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14fac808bdverify-commits: Mention git v2.38.0 requirement (Andrew Chow)bb86887527verify-commits: Skip checks for commits older than trusted roots (Andrew Chow)5497c14830verify-commits: Use merge-tree in clean merge check (Andrew Chow)76923bfa09verify-commits: Remove all allowed commit exceptions (Andrew Chow)53b07b2b47verify-commits: Move trusted-keys valid sig check into verify-commits itself (Andrew Chow) Pull request description: Currently the `verify-commits.py` script does not work well with maintainers giving up their commit access. If a key is removed from `trusted-keys`, any commits it signed previously will fail to verify, however keys cannot be kept in the list as it would allow that person to continue to push new commits. Furthermore, the `trusted-keys` used depends on the working tree which `verify-commits.py` itself may be modifying. When the script is run, the `trusted-keys` may be the one that is intended to be used, but the script may change the tree to a different commit with a different `trusted-keys` and use that instead! To resolve these issues, I've updated `verify-commits.py` to load the `trusted-keys` file and check the keys itself rather than delegating that to `gpg.sh` (which previously read in `trusted-keys`). This avoids the issue with the tree changing. I've also updated the script so that it stops modifying the tree. It would do this for the clean merge check where it would checkout each individual commit and attempt to reapply the merges, and then checking out the commit given as a cli arg. `git merge-tree` lets us do basically that but without modifying the tree. It will give us the object id for the resulting tree which we can compare against the object id of the tree in the merge commit in question. This also appears to be quite a bit faster. Lastly I've removed all of the exception commits in `allow-revsig-commits`, `allow-incorrect-sha512-commits`, and `allow-unclean-merge-commits` since all of these predate the commits in `trusted-git-root` and `trusted-sha512-root`. I've also updated the script to skip verification of commits that predate `trusted-git-root`, and skip sha512 verification for those that predate `trusted-sha512-root`. ACKs for top commit: Sjors: ACK14fac808bdglozow: Concept ACK14fac808bdTree-SHA512: f9b0c6e1f1aecb169cdd6c833b8871b15e31c2374dc589858df0523659b294220d327481cc36dd0f92e9040d868eee6a8a68502f3163e05fa751f9fc2fa8832a
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
What is Bitcoin Core?
Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions. It also includes a wallet and graphical user interface, which can be optionally built.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
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.