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Mroik and others added 30 commits March 6, 2026 17:16
In many commands we can customize the output through the "--format" or
the "--pretty" options. This patch adds two new placeholders used mainly
when there's a range of commits that we want to show.

Currently these two placeholders are not usable as they're coupled with
the rev_info->nr and rev_info->total fields, fields that are used only
by the format-patch numbered email subjects.

Teach repo_format_commit_message() the %(count) and %(total)
placeholders.

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As of now format-patch allows generation of a template cover letter for
patch series through "--cover-letter".

Move shortlog summary code generation to its own function. This is done
in preparation to other patches where we enable the user to format the
commit list using thier own format string.

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Often when sending patch series there's a need to clarify to the
reviewer what's the purpose of said series, since it might be difficult
to understand it from reading the commits messages one by one.

"git format-patch" provides the useful "--cover-letter" flag to declare
if we want it to generate a template for us to use. By default it will
generate a "git shortlog" of the changes, which developers find less
useful than they'd like, mainly because the shortlog groups commits by
author, and gives no obvious chronological order.

Give format-patch the ability to specify an alternative format spec
through the "--cover-letter-format" option. This option either takes
"shortlog", which is the current format, or a format spec prefixed with
"log:".

Example:
    git format-patch --cover-letter \
        --cover-letter-format="log:[%(count)/%(total)] %s (%an)" HEAD~3

    [1/3] this is a commit summary (Mirko Faina)
    [2/3] this is another commit summary (Mirko Faina)
    ...

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using "--cover-letter" we can tell format-patch to generate a cover
letter, in this cover letter there's a list of commits included in the
patch series and the format is specified by the "--cover-letter-format"
option. Would be useful if this format could be configured from the
config file instead of always needing to pass it from the command line.

Teach format-patch how to read the format spec for the cover letter from
the config files. The variable it should look for is called
format.commitListFormat.

Possible values:
  - commitListFormat is set but no string is passed: it will default to
    "[%(count)/%(total)] %s"

  - if a string is passed: will use it as a format spec. Note that this
    is either "shortlog" or a format spec prefixed by "log:"
    e.g."log:%s (%an)"

  - if commitListFormat is not set: it will default to the shortlog
    format.

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
* 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
  ...
…ch-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
Improve die messages for commands that do not support %(count) and
%(total)

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Refactor for readability and remove unnecessary initialization.

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To align the name of the configuration variable and the name of the
command line option, either one should change name. By changing the name
of the option we get the added benefit of having --cover-<TAB> expand to
--cover-letter without ambiguity.

If the user gives the --cover-letter-format option it would be
reasonable to expect that the user wants to generate the cover letter
despite not giving --cover-letter.

Rename --cover-letter-format to --commit-list-format and make it imply
--cover-letter unless --no-cover-letter is given.

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When --commit-list-format was introduced to format-patch, two new
placeholders were added to the PRETTY FORMATS code without being
documented. Do so now.

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The configuration variable format.commitListFormat allows for an empty
value. This is unusual and can create issues when interacting with this
configuration variable through the CLI.

Strip meaning to format.commitListFormat with an empty value.

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While most conventions should not allow for the text lines in commit
messages to get too long, when they do it could make emails harder to
read.

Teach generate_commit_list_cover() to wrap its commit lines if they are
too long.

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"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>
Having to prefix a custom format-string with "log:" when passed from the
CLI can be annoying. It would be great if this prefix wasn't required.

Teach make_cover_letter() to accept custom format-strings without the
"log:" prefix if a placeholder is detected.

Note that both here and in "git log --format" the check is done naively
by just checking for the presence of a '%'.

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the convenience wrapper from hook to string-list since
it's a more suitable place. Add a doc comment to the header.

Also add a free_util arg to make the function more generic
and make the API similar to other functions in string-list.h.
Update the existing call-sites.

Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The run_receive_hook() stack-allocated `struct receive_hook_feed_state`
is a template with initial values for child states allocated on the heap
for each hook process, by calling receive_hook_feed_state_alloc() when
spinning up each hook child.

All these values are already initialized to zero, however I forgot to
properly initialize the strbuf, which I left NULL.

This is more of a code cleanup because in practice it has no effect,
the states used by the children are always initialized, however it's
good to fix in case someone ends up accidentally dereferencing the NULL
pointer in the future.

Reported-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix some minor style nits pointed out by Patrick, Junio and Eric:
  * Use CALLOC_ARRAY instead of xcalloc.
  * Init struct members during declaration.
  * Simplify if condition boolean logic.
  * Missing curly braces in if/else stmts.
  * Unnecessary header includes.
  * Capitalization and full-stop in error/warn messages.
  * Curly brace on separate line when defining struct.
  * Comment spelling: free'd -> freed.
  * Sort the included headers.
  * Blank line fixes to improve readability.

These contain no logic changes, the code behaves the same as before.

Suggested-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename the hook callback function types to use the hook prefix.

This is a style fix with no logic changes.

Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Trigger a bug when an unknown hook type is encountered while
setting up hook execution.

Also issue a bug if a configured hook is enabled without a cmd.

Mostly useful for defensive coding.

Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace the custom function with string_list_clear_func() which
is a more common pattern for clearing a string_list.

To be able to do this, rework hook_clear() into hook_free(), so
it can be passed to string_list_clear_func().

A slight complication is the need to keep a copy of the internal
cb data free() pointer, however I think it's worth it since the
API becomes cleaner, e.g. no more calls with NULL function args
like hook_list_clear(hooks, NULL).

In other words, the callers don't need to keep track of hook
internal state to determine when cleanup is necessary or not
(pass NULL) because each `struct hook` now owns its data_free
callback.

Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
There is a documented expectation that configured hooks are
run before the hook from the hookdir. Add a test for it.

While at it, I noticed that `git hook list -h` runs twice
in the `git hook usage` test, so remove one invocation.

Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace the bare `char *command` util pointer stored in each string_list
item with a heap-allocated `struct hook_config_cache_entry` that carries
that command string.

This is just a refactoring with no behavior changes, to give the cache
entry room to grow, so it can carry the additional hook metadata we'll
be adding in the following commits.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users running "git hook list" can see which hooks are configured but
have no way to tell at which config scope (local, global, system...)
each hook was defined.

Store the scope from ctx->kvi->scope in the single-pass config callback,
then carry it through the cache to the hook structs, so we can expose it
to users via the "git hook list --show-scope" flag, which mirrors the
existing git config --show-scope convention.

Without the flag the output is unchanged.

The scope is printed as a tab-separated prefix (like "git config --show-scope"),
making it unambiguously machine-parseable even when the friendly name
contains spaces.

Example usage:
$ git hook list --show-scope pre-commit
global	linter
local	no-leaks
hook from hookdir

Traditional hooks from the hookdir are unaffected by --show-scope since
the config scope concept does not apply to them.

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>
Disabled hooks were filtered out of the cache entirely, making them
invisible to "git hook list". Keep them in the cache with a new
"disabled" flag which is propagated to the respective struct hook.

"git hook list" now shows disabled hooks as tab-separated columns,
with the status as a prefix before the name (like scope with
--show-scope). With --show-scope it looks like:

$ git hook list --show-scope pre-commit
global	linter
local	disabled	no-leaks
hook from hookdir

A disabled hook without a command issues a warning instead of the
fatal "hook.X.command must be configured" error. We could also throw
an error, however it seemd a bit excessive to me in this case.

Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach "git hook run" and "git hook list" to reject hook event names
that are not recognized by Git. This helps catch typos such as
"prereceive" when "pre-receive" was intended, since in 99% of the
cases users want known (already-existing) hook names.

The list of known hooks is derived from the generated hook-list.h
(built from Documentation/githooks.adoc). This is why the Makefile
is updated, so builtin/hook.c depends on hook-list.h. In meson the
header is already a dependency for all builtins, no change required.

The "--allow-unknown-hook-name" flag can be used to bypass this check.

Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The logic for formatting revert commit messages (handling "Revert" and
"Reapply" cases, appending "This reverts commit <ref>.", and handling
merge-parent references) currently lives inline in do_pick_commit().
The upcoming replay --revert mode needs to reuse this logic.

Extract all of this into a new sequencer_format_revert_message()
function. The function takes a repository, the subject line, commit,
parent, a use_commit_reference flag, and the output strbuf. It handles
both regular reverts ("Revert "<subject>"") and revert-of-revert cases
("Reapply "<subject>""), and uses refer_to_commit() internally to
format the commit reference.

Update refer_to_commit() to take a struct repository parameter instead
of relying on the_repository, and a bool instead of reading from
replay_opts directly. This makes it usable from the new shared function
without pulling in sequencer-specific state.

Signed-off-by: Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a `--revert <branch>` mode to git replay that undoes the changes
introduced by the specified commits. Like --onto and --advance, --revert
is a standalone mode: it takes a branch argument and updates that branch
with the newly created revert commits.

At GitLab, we need this in Gitaly for reverting commits directly on bare
repositories without requiring a working tree checkout.

The approach is the same as sequencer.c's do_pick_commit() -- cherry-pick
and revert are just the same three-way merge with swapped arguments:

  - Cherry-pick: merge(ancestor=parent, ours=current, theirs=commit)
  - Revert: merge(ancestor=commit, ours=current, theirs=parent)

We swap the base and pickme trees passed to merge_incore_nonrecursive()
to reverse the diff direction.

Reverts are processed newest-first (matching git revert behavior) to
reduce conflicts by peeling off changes from the top. Each revert
builds on the result of the previous one via the last_commit fallback
in the main replay loop, rather than relying on the parent-mapping
used for cherry-pick.

Revert commit messages follow the usual git revert conventions: prefixed
with "Revert" (or "Reapply" when reverting a revert), and including
"This reverts commit <hash>.". The author is set to the current user
rather than preserving the original author, matching git revert behavior.

Helped-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "is_current" member of struct worktree was added in 750e8a6
(worktree.c: mark current worktree, 2016-04-22) and was used in
8d9fdd7 (worktree.c: check whether branch is rebased in another
worktree, 2016-04-22) to optionally skip the current worktree when
seeing if a branch is already checked out in die_if_checked_out().

To determine if a worktree is "current" is_current_worktree() compares
the gitdir of the worktree to the gitdir of "the_repository"
and returns true when they match. To get the gitdir of the
worktree it calls get_workree_git_dir() which also depends on
"the_repository". This means that even if "wt->path" matches
"wt->repo->worktree" is_current_worktree(wt) will return false when
"wt->repo" is not "the_repository". Consequently die_if_checked_out()
will fail to skip such a worktree when checking if a branch is already
checked out and may die errounously. Fix this by using the worktree's
repository instance instead of "the_repository" when comparing gitdirs.

The use of "the_repository" in is_current_wortree() comes from
replacing get_git_dir() with repo_get_git_dir() in 246deea
(environment: make `get_git_dir()` accept a repository, 2024-09-12). In
get_worktree_git_dir() it comes from replacing git_common_path() with
repo_common_path() in 07242c2 (path: drop `git_common_path()`
in favor of `repo_common_path()`, 2025-02-07). In both cases the
replacements appear to have been mechanical.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
phillipwood and others added 22 commits March 26, 2026 08:20
The function can_use_local_refs() prints a warning if there are no local
branches and HEAD is invalid or points to an unborn branch. As part of
the warning it prints the contents of ".git/HEAD". In a repository using
the reftable backend HEAD is not stored in the filesystem so reading
that file is pointless. In a repository using the files backend it is
unclear how useful printing it is - it would be better to diagnose the
problem for the user. For now, simplify the warning by not printing
the file contents and adjust the relevant test case accordingly. Also
fixup the test case to use test_grep so that anyone trying to debug a
test failure in the future is not met by a wall of silence.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This removes the final dependence on "the_repository" in
get_worktree_git_dir(). The last commit removed only caller that
passed a NULL worktree.

get_worktree_git_dir() has the following callers:

 - branch.c:prepare_checked_out_branches() which loops over all
   worktrees.

 - builtin/fsck.c:cmd_fsck() which loops over all worktrees.

 - builtin/receive-pack.c:update_worktree() which is called from
   update() only when "worktree" is non-NULL.

 - builtin/worktree.c:validate_no_submodules() which is called from
   check_clean_worktree() and move_worktree(), both of which supply
   a non-NULL worktree.

 - reachable.c:add_rebase_files() which loops over all worktrees.

 - revision.c:add_index_objects_to_pending() which loops over all
   worktrees.

 - worktree.c:is_current_worktree() which expects a non-NULL worktree.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The REV_INFO_INIT macro includes a use of the DEFAULT_ABBREV macro, which is
defined in object-name.h. Include it in revision.h so consumers of
REV_INFO_INIT do not need to include this hidden dependency.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepare the test infrastructure for upcoming changes that teach 'git
backfill' to accept revision arguments and pathspecs.

Add test_tick before each commit in the setup loop so that commit dates
are deterministic. This enables reliable testing with '--since'.

Rename the 'd/e/' directory to 'd/f/' so that the prefix 'd/f' is
ambiguous with the files 'd/file.*.txt'. This exercises the subtlety
in prefix pathspec matching that will be added in a later commit.

Create a branched version of the test repository (src-revs) with:
 - A 'side' branch merged into main, adding s/file.{1,2}.txt with
   two versions (4 new blobs, 52 total from main HEAD).
 - An unmerged 'other' branch adding o/file.{1,2}.txt (2 more blobs,
   54 total reachable from --all).

This structure makes --all, --first-parent, and --since produce
meaningfully different results when used with 'git backfill'.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing implementation of 'git backfill' only includes downloading
missing blobs reachable from HEAD. Advanced uses may desire more general
commit limiting options, such as '--all' for all references, specifying a
commit range via negative references, or specifying a recency of use such as
with '--since=<date>'.

All of these options are available if we use setup_revisions() to parse the
unknown arguments with the revision machinery. This opens up a large number
of possibilities, only a small set of which are tested here.

For documentation, we avoid duplicating the option documentation and instead
link to the documentation of 'git rev-list'.

Note that these arguments currently allow specifying a pathspec, which
modifies the commit history checks but does not limit the paths used in the
backfill logic. This will be updated in a future change.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous change allowed specifying revision arguments over the 'git
backfill' command-line. This created the opportunity for restricting the
initial commit set by filtering the revision walk through a pathspec. Other
than filtering the commit set (and thereby the root trees), this did not
restrict the path-walk implementation of 'git backfill' and did not restrict
the blobs that were downloaded to only those matching the pathspec.

Update the path-walk API to accept certain kinds of pathspecs and to
silently ignore anything too complex, for now. We will update this in the
next change to properly restrict to even complex pathspecs.

The current behavior focuses on pathspecs that match paths exactly. This
includes exact filenames, including directory names as prefixes. Pathspecs
containing wildcards or magic are cleared so the path walk downloads all
blobs, as before.

The reason for this restriction is to allow for a faster execution by
pruning the path walk to only trees that could contribute towards one of
those paths as a parent directory.

The test directory 'd/f/' (next to 'd/file*.txt') was prepared in a
previous commit to exercise the subtlety in prefix matching.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, walk_objects_by_path() silently ignored pathspecs containing
wildcards or magic by clearing them. This caused all blobs to be
downloaded regardless of the given pathspec. Wildcard pathspecs like
"d/file.*.txt" are useful for narrowing which blobs to process (e.g.,
during 'git backfill').

Support wildcard pathspecs by making two changes:

 1. Add an 'exact_pathspecs' flag to path_walk_context. When the
    pathspec has no wildcards or magic, set this flag and use the
    existing fast-path prefix matching in add_tree_entries(). When
    wildcards are present, skip that block since prefix matching
    cannot handle glob patterns.

 2. Add a match_pathspec() check in walk_path() to filter out blobs
    whose full path does not match the pathspec. This provides the
    actual blob-level filtering for wildcard pathspecs.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before the recent changes to parse rev-list arguments inside of 'git
backfill', the builtin would take arbitrary arguments without complaint (and
ignore them). This was noticed and a patch was sent [1] which motivates
this change.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20260321031643.5185-1-r.siddharth.shrimali@gmail.com/

Note that the revision machinery can output an "ambiguous argument"
warning if a value not starting with '--' is found and doesn't make
sense as a reference or a pathspec. For unrecognized arguments starting
with '--' we need to add logic into builtin/backfill.c to catch leftover
arguments.

Reported-by: Siddharth Shrimali <r.siddharth.shrimali@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
…h-commit-list-format-doc

* 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)
  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
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>
Using format-patch with --commit-list-format different than shortlog,
causes the commit entry lines to wrap if they get longer than
MAIL_DEFAULT_WRAP (72 characters).

While this might be sensible for many when sending changes through
email, it forces this decision of wrapping on the user, reducing the
control granularity of --commit-list-format.

Teach generate_commit_list_cover() to respect commit entry line lengths
and place this wrapping rule on the "modern" preset format instead.

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update t8003-blame-corner-cases.sh to redirect git-blame output
to a temporary file instead of piping it directly to not hide
the exit code of git commands behind pipes, as a crash in git
might go unnoticed.

Signed-off-by: Trieu Huynh <vikingtc4@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the blank lines at both ends of each test_expect_success body
to match the modern style used elsewhere in the test suite.

Signed-off-by: Trieu Huynh <vikingtc4@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"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
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)
Doc updates.

* mf/format-patch-commit-list-format-doc:
  format-patch: removing unconditional wrapping
  docs: fix --commit-list-format related entries
`git backfill` learned to accept revision and pathspec arguments.

* ds/backfill-revs:
  t5620: test backfill's unknown argument handling
  path-walk: support wildcard pathspecs for blob filtering
  backfill: work with prefix pathspecs
  backfill: accept revision arguments
  t5620: prepare branched repo for revision tests
  revision: include object-name.h
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]
Reduce the reference to the_repository in the worktree subsystem.

* pw/worktree-reduce-the-repository:
  worktree: reject NULL worktree in get_worktree_git_dir()
  worktree add: stop reading ".git/HEAD"
  worktree: remove "the_repository" from is_current_worktree()
"git replay" (experimental) learns, in addition to "pick" and
"replay", a new operating mode "revert".

* sa/replay-revert:
  replay: add --revert mode to reverse commit changes
  sequencer: extract revert message formatting into shared function
Test clean-up.

* th/t8003-unhide-git-failures:
  t8003: modernise style
  t8003: avoid suppressing git's exit code
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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