fa8d4d9128c35de0fe715f2e2b99269d23c09cc1 scripted-diff: Clarify CheckFinalTxAtTip name (MarcoFalke) fa4e30b0f36f2e7a09db7d30dca9008ed9dbcb35 policy: Remove unused locktime flags (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: The locktime flags have many issues: * They are passed in by a default argument, which is fragile. It has already lead to bugs like the one fixed in commit e30b6ea194fee3bb95a45e7b732a99566b88f1f5. * They are negative (signed), which doesn't make sense for flags (unsigned in general). According to the review comments when the code was added: "The max on the flags is a fairly weird operation." (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6566#issuecomment-150310861) * No call site relies on the default argument and they all pass in a single compile-time constant, rendering most of the code dead and untested. * The dead code calls `GetAdjustedTime` (network adjusted time), which has its own issues. See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/4521 Fix all issues by removing them ACKs for top commit: ajtowns: ACK fa8d4d9128c35de0fe715f2e2b99269d23c09cc1 theStack: Code-review ACK fa8d4d9128c35de0fe715f2e2b99269d23c09cc1 glozow: ACK fa8d4d9128c35de0fe715f2e2b99269d23c09cc1, agree the default arg `flags` is a massive footgun and just setting max flags is weird. Adding `AtTip` to the names makes sense to me, since they're both testing for *next* block and only ever used for {,re}addition to mempool. Tree-SHA512: 79f4a52f34909eb598d88bbae7afe8abe5f85f45c128483d16aa83dacd0e5579e561b725d01b1e9a931d1821012a51ad2bc6fb2867f8d09ee541f9d234d696f8
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.
For more information read the original Bitcoin whitepaper.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development Process
The master
branch is regularly built (see doc/build-*.md
for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui repository is used exclusively for the development of the GUI. Its master branch is identical in all monotree repositories. Release branches and tags do not exist, so please do not fork that repository unless it is for development reasons.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
Testing
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
(assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check
. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The CI (Continuous Integration) systems make sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Translations
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.
Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.