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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/index-format.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt | 40 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt | 8 |
5 files changed, 48 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt index e8f1ef1113..0be2b5159f 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ The parse-options API allows: * Boolean long options can be 'negated' (or 'unset') by prepending `no-`, e.g. `--no-abbrev` instead of `--abbrev`. Conversely, options that begin with `no-` can be 'negated' by removing it. + Other long options can be unset (e.g., set string to NULL, set + integer to 0) by prepending `no-`. * Options and non-option arguments can clearly be separated using the `--` option, e.g. `-a -b --option -- --this-is-a-file` indicates that @@ -174,6 +176,10 @@ There are some macros to easily define options: Introduce an option with date argument, see `approxidate()`. The timestamp is put into `int_var`. +`OPT_EXPIRY_DATE(short, long, &int_var, description)`:: + Introduce an option with expiry date argument, see `parse_expiry_date()`. + The timestamp is put into `int_var`. + `OPT_CALLBACK(short, long, &var, arg_str, description, func_ptr)`:: Introduce an option with argument. The argument will be fed into the function given by `func_ptr` diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt index b7d0d9a8a7..55b878ade8 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ function. `reset_revision_walk`:: Reset the flags used by the revision walking api. You can use - this to do multiple sequencial revision walks. + this to do multiple sequential revision walks. Data structures --------------- diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt index 0810251f5a..f352a9b22e 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Git index format A conflict is represented in the index as a set of higher stage entries. When a conflict is resolved (e.g. with "git add path"), these higher - stage entries will be removed and a stage-0 entry with proper resoluton + stage entries will be removed and a stage-0 entry with proper resolution is added. When these higher stage entries are removed, they are saved in the diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt index b15517fa06..fd8ffa5df3 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt @@ -18,11 +18,12 @@ was sent. Server MUST NOT ignore capabilities that client requested and server advertised. As a consequence of these rules, server MUST NOT advertise capabilities it does not understand. -The 'report-status' and 'delete-refs' capabilities are sent and +The 'report-status', 'delete-refs', and 'quiet' capabilities are sent and recognized by the receive-pack (push to server) process. -The 'ofs-delta' capability is sent and recognized by both upload-pack -and receive-pack protocols. +The 'ofs-delta' and 'side-band-64k' capabilities are sent and recognized +by both upload-pack and receive-pack protocols. The 'agent' capability +may optionally be sent in both protocols. All other capabilities are only recognized by the upload-pack (fetch from server) process. @@ -123,6 +124,20 @@ Server can send, and client understand PACKv2 with delta referring to its base by position in pack rather than by an obj-id. That is, they can send/read OBJ_OFS_DELTA (aka type 6) in a packfile. +agent +----- + +The server may optionally send a capability of the form `agent=X` to +notify the client that the server is running version `X`. The client may +optionally return its own agent string by responding with an `agent=Y` +capability (but it MUST NOT do so if the server did not mention the +agent capability). The `X` and `Y` strings may contain any printable +ASCII characters except space (i.e., the byte range 32 < x < 127), and +are typically of the form "package/version" (e.g., "git/1.8.3.1"). The +agent strings are purely informative for statistics and debugging +purposes, and MUST NOT be used to programatically assume the presence +or absence of particular features. + shallow ------- @@ -168,7 +183,7 @@ of whether or not there are tags available. report-status ------------- -The upload-pack process can receive a 'report-status' capability, +The receive-pack process can receive a 'report-status' capability, which tells it that the client wants a report of what happened after a packfile upload and reference update. If the pushing client requests this capability, after unpacking and updating references the server @@ -185,3 +200,20 @@ it is capable of accepting a zero-id value as the target value of a reference update. It is not sent back by the client, it simply informs the client that it can be sent zero-id values to delete references. + +quiet +----- + +If the receive-pack server advertises the 'quiet' capability, it is +capable of silencing human-readable progress output which otherwise may +be shown when processing the received pack. A send-pack client should +respond with the 'quiet' capability to suppress server-side progress +reporting if the local progress reporting is also being suppressed +(e.g., via `push -q`, or if stderr does not go to a tty). + +allow-tip-sha1-in-want +---------------------- + +If the upload-pack server advertises this capability, fetch-pack may +send "want" lines with SHA-1s that exist at the server but are not +advertised by upload-pack. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt index 6dc82ca5a8..242a044db9 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ because in-core timestamps can have finer granularity than on-disk timestamps, resulting in meaningless changes when an inode is evicted from the inode cache. See commit 8ce13b0 of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git -([PATCH] Sync in core time granuality with filesystems, +([PATCH] Sync in core time granularity with filesystems, 2005-01-04). Racy Git @@ -135,9 +135,9 @@ them, and give the same timestamp to the index file: $ git ls-files | git update-index --stdin $ touch -r .datestamp .git/index -This will make all index entries racily clean. The linux-2.6 -project, for example, there are over 20,000 files in the working -tree. On my Athlon 64 X2 3800+, after the above: +This will make all index entries racily clean. The linux project, for +example, there are over 20,000 files in the working tree. On my +Athlon 64 X2 3800+, after the above: $ /usr/bin/time git diff-files 1.68user 0.54system 0:02.22elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k |