git/refs, branch v2.52.0

Merge branch 'pk/reflog-migrate-message-fix'

2025-11-06T22:52:57Z

Message fix. * pk/reflog-migrate-message-fix: refs: add missing space in messages

refs: add missing space in messages

2025-11-05T23:04:26Z

Signed-off-by: Peter Krefting Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'xr/ref-debug-remove-on-disk'

2025-11-04T15:48:08Z

The "debug" ref-backend was missing a method implementation, which has been corrected. * xr/ref-debug-remove-on-disk: refs: add missing remove_on_disk implementation for debug backend

Merge branch 'ps/symlink-symref-deprecation'

2025-10-30T15:00:19Z

"Symlink symref" has been added to the list of things that will disappear at Git 3.0 boundary. * ps/symlink-symref-deprecation: refs/files: deprecate writing symrefs as symbolic links

refs: add missing remove_on_disk implementation for debug backend

2025-10-27T15:57:47Z

The debug ref backend (refs_be_debug) was missing the remove_on_disk function pointer, which caused a segmentation fault when running 'GIT_TRACE_REFS=1 git refs migrate --ref-format=reftable' commands. Signed-off-by: Xinyu Ruan Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'js/unreachable-workaround-for-no-symlink-head' into maint-2.51

2025-10-27T02:48:20Z

Code clean-up. * js/unreachable-workaround-for-no-symlink-head: refs: forbid clang to complain about unreachable code

Merge branch 'js/unreachable-workaround-for-no-symlink-head'

2025-10-20T21:12:17Z

Code clean-up. * js/unreachable-workaround-for-no-symlink-head: refs: forbid clang to complain about unreachable code

Merge branch 'kn/refs-files-case-insensitive' into maint-2.51

2025-10-15T17:29:31Z

Deal more gracefully with directory / file conflicts when the files backend is used for ref storage, by failing only the ones that are involved in the conflict while allowing others. * kn/refs-files-case-insensitive: refs/files: handle D/F conflicts during locking refs/files: handle F/D conflicts in case-insensitive FS refs/files: use correct error type when lock exists refs/files: catch conflicts on case-insensitive file-systems

Merge branch 'ps/reflog-migrate-fixes' into maint-2.51

2025-10-15T17:29:28Z

"git refs migrate" to migrate the reflog entries from a refs backend to another had a handful of bugs squashed. * ps/reflog-migrate-fixes: refs: fix invalid old object IDs when migrating reflogs refs: stop unsetting REF_HAVE_OLD for log-only updates refs/files: detect race when generating reflog entry for HEAD refs: fix identity for migrated reflogs ident: fix type of string length parameter builtin/reflog: implement subcommand to write new entries refs: export `ref_transaction_update_reflog()` builtin/reflog: improve grouping of subcommands Documentation/git-reflog: convert to use synopsis type

refs/files: deprecate writing symrefs as symbolic links

2025-10-15T16:11:08Z

The "files" backend has the ability to store symbolic refs as symbolic links, which can be configured via "core.preferSymlinkRefs". This feature stems back from the early days: the initial implementation of symbolic refs used symlinks exclusively. The symref format was only introduced in 9b143c6e15 (Teach update-ref about a symbolic ref stored in a textfile., 2005-09-25) and made the default in 9f0bb90d16 (core.prefersymlinkrefs: use symlinks for .git/HEAD, 2006-05-02). This is all about 20 years ago, and there are no known reasons nowadays why one would want to use symlinks instead of symrefs. Mark the feature for deprecation in Git 3.0. Note that this only deprecates _writing_ symrefs as symbolic links. Reading such symrefs is still supported for now. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano