Jeff King

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Git has odd sorting requirements for tree entries. The entries are sorted by name, but sub-trees sort as if they had "/" at the end. That means when you add...

It seems like the main utility of this over a `rebase -x` method (besides the result caching) is to run it asynchronously. I wonder how hard it would be to...

I noticed today that ruby-2.7.3 doesn't build on debian unstable anymore, because the openssl dependency has moved on. Looks like ruby-3.1.2 is the latest stable release. A trivial replacement of...

If you visit a bogus page like `https://git-scm.com/doesnotexist`, you'll get a 404. But it refers to `/assets/errors.css` as a stylesheet. And we don't actually serve that. I'm not sure if...

I noticed in the heroku logs that we generated an HTTP 500 for a request to `/blog.rss`. It's understandable, in that there is no RSS feed there any more. But...

We index the [book and manpage content](https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/blob/fef621c3762f65326b838943cbd58fc5109311f7/lib/tasks/search.rake#L9-L21) for the search feature, but not any of the static content. So searching for "trademark", for example, will not turn up the trademark...

When using `--keepDays`, commit 0cdddf67ef57c19d8e25e59e0970198e55ca87aa iterates over the existing versions with this assertion: ``` # We assume that the versions are ordered by time, newest first. assert prev_age_days is None...

enhancement

Git's test suite added support a few months ago for running its http tests using http2 via apache. Since upgrading to mod_http v2.0.10 (via updating my Debian package of apache2...

This runs a program of the user's choice before and after we attempt an actual decryption. This can be used for (among other things), a visual indicator that the key...