Merge branch 'master' (early part) into pd/bash-4-completion

* 'master' (early part): (529 commits)
  completion: fix zsh check under bash with 'set -u'
  Fix copy-pasted comments related to tree diff handling.
  Git 1.7.3.2
  {cvs,svn}import: use the new 'git read-tree --empty'
  t/t9001-send-email.sh: fix stderr redirection in 'Invalid In-Reply-To'
  Clarify and extend the "git diff" format documentation
  git-show-ref.txt: clarify the pattern matching
  documentation: git-config minor cleanups
  Update test script annotate-tests.sh to handle missing/extra authors
  Better advice on using topic branches for kernel development
  Documentation: update implicit "--no-index" behavior in "git diff"
  Documentation: expand 'git diff' SEE ALSO section
  Documentation: diff can compare blobs
  Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7
  fast-import: Allow filemodify to set the root
  shell portability: no "export VAR=VAL"
  CodingGuidelines: reword parameter expansion section
  Documentation: update-index: -z applies also to --index-info
  gitweb: Improve behavior for actionless path_info gitweb URLs
  gitweb: Fix bug in evaluate_path_info
  ...

Conflicts:
	GIT-VERSION-GEN
	RelNotes
	contrib/completion/git-completion.bash

1 files changed, 48 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 564586b943..c80ca5da43 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -62,14 +62,21 @@ consults `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file (which has the highest
 precedence), `.gitattributes` file in the same directory as the
 path in question, and its parent directories up to the toplevel of the
 work tree (the further the directory that contains `.gitattributes`
-is from the path in question, the lower its precedence).
+is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). Finally
+global and system-wide files are considered (they have the lowest
+precedence).
 
 If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign
-attributes to files that are particular to one user's workflow), then
+attributes to files that are particular to
+one user's workflow for that repository), then
 attributes should be placed in the `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file.
 Attributes which should be version-controlled and distributed to other
 repositories (i.e., attributes of interest to all users) should go into
-`.gitattributes` files.
+`.gitattributes` files. Attributes that should affect all repositories
+for a single user should be placed in a file specified by the
+`core.attributesfile` configuration option (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
+Attributes for all users on a system should be placed in the
+`$(prefix)/etc/gitattributes` file.
 
 Sometimes you would need to override an setting of an attribute
 for a path to `unspecified` state.  This can be done by listing
@@ -317,6 +324,17 @@ command is "cat").
 	smudge = cat
 ------------------------
 
+For best results, `clean` should not alter its output further if it is
+run twice ("clean->clean" should be equivalent to "clean"), and
+multiple `smudge` commands should not alter `clean`'s output
+("smudge->smudge->clean" should be equivalent to "clean").  See the
+section on merging below.
+
+The "indent" filter is well-behaved in this regard: it will not modify
+input that is already correctly indented.  In this case, the lack of a
+smudge filter means that the clean filter _must_ accept its own output
+without modifying it.
+
 
 Interaction between checkin/checkout attributes
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -331,6 +349,29 @@ In the check-out codepath, the blob content is first converted
 with `text`, and then `ident` and fed to `filter`.
 
 
+Merging branches with differing checkin/checkout attributes
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+If you have added attributes to a file that cause the canonical
+repository format for that file to change, such as adding a
+clean/smudge filter or text/eol/ident attributes, merging anything
+where the attribute is not in place would normally cause merge
+conflicts.
+
+To prevent these unnecessary merge conflicts, git can be told to run a
+virtual check-out and check-in of all three stages of a file when
+resolving a three-way merge by setting the `merge.renormalize`
+configuration variable.  This prevents changes caused by check-in
+conversion from causing spurious merge conflicts when a converted file
+is merged with an unconverted file.
+
+As long as a "smudge->clean" results in the same output as a "clean"
+even on files that are already smudged, this strategy will
+automatically resolve all filter-related conflicts.  Filters that do
+not act in this way may cause additional merge conflicts that must be
+resolved manually.
+
+
 Generating diff text
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -441,6 +482,10 @@ patterns are available:
 
 - `cpp` suitable for source code in the C and C++ languages.
 
+- `csharp` suitable for source code in the C# language.
+
+- `fortran` suitable for source code in the Fortran language.
+
 - `html` suitable for HTML/XHTML documents.
 
 - `java` suitable for source code in the Java language.