Merge commit 'b319ef7' into jc/maint-fix-test-perm

* commit 'b319ef7': (8132 commits)
  Add a small patch-mode testing library
  git-apply--interactive: Refactor patch mode code
  t8005: Nobody writes Russian in shift_jis
  Fix severe breakage in "git-apply --whitespace=fix"
  Update release notes for 1.6.4
  After renaming a section, print any trailing variable definitions
  Make section_name_match start on '[', and return the length on success
  send-email: detect cycles in alias expansion
  Show the presence of untracked files in the bash prompt.
  SunOS grep does not understand -C<n> nor -e
  Fix export_marks() error handling.
  git repack: keep commits hidden by a graft
  Add a test showing that 'git repack' throws away grafted-away parents
  git branch: clean up detached branch handling
  git branch: avoid unnecessary object lookups
  git branch: fix performance problem
  git svn: fix shallow clone when upstream revision is too new
  do_one_ref(): null_sha1 check is not about broken ref
  configure.ac: properly unset NEEDS_SSL_WITH_CRYPTO when sha1 func is missing
  janitor: useless checks before free
  ...

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index f49b0d944c..8dc873fd44 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -7,14 +7,16 @@ git-for-each-ref - Output information on each ref
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-for-each-ref' [--count=<count>]\* [--shell|--perl|--python|--tcl] [--sort=<key>]\* [--format=<format>] [<pattern>]
+[verse]
+'git for-each-ref' [--count=<count>] [--shell|--perl|--python|--tcl]
+		   [--sort=<key>]\* [--format=<format>] [<pattern>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 
 Iterate over all refs that match `<pattern>` and show them
 according to the given `<format>`, after sorting them according
-to the given set of `<key>`.  If `<max>` is given, stop after
+to the given set of `<key>`.  If `<count>` is given, stop after
 showing that many refs.  The interpolated values in `<format>`
 can optionally be quoted as string literals in the specified
 host language allowing their direct evaluation in that language.
@@ -29,8 +31,9 @@ OPTIONS
 <key>::
 	A field name to sort on.  Prefix `-` to sort in
 	descending order of the value.  When unspecified,
-	`refname` is used.  More than one sort keys can be
-	given.
+	`refname` is used.  You may use the --sort=<key> option
+	multiple times, in which case the last key becomes the primary
+	key.
 
 <format>::
 	A string that interpolates `%(fieldname)` from the
@@ -44,12 +47,16 @@ OPTIONS
 	`xx`; for example `%00` interpolates to `\0` (NUL),
 	`%09` to `\t` (TAB) and `%0a` to `\n` (LF).
 
-<pattern>::
-	If given, the name of the ref is matched against this
-	using fnmatch(3).  Refs that do not match the pattern
-	are not shown.
+<pattern>...::
+	If one or more patterns are given, only refs are shown that
+	match against at least one pattern, either using fnmatch(3) or
+	literally, in the latter case matching completely or from the
+	beginning up to a slash.
 
---shell, --perl, --python, --tcl::
+--shell::
+--perl::
+--python::
+--tcl::
 	If given, strings that substitute `%(fieldname)`
 	placeholders are quoted as string literals suitable for
 	the specified host language.  This is meant to produce
@@ -67,16 +74,24 @@ For all objects, the following names can be used:
 
 refname::
 	The name of the ref (the part after $GIT_DIR/).
+	For a non-ambiguous short name of the ref append `:short`.
+	The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict
+	abbreviation mode.
 
 objecttype::
 	The type of the object (`blob`, `tree`, `commit`, `tag`).
 
 objectsize::
-	The size of the object (the same as `git-cat-file -s` reports).
+	The size of the object (the same as 'git-cat-file -s' reports).
 
 objectname::
 	The object name (aka SHA-1).
 
+upstream::
+	The name of a local ref which can be considered ``upstream''
+	from the displayed ref. Respects `:short` in the same way as
+	`refname` above.
+
 In addition to the above, for commit and tag objects, the header
 field names (`tree`, `parent`, `object`, `type`, and `tag`) can
 be used to specify the value in the header field.
@@ -97,6 +112,11 @@ In any case, a field name that refers to a field inapplicable to
 the object referred by the ref does not cause an error.  It
 returns an empty string instead.
 
+As a special case for the date-type fields, you may specify a format for
+the date by adding one of `:default`, `:relative`, `:short`, `:local`,
+`:iso8601` or `:rfc2822` to the end of the fieldname; e.g.
+`%(taggerdate:relative)`.
+
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
@@ -107,7 +127,7 @@ An example directly producing formatted text.  Show the most recent
 ------------
 #!/bin/sh
 
-git-for-each-ref --count=3 --sort='-*authordate' \
+git for-each-ref --count=3 --sort='-*authordate' \
 --format='From: %(*authorname) %(*authoremail)
 Subject: %(*subject)
 Date: %(*authordate)
@@ -123,7 +143,7 @@ demonstrating the use of --shell.  List the prefixes of all heads::
 ------------
 #!/bin/sh
 
-git-for-each-ref --shell --format="ref=%(refname)" refs/heads | \
+git for-each-ref --shell --format="ref=%(refname)" refs/heads | \
 while read entry
 do
 	eval "$entry"
@@ -177,7 +197,7 @@ Its message reads as:
 	fi
 '
 
-eval=`git-for-each-ref --shell --format="$fmt" \
+eval=`git for-each-ref --shell --format="$fmt" \
 	--sort='*objecttype' \
 	--sort=-taggerdate \
 	refs/tags`