When a series of patches for a topic-B depends on having topic-A,
the workflow to prepare the topic-B branch would look like this:

    $ git checkout -b topic-B main
    $ git merge --no-ff --no-edit topic-A
    $ git am <mbox-for-topic-B

When topic-A gets updated, recreating the first merge and rebasing
the rest of the topic-B, all on detached HEAD, is a useful
technique.  After updating topic-A with its new round of patches:

    $ git checkout topic-B
    $ prev=$(git rev-parse 'HEAD^{/^Merge branch .topic-A. into}')
    $ git checkout --detach $prev^1
    $ git merge --no-ff --no-edit topic-A
    $ git rebase --onto HEAD $prev @{-1}^0
    $ git checkout -B @{-1}

This will

 (0) check out the current topic-B.
 (1) find the previous merge of topic-A into topic-B.
 (2) detach the HEAD to the parent of the previous merge.
 (3) merge the updated topic-A to it.
 (4) reapply the patches to rebuild the rest of topic-B.
 (5) update topic-B with the result.

without contaminating the reflog of topic-B too much.  topic-B@{1}
is the "logically previous" state before topic-A got updated, for
example.  At (4), comparison (e.g. range-diff) between HEAD and
@{-1} is a meaningful way to sanity check the result, and the same
can be done at (5) by comparing topic-B and topic-B@{1}.

But there is one glitch.  The merge into the detached HEAD done in
the step (3) above gives us "Merge branch 'topic-A' into HEAD", and
does not say "into topic-B".

Teach the "--into-name=<branch>" option to "git merge" and its
underlying "git fmt-merge-message", to pretend as if we were merging
into <branch>, no matter what branch we are actually merging into,
when they prepare the merge message.  The pretend name honors the
usual "into <target>" suppression mechanism, which can be seen in
the tests added here.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

In builtin.h, there exists the distinctly "lib-ish" function
fmt_merge_msg(). This function can currently only be called by built-in
commands but, unlike most of the other functions in the header, it does
not make sense to impose this restriction as the functionality can be
logically reused in libgit.

Extract this function into fmt-merge-msg.c so that related definitions
can exist clearly in their own header file.

While we're at it, clean up #includes that are unused.

This patch is best viewed with --color-moved.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

"git merge signed-tag" while lacking the public key started to say
"No signature", which was utterly wrong.  This regression has been
reverted.

* hi/gpg-use-check-signature:
  Revert "gpg-interface: prefer check_signature() for GPG verification"

This reverts commit 72b006f4bfd30b7c5037c163efaf279ab65bea9c, which
breaks the end-user experience when merging a signed tag without
having the public key.  We should report "can't check because we
have no public key", but the code with this change claimed that
there was no signature.

Hide lower-level verify_signed-buffer() API as a pure helper to
implement the public check_signature() function, in order to
encourage new callers to use the correct and more strict
validation.

* hi/gpg-use-check-signature:
  gpg-interface: prefer check_signature() for GPG verification

This commit refactors the use of verify_signed_buffer() outside of
gpg-interface.c to use check_signature() instead.  It also turns
verify_signed_buffer() into a file-local function since it's now only
invoked internally by check_signature().

There were previously two globally scoped functions used in different
parts of Git to perform GPG signature verification:
verify_signed_buffer() and check_signature().  Now only
check_signature() is used.

The verify_signed_buffer() function doesn't guard against duplicate
signatures as described by Michał Górny [1].  Instead it only ensures a
non-erroneous exit code from GPG and the presence of at least one
GOODSIG status field.  This stands in contrast with check_signature()
that returns an error if more than one signature is encountered.

The lower degree of verification makes the use of verify_signed_buffer()
problematic if callers don't parse and validate the various parts of the
GPG status message themselves.  And processing these messages seems like
a task that should be reserved to gpg-interface.c with the function
check_signature().

Furthermore, the use of verify_signed_buffer() makes it difficult to
introduce new functionality that relies on the content of the GPG status
lines.

Now all operations that does signature verification share a single entry
point to gpg-interface.c.  This makes it easier to propagate changed or
additional functionality in GPG signature verification to all parts of
Git, without having odd edge-cases that don't perform the same degree of
verification.

[1] https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/articles/attack-on-git-signature-verification.html

Signed-off-by: Hans Jerry Illikainen <hji@dyntopia.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Get rid of two magic numbers by using skip_prefix().

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Various codepaths in the core-ish part learn to work on an
arbitrary in-core index structure, not necessarily the default
instance "the_index".

* nd/the-index: (23 commits)
  revision.c: reduce implicit dependency the_repository
  revision.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  ws.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  tree-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  submodule.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  line-range.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  userdiff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  rerere.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  sha1-file.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  patch-ids.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  merge-blobs.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  ll-merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  diff-lib.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  read-cache.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  grep.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  diff.c: remove the_index dependency in textconv() functions
  blame.c: rename "repo" argument to "r"
  combine-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  ...

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

spatch transformation to replace boolean uses of !hashcmp() to
newly introduced oideq() is added, and applied, to regain
performance lost due to support of multiple hash algorithms.

* jk/cocci:
  show_dirstat: simplify same-content check
  read-cache: use oideq() in ce_compare functions
  convert hashmap comparison functions to oideq()
  convert "hashcmp() != 0" to "!hasheq()"
  convert "oidcmp() != 0" to "!oideq()"
  convert "hashcmp() == 0" to hasheq()
  convert "oidcmp() == 0" to oideq()
  introduce hasheq() and oideq()
  coccinelle: use <...> for function exclusion