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

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:18:24 -0700

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

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

With maint, master, next, seen, todo:

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

With all the integration branches and topics broken out:

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

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

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

Release tarballs are available at:

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

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[New Topics]

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

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

 Comments?
 source: <[email-masked]>

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

 CI improvements to handle the recent Rust integration better.

 Comments?
 source: <[email-masked]>

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

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

 Expecting v2.
 cf. <[email-masked]>
 source: <2[email-masked]>

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

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

 Comments?
 source: <[email-masked]>

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

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

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

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[Graduated to 'master']

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

 Doc updates.
 source: <[email-masked]>

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

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

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

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

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

 Handling of an empty subdirectory of .git/refs/ in the ref-files
 backend has been corrected.
 source: <[email-masked]>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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[Cooking]

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

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

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

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

 Add a new manual that describes the data model.

 Comments?
 source: <[email-masked]>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Doc-mark-up modernization continues.

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

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

 Comments?
 source: <[email-masked]>

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

 AI guidelines.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Comments?
 source: <[email-masked]>

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

 GitLab CI improvements.

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

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

 Doc updates.

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

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

 Documentation mark-up fixes.

 Expecting v3.
 cf. <[email-masked]>
 source: <[email-masked]>

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Documentation mark-up fix.

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

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

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

 Expecting v3.
 cf. <[email-masked]>
 source: <[email-masked]>

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

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

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

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

 Documentation updates.

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

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

 Documentation updates.

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

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

 An earlier addition to "git diff --no-index A B" to limit the
 output with pathspec after the two directories misbehaved when
 these directories were given with a trailing slash, which has been
 corrected.
 source: <[email-masked]>

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

 "git repo stats", a new command.

 Comments?
 source: <[email-masked]>

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

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

 Will merge to 'master'.
 source: <2025[email-masked]>

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

 The beginning of SHA1-SHA256 interoperability work.

 Expecting v3.
 cf. <[email-masked]>
 source: <[email-masked]>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Expecting v4.
 cf. <[email-masked]>
 source: <[email-masked]>

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

 Code clean-up around commit-graph.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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[Discarded]

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

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

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

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

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

 Has been expecting a reroll for way too long.
 cf. <[email-masked]>
 Ejected out of 'seen' for now.
 source: <[email-masked]>