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-rw-r--r--Documentation/CodingGuidelines12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.3.txt7
-rwxr-xr-xcontrib/hooks/post-receive-email7
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 483008699f..45577117c2 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -35,10 +35,22 @@ For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive):
- Case arms are indented at the same depth as case and esac lines.
+ - Redirection operators should be written with space before, but no
+ space after them. In other words, write 'echo test >"$file"'
+ instead of 'echo test> $file' or 'echo test > $file'. Note that
+ even though it is not required by POSIX to double-quote the
+ redirection target in a variable (as shown above), our code does so
+ because some versions of bash issue a warning without the quotes.
+
- We prefer $( ... ) for command substitution; unlike ``, it
properly nests. It should have been the way Bourne spelled
it from day one, but unfortunately isn't.
+ - If you want to find out if a command is available on the user's
+ $PATH, you should use 'type <command>', instead of 'which <command>'.
+ The output of 'which' is not machine parseable and its exit code
+ is not reliable across platforms.
+
- We use POSIX compliant parameter substitutions and avoid bashisms;
namely:
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.3.txt
index 1d03fd10c0..d7be177681 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.3.txt
@@ -14,4 +14,11 @@ Fixes since v1.7.9.2
* "git add --refresh <pathspec>" used to warn about unmerged paths
outside the given pathspec.
+ * The commit log template given with "git merge --edit" did not have
+ a short instructive text like what "git commit" gives.
+
+ * "gitweb" used to drop warnings in the log file when "heads" view is
+ accessed in a repository whose HEAD does not point at a valid
+ branch.
+
Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
index ba077c13f9..01af9df15e 100755
--- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
+++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ prep_for_email()
oldrev=$(git rev-parse $1)
newrev=$(git rev-parse $2)
refname="$3"
- maxlines=$4
# --- Interpret
# 0000->1234 (create)
@@ -461,7 +460,7 @@ generate_delete_branch_email()
{
echo " was $oldrev"
echo ""
- echo $LOGEND
+ echo $LOGBEGIN
git show -s --pretty=oneline $oldrev
echo $LOGEND
}
@@ -561,7 +560,7 @@ generate_delete_atag_email()
{
echo " was $oldrev"
echo ""
- echo $LOGEND
+ echo $LOGBEGIN
git show -s --pretty=oneline $oldrev
echo $LOGEND
}
@@ -626,7 +625,7 @@ generate_delete_general_email()
{
echo " was $oldrev"
echo ""
- echo $LOGEND
+ echo $LOGBEGIN
git show -s --pretty=oneline $oldrev
echo $LOGEND
}