to hide traces of suspicious
activities, during the review of the side band sanitizing patch series
concerns were raised that there might be some legimitate scenarios where
Git server's `pre-receive` hooks use those sequences in a benign way.

Control sequences to move the cursor can likewise be used to hide tracks
by overwriting characters, and have been equally pointed out as having
legitimate users.

Let's add options to let users opt into passing through those ANSI
Escape sequences: `sideband.allowControlCharacters` now supports also
`cursor` and `erase`, and it parses the value as a comma-separated list.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 13:52:28 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
12f0fda905 sideband: do allow ANSI color sequences by default
The preceding two commits introduced special handling of the sideband
channel to neutralize ANSI escape sequences before sending the payload
to the terminal, and `sideband.allowControlCharacters` to override that
behavior.

However, as reported by brian m. carlson, some `pre-receive` hooks that
are actively used in practice want to color their messages and therefore
rely on the fact that Git passes them through to the terminal, even
though they have no way to determine whether the receiving side can
actually handle Escape sequences (think e.g. about the practice
recommended by Git that third-party applications wishing to use Git
functionality parse the output of Git commands).

In contrast to other ANSI escape sequences, it is highly unlikely that
coloring sequences can be essential tools in attack vectors that mislead
Git users e.g. by hiding crucial information.

Therefore we can have both: Continue to allow ANSI coloring sequences to
be passed to the terminal by default, and neutralize all other ANSI
Escape sequences.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 13:52:28 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
9ed1625a58 sideband: introduce an "escape hatch" to allow control characters
The preceding commit fixed the vulnerability whereas sideband messages
(that are under the control of the remote server) could contain ANSI
escape sequences that would be sent to the terminal verbatim.

However, this fix may not be desirable under all circumstances, e.g.
when remote servers deliberately add coloring to their messages to
increase their urgency.

To help with those use cases, give users a way to opt-out of the
protections: `sideband.allowControlCharacters`.

Suggested-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-06 13:52:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7c5ad405d7 Merge branch 'hn/status-compare-with-push' into next
"git status" learned to show comparison between the current branch
and various other branches listed on status.compareBranches
configuration.

* hn/status-compare-with-push:
  status: clarify how status.compareBranches deduplicates
2026-03-06 08:46:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
50d7425767 Merge branch 'ps/maintenance-geometric-default'
"git maintenance" starts using the "geometric" strategy by default.

* ps/maintenance-geometric-default:
  builtin/maintenance: use "geometric" strategy by default
  t7900: prepare for switch of the default strategy
  t6500: explicitly use "gc" strategy
  t5510: explicitly use "gc" strategy
  t5400: explicitly use "gc" strategy
  t34xx: don't expire reflogs where it matters
  t: disable maintenance where we verify object database structure
  t: fix races caused by background maintenance
2026-03-04 10:53:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1d0a2acb78 Merge branch 'kn/ref-location'
Allow the directory in which reference backends store their data to
be specified.

* kn/ref-location:
  refs: add GIT_REFERENCE_BACKEND to specify reference backend
  refs: allow reference location in refstorage config
  refs: receive and use the reference storage payload
  refs: move out stub modification to generic layer
  refs: extract out `refs_create_refdir_stubs()`
  setup: don't modify repo in `create_reference_database()`
2026-03-04 10:52:59 -08:00
Harald Nordgren
68791d7506 status: clarify how status.compareBranches deduplicates
The order of output when multiple branches are specified on the
configuration variable was not clearly spelled out in the
documentation.

Add a paragraph to describe the order and also how the branches are
deduplicated.  Update t6040 with additional tests to illustrate how
multiple branches are shown and deduplicated.

Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
[jc: made a whole replacement into incremental; wrote log message.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-04 10:13:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d4347fab01 Merge branch 'jh/alias-i18n-fixes' into next
Further update to the i18n alias support to avoid regressions.

* jh/alias-i18n-fixes:
  doc: fix list continuation in alias.adoc
2026-03-03 13:41:22 -08:00
Jonatan Holmgren
73cc549559 doc: fix list continuation in alias.adoc
Add missing list continuation marks ('+') after code blocks and shell examples
so paragraphs render correctly as part of the preceding list item.

Signed-off-by: Jonatan Holmgren <jonatan@jontes.page>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-03 09:59:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
914bcef227 Merge branch 'jh/alias-i18n-fixes' into next
Further update to the i18n alias support to avoid regressions.

* jh/alias-i18n-fixes:
  git, help: fix memory leaks in alias listing
  alias: treat empty subsection [alias ""] as plain [alias]
  doc: fix list continuation in alias subsection example
2026-03-02 17:21:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c7251cc68f Merge branch 'cs/add-skip-submodule-ignore-all' into next
"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
2026-03-02 17:20:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
05c4af5c8f Merge branch 'kh/doc-am-xref'
Doc update.

* kh/doc-am-xref:
  doc: am: fill out hook discussion
  doc: am: add missing config am.messageId
  doc: am: say that --message-id adds a trailer
  doc: am: normalize git(1) command links
2026-03-02 17:06:52 -08:00
David Timber
a8215a2051 send-email: add client certificate options
For SMTP servers that do "mutual certificate verification", the mail
client is required to present its own TLS certificate as well. This
patch adds --smtp-ssl-client-cert and --smtp-ssl-client-key for such
servers.

The problem of which private key for the certificate is chosen arises
when there are private keys in both the certificate and private key
file. According to the documentation of IO::Socket::SSL(link supplied),
the behaviour(the private key chosen) depends on the format of the
certificate. In a nutshell,

	- PKCS12: the key in the cert always takes the precedence
	- PEM: if the key file is not given, it will "try" to read one
	  from the cert PEM file

Many users may find this discrepancy unintuitive.

In terms of client certificate, git-send-email is implemented in a way
that what's possible with perl's SSL library is exposed to the user as
much as possible. In this instance, the user may choose to use a PEM
file that contains both certificate and private key should be
at their discretion despite the implications.

Link: https://metacpan.org/pod/IO::Socket::SSL#SSL_cert_file-%7C-SSL_cert-%7C-SSL_key_file-%7C-SSL_key
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/319bf98c-52df-4bf9-b157-e4bc2bf087d6@dev.snart.me/

Signed-off-by: David Timber <dxdt@dev.snart.me>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-02 08:39:26 -08:00