Emacs package review and a Git treewide migration have forced the same unresolved fight into the open: whether AI-assisted code can carry a meaningful DCO, must be labeled, or should be refused as routine practice arrives.
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Elijah Newren fixes multi-pack-index lookups that treat present objects as missing when a concurrent repack retires their owning pack, plus a replay crash and mktree --batch bugs.
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An RFC series would stop parsing uppercase so Git matches what it emits and what most tooling already assumes.
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A Gemini-produced migration off the removed POSIX utime() API stalled when a developer refused to review it over uncertain origin certification.
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Patrick Steinhardt routes fetch, push, and bundle packing through a new object-database interface so alternate backends need not pretend to be the files store.
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A late-2025 packfile store refactor made everyday commands crawl when tens of thousands of packs were present.
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Advertised file and UNC bundle paths could force outbound SMB and expose credentials on Windows clones.
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CVE-2026-62960 let hostile Git servers push Windows clients into disclosing NTLMv2 hashes over the network.
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Git, GCC, and Linux staging maintainers are independently rejecting or tightly regulating AI-assisted contributions, turning copyright risk, review load, and the fate of new-contributor pipelines into a shared governance fight.
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A paint-walk optimization from Spotify cuts merge-base step counts by orders of magnitude on large imported graphs and drops an old date-ordering workaround.
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Maintainers told a submitter that a claimed 15% blobless-clone speedup must be rewritten by hand without generated code.
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A patch skips type auto-detection for UNC symlink targets so clone no longer triggers silent SMB authentication.
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Savannah maintainers force-reset the branch after a commit unintentionally credited Claude, leaving local clones needing a rebase or hard reset.
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A long-running process protocol would let tools like Difftastic decide which lines changed while Git keeps formatting, blame, and log -L.
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A show-branch refactoring drew sharp criticism after buggy revisions and chatbot-style mail suggested little human review.
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