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bertyuan and others added 30 commits June 11, 2026 15:40
ReviewingGuidelines already advises reviewers to trim irrelevant quoted
context when replying. Give the same advice to new contributors in
MyFirstContribution, so our documentation is consistent about mailing
list reply etiquette.

Signed-off-by: Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'core.ignorecase' configuration which is stored as the
global variable 'ignore_case' acts as a core filesystem
capability flag.

Move this global variable into 'struct repo_config_values' to tie it
to the specific repository instance it was read from. This reduces
global state and aligns with the ongoing libification effort.

To ensure code readability, the getter function
'repo_ignore_case()' is introduced.

Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Ayush Chandekar <ayu.chandekar@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Olamide Caleb Bello <belkid98@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tian Yuchen <cat@malon.dev>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace the accesses to the global 'ignore_case' variable with
calls to 'repo_ignore_case(the_repository)'. This step eliminates
the 'ignore_case' global state.

Note on compat/win32/path-utils.c:
To eliminate the global state, several helper functions
(e.g. 'win32_fspathncmp()') now read from
'repo_ignore_case(the_repository)'. While this introduces
dependency on 'repository.h' into the 'compat/', it avoids massive
refactoring of the signatures across the codebase.

Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Ayush Chandekar <ayu.chandekar@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Olamide Caleb Bello <belkid98@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tian Yuchen <cat@malon.dev>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a topology where the correct merge base (M2) has a lower
committer date than its ancestor (M1) due to clock skew.  With a
v1 commit graph (topological levels only, no corrected commit
dates), paint_down_to_common() falls back to commit-date ordering.
In that mode, M1 pops before M2, acquires both paint sides, and
the !FIND_ALL early exit fires -- returning the wrong merge base.

Mark the test as test_expect_failure to document the bug; the next
commit will fix it.

Signed-off-by: Kristofer Karlsson <krka@spotify.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When paint_down_to_common() falls back to commit-date ordering (for
v1 commit graphs without corrected commit dates), the !FIND_ALL early
exit incorrectly fires.  The exit assumes the queue is generation-
ordered, so the first RESULT commit found must be the shallowest.
With date ordering this is not guaranteed: a closer merge base with
a lower committer date (clock skew) may still be in the queue behind
deeper commits.

Add a gen_ordered flag that is cleared when the date fallback fires,
and require it for the early exit.

Update the test from the previous commit to test_expect_success.

Signed-off-by: Kristofer Karlsson <krka@spotify.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
…nd-setup

* ps/refs-onbranch-fixes:
  refs: protect against chicken-and-egg recursion
  refs/reftable: lazy-load configuration to fix chicken-and-egg
  reftable: split up write options
  refs/files: lazy-load configuration to fix chicken-and-egg
  refs: move parsing of "core.logAllRefUpdates" back into ref stores
  repository: free main reference database
  chdir-notify: drop unused `chdir_notify_reparent()`
  refs: unregister reference stores from "chdir_notify"
  setup: don't apply "GIT_REFERENCE_BACKEND" without a repository
  setup: stop applying repository format twice
  setup: inline `check_and_apply_repository_format()`
…ry-and-setup

* ps/setup-drop-global-state:
  treewide: drop USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE
  environment: stop using `the_repository` in `is_bare_repository()`
  environment: split up concerns of `is_bare_repository_cfg`
  builtin/init: stop modifying `is_bare_repository_cfg`
  setup: remove global `git_work_tree_cfg` variable
  builtin/init: simplify logic to configure worktree
  builtin/init: stop modifying global `git_work_tree_cfg` variable
…nd-setup

* jk/repo-info-path-keys:
  repo: add path.gitdir with absolute and relative suffix formatting
  repo: add path.commondir with absolute and relative suffix formatting
  path: extract format_path() and use in rev-parse
To support fuzzing via libFuzzer one has to pass a couple of compiler
options:

  - It is mandatory to enable the "fuzzer-no-link" sanitizer for
    coverage feedback.

  - It is recommended to enable at least one more sanitizer to catch
    issues, like the "address" sanitizer.

  - The fuzzing executables need to be linked with "-fsanitize=fuzzer"
    to wire up libFuzzer itself.

The first two items can already be achieved via the "-Db_sanitize="
option. But the last item cannot easily be achieved, as we can only
configure global link arguments.

Introduce a new "-Dfuzzers_link_args=" build option to plug this gap.
Add documentation so that users know how to set up libFuzzer.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new fuzzer that exercises our parsing of reftables. Fallout from
this fuzzer will be fixed over subsequent commits.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`binsearch()` performs a binary search over a range of `sz` elements by
repeatedly calling the comparison function with indices into that range.
When the range is empty though, there is no valid index to call the
comparison function with. We still end up executing the comparison
function though with an index of 0, which of course will cause an
out-of-bounds read.

Return early when the range is empty.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When decoding a ref record we read its value type from the block. In
case the type itself is invalid we call `abort()`. This is rather
heavy-handed though: the data we're reading is untrusted, so we should
treat the issue as a normal and not as a programming error.

Fix this by handling the error gracefully. Note that this also requires
us to set the value type later, as otherwise we might store an invalid
type in the record.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new test helper that allows us to write reftable blocks.
This helper will be used by subsequent commits.

Suggested-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "log" reftable block stores reflog information. This information is
compressed using zlib. The inflated size is stored in the block header
so that callers can easily learn ahead of time how large of a buffer
they have to allocate to inflate the data in a single pass. So to
reconstruct the full inflated block we:

  - Copy over the header as-is, as it's not deflated.

  - Append the inflated data to the buffer.

The inflated block size stored in the header also includes the length of
the header itself. So to figure out the bytes that should be inflated by
zlib we need to subtract the header size, which is trusted data, from
the block size, which is untrusted data derived from the block header.

While we do verify that we were able to inflate all data as expected, we
don't verify ahead of time that the encoded block length is larger than
the header length. This can lead to an underflow, which makes zlib
assume that it can write more data into the target buffer than we have
allocated. The result is an out-of-bounds write:

  ==1422297==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x7c1ff6de5231 at pc 0x55555579a628 bp 0x7fffffff4f10 sp 0x7fffffff46d0
  WRITE of size 4 at 0x7c1ff6de5231 thread T0
      #0 0x55555579a627 in __asan_memcpy (./build/t/unit-tests+0x246627)
      #1 0x55555598b093 in reftable_block_init ./build/../reftable/block.c:277:3
      #2 0x555555813701 in test_reftable_block__corrupt_log_block_size ./build/../t/unit-tests/u-reftable-block.c:495:20
      #3 0x5555557f684e in clar_run_test ./build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:335:3
      #4 0x5555557f2e69 in clar_run_suite ./build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:431:3
      #5 0x5555557f2882 in clar_test_run ./build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:636:4
      #6 0x5555557f375f in clar_test ./build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:687:11
      #7 0x5555557fa49d in cmd_main ./build/../t/unit-tests/unit-test.c:62:8
      #8 0x55555584af4a in main ./build/../common-main.c:9:11
      #9 0x7ffff7a2b284 in __libc_start_call_main (/nix/store/57iz36553175g3178pvxjij8z5rcsd4n-glibc-2.42-61/lib/libc.so.6+0x2b284) (BuildId: 8ae0b698f2d4e727f569f64bb166e08ae30bd077)
      #10 0x7ffff7a2b337 in __libc_start_main@GLIBC_2.2.5 (/nix/store/57iz36553175g3178pvxjij8z5rcsd4n-glibc-2.42-61/lib/libc.so.6+0x2b337) (BuildId: 8ae0b698f2d4e727f569f64bb166e08ae30bd077)
      #11 0x555555694c24 in _start (./build/t/unit-tests+0x140c24)

  0x7c1ff6de5231 is located 0 bytes after 1-byte region [0x7c1ff6de5230,0x7c1ff6de5231)
  allocated by thread T0 here:
      #0 0x55555579db1b in realloc.part.0 asan_malloc_linux.cpp.o
      #1 0x5555559868d7 in reftable_realloc ./build/../reftable/basics.c:36:9
      #2 0x55555598a98f in reftable_alloc_grow ./build/../reftable/basics.h:229:10
      #3 0x55555598ae58 in reftable_block_init ./build/../reftable/block.c:269:3
      #4 0x555555813701 in test_reftable_block__corrupt_log_block_size ./build/../t/unit-tests/u-reftable-block.c:495:20
      #5 0x5555557f684e in clar_run_test ./build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:335:3
      #6 0x5555557f2e69 in clar_run_suite ./build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:431:3
      #7 0x5555557f2882 in clar_test_run ./build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:636:4
      #8 0x5555557f375f in clar_test ./build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:687:11
      #9 0x5555557fa49d in cmd_main ./build/../t/unit-tests/unit-test.c:62:8
      #10 0x55555584af4a in main ./build/../common-main.c:9:11
      #11 0x7ffff7a2b284 in __libc_start_call_main (/nix/store/57iz36553175g3178pvxjij8z5rcsd4n-glibc-2.42-61/lib/libc.so.6+0x2b284) (BuildId: 8ae0b698f2d4e727f569f64bb166e08ae30bd077)
      #12 0x7ffff7a2b337 in __libc_start_main@GLIBC_2.2.5 (/nix/store/57iz36553175g3178pvxjij8z5rcsd4n-glibc-2.42-61/lib/libc.so.6+0x2b337) (BuildId: 8ae0b698f2d4e727f569f64bb166e08ae30bd077)
      #13 0x555555694c24 in _start (./build/t/unit-tests+0x140c24)

  SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow (./build/t/unit-tests+0x246627) in __asan_memcpy
  Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
    0x7c1ff6de4f80: fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd
    0x7c1ff6de5000: fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd
    0x7c1ff6de5080: fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd
    0x7c1ff6de5100: fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd
    0x7c1ff6de5180: fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fa fa fa fd fd
  =>0x7c1ff6de5200: fa fa 04 fa fa fa[01]fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
    0x7c1ff6de5280: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
    0x7c1ff6de5300: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
    0x7c1ff6de5380: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
    0x7c1ff6de5400: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
    0x7c1ff6de5480: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
    Addressable:           00
    Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
    Heap left redzone:       fa
    Freed heap region:       fd
    Stack left redzone:      f1
    Stack mid redzone:       f2
    Stack right redzone:     f3
    Stack after return:      f5
    Stack use after scope:   f8
    Global redzone:          f9
    Global init order:       f6
    Poisoned by user:        f7
    Container overflow:      fc
    Array cookie:            ac
    Intra object redzone:    bb
    ASan internal:           fe
    Left alloca redzone:     ca
    Right alloca redzone:    cb

Fix the bug by adding a sanity check and add a unit test.

Reported-by: oxsignal <awo@kakao.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The block size is read from the block header, which is untrusted data.
We use it without verification to access the restart count at the end of
the block as well as to compute the restart table offset. With a bogus
block size that exceeds the data we have actually read this can lead to
an out-of-bounds read:

  ==2274138==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x7c3ff6de2e3f at pc 0x55555598c6ea bp 0x7fffffff4ee0 sp 0x7fffffff4ed8
  READ of size 1 at 0x7c3ff6de2e3f thread T0
      #0 0x55555598c6e9 in reftable_get_be16 /home/pks/Development/git/build/../reftable/basics.h:119:20
      #1 0x55555598c252 in reftable_block_init /home/pks/Development/git/build/../reftable/block.c:343:18
      #2 0x555555813c70 in test_reftable_block__corrupt_block_size /home/pks/Development/git/build/../t/unit-tests/u-reftable-block.c:531:20
      #3 0x5555557f684e in clar_run_test /home/pks/Development/git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:335:3
      #4 0x5555557f2e69 in clar_run_suite /home/pks/Development/git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:431:3
      #5 0x5555557f2882 in clar_test_run /home/pks/Development/git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:636:4
      #6 0x5555557f375f in clar_test /home/pks/Development/git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:687:11
      #7 0x5555557fa49d in cmd_main /home/pks/Development/git/build/../t/unit-tests/unit-test.c:62:8
      #8 0x55555584b8aa in main /home/pks/Development/git/build/../common-main.c:9:11
      #9 0x7ffff7a2b284 in __libc_start_call_main (/nix/store/8kvxvr3pmsypxiypq4g8zy13glnfr7nx-glibc-2.42-67/lib/libc.so.6+0x2b284) (BuildId: 5a702452a01df1d7d50ce0663acec7be3c71fd4d)
      #10 0x7ffff7a2b337 in __libc_start_main@GLIBC_2.2.5 (/nix/store/8kvxvr3pmsypxiypq4g8zy13glnfr7nx-glibc-2.42-67/lib/libc.so.6+0x2b337) (BuildId: 5a702452a01df1d7d50ce0663acec7be3c71fd4d)
      #11 0x555555694c24 in _start (/home/pks/Development/git/build/t/unit-tests+0x140c24)

  0x7c3ff6de2e3f is located 0 bytes after 47-byte region [0x7c3ff6de2e10,0x7c3ff6de2e3f)
  allocated by thread T0 here:
      #0 0x55555579e95b in malloc (/home/pks/Development/git/build/t/unit-tests+0x24a95b)
      #1 0x5555559871c2 in reftable_malloc /home/pks/Development/git/build/../reftable/basics.c:24:9
      #2 0x5555559872e8 in reftable_calloc /home/pks/Development/git/build/../reftable/basics.c:54:6
      #3 0x55555598f0d3 in reftable_buf_read_data /home/pks/Development/git/build/../reftable/blocksource.c:67:2
      #4 0x55555598ea7e in block_source_read_data /home/pks/Development/git/build/../reftable/blocksource.c:41:19
      #5 0x55555598c555 in read_block /home/pks/Development/git/build/../reftable/block.c:224:9
      #6 0x55555598b69e in reftable_block_init /home/pks/Development/git/build/../reftable/block.c:258:9
      #7 0x555555813c70 in test_reftable_block__corrupt_block_size /home/pks/Development/git/build/../t/unit-tests/u-reftable-block.c:531:20
      #8 0x5555557f684e in clar_run_test /home/pks/Development/git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:335:3
      #9 0x5555557f2e69 in clar_run_suite /home/pks/Development/git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:431:3
      #10 0x5555557f2882 in clar_test_run /home/pks/Development/git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:636:4
      #11 0x5555557f375f in clar_test /home/pks/Development/git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:687:11
      #12 0x5555557fa49d in cmd_main /home/pks/Development/git/build/../t/unit-tests/unit-test.c:62:8
      #13 0x55555584b8aa in main /home/pks/Development/git/build/../common-main.c:9:11
      #14 0x7ffff7a2b284 in __libc_start_call_main (/nix/store/8kvxvr3pmsypxiypq4g8zy13glnfr7nx-glibc-2.42-67/lib/libc.so.6+0x2b284) (BuildId: 5a702452a01df1d7d50ce0663acec7be3c71fd4d)
      #15 0x7ffff7a2b337 in __libc_start_main@GLIBC_2.2.5 (/nix/store/8kvxvr3pmsypxiypq4g8zy13glnfr7nx-glibc-2.42-67/lib/libc.so.6+0x2b337) (BuildId: 5a702452a01df1d7d50ce0663acec7be3c71fd4d)
      #16 0x555555694c24 in _start (/home/pks/Development/git/build/t/unit-tests+0x140c24)

  SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow /home/pks/Development/git/build/../reftable/basics.h:119:20 in reftable_get_be16
  Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
    0x7c3ff6de2b80: fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fa
    0x7c3ff6de2c00: fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fa
    0x7c3ff6de2c80: fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fa
    0x7c3ff6de2d00: fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fa
    0x7c3ff6de2d80: fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 00 fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd
  =>0x7c3ff6de2e00: fa fa 00 00 00 00 00[07]fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
    0x7c3ff6de2e80: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
    0x7c3ff6de2f00: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
    0x7c3ff6de2f80: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
    0x7c3ff6de3000: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
    0x7c3ff6de3080: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
    Addressable:           00
    Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
    Heap left redzone:       fa
    Freed heap region:       fd
    Stack left redzone:      f1
    Stack mid redzone:       f2
    Stack right redzone:     f3
    Stack after return:      f5
    Stack use after scope:   f8
    Global redzone:          f9
    Global init order:       f6
    Poisoned by user:        f7
    Container overflow:      fc
    Array cookie:            ac
    Intra object redzone:    bb
    ASan internal:           fe
    Left alloca redzone:     ca
    Right alloca redzone:    cb

Verify that the claimed block size fits into the block data before using
it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The restart count is stored in the last two bytes of a block. We use it
without verification to compute the offset of the restart table. With a
bogus restart count that is large enough this computation underflows,
and the subsequent reads via the restart table access out-of-bounds
memory:

  ==129439==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x7d90f6dcd0ad (pc 0x55555598ce89 bp 0x7fffffff4ed0 sp 0x7fffffff4e80 T0)
  ==129439==The signal is caused by a READ memory access.
      #0 0x55555598ce89 in reftable_get_be24 ./git/build/../reftable/basics.h:125:9
      #1 0x55555598eabf in block_restart_offset ./git/build/../reftable/block.c:407:9
      #2 0x55555598e5d5 in restart_needle_less ./git/build/../reftable/block.c:431:17
      #3 0x5555559887e2 in binsearch ./git/build/../reftable/basics.c:165:13
      #4 0x55555598dfec in block_iter_seek_key ./git/build/../reftable/block.c:529:6
      #5 0x555555814517 in test_reftable_block__corrupt_restart_count ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/u-reftable-block.c:593:15
      #6 0x5555557f684e in clar_run_test ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:335:3
      #7 0x5555557f2e69 in clar_run_suite ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:431:3
      #8 0x5555557f2882 in clar_test_run ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:636:4
      #9 0x5555557f375f in clar_test ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:687:11
      #10 0x5555557fa49d in cmd_main ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/unit-test.c:62:8
      #11 0x55555584c12a in main ./git/build/../common-main.c:9:11
      #12 0x7ffff7a2b284 in __libc_start_call_main (/nix/store/57iz36553175g3178pvxjij8z5rcsd4n-glibc-2.42-61/lib/libc.so.6+0x2b284) (BuildId: 8ae0b698f2d4e727f569f64bb166e08ae30bd077)
      #13 0x7ffff7a2b337 in __libc_start_main@GLIBC_2.2.5 (/nix/store/57iz36553175g3178pvxjij8z5rcsd4n-glibc-2.42-61/lib/libc.so.6+0x2b337) (BuildId: 8ae0b698f2d4e727f569f64bb166e08ae30bd077)
      #14 0x555555694c24 in _start (./git/build/t/unit-tests+0x140c24)

  ==129439==Register values:
  rax = 0x00007d90f6dcd0ad  rbx = 0x00007fffffff4f20  rcx = 0xf2f2f2f8f2f2f2f8  rdx = 0x0000000000000000
  rdi = 0x00007d90f6dcd0ad  rsi = 0x0000000000007fff  rbp = 0x00007fffffff4ed0  rsp = 0x00007fffffff4e80
   r8 = 0x0000000000000000   r9 = 0x0000000000000000  r10 = 0x0000000000000000  r11 = 0x0000000000000017
  r12 = 0x00007fffffff58e8  r13 = 0x0000000000000001  r14 = 0x00007ffff7ffd000  r15 = 0x00005555560550b0
  AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info.
  SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV ./git/build/../reftable/basics.h:125:9 in reftable_get_be24

Verify that the restart table actually fits into the block.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When doing the binary search through our restart offsets we may hit an
error in case `restart_needle_less()` fails to decode the record at the
given offset. While we correctly detect this case and error out, it will
cause us to call `reftable_record_release()` on the yet-uninitialized
record.

Fix this by initializing the record earlier.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Restart points encode records in a given block that do not use prefix
compression and that can thus immediately be seeked to. These offsets
are encoded in the restart table, where each offset needs to point at
one of the records of the block. We do not verify this though, so a
bogus restart offset may cause an out-of-bounds read:

  ==1472280==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x7d8ff7de5f7f (pc 0x55555599502b bp 0x7fffffff4df0 sp 0x7fffffff4d40 T0)
  ==1472280==The signal is caused by a READ memory access.
      #0 0x55555599502b in get_var_int ./git/build/../reftable/record.c:30:6
      #1 0x555555995c2a in reftable_decode_keylen ./git/build/../reftable/record.c:177:6
      #2 0x55555598e85c in restart_needle_less ./git/build/../reftable/block.c:455:6
      #3 0x55555598895f in binsearch ./git/build/../reftable/basics.c:175:9
      #4 0x55555598e189 in block_iter_seek_key ./git/build/../reftable/block.c:543:6
      #5 0x555555814aee in test_reftable_block__corrupt_restart_offset ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/u-reftable-block.c:636:20
      #6 0x5555557f684e in clar_run_test ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:335:3
      #7 0x5555557f2e69 in clar_run_suite ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:431:3
      #8 0x5555557f2882 in clar_test_run ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:636:4
      #9 0x5555557f375f in clar_test ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:687:11
      #10 0x5555557fa49d in cmd_main ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/unit-test.c:62:8
      #11 0x55555584c25a in main ./git/build/../common-main.c:9:11
      #12 0x7ffff7a2b284 in __libc_start_call_main (/nix/store/57iz36553175g3178pvxjij8z5rcsd4n-glibc-2.42-61/lib/libc.so.6+0x2b284) (BuildId: 8ae0b698f2d4e727f569f64bb166e08ae30bd077)
      #13 0x7ffff7a2b337 in __libc_start_main@GLIBC_2.2.5 (/nix/store/57iz36553175g3178pvxjij8z5rcsd4n-glibc-2.42-61/lib/libc.so.6+0x2b337) (BuildId: 8ae0b698f2d4e727f569f64bb166e08ae30bd077)
      #14 0x555555694c24 in _start (./git/build/t/unit-tests+0x140c24)

  ==1472280==Register values:
  rax = 0x00007d8ff7de5f7f  rbx = 0x00007fffffff4e00  rcx = 0x00007d8ff7de5f80  rdx = 0x00007bfff5b6af60
  rdi = 0x00007bfff5b6af40  rsi = 0x00007bfff592dfa0  rbp = 0x00007fffffff4df0  rsp = 0x00007fffffff4d40
   r8 = 0x00000000ff00002b   r9 = 0x00007d8ff7de5f7f  r10 = 0x00000f7ffeb25bf0  r11 = 0xf3f30000f1f1f1f1
  r12 = 0x00007fffffff58f8  r13 = 0x0000000000000001  r14 = 0x00007ffff7ffd000  r15 = 0x0000555556055fd0
  AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info.
  SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV ./git/build/../reftable/record.c:30:6 in get_var_int

Guard against such restart offsets and signal an error to the caller via
`args.error`.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When seeking an iterator to an arbitrary offset we may return a positive
value in case the offset points beyond the block. This makes sense when
iterating through multiple blocks of the same section, as the positive
value indicates to us that we're at the end of the table.

But when the offset originates from a section or index offset it is
supposed to point at a valid block, so an out-of-bounds value means that
the table is corrupt. Treating it as a normal end-of-iteration causes us
to silently report an empty section instead of surfacing the corruption,
and we are left with a partially-initialized block. This may later on
cause a NULL pointer exception:

  ==1486841==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x55555598e02c bp 0x7fffffff4eb0 sp 0x7fffffff4e70 T0)
  ==1486841==The signal is caused by a READ memory access.
  ==1486841==Hint: address points to the zero page.
      #0 0x55555598e02c in reftable_block_type ./git/build/../reftable/block.c:392:9
      #1 0x55555598ee6e in block_iter_seek_key ./git/build/../reftable/block.c:536:35
      #2 0x5555559ae553 in table_iter_seek_linear ./git/build/../reftable/table.c:344:8
      #3 0x5555559adbff in table_iter_seek ./git/build/../reftable/table.c:450:9
      #4 0x5555559ada9c in table_iter_seek_void ./git/build/../reftable/table.c:460:9
      #5 0x555555992872 in reftable_iterator_seek_log_at ./git/build/../reftable/iter.c:281:9
      #6 0x555555992953 in reftable_iterator_seek_log ./git/build/../reftable/iter.c:287:9
      #7 0x55555583aa78 in test_reftable_table__seek_invalid_log_offset ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/u-reftable-table.c:257:20
      #8 0x5555557f684e in clar_run_test ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:335:3
      #9 0x5555557f2e69 in clar_run_suite ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:431:3
      #10 0x5555557f2882 in clar_test_run ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:636:4
      #11 0x5555557f375f in clar_test ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c:687:11
      #12 0x5555557fa49d in cmd_main ./git/build/../t/unit-tests/unit-test.c:62:8
      #13 0x55555584cffa in main ./git/build/../common-main.c:9:11
      #14 0x7ffff7a2b284 in __libc_start_call_main (/nix/store/57iz36553175g3178pvxjij8z5rcsd4n-glibc-2.42-61/lib/libc.so.6+0x2b284) (BuildId: 8ae0b698f2d4e727f569f64bb166e08ae30bd077)
      #15 0x7ffff7a2b337 in __libc_start_main@GLIBC_2.2.5 (/nix/store/57iz36553175g3178pvxjij8z5rcsd4n-glibc-2.42-61/lib/libc.so.6+0x2b337) (BuildId: 8ae0b698f2d4e727f569f64bb166e08ae30bd077)
      #16 0x555555694c24 in _start (./git/build/t/unit-tests+0x140c24)

  ==1486841==Register values:
  rax = 0x0000000000000000  rbx = 0x00007fffffff4ec0  rcx = 0x0000000000000000  rdx = 0x00007cfff6e2bd58
  rdi = 0x00007cfff6e2bd58  rsi = 0x00007bfff5da1020  rbp = 0x00007fffffff4eb0  rsp = 0x00007fffffff4e70
   r8 = 0x0000000000000000   r9 = 0x0000000000000002  r10 = 0x0000000000000000  r11 = 0x0000000000000017
  r12 = 0x00007fffffff5908  r13 = 0x0000000000000001  r14 = 0x00007ffff7ffd000  r15 = 0x0000555556056e90
  AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info.
  SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV ./git/build/../reftable/block.c:392:9 in reftable_block_type
  ==1486841==ABORTING

Fix this by returning a proper error in `table_iter_seek_to()` when the
offset ranges beyond the block.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When opening a table we compute the size of its data section by
subtracting the footer size from the file size. We do not verify that
the file is actually large enough to contain both the header and the
footer though. With a truncated table the subtraction can thus
underflow, causing us to read the footer out of bounds:

  SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow (/home/pks/Development/git/build/t/unit-tests+0x2479a4) in __asan_memcpy
  Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
    0x7ccff6e0de80: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd
    0x7ccff6e0df00: fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
    0x7ccff6e0df80: fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd
    0x7ccff6e0e000: fd fd fd fd fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fd fd fd fd
    0x7ccff6e0e080: fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa
  =>0x7ccff6e0e100: fa fa fa fa fa[fa]00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    0x7ccff6e0e180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
    0x7ccff6e0e200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    0x7ccff6e0e280: 00 00 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
    0x7ccff6e0e300: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
    0x7ccff6e0e380: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
    Addressable:           00
    Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
    Heap left redzone:       fa
    Freed heap region:       fd
    Stack left redzone:      f1
    Stack mid redzone:       f2
    Stack right redzone:     f3
    Stack after return:      f5
    Stack use after scope:   f8
    Global redzone:          f9
    Global init order:       f6
    Poisoned by user:        f7
    Container overflow:      fc
    Array cookie:            ac
    Intra object redzone:    bb
    ASan internal:           fe
    Left alloca redzone:     ca
    Right alloca redzone:    cb
  ==1500371==ABORTING

Verify that the file is large enough to contain both the header and the
footer before computing the table size.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test_grep is a wrapper around grep for test assertions that prints
the file contents on failure for easier debugging.  It also accepts
'!' as its first argument for negation, which preserves the
diagnostic output that '! test_grep' would suppress.

Despite being widely used (and the preferred replacement for bare
grep in assertions), test_grep has no entry in t/README alongside
the other documented helpers like test_cmp and test_line_count.
Add one.

Signed-off-by: Michael Montalbo <mmontalbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Three grep assertions were missing their file arguments, causing
them to read from empty stdin instead of the intended file:

- t2402: '! grep ...' should read from 'out', matching the
  grep on the preceding line.
- t7507: the closing quote is in the wrong place, making the
  entire 'diff --git actual' a single pattern with no file
  argument instead of pattern 'diff --git' and file 'actual'.
- t7700: '! grep ...' should read from 'packlist', matching
  the redirect on the preceding line.

Without file arguments these greps always succeed (empty stdin
matches nothing), so the assertions were not actually checking
anything.  All three tests pass with the corrected file arguments,
confirming the intended behavior is sound.

Signed-off-by: Michael Montalbo <mmontalbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move chainlint.pl's Lexer, ShellParser, and ScriptParser into a
shared module (lib-shell-parser.pl) so other lint tools can reuse
the same shell parsing infrastructure.  A subsequent commit adds
greplint.pl, which needs the same tokenizer to correctly identify
command boundaries.

ScriptParser's check_test() becomes a no-op in the shared module.
chainlint.pl defines ChainlintParser (extending ScriptParser)
with the &&-chain check_test() implementation.

No functional change: chainlint produces the same output and
check-chainlint self-tests pass.

Signed-off-by: Michael Montalbo <mmontalbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
scan_dqstring's post-loop newline counter re-counts newlines that
were already counted during recursive parsing of $() bodies.  This
happens because scan_dollar returns text containing newlines (from
multi-line command substitutions), and the catch-all counter at the
end of scan_dqstring counts all of them again.

Fix this by counting newlines inline as non-special characters are
consumed, and removing the post-loop catch-all.  Each newline is
now counted exactly once: literal newlines at the inline match,
line splices at the backslash handler, and $() newlines by
scan_token during the recursive parse.

This is a latent bug: any consumer that relies on token line
numbers rather than byte offsets would get incorrect results for
tokens following a multi-line $() inside a double-quoted string.
chainlint is not affected because it annotates the original body
text using byte offsets, not token line numbers.

Signed-off-by: Michael Montalbo <mmontalbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace bare grep with test_grep in test assertions across the
suite, including sourced test helpers (lib-*.sh, *-tests.sh).
test_grep prints the contents of the file being searched on
failure, making debugging easier than a bare grep which fails
silently.

Only assertion-style greps are converted: grep used as a filter
in pipelines, command substitutions, conditionals, or with
redirected I/O is left as-is with a "# lint-ok" annotation.
Existing '! test_grep' calls are rewritten to 'test_grep !' so
that the diagnostic output is preserved on failure.

test_grep requires the file it reads to exist, so '! grep'
assertions that inspect a file whose presence is conditional need
care.  In t5537 the '.git/shallow' file is still present after the
repack (the client remains shallow), so the assertion is
converted like any other.  In t1400 the '.git/packed-refs' file
exists only with the files backend, so its check is guarded with a
REFFILES prerequisite; the backend-agnostic 'git show-ref' check
that follows still runs under every backend.  In t7450 'git~2' is
the NTFS 8.3 short name of a '..git' file and only exists
when 8.3 short-name generation is enabled, so its check is guarded
with a 'test -f' on the path and uses test_grep inside the guard,
the same shape as t1400 (a plain test_grep would BUG when the
short name is absent).

The conversion was generated using a grep-assertion linter
(greplint.pl, added in the following commit) to identify bare
grep calls at command position.  To reproduce, from the t/
directory:

    # Step 1: annotate the two data-filter greps (grep produces
    # data, not a verdict) so the linter skips them.
    sed -i '/grep -vf before commits\.raw/s/$/ # lint-ok: data filter/' \
        t5326-multi-pack-bitmaps.sh
    sed -i '/grep -E "^\[0-9a-f\].*|| :/s/$/ # lint-ok: data filter/' \
        t5702-protocol-v2.sh

    # Step 1b: two '! grep' assertions need more than a mechanical
    # conversion; handle them by hand before the linter-driven steps
    # below so it leaves them alone.
    #
    # t1400: '.git/packed-refs' is absent under reftable, so guard the
    # check with REFFILES (a plain test_grep would BUG on the missing
    # file):
    #
    #      git update-ref -d HEAD $B &&
    #  -   ! grep "$m" .git/packed-refs &&
    #  +   if test_have_prereq REFFILES
    #  +   then
    #  +           test_grep ! "$m" .git/packed-refs
    #  +   fi &&
    #      test_must_fail git show-ref --verify -q $m
    #
    # t7450: git~2 is an NTFS 8.3 short name that exists only when
    # short-name generation is enabled, so guard the check on its
    # presence with 'test -f' and note in a comment why the path can
    # be absent (a plain test_grep would BUG when it is):
    #
    #  -   ! grep gitdir squatting-clone/d/a/git~2
    #  +   if test -f squatting-clone/d/a/git~2
    #  +   then
    #  +           test_grep ! gitdir squatting-clone/d/a/git~2
    #  +   fi

    # Step 2: reorder pre-existing '! test_grep' to 'test_grep !'
    # (must come before steps 3-4 so greplint does not see them)
    sed -i 's/! test_grep/test_grep !/' t0031-lockfile-pid.sh
    sed -i 's/! test_grep/test_grep !/' t5300-pack-object.sh
    sed -i 's/! test_grep/test_grep !/' t5319-multi-pack-index.sh

    # Step 3: convert '! grep' -> 'test_grep !'
    perl greplint.pl *.sh 2>&1 | cut -d: -f1,2 |
    while IFS=: read f l; do
        sed -i "${l}s/! *grep/test_grep !/" "$f"
    done

    # Step 4: convert remaining 'grep' -> 'test_grep'
    perl greplint.pl *.sh 2>&1 | cut -d: -f1,2 |
    while IFS=: read f l; do
        sed -i "${l}s/grep/test_grep/" "$f"
    done

To verify, run: make -C t test-greplint

Signed-off-by: Michael Montalbo <mmontalbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Without a lint guard, bare grep assertions will creep back into
tests over time, defeating the previous commit's conversion.

Add greplint.pl to catch bare 'grep' used as a test assertion
(where 'test_grep' should be used) and '! test_grep' (where
'test_grep !' should be used).

greplint.pl reuses the shared shell parser from lib-shell-parser.pl
to tokenize test bodies.  The Lexer collapses heredocs, command
substitutions, and quoted strings into single tokens, so 'grep'
appearing inside these contexts is not flagged.  A flat walk over
the token stream tracks command position and pipeline state to
distinguish assertion greps from filter greps.

For double-quoted test bodies, a source-line walk counts
backslash-continuation lines that the Lexer consumes without
emitting into the body text, adjusting the reported line number
accordingly.

Add test fixtures in greplint/ (modeled on chainlint/) covering
detection of bare grep assertions, correct skipping of filters,
pipelines, redirects, command substitutions, and lint-ok annotations.

Wire into the Makefile as:
  - test-greplint: runs greplint.pl on $(T) $(THELPERS) $(TPERF)
  - check-greplint: runs greplint.pl on fixtures, diffs against expected
  - clean-greplint: removes temp dir

Add eol=lf entries in t/.gitattributes for greplint fixtures,
matching chainlint, so that check-greplint passes on Windows
where core.autocrlf would otherwise cause CRLF mismatches
between expected and actual output.

Signed-off-by: Michael Montalbo <mmontalbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function `check_repository_format_gently()` receives a format as
input. An unknowing reader may thus suspect that this function actually
checks the passed-in format for consistency. While the function indeed
checks the repository format, it actually serves two purposes:

  - It reads the repository's format and populates the passed-in format
    with that information.

  - It then indeed checks whether the format is consistent.

Rename the function to `read_and_verify_repository_format()` to clarify
its functionality. While at it, reorder the parameters so that the
format comes first to better match other functions that pass around the
format.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a repository is configured to have both "core.worktree" and
"core.bare" we emit a warning and mark the worktree configuration as
bogus so that the next call to `setup_work_tree()` will cause us to die.
This allows us to still use the misconfigured repository, at least as
long as we don't try to use its worktree.

This condition is handled in `setup_explicit_git_dir()`. In a subsequent
commit we'll refactor this function so that it doesn't receive a repo as
input anymore though, and consequently we cannot set the "bogus" bit
anymore.

Move the logic into `apply_repository_format()` instead to prepare for
this. While at it, fix up formatting a bit.

Note that this change requires us to also explicitly unset the value of
"core.worktree" in case we have the "GIT_WORK_TREE" environment variable
set. This is because the environment variable overrides the repository's
configuration, and we don't want to warn or die in case the work tree
has been configured explicitly regardless of whether or not "core.bare"
is set.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is possible to configure an arbitrary "shallow" file via two
mechanisms, and the respective logic to handle these is split across two
locations:

  - Via the "GIT_SHALLOW_FILE" environment variable, which is handled in
    `setup_git_env_internal()`.

  - Via the global "--shallow-file=" command line option, which is
    handled in `handle_options()`.

We can rather easily unify this logic by not configuring the shallow
file in `handle_options()`, but instead overwriting the environment
variable. The environment variable itself is then handled inside of
`apply_repository_format()`, which is responsible for configuring a
discovered Git directory.

This new logic is similar in nature to how we handle the other global
options already, all of which end up setting an environment variable.
So for one this gives us more consistency. But more importantly, this
change means that `the_repository` will not contain any relevant state
anymore before we hit `apply_repository_format()` once we're at the end
of this patch series. Consequently, it will become possible for us to
completely discard `the_repository` and populate it anew.

Note that on first sight, this change looks like it might change the
precedence order. Before this change, we used to configure the shallow
file in the arguments handler first, and then it looks like we override
it via the environment variable. What's important to note though is the
last parameter to `set_alternate_shallow_file()`, which tells us whether
we want to overwrite a preexisting value, and when applying the value
from the environment we tell it not to overwrite preexisting values. So
in effect, the command line has precedence over the environment. After
this change, we now overwrite preexisting environment variables when we
see the argument, and consequently we keep the precedence order in tact.

With this change though we don't need the final parameter anymore that
tells `set_alternate_shallow_file()` whether or not to overwrite. We
only have a single callsite for this function now, and that function is
itself only ever called exactly once. Remove that parameter.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function `setup_git_env_internal()` does two completely unrelated
things:

  - It configures the repository's gitdir and propagates environment
    variables into it.

  - It configures a couple of global parameters via environment
    variables.

The function is called when we initialize the repository's path, but
it's also called via `chdir_notify_register()` whenever we change the
current working directory. While we indeed have to reconfigure the
gitdir in case it's a relative path, it doesn't make sense to reapply
the global environment variables.

Split up concerns of this function along the above delineation. Handling
of the global environment variables is moved into `init_git()`, as they
can be considered part of our setup procedure.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
dscho and others added 27 commits July 10, 2026 08:13
The `split_mbox()` function calls fileno(f) to check whether the input
is a terminal, but the NULL check for f (from `fopen()`) does not happen
until later. When the file cannot be opened, f is NULL, and
`fileno(NULL)` is undefined behavior, typically crashing with a
segmentation fault.

Move the NULL check above the `isatty()`/`fileno()` call so the error
path is taken before any use of the potentially-NULL handle.

Pointed out by Coverity.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When `lookup_commit_reference_by_name()` is called to find the first bad
commit, the result is passed to `repo_format_commit_message()`
immediately, which dereferences commit without checking for NULL.

However, the commit could be NULL, even though in practice this is
unlikely because `bisect_successful()` is only called after a successful
bisect run has identified the bad commit, but the ref could still become
dangling due to a concurrent gc or repository corruption.

Pointed out by Coverity.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `peel_committish()` function calls `repo_peel_to_type()` to convert
the given object to a commit, but does not check the return value. When
the object exists but cannot be peeled to a commit (e.g., a tree or blob
OID is passed as --onto), the return value is NULL. Add an explicit NULL
check and die with a descriptive message in that case.

Pointed out by Coverity.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function resolves revision suffixes like commit^@ (all parents),
commit^! (commit minus parents), and commit^-N (exclude Nth parent). It
calls `get_reference()` in a loop to peel through tag objects until it
reaches a commit.

The existing NULL check after `get_reference()` only handles the
ignore_missing case, but get_reference() can return NULL through three
distinct paths:

  1. revs->ignore_missing: the caller asked to silently skip missing
     objects.

  2. revs->exclude_promisor_objects: the object is a lazy promisor
     object that should be excluded from the walk.

  3. revs->do_not_die_on_missing_objects: the caller wants to record
     missing OIDs for later reporting (used by `git rev-list
     --missing=print`) rather than dying.

In the latter two instances, the code falls through to dereference the
NULL pointer.

Handle all three cases explicitly:

  - ignore_missing: return 0, matching the existing behavior and
    the pattern in `handle_revision_arg()`.

  - do_not_die_on_missing_objects: return 0. The missing OID has already
    been recorded in `revs->missing_commits` by `get_reference()`.
    Returning 0 is consistent with `handle_revision_arg()` and
    `process_parents()`, both of which continue without error when this flag
    is set. The broader codebase pattern for this flag is "record and
    continue": list-objects.c, builtin/rev-list.c, and process_parents
    all skip the die/error and keep walking.

  - everything else (only the `exclude_promisor_objects` case in
    practice): return -1, consistent with `handle_revision_arg()` where
    the condition only matches `ignore_missing` or
    `do_not_die_on_missing_objects`, falling through to ret = -1 for the
    promisor case.

Note: the callers of `add_parents_only()` in
`handle_revision_pseudo_opt()` treat any nonzero return as "handled"
(`if (add_parents_only(...)) { ret = 0; }`), so the -1 for the promisor
case is indistinguishable from success there. This means a
promisor-excluded tag target referenced via commit^@ would be silently
skipped rather than producing an error.  This is a pre-existing
limitation of the caller's return value handling and not made worse by
this change; the alternative (a NULL dereference crash) _would be_
strictly worse.

Pointed out by Coverity.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When `prepare_midx_bitmap_git()` is called to load the bitmap for a
chained MIDX's base layer, if the base MIDX does not have an associated
bitmap file (e.g., it was not generated, or was deleted by gc), the
return value is NULL. It is then stored in `bitmap_git->base` and
immediately dereferenced on the next line.

This can happen in practice with incremental MIDX chains: the base MIDX
may have been written without `--write-bitmap-index`, or the bitmap may
have been pruned while the incremental layer's bitmap still references
it.

Check the return value and go to the cleanup label (which unmaps the
current bitmap and returns -1) so the caller falls back to non-bitmap
object enumeration, matching the handling of other bitmap loading
failures in the same function.

Pointed out by Coverity.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When `refs_resolve_ref_unsafe()` is called to resolve HEAD, and returns
NULL (e.g., HEAD does not exist as a proper ref), the code falls back to
`repo_get_oid("HEAD")` to try to resolve the OID directly. If that
succeeds, execution continues with `head` still set to NULL.

Later, that variable is passed to `repo_get_oid()` and `starts_with()`,
both of which would dereference the NULL pointer.

A concrete trigger for `refs_resolve_ref_unsafe()` returning NULL while
`repo_get_oid()` succeeds could not be constructed against the ref
backends currently in the tree; the naive case (a symbolic HEAD pointing
at a nonexistent branch, in either the files or the reftable backend)
fails in both calls consistently and returns via the existing
`error(_("bad HEAD - I need a HEAD"))` path.  Coverity, however, flags
the leftover use of `head` after the outer `if (!head)` on a formal
reading: `head` is still NULL at that point, and both `starts_with(head,
...)` and the second `repo_get_oid(..., head, ...)` in the else-branch
would dereference it if that state were ever reached.

Removing the outer check would risk regressing to a crash if a future
ref backend ever manages to hit the "returns NULL for HEAD but has a
valid OID for HEAD" state.  Assigning the literal string "HEAD" as a
safe fallback documents the intent and satisfies the analyzer without
changing behavior in any code path we can currently reach.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After `write_one_shallow()` calls `lookup_commit()` to find the commit
object for a shallow graft entry, it then checks `if (!c || ...)`.
Inside that block, when the VERBOSE flag is set, it prints the OID being
removed, via `c->object.oid`. But `c` can be NULL (the first condition
in the `||` check).

This happens when a shallow graft entry references a commit object that
is not in the object store (e.g., after a partial fetch or in a
corrupted repository). In that case, `lookup_commit()` returns NULL
because the object cannot be found, the SEEN_ONLY check correctly
decides to remove this entry from .git/shallow, but the verbose message
crashes before the removal can complete.

Use `graft->oid` instead of `c->object.oid` for the message. The graft
entry's OID is the same value (it was used as the lookup key) and is
always available regardless of whether the commit object exists.

Pointed out by Coverity.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous fix reuses the local `hex` variable that is already
computed at the top of `write_one_shallow()`. That works today, but
`oid_to_hex()` returns a pointer into a small rotating buffer, so it is
not stable across an unrelated call to `oid_to_hex()` from the same
thread. A future edit that adds such a call between the assignment and
the last user of `hex` would silently corrupt the output.

Move `write_one_shallow()` off the rotating buffer entirely by using a
local buffer instead. The current users of that `hex` variable are
unchanged.

Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add performance tests for update-ref when many tombstones are present
in a reftable.

The first test exercises the scenario where all refs are deleted
(creating tombstones) and then re-created with the same names, which
currently exhibits quadratic behavior.

The second test uses a separate repository with an asymmetric variant
where refs are deleted and then new, differently-named refs are
created.  When the tombstones sort after the new refs, every create
scans all tombstones, making this case even worse than re-creating
the same refs.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Kristofer Karlsson <krka@spotify.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When many tombstones are present in a reftable, operations that need
to look up or iterate over refs exhibit quadratic behavior.  With
8000 refs deleted and re-created, update-ref takes ~15s, quadrupling
for each doubling of input size.

The root cause is the merged iterator's suppress_deletions flag.
When set, merged_iter_next_void() silently consumes tombstone records
in a tight internal loop before returning to the caller.  This
prevents higher-level code from checking iteration bounds (such as
prefix or refname comparisons) until after all tombstones have been
scanned.

This affects any code path that seeks into a range containing
tombstones, including:

 - refs_verify_refnames_available() seeks to "refs/tags/foo-1/" to
   check for D/F conflicts and must scan through all subsequent
   tombstones before the caller can see that they are past the prefix
   of interest.

 - reftable_backend_read_ref() seeks to a specific refname and must
   scan through all subsequent tombstones before returning "not
   found", because the merged iterator skips the matching tombstone
   and searches for the next live record.

Fix this by making suppress_deletions configurable via
reftable_stack_options instead of unconditionally enabling it.  Git
no longer sets the flag, so tombstones are now returned to callers in
the reftable backend, which skip them after their existing bounds
checks.  This allows iteration to terminate as soon as a tombstone
past the relevant bound is encountered.

Downstream users of the reftable library (e.g. libgit2) can still
enable suppress_deletions through the stack options to retain the
previous behavior.

This also requires adding deletion checks to the log iteration paths,
since suppress_deletions applied to both ref and log iterators.

Both tests in p1401 go from ~13s to ~0.2s with this change.

Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Kristofer Karlsson <krka@spotify.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'reftable' code has been hardened against corrupted tables by
fixing out-of-bounds writes, out-of-bounds reads, and abort calls
during parsing.

* ps/reftable-hardening:
  reftable/table: fix OOB read on truncated table
  reftable/table: fix NULL pointer access when seeking to bogus offsets
  reftable/block: fix OOB read with bogus restart offset
  reftable/block: fix use of uninitialized memory when binsearch fails
  reftable/block: fix OOB read with bogus restart count
  reftable/block: fix OOB read with bogus block size
  reftable/block: fix OOB write with bogus inflated log size
  t/unit-tests: introduce test helper to write reftable blocks
  reftable/record: don't abort when decoding invalid ref value type
  reftable/basics: fix OOB read on binary search of empty range
  oss-fuzz: add fuzzer for parsing reftables
  meson: support building fuzzers with libFuzzer
The repository discovery and repository configuration phases, which
were previously intertwined in 'setup.c', have been split.  Repository
discovery has been updated to populate a 'struct repo_discovery'
without modifying the repository state, which is then taken by
repository configuration to initialize the repository, paving the way
for clean unification of repository configuration.

* ps/setup-split-discovery-and-setup:
  setup: mark `set_git_work_tree()` as file-local
  setup: pass worktree to `init_db()`
  setup: drop redundant configuration of `startup_info->have_repository`
  setup: make repository discovery self-contained
  setup: propagate prefix via repository discovery
  setup: drop static `cwd` variable
  setup: move prefix into repository
  setup: embed repository format in discovery
  setup: introduce explicit repository discovery
  setup: split up concerns of `setup_git_env_internal()`
  setup: unify setup of shallow file
  setup: mark bogus worktree in `apply_repository_format()`
  setup: rename `check_repository_format_gently()`
A description in the release notes for Git 2.55.0 has been
retroactively updated to clarify that Rust support is enabled by
default, but still optional, and will become mandatory in Git 3.0.

* jc/relnotes-2.55-rust-fix:
  Rust: fix description in Release Notes to 2.55
The early-exit optimization in 'paint_down_to_common()' has been
gated on the queue being generation-ordered, fixing a bug where
'git merge-base' (without '--all') could return incorrect results
on repositories with v1 commit graphs and clock skew.

* kk/commit-reach-find-all-fix:
  commit-reach: guard !FIND_ALL early exit with generation ordering check
  t6600: add test for merge-base early exit with clock skew
The 'SubmittingPatches' document has been updated to explicitly
describe the expectation for contributors to retract or abandon their
patch series when they are no longer pursuing it.

* jc/submitting-patches-abandoning:
  SubmittingPatches: document how to retract a topic
Option parsing with 'git rev-parse --parseopt' and in most 'git'
subcommands has been updated to exit with 0 (instead of 129) when the
help option ('-h' or '--help') is requested directly by the user,
aligning with standard Unix convention.

* bc/parse-options-exit-0-on-help:
  parse-options: exit 0 on -h
  rev-parse: have --parseopt callers exit 0 on --help
  parse-options: add a separate case for help output on error
  t1517: skip svn tests if svn is not installed
The build system has been updated to support building universal macOS
binaries when 'Rust' is enabled, by compiling separate static archives
for each target triple listed in 'RUST_TARGETS' and combining them
using the macOS 'lipo' tool.  The 'git-credential-osxkeychain' helper
has been updated to link against '$(RUST_LIB)' when 'Rust' is enabled.

* sn/osxkeychain-rust-universal:
  contrib: wire up osxkeychain in contrib/Makefile on macOS
  Makefile: support universal macOS builds via RUST_TARGETS
  Makefile: add $(RUST_LIB) prerequisite to osxkeychain
The test suite has been updated to use the 'test_grep' helper instead
of bare 'grep' for test assertions, allowing file contents to be
printed on failure for easier debugging.  A new 'greplint' linter has
been introduced to detect and prevent new bare 'grep' assertions from
being added to the test suite.

* mm/test-grep-lint:
  t: add greplint to detect bare grep assertions
  t: convert grep assertions to test_grep
  t: fix Lexer line count for $() inside double-quoted strings
  t: extract chainlint's parser into shared module
  t: fix grep assertions missing file arguments
  t/README: document test_grep helper
The pipelines in 't1410-reflog.sh' have been replaced with the
'test_stdout_line_count' helper to avoid suppressing the exit code of
'git' commands, ensuring failures are not hidden from the test suite.

* gr/t1410-reflog-exit-code:
  t1410-reflog.sh: avoid suppressing git's exit code in pipelines
The contributor guide has been updated to advise new contributors to
trim irrelevant quoted text when replying to review comments, matching
the existing advice given to reviewers.

* wy/doc-myfirstcontribution-trim-quotes:
  MyFirstContribution: mention trimming quoted text in replies
The cache-scanning loop in 'next_cache_entry()' has been optimized
to avoid rescanning already-unpacked index entries, preventing a
quadratic performance slow-down when diffing the working tree
against a commit with a pathspec matching early index entries.

* hf/unpack-trees-quadratic-scan:
  unpack-trees: avoid quadratic index scan in next_cache_entry()
The client-side parser of the server-advertised bundle-URI list has
been updated to drain the remaining response in order to avoid
protocol desynchronization when the server sends a misconfigured list.
Also, the server-side has been taught to omit empty configuration
values instead of sending invalid key-value lines.

* tc/bundle-uri-empty-fix:
  bundle-uri: stop sending invalid bundle configuration
  bundle-uri: drain remaining response on invalid bundle-uri lines
The global configuration variable 'ignore_case' (representing the
'core.ignorecase' configuration) has been migrated into 'struct
repo_config_values' to tie it to a specific repository instance.

* ty/migrate-ignorecase:
  config: use repo_ignore_case() to access core.ignorecase
  environment: move ignore_case into repo_config_values
The 'topo_levels' slab was propagated only to the topmost layer of a
split commit-graph chain, causing topological levels for commits in
base layers to be recomputed during incremental writes.  This has been
corrected.

* kk/commit-graph-topo-levels-fix:
  commit-graph: propagate topo_levels slab to all chain layers
  commit-graph: add trace2 instrumentation for generation DFS
The performance of ref updates and reads using the 'reftable' backend
in the presence of many deletion tombstone records has been optimized
by removing the tombstone suppression flag from the merged iterator
and instead skipping tombstones at higher-level call sites where
iteration bounds are known.

* kk/reftable-tombstone-quadratic-fix:
  reftable: fix quadratic behavior in the presence of tombstones
  t/perf: add perf test for ref tombstone scenarios
Various code paths have been hardened against potential NULL-pointer
dereferences and invalid file descriptor accesses flagged by
Coverity.

* js/coverity-fixes-null-safety:
  shallow: give write_one_shallow() its own hex buffer
  shallow: fix NULL dereference
  bisect: ensure non-NULL `head` before using it
  pack-bitmap: handle missing bitmap for base MIDX
  revision: avoid dereferencing NULL in `add_parents_only()`
  replay: die when --onto does not peel to a commit
  bisect: handle NULL commit in `bisect_successful()`
  mailsplit: move NULL check before first use of file handle
  reftable/stack: guard against NULL list_file in stack_destroy
  remote: guard `remote_tracking()` against NULL remote
  diff: handle NULL return from repo_get_commit_tree()
  diffcore-break: guard against NULLed queue entries in merge loop
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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