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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
211 files changed, 11537 insertions, 2756 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/.gitignore b/Documentation/.gitignore index 2c8b2d612e..c7096f11f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/.gitignore +++ b/Documentation/.gitignore @@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ doc.dep cmds-*.txt mergetools-*.txt manpage-base-url.xsl +SubmittingPatches.txt diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index a4191aa388..48aa4edfbd 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ code. For Git in general, a few rough rules are: "Once it _is_ in the tree, it's not really worth the patch noise to go and fix it up." - Cf. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/943020 + Cf. http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1001.3/01069.html Make your code readable and sensible, and don't try to be clever. @@ -256,12 +256,12 @@ For C programs: Note however that a comment that explains a translatable string to translators uses a convention of starting with a magic token - "TRANSLATORS: " immediately after the opening delimiter, even when - it spans multiple lines. We do not add an asterisk at the beginning - of each line, either. E.g. + "TRANSLATORS: ", e.g. - /* TRANSLATORS: here is a comment that explains the string - to be translated, that follows immediately after it */ + /* + * TRANSLATORS: here is a comment that explains the string to + * be translated, that follows immediately after it. + */ _("Here is a translatable string explained by the above."); - Double negation is often harder to understand than no negation @@ -386,6 +386,11 @@ For C programs: - Use Git's gettext wrappers to make the user interface translatable. See "Marking strings for translation" in po/README. + - Variables and functions local to a given source file should be marked + with "static". Variables that are visible to other source files + must be declared with "extern" in header files. However, function + declarations should not use "extern", as that is already the default. + For Perl programs: - Most of the C guidelines above apply. diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index b43d66eae6..d079d7c73a 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ MAN7_TXT += giteveryday.txt MAN7_TXT += gitglossary.txt MAN7_TXT += gitnamespaces.txt MAN7_TXT += gitrevisions.txt +MAN7_TXT += gitsubmodules.txt MAN7_TXT += gittutorial-2.txt MAN7_TXT += gittutorial.txt MAN7_TXT += gitworkflows.txt @@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ MAN7_TXT += gitworkflows.txt MAN_TXT = $(MAN1_TXT) $(MAN5_TXT) $(MAN7_TXT) MAN_XML = $(patsubst %.txt,%.xml,$(MAN_TXT)) MAN_HTML = $(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(MAN_TXT)) +GIT_MAN_REF = master OBSOLETE_HTML += everyday.html OBSOLETE_HTML += git-remote-helpers.html @@ -66,13 +68,17 @@ SP_ARTICLES += howto/maintain-git API_DOCS = $(patsubst %.txt,%,$(filter-out technical/api-index-skel.txt technical/api-index.txt, $(wildcard technical/api-*.txt))) SP_ARTICLES += $(API_DOCS) +TECH_DOCS += SubmittingPatches +TECH_DOCS += technical/hash-function-transition TECH_DOCS += technical/http-protocol TECH_DOCS += technical/index-format +TECH_DOCS += technical/long-running-process-protocol TECH_DOCS += technical/pack-format TECH_DOCS += technical/pack-heuristics TECH_DOCS += technical/pack-protocol TECH_DOCS += technical/protocol-capabilities TECH_DOCS += technical/protocol-common +TECH_DOCS += technical/protocol-v2 TECH_DOCS += technical/racy-git TECH_DOCS += technical/send-pack-pipeline TECH_DOCS += technical/shallow @@ -120,6 +126,7 @@ INSTALL_INFO = install-info DOCBOOK2X_TEXI = docbook2x-texi DBLATEX = dblatex ASCIIDOC_DBLATEX_DIR = /etc/asciidoc/dblatex +DBLATEX_COMMON = -p $(ASCIIDOC_DBLATEX_DIR)/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl -s $(ASCIIDOC_DBLATEX_DIR)/asciidoc-dblatex.sty ifndef PERL_PATH PERL_PATH = /usr/bin/perl endif @@ -173,6 +180,17 @@ ifdef GNU_ROFF XMLTO_EXTRA += -m manpage-quote-apos.xsl endif +ifdef USE_ASCIIDOCTOR +ASCIIDOC = asciidoctor +ASCIIDOC_CONF = +ASCIIDOC_HTML = xhtml5 +ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK = docbook45 +ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -acompat-mode -atabsize=8 +ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -I. -rasciidoctor-extensions +ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -alitdd='&\#x2d;&\#x2d;' +DBLATEX_COMMON = +endif + SHELL_PATH ?= $(SHELL) # Shell quote; SHELL_PATH_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(SHELL_PATH)) @@ -310,6 +328,7 @@ clean: $(RM) *.pdf $(RM) howto-index.txt howto/*.html doc.dep $(RM) technical/*.html technical/api-index.txt + $(RM) SubmittingPatches.txt $(RM) $(cmds_txt) $(mergetools_txt) *.made $(RM) manpage-base-url.xsl @@ -337,7 +356,7 @@ manpage-base-url.xsl: manpage-base-url.xsl.in user-manual.xml: user-manual.txt user-manual.conf $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \ - $(TXT_TO_XML) -d article -o $@+ $< && \ + $(TXT_TO_XML) -d book -o $@+ $< && \ mv $@+ $@ technical/api-index.txt: technical/api-index-skel.txt \ @@ -348,6 +367,9 @@ technical/%.html: ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-relative-html-prefix=../ $(patsubst %,%.html,$(API_DOCS) technical/api-index $(TECH_DOCS)): %.html : %.txt asciidoc.conf $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(TXT_TO_HTML) $*.txt +SubmittingPatches.txt: SubmittingPatches + $(QUIET_GEN) cp $< $@ + XSLT = docbook.xsl XSLTOPTS = --xinclude --stringparam html.stylesheet docbook-xsl.css @@ -368,13 +390,14 @@ user-manual.texi: user-manual.xml user-manual.pdf: user-manual.xml $(QUIET_DBLATEX)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \ - $(DBLATEX) -o $@+ -p $(ASCIIDOC_DBLATEX_DIR)/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl -s $(ASCIIDOC_DBLATEX_DIR)/asciidoc-dblatex.sty $< && \ + $(DBLATEX) -o $@+ $(DBLATEX_COMMON) $< && \ mv $@+ $@ -gitman.texi: $(MAN_XML) cat-texi.perl +gitman.texi: $(MAN_XML) cat-texi.perl texi.xsl $(QUIET_DB2TEXI)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \ - ($(foreach xml,$(MAN_XML),$(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --encoding=UTF-8 \ - --to-stdout $(xml) &&) true) > $@++ && \ + ($(foreach xml,$(sort $(MAN_XML)),xsltproc -o $(xml)+ texi.xsl $(xml) && \ + $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --encoding=UTF-8 --to-stdout $(xml)+ && \ + rm $(xml)+ &&) true) > $@++ && \ $(PERL_PATH) cat-texi.perl $@ <$@++ >$@+ && \ rm $@++ && \ mv $@+ $@ @@ -417,14 +440,14 @@ require-manrepo:: then echo "git-manpages repository must exist at $(MAN_REPO)"; exit 1; fi quick-install-man: require-manrepo - '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./install-doc-quick.sh $(MAN_REPO) $(DESTDIR)$(mandir) + '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./install-doc-quick.sh $(MAN_REPO) $(DESTDIR)$(mandir) $(GIT_MAN_REF) require-htmlrepo:: @if test ! -d $(HTML_REPO); \ then echo "git-htmldocs repository must exist at $(HTML_REPO)"; exit 1; fi quick-install-html: require-htmlrepo - '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./install-doc-quick.sh $(HTML_REPO) $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir) + '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./install-doc-quick.sh $(HTML_REPO) $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir) $(GIT_MAN_REF) print-man1: @for i in $(MAN1_TXT); do echo $$i; done diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt index be68524cff..71a86cb7c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.10 * The 'push to upstream' implementation was broken in some corner cases. "git push $there" without refspec, when the current branch is set to push to a remote different from $there, used to push to - $there using the upstream information to a remote unreleated to + $there using the upstream information to a remote unrelated to $there. * Giving "--continue" to a conflicted "rebase -i" session skipped a diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt index e7e79d999b..e743a2a8e4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.11.6 references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f". - * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort + * "git for-each-ref" did not correctly support more than one --sort option. * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ef8b97da9b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,500 @@ +Git 2.12 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes. + + * Use of an empty string that is used for 'everything matches' is + still warned and Git asks users to use a more explicit '.' for that + instead. The hope is that existing users will not mind this + change, and eventually the warning can be turned into a hard error, + upgrading the deprecation into removal of this (mis)feature. That + is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming release (yet). + + * The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..." + has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in a + future release. + + * An ancient script "git relink" has been removed. + + +Updates since v2.11 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Various updates to "git p4". + + * "git p4" didn't interact with the internal of .git directory + correctly in the modern "git-worktree"-enabled world. + + * "git branch --list" and friends learned "--ignore-case" option to + optionally sort branches and tags case insensitively. + + * In addition to %(subject), %(body), "log --pretty=format:..." + learned a new placeholder %(trailers). + + * "git rebase" learned "--quit" option, which allows a user to + remove the metadata left by an earlier "git rebase" that was + manually aborted without using "git rebase --abort". + + * "git clone --reference $there --recurse-submodules $super" has been + taught to guess repositories usable as references for submodules of + $super that are embedded in $there while making a clone of the + superproject borrow objects from $there; extend the mechanism to + also allow submodules of these submodules to borrow repositories + embedded in these clones of the submodules embedded in the clone of + the superproject. + + * Porcelain scripts written in Perl are getting internationalized. + + * "git merge --continue" has been added as a synonym to "git commit" + to conclude a merge that has stopped due to conflicts. + + * Finer-grained control of what protocols are allowed for transports + during clone/fetch/push have been enabled via a new configuration + mechanism. + + * "git shortlog" learned "--committer" option to group commits by + committer, instead of author. + + * GitLFS integration with "git p4" has been updated. + + * The isatty() emulation for Windows has been updated to eradicate + the previous hack that depended on internals of (older) MSVC + runtime. + + * Some platforms no longer understand "latin-1" that is still seen in + the wild in e-mail headers; replace them with "iso-8859-1" that is + more widely known when conversion fails from/to it. + + * "git grep" has been taught to optionally recurse into submodules. + + * "git rm" used to refuse to remove a submodule when it has its own + git repository embedded in its working tree. It learned to move + the repository away to $GIT_DIR/modules/ of the superproject + instead, and allow the submodule to be deleted (as long as there + will be no loss of local modifications, that is). + + * A recent updates to "git p4" was not usable for older p4 but it + could be made to work with minimum changes. Do so. + + * "git diff" learned diff.interHunkContext configuration variable + that gives the default value for its --inter-hunk-context option. + + * The prereleaseSuffix feature of version comparison that is used in + "git tag -l" did not correctly when two or more prereleases for the + same release were present (e.g. when 2.0, 2.0-beta1, and 2.0-beta2 + are there and the code needs to compare 2.0-beta1 and 2.0-beta2). + + * "git submodule push" learned "--recurse-submodules=only option to + push submodules out without pushing the top-level superproject. + + * "git tag" and "git verify-tag" learned to put GPG verification + status in their "--format=<placeholders>" output format. + + * An ancient repository conversion tool left in contrib/ has been + removed. + + * "git show-ref HEAD" used with "--verify" because the user is not + interested in seeing refs/remotes/origin/HEAD, and used with + "--head" because the user does not want HEAD to be filtered out, + i.e. "git show-ref --head --verify HEAD", did not work as expected. + + * "git submodule add" used to be confused and refused to add a + locally created repository; users can now use "--force" option + to add them. + (merge 619acfc78c sb/submodule-add-force later to maint). + + * Some people feel the default set of colors used by "git log --graph" + rather limiting. A mechanism to customize the set of colors has + been introduced. + + * "git read-tree" and its underlying unpack_trees() machinery learned + to report problematic paths prefixed with the --super-prefix option. + + * When a submodule "A", which has another submodule "B" nested within + it, is "absorbed" into the top-level superproject, the inner + submodule "B" used to be left in a strange state. The logic to + adjust the .git pointers in these submodules has been corrected. + + * The user can specify a custom update method that is run when + "submodule update" updates an already checked out submodule. This + was ignored when checking the submodule out for the first time and + we instead always just checked out the commit that is bound to the + path in the superproject's index. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned that + "git diff --submodule=" can take "diff" as a recently added option. + + * The "core.logAllRefUpdates" that used to be boolean has been + enhanced to take 'always' as well, to record ref updates to refs + other than the ones that are expected to be updated (i.e. branches, + remote-tracking branches and notes). + + * Comes with more command line completion (in contrib/) for recently + introduced options. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Commands that operate on a log message and add lines to the trailer + blocks, such as "format-patch -s", "cherry-pick (-x|-s)", and + "commit -s", have been taught to use the logic of and share the + code with "git interpret-trailer". + + * The default Travis-CI configuration specifies newer P4 and GitLFS. + + * The "fast hash" that had disastrous performance issues in some + corner cases has been retired from the internal diff. + + * The character width table has been updated to match Unicode 9.0 + + * Update the procedure to generate "tags" for developer support. + + * The codeflow of setting NOATIME and CLOEXEC on file descriptors Git + opens has been simplified. + + * "git diff" and its family had two experimental heuristics to shift + the contents of a hunk to make the patch easier to read. One of + them turns out to be better than the other, so leave only the + "--indent-heuristic" option and remove the other one. + + * A new submodule helper "git submodule embedgitdirs" to make it + easier to move embedded .git/ directory for submodules in a + superproject to .git/modules/ (and point the latter with the former + that is turned into a "gitdir:" file) has been added. + + * "git push \\server\share\dir" has recently regressed and then + fixed. A test has retroactively been added for this breakage. + + * Build updates for Cygwin. + + * The implementation of "real_path()" was to go there with chdir(2) + and call getcwd(3), but this obviously wouldn't be usable in a + threaded environment. Rewrite it to manually resolve relative + paths including symbolic links in path components. + + * Adjust documentation to help AsciiDoctor render better while not + breaking the rendering done by AsciiDoc. + + * The sequencer machinery has been further enhanced so that a later + set of patches can start using it to reimplement "rebase -i". + + * Update the definition of the MacOSX test environment used by + TravisCI. + + * Rewrite a scripted porcelain "git difftool" in C. + + * "make -C t failed" will now run only the tests that failed in the + previous run. This is usable only when prove is not use, and gives + a useless error message when run after "make clean", but otherwise + is serviceable. + + * "uchar [40]" to "struct object_id" conversion continues. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + +Fixes since v2.10 +----------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.9 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * We often decide if a session is interactive by checking if the + standard I/O streams are connected to a TTY, but isatty() that + comes with Windows incorrectly returned true if it is used on NUL + (i.e. an equivalent to /dev/null). This has been fixed. + + * "git svn" did not work well with path components that are "0", and + some configuration variable it uses were not documented. + + * "git rev-parse --symbolic" failed with a more recent notation like + "HEAD^-1" and "HEAD^!". + + * An empty directory in a working tree that can simply be nuked used + to interfere while merging or cherry-picking a change to create a + submodule directory there, which has been fixed.. + + * The code in "git push" to compute if any commit being pushed in the + superproject binds a commit in a submodule that hasn't been pushed + out was overly inefficient, making it unusable even for a small + project that does not have any submodule but have a reasonable + number of refs. + + * "git push --dry-run --recurse-submodule=on-demand" wasn't + "--dry-run" in the submodules. + + * The output from "git worktree list" was made in readdir() order, + and was unstable. + + * mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode configuration variable did not apply + to built-in tools, but now it does. + + * "git p4" LFS support was broken when LFS stores an empty blob. + + * A corner case in merge-recursive regression that crept in + during 2.10 development cycle has been fixed. + + * Transport with dumb http can be fooled into following foreign URLs + that the end user does not intend to, especially with the server + side redirects and http-alternates mechanism, which can lead to + security issues. Tighten the redirection and make it more obvious + to the end user when it happens. + + * Update the error messages from the dumb-http client when it fails + to obtain loose objects; we used to give sensible error message + only upon 404 but we now forbid unexpected redirects that needs to + be reported with something sensible. + + * When diff.renames configuration is on (and with Git 2.9 and later, + it is enabled by default, which made it worse), "git stash" + misbehaved if a file is removed and another file with a very + similar content is added. + + * "git diff --no-index" did not take "--no-abbrev" option. + + * "git difftool --dir-diff" had a minor regression when started from + a subdirectory, which has been fixed. + + * "git commit --allow-empty --only" (no pathspec) with dirty index + ought to be an acceptable way to create a new commit that does not + change any paths, but it was forbidden, perhaps because nobody + needed it so far. + + * Git 2.11 had a minor regression in "merge --ff-only" that competed + with another process that simultaneously attempted to update the + index. We used to explain what went wrong with an error message, + but the new code silently failed. The error message has been + resurrected. + + * A pathname that begins with "//" or "\\" on Windows is special but + path normalization logic was unaware of it. + + * "git pull --rebase", when there is no new commits on our side since + we forked from the upstream, should be able to fast-forward without + invoking "git rebase", but it didn't. + + * The way to specify hotkeys to "xxdiff" that is used by "git + mergetool" has been modernized to match recent versions of xxdiff. + + * Unlike "git am --abort", "git cherry-pick --abort" moved HEAD back + to where cherry-pick started while picking multiple changes, when + the cherry-pick stopped to ask for help from the user, and the user + did "git reset --hard" to a different commit in order to re-attempt + the operation. + + * Code cleanup in shallow boundary computation. + + * A recent update to receive-pack to make it easier to drop garbage + objects made it clear that GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES cannot + have a pathname with a colon in it (no surprise!), and this in turn + made it impossible to push into a repository at such a path. This + has been fixed by introducing a quoting mechanism used when + appending such a path to the colon-separated list. + + * The function usage_msg_opt() has been updated to say "fatal:" + before the custom message programs give, when they want to die + with a message about wrong command line options followed by the + standard usage string. + + * "git index-pack --stdin" needs an access to an existing repository, + but "git index-pack file.pack" to generate an .idx file that + corresponds to a packfile does not. + + * Fix for NDEBUG builds. + + * A lazy "git push" without refspec did not internally use a fully + specified refspec to perform 'current', 'simple', or 'upstream' + push, causing unnecessary "ambiguous ref" errors. + + * "git p4" misbehaved when swapping a directory and a symbolic link. + + * Even though an fix was attempted in Git 2.9.3 days, but running + "git difftool --dir-diff" from a subdirectory never worked. This + has been fixed. + + * "git p4" that tracks multile p4 paths imported a single changelist + that touches files in these multiple paths as one commit, followed + by many empty commits. This has been fixed. + + * A potential but unlikely buffer overflow in Windows port has been + fixed. + + * When the http server gives an incomplete response to a smart-http + rpc call, it could lead to client waiting for a full response that + will never come. Teach the client side to notice this condition + and abort the transfer. + + * Compression setting for producing packfiles were spread across + three codepaths, one of which did not honor any configuration. + Unify these so that all of them honor core.compression and + pack.compression variables the same way. + + * "git fast-import" sometimes mishandled while rebalancing notes + tree, which has been fixed. + + * Recent update to the default abbreviation length that auto-scales + lacked documentation update, which has been corrected. + + * Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed. + + * It is natural that "git gc --auto" may not attempt to pack + everything into a single pack, and there is no point in warning + when the user has configured the system to use the pack bitmap, + leading to disabling further "gc". + + * "git archive" did not read the standard configuration files, and + failed to notice a file that is marked as binary via the userdiff + driver configuration. + + * "git blame --porcelain" misidentified the "previous" <commit, path> + pair (aka "source") when contents came from two or more files. + + * "git rebase -i" with a recent update started showing an incorrect + count when squashing more than 10 commits. + + * "git <cmd> @{push}" on a detached HEAD used to segfault; it has + been corrected to error out with a message. + + * Running "git add a/b" when "a" is a submodule correctly errored + out, but without a meaningful error message. + (merge 2d81c48fa7 sb/pathspec-errors later to maint). + + * Typing ^C to pager, which usually does not kill it, killed Git and + took the pager down as a collateral damage in certain process-tree + structure. This has been fixed. + + * "git mergetool" without any pathspec on the command line that is + run from a subdirectory became no-op in Git v2.11 by mistake, which + has been fixed. + + * Retire long unused/unmaintained gitview from the contrib/ area. + (merge 3120925c25 sb/remove-gitview later to maint). + + * Tighten a test to avoid mistaking an extended ERE regexp engine as + a PRE regexp engine. + + * An error message with an ASCII control character like '\r' in it + can alter the message to hide its early part, which is problematic + when a remote side gives such an error message that the local side + will relay with a "remote: " prefix. + (merge f290089879 jk/vreport-sanitize later to maint). + + * "git fsck" inspects loose objects more carefully now. + (merge cce044df7f jk/loose-object-fsck later to maint). + + * A crashing bug introduced in v2.11 timeframe has been found (it is + triggerable only in fast-import) and fixed. + (merge abd5a00268 jk/clear-delta-base-cache-fix later to maint). + + * With an anticipatory tweak for remotes defined in ~/.gitconfig + (e.g. "remote.origin.prune" set to true, even though there may or + may not actually be "origin" remote defined in a particular Git + repository), "git remote rename" and other commands misinterpreted + and behaved as if such a non-existing remote actually existed. + (merge e459b073fb js/remote-rename-with-half-configured-remote later to maint). + + * A few codepaths had to rely on a global variable when sorting + elements of an array because sort(3) API does not allow extra data + to be passed to the comparison function. Use qsort_s() when + natively available, and a fallback implementation of it when not, + to eliminate the need, which is a prerequisite for making the + codepath reentrant. + + * "git fsck --connectivity-check" was not working at all. + (merge a2b22854bd jk/fsck-connectivity-check-fix later to maint). + + * After starting "git rebase -i", which first opens the user's editor + to edit the series of patches to apply, but before saving the + contents of that file, "git status" failed to show the current + state (i.e. you are in an interactive rebase session, but you have + applied no steps yet) correctly. + (merge df9ded4984 js/status-pre-rebase-i later to maint). + + * Test tweak for FreeBSD where /usr/bin/unzip is unsuitable to run + our tests but /usr/local/bin/unzip is usable. + (merge d98b2c5fce js/unzip-in-usr-bin-workaround later to maint). + + * "git p4" did not work well with multiple git-p4.mapUser entries on + Windows. + (merge c3c2b05776 gv/mingw-p4-mapuser later to maint). + + * "git help" enumerates executable files in $PATH; the implementation + of "is this file executable?" on Windows has been optimized. + (merge c755015f79 hv/mingw-help-is-executable later to maint). + + * Test tweaks for those who have default ACL in their git source tree + that interfere with the umask test. + (merge d549d21307 mm/reset-facl-before-umask-test later to maint). + + * Names of the various hook scripts must be spelled exactly, but on + Windows, an .exe binary must be named with .exe suffix; notice + $GIT_DIR/hooks/<hookname>.exe as a valid <hookname> hook. + (merge 235be51fbe js/mingw-hooks-with-exe-suffix later to maint). + + * Asciidoctor, an alternative reimplementation of AsciiDoc, still + needs some changes to work with documents meant to be formatted + with AsciiDoc. "make USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=YesPlease" to use it out of + the box to document our pages is getting closer to reality. + + * Correct command line completion (in contrib/) on "git svn" + (merge 2cbad17642 ew/complete-svn-authorship-options later to maint). + + * Incorrect usage help message for "git worktree prune" has been fixed. + (merge 2488dcab22 ps/worktree-prune-help-fix later to maint). + + * Adjust a perf test to new world order where commands that do + require a repository are really strict about having a repository. + (merge c86000c1a7 rs/p5302-create-repositories-before-tests later to maint). + + * "git log --graph" did not work well with "--name-only", even though + other forms of "diff" output were handled correctly. + (merge f5022b5fed jk/log-graph-name-only later to maint). + + * The push-options given via the "--push-options" option were not + passed through to external remote helpers such as "smart HTTP" that + are invoked via the transport helper. + + * The documentation explained what "git stash" does to the working + tree (after stashing away the local changes) in terms of "reset + --hard", which was exposing an unnecessary implementation detail. + (merge 20a7e06172 tg/stash-doc-cleanup later to maint). + + * When "git p4" imports changelist that removes paths, it failed to + convert pathnames when the p4 used encoding different from the one + used on the Git side. This has been corrected. + (merge a8b05162e8 ls/p4-path-encoding later to maint). + + * A new coccinelle rule that catches a check of !pointer before the + pointer is free(3)d, which most likely is a bug. + (merge ec6cd14c7a rs/cocci-check-free-only-null later to maint). + + * "ls-files" run with pathspec has been micro-optimized to avoid + having to memmove(3) unnecessary bytes. + (merge 96f6d3f61a rs/ls-files-partial-optim later to maint). + + * A hotfix for a topic already in 'master'. + (merge a4d92d579f js/mingw-isatty later to maint). + + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. + (merge f2627d9b19 sb/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 384f1a167b sb/unpack-trees-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 874444b704 rh/diff-orderfile-doc later to maint). + (merge eafd5d9483 cw/doc-sign-off later to maint). + (merge 0aaad415bc rs/absolute-pathdup later to maint). + (merge 4432dd6b5b rs/receive-pack-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 540a398e9c sg/mailmap-self later to maint). + (merge 209df269a6 nd/rev-list-all-includes-HEAD-doc later to maint). + (merge 941b9c5270 sb/doc-unify-bottom later to maint). + (merge 2aaf37b62c jk/doc-remote-helpers-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge e91461b332 jk/doc-submodule-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge 8ab9740d9f dp/submodule-doc-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge 0838cbc22f jk/tempfile-ferror-fclose-confusion later to maint). + (merge 115a40add6 dr/doc-check-ref-format-normalize later to maint). + (merge 133f0a299d gp/document-dotfiles-in-templates-are-not-copied later to maint). + (merge 2b35a9f4c7 bc/blame-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 7e82388024 ps/doc-gc-aggressive-depth-update later to maint). + (merge 9993a7c5f1 bc/worktree-doc-fix-detached later to maint). + (merge e519eccdf4 rt/align-add-i-help-text later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a74f7db747 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Git v2.12.1 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.12 +----------------- + + * Reduce authentication round-trip over HTTP when the server supports + just a single authentication method. This also improves the + behaviour when Git is misconfigured to enable http.emptyAuth + against a server that does not authenticate without a username + (i.e. not using Kerberos etc., which makes http.emptyAuth + pointless). + + * Windows port wants to use OpenSSL's implementation of SHA-1 + routines, so let them. + + * Add 32-bit Linux variant to the set of platforms to be tested with + Travis CI. + + * When a redirected http transport gets an error during the + redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server, + and ended up giving a not-so-useful error message. + + * The patch subcommand of "git add -i" was meant to have paths + selection prompt just like other subcommand, unlike "git add -p" + directly jumps to hunk selection. Recently, this was broken and + "add -i" lost the paths selection dialog, but it now has been + fixed. + + * Git v2.12 was shipped with an embarrassing breakage where various + operations that verify paths given from the user stopped dying when + seeing an issue, and instead later triggering segfault. + + * The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there + are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer + has been fixed. + + * The command-line parsing of "git log -L" copied internal data + structures using incorrect size on ILP32 systems. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..441939709c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +Git v2.12.2 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.12.1 +------------------- + + * "git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a + few strings were left as translatable by mistake. + + * "Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates + response, which has been fixed. + + * "git diff --quiet" relies on the size field in diff_filespec to be + correctly populated, but diff_populate_filespec() helper function + made an incorrect short-cut when asked only to populate the size + field for paths that need to go through convert_to_git() (e.g. CRLF + conversion). + + * There is no need for Python only to give a few messages to the + standard error stream, but we somehow did. + + * A leak in a codepath to read from a packed object in (rare) cases + has been plugged. + + * "git upload-pack", which is a counter-part of "git fetch", did not + report a request for a ref that was not advertised as invalid. + This is generally not a problem (because "git fetch" will stop + before making such a request), but is the right thing to do. + + * A "gc.log" file left by a backgrounded "gc --auto" disables further + automatic gc; it has been taught to run at least once a day (by + default) by ignoring a stale "gc.log" file that is too old. + + * "git remote rm X", when a branch has remote X configured as the + value of its branch.*.remote, tried to remove branch.*.remote and + branch.*.merge and failed if either is unset. + + * A caller of tempfile API that uses stdio interface to write to + files may ignore errors while writing, which is detected when + tempfile is closed (with a call to ferror()). By that time, the + original errno that may have told us what went wrong is likely to + be long gone and was overwritten by an irrelevant value. + close_tempfile() now resets errno to EIO to make errno at least + predictable. + + * "git show-branch" expected there were only very short branch names + in the repository and used a fixed-length buffer to hold them + without checking for overflow. + + * The code that parses header fields in the commit object has been + updated for (micro)performance and code hygiene. + + * A test that creates a confusing branch whose name is HEAD has been + corrected not to do so. + + * "Cc:" on the trailer part does not have to conform to RFC strictly, + unlike in the e-mail header. "git send-email" has been updated to + ignore anything after '>' when picking addresses, to allow non-address + cruft like " # stable 4.4" after the address. + + * "git push" had a handful of codepaths that could lead to a deadlock + when unexpected error happened, which has been fixed. + + * Code to read submodule.<name>.ignore config did not state the + variable name correctly when giving an error message diagnosing + misconfiguration. + + * "git ls-remote" and "git archive --remote" are designed to work + without being in a directory under Git's control. However, recent + updates revealed that we randomly look into a directory called + .git/ without actually doing necessary set-up when working in a + repository. Stop doing so. + + * The code to parse the command line "git grep <patterns>... <rev> + [[--] <pathspec>...]" has been cleaned up, and a handful of bugs + have been fixed (e.g. we used to check "--" if it is a rev). + + * The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration + variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have + been fixed. + This supersedes jc/config-case-cmdline topic that has been discarded. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ebca846d5d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +Git v2.12.3 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.12.2 +------------------- + + * The "parse_config_key()" API function has been cleaned up. + + * An helper function to make it easier to append the result from + real_path() to a strbuf has been added. + + * The t/perf performance test suite was not prepared to test not so + old versions of Git, but now it covers versions of Git that are not + so ancient. + + * Picking two versions of Git and running tests to make sure the + older one and the newer one interoperate happily has now become + possible. + + * Teach the "debug" helper used in the test framework that allows a + command to run under "gdb" to make the session interactive. + + * "git repack --depth=<n>" for a long time busted the specified depth + when reusing delta from existing packs. This has been corrected. + + * user.email that consists of only cruft chars should consistently + error out, but didn't. + + * A few tests were run conditionally under (rare) conditions where + they cannot be run (like running cvs tests under 'root' account). + + * "git branch @" created refs/heads/@ as a branch, and in general the + code that handled @{-1} and @{upstream} was a bit too loose in + disambiguating. + + * "git fetch" that requests a commit by object name, when the other + side does not allow such an request, failed without much + explanation. + + * "git filter-branch --prune-empty" drops a single-parent commit that + becomes a no-op, but did not drop a root commit whose tree is empty. + + * Recent versions of Git treats http alternates (used in dumb http + transport) just like HTTP redirects and requires the client to + enable following it, due to security concerns. But we forgot to + give a warning when we decide not to honor the alternates. + + * NO_PTHREADS build has been broken for some time; now fixed. + + * Fix for potential segv introduced in v2.11.0 and later (also + v2.10.2). + + * A few unterminated here documents in tests were fixed, which in + turn revealed incorrect expectations the tests make. These tests + have been updated. + + * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name + begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it + confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with + an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive + pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access + (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3f56938221 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Git v2.12.4 Release Notes +========================= + +This release forward-ports the fix for "ssh://..." URL from Git v2.7.6 diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8fa73cfce7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Git v2.12.5 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.12.4 +------------------- + + * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git daemon" by default, + as it is old and largely unmaintained. + + * Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of + backticks, leaving them susceptible to end-user input. They have + been corrected. + +Credits go to joernchen <joernchen@phenoelit.de> for finding the +unsafe constructs in "git cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for +finding and fixing instances of the same issue in other scripts. + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..aa99d4b3ce --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,618 @@ +Git 2.13 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes. + + * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for + 'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a + more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing + users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be + turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of + this (mis)feature. That is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming + release (yet). + + * The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..." + has been deprecated for quite some time, and is now removed. + + * The default location "~/.git-credential-cache/socket" for the + socket used to communicate with the credential-cache daemon has + been moved to "~/.cache/git/credential/socket". + + * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup + sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that + happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG"). + We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there + might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are + greatly appreciated. + + +Updates since v2.12 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git describe" and "git name-rev" have been taught to take more + than one refname patterns to restrict the set of refs to base their + naming output on, and also learned to take negative patterns to + name refs not to be used for naming via their "--exclude" option. + + * Deletion of a branch "foo/bar" could remove .git/refs/heads/foo + once there no longer is any other branch whose name begins with + "foo/", but we didn't do so so far. Now we do. + + * When "git merge" detects a path that is renamed in one history + while the other history deleted (or modified) it, it now reports + both paths to help the user understand what is going on in the two + histories being merged. + + * The <url> part in "http.<url>.<variable>" configuration variable + can now be spelled with '*' that serves as wildcard. + E.g. "http.https://*.example.com.proxy" can be used to specify the + proxy used for https://a.example.com, https://b.example.com, etc., + i.e. any host in the example.com domain. + + * "git tag" did not leave useful message when adding a new entry to + reflog; this was left unnoticed for a long time because refs/tags/* + doesn't keep reflog by default. + + * The "negative" pathspec feature was somewhat more cumbersome to use + than necessary in that its short-hand used "!" which needed to be + escaped from shells, and it required "exclude from what?" specified. + + * The command line options for ssh invocation needs to be tweaked for + some implementations of SSH (e.g. PuTTY plink wants "-P <port>" + while OpenSSH wants "-p <port>" to specify port to connect to), and + the variant was guessed when GIT_SSH environment variable is used + to specify it. The logic to guess now applies to the command + specified by the newer GIT_SSH_COMMAND and also core.sshcommand + configuration variable, and comes with an escape hatch for users to + deal with misdetected cases. + + * The "--git-path", "--git-common-dir", and "--shared-index-path" + options of "git rev-parse" did not produce usable output. They are + now updated to show the path to the correct file, relative to where + the caller is. + + * "git diff -W" has been taught to handle the case where a new + function is added at the end of the file better. + + * "git update-ref -d" and other operations to delete references did + not leave any entry in HEAD's reflog when the reference being + deleted was the current branch. This is not a problem in practice + because you do not want to delete the branch you are currently on, + but caused renaming of the current branch to something else not to + be logged in a useful way. + + * "Cc:" on the trailer part does not have to conform to RFC strictly, + unlike in the e-mail header. "git send-email" has been updated to + ignore anything after '>' when picking addresses, to allow non-address + cruft like " # stable 4.4" after the address. + + * When "git submodule init" decides that the submodule in the working + tree is its upstream, it now gives a warning as it is not a very + common setup. + + * "git stash push" takes a pathspec so that the local changes can be + stashed away only partially. + + * Documentation for "git ls-files" did not refer to core.quotePath. + + * The experimental "split index" feature has gained a few + configuration variables to make it easier to use. + + * From a working tree of a repository, a new option of "rev-parse" + lets you ask if the repository is used as a submodule of another + project, and where the root level of the working tree of that + project (i.e. your superproject) is. + + * The pathspec mechanism learned to further limit the paths that + match the pattern to those that have specified attributes attached + via the gitattributes mechanism. + + * Our source code has used the SHA1_HEADER cpp macro after "#include" + in the C code to switch among the SHA-1 implementations. Instead, + list the exact header file names and switch among implementations + using "#ifdef BLK_SHA1/#include "block-sha1/sha1.h"/.../#endif"; + this helps some IDE tools. + + * The start-up sequence of "git" needs to figure out some configured + settings before it finds and set itself up in the location of the + repository and was quite messy due to its "chicken-and-egg" nature. + The code has been restructured. + + * The command line prompt (in contrib/) learned a new 'tag' style + that can be specified with GIT_PS1_DESCRIBE_STYLE, to describe a + detached HEAD with "git describe --tags". + + * The configuration file learned a new "includeIf.<condition>.path" + that includes the contents of the given path only when the + condition holds. This allows you to say "include this work-related + bit only in the repositories under my ~/work/ directory". + + * Recent update to "rebase -i" started showing a message that is not + a warning with "warning:" prefix by mistake. This has been fixed. + + * Recently we started passing the "--push-options" through the + external remote helper interface; now the "smart HTTP" remote + helper understands what to do with the passed information. + + * "git describe --dirty" dies when it cannot be determined if the + state in the working tree matches that of HEAD (e.g. broken + repository or broken submodule). The command learned a new option + "git describe --broken" to give "$name-broken" (where $name is the + description of HEAD) in such a case. + + * "git checkout" is taught the "--recurse-submodules" option. + + * Recent enhancement to "git stash push" command to support pathspec + to allow only a subset of working tree changes to be stashed away + was found to be too chatty and exposed the internal implementation + detail (e.g. when it uses reset to match the index to HEAD before + doing other things, output from reset seeped out). These, and + other chattyness has been fixed. + + * "git merge <message> HEAD <commit>" syntax that has been deprecated + since October 2007 has been removed. + + * The refs completion for large number of refs has been sped up, + partly by giving up disambiguating ambiguous refs and partly by + eliminating most of the shell processing between 'git for-each-ref' + and 'ls-remote' and Bash's completion facility. + + * On many keyboards, typing "@{" involves holding down SHIFT key and + one can easily end up with "@{Up..." when typing "@{upstream}". As + the upstream/push keywords do not appear anywhere else in the syntax, + we can safely accept them case insensitively without introducing + ambiguity or confusion to solve this. + + * "git tag/branch/for-each-ref" family of commands long allowed to + filter the refs by "--contains X" (show only the refs that are + descendants of X), "--merged X" (show only the refs that are + ancestors of X), "--no-merged X" (show only the refs that are not + ancestors of X). One curious omission, "--no-contains X" (show + only the refs that are not descendants of X) has been added to + them. + + * The default behaviour of "git log" in an interactive session has + been changed to enable "--decorate". + + * The output from "git status --short" has been extended to show + various kinds of dirtyness in submodules differently; instead of to + "M" for modified, 'm' and '?' can be shown to signal changes only + to the working tree of the submodule but not the commit that is + checked out. + + * Allow the http.postbuffer configuration variable to be set to a + size that can be expressed in size_t, which can be larger than + ulong on some platforms. + + * "git rebase" learns "--signoff" option. + + * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete "git push + --delete b<TAB>" to complete branch name to be deleted. + + * "git worktree add --lock" allows to lock a worktree immediately + after it's created. This helps prevent a race between "git worktree + add; git worktree lock" and "git worktree prune". + + * Completion for "git checkout <branch>" that auto-creates the branch + out of a remote tracking branch can now be disabled, as this + completion often gets in the way when completing to checkout an + existing local branch that happens to share the same prefix with + bunch of remote tracking branches. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The code to list branches in "git branch" has been consolidated + with the more generic ref-filter API. + + * Resource usage while enumerating refs from alternate object store + has been optimized to help receiving end of "push" that hosts a + repository with many "forks". + + * The gitattributes machinery is being taught to work better in a + multi-threaded environment. + + * "git rebase -i" starts using the recently updated "sequencer" code. + + * Code and design clean-up for the refs API. + + * The preload-index code has been taught not to bother with the index + entries that are paths that are not checked out by "sparse checkout". + + * Some warning() messages from "git clean" were updated to show the + errno from failed system calls. + + * The "parse_config_key()" API function has been cleaned up. + + * A test that creates a confusing branch whose name is HEAD has been + corrected not to do so. + + * The code that parses header fields in the commit object has been + updated for (micro)performance and code hygiene. + + * An helper function to make it easier to append the result from + real_path() to a strbuf has been added. + + * Reduce authentication round-trip over HTTP when the server supports + just a single authentication method. This also improves the + behaviour when Git is misconfigured to enable http.emptyAuth + against a server that does not authenticate without a username + (i.e. not using Kerberos etc., which makes http.emptyAuth + pointless). + + * Windows port wants to use OpenSSL's implementation of SHA-1 + routines, so let them. + + * The t/perf performance test suite was not prepared to test not so + old versions of Git, but now it covers versions of Git that are not + so ancient. + + * Add 32-bit Linux variant to the set of platforms to be tested with + Travis CI. + + * "git branch --list" takes the "--abbrev" and "--no-abbrev" options + to control the output of the object name in its "-v"(erbose) + output, but a recent update started ignoring them; fix it before + the breakage reaches to any released version. + + * Picking two versions of Git and running tests to make sure the + older one and the newer one interoperate happily has now become + possible. + + * "git tag --contains" used to (ab)use the object bits to keep track + of the state of object reachability without clearing them after + use; this has been cleaned up and made to use the newer commit-slab + facility. + + * The "debug" helper used in the test framework learned to run + a command under "gdb" interactively. + + * The "detect attempt to create collisions" variant of SHA-1 + implementation by Marc Stevens (CWI) and Dan Shumow (Microsoft) + has been integrated and made the default. + + * The test framework learned to detect unterminated here documents. + + * The name-hash used for detecting paths that are different only in + cases (which matter on case insensitive filesystems) has been + optimized to take advantage of multi-threading when it makes sense. + + * An earlier version of sha1dc/sha1.c that was merged to 'master' + compiled incorrectly on Windows, which has been fixed. + + * "what URL do we want to update this submodule?" and "are we + interested in this submodule?" are split into two distinct + concepts, and then the way used to express the latter got extended, + paving a way to make it easier to manage a project with many + submodules and make it possible to later extend use of multiple + worktrees for a project with submodules. + + * Some debugging output from "git describe" were marked for l10n, + but some weren't. Mark missing ones for l10n. + + * Define a new task in .travis.yml that triggers a test session on + Windows run elsewhere. + + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. + + * The "submodule" specific field in the ref_store structure is + replaced with a more generic "gitdir" that can later be used also + when dealing with ref_store that represents the set of refs visible + from the other worktrees. + + * The string-list API used a custom reallocation strategy that was + very inefficient, instead of using the usual ALLOC_GROW() macro, + which has been fixed. + (merge 950a234cbd jh/string-list-micro-optim later to maint). + + * In a 2- and 3-way merge of trees, more than one source trees often + end up sharing an identical subtree; optimize by not reading the + same tree multiple times in such a case. + (merge d12a8cf0af jh/unpack-trees-micro-optim later to maint). + + * The index file has a trailing SHA-1 checksum to detect file + corruption, and historically we checked it every time the index + file is used. Omit the validation during normal use, and instead + verify only in "git fsck". + + * Having a git command on the upstream side of a pipe in a test + script will hide the exit status from the command, which may cause + us to fail to notice a breakage; rewrite tests in a script to avoid + this issue. + + * Travis CI learns to run coccicheck. + + * "git checkout" that handles a lot of paths has been optimized by + reducing the number of unnecessary checks of paths in the + has_dir_name() function. + + * The internals of the refs API around the cached refs has been + streamlined. + + * Output from perf tests have been updated to align their titles. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.12 +----------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.12 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * "git repack --depth=<n>" for a long time busted the specified depth + when reusing delta from existing packs. This has been corrected. + + * The code to parse the command line "git grep <patterns>... <rev> + [[--] <pathspec>...]" has been cleaned up, and a handful of bugs + have been fixed (e.g. we used to check "--" if it is a rev). + + * "git ls-remote" and "git archive --remote" are designed to work + without being in a directory under Git's control. However, recent + updates revealed that we randomly look into a directory called + .git/ without actually doing necessary set-up when working in a + repository. Stop doing so. + + * "git show-branch" expected there were only very short branch names + in the repository and used a fixed-length buffer to hold them + without checking for overflow. + + * A caller of tempfile API that uses stdio interface to write to + files may ignore errors while writing, which is detected when + tempfile is closed (with a call to ferror()). By that time, the + original errno that may have told us what went wrong is likely to + be long gone and was overwritten by an irrelevant value. + close_tempfile() now resets errno to EIO to make errno at least + predictable. + + * "git remote rm X", when a branch has remote X configured as the + value of its branch.*.remote, tried to remove branch.*.remote and + branch.*.merge and failed if either is unset. + + * A "gc.log" file left by a backgrounded "gc --auto" disables further + automatic gc; it has been taught to run at least once a day (by + default) by ignoring a stale "gc.log" file that is too old. + + * The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration + variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have + been fixed. + + * user.email that consists of only cruft chars should consistently + error out, but didn't. + + * "git upload-pack", which is a counter-part of "git fetch", did not + report a request for a ref that was not advertised as invalid. + This is generally not a problem (because "git fetch" will stop + before making such a request), but is the right thing to do. + + * A leak in a codepath to read from a packed object in (rare) cases + has been plugged. + + * When a redirected http transport gets an error during the + redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server, + and ended up giving a not-so-useful error message. + + * The patch subcommand of "git add -i" was meant to have paths + selection prompt just like other subcommand, unlike "git add -p" + directly jumps to hunk selection. Recently, this was broken and + "add -i" lost the paths selection dialog, but it now has been + fixed. + + * Git v2.12 was shipped with an embarrassing breakage where various + operations that verify paths given from the user stopped dying when + seeing an issue, and instead later triggering segfault. + + * There is no need for Python only to give a few messages to the + standard error stream, but we somehow did. + + * The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there + are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer + has been fixed. + + * The command-line parsing of "git log -L" copied internal data + structures using incorrect size on ILP32 systems. + + * "git diff --quiet" relies on the size field in diff_filespec to be + correctly populated, but diff_populate_filespec() helper function + made an incorrect short-cut when asked only to populate the size + field for paths that need to go through convert_to_git() (e.g. CRLF + conversion). + + * A few tests were run conditionally under (rare) conditions where + they cannot be run (like running cvs tests under 'root' account). + + * "git branch @" created refs/heads/@ as a branch, and in general the + code that handled @{-1} and @{upstream} was a bit too loose in + disambiguating. + + * "git fetch" that requests a commit by object name, when the other + side does not allow such an request, failed without much + explanation. + + * "git filter-branch --prune-empty" drops a single-parent commit that + becomes a no-op, but did not drop a root commit whose tree is empty. + + * Recent versions of Git treats http alternates (used in dumb http + transport) just like HTTP redirects and requires the client to + enable following it, due to security concerns. But we forgot to + give a warning when we decide not to honor the alternates. + + * "git push" had a handful of codepaths that could lead to a deadlock + when unexpected error happened, which has been fixed. + + * "Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates + response, which has been fixed. + + * "git add -p <pathspec>" unnecessarily expanded the pathspec to a + list of individual files that matches the pathspec by running "git + ls-files <pathspec>", before feeding it to "git diff-index" to see + which paths have changes, because historically the pathspec + language supported by "diff-index" was weaker. These days they are + equivalent and there is no reason to internally expand it. This + helps both performance and avoids command line argument limit on + some platforms. + (merge 7288e12cce jk/add-i-use-pathspecs later to maint). + + * "git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a + few strings were left as translatable by mistake. + + * "git revert -m 0 $merge_commit" complained that reverting a merge + needs to say relative to which parent the reversion needs to + happen, as if "-m 0" weren't given. The correct diagnosis is that + "-m 0" does not refer to the first parent ("-m 1" does). This has + been fixed. + + * Code to read submodule.<name>.ignore config did not state the + variable name correctly when giving an error message diagnosing + misconfiguration. + + * Fix for NO_PTHREADS build. + + * Fix for potential segv introduced in v2.11.0 and later (also + v2.10.2) to "git log --pickaxe-regex -S". + + * A few unterminated here documents in tests were fixed, which in + turn revealed incorrect expectations the tests make. These tests + have been updated. + + * Fix for NO_PTHREADS option. + (merge 2225e1ea20 bw/grep-recurse-submodules later to maint). + + * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup + sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that + happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG"). + (merge b1ef400eec jk/no-looking-at-dotgit-outside-repo-final later to maint). + + * A few commands that recently learned the "--recurse-submodule" + option misbehaved when started from a subdirectory of the + superproject. + (merge b2dfeb7c00 bw/recurse-submodules-relative-fix later to maint). + + * FreeBSD implementation of getcwd(3) behaved differently when an + intermediate directory is unreadable/unsearchable depending on the + length of the buffer provided, which our strbuf_getcwd() was not + aware of. strbuf_getcwd() has been taught to cope with it better. + (merge a54e938e5b rs/freebsd-getcwd-workaround later to maint). + + * A recent update to "rebase -i" stopped running hooks for the "git + commit" command during "reword" action, which has been fixed. + + * Removing an entry from a notes tree and then looking another note + entry from the resulting tree using the internal notes API + functions did not work as expected. No in-tree users of the API + has such access pattern, but it still is worth fixing. + + * "git receive-pack" could have been forced to die by attempting + allocate an unreasonably large amount of memory with a crafted push + certificate; this has been fixed. + (merge f2214dede9 bc/push-cert-receive-fix later to maint). + + * Update error handling for codepath that deals with corrupt loose + objects. + (merge 51054177b3 jk/loose-object-info-report-error later to maint). + + * "git diff --submodule=diff" learned to work better in a project + with a submodule that in turn has its own submodules. + (merge 17b254cda6 sb/show-diff-for-submodule-in-diff-fix later to maint). + + * Update the build dependency so that an update to /usr/bin/perl + etc. result in recomputation of perl.mak file. + (merge c59c4939c2 ab/regen-perl-mak-with-different-perl later to maint). + + * "git push --recurse-submodules --push-option=<string>" learned to + propagate the push option recursively down to pushes in submodules. + + * If a patch e-mail had its first paragraph after an in-body header + indented (even after a blank line after the in-body header line), + the indented line was mistook as a continuation of the in-body + header. This has been fixed. + (merge fd1062e52e lt/mailinfo-in-body-header-continuation later to maint). + + * Clean up fallouts from recent tightening of the set-up sequence, + where Git barfs when repository information is accessed without + first ensuring that it was started in a repository. + (merge bccb22cbb1 jk/no-looking-at-dotgit-outside-repo later to maint). + + * "git p4" used "name-rev HEAD" when it wants to learn what branch is + checked out; it should use "symbolic-ref HEAD". + (merge eff451101d ld/p4-current-branch-fix later to maint). + + * "http.proxy" set to an empty string is used to disable the usage of + proxy. We broke this early last year. + (merge ae51d91105 sr/http-proxy-configuration-fix later to maint). + + * $GIT_DIR may in some cases be normalized with all symlinks resolved + while "gitdir" path expansion in the pattern does not receive the + same treatment, leading to incorrect mismatch. This has been fixed. + + * "git submodule" script does not work well with strange pathnames. + Protect it from a path with slashes in them, at least. + + * "git fetch-pack" was not prepared to accept ERR packet that the + upload-pack can send with a human-readable error message. It + showed the packet contents with ERR prefix, so there was no data + loss, but it was redundant to say "ERR" in an error message. + (merge 8e2c7bef03 jt/fetch-pack-error-reporting later to maint). + + * "ls-files --recurse-submodules" did not quite work well in a + project with nested submodules. + + * gethostname(2) may not NUL terminate the buffer if hostname does + not fit; unfortunately there is no easy way to see if our buffer + was too small, but at least this will make sure we will not end up + using garbage past the end of the buffer. + (merge 5781a9a270 dt/xgethostname-nul-termination later to maint). + + * A recent update broke "git add -p ../foo" from a subdirectory. + + * While handy, "git_path()" is a dangerous function to use as a + callsite that uses it safely one day can be broken by changes + to other code that calls it. Reduction of its use continues. + (merge 16d2676c9e jk/war-on-git-path later to maint). + + * The split-index code configuration code used an unsafe git_path() + function without copying its result out. + + * Many stale HTTP(s) links have been updated in our documentation. + (merge 613416f0be jk/update-links-in-docs later to maint). + + * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name + begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it + confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with + an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive + pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access + (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). + + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. + (merge df2a6e38b7 jk/pager-in-use later to maint). + (merge 75ec4a6cb0 ab/branch-list-doc later to maint). + (merge 3e5b36c637 sg/skip-prefix-in-prettify-refname later to maint). + (merge 2c5e2865cc jk/fast-import-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 4473060bc2 ab/test-readme-updates later to maint). + (merge 48a96972fd ab/doc-submitting later to maint). + (merge f5c2bc2b96 jk/make-coccicheck-detect-errors later to maint). + (merge c105f563d1 cc/untracked later to maint). + (merge 8668976b53 jc/unused-symbols later to maint). + (merge fba275dc93 jc/bs-t-is-not-a-tab-for-sed later to maint). + (merge be6ed145de mm/ls-files-s-doc later to maint). + (merge 60b091c679 qp/bisect-docfix later to maint). + (merge 47242cd103 ah/diff-files-ours-theirs-doc later to maint). + (merge 35ad44cbd8 sb/submodule-rm-absorb later to maint). + (merge 0301f1fd92 va/i18n-perl-scripts later to maint). + (merge 733e064d98 vn/revision-shorthand-for-side-branch-log later to maint). + (merge 85999743e7 tb/doc-eol-normalization later to maint). + (merge 0747fb49fd jk/loose-object-fsck later to maint). + (merge d8f4481c4f jk/quarantine-received-objects later to maint). + (merge 7ba1ceef95 xy/format-patch-base later to maint). + (merge fa1912c89a rs/misc-cppcheck-fixes later to maint). + (merge f17d642d3b ab/push-cas-doc-n-test later to maint). + (merge 61e282425a ss/gitmodules-ignore-doc later to maint). + (merge 8d3047cd5b ss/submodule-shallow-doc later to maint). + (merge 1f9e18b772 jk/prio-queue-avoid-swap-with-self later to maint). + (merge 627fde1025 jk/submodule-init-segv-fix later to maint). + (merge d395745d81 rg/doc-pull-typofix later to maint). + (merge 01e60a9a22 rg/doc-submittingpatches-wordfix later to maint). + (merge 501d3cd7b8 sr/hooks-cwd-doc later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ed7cd976d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +Git v2.13.1 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.13 +----------------- + + * The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though + the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with + ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is + based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier + to migrate away from it if/when necessary. + + * Update tests to pass under GETTEXT_POISON (a mechanism to ensure + that output strings that should not be translated are not + translated by mistake), and tell TravisCI to run them. + + * Setting "log.decorate=false" in the configuration file did not take + effect in v2.13, which has been corrected. + + * An earlier update to test 7400 needed to be skipped on CYGWIN. + + * Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does + not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native + speakers. Attempt to rephrase them. + + * "git read-tree -m" (no tree-ish) gave a nonsense suggestion "use + --empty if you want to clear the index". With "-m", such a request + will still fail anyway, as you'd need to name at least one tree-ish + to be merged. + + * The codepath in "git am" that is used when running "git rebase" + leaked memory held for the log message of the commits being rebased. + + * "pack-objects" can stream a slice of an existing packfile out when + the pack bitmap can tell that the reachable objects are all needed + in the output, without inspecting individual objects. This + strategy however would not work well when "--local" and other + options are in use, and need to be disabled. + + * Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path + configuration variables. + + * Tag objects, which are not reachable from any ref, that point at + missing objects were mishandled by "git gc" and friends (they + should silently be ignored instead) + + * A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the + documentation have been updated to https:// links. + + * Make sure our tests would pass when the sources are checked out + with "platform native" line ending convention by default on + Windows. Some "text" files out tests use and the test scripts + themselves that are meant to be run with /bin/sh, ought to be + checked out with eol=LF even on Windows. + + * Fix memory leaks pointed out by Coverity (and people). + + * The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate + records the same set of push options used for pushing. + + * "git cherry-pick" and other uses of the sequencer machinery + mishandled a trailer block whose last line is an incomplete line. + This has been fixed so that an additional sign-off etc. are added + after completing the existing incomplete line. + + * The shell completion script (in contrib/) learned "git stash" has + a new "push" subcommand. + + * Travis CI gained a task to format the documentation with both + AsciiDoc and AsciiDoctor. + + * Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as + recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of + multi-line comments. + + * "git clone --config var=val" is a way to populate the + per-repository configuration file of the new repository, but it did + not work well when val is an empty string. This has been fixed. + + * A few codepaths in "checkout" and "am" working on an unborn branch + tried to access an uninitialized piece of memory. + + * "git for-each-ref --format=..." with %(HEAD) in the format used to + resolve the HEAD symref as many times as it had processed refs, + which was wasteful, and "git branch" shared the same problem. + + * "git interpret-trailers", when used as GIT_EDITOR for "git commit + -v", looked for and appended to a trailer block at the very end, + i.e. at the end of the "diff" output. The command has been + corrected to pay attention to the cut-mark line "commit -v" adds to + the buffer---the real trailer block should appear just before it. + + * A test allowed both "git push" and "git receive-pack" on the other + end write their traces into the same file. This is OK on platforms + that allows atomically appending to a file opened with O_APPEND, + but on other platforms led to a mangled output, causing + intermittent test failures. This has been fixed by disabling + traces from "receive-pack" in the test. + + * "foo\bar\baz" in "git fetch foo\bar\baz", even though there is no + slashes in it, cannot be a nickname for a remote on Windows, as + that is likely to be a pathname on a local filesystem. + + * The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13 + was quite broken on some big-endian platforms and/or platforms that + do not like unaligned fetches. Update to the upstream code which + has already fixed these issues. + + * "git am -h" triggered a BUG(). + + * The interaction of "url.*.insteadOf" and custom URL scheme's + whitelisting is now documented better. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8c2b20071e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +Git v2.13.2 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.13.1 +------------------- + + * The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13.1 + was still broken on some platforms. Update to the upstream code + again to take their fix. + + * "git checkout --recurse-submodules" did not quite work with a + submodule that itself has submodules. + + * Introduce the BUG() macro to improve die("BUG: ..."). + + * The "run-command" API implementation has been made more robust + against dead-locking in a threaded environment. + + * A recent update to t5545-push-options.sh started skipping all the + tests in the script when a web server testing is disabled or + unavailable, not just the ones that require a web server. Non HTTP + tests have been salvaged to always run in this script. + + * "git clean -d" used to clean directories that has ignored files, + even though the command should not lose ignored ones without "-x". + "git status --ignored" did not list ignored and untracked files + without "-uall". These have been corrected. + + * The timestamp of the index file is now taken after the file is + closed, to help Windows, on which a stale timestamp is reported by + fstat() on a file that is opened for writing and data was written + but not yet closed. + + * "git pull --rebase --autostash" didn't auto-stash when the local history + fast-forwards to the upstream. + + * "git describe --contains" penalized light-weight tags so much that + they were almost never considered. Instead, give them about the + same chance to be considered as an annotated tag that is the same + age as the underlying commit would. + + * The result from "git diff" that compares two blobs, e.g. "git diff + $commit1:$path $commit2:$path", used to be shown with the full + object name as given on the command line, but it is more natural to + use the $path in the output and use it to look up .gitattributes. + + * A flaky test has been corrected. + + * Help contributors that visit us at GitHub. + + * "git stash push <pathspec>" did not work from a subdirectory at all. + Bugfix for a topic in v2.13 + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5d76ad5310 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +Git v2.13.3 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.13.2 +------------------- + + * The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13.2 + was still broken on some platforms. Update to the upstream code + again to take their fix. + + * The 'diff-highlight' program (in contrib/) has been restructured + for easier reuse by an external project 'diff-so-fancy'. + + * "git mergetool" learned to work around a wrapper MacOS X adds + around underlying meld. + + * An example in documentation that does not work in multi worktree + configuration has been corrected. + + * The pretty-format specifiers like '%h', '%t', etc. had an + optimization that no longer works correctly. In preparation/hope + of getting it correctly implemented, first discard the optimization + that is broken. + + * The code to pick up and execute command alias definition from the + configuration used to switch to the top of the working tree and + then come back when the expanded alias was executed, which was + unnecessarilyl complex. Attempt to simplify the logic by using the + early-config mechanism that does not chdir around. + + * "git add -p" were updated in 2.12 timeframe to cope with custom + core.commentchar but the implementation was buggy and a + metacharacter like $ and * did not work. + + * Fix a recent regression to "git rebase -i" and add tests that would + have caught it and others. + + * An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code ahs been corrected. + + * Tighten error checks for invalid "git apply" input. + + * The split index code did not honor core.sharedrepository setting + correctly. + + * The Makefile rule in contrib/subtree for building documentation + learned to honour USE_ASCIIDOCTOR just like the main documentation + set does. + + * A few tests that tried to verify the contents of push certificates + did not use 'git rev-parse' to formulate the line to look for in + the certificate correctly. + + * After "git branch --move" of the currently checked out branch, the + code to walk the reflog of HEAD via "log -g" and friends + incorrectly stopped at the reflog entry that records the renaming + of the branch. + + * The rewrite of "git branch --list" using for-each-ref's internals + that happened in v2.13 regressed its handling of color.branch.local; + this has been fixed. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9a9f8f9599 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Git v2.13.4 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.13.3 +------------------- + + * Update the character width tables. + + * A recent update broke an alias that contained an uppercase letter, + which has been fixed. + + * On Cygwin, similar to Windows, "git push //server/share/repository" + ought to mean a repository on a network share that can be accessed + locally, but this did not work correctly due to stripping the double + slashes at the beginning. + + * The progress meter did not give a useful output when we haven't had + 0.5 seconds to measure the throughput during the interval. Instead + show the overall throughput rate at the end, which is a much more + useful number. + + * We run an early part of "git gc" that deals with refs before + daemonising (and not under lock) even when running a background + auto-gc, which caused multiple gc processes attempting to run the + early part at the same time. This is now prevented by running the + early part also under the GC lock. + +Also contains a handful of small code and documentation clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6949fcda78 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Git v2.13.5 Release Notes +========================= + +This release forward-ports the fix for "ssh://..." URL from Git v2.7.6 diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..afcae9c808 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Git v2.13.6 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.13.5 +------------------- + + * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git daemon" by default, + as it is old and largely unmaintained. + + * Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of + backticks, leaving them susceptible to end-user input. They have + been corrected. + +Credits go to joernchen <joernchen@phenoelit.de> for finding the +unsafe constructs in "git cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for +finding and fixing instances of the same issue in other scripts. + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..09fc01406c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Git v2.13.7 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.13.6 +------------------- + + * Submodule "names" come from the untrusted .gitmodules file, but we + blindly append them to $GIT_DIR/modules to create our on-disk repo + paths. This means you can do bad things by putting "../" into the + name. We now enforce some rules for submodule names which will cause + Git to ignore these malicious names (CVE-2018-11235). + + Credit for finding this vulnerability and the proof of concept from + which the test script was adapted goes to Etienne Stalmans. + + * It was possible to trick the code that sanity-checks paths on NTFS + into reading random piece of memory (CVE-2018-11233). + +Credit for fixing for these bugs goes to Jeff King, Johannes +Schindelin and others. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4246c68ff5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,517 @@ +Git 2.14 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes. + + * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for + 'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a + more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing + users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be + turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of + this (mis)feature. That is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming + release (yet). + + * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup + sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that + happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG"). + We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there + might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are + greatly appreciated. + + * The experiment to improve the hunk-boundary selection of textual + diff output has finished, and the "indent heuristics" has now + become the default. + + * Git can now be built with PCRE v2 instead of v1 of the PCRE + library. Replace USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease with USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease + in existing build scripts to build against the new version. As the + upstream PCRE maintainer has abandoned v1 maintenance for all but + the most critical bug fixes, use of v2 is recommended. + + +Updates since v2.13 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * The colors in which "git status --short --branch" showed the names + of the current branch and its remote-tracking branch are now + configurable. + + * "git clone" learned the "--no-tags" option not to fetch all tags + initially, and also set up the tagopt not to follow any tags in + subsequent fetches. + + * "git archive --format=zip" learned to use zip64 extension when + necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit. + + * "git reset" learned "--recurse-submodules" option. + + * "git diff --submodule=diff" now recurses into nested submodules. + + * "git repack" learned to accept the --threads=<n> option and pass it + to pack-objects. + + * "git send-email" learned to run sendemail-validate hook to inspect + and reject a message before sending it out. + + * There is no good reason why "git fetch $there $sha1" should fail + when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref, + even when the other side hasn't enabled allowTipSHA1InWant. + + * The "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..." mechanism introduced in + 2.13.0 would canonicalize the path of the gitdir being matched, + and did not match e.g. "gitdir:~/work/*" against a repo in + "~/work/main" if "~/work" was a symlink to "/mnt/storage/work". + Now we match both the resolved canonical path and what "pwd" would + show. The include will happen if either one matches. + + * The "indent" heuristics is now the default in "diff". The + diff.indentHeuristic configuration variable can be set to "false" + for those who do not want it. + + * Many commands learned to pay attention to submodule.recurse + configuration. + + * The convention for a command line is to follow "git cmdname + --options" with revisions followed by an optional "--" + disambiguator and then finally pathspecs. When "--" is not there, + we make sure early ones are all interpretable as revs (and do not + look like paths) and later ones are the other way around. A + pathspec with "magic" (e.g. ":/p/a/t/h" that matches p/a/t/h from + the top-level of the working tree, no matter what subdirectory you + are working from) are conservatively judged as "not a path", which + required disambiguation more often. The command line parser + learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax + looks like so. + + * Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT + and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library. + + * "filter-branch" learned a pseudo filter "--setup" that can be used + to define common functions/variables that can be used by other + filters. + + * Using "git add d/i/r" when d/i/r is the top of the working tree of + a separate repository would create a gitlink in the index, which + would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others. We + learned to give warnings when this happens. + + * "git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries there + are in its output. + + * "git status" has long shown essentially the same message as "git + commit"; the message it gives while preparing for the root commit, + i.e. "Initial commit", was hard to understand for some new users. + Now it says "No commits yet" to stress more on the current status + (rather than the commit the user is preparing for, which is more in + line with the focus of "git commit"). + + * "git send-email" now has --batch-size and --relogin-delay options + which can be used to overcome limitations on SMTP servers that + restrict on how many of e-mails can be sent in a single session. + + * An old message shown in the commit log template was removed, as it + has outlived its usefulness. + + * "git pull --rebase --recurse-submodules" learns to rebase the + branch in the submodules to an updated base. + + * "git log" learned -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp, "git grep" + already had such a synonym. + + * "git log" didn't understand --regexp-ignore-case when combined with + --perl-regexp. This has been fixed. + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The default packed-git limit value has been raised on larger + platforms to save "git fetch" from a (recoverable) failure while + "gc" is running in parallel. + + * Code to update the cache-tree has been tightened so that we won't + accidentally write out any 0{40} entry in the tree object. + + * Attempt to allow us notice "fishy" situation where we fail to + remove the temporary directory used during the test. + + * Travis CI gained a task to format the documentation with both + AsciiDoc and AsciiDoctor. + + * Some platforms have ulong that is smaller than time_t, and our + historical use of ulong for timestamp would mean they cannot + represent some timestamp that the platform allows. Invent a + separate and dedicated timestamp_t (so that we can distingiuish + timestamps and a vanilla ulongs, which along is already a good + move), and then declare uintmax_t is the type to be used as the + timestamp_t. + + * We can trigger Windows auto-build tester (credits: Dscho & + Microsoft) from our existing Travis CI tester now. + + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. + + * Simplify parse_pathspec() codepath and stop it from looking at the + default in-core index. + + * Add perf-test for wildmatch. + + * Code from "conversion using external process" codepath has been + extracted to a separate sub-process.[ch] module. + + * When "git checkout", "git merge", etc. manipulates the in-core + index, various pieces of information in the index extensions are + discarded from the original state, as it is usually not the case + that they are kept up-to-date and in-sync with the operation on the + main index. The untracked cache extension is copied across these + operations now, which would speed up "git status" (as long as the + cache is properly invalidated). + + * The internal implementation of "git grep" has seen some clean-up. + + * Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as + recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of + multi-line comments. + + * The implementation of "ref" API around the "packed refs" have been + cleaned up, in preparation for further changes. + + * The internal logic used in "git blame" has been libified to make it + easier to use by cgit. + + * Our code often opens a path to an optional file, to work on its + contents when we can successfully open it. We can ignore a failure + to open if such an optional file does not exist, but we do want to + report a failure in opening for other reasons (e.g. we got an I/O + error, or the file is there, but we lack the permission to open). + + The exact errors we need to ignore are ENOENT (obviously) and + ENOTDIR (less obvious). Instead of repeating comparison of errno + with these two constants, introduce a helper function to do so. + + * We often try to open a file for reading whose existence is + optional, and silently ignore errors from open/fopen; report such + errors if they are not due to missing files. + + * When an existing repository is used for t/perf testing, we first + create bit-for-bit copy of it, which may grab a transient state of + the repository and freeze it into the repository used for testing, + which then may cause Git operations to fail. Single out "the index + being locked" case and forcibly drop the lock from the copy. + + * Three instances of the same helper function have been consolidated + to one. + + * "fast-import" uses a default pack chain depth that is consistent + with other parts of the system. + + * A new test to show the interaction between the pattern [^a-z] + (which matches '/') and a slash in a path has been added. The + pattern should not match the slash with "pathmatch", but should + with "wildmatch". + + * The 'diff-highlight' program (in contrib/) has been restructured + for easier reuse by an external project 'diff-so-fancy'. + + * A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the + pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new + FREE_AND_NULL() macro. + + * Traditionally, the default die() routine had a code to prevent it + from getting called multiple times, which interacted badly when a + threaded program used it (one downside is that the real error may + be hidden and instead the only error message given to the user may + end up being "die recursion detected", which is not very useful). + + * Introduce a "repository" object to eventually make it easier to + work in multiple repositories (the primary focus is to work with + the superproject and its submodules) in a single process. + + * Optimize "what are the object names already taken in an alternate + object database?" query that is used to derive the length of prefix + an object name is uniquely abbreviated to. + + * The hashmap API has been updated so that data to customize the + behaviour of the comparison function can be specified at the time a + hashmap is initialized. + + * The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13 is + now integrated into git.git as a submodule (the first submodule to + ship with git.git). Clone git.git with --recurse-submodules to get + it. For now a non-submodule copy of the same code is also shipped + as part of the tree. + + * A recent update made it easier to use "-fsanitize=" option while + compiling but supported only one sanitize option. Allow more than + one to be combined, joined with a comma, like "make SANITIZE=foo,bar". + + * Use "p4 -G" to make "p4 changes" output more Python-friendly + to parse. + + * We started using "%" PRItime, imitating "%" PRIuMAX and friends, as + a way to format the internal timestamp value, but this does not + play well with gettext(1) i18n framework, and causes "make pot" + that is run by the l10n coordinator to create a broken po/git.pot + file. This is a possible workaround for that problem. + + * It turns out that Cygwin also needs the fopen() wrapper that + returns failure when a directory is opened for reading. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.13 +----------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.13 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * "git gc" did not interact well with "git worktree"-managed + per-worktree refs. + + * "git cherry-pick" and other uses of the sequencer machinery + mishandled a trailer block whose last line is an incomplete line. + This has been fixed so that an additional sign-off etc. are added + after completing the existing incomplete line. + + * The codepath in "git am" that is used when running "git rebase" + leaked memory held for the log message of the commits being rebased. + + * "git clone --config var=val" is a way to populate the + per-repository configuration file of the new repository, but it did + not work well when val is an empty string. This has been fixed. + + * Setting "log.decorate=false" in the configuration file did not take + effect in v2.13, which has been corrected. + + * A few codepaths in "checkout" and "am" working on an unborn branch + tried to access an uninitialized piece of memory. + + * The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though + the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with + ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is + based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier + to migrate away from it if/when necessary. + + * The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate + records the same set of push options used for pushing. + + * Tests have been updated to pass under GETTEXT_POISON (a mechanism + to ensure that output strings that should not be translated are + not translated by mistake), and TravisCI is told to run them. + + * "git checkout --recurse-submodules" did not quite work with a + submodule that itself has submodules. + + * "pack-objects" can stream a slice of an existing packfile out when + the pack bitmap can tell that the reachable objects are all needed + in the output, without inspecting individual objects. This + strategy however would not work well when "--local" and other + options are in use, and need to be disabled. + + * Fix memory leaks pointed out by Coverity (and people). + + * "git read-tree -m" (no tree-ish) gave a nonsense suggestion "use + --empty if you want to clear the index". With "-m", such a request + will still fail anyway, as you'd need to name at least one tree-ish + to be merged. + + * Make sure our tests would pass when the sources are checked out + with "platform native" line ending convention by default on + Windows. Some "text" files out tests use and the test scripts + themselves that are meant to be run with /bin/sh, ought to be + checked out with eol=LF even on Windows. + + * Introduce the BUG() macro to improve die("BUG: ..."). + + * Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path + configuration variables. + + * Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does + not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native + speakers. Attempt to rephrase them. + + * A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the + documentation have been updated to https:// links. + + * "git for-each-ref --format=..." with %(HEAD) in the format used to + resolve the HEAD symref as many times as it had processed refs, + which was wasteful, and "git branch" shared the same problem. + + * Regression fix to topic recently merged to 'master'. + + * The shell completion script (in contrib/) learned "git stash" has + a new "push" subcommand. + + * "git interpret-trailers", when used as GIT_EDITOR for "git commit + -v", looked for and appended to a trailer block at the very end, + i.e. at the end of the "diff" output. The command has been + corrected to pay attention to the cut-mark line "commit -v" adds to + the buffer---the real trailer block should appear just before it. + + * A test allowed both "git push" and "git receive-pack" on the other + end write their traces into the same file. This is OK on platforms + that allows atomically appending to a file opened with O_APPEND, + but on other platforms led to a mangled output, causing + intermittent test failures. This has been fixed by disabling + traces from "receive-pack" in the test. + + * Tag objects, which are not reachable from any ref, that point at + missing objects were mishandled by "git gc" and friends (they + should silently be ignored instead) + + * "git describe --contains" penalized light-weight tags so much that + they were almost never considered. Instead, give them about the + same chance to be considered as an annotated tag that is the same + age as the underlying commit would. + + * The "run-command" API implementation has been made more robust + against dead-locking in a threaded environment. + + * A recent update to t5545-push-options.sh started skipping all the + tests in the script when a web server testing is disabled or + unavailable, not just the ones that require a web server. Non HTTP + tests have been salvaged to always run in this script. + + * "git send-email" now uses Net::SMTP::SSL, which is obsolete, only + when needed. Recent versions of Net::SMTP can do TLS natively. + + * "foo\bar\baz" in "git fetch foo\bar\baz", even though there is no + slashes in it, cannot be a nickname for a remote on Windows, as + that is likely to be a pathname on a local filesystem. + + * "git clean -d" used to clean directories that has ignored files, + even though the command should not lose ignored ones without "-x". + "git status --ignored" did not list ignored and untracked files + without "-uall". These have been corrected. + + * The result from "git diff" that compares two blobs, e.g. "git diff + $commit1:$path $commit2:$path", used to be shown with the full + object name as given on the command line, but it is more natural to + use the $path in the output and use it to look up .gitattributes. + + * The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13 + was quite broken on some big-endian platforms and/or platforms that + do not like unaligned fetches. Update to the upstream code which + has already fixed these issues. + + * "git am -h" triggered a BUG(). + + * The interaction of "url.*.insteadOf" and custom URL scheme's + whitelisting is now documented better. + + * The timestamp of the index file is now taken after the file is + closed, to help Windows, on which a stale timestamp is reported by + fstat() on a file that is opened for writing and data was written + but not yet closed. + + * "git pull --rebase --autostash" didn't auto-stash when the local history + fast-forwards to the upstream. + + * A flaky test has been corrected. + + * "git $cmd -h" for builtin commands calls the implementation of the + command (i.e. cmd_$cmd() function) without doing any repository + set-up, and the commands that expect RUN_SETUP is done by the Git + potty needs to be prepared to show the help text without barfing. + (merge d691551192 jk/consistent-h later to maint). + + * Help contributors that visit us at GitHub. + + * "git stash push <pathspec>" did not work from a subdirectory at all. + Bugfix for a topic in v2.13 + + * As there is no portable way to pass timezone information to + strftime, some output format from "git log" and friends are + impossible to produce. Teach our own strbuf_addftime to replace %z + and %Z with caller-supplied values to help working around this. + (merge 6eced3ec5e rs/strbuf-addftime-zZ later to maint). + + * "git mergetool" learned to work around a wrapper MacOS X adds + around underlying meld. + + * An example in documentation that does not work in multi worktree + configuration has been corrected. + + * The pretty-format specifiers like '%h', '%t', etc. had an + optimization that no longer works correctly. In preparation/hope + of getting it correctly implemented, first discard the optimization + that is broken. + + * The code to pick up and execute command alias definition from the + configuration used to switch to the top of the working tree and + then come back when the expanded alias was executed, which was + unnecessarilyl complex. Attempt to simplify the logic by using the + early-config mechanism that does not chdir around. + + * Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir + that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API + into its own header file. + (merge dc8441fdb4 bw/config-h later to maint). + + * "git add -p" were updated in 2.12 timeframe to cope with custom + core.commentchar but the implementation was buggy and a + metacharacter like $ and * did not work. + + * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" has been fixed and tests + that would have caught it and others have been added. + + * An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code has been corrected. + + * Tighten error checks for invalid "git apply" input. + + * The split index code did not honor core.sharedRepository setting + correctly. + + * The Makefile rule in contrib/subtree for building documentation + learned to honour USE_ASCIIDOCTOR just like the main documentation + set does. + + * Code clean-up to fix possible buffer over-reading. + + * A few tests that tried to verify the contents of push certificates + did not use 'git rev-parse' to formulate the line to look for in + the certificate correctly. + + * Update the character width tables. + + * After "git branch --move" of the currently checked out branch, the + code to walk the reflog of HEAD via "log -g" and friends + incorrectly stopped at the reflog entry that records the renaming + of the branch. + + * The rewrite of "git branch --list" using for-each-ref's internals + that happened in v2.13 regressed its handling of color.branch.local; + this has been fixed. + + * The build procedure has been improved to allow building and testing + Git with address sanitizer more easily. + (merge 425ca6710b jk/build-with-asan later to maint). + + * On Cygwin, similar to Windows, "git push //server/share/repository" + ought to mean a repository on a network share that can be accessed + locally, but this did not work correctly due to stripping the double + slashes at the beginning. + + * The progress meter did not give a useful output when we haven't had + 0.5 seconds to measure the throughput during the interval. Instead + show the overall throughput rate at the end, which is a much more + useful number. + + * Code clean-up, that makes us in sync with Debian by one patch. + + * We run an early part of "git gc" that deals with refs before + daemonising (and not under lock) even when running a background + auto-gc, which caused multiple gc processes attempting to run the + early part at the same time. This is now prevented by running the + early part also under the GC lock. + + * A recent update broke an alias that contained an uppercase letter. + + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. + (merge 5053313562 rs/urlmatch-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 42c78a216e rs/use-div-round-up later to maint). + (merge 5e8d2729ae rs/wt-status-cleanup later to maint). + (merge bc9b7e207f as/diff-options-grammofix later to maint). + (merge ac05222b31 ah/patch-id-doc later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9403340f7f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Git v2.14.1 Release Notes +========================= + +This release forward-ports the fix for "ssh://..." URL from Git v2.7.6 diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bec9186ade --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +Git v2.14.2 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.14.1 +------------------- + + * Because recent Git for Windows do come with a real msgfmt, the + build procedure for git-gui has been updated to use it instead of a + hand-rolled substitute. + + * "%C(color name)" in the pretty print format always produced ANSI + color escape codes, which was an early design mistake. They now + honor the configuration (e.g. "color.ui = never") and also tty-ness + of the output medium. + + * The http.{sslkey,sslCert} configuration variables are to be + interpreted as a pathname that honors "~[username]/" prefix, but + weren't, which has been fixed. + + * Numerous bugs in walking of reflogs via "log -g" and friends have + been fixed. + + * "git commit" when seeing an totally empty message said "you did not + edit the message", which is clearly wrong. The message has been + corrected. + + * When a directory is not readable, "gitweb" fails to build the + project list. Work this around by skipping such a directory. + + * A recently added test for the "credential-cache" helper revealed + that EOF detection done around the time the connection to the cache + daemon is torn down were flaky. This was fixed by reacting to + ECONNRESET and behaving as if we got an EOF. + + * Some versions of GnuPG fail to kill gpg-agent it auto-spawned + and such a left-over agent can interfere with a test. Work it + around by attempting to kill one before starting a new test. + + * "git log --tag=no-such-tag" showed log starting from HEAD, which + has been fixed---it now shows nothing. + + * The "tag.pager" configuration variable was useless for those who + actually create tag objects, as it interfered with the use of an + editor. A new mechanism has been introduced for commands to enable + pager depending on what operation is being carried out to fix this, + and then "git tag -l" is made to run pager by default. + + * "git push --recurse-submodules $there HEAD:$target" was not + propagated down to the submodules, but now it is. + + * Commands like "git rebase" accepted the --rerere-autoupdate option + from the command line, but did not always use it. This has been + fixed. + + * "git clone --recurse-submodules --quiet" did not pass the quiet + option down to submodules. + + * "git am -s" has been taught that some input may end with a trailer + block that is not Signed-off-by: and it should refrain from adding + an extra blank line before adding a new sign-off in such a case. + + * "git svn" used with "--localtime" option did not compute the tz + offset for the timestamp in question and instead always used the + current time, which has been corrected. + + * Memory leaks in a few error codepaths have been plugged. + + * bash 4.4 or newer gave a warning on NUL byte in command + substitution done in "git stash"; this has been squelched. + + * "git grep -L" and "git grep --quiet -L" reported different exit + codes; this has been corrected. + + * When handshake with a subprocess filter notices that the process + asked for an unknown capability, Git did not report what program + the offending subprocess was running. This has been corrected. + + * "git apply" that is used as a better "patch -p1" failed to apply a + taken from a file with CRLF line endings to a file with CRLF line + endings. The root cause was because it misused convert_to_git() + that tried to do "safe-crlf" processing by looking at the index + entry at the same path, which is a nonsense---in that mode, "apply" + is not working on the data in (or derived from) the index at all. + This has been fixed. + + * Killing "git merge --edit" before the editor returns control left + the repository in a state with MERGE_MSG but without MERGE_HEAD, + which incorrectly tells the subsequent "git commit" that there was + a squash merge in progress. This has been fixed. + + * "git archive" did not work well with pathspecs and the + export-ignore attribute. + + * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git daemon" by default, + as it is old and largely unmaintained. + + * Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of + backticks, leaving them susceptible to end-user input. They have + been corrected. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + +Credits go to joernchen <joernchen@phenoelit.de> for finding the +unsafe constructs in "git cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for +finding and fixing instances of the same issue in other scripts. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..977c9e857c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +Git v2.14.3 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.14.2 +------------------- + + * A helper function to read a single whole line into strbuf + mistakenly triggered OOM error at EOF under certain conditions, + which has been fixed. + + * In addition to "cc: <a@dd.re.ss> # cruft", "cc: a@dd.re.ss # cruft" + was taught to "git send-email" as a valid way to tell it that it + needs to also send a carbon copy to <a@dd.re.ss> in the trailer + section. + + * Fix regression to "gitk --bisect" by a recent update. + + * Unlike "git commit-tree < file", "git commit-tree -F file" did not + pass the contents of the file verbatim and instead completed an + incomplete line at the end, if exists. The latter has been updated + to match the behaviour of the former. + + * "git archive", especially when used with pathspec, stored an empty + directory in its output, even though Git itself never does so. + This has been fixed. + + * API error-proofing which happens to also squelch warnings from GCC. + + * "git gc" tries to avoid running two instances at the same time by + reading and writing pid/host from and to a lock file; it used to + use an incorrect fscanf() format when reading, which has been + corrected. + + * The test linter has been taught that we do not like "echo -e". + + * Code cmp.std.c nitpick. + + * "git describe --match" learned to take multiple patterns in v2.13 + series, but the feature ignored the patterns after the first one + and did not work at all. This has been fixed. + + * "git cat-file --textconv" started segfaulting recently, which + has been corrected. + + * The built-in pattern to detect the "function header" for HTML did + not match <H1>..<H6> elements without any attributes, which has + been fixed. + + * "git mailinfo" was loose in decoding quoted printable and produced + garbage when the two letters after the equal sign are not + hexadecimal. This has been fixed. + + * The documentation for '-X<option>' for merges was misleadingly + written to suggest that "-s theirs" exists, which is not the case. + + * Spell the name of our system as "Git" in the output from + request-pull script. + + * Fixes for a handful memory access issues identified by valgrind. + + * Backports a moral equivalent of 2015 fix to the poll emulation from + the upstream gnulib to fix occasional breakages on HPE NonStop. + + * In the "--format=..." option of the "git for-each-ref" command (and + its friends, i.e. the listing mode of "git branch/tag"), "%(atom:)" + (e.g. "%(refname:)", "%(body:)" used to error out. Instead, treat + them as if the colon and an empty string that follows it were not + there. + + * Users with "color.ui = always" in their configuration were broken + by a recent change that made plumbing commands to pay attention to + them as the patch created internally by "git add -p" were colored + (heh) and made unusable. This has been fixed. + + * "git branch -M a b" while on a branch that is completely unrelated + to either branch a or branch b misbehaved when multiple worktree + was in use. This has been fixed. + + * "git fast-export" with -M/-C option issued "copy" instruction on a + path that is simultaneously modified, which was incorrect. + + * The checkpoint command "git fast-import" did not flush updates to + refs and marks unless at least one object was created since the + last checkpoint, which has been corrected, as these things can + happen without any new object getting created. + + * The scripts to drive TravisCI has been reorganized and then an + optimization to avoid spending cycles on a branch whose tip is + tagged has been implemented. + + * "git fetch <there> <src>:<dst>" allows an object name on the <src> + side when the other side accepts such a request since Git v2.5, but + the documentation was left stale. + + * A regression in 2.11 that made the code to read the list of + alternate object stores overrun the end of the string has been + fixed. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..97755a89d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Git v2.14.4 Release Notes +========================= + +This release is to forward-port the fixes made in the v2.13.7 version +of Git. See its release notes for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cdd761bcc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,508 @@ +Git 2.15 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes. + + * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for + 'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a + more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing + users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be + turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of + this (mis)feature. That is now scheduled to happen in Git v2.16, + the next major release after this one. + + * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup + sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that + happens to work right now may be broken by a call to BUG(). + We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there + might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are + greatly appreciated. + + * "branch --set-upstream" that has been deprecated in Git 1.8 has + finally been retired. + + +Updates since v2.14 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * An example that is now obsolete has been removed from a sample hook, + and an old example in it that added a sign-off manually has been + improved to use the interpret-trailers command. + + * The advice message given when "git rebase" stops for conflicting + changes has been improved. + + * The "rerere-train" script (in contrib/) learned the "--overwrite" + option to allow overwriting existing recorded resolutions. + + * "git contacts" (in contrib/) now lists the address on the + "Reported-by:" trailer to its output, in addition to those on + S-o-b: and other trailers, to make it easier to notify (and thank) + the original bug reporter. + + * "git rebase", especially when it is run by mistake and ends up + trying to replay many changes, spent long time in silence. The + command has been taught to show progress report when it spends + long time preparing these many changes to replay (which would give + the user a chance to abort with ^C). + + * "git merge" learned a "--signoff" option to add the Signed-off-by: + trailer with the committer's name. + + * "git diff" learned to optionally paint new lines that are the same + as deleted lines elsewhere differently from genuinely new lines. + + * "git interpret-trailers" learned to take the trailer specifications + from the command line that overrides the configured values. + + * "git interpret-trailers" has been taught a "--parse" and a few + other options to make it easier for scripts to grab existing + trailer lines from a commit log message. + + * The "--format=%(trailers)" option "git log" and its friends take + learned to take the 'unfold' and 'only' modifiers to normalize its + output, e.g. "git log --format=%(trailers:only,unfold)". + + * "gitweb" shows a link to visit the 'raw' contents of blobs in the + history overview page. + + * "[gc] rerereResolved = 5.days" used to be invalid, as the variable + is defined to take an integer counting the number of days. It now + is allowed. + + * The code to acquire a lock on a reference (e.g. while accepting a + push from a client) used to immediately fail when the reference is + already locked---now it waits for a very short while and retries, + which can make it succeed if the lock holder was holding it during + a read-only operation. + + * "branch --set-upstream" that has been deprecated in Git 1.8 has + finally been retired. + + * The codepath to call external process filter for smudge/clean + operation learned to show the progress meter. + + * "git rev-parse" learned "--is-shallow-repository", that is to be + used in a way similar to existing "--is-bare-repository" and + friends. + + * "git describe --match <pattern>" has been taught to play well with + the "--all" option. + + * "git branch" learned "-c/-C" to create a new branch by copying an + existing one. + + * Some commands (most notably "git status") makes an opportunistic + update when performing a read-only operation to help optimize later + operations in the same repository. The new "--no-optional-locks" + option can be passed to Git to disable them. + + * "git for-each-ref --format=..." learned a new format element, + %(trailers), to show only the commit log trailer part of the log + message. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. + + * Start using selected c99 constructs in small, stable and + essential part of the system to catch people who care about + older compilers that do not grok them. + + * The filter-process interface learned to allow a process with long + latency give a "delayed" response. + + * Many uses of comparison callback function the hashmap API uses + cast the callback function type when registering it to + hashmap_init(), which defeats the compile time type checking when + the callback interface changes (e.g. gaining more parameters). + The callback implementations have been updated to take "void *" + pointers and cast them to the type they expect instead. + + * Because recent Git for Windows do come with a real msgfmt, the + build procedure for git-gui has been updated to use it instead of a + hand-rolled substitute. + + * "git grep --recurse-submodules" has been reworked to give a more + consistent output across submodule boundary (and do its thing + without having to fork a separate process). + + * A helper function to read a single whole line into strbuf + mistakenly triggered OOM error at EOF under certain conditions, + which has been fixed. + + * The "ref-store" code reorganization continues. + + * "git commit" used to discard the index and re-read from the filesystem + just in case the pre-commit hook has updated it in the middle; this + has been optimized out when we know we do not run the pre-commit hook. + (merge 680ee550d7 kw/commit-keep-index-when-pre-commit-is-not-run later to maint). + + * Updates to the HTTP layer we made recently unconditionally used + features of libCurl without checking the existence of them, causing + compilation errors, which has been fixed. Also migrate the code to + check feature macros, not version numbers, to cope better with + libCurl that vendor ships with backported features. + + * The API to start showing progress meter after a short delay has + been simplified. + (merge 8aade107dd jc/simplify-progress later to maint). + + * Code clean-up to avoid mixing values read from the .gitmodules file + and values read from the .git/config file. + + * We used to spend more than necessary cycles allocating and freeing + piece of memory while writing each index entry out. This has been + optimized. + + * Platforms that ship with a separate sha1 with collision detection + library can link to it instead of using the copy we ship as part of + our source tree. + + * Code around "notes" have been cleaned up. + (merge 3964281524 mh/notes-cleanup later to maint). + + * The long-standing rule that an in-core lockfile instance, once it + is used, must not be freed, has been lifted and the lockfile and + tempfile APIs have been updated to reduce the chance of programming + errors. + + * Our hashmap implementation in hashmap.[ch] is not thread-safe when + adding a new item needs to expand the hashtable by rehashing; add + an API to disable the automatic rehashing to work it around. + + * Many of our programs consider that it is OK to release dynamic + storage that is used throughout the life of the program by simply + exiting, but this makes it harder to leak detection tools to avoid + reporting false positives. Plug many existing leaks and introduce + a mechanism for developers to mark that the region of memory + pointed by a pointer is not lost/leaking to help these tools. + + * As "git commit" to conclude a conflicted "git merge" honors the + commit-msg hook, "git merge" that records a merge commit that + cleanly auto-merges should, but it didn't. + + * The codepath for "git merge-recursive" has been cleaned up. + + * Many leaks of strbuf have been fixed. + + * "git imap-send" has our own implementation of the protocol and also + can use more recent libCurl with the imap protocol support. Update + the latter so that it can use the credential subsystem, and then + make it the default option to use, so that we can eventually + deprecate and remove the former. + + * "make style" runs git-clang-format to help developers by pointing + out coding style issues. + + * A test to demonstrate "git mv" failing to adjust nested submodules + has been added. + (merge c514167df2 hv/mv-nested-submodules-test later to maint). + + * On Cygwin, "ulimit -s" does not report failure but it does not work + at all, which causes an unexpected success of some tests that + expect failures under a limited stack situation. This has been + fixed. + + * Many codepaths have been updated to squelch -Wimplicit-fallthrough + warnings from Gcc 7 (which is a good code hygiene). + + * Add a helper for DLL loading in anticipation for its need in a + future topic RSN. + + * "git status --ignored", when noticing that a directory without any + tracked path is ignored, still enumerated all the ignored paths in + the directory, which is unnecessary. The codepath has been + optimized to avoid this overhead. + + * The final batch to "git rebase -i" updates to move more code from + the shell script to C has been merged. + + * Operations that do not touch (majority of) packed refs have been + optimized by making accesses to packed-refs file lazy; we no longer + pre-parse everything, and an access to a single ref in the + packed-refs does not touch majority of irrelevant refs, either. + + * Add comment to clarify that the style file is meant to be used with + clang-5 and the rules are still work in progress. + + * Many variables that points at a region of memory that will live + throughout the life of the program have been marked with UNLEAK + marker to help the leak checkers concentrate on real leaks.. + + * Plans for weaning us off of SHA-1 has been documented. + + * A new "oidmap" API has been introduced and oidset API has been + rewritten to use it. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.14 +----------------- + + * "%C(color name)" in the pretty print format always produced ANSI + color escape codes, which was an early design mistake. They now + honor the configuration (e.g. "color.ui = never") and also tty-ness + of the output medium. + + * The http.{sslkey,sslCert} configuration variables are to be + interpreted as a pathname that honors "~[username]/" prefix, but + weren't, which has been fixed. + + * Numerous bugs in walking of reflogs via "log -g" and friends have + been fixed. + + * "git commit" when seeing an totally empty message said "you did not + edit the message", which is clearly wrong. The message has been + corrected. + + * When a directory is not readable, "gitweb" fails to build the + project list. Work this around by skipping such a directory. + + * Some versions of GnuPG fails to kill gpg-agent it auto-spawned + and such a left-over agent can interfere with a test. Work it + around by attempting to kill one before starting a new test. + + * A recently added test for the "credential-cache" helper revealed + that EOF detection done around the time the connection to the cache + daemon is torn down were flaky. This was fixed by reacting to + ECONNRESET and behaving as if we got an EOF. + + * "git log --tag=no-such-tag" showed log starting from HEAD, which + has been fixed---it now shows nothing. + + * The "tag.pager" configuration variable was useless for those who + actually create tag objects, as it interfered with the use of an + editor. A new mechanism has been introduced for commands to enable + pager depending on what operation is being carried out to fix this, + and then "git tag -l" is made to run pager by default. + + * "git push --recurse-submodules $there HEAD:$target" was not + propagated down to the submodules, but now it is. + + * Commands like "git rebase" accepted the --rerere-autoupdate option + from the command line, but did not always use it. This has been + fixed. + + * "git clone --recurse-submodules --quiet" did not pass the quiet + option down to submodules. + + * Test portability fix for OBSD. + + * Portability fix for OBSD. + + * "git am -s" has been taught that some input may end with a trailer + block that is not Signed-off-by: and it should refrain from adding + an extra blank line before adding a new sign-off in such a case. + + * "git svn" used with "--localtime" option did not compute the tz + offset for the timestamp in question and instead always used the + current time, which has been corrected. + + * Memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged. + + * "git stash -u" used the contents of the committed version of the + ".gitignore" file to decide which paths are ignored, even when the + file has local changes. The command has been taught to instead use + the locally modified contents. + + * bash 4.4 or newer gave a warning on NUL byte in command + substitution done in "git stash"; this has been squelched. + + * "git grep -L" and "git grep --quiet -L" reported different exit + codes; this has been corrected. + + * When handshake with a subprocess filter notices that the process + asked for an unknown capability, Git did not report what program + the offending subprocess was running. This has been corrected. + + * "git apply" that is used as a better "patch -p1" failed to apply a + taken from a file with CRLF line endings to a file with CRLF line + endings. The root cause was because it misused convert_to_git() + that tried to do "safe-crlf" processing by looking at the index + entry at the same path, which is a nonsense---in that mode, "apply" + is not working on the data in (or derived from) the index at all. + This has been fixed. + + * Killing "git merge --edit" before the editor returns control left + the repository in a state with MERGE_MSG but without MERGE_HEAD, + which incorrectly tells the subsequent "git commit" that there was + a squash merge in progress. This has been fixed. + + * "git archive" did not work well with pathspecs and the + export-ignore attribute. + + * In addition to "cc: <a@dd.re.ss> # cruft", "cc: a@dd.re.ss # cruft" + was taught to "git send-email" as a valid way to tell it that it + needs to also send a carbon copy to <a@dd.re.ss> in the trailer + section. + + * "git branch -M a b" while on a branch that is completely unrelated + to either branch a or branch b misbehaved when multiple worktree + was in use. This has been fixed. + (merge 31824d180d nd/worktree-kill-parse-ref later to maint). + + * "git gc" and friends when multiple worktrees are used off of a + single repository did not consider the index and per-worktree refs + of other worktrees as the root for reachability traversal, making + objects that are in use only in other worktrees to be subject to + garbage collection. + + * A regression to "gitk --bisect" by a recent update has been fixed. + + * "git -c submodule.recurse=yes pull" did not work as if the + "--recurse-submodules" option was given from the command line. + This has been corrected. + + * Unlike "git commit-tree < file", "git commit-tree -F file" did not + pass the contents of the file verbatim and instead completed an + incomplete line at the end, if exists. The latter has been updated + to match the behaviour of the former. + + * Many codepaths did not diagnose write failures correctly when disks + go full, due to their misuse of write_in_full() helper function, + which have been corrected. + (merge f48ecd38cb jk/write-in-full-fix later to maint). + + * "git help co" now says "co is aliased to ...", not "git co is". + (merge b3a8076e0d ks/help-alias-label later to maint). + + * "git archive", especially when used with pathspec, stored an empty + directory in its output, even though Git itself never does so. + This has been fixed. + + * API error-proofing which happens to also squelch warnings from GCC. + + * The explanation of the cut-line in the commit log editor has been + slightly tweaked. + (merge 8c4b1a3593 ks/commit-do-not-touch-cut-line later to maint). + + * "git gc" tries to avoid running two instances at the same time by + reading and writing pid/host from and to a lock file; it used to + use an incorrect fscanf() format when reading, which has been + corrected. + + * The scripts to drive TravisCI has been reorganized and then an + optimization to avoid spending cycles on a branch whose tip is + tagged has been implemented. + (merge 8376eb4a8f ls/travis-scriptify later to maint). + + * The test linter has been taught that we do not like "echo -e". + + * Code cmp.std.c nitpick. + + * A regression fix for 2.11 that made the code to read the list of + alternate object stores overrun the end of the string. + (merge f0f7bebef7 jk/info-alternates-fix later to maint). + + * "git describe --match" learned to take multiple patterns in v2.13 + series, but the feature ignored the patterns after the first one + and did not work at all. This has been fixed. + + * "git filter-branch" cannot reproduce a history with a tag without + the tagger field, which only ancient versions of Git allowed to be + created. This has been corrected. + (merge b2c1ca6b4b ic/fix-filter-branch-to-handle-tag-without-tagger later to maint). + + * "git cat-file --textconv" started segfaulting recently, which + has been corrected. + + * The built-in pattern to detect the "function header" for HTML did + not match <H1>..<H6> elements without any attributes, which has + been fixed. + + * "git mailinfo" was loose in decoding quoted printable and produced + garbage when the two letters after the equal sign are not + hexadecimal. This has been fixed. + + * The machinery to create xdelta used in pack files received the + sizes of the data in size_t, but lost the higher bits of them by + storing them in "unsigned int" during the computation, which is + fixed. + + * The delta format used in the packfile cannot reference data at + offset larger than what can be expressed in 4-byte, but the + generator for the data failed to make sure the offset does not + overflow. This has been corrected. + + * The documentation for '-X<option>' for merges was misleadingly + written to suggest that "-s theirs" exists, which is not the case. + + * "git fast-export" with -M/-C option issued "copy" instruction on a + path that is simultaneously modified, which was incorrect. + (merge b3e8ca89cf jt/fast-export-copy-modify-fix later to maint). + + * Many codepaths have been updated to squelch -Wsign-compare + warnings. + (merge 071bcaab64 rj/no-sign-compare later to maint). + + * Memory leaks in various codepaths have been plugged. + (merge 4d01a7fa65 ma/leakplugs later to maint). + + * Recent versions of "git rev-parse --parseopt" did not parse the + option specification that does not have the optional flags (*=?!) + correctly, which has been corrected. + (merge a6304fa4c2 bc/rev-parse-parseopt-fix later to maint). + + * The checkpoint command "git fast-import" did not flush updates to + refs and marks unless at least one object was created since the + last checkpoint, which has been corrected, as these things can + happen without any new object getting created. + (merge 30e215a65c er/fast-import-dump-refs-on-checkpoint later to maint). + + * Spell the name of our system as "Git" in the output from + request-pull script. + + * Fixes for a handful memory access issues identified by valgrind. + + * Backports a moral equivalent of 2015 fix to the poll() emulation + from the upstream gnulib to fix occasional breakages on HPE NonStop. + + * Users with "color.ui = always" in their configuration were broken + by a recent change that made plumbing commands to pay attention to + them as the patch created internally by "git add -p" were colored + (heh) and made unusable. This has been fixed by reverting the + offending change. + + * In the "--format=..." option of the "git for-each-ref" command (and + its friends, i.e. the listing mode of "git branch/tag"), "%(atom:)" + (e.g. "%(refname:)", "%(body:)" used to error out. Instead, treat + them as if the colon and an empty string that follows it were not + there. + + * An ancient bug that made Git misbehave with creation/renaming of + refs has been fixed. + + * "git fetch <there> <src>:<dst>" allows an object name on the <src> + side when the other side accepts such a request since Git v2.5, but + the documentation was left stale. + (merge 83558a412a jc/fetch-refspec-doc-update later to maint). + + * Update the documentation for "git filter-branch" so that the filter + options are listed in the same order as they are applied, as + described in an earlier part of the doc. + (merge 07c4984508 dg/filter-branch-filter-order-doc later to maint). + + * A possible oom error is now caught as a fatal error, instead of + continuing and dereferencing NULL. + (merge 55d7d15847 ao/path-use-xmalloc later to maint). + + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. + (merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint). + (merge 6cdf8a7929 ma/ts-cleanups later to maint). + (merge 7560f547e6 ma/up-to-date later to maint). + (merge 0db3dc75f3 rs/apply-epoch later to maint). + (merge 276d0e35c0 ma/split-symref-update-fix later to maint). + (merge f777623514 ks/branch-tweak-error-message-for-extra-args later to maint). + (merge 33f3c683ec ks/verify-filename-non-option-error-message-tweak later to maint). + (merge 7cbbf9d6a2 ls/filter-process-delayed later to maint). + (merge 488aa65c8f wk/merge-options-gpg-sign-doc later to maint). + (merge e61cb19a27 jc/branch-force-doc-readability-fix later to maint). + (merge 32fceba3fd np/config-path-doc later to maint). + (merge e38c681fb7 sb/rev-parse-show-superproject-root later to maint). + (merge 4f851dc883 sg/rev-list-doc-reorder-fix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ec06704e63 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +Git v2.15.1 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.15 +----------------- + + * TravisCI build updates. + + * "auto" as a value for the columnar output configuration ought to + judge "is the output consumed by humans?" with the same criteria as + "auto" for coloured output configuration, i.e. either the standard + output stream is going to tty, or a pager is in use. We forgot the + latter, which has been fixed. + + * The experimental "color moved lines differently in diff output" + feature was buggy around "ignore whitespace changes" edges, which + has been corrected. + + * Instead of using custom line comparison and hashing functions to + implement "moved lines" coloring in the diff output, use the pair + of these functions from lower-layer xdiff/ code. + + * Some codepaths did not check for errors when asking what branch the + HEAD points at, which have been fixed. + + * "git commit", after making a commit, did not check for errors when + asking on what branch it made the commit, which has been corrected. + + * "git status --ignored -u" did not stop at a working tree of a + separate project that is embedded in an ignored directory and + listed files in that other project, instead of just showing the + directory itself as ignored. + + * A broken access to object databases in recent update to "git grep + --recurse-submodules" has been fixed. + + * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" that broke execution of git + commands from subdirectories via "exec" instruction has been fixed. + + * "git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run + outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation + and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in + such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names. + + * Command line completion (in contrib/) update. + + * Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date} + configuration variables have been added to "git config --help". + + * After an error from lstat(), diff_populate_filespec() function + sometimes still went ahead and used invalid data in struct stat, + which has been fixed. + + * UNC paths are also relevant in Cygwin builds and they are now + tested just like Mingw builds. + + * Correct start-up sequence so that a repository could be placed + immediately under the root directory again (which was broken at + around Git 2.13). + + * The credential helper for libsecret (in contrib/) has been improved + to allow possibly prompting the end user to unlock secrets that are + currently locked (otherwise the secrets may not be loaded). + + * Updates from GfW project. + + * "git rebase -i" recently started misbehaving when a submodule that + is configured with 'submodule.<name>.ignore' is dirty; this has + been corrected. + + * Some error messages did not quote filenames shown in it, which have + been fixed. + + * Building with NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT did not disable it, which has been fixed. + + * We used to add an empty alternate object database to the system + that does not help anything; it has been corrected. + + * Error checking in "git imap-send" for empty response has been + improved. + + * An ancient bug in "git apply --ignore-space-change" codepath has + been fixed. + + * There was a recent semantic mismerge in the codepath to write out a + section of a configuration section, which has been corrected. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b480e56b68 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +Git v2.15.2 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.15.1 +------------------- + + * Recent update to the refs infrastructure implementation started + rewriting packed-refs file more often than before; this has been + optimized again for most trivial cases. + + * The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an + HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor. + + * Contrary to the documentation, "git pull -4/-6 other-args" did not + ask the underlying "git fetch" to go over IPv4/IPv6, which has been + corrected. + + * When "git rebase" prepared an mailbox of changes and fed it to "git + am" to replay them, it was confused when a stray "From " happened + to be in the log message of one of the replayed changes. This has + been corrected. + + * Command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught about the + "--copy" option of "git branch". + + * "git apply --inaccurate-eof" when used with "--ignore-space-change" + triggered an internal sanity check, which has been fixed. + + * The sequencer machinery (used by "git cherry-pick A..B", and "git + rebase -i", among other things) would have lost a commit if stopped + due to an unlockable index file, which has been fixed. + + * The three-way merge performed by "git cherry-pick" was confused + when a new submodule was added in the meantime, which has been + fixed (or "papered over"). + + * "git notes" sent its error message to its standard output stream, + which was corrected. + + * A few scripts (both in production and tests) incorrectly redirected + their error output. These have been corrected. + + * Clarify and enhance documentation for "merge-base --fork-point", as + it was clear what it computed but not why/what for. + + * This release also contains the fixes made in the v2.13.7 version of + Git. See its release notes for details. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0c81c5915f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,482 @@ +Git 2.16 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes. + + * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for + 'everything matches' is now an error. + + +Updates since v2.15 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * An empty string as a pathspec element that means "everything" + i.e. 'git add ""', is now illegal. We started this by first + deprecating and warning a pathspec that has such an element in + 2.11 (Nov 2016). + + * A hook script that is set unexecutable is simply ignored. Git + notifies when such a file is ignored, unless the message is + squelched via advice.ignoredHook configuration. + + * "git pull" has been taught to accept "--[no-]signoff" option and + pass it down to "git merge". + + * The "--push-option=<string>" option to "git push" now defaults to a + list of strings configured via push.pushOption variable. + + * "gitweb" checks if a directory is searchable with Perl's "-x" + operator, which can be enhanced by using "filetest 'access'" + pragma, which now we do. + + * "git stash save" has been deprecated in favour of "git stash push". + + * The set of paths output from "git status --ignored" was tied + closely with its "--untracked=<mode>" option, but now it can be + controlled more flexibly. Most notably, a directory that is + ignored because it is listed to be ignored in the ignore/exclude + mechanism can be handled differently from a directory that ends up + to be ignored only because all files in it are ignored. + + * The remote-helper for talking to MediaWiki has been updated to + truncate an overlong pagename so that ".mw" suffix can still be + added. + + * The remote-helper for talking to MediaWiki has been updated to + work with mediawiki namespaces. + + * The "--format=..." option "git for-each-ref" takes learned to show + the name of the 'remote' repository and the ref at the remote side + that is affected for 'upstream' and 'push' via "%(push:remotename)" + and friends. + + * Doc and message updates to teach users "bisect view" is a synonym + for "bisect visualize". + + * "git bisect run" that did not specify any command to run used to go + ahead and treated all commits to be tested as 'good'. This has + been corrected by making the command error out. + + * The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an + HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor. + + * We learned to optionally talk to a file system monitor via new + fsmonitor extension to speed up "git status" and other operations + that need to see which paths have been modified. Currently we only + support "watchman". See File System Monitor section of + git-update-index(1) for more detail. + + * The "diff" family of commands learned to ignore differences in + carriage return at the end of line. + + * Places that know about "sendemail.to", like documentation and shell + completion (in contrib/) have been taught about "sendemail.tocmd", + too. + + * "git add --renormalize ." is a new and safer way to record the fact + that you are correcting the end-of-line convention and other + "convert_to_git()" glitches in the in-repository data. + + * "git branch" and "git checkout -b" are now forbidden from creating + a branch whose name is "HEAD". + + * "git branch --list" learned to show its output through the pager by + default when the output is going to a terminal, which is controlled + by the pager.branch configuration variable. This is similar to a + recent change to "git tag --list". + + * "git grep -W", "git diff -W" and their friends learned a heuristic + to extend a pre-context beyond the line that matches the "function + pattern" (aka "diff.*.xfuncname") to include a comment block, if + exists, that immediately precedes it. + + * "git config --expiry-date gc.reflogexpire" can read "2.weeks" from + the configuration and report it as a timestamp, just like "--int" + would read "1k" and report 1024, to help consumption by scripts. + + * The shell completion (in contrib/) learned that "git pull" can take + the "--autostash" option. + + * The tagnames "git log --decorate" uses to annotate the commits can + now be limited to subset of available refs with the two additional + options, --decorate-refs[-exclude]=<pattern>. + + * "git grep" compiled with libpcre2 sometimes triggered a segfault, + which is being fixed. + + * "git send-email" tries to see if the sendmail program is available + in /usr/lib and /usr/sbin; extend the list of locations to be + checked to also include directories on $PATH. + + * "git diff" learned, "--anchored", a variant of the "--patience" + algorithm, to which the user can specify which 'unique' line to be + used as anchoring points. + + * The way "git worktree add" determines what branch to create from + where and checkout in the new worktree has been updated a bit. + + * Ancient part of codebase still shows dots after an abbreviated + object name just to show that it is not a full object name, but + these ellipses are confusing to people who newly discovered Git + who are used to seeing abbreviated object names and find them + confusing with the range syntax. + + * With a configuration variable rebase.abbreviateCommands set, + "git rebase -i" produces the todo list with a single-letter + command names. + + * "git worktree add" learned to run the post-checkout hook, just like + "git checkout" does, after the initial checkout. + + * "git svn" has been updated to strip CRs in the commit messages, as + recent versions of Subversion rejects them. + + * "git imap-send" did not correctly quote the folder name when + making a request to the server, which has been corrected. + + * Error messages from "git rebase" have been somewhat cleaned up. + + * Git has been taught to support an https:// URL used for http.proxy + when using recent versions of libcurl. + + * "git merge" learned to pay attention to merge.verifySignatures + configuration variable and pretend as if '--verify-signatures' + option was given from the command line. + + * "git describe" was taught to dig trees deeper to find a + <commit-ish>:<path> that refers to a given blob object. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * An earlier update made it possible to use an on-stack in-core + lockfile structure (as opposed to having to deliberately leak an + on-heap one). Many codepaths have been updated to take advantage + of this new facility. + + * Calling cmd_foo() as if it is a general purpose helper function is + a no-no. Correct two instances of such to set an example. + + * We try to see if somebody runs our test suite with a shell that + does not support "local" like bash/dash does. + + * An early part of piece-by-piece rewrite of "git bisect" in C. + + * GSoC to piece-by-piece rewrite "git submodule" in C. + + * Optimize the code to find shortest unique prefix of object names. + + * Pathspec-limited revision traversal was taught not to keep finding + unneeded differences once it knows two trees are different inside + given pathspec. + + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. + + * Code cleanup. + + * A single-word "unsigned flags" in the diff options is being split + into a structure with many bitfields. + + * TravisCI build updates. + + * Parts of a test to drive the long-running content filter interface + has been split into its own module, hopefully to eventually become + reusable. + + * Drop (perhaps overly cautious) sanity check before using the index + read from the filesystem at runtime. + + * The build procedure has been taught to avoid some unnecessary + instability in the build products. + + * A new mechanism to upgrade the wire protocol in place is proposed + and demonstrated that it works with the older versions of Git + without harming them. + + * An infrastructure to define what hash function is used in Git is + introduced, and an effort to plumb that throughout various + codepaths has been started. + + * The code to iterate over loose object files got optimized. + + * An internal function that was left for backward compatibility has + been removed, as there is no remaining callers. + + * Historically, the diff machinery for rename detection had a + hardcoded limit of 32k paths; this is being lifted to allow users + trade cycles with a (possibly) easier to read result. + + * The tracing infrastructure has been optimized for cases where no + tracing is requested. + + * In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the object + walking machinery has been taught a way to tell it to "filter" some + objects from enumeration. + + * A few structures and variables that are implementation details of + the decorate API have been renamed and then the API got documented + better. + + * Assorted updates for TravisCI integration. + (merge 4f26366679 sg/travis-fixes later to maint). + + * Introduce a helper to simplify code to parse a common pattern that + expects either "--key" or "--key=<something>". + + * "git version --build-options" learned to report the host CPU and + the exact commit object name the binary was built from. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.15 +----------------- + + * "auto" as a value for the columnar output configuration ought to + judge "is the output consumed by humans?" with the same criteria as + "auto" for coloured output configuration, i.e. either the standard + output stream is going to tty, or a pager is in use. We forgot the + latter, which has been fixed. + + * The experimental "color moved lines differently in diff output" + feature was buggy around "ignore whitespace changes" edges, which + has been corrected. + + * Instead of using custom line comparison and hashing functions to + implement "moved lines" coloring in the diff output, use the pair + of these functions from lower-layer xdiff/ code. + + * Some codepaths did not check for errors when asking what branch the + HEAD points at, which have been fixed. + + * "git commit", after making a commit, did not check for errors when + asking on what branch it made the commit, which has been corrected. + + * "git status --ignored -u" did not stop at a working tree of a + separate project that is embedded in an ignored directory and + listed files in that other project, instead of just showing the + directory itself as ignored. + + * A broken access to object databases in recent update to "git grep + --recurse-submodules" has been fixed. + + * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" that broke execution of git + commands from subdirectories via "exec" instruction has been fixed. + + * A (possibly flakey) test fix. + + * "git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run + outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation + and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in + such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names. + + * "git fetch --recurse-submodules" now knows that submodules can be + moved around in the superproject in addition to getting updated, + and finds the ones that need to be fetched accordingly. + + * Command line completion (in contrib/) update. + + * Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date} + configuration variables have been added to "git config --help". + + * After an error from lstat(), diff_populate_filespec() function + sometimes still went ahead and used invalid data in struct stat, + which has been fixed. + + * UNC paths are also relevant in Cygwin builds and they are now + tested just like Mingw builds. + + * Correct start-up sequence so that a repository could be placed + immediately under the root directory again (which was broken at + around Git 2.13). + + * The credential helper for libsecret (in contrib/) has been improved + to allow possibly prompting the end user to unlock secrets that are + currently locked (otherwise the secrets may not be loaded). + + * MinGW updates. + + * Error checking in "git imap-send" for empty response has been + improved. + + * Recent update to the refs infrastructure implementation started + rewriting packed-refs file more often than before; this has been + optimized again for most trivial cases. + + * Some error messages did not quote filenames shown in it, which have + been fixed. + + * "git rebase -i" recently started misbehaving when a submodule that + is configured with 'submodule.<name>.ignore' is dirty; this has + been corrected. + + * Building with NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT did not disable it, which has been fixed. + + * We used to add an empty alternate object database to the system + that does not help anything; it has been corrected. + + * Doc update around use of "format-patch --subject-prefix" etc. + + * A fix for an ancient bug in "git apply --ignore-space-change" codepath. + + * Clarify and enhance documentation for "merge-base --fork-point", as + it was clear what it computed but not why/what for. + + * A few scripts (both in production and tests) incorrectly redirected + their error output. These have been corrected. + + * "git notes" sent its error message to its standard output stream, + which was corrected. + + * The three-way merge performed by "git cherry-pick" was confused + when a new submodule was added in the meantime, which has been + fixed (or "papered over"). + + * The sequencer machinery (used by "git cherry-pick A..B", and "git + rebase -i", among other things) would have lost a commit if stopped + due to an unlockable index file, which has been fixed. + + * "git apply --inaccurate-eof" when used with "--ignore-space-change" + triggered an internal sanity check, which has been fixed. + + * Command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught about the + "--copy" option of "git branch". + + * When "git rebase" prepared a mailbox of changes and fed it to "git + am" to replay them, it was confused when a stray "From " happened + to be in the log message of one of the replayed changes. This has + been corrected. + + * There was a recent semantic mismerge in the codepath to write out a + section of a configuration section, which has been corrected. + + * Mentions of "git-rebase" and "git-am" (dashed form) still remained + in end-user visible strings emitted by the "git rebase" command; + they have been corrected. + + * Contrary to the documentation, "git pull -4/-6 other-args" did not + ask the underlying "git fetch" to go over IPv4/IPv6, which has been + corrected. + + * "git checkout --recursive" may overwrite and rewind the history of + the branch that happens to be checked out in submodule + repositories, which might not be desirable. Detach the HEAD but + still allow the recursive checkout to succeed in such a case. + (merge 57f22bf997 sb/submodule-recursive-checkout-detach-head later to maint). + + * "git branch --set-upstream" has been deprecated and (sort of) + removed, as "--set-upstream-to" is the preferred one these days. + The documentation still had "--set-upstream" listed on its + synopsis section, which has been corrected. + (merge a060f3d3d8 tz/branch-doc-remove-set-upstream later to maint). + + * Internally we use 0{40} as a placeholder object name to signal the + codepath that there is no such object (e.g. the fast-forward check + while "git fetch" stores a new remote-tracking ref says "we know + there is no 'old' thing pointed at by the ref, as we are creating + it anew" by passing 0{40} for the 'old' side), and expect that a + codepath to locate an in-core object to return NULL as a sign that + the object does not exist. A look-up for an object that does not + exist however is quite costly with a repository with large number + of packfiles. This access pattern has been optimized. + (merge 87b5e236a1 jk/fewer-pack-rescan later to maint). + + * In addition to "git stash -m message", the command learned to + accept "git stash -mmessage" form. + (merge 5675473fcb ph/stash-save-m-option-fix later to maint). + + * @{-N} in "git checkout @{-N}" may refer to a detached HEAD state, + but the documentation was not clear about it, which has been fixed. + (merge 75ce149575 ks/doc-checkout-previous later to maint). + + * A regression in the progress eye-candy was fixed. + (merge 9c5951cacf jk/progress-delay-fix later to maint). + + * The code internal to the recursive merge strategy was not fully + prepared to see a path that is renamed to try overwriting another + path that is only different in case on case insensitive systems. + This does not matter in the current code, but will start to matter + once the rename detection logic starts taking hints from nearby + paths moving to some directory and moves a new path along with them. + (merge 4cba2b0108 en/merge-recursive-icase-removal later to maint). + + * An v2.12-era regression in pathspec match logic, which made it look + into submodule tree even when it is not desired, has been fixed. + (merge eef3df5a93 bw/pathspec-match-submodule-boundary later to maint). + + * Amending commits in git-gui broke the author name that is non-ascii + due to incorrect enconding conversion. + + * Recent update to the submodule configuration code broke "diff-tree" + by accidentally stopping to read from the index upfront. + (merge fd66bcc31f bw/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint). + + * Git shows a message to tell the user that it is waiting for the + user to finish editing when spawning an editor, in case the editor + opens to a hidden window or somewhere obscure and the user gets + lost. + (merge abfb04d0c7 ls/editor-waiting-message later to maint). + + * The "safe crlf" check incorrectly triggered for contents that does + not use CRLF as line endings, which has been corrected. + (merge 649f1f0948 tb/check-crlf-for-safe-crlf later to maint). + + * "git clone --shared" to borrow from a (secondary) worktree did not + work, even though "git clone --local" did. Both are now accepted. + (merge b3b05971c1 es/clone-shared-worktree later to maint). + + * The build procedure now allows not just the repositories but also + the refs to be used to take pre-formatted manpages and html + documents to install. + (merge 65289e9dcd rb/quick-install-doc later to maint). + + * Update the shell prompt script (in contrib/) to strip trailing CR + from strings read from various "state" files. + (merge 041fe8fc83 ra/prompt-eread-fix later to maint). + + * "git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is + dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current + HEAD, which has been fixed. + + * Bytes with high-bit set were encoded incorrectly and made + credential helper fail. + (merge 4c267f2ae3 jd/fix-strbuf-add-urlencode-bytes later to maint). + + * "git rebase -p -X<option>" did not propagate the option properly + down to underlying merge strategy backend. + (merge dd6fb0053c js/fix-merge-arg-quoting-in-rebase-p later to maint). + + * "git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is + dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current + HEAD, which has been fixed. + (merge f309e8e768 ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index-maint later to maint). + + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. + (merge 1a1fc2d5b5 rd/man-prune-progress later to maint). + (merge 0ba014035a rd/man-reflog-add-n later to maint). + (merge e54b63359f rd/doc-notes-prune-fix later to maint). + (merge ff4c9b413a sp/doc-info-attributes later to maint). + (merge 7db2cbf4f1 jc/receive-pack-hook-doc later to maint). + (merge 5a0526264b tg/t-readme-updates later to maint). + (merge 5e83cca0b8 jk/no-optional-locks later to maint). + (merge 826c778f7c js/hashmap-update-sample later to maint). + (merge 176b2d328c sg/setup-doc-update later to maint). + (merge 1b09073514 rs/am-builtin-leakfix later to maint). + (merge addcf6cfde rs/fmt-merge-msg-string-leak-fix later to maint). + (merge c3ff8f6c14 rs/strbuf-read-once-reset-length later to maint). + (merge 6b0eb884f9 db/doc-workflows-neuter-the-maintainer later to maint). + (merge 8c87bdfb21 jk/cvsimport-quoting later to maint). + (merge 176cb979fe rs/fmt-merge-msg-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 5a03360e73 tb/delimit-pretty-trailers-args-with-comma later to maint). + (merge d0e6326026 ot/pretty later to maint). + (merge 44103f4197 sb/test-helper-excludes later to maint). + (merge 170078693f jt/transport-no-more-rsync later to maint). + (merge c07b3adff1 bw/path-doc later to maint). + (merge bf9d7df950 tz/lib-git-svn-svnserve-tests later to maint). + (merge dec366c9a8 sr/http-sslverify-config-doc later to maint). + (merge 3f824e91c8 jk/test-suite-tracing later to maint). + (merge 1feb061701 db/doc-config-section-names-with-bs later to maint). + (merge 74dea0e13c jh/memihash-opt later to maint). + (merge 2e9fdc795c ma/bisect-leakfix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..66e64361fd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Git v2.16.1 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.16 +----------------- + + * "git clone" segfaulted when cloning a project that happens to + track two paths that differ only in case on a case insensitive + filesystem. + +Does not contain any other documentation updates or code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a216466d3d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Git v2.16.2 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.16.1 +------------------- + + * An old regression in "git describe --all $annotated_tag^0" has been + fixed. + + * "git svn dcommit" did not take into account the fact that a + svn+ssh:// URL with a username@ (typically used for pushing) refers + to the same SVN repository without the username@ and failed when + svn.pushmergeinfo option is set. + + * "git merge -Xours/-Xtheirs" learned to use our/their version when + resolving a conflicting updates to a symbolic link. + + * "git clone $there $here" is allowed even when here directory exists + as long as it is an empty directory, but the command incorrectly + removed it upon a failure of the operation. + + * "git stash -- <pathspec>" incorrectly blew away untracked files in + the directory that matched the pathspec, which has been corrected. + + * "git add -p" was taught to ignore local changes to submodules as + they do not interfere with the partial addition of regular changes + anyway. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..64a0bcb0d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +Git v2.16.3 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.16.2 +------------------- + + * "git status" after moving a path in the working tree (hence making + it appear "removed") and then adding with the -N option (hence + making that appear "added") detected it as a rename, but did not + report the old and new pathnames correctly. + + * "git commit --fixup" did not allow "-m<message>" option to be used + at the same time; allow it to annotate resulting commit with more + text. + + * When resetting the working tree files recursively, the working tree + of submodules are now also reset to match. + + * Fix for a commented-out code to adjust it to a rather old API change + around object ID. + + * When there are too many changed paths, "git diff" showed a warning + message but in the middle of a line. + + * The http tracing code, often used to debug connection issues, + learned to redact potentially sensitive information from its output + so that it can be more safely sharable. + + * Crash fix for a corner case where an error codepath tried to unlock + what it did not acquire lock on. + + * The split-index mode had a few corner case bugs fixed. + + * Assorted fixes to "git daemon". + + * Completion of "git merge -s<strategy>" (in contrib/) did not work + well in non-C locale. + + * Workaround for segfault with more recent versions of SVN. + + * Recently introduced leaks in fsck have been plugged. + + * Travis CI integration now builds the executable in 'script' phase + to follow the established practice, rather than during + 'before_script' phase. This allows the CI categorize the failures + better ('failed' is project's fault, 'errored' is build + environment's). + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6be538ba30 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Git v2.16.4 Release Notes +========================= + +This release is to forward-port the fixes made in the v2.13.7 version +of Git. See its release notes for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c2cf891f71 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,398 @@ +Git 2.17 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.16 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "diff" family of commands learned "--find-object=<object-id>" option + to limit the findings to changes that involve the named object. + + * "git format-patch" learned to give 72-cols to diffstat, which is + consistent with other line length limits the subcommand uses for + its output meant for e-mails. + + * The log from "git daemon" can be redirected with a new option; one + relevant use case is to send the log to standard error (instead of + syslog) when running it from inetd. + + * "git rebase" learned to take "--allow-empty-message" option. + + * "git am" has learned the "--quit" option, in addition to the + existing "--abort" option; having the pair mirrors a few other + commands like "rebase" and "cherry-pick". + + * "git worktree add" learned to run the post-checkout hook, just like + "git clone" runs it upon the initial checkout. + + * "git tag" learned an explicit "--edit" option that allows the + message given via "-m" and "-F" to be further edited. + + * "git fetch --prune-tags" may be used as a handy short-hand for + getting rid of stale tags that are locally held. + + * The new "--show-current-patch" option gives an end-user facing way + to get the diff being applied when "git rebase" (and "git am") + stops with a conflict. + + * "git add -p" used to offer "/" (look for a matching hunk) as a + choice, even there was only one hunk, which has been corrected. + Also the single-key help is now given only for keys that are + enabled (e.g. help for '/' won't be shown when there is only one + hunk). + + * Since Git 1.7.9, "git merge" defaulted to --no-ff (i.e. even when + the side branch being merged is a descendant of the current commit, + create a merge commit instead of fast-forwarding) when merging a + tag object. This was appropriate default for integrators who pull + signed tags from their downstream contributors, but caused an + unnecessary merges when used by downstream contributors who + habitually "catch up" their topic branches with tagged releases + from the upstream. Update "git merge" to default to --no-ff only + when merging a tag object that does *not* sit at its usual place in + refs/tags/ hierarchy, and allow fast-forwarding otherwise, to + mitigate the problem. + + * "git status" can spend a lot of cycles to compute the relation + between the current branch and its upstream, which can now be + disabled with "--no-ahead-behind" option. + + * "git diff" and friends learned funcname patterns for Go language + source files. + + * "git send-email" learned "--reply-to=<address>" option. + + * Funcname pattern used for C# now recognizes "async" keyword. + + * In a way similar to how "git tag" learned to honor the pager + setting only in the list mode, "git config" learned to ignore the + pager setting when it is used for setting values (i.e. when the + purpose of the operation is not to "show"). + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * More perf tests for threaded grep + + * "perf" test output can be sent to codespeed server. + + * The build procedure for perl/ part has been greatly simplified by + weaning ourselves off of MakeMaker. + + * Perl 5.8 or greater has been required since Git 1.7.4 released in + 2010, but we continued to assume some core modules may not exist and + used a conditional "eval { require <<module>> }"; we no longer do + this. Some platforms (Fedora/RedHat/CentOS, for example) ship Perl + without all core modules by default (e.g. Digest::MD5, File::Temp, + File::Spec, Net::Domain, Net::SMTP). Users on such platforms may + need to install these additional modules. + + * As a convenience, we install copies of Perl modules we require which + are not part of the core Perl distribution (e.g. Error and + Mail::Address). Users and packagers whose operating system provides + these modules can set NO_PERL_CPAN_FALLBACKS to avoid installing the + bundled modules. + + * In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the machinery + for checking object connectivity used by gc and fsck has been + taught that a missing object is OK when it is referenced by a + packfile specially marked as coming from trusted repository that + promises to make them available on-demand and lazily. + + * The machinery to clone & fetch, which in turn involves packing and + unpacking objects, has been told how to omit certain objects using + the filtering mechanism introduced by another topic. It now knows + to mark the resulting pack as a promisor pack to tolerate missing + objects, laying foundation for "narrow" clones. + + * The first step to getting rid of mru API and using the + doubly-linked list API directly instead. + + * Retire mru API as it does not give enough abstraction over + underlying list API to be worth it. + + * Rewrite two more "git submodule" subcommands in C. + + * The tracing machinery learned to report tweaking of environment + variables as well. + + * Update Coccinelle rules to catch and optimize strbuf_addf(&buf, "%s", str) + + * Prevent "clang-format" from breaking line after function return type. + + * The sequencer infrastructure is shared across "git cherry-pick", + "git rebase -i", etc., and has always spawned "git commit" when it + needs to create a commit. It has been taught to do so internally, + when able, by reusing the codepath "git commit" itself uses, which + gives performance boost for a few tens of percents in some sample + scenarios. + + * Push the submodule version of collision-detecting SHA-1 hash + implementation a bit harder on builders. + + * Avoid mmapping small files while using packed refs (especially ones + with zero size, which would cause later munmap() to fail). + + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. + + * More tests for wildmatch functions. + + * The code to binary search starting from a fan-out table (which is + how the packfile is indexed with object names) has been refactored + into a reusable helper. + + * We now avoid using identifiers that clash with C++ keywords. Even + though it is not a goal to compile Git with C++ compilers, changes + like this help use of code analysis tools that targets C++ on our + codebase. + + * The executable is now built in 'script' phase in Travis CI integration, + to follow the established practice, rather than during 'before_script' + phase. This allows the CI categorize the failures better ('failed' + is project's fault, 'errored' is build environment's). + (merge 3c93b82920 sg/travis-build-during-script-phase later to maint). + + * Writing out the index file when the only thing that changed in it + is the untracked cache information is often wasteful, and this has + been optimized out. + + * Various pieces of Perl code we have have been cleaned up. + + * Internal API clean-up to allow write_locked_index() optionally skip + writing the in-core index when it is not modified. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.16 +----------------- + + * An old regression in "git describe --all $annotated_tag^0" has been + fixed. + + * "git status" after moving a path in the working tree (hence making + it appear "removed") and then adding with the -N option (hence + making that appear "added") detected it as a rename, but did not + report the old and new pathnames correctly. + + * "git svn dcommit" did not take into account the fact that a + svn+ssh:// URL with a username@ (typically used for pushing) refers + to the same SVN repository without the username@ and failed when + svn.pushmergeinfo option is set. + + * API clean-up around revision traversal. + + * "git merge -Xours/-Xtheirs" learned to use our/their version when + resolving a conflicting updates to a symbolic link. + + * "git clone $there $here" is allowed even when here directory exists + as long as it is an empty directory, but the command incorrectly + removed it upon a failure of the operation. + + * "git commit --fixup" did not allow "-m<message>" option to be used + at the same time; allow it to annotate resulting commit with more + text. + + * When resetting the working tree files recursively, the working tree + of submodules are now also reset to match. + + * "git stash -- <pathspec>" incorrectly blew away untracked files in + the directory that matched the pathspec, which has been corrected. + + * Instead of maintaining home-grown email address parsing code, ship + a copy of reasonably recent Mail::Address to be used as a fallback + in 'git send-email' when the platform lacks it. + (merge d60be8acab mm/send-email-fallback-to-local-mail-address later to maint). + + * "git add -p" was taught to ignore local changes to submodules as + they do not interfere with the partial addition of regular changes + anyway. + + * Avoid showing a warning message in the middle of a line of "git + diff" output. + (merge 4e056c989f nd/diff-flush-before-warning later to maint). + + * The http tracing code, often used to debug connection issues, + learned to redact potentially sensitive information from its output + so that it can be more safely sharable. + (merge 8ba18e6fa4 jt/http-redact-cookies later to maint). + + * Crash fix for a corner case where an error codepath tried to unlock + what it did not acquire lock on. + (merge 81fcb698e0 mr/packed-ref-store-fix later to maint). + + * The split-index mode had a few corner case bugs fixed. + (merge ae59a4e44f tg/split-index-fixes later to maint). + + * Assorted fixes to "git daemon". + (merge ed15e58efe jk/daemon-fixes later to maint). + + * Completion of "git merge -s<strategy>" (in contrib/) did not work + well in non-C locale. + (merge 7cc763aaa3 nd/list-merge-strategy later to maint). + + * Workaround for segfault with more recent versions of SVN. + (merge 7f6f75e97a ew/svn-branch-segfault-fix later to maint). + + * Plug recently introduced leaks in fsck. + (merge ba3a08ca0e jt/fsck-code-cleanup later to maint). + + * "git pull --rebase" did not pass verbosity setting down when + recursing into a submodule. + (merge a56771a668 sb/pull-rebase-submodule later to maint). + + * The way "git reset --hard" reports the commit the updated HEAD + points at is made consistent with the way how the commit title is + generated by the other parts of the system. This matters when the + title is spread across physically multiple lines. + (merge 1cf823fb68 tg/reset-hard-show-head-with-pretty later to maint). + + * Test fixes. + (merge 63b1a175ee sg/test-i18ngrep later to maint). + + * Some bugs around "untracked cache" feature have been fixed. This + will notice corrupt data in the untracked cache left by old and + buggy code and issue a warning---the index can be fixed by clearing + the untracked cache from it. + (merge 0cacebf099 nd/fix-untracked-cache-invalidation later to maint). + (merge 7bf0be7501 ab/untracked-cache-invalidation-docs later to maint). + + * "git blame HEAD COPYING" in a bare repository failed to run, while + "git blame HEAD -- COPYING" run just fine. This has been corrected. + + * "git add" files in the same directory, but spelling the directory + path in different cases on case insensitive filesystem, corrupted + the name hash data structure and led to unexpected results. This + has been corrected. + (merge c95525e90d bp/name-hash-dirname-fix later to maint). + + * "git rebase -p" mangled log messages of a merge commit, which is + now fixed. + (merge ed5144d7eb js/fix-merge-arg-quoting-in-rebase-p later to maint). + + * Some low level protocol codepath could crash when they get an + unexpected flush packet, which is now fixed. + (merge bb1356dc64 js/packet-read-line-check-null later to maint). + + * "git check-ignore" with multiple paths got confused when one is a + file and the other is a directory, which has been fixed. + (merge d60771e930 rs/check-ignore-multi later to maint). + + * "git describe $garbage" stopped giving any errors when the garbage + happens to be a string with 40 hexadecimal letters. + (merge a8e7a2bf0f sb/describe-blob later to maint). + + * Code to unquote single-quoted string (used in the parser for + configuration files, etc.) did not diagnose bogus input correctly + and produced bogus results instead. + (merge ddbbf8eb25 jk/sq-dequote-on-bogus-input later to maint). + + * Many places in "git apply" knew that "/dev/null" that signals + "there is no such file on this side of the diff" can be followed by + whitespace and garbage when parsing a patch, except for one, which + made an otherwise valid patch (e.g. ones from subversion) rejected. + (merge e454ad4bec tk/apply-dev-null-verify-name-fix later to maint). + + * We no longer create any *.spec file, so "make clean" should not + remove it. + (merge 4321bdcabb tz/do-not-clean-spec-file later to maint). + + * "git push" over http transport did not unquote the push-options + correctly. + (merge 90dce21eb0 jk/push-options-via-transport-fix later to maint). + + * "git send-email" learned to complain when the batch-size option is + not defined when the relogin-delay option is, since these two are + mutually required. + (merge 9caa70697b xz/send-email-batch-size later to maint). + + * Y2k20 fix ;-) for our perl scripts. + (merge a40e06ee33 bw/perl-timegm-timelocal-fix later to maint). + + * Threaded "git grep" has been optimized to avoid allocation in code + section that is covered under a mutex. + (merge 38ef24dccf rv/grep-cleanup later to maint). + + * "git subtree" script (in contrib/) scripted around "git log", whose + output got affected by end-user configuration like log.showsignature + (merge 8841b5222c sg/subtree-signed-commits later to maint). + + * While finding unique object name abbreviation, the code may + accidentally have read beyond the end of the array of object names + in a pack. + (merge 21abed500c ds/find-unique-abbrev-optim later to maint). + + * Micro optimization in revision traversal code. + (merge ebbed3ba04 ds/mark-parents-uninteresting-optim later to maint). + + * "git commit" used to run "gc --auto" near the end, which was lost + when the command was reimplemented in C by mistake. + (merge 095c741edd ab/gc-auto-in-commit later to maint). + + * Allow running a couple of tests with "sh -x". + (merge c20bf94abc sg/cvs-tests-with-x later to maint). + + * The codepath to replace an existing entry in the index had a bug in + updating the name hash structure, which has been fixed. + (merge 0e267b7a24 bp/refresh-cache-ent-rehash-fix later to maint). + + * The transfer.fsckobjects configuration tells "git fetch" to + validate the data and connected-ness of objects in the received + pack; the code to perform this check has been taught about the + narrow clone's convention that missing objects that are reachable + from objects in a pack that came from a promisor remote is OK. + + * There was an unused file-scope static variable left in http.c when + building for versions of libCURL that is older than 7.19.4, which + has been fixed. + (merge b8fd6008ec rj/http-code-cleanup later to maint). + + * Shell script portability fix. + (merge 206a6ae013 ml/filter-branch-portability-fix later to maint). + + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. + (merge e2a5a028c7 bw/oidmap-autoinit later to maint). + (merge ec3b4b06f8 cl/t9001-cleanup later to maint). + (merge e1b3f3dd38 ks/submodule-doc-updates later to maint). + (merge fbac558a9b rs/describe-unique-abbrev later to maint). + (merge 8462ff43e4 tb/crlf-conv-flags later to maint). + (merge 7d68bb0766 rb/hashmap-h-compilation-fix later to maint). + (merge 3449847168 cc/sha1-file-name later to maint). + (merge ad622a256f ds/use-get-be64 later to maint). + (merge f919ffebed sg/cocci-move-array later to maint). + (merge 4e801463c7 jc/mailinfo-cleanup-fix later to maint). + (merge ef5b3a6c5e nd/shared-index-fix later to maint). + (merge 9f5258cbb8 tz/doc-show-defaults-to-head later to maint). + (merge b780e4407d jc/worktree-add-short-help later to maint). + (merge ae239fc8e5 rs/cocci-strbuf-addf-to-addstr later to maint). + (merge 2e22a85e5c nd/ignore-glob-doc-update later to maint). + (merge 3738031581 jk/gettext-poison later to maint). + (merge 54360a1956 rj/sparse-updates later to maint). + (merge 12e31a6b12 sg/doc-test-must-fail-args later to maint). + (merge 760f1ad101 bc/doc-interpret-trailers-grammofix later to maint). + (merge 4ccf461f56 bp/fsmonitor later to maint). + (merge a6119f82b1 jk/test-hashmap-updates later to maint). + (merge 5aea9fe6cc rd/typofix later to maint). + (merge e4e5da2796 sb/status-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 7976e901c8 gs/test-unset-xdg-cache-home later to maint). + (merge d023df1ee6 tg/worktree-create-tracking later to maint). + (merge 4cbe92fd41 sm/mv-dry-run-update later to maint). + (merge 75e5e9c3f7 sb/color-h-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 2708ef4af6 sg/t6300-modernize later to maint). + (merge d88e92d4e0 bw/doc-submodule-recurse-config-with-clone later to maint). + (merge f74bbc8dd2 jk/cached-commit-buffer later to maint). + (merge 1316416903 ms/non-ascii-ticks later to maint). + (merge 878056005e rs/strbuf-read-file-or-whine later to maint). + (merge 79f0ba1547 jk/strbuf-read-file-close-error later to maint). + (merge edfb8ba068 ot/ref-filter-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 11395a3b4b jc/test-must-be-empty later to maint). + (merge 768b9d6db7 mk/doc-pretty-fill later to maint). + (merge 2caa7b8d27 ab/man-sec-list later to maint). + (merge 40c17eb184 ks/t3200-typofix later to maint). + (merge bd9958c358 dp/merge-strategy-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 9ee0540a40 js/ming-strftime later to maint). + (merge 1775e990f7 tz/complete-tag-delete-tagname later to maint). + (merge 00a4b03501 rj/warning-uninitialized-fix later to maint). + (merge b635ed97a0 jk/attributes-path-doc later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e01384fe8e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Git v2.17.1 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.17 +----------------- + + * This release contains the same fixes made in the v2.13.7 version of + Git, covering CVE-2018-11233 and 11235, and forward-ported to + v2.14.4, v2.15.2 and v2.16.4 releases. See release notes to + v2.13.7 for details. + + * In addition to the above fixes, this release has support on the + server side to reject pushes to repositories that attempt to create + such problematic .gitmodules file etc. as tracked contents, to help + hosting sites protect their customers by preventing malicious + contents from spreading. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3ea280cf68 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,583 @@ +Git 2.18 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.17 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Rename detection logic that is used in "merge" and "cherry-pick" has + learned to guess when all of x/a, x/b and x/c have moved to z/a, + z/b and z/c, it is likely that x/d added in the meantime would also + want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory + 'x' moved to 'z'. A bug causing dirty files involved in a rename + to be overwritten during merge has also been fixed as part of this + work. Incidentally, this also avoids updating a file in the + working tree after a (non-trivial) merge whose result matches what + our side originally had. + + * "git filter-branch" learned to use a different exit code to allow + the callers to tell the case where there was no new commits to + rewrite from other error cases. + + * When built with more recent cURL, GIT_SSL_VERSION can now specify + "tlsv1.3" as its value. + + * "git gui" learned that "~/.ssh/id_ecdsa.pub" and + "~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub" are also possible SSH key files. + (merge 2e2f0288ef bb/git-gui-ssh-key-files later to maint). + + * "git gui" performs commit upon CTRL/CMD+ENTER but the + CTRL/CMD+KP_ENTER (i.e. enter key on the numpad) did not have the + same key binding. It now does. + (merge 28a1d94a06 bp/git-gui-bind-kp-enter later to maint). + + * "git gui" has been taught to work with old versions of tk (like + 8.5.7) that do not support "ttk::style theme use" as a way to query + the current theme. + (merge 4891961105 cb/git-gui-ttk-style later to maint). + + * "git rebase" has learned to honor "--signoff" option when using + backends other than "am" (but not "--preserve-merges"). + + * "git branch --list" during an interrupted "rebase -i" now lets + users distinguish the case where a detached HEAD is being rebased + and a normal branch is being rebased. + + * "git mergetools" learned talking to guiffy. + + * The scripts in contrib/emacs/ have outlived their usefulness and + have been replaced with a stub that errors out and tells the user + there are replacements. + + * The new "working-tree-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the + contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working + tree (and the other way around when checking in). + + * The "git config" command uses separate options e.g. "--int", + "--bool", etc. to specify what type the caller wants the value to + be interpreted as. A new "--type=<typename>" option has been + introduced, which would make it cleaner to define new types. + + * "git config --get" learned the "--default" option, to help the + calling script. Building on top of the above changes, the + "git config" learns "--type=color" type. Taken together, you can + do things like "git config --get foo.color --default blue" and get + the ANSI color sequence for the color given to foo.color variable, + or "blue" if the variable does not exist. + + * "git ls-remote" learned an option to allow sorting its output based + on the refnames being shown. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught that "git + stash save" has been deprecated ("git stash push" is the preferred + spelling in the new world) and does not offer it as a possible + completion candidate when "git stash push" can be. + + * "git gc --prune=nonsense" spent long time repacking and then + silently failed when underlying "git prune --expire=nonsense" + failed to parse its command line. This has been corrected. + + * Error messages from "git push" can be painted for more visibility. + + * "git http-fetch" (deprecated) had an optional and experimental + "feature" to fetch only commits and/or trees, which nobody used. + This has been removed. + + * The functionality of "$GIT_DIR/info/grafts" has been superseded by + the "refs/replace/" mechanism for some time now, but the internal + code had support for it in many places, which has been cleaned up + in order to drop support of the "grafts" mechanism. + + * "git worktree add" learned to check out an existing branch. + + * "git --no-pager cmd" did not have short-and-sweet single letter + option. Now it does as "-P". + (merge 7213c28818 js/no-pager-shorthand later to maint). + + * "git rebase" learned "--rebase-merges" to transplant the whole + topology of commit graph elsewhere. + + * "git status" learned to pay attention to UI related diff + configuration variables such as diff.renames. + + * The command line completion mechanism (in contrib/) learned to load + custom completion file for "git $command" where $command is a + custom "git-$command" that the end user has on the $PATH when using + newer version of bash-completion. + + * "git send-email" can sometimes offer confirmation dialog "Send this + email?" with choices 'Yes', 'No', 'Quit', and 'All'. A new action + 'Edit' has been added to this dialog's choice. + + * With merge.renames configuration set to false, the recursive merge + strategy can be told not to spend cycles trying to find renamed + paths and merge them accordingly. + + * "git status" learned to honor a new status.renames configuration to + skip rename detection, which could be useful for those who want to + do so without disabling the default rename detection done by the + "git diff" command. + + * Command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete pathnames + for various commands better. + + * "git blame" learns to unhighlight uninteresting metadata from the + originating commit on lines that are the same as the previous one, + and also paint lines in different colors depending on the age of + the commit. + + * Transfer protocol v2 learned to support the partial clone. + + * When a short hexadecimal string is used to name an object but there + are multiple objects that share the string as the prefix of their + names, the code lists these ambiguous candidates in a help message. + These object names are now sorted according to their types for + easier eyeballing. + + * "git fetch $there $refspec" that talks over protocol v2 can take + advantage of server-side ref filtering; the code has been extended + so that this mechanism triggers also when fetching with configured + refspec. + + * Our HTTP client code used to advertise that we accept gzip encoding + from the other side; instead, just let cURL library to advertise + and negotiate the best one. + + * "git p4" learned to "unshelve" shelved commit from P4. + (merge 123f631761 ld/p4-unshelve later to maint). + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * A "git fetch" from a repository with insane number of refs into a + repository that is already up-to-date still wasted too many cycles + making many lstat(2) calls to see if these objects at the tips + exist as loose objects locally. These lstat(2) calls are optimized + away by enumerating all loose objects beforehand. + It is unknown if the new strategy negatively affects existing use + cases, fetching into a repository with many loose objects from a + repository with small number of refs. + + * Git can be built to use either v1 or v2 of the PCRE library, and so + far, the build-time configuration USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease instructed + the build procedure to use v1, but now it means v2. USE_LIBPCRE1 + and USE_LIBPCRE2 can be used to explicitly choose which version to + use, as before. + + * The build procedure learned to optionally use symbolic links + (instead of hardlinks and copies) to install "git-foo" for built-in + commands, whose binaries are all identical. + + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. + + * The way "git worktree prune" worked internally has been simplified, + by assuming how "git worktree move" moves an existing worktree to a + different place. + + * Code clean-up for the "repository" abstraction. + (merge 00a3da2a13 nd/remove-ignore-env-field later to maint). + + * Code to find the length to uniquely abbreviate object names based + on packfile content, which is a relatively recent addtion, has been + optimized to use the same fan-out table. + + * The mechanism to use parse-options API to automate the command line + completion continues to get extended and polished. + + * Copies of old scripted Porcelain commands in contrib/examples/ have + been removed. + + * Some tests that rely on the exact hardcoded values of object names + have been updated in preparation for hash function migration. + + * Perf-test update. + + * Test helper update. + + * The effort continues to refactor the internal global data structure + to make it possible to open multiple repositories, work with and + then close them, + + * Small test-helper programs have been consolidated into a single + binary. + + * API clean-up around ref-filter code. + + * Shell completion (in contrib) that gives list of paths have been + optimized somewhat. + + * The index file is updated to record the fsmonitor section after a + full scan was made, to avoid wasting the effort that has already + spent. + + * Performance measuring framework in t/perf learned to help bisecting + performance regressions. + + * Some multi-word source filenames are being renamed to separate + words with dashes instead of underscores. + + * An reusable "memory pool" implementation has been extracted from + fast-import.c, which in turn has become the first user of the + mem-pool API. + + * A build-time option has been added to allow Git to be told to refer + to its associated files relative to the main binary, in the same + way that has been possible on Windows for quite some time, for + Linux, BSDs and Darwin. + + * Precompute and store information necessary for ancestry traversal + in a separate file to optimize graph walking. + + * The effort to pass the repository in-core structure throughout the + API continues. This round deals with the code that implements the + refs/replace/ mechanism. + + * The build procedure "make DEVELOPER=YesPlease" learned to enable a + bit more warning options depending on the compiler used to help + developers more. There also is "make DEVOPTS=tokens" knob + available now, for those who want to help fixing warnings we + usually ignore, for example. + + * A new version of the transport protocol is being worked on. + + * The code to interface to GPG has been restructured somewhat to make + it cleaner to integrate with other types of signature systems later. + + * The code has been taught to use the duplicated information stored + in the commit-graph file to learn the tree object name for a commit + to avoid opening and parsing the commit object when it makes sense + to do so. + + * "git gc" in a large repository takes a lot of time as it considers + to repack all objects into one pack by default. The command has + been taught to pretend as if the largest existing packfile is + marked with ".keep" so that it is left untouched while objects in + other packs and loose ones are repacked. + + * The transport protocol v2 is getting updated further. + + * The codepath around object-info API has been taught to take the + repository object (which in turn tells the API which object store + the objects are to be located). + + * "git pack-objects" needs to allocate tons of "struct object_entry" + while doing its work, and shrinking its size helps the performance + quite a bit. + + * The implementation of "git rebase -i --root" has been updated to use + the sequencer machinery more. + + * Developer support update, by using BUG() macro instead of die() to + mark codepaths that should not happen more clearly. + + * Developer support. Use newer GCC on one of the builds done at + TravisCI.org to get more warnings and errors diagnosed. + + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. + + * By code restructuring of submodule merge in merge-recursive, + informational messages from the codepath are now given using the + same mechanism as other output, and honor the merge.verbosity + configuration. The code also learned to give a few new messages + when a submodule three-way merge resolves cleanly when one side + records a descendant of the commit chosen by the other side. + + * Avoid unchecked snprintf() to make future code auditing easier. + (merge ac4896f007 jk/snprintf-truncation later to maint). + + * Many tests hardcode the raw object names, which would change once + we migrate away from SHA-1. While some of them must test against + exact object names, most of them do not have to use hardcoded + constants in the test. The latter kind of tests have been updated + to test the moral equivalent of the original without hardcoding the + actual object names. + + * The list of commands with their various attributes were spread + across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a + bit more consolidated to allow more automation. + + * Quite a many tests assumed that newly created refs are made as + loose refs using the files backend, which have been updated to use + proper plumbing like rev-parse and update-ref, to avoid breakage + once we start using different ref backends. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.17 +----------------- + + * "git shortlog cruft" aborted with a BUG message when run outside a + Git repository. The command has been taught to complain about + extra and unwanted arguments on its command line instead in such a + case. + (merge 4aa0161e83 ma/shortlog-revparse later to maint). + + * "git stash push -u -- <pathspec>" gave an unnecessary and confusing + error message when there was no tracked files that match the + <pathspec>, which has been fixed. + (merge 353278687e tg/stash-untracked-with-pathspec-fix later to maint). + + * "git tag --contains no-such-commit" gave a full list of options + after giving an error message. + (merge 3bb0923f06 ps/contains-id-error-message later to maint). + + * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to understand "git log + --graph" output better. + (merge 4551fbba14 jk/diff-highlight-graph-fix later to maint). + + * when refs that do not point at committish are given, "git + filter-branch" gave a misleading error messages. This has been + corrected. + (merge f78ab355e7 yk/filter-branch-non-committish-refs later to maint). + + * "git submodule status" misbehaved on a submodule that has been + removed from the working tree. + (merge 74b6bda32f rs/status-with-removed-submodule later to maint). + + * When credential helper exits very quickly without reading its + input, it used to cause Git to die with SIGPIPE, which has been + fixed. + (merge a0d51e8d0e eb/cred-helper-ignore-sigpipe later to maint). + + * "git rebase --keep-empty" still removed an empty commit if the + other side contained an empty commit (due to the "does an + equivalent patch exist already?" check), which has been corrected. + (merge 3d946165e1 pw/rebase-keep-empty-fixes later to maint). + + * Some codepaths, including the refs API, get and keep relative + paths, that go out of sync when the process does chdir(2). The + chdir-notify API is introduced to let these codepaths adjust these + cached paths to the new current directory. + (merge fb9c2d2703 jk/relative-directory-fix later to maint). + + * "cd sub/dir && git commit ../path" ought to record the changes to + the file "sub/path", but this regressed long time ago. + (merge 86238e07ef bw/commit-partial-from-subdirectory-fix later to maint). + + * Recent introduction of "--log-destination" option to "git daemon" + did not work well when the daemon was run under "--inetd" mode. + (merge e67d906d73 lw/daemon-log-destination later to maint). + + * Small fix to the autoconf build procedure. + (merge 249482daf0 es/fread-reads-dir-autoconf-fix later to maint). + + * Fix an unexploitable (because the oversized contents are not under + attacker's control) buffer overflow. + (merge d8579accfa bp/fsmonitor-bufsize-fix later to maint). + + * Recent simplification of build procedure forgot a bit of tweak to + the build procedure of contrib/mw-to-git/ + (merge d8698987f3 ab/simplify-perl-makefile later to maint). + + * Moving a submodule that itself has submodule in it with "git mv" + forgot to make necessary adjustment to the nested sub-submodules; + now the codepath learned to recurse into the submodules. + + * "git config --unset a.b", when "a.b" is the last variable in an + otherwise empty section "a", left an empty section "a" behind, and + worse yet, a subsequent "git config a.c value" did not reuse that + empty shell and instead created a new one. These have been + (partially) corrected. + (merge c71d8bb38a js/empty-config-section-fix later to maint). + + * "git worktree remove" learned that "-f" is a shorthand for + "--force" option, just like for "git worktree add". + (merge d228eea514 sb/worktree-remove-opt-force later to maint). + + * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to clear cached list of + command line options upon dot-sourcing it again in a more efficient + way. + (merge 94408dc71c sg/completion-clear-cached later to maint). + + * "git svn" had a minor thinko/typo which has been fixed. + (merge 51db271587 ab/git-svn-get-record-typofix later to maint). + + * During a "rebase -i" session, the code could give older timestamp + to commits created by later "pick" than an earlier "reword", which + has been corrected. + (merge 12f7babd6b js/ident-date-fix later to maint). + + * "git submodule status" did not check the symbolic revision name it + computed for the submodule HEAD is not the NULL, and threw it at + printf routines, which has been corrected. + (merge 0b5e2ea7cf nd/submodule-status-fix later to maint). + + * When fed input that already has In-Reply-To: and/or References: + headers and told to add the same information, "git send-email" + added these headers separately, instead of appending to an existing + one, which is a violation of the RFC. This has been corrected. + (merge 256be1d3f0 sa/send-email-dedup-some-headers later to maint). + + * "git fast-export" had a regression in v2.15.0 era where it skipped + some merge commits in certain cases, which has been corrected. + (merge be011bbe00 ma/fast-export-skip-merge-fix later to maint). + + * The code did not propagate the terminal width to subprocesses via + COLUMNS environment variable, which it now does. This caused + trouble to "git column" helper subprocess when "git tag --column=row" + tried to list the existing tags on a display with non-default width. + (merge b5d5a567fb nd/term-columns later to maint). + + * We learned that our source files with ".pl" and ".py" extensions + are Perl and Python files respectively and changes to them are + better viewed as such with appropriate diff drivers. + (merge 7818b619e2 ab/perl-python-attrs later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" sometimes left intermediate "# This is a + combination of N commits" message meant for the human consumption + inside an editor in the final result in certain corner cases, which + has been fixed. + (merge 15ef69314d js/rebase-i-clean-msg-after-fixup-continue later to maint). + + * A test to see if the filesystem normalizes UTF-8 filename has been + updated to check what we need to know in a more direct way, i.e. a + path created in NFC form can be accessed with NFD form (or vice + versa) to cope with APFS as well as HFS. + (merge 742ae10e35 tb/test-apfs-utf8-normalization later to maint). + + * "git format-patch --cover --attach" created a broken MIME multipart + message for the cover letter, which has been fixed by keeping the + cover letter as plain text file. + (merge 50cd54ef4e bc/format-patch-cover-no-attach later to maint). + + * The split-index feature had a long-standing and dormant bug in + certain use of the in-core merge machinery, which has been fixed. + (merge 7db118303a en/unpack-trees-split-index-fix later to maint). + + * Asciidoctor gives a reasonable imitation for AsciiDoc, but does not + render illustration in a literal block correctly when indented with + HT by default. The problem is fixed by forcing 8-space tabs. + (merge 379805051d bc/asciidoctor-tab-width later to maint). + + * Code clean-up to adjust to a more recent lockfile API convention that + allows lockfile instances kept on the stack. + (merge 0fa5a2ed8d ma/lockfile-cleanup later to maint). + + * the_repository->index is not a allocated piece of memory but + repo_clear() indiscriminately attempted to free(3) it, which has + been corrected. + (merge 74373b5f10 nd/repo-clear-keep-the-index later to maint). + + * Code clean-up to avoid non-standard-conformant pointer arithmetic. + (merge c112084af9 rs/no-null-ptr-arith-in-fast-export later to maint). + + * Code clean-up to turn history traversal more robust in a + semi-corrupt repository. + (merge 8702b30fd7 jk/unavailable-can-be-missing later to maint). + + * "git update-ref A B" is supposed to ensure that ref A does not yet + exist when B is a NULL OID, but this check was not done correctly + for pseudo-refs outside refs/ hierarchy, e.g. MERGE_HEAD. + + * "git submodule update" and "git submodule add" supported the + "--reference" option to borrow objects from a neighbouring local + repository like "git clone" does, but lacked the more recent + invention "--dissociate". Also "git submodule add" has been taught + to take the "--progress" option. + (merge a0ef29341a cf/submodule-progress-dissociate later to maint). + + * Update credential-netrc helper (in contrib/) to allow customizing + the GPG used to decrypt the encrypted .netrc file. + (merge 786ef50a23 lm/credential-netrc later to maint). + + * "git submodule update" attempts two different kinds of "git fetch" + against the upstream repository to grab a commit bound at the + submodule's path, but it incorrectly gave up if the first kind + (i.e. a normal fetch) failed, making the second "last resort" one + (i.e. fetching an exact commit object by object name) ineffective. + This has been corrected. + (merge e30d833671 sb/submodule-update-try-harder later to maint). + + * Error behaviour of "git grep" when it cannot read the index was + inconsistent with other commands that uses the index, which has + been corrected to error out early. + (merge b2aa84c789 sb/grep-die-on-unreadable-index later to maint). + + * We used to call regfree() after regcomp() failed in some codepaths, + which have been corrected. + (merge 17154b1576 ma/regex-no-regfree-after-comp-fail later to maint). + + * The import-tars script (in contrib/) has been taught to handle + tarballs with overly long paths that use PAX extended headers. + (merge 12ecea46e3 pa/import-tars-long-names later to maint). + + * "git rev-parse Y..." etc. misbehaved when given endpoints were + not committishes. + (merge 0ed556d38f en/rev-parse-invalid-range later to maint). + + * "git pull --recurse-submodules --rebase", when the submodule + repository's history did not have anything common between ours and + the upstream's, failed to execute. We need to fetch from them to + continue even in such a case. + (merge 4d36f88be7 jt/submodule-pull-recurse-rebase later to maint). + + * "git remote update" can take both a single remote nickname and a + nickname for remote groups, but only one of them was documented. + (merge a97447a42a nd/remote-update-doc later to maint). + + * "index-pack --strict" has been taught to make sure that it runs the + final object integrity checks after making the freshly indexed + packfile available to itself. + (merge 3737746120 jk/index-pack-maint later to maint). + + * Make zlib inflate codepath more robust against versions of zlib + that clobber unused portion of outbuf. + (merge b611396e97 jl/zlib-restore-nul-termination later to maint). + + * Fix old merge glitch in Documentation during v2.13-rc0 era. + (merge 28cb06020b mw/doc-merge-enumfix later to maint). + + * The code to read compressed bitmap was not careful to avoid reading + past the end of the file, which has been corrected. + (merge 1140bf01ec jk/ewah-bounds-check later to maint). + + * "make NO_ICONV=NoThanks" did not override NEEDS_LIBICONV + (i.e. linkage of -lintl, -liconv, etc. that are platform-specific + tweaks), which has been corrected. + (merge fdb1fbbc7d es/make-no-iconv later to maint). + + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. + (merge 248f66ed8e nd/trace-with-env later to maint). + (merge 14ced5562c ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint). + (merge 5988eb631a ab/doc-hash-brokenness later to maint). + (merge a4d4e32a70 pk/test-avoid-pipe-hiding-exit-status later to maint). + (merge 05e293c1ac jk/flockfile-stdio later to maint). + (merge e9184b0789 jk/t5561-missing-curl later to maint). + (merge b1801b85a3 nd/worktree-move later to maint). + (merge bbd374dd20 ak/bisect-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge 4855f06fb3 mn/send-email-credential-doc later to maint). + (merge 8523b1e355 en/doc-typoes later to maint). + (merge 43b44ccfe7 js/t5404-path-fix later to maint). + (merge decf711fc1 ps/test-chmtime-get later to maint). + (merge 22d11a6e8e es/worktree-docs later to maint). + (merge 92a5dbbc22 tg/use-git-contacts later to maint). + (merge adc887221f tq/t1510 later to maint). + (merge bed21a8ad6 sg/doc-gc-quote-mismatch-fix later to maint). + (merge 73364e4f10 tz/doc-git-urls-reference later to maint). + (merge cd1e606bad bc/mailmap-self later to maint). + (merge f7997e3682 ao/config-api-doc later to maint). + (merge ee930754d8 jk/apply-p-doc later to maint). + (merge 011b648646 nd/pack-format-doc later to maint). + (merge 87a6bb701a sg/t5310-jgit-bitmap-test later to maint). + (merge f6b82970aa sg/t5516-fixes later to maint). + (merge 4362da078e sg/t7005-spaces-in-filenames-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 7d0ee47c11 js/test-unset-prereq later to maint). + (merge 5356a3c354 ah/misc-doc-updates later to maint). + (merge 92c4a7a129 nd/completion-aliasfiletype-typofix later to maint). + (merge 58bd77b66a nd/pack-unreachable-objects-doc later to maint). + (merge 4ed79d5203 sg/t6500-no-redirect-of-stdin later to maint). + (merge 17b8a2d6cd jk/config-blob-sans-repo later to maint). + (merge 590551ca2c rd/tag-doc-lightweight later to maint). + (merge 44f560fc16 rd/init-typo later to maint). + (merge f156a0934a rd/p4-doc-markup-env later to maint). + (merge 2a00502b14 tg/doc-sec-list later to maint). + (merge 47cc91310a jk/submodule-fsck-loose-fixup later to maint). + (merge efde7b725c rd/comment-typofix-in-sha1-file later to maint). + (merge 7eedad15df rd/diff-options-typofix later to maint). + (merge 58ebd936cc km/doc-workflows-typofix later to maint). + (merge 30aa96cdf8 rd/doc-remote-tracking-with-hyphen later to maint). + (merge cf317877e3 ks/branch-set-upstream later to maint). + (merge 8de19d6be8 sg/t7406-chain-fix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2954653d10 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +Git 2.19 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.18 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git diff" compares the index and the working tree. For paths + added with intent-to-add bit, the command shows the full contents + of them as added, but the paths themselves were not marked as new + files. They are now shown as new by default. + + "git apply" learned the "--intent-to-add" option so that an + otherwise working-tree-only application of a patch will add new + paths to the index marked with the "intent-to-add" bit. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The bulk of "git submodule foreach" has been rewritten in C. + + * The in-core "commit" object had an all-purpose "void *util" field, + which was tricky to use especially in library-ish part of the + code. All of the existing uses of the field has been migrated to a + more dedicated "commit-slab" mechanism and the field is eliminated. + + * A less often used command "git show-index" has been modernized. + (merge fb3010c31f jk/show-index later to maint). + + * The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository" + throughout the object access API continues. + + * Continuing with the idea to programatically enumerate various + pieces of data required for command line completion, teach the + codebase to report the list of configuration variables + subcommands care about to help complete them. + + * Separate "rebase -p" codepath out of "rebase -i" implementation to + slim down the latter and make it easier to manage. + + +Fixes since v2.18 +----------------- + + * "git remote update" can take both a single remote nickname and a + nickname for remote groups, and the completion script (in contrib/) + has been taught about it. + (merge 9cd4382ad5 ls/complete-remote-update-names later to maint). + + * "git fetch --shallow-since=<cutoff>" that specifies the cut-off + point that is newer than the existing history used to end up + grabbing the entire history. Such a request now errors out. + (merge e34de73c56 nd/reject-empty-shallow-request later to maint). + + * Code cleanup. + (merge aee9be2ebe sg/update-ref-stdin-cleanup later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 08352deaae..2488544407 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -1,40 +1,47 @@ +Submitting Patches +================== + +== Guidelines + Here are some guidelines for people who want to contribute their code to this software. -(0) Decide what to base your work on. +[[base-branch]] +=== Decide what to base your work on. In general, always base your work on the oldest branch that your change is relevant to. - - A bugfix should be based on 'maint' in general. If the bug is not - present in 'maint', base it on 'master'. For a bug that's not yet - in 'master', find the topic that introduces the regression, and - base your work on the tip of the topic. +* A bugfix should be based on `maint` in general. If the bug is not + present in `maint`, base it on `master`. For a bug that's not yet + in `master`, find the topic that introduces the regression, and + base your work on the tip of the topic. - - A new feature should be based on 'master' in general. If the new - feature depends on a topic that is in 'pu', but not in 'master', - base your work on the tip of that topic. +* A new feature should be based on `master` in general. If the new + feature depends on a topic that is in `pu`, but not in `master`, + base your work on the tip of that topic. - - Corrections and enhancements to a topic not yet in 'master' should - be based on the tip of that topic. If the topic has not been merged - to 'next', it's alright to add a note to squash minor corrections - into the series. +* Corrections and enhancements to a topic not yet in `master` should + be based on the tip of that topic. If the topic has not been merged + to `next`, it's alright to add a note to squash minor corrections + into the series. - - In the exceptional case that a new feature depends on several topics - not in 'master', start working on 'next' or 'pu' privately and send - out patches for discussion. Before the final merge, you may have to - wait until some of the dependent topics graduate to 'master', and - rebase your work. +* In the exceptional case that a new feature depends on several topics + not in `master`, start working on `next` or `pu` privately and send + out patches for discussion. Before the final merge, you may have to + wait until some of the dependent topics graduate to `master`, and + rebase your work. - - Some parts of the system have dedicated maintainers with their own - repositories (see the section "Subsystems" below). Changes to - these parts should be based on their trees. +* Some parts of the system have dedicated maintainers with their own + repositories (see the section "Subsystems" below). Changes to + these parts should be based on their trees. -To find the tip of a topic branch, run "git log --first-parent -master..pu" and look for the merge commit. The second parent of this +To find the tip of a topic branch, run `git log --first-parent +master..pu` and look for the merge commit. The second parent of this commit is the tip of the topic branch. -(1) Make separate commits for logically separate changes. +[[separate-commits]] +=== Make separate commits for logically separate changes. Unless your patch is really trivial, you should not be sending out a patch that was generated between your working tree and @@ -51,15 +58,16 @@ If your description starts to get too long, that's a sign that you probably need to split up your commit to finer grained pieces. That being said, patches which plainly describe the things that help reviewers check the patch, and future maintainers understand -the code, are the most beautiful patches. Descriptions that summarise +the code, are the most beautiful patches. Descriptions that summarize the point in the subject well, and describe the motivation for the change, the approach taken by the change, and if relevant how this differs substantially from the prior version, are all good things to have. Make sure that you have tests for the bug you are fixing. See -t/README for guidance. +`t/README` for guidance. +[[tests]] When adding a new feature, make sure that you have new tests to show the feature triggers the new behavior when it should, and to show the feature does not trigger when it shouldn't. After any code change, make @@ -84,72 +92,95 @@ turning en_UK spelling to en_US). Obvious typographical fixes are much more welcomed ("teh -> "the"), preferably submitted as independent patches separate from other documentation changes. +[[whitespace-check]] Oh, another thing. We are picky about whitespaces. Make sure your changes do not trigger errors with the sample pre-commit hook shipped -in templates/hooks--pre-commit. To help ensure this does not happen, -run git diff --check on your changes before you commit. - +in `templates/hooks--pre-commit`. To help ensure this does not happen, +run `git diff --check` on your changes before you commit. -(2) Describe your changes well. +[[describe-changes]] +=== Describe your changes well. The first line of the commit message should be a short description (50 -characters is the soft limit, see DISCUSSION in git-commit(1)), and -should skip the full stop. It is also conventional in most cases to +characters is the soft limit, see DISCUSSION in linkgit:git-commit[1]), +and should skip the full stop. It is also conventional in most cases to prefix the first line with "area: " where the area is a filename or identifier for the general area of the code being modified, e.g. - . archive: ustar header checksum is computed unsigned - . git-cherry-pick.txt: clarify the use of revision range notation +* doc: clarify distinction between sign-off and pgp-signing +* githooks.txt: improve the intro section -If in doubt which identifier to use, run "git log --no-merges" on the +If in doubt which identifier to use, run `git log --no-merges` on the files you are modifying to see the current conventions. +[[summary-section]] +It's customary to start the remainder of the first line after "area: " +with a lower-case letter. E.g. "doc: clarify...", not "doc: +Clarify...", or "githooks.txt: improve...", not "githooks.txt: +Improve...". + +[[meaningful-message]] The body should provide a meaningful commit message, which: - . explains the problem the change tries to solve, iow, what is wrong - with the current code without the change. +. explains the problem the change tries to solve, i.e. what is wrong + with the current code without the change. - . justifies the way the change solves the problem, iow, why the - result with the change is better. +. justifies the way the change solves the problem, i.e. why the + result with the change is better. - . alternate solutions considered but discarded, if any. +. alternate solutions considered but discarded, if any. +[[imperative-mood]] Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz" instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed xyzzy to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change -its behaviour. Try to make sure your explanation can be understood +its behavior. Try to make sure your explanation can be understood without external resources. Instead of giving a URL to a mailing list archive, summarize the relevant points of the discussion. +[[commit-reference]] If you want to reference a previous commit in the history of a stable branch, use the format "abbreviated sha1 (subject, date)", with the subject enclosed in a pair of double-quotes, like this: - Commit f86a374 ("pack-bitmap.c: fix a memleak", 2015-03-30) - noticed that ... +.... + Commit f86a374 ("pack-bitmap.c: fix a memleak", 2015-03-30) + noticed that ... +.... The "Copy commit summary" command of gitk can be used to obtain this -format. +format, or this invocation of `git show`: +.... + git show -s --date=short --pretty='format:%h ("%s", %ad)' <commit> +.... -(3) Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits. +[[git-tools]] +=== Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits. Git based diff tools generate unidiff which is the preferred format. -You do not have to be afraid to use -M option to "git diff" or -"git format-patch", if your patch involves file renames. The +You do not have to be afraid to use `-M` option to `git diff` or +`git format-patch`, if your patch involves file renames. The receiving end can handle them just fine. +[[review-patch]] Please make sure your patch does not add commented out debugging code, or include any extra files which do not relate to what your patch is trying to achieve. Make sure to review your patch after generating it, to ensure accuracy. Before -sending out, please make sure it cleanly applies to the "master" +sending out, please make sure it cleanly applies to the `master` branch head. If you are preparing a work based on "next" branch, that is fine, but please mark it as such. +[[send-patches]] +=== Sending your patches. + +:security-ml: footnoteref:[security-ml,The Git Security mailing list: git-security@googlegroups.com] -(4) Sending your patches. +Before sending any patches, please note that patches that may be +security relevant should be submitted privately to the Git Security +mailing list{security-ml}, instead of the public mailing list. Learn to use format-patch and send-email if possible. These commands are optimized for the workflow of sending patches, avoiding many ways @@ -178,14 +209,15 @@ lose tabs that way if you are not careful. It is a common convention to prefix your subject line with [PATCH]. This lets people easily distinguish patches from other -e-mail discussions. Use of additional markers after PATCH and -the closing bracket to mark the nature of the patch is also -encouraged. E.g. [PATCH/RFC] is often used when the patch is -not ready to be applied but it is for discussion, [PATCH v2], -[PATCH v3] etc. are often seen when you are sending an update to -what you have previously sent. - -"git format-patch" command follows the best current practice to +e-mail discussions. Use of markers in addition to PATCH within +the brackets to describe the nature of the patch is also +encouraged. E.g. [RFC PATCH] (where RFC stands for "request for +comments") is often used to indicate a patch needs further +discussion before being accepted, [PATCH v2], [PATCH v3] etc. +are often seen when you are sending an update to what you have +previously sent. + +The `git format-patch` command follows the best current practice to format the body of an e-mail message. At the beginning of the patch should come your commit message, ending with the Signed-off-by: lines, and a line that consists of three dashes, @@ -193,6 +225,10 @@ followed by the diffstat information and the patch itself. If you are forwarding a patch from somebody else, optionally, at the beginning of the e-mail message just before the commit message starts, you can put a "From: " line to name that person. +To change the default "[PATCH]" in the subject to "[<text>]", use +`git format-patch --subject-prefix=<text>`. As a shortcut, you +can use `--rfc` instead of `--subject-prefix="RFC PATCH"`, or +`-v <n>` instead of `--subject-prefix="PATCH v<n>"`. You often want to add additional explanation about the patch, other than the commit message itself. Place such "cover letter" @@ -202,6 +238,7 @@ an explanation of changes between each iteration can be kept in Git-notes and inserted automatically following the three-dash line via `git format-patch --notes`. +[[attachment]] Do not attach the patch as a MIME attachment, compressed or not. Do not let your e-mail client send quoted-printable. Do not let your e-mail client send format=flowed which would destroy @@ -216,37 +253,43 @@ that it will be postponed. Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask you to re-send them using MIME, that is OK. -Do not PGP sign your patch, at least for now. Most likely, your -maintainer or other people on the list would not have your PGP -key and would not bother obtaining it anyway. Your patch is not -judged by who you are; a good patch from an unknown origin has a -far better chance of being accepted than a patch from a known, -respected origin that is done poorly or does incorrect things. +[[pgp-signature]] +Do not PGP sign your patch. Most likely, your maintainer or other people on the +list would not have your PGP key and would not bother obtaining it anyway. +Your patch is not judged by who you are; a good patch from an unknown origin +has a far better chance of being accepted than a patch from a known, respected +origin that is done poorly or does incorrect things. If you really really really really want to do a PGP signed patch, format it as "multipart/signed", not a text/plain message -that starts with '-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----'. That is +that starts with `-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----`. That is not a text/plain, it's something else. +:security-ml-ref: footnoteref:[security-ml] + +As mentioned at the beginning of the section, patches that may be +security relevant should not be submitted to the public mailing list +mentioned below, but should instead be sent privately to the Git +Security mailing list{security-ml-ref}. + Send your patch with "To:" set to the mailing list, with "cc:" listing -people who are involved in the area you are touching (the output from -"git blame $path" and "git shortlog --no-merges $path" would help to +people who are involved in the area you are touching (the `git +contacts` command in `contrib/contacts/` can help to identify them), to solicit comments and reviews. +:current-maintainer: footnote:[The current maintainer: gitster@pobox.com] +:git-ml: footnote:[The mailing list: git@vger.kernel.org] + After the list reached a consensus that it is a good idea to apply the -patch, re-send it with "To:" set to the maintainer [*1*] and "cc:" the -list [*2*] for inclusion. +patch, re-send it with "To:" set to the maintainer{current-maintainer} and "cc:" the +list{git-ml} for inclusion. -Do not forget to add trailers such as "Acked-by:", "Reviewed-by:" and -"Tested-by:" lines as necessary to credit people who helped your +Do not forget to add trailers such as `Acked-by:`, `Reviewed-by:` and +`Tested-by:` lines as necessary to credit people who helped your patch. - [Addresses] - *1* The current maintainer: gitster@pobox.com - *2* The mailing list: git@vger.kernel.org - - -(5) Sign your work +[[sign-off]] +=== Certify your work by adding your "Signed-off-by: " line To improve tracking of who did what, we've borrowed the "sign-off" procedure from the Linux kernel project on patches @@ -256,37 +299,41 @@ smaller project it is a good discipline to follow it. The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the patch, which certifies that you wrote it or otherwise have the right to pass it on as a open-source patch. The rules are -pretty simple: if you can certify the below: - - Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 - - By making a contribution to this project, I certify that: - - (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I - have the right to submit it under the open source license - indicated in the file; or - - (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best - of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source - license and I have the right under that license to submit that - work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part - by me, under the same open source license (unless I am - permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated - in the file; or - - (c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other - person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified - it. - - (d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution - are public and that a record of the contribution (including all - personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is - maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with - this project or the open source license(s) involved. +pretty simple: if you can certify the below D-C-O: + +[[dco]] +.Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 +____ +By making a contribution to this project, I certify that: + +a. The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I + have the right to submit it under the open source license + indicated in the file; or + +b. The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best + of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source + license and I have the right under that license to submit that + work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part + by me, under the same open source license (unless I am + permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated + in the file; or + +c. The contribution was provided directly to me by some other + person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified + it. + +d. I understand and agree that this project and the contribution + are public and that a record of the contribution (including all + personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is + maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with + this project or the open source license(s) involved. +____ then you just add a line saying - Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org> +.... + Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org> +.... This line can be automatically added by Git if you run the git-commit command with the -s option. @@ -297,85 +344,86 @@ D-C-O. Indeed you are encouraged to do so. Do not forget to place an in-body "From: " line at the beginning to properly attribute the change to its true author (see (2) above). +[[real-name]] Also notice that a real name is used in the Signed-off-by: line. Please don't hide your real name. +[[commit-trailers]] If you like, you can put extra tags at the end: -1. "Reported-by:" is used to credit someone who found the bug that - the patch attempts to fix. -2. "Acked-by:" says that the person who is more familiar with the area - the patch attempts to modify liked the patch. -3. "Reviewed-by:", unlike the other tags, can only be offered by the - reviewer and means that she is completely satisfied that the patch - is ready for application. It is usually offered only after a - detailed review. -4. "Tested-by:" is used to indicate that the person applied the patch - and found it to have the desired effect. +. `Reported-by:` is used to credit someone who found the bug that + the patch attempts to fix. +. `Acked-by:` says that the person who is more familiar with the area + the patch attempts to modify liked the patch. +. `Reviewed-by:`, unlike the other tags, can only be offered by the + reviewer and means that she is completely satisfied that the patch + is ready for application. It is usually offered only after a + detailed review. +. `Tested-by:` is used to indicate that the person applied the patch + and found it to have the desired effect. You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:". ------------------------------------------------- -Subsystems with dedicated maintainers +== Subsystems with dedicated maintainers Some parts of the system have dedicated maintainers with their own repositories. - - git-gui/ comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pat Thoyts: +- 'git-gui/' comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pat Thoyts: - git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git + git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git - - gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project: +- 'gitk-git/' comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project: - git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk + git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk - - po/ comes from the localization coordinator, Jiang Xin: +- 'po/' comes from the localization coordinator, Jiang Xin: https://github.com/git-l10n/git-po/ Patches to these parts should be based on their trees. ------------------------------------------------- -An ideal patch flow +[[patch-flow]] +== An ideal patch flow Here is an ideal patch flow for this project the current maintainer suggests to the contributors: - (0) You come up with an itch. You code it up. - - (1) Send it to the list and cc people who may need to know about - the change. +. You come up with an itch. You code it up. - The people who may need to know are the ones whose code you - are butchering. These people happen to be the ones who are - most likely to be knowledgeable enough to help you, but - they have no obligation to help you (i.e. you ask for help, - don't demand). "git log -p -- $area_you_are_modifying" would - help you find out who they are. +. Send it to the list and cc people who may need to know about + the change. ++ +The people who may need to know are the ones whose code you +are butchering. These people happen to be the ones who are +most likely to be knowledgeable enough to help you, but +they have no obligation to help you (i.e. you ask for help, +don't demand). +git log -p {litdd} _$area_you_are_modifying_+ would +help you find out who they are. - (2) You get comments and suggestions for improvements. You may - even get them in a "on top of your change" patch form. +. You get comments and suggestions for improvements. You may + even get them in a "on top of your change" patch form. - (3) Polish, refine, and re-send to the list and the people who - spend their time to improve your patch. Go back to step (2). +. Polish, refine, and re-send to the list and the people who + spend their time to improve your patch. Go back to step (2). - (4) The list forms consensus that the last round of your patch is - good. Send it to the maintainer and cc the list. +. The list forms consensus that the last round of your patch is + good. Send it to the maintainer and cc the list. - (5) A topic branch is created with the patch and is merged to 'next', - and cooked further and eventually graduates to 'master'. +. A topic branch is created with the patch and is merged to `next`, + and cooked further and eventually graduates to `master`. In any time between the (2)-(3) cycle, the maintainer may pick it up -from the list and queue it to 'pu', in order to make it easier for +from the list and queue it to `pu`, in order to make it easier for people play with it without having to pick up and apply the patch to their trees themselves. ------------------------------------------------- -Know the status of your patch after submission +[[patch-status]] +== Know the status of your patch after submission * You can use Git itself to find out when your patch is merged in - master. 'git pull --rebase' will automatically skip already-applied + master. `git pull --rebase` will automatically skip already-applied patches, and will let you know. This works only if you rebase on top of the branch in which your patch has been merged (i.e. it will not tell you if your patch is merged in pu if you rebase on top of @@ -385,8 +433,8 @@ Know the status of your patch after submission entitled "What's cooking in git.git" and "What's in git.git" giving the status of various proposed changes. --------------------------------------------------- -GitHub-Travis CI hints +[[travis]] +== GitHub-Travis CI hints With an account at GitHub (you can get one for free to work on open source projects), you can use Travis CI to test your changes on Linux, @@ -395,25 +443,25 @@ test build here: https://travis-ci.org/git/git/builds/120473209 Follow these steps for the initial setup: - (1) Fork https://github.com/git/git to your GitHub account. - You can find detailed instructions how to fork here: - https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/ +. Fork https://github.com/git/git to your GitHub account. + You can find detailed instructions how to fork here: + https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/ - (2) Open the Travis CI website: https://travis-ci.org +. Open the Travis CI website: https://travis-ci.org - (3) Press the "Sign in with GitHub" button. +. Press the "Sign in with GitHub" button. - (4) Grant Travis CI permissions to access your GitHub account. - You can find more information about the required permissions here: - https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/github-oauth-scopes +. Grant Travis CI permissions to access your GitHub account. + You can find more information about the required permissions here: + https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/github-oauth-scopes - (5) Open your Travis CI profile page: https://travis-ci.org/profile +. Open your Travis CI profile page: https://travis-ci.org/profile - (6) Enable Travis CI builds for your Git fork. +. Enable Travis CI builds for your Git fork. After the initial setup, Travis CI will run whenever you push new changes to your fork of Git on GitHub. You can monitor the test state of all your -branches here: https://travis-ci.org/<Your GitHub handle>/git/branches +branches here: https://travis-ci.org/__<Your GitHub handle>__/git/branches If a branch did not pass all test cases then it is marked with a red cross. In that case you can click on the failing Travis CI job and @@ -425,17 +473,16 @@ example: https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/122676187 Fix the problem and push your fix to your Git fork. This will trigger a new Travis CI build to ensure all tests pass. - ------------------------------------------------- -MUA specific hints +[[mua]] +== MUA specific hints Some of patches I receive or pick up from the list share common patterns of breakage. Please make sure your MUA is set up properly not to corrupt whitespaces. -See the DISCUSSION section of git-format-patch(1) for hints on +See the DISCUSSION section of linkgit:git-format-patch[1] for hints on checking your patch by mailing it to yourself and applying with -git-am(1). +linkgit:git-am[1]. While you are at it, check the resulting commit log message from a trial run of applying the patch. If what is in the resulting @@ -447,23 +494,24 @@ should come after the three-dash line that signals the end of the commit message. -Pine ----- +=== Pine (Johannes Schindelin) +.... I don't know how many people still use pine, but for those poor souls it may be good to mention that the quell-flowed-text is needed for recent versions. ... the "no-strip-whitespace-before-send" option, too. AFAIK it was introduced in 4.60. +.... (Linus Torvalds) +.... And 4.58 needs at least this. ---- diff-tree 8326dd8350be64ac7fc805f6563a1d61ad10d32c (from e886a61f76edf5410573e92e38ce22974f9c40f1) Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> Date: Mon Aug 15 17:23:51 2005 -0700 @@ -485,10 +533,11 @@ diff --git a/pico/pico.c b/pico/pico.c +#endif c |= COMP_EXIT; break; - +.... (Daniel Barkalow) +.... > A patch to SubmittingPatches, MUA specific help section for > users of Pine 4.63 would be very much appreciated. @@ -498,23 +547,21 @@ that or Gentoo did it.) So you need to set the "no-strip-whitespace-before-send" option, unless the option you have is "strip-whitespace-before-send", in which case you should avoid checking it. +.... +=== Thunderbird, KMail, GMail -Thunderbird, KMail, GMail -------------------------- - -See the MUA-SPECIFIC HINTS section of git-format-patch(1). +See the MUA-SPECIFIC HINTS section of linkgit:git-format-patch[1]. -Gnus ----- +=== Gnus -'|' in the *Summary* buffer can be used to pipe the current +"|" in the `*Summary*` buffer can be used to pipe the current message to an external program, and this is a handy way to drive -"git am". However, if the message is MIME encoded, what is +`git am`. However, if the message is MIME encoded, what is piped into the program is the representation you see in your -*Article* buffer after unwrapping MIME. This is often not what +`*Article*` buffer after unwrapping MIME. This is often not what you would want for two reasons. It tends to screw up non ASCII characters (most notably in people's names), and also -whitespaces (fatal in patches). Running 'C-u g' to display the -message in raw form before using '|' to run the pipe can work +whitespaces (fatal in patches). Running "C-u g" to display the +message in raw form before using "|" to run the pipe can work this problem around. diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb b/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ec83b4959e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +require 'asciidoctor' +require 'asciidoctor/extensions' + +module Git + module Documentation + class LinkGitProcessor < Asciidoctor::Extensions::InlineMacroProcessor + use_dsl + + named :chrome + + def process(parent, target, attrs) + if parent.document.basebackend? 'html' + prefix = parent.document.attr('git-relative-html-prefix') + %(<a href="#{prefix}#{target}.html">#{target}(#{attrs[1]})</a>\n) + elsif parent.document.basebackend? 'docbook' + "<citerefentry>\n" \ + "<refentrytitle>#{target}</refentrytitle>" \ + "<manvolnum>#{attrs[1]}</manvolnum>\n" \ + "</citerefentry>\n" + end + end + end + end +end + +Asciidoctor::Extensions.register do + inline_macro Git::Documentation::LinkGitProcessor, :linkgit +end diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt index 2669b87c9d..dc41957afa 100644 --- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ include::line-range-format.txt[] terminal. Can't use `--progress` together with `--porcelain` or `--incremental`. --M|<num>|:: +-M[<num>]:: Detect moved or copied lines within a file. When a commit moves or copies a block of lines (e.g. the original file has A and then B, and the commit changes it to B and then @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ alphanumeric characters that Git must detect as moving/copying within a file for it to associate those lines with the parent commit. The default value is 20. --C|<num>|:: +-C[<num>]:: In addition to `-M`, detect lines moved or copied from other files that were modified in the same commit. This is useful when you reorganize your program and move code diff --git a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl index 87437f8a95..14d2f83415 100755 --- a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl +++ b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl @@ -1,9 +1,12 @@ #!/usr/bin/perl -w +use strict; +use warnings; + my @menu = (); my $output = $ARGV[0]; -open TMP, '>', "$output.tmp"; +open my $tmp, '>', "$output.tmp"; while (<STDIN>) { next if (/^\\input texinfo/../\@node Top/); @@ -11,13 +14,13 @@ while (<STDIN>) { if (s/^\@top (.*)/\@node $1,,,Top/) { push @menu, $1; } - s/\(\@pxref{\[(URLS|REMOTES)\]}\)//; + s/\(\@pxref\{\[(URLS|REMOTES)\]}\)//; s/\@anchor\{[^{}]*\}//g; - print TMP; + print $tmp $_; } -close TMP; +close $tmp; -printf '\input texinfo +print '\input texinfo @setfilename gitman.info @documentencoding UTF-8 @dircategory Development @@ -28,16 +31,16 @@ printf '\input texinfo @top Git Manual Pages @documentlanguage en @menu -', $menu[0]; +'; for (@menu) { print "* ${_}::\n"; } print "\@end menu\n"; -open TMP, '<', "$output.tmp"; -while (<TMP>) { +open $tmp, '<', "$output.tmp"; +while (<$tmp>) { print; } -close TMP; +close $tmp; print "\@bye\n"; unlink "$output.tmp"; diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 1fee83ca42..1cc18a828c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -41,11 +41,13 @@ in the section header, like in the example below: -------- Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except -newline (doublequote `"` and backslash can be included by escaping them -as `\"` and `\\`, respectively). Section headers cannot span multiple -lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection. -You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you -don't need to. +newline and the null byte. Doublequote `"` and backslash can be included +by escaping them as `\"` and `\\`, respectively. Backslashes preceding +other characters are dropped when reading; for example, `\t` is read as +`t` and `\0` is read as `0` Section headers cannot span multiple lines. +Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection. You +can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you don't +need to. There is also a deprecated `[section.subsection]` syntax. With this syntax, the subsection name is converted to lower-case and is also @@ -79,18 +81,84 @@ escape sequences) are invalid. Includes ~~~~~~~~ -You can include one config file from another by setting the special -`include.path` variable to the name of the file to be included. The -variable takes a pathname as its value, and is subject to tilde -expansion. +The `include` and `includeIf` sections allow you to include config +directives from another source. These sections behave identically to +each other with the exception that `includeIf` sections may be ignored +if their condition does not evaluate to true; see "Conditional includes" +below. -The -included file is expanded immediately, as if its contents had been -found at the location of the include directive. If the value of the -`include.path` variable is a relative path, the path is considered to be -relative to the configuration file in which the include directive was -found. See below for examples. +You can include a config file from another by setting the special +`include.path` (or `includeIf.*.path`) variable to the name of the file +to be included. The variable takes a pathname as its value, and is +subject to tilde expansion. These variables can be given multiple times. +The contents of the included file are inserted immediately, as if they +had been found at the location of the include directive. If the value of the +variable is a relative path, the path is considered to +be relative to the configuration file in which the include directive +was found. See below for examples. + +Conditional includes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +You can include a config file from another conditionally by setting a +`includeIf.<condition>.path` variable to the name of the file to be +included. + +The condition starts with a keyword followed by a colon and some data +whose format and meaning depends on the keyword. Supported keywords +are: + +`gitdir`:: + + The data that follows the keyword `gitdir:` is used as a glob + pattern. If the location of the .git directory matches the + pattern, the include condition is met. ++ +The .git location may be auto-discovered, or come from `$GIT_DIR` +environment variable. If the repository is auto discovered via a .git +file (e.g. from submodules, or a linked worktree), the .git location +would be the final location where the .git directory is, not where the +.git file is. ++ +The pattern can contain standard globbing wildcards and two additional +ones, `**/` and `/**`, that can match multiple path components. Please +refer to linkgit:gitignore[5] for details. For convenience: + + * If the pattern starts with `~/`, `~` will be substituted with the + content of the environment variable `HOME`. + + * If the pattern starts with `./`, it is replaced with the directory + containing the current config file. + + * If the pattern does not start with either `~/`, `./` or `/`, `**/` + will be automatically prepended. For example, the pattern `foo/bar` + becomes `**/foo/bar` and would match `/any/path/to/foo/bar`. + + * If the pattern ends with `/`, `**` will be automatically added. For + example, the pattern `foo/` becomes `foo/**`. In other words, it + matches "foo" and everything inside, recursively. + +`gitdir/i`:: + This is the same as `gitdir` except that matching is done + case-insensitively (e.g. on case-insensitive file sytems) + +A few more notes on matching via `gitdir` and `gitdir/i`: + + * Symlinks in `$GIT_DIR` are not resolved before matching. + + * Both the symlink & realpath versions of paths will be matched + outside of `$GIT_DIR`. E.g. if ~/git is a symlink to + /mnt/storage/git, both `gitdir:~/git` and `gitdir:/mnt/storage/git` + will match. ++ +This was not the case in the initial release of this feature in +v2.13.0, which only matched the realpath version. Configuration that +wants to be compatible with the initial release of this feature needs +to either specify only the realpath version, or both versions. + + * Note that "../" is not special and will match literally, which is + unlikely what you want. Example ~~~~~~~ @@ -116,9 +184,26 @@ Example [include] path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path - path = foo ; expand "foo" relative to the current file - path = ~/foo ; expand "foo" in your `$HOME` directory + path = foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" relative to the current file + path = ~/foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" in your `$HOME` directory + + ; include if $GIT_DIR is /path/to/foo/.git + [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/foo/.git"] + path = /path/to/foo.inc + + ; include for all repositories inside /path/to/group + [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"] + path = /path/to/foo.inc + + ; include for all repositories inside $HOME/to/group + [includeIf "gitdir:~/to/group/"] + path = /path/to/foo.inc + ; relative paths are always relative to the including + ; file (if the condition is true); their location is not + ; affected by the condition + [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"] + path = foo.inc Values ~~~~~~ @@ -133,15 +218,15 @@ boolean:: synonyms are accepted for 'true' and 'false'; these are all case-insensitive. - true;; Boolean true can be spelled as `yes`, `on`, `true`, - or `1`. Also, a variable defined without `= <value>` + true;; Boolean true literals are `yes`, `on`, `true`, + and `1`. Also, a variable defined without `= <value>` is taken as true. - false;; Boolean false can be spelled as `no`, `off`, - `false`, or `0`. + false;; Boolean false literals are `no`, `off`, `false`, + `0` and the empty string. + When converting value to the canonical form using `--bool` type -specifier; 'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or +specifier, 'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or "false" (spelled in lowercase). integer:: @@ -170,6 +255,9 @@ The position of any attributes with respect to the colors be turned off by prefixing them with `no` or `no-` (e.g., `noreverse`, `no-ul`, etc). + +An empty color string produces no color effect at all. This can be used +to avoid coloring specific elements without disabling color entirely. ++ For git's pre-defined color slots, the attributes are meant to be reset at the beginning of each item in the colored output. So setting `color.decorate.branch` to `black` will paint that branch name in a @@ -262,6 +350,15 @@ advice.*:: rmHints:: In case of failure in the output of linkgit:git-rm[1], show directions on how to proceed from the current state. + addEmbeddedRepo:: + Advice on what to do when you've accidentally added one + git repo inside of another. + ignoredHook:: + Advice shown if an hook is ignored because the hook is not + set as executable. + waitingForEditor:: + Print a message to the terminal whenever Git is waiting for + editor input from the user. -- core.fileMode:: @@ -269,7 +366,7 @@ core.fileMode:: is to be honored. + Some filesystems lose the executable bit when a file that is -marked as executable is checked out, or checks out an +marked as executable is checked out, or checks out a non-executable file with executable bit on. linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1] probe the filesystem to see if it handles the executable bit correctly @@ -324,6 +421,13 @@ core.protectNTFS:: 8.3 "short" names. Defaults to `true` on Windows, and `false` elsewhere. +core.fsmonitor:: + If set, the value of this variable is used as a command which + will identify all files that may have changed since the + requested date/time. This information is used to speed up git by + avoiding unnecessary processing of files that have not changed. + See the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of linkgit:githooks[5]. + core.trustctime:: If false, the ctime differences between the index and the working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time @@ -331,6 +435,10 @@ core.trustctime:: crawlers and some backup systems). See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default. +core.splitIndex:: + If true, the split-index feature of the index will be used. + See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. False by default. + core.untrackedCache:: Determines what to do about the untracked cache feature of the index. It will be kept, if this variable is unset or set to @@ -347,16 +455,19 @@ core.checkStat:: all fields, including the sub-second part of mtime and ctime. core.quotePath:: - The commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files', - 'diff'), when not given the `-z` option, will quote - "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the - pathname in a double-quote pair and with backslashes the - same way strings in C source code are quoted. If this - variable is set to false, the bytes higher than 0x80 are - not quoted but output as verbatim. Note that double - quote, backslash and control characters are always - quoted without `-z` regardless of the setting of this - variable. + Commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files', 'diff'), will + quote "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the + pathname in double-quotes and escaping those characters with + backslashes in the same way C escapes control characters (e.g. + `\t` for TAB, `\n` for LF, `\\` for backslash) or bytes with + values larger than 0x80 (e.g. octal `\302\265` for "micro" in + UTF-8). If this variable is set to false, bytes higher than + 0x80 are not considered "unusual" any more. Double-quotes, + backslash and control characters are always escaped regardless + of the setting of this variable. A simple space character is + not considered "unusual". Many commands can output pathnames + completely verbatim using the `-z` option. The default value + is true. core.eol:: Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for @@ -419,6 +530,12 @@ core.autocrlf:: This variable can be set to 'input', in which case no output conversion is performed. +core.checkRoundtripEncoding:: + A comma and/or whitespace separated list of encodings that Git + performs UTF-8 round trip checks on if they are used in an + `working-tree-encoding` attribute (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). + The default value is `SHIFT-JIS`. + core.symlinks:: If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that contain the link text. linkgit:git-update-index[1] and @@ -517,10 +634,12 @@ core.logAllRefUpdates:: "`$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>`", by appending the new and old SHA-1, the date/time and the reason of the update, but only when the file exists. If this configuration - variable is set to true, missing "`$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>`" + variable is set to `true`, missing "`$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>`" file is automatically created for branch heads (i.e. under - refs/heads/), remote refs (i.e. under refs/remotes/), - note refs (i.e. under refs/notes/), and the symbolic ref HEAD. + `refs/heads/`), remote refs (i.e. under `refs/remotes/`), + note refs (i.e. under `refs/notes/`), and the symbolic ref `HEAD`. + If it is set to `always`, then a missing reflog is automatically + created for any ref under `refs/`. + This information can be used to determine what commit was the tip of a branch "2 days ago". @@ -588,7 +707,8 @@ core.packedGitLimit:: bytes at once to complete an operation it will unmap existing regions to reclaim virtual address space within the process. + -Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 8 GiB on 64 bit platforms. +Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 32 TiB (effectively +unlimited) on 64 bit platforms. This should be reasonable for all users/operating systems, except on the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value. + @@ -663,13 +783,13 @@ alternative to having an `init.templateDir` where you've changed default hooks. core.editor:: - Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit - messages by launching an editor uses the value of this + Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that let you edit + messages by launching an editor use the value of this variable when it is set, and the environment variable `GIT_EDITOR` is not set. See linkgit:git-var[1]. core.commentChar:: - Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit + Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that let you edit messages consider a line that begins with this character commented, and removes them after the editor returns (default '#'). @@ -677,6 +797,12 @@ core.commentChar:: If set to "auto", `git-commit` would select a character that is not the beginning character of any line in existing commit messages. +core.filesRefLockTimeout:: + The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to + lock an individual reference. Value 0 means not to retry at + all; -1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 100 (i.e., + retry for 100ms). + core.packedRefsTimeout:: The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to lock the `packed-refs` file. Value 0 means not to retry at @@ -778,6 +904,10 @@ core.notesRef:: This setting defaults to "refs/notes/commits", and it can be overridden by the `GIT_NOTES_REF` environment variable. See linkgit:git-notes[1]. +core.commitGraph:: + Enable git commit graph feature. Allows reading from the + commit-graph file. + core.sparseCheckout:: Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information. @@ -788,6 +918,7 @@ core.abbrev:: computed based on the approximate number of packed objects in your repository, which hopefully is enough for abbreviated object names to stay unique for some time. + The minimum length is 4. add.ignoreErrors:: add.ignore-errors (deprecated):: @@ -843,6 +974,23 @@ apply.whitespace:: Tells 'git apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way as the `--whitespace` option. See linkgit:git-apply[1]. +blame.showRoot:: + Do not treat root commits as boundaries in linkgit:git-blame[1]. + This option defaults to false. + +blame.blankBoundary:: + Show blank commit object name for boundary commits in + linkgit:git-blame[1]. This option defaults to false. + +blame.showEmail:: + Show the author email instead of author name in linkgit:git-blame[1]. + This option defaults to false. + +blame.date:: + Specifies the format used to output dates in linkgit:git-blame[1]. + If unset the iso format is used. For supported values, + see the discussion of the `--date` option at linkgit:git-log[1]. + branch.autoSetupMerge:: Tells 'git branch' and 'git checkout' to set up new branches so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from the @@ -920,6 +1068,10 @@ branch.<name>.rebase:: "git pull" is run. See "pull.rebase" for doing this in a non branch-specific manner. + +When `merges`, pass the `--rebase-merges` option to 'git rebase' +so that the local merge commits are included in the rebase (see +linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details). ++ When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase' so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened by running 'git pull'. @@ -950,6 +1102,16 @@ clean.requireForce:: A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f, -i or -n. Defaults to true. +color.advice:: + A boolean to enable/disable color in hints (e.g. when a push + failed, see `advice.*` for a list). May be set to `always`, + `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors + are used only when the error output goes to a terminal. If + unset, then the value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default). + +color.advice.hint:: + Use customized color for hints. + color.branch:: A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of linkgit:git-branch[1]. May be set to `always`, @@ -977,19 +1139,31 @@ This does not affect linkgit:git-format-patch[1] or the 'git-diff-{asterisk}' plumbing commands. Can be overridden on the command line with the `--color[=<when>]` option. +diff.colorMoved:: + If set to either a valid `<mode>` or a true value, moved lines + in a diff are colored differently, for details of valid modes + see '--color-moved' in linkgit:git-diff[1]. If simply set to + true the default color mode will be used. When set to false, + moved lines are not colored. + color.diff.<slot>:: Use customized color for diff colorization. `<slot>` specifies which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one of `context` (context text - `plain` is a historical synonym), `meta` (metainformation), `frag` (hunk header), 'func' (function in hunk header), `old` (removed lines), - `new` (added lines), `commit` (commit headers), or `whitespace` - (highlighting whitespace errors). + `new` (added lines), `commit` (commit headers), `whitespace` + (highlighting whitespace errors), `oldMoved` (deleted lines), + `newMoved` (added lines), `oldMovedDimmed`, `oldMovedAlternative`, + `oldMovedAlternativeDimmed`, `newMovedDimmed`, `newMovedAlternative` + and `newMovedAlternativeDimmed` (See the '<mode>' + setting of '--color-moved' in linkgit:git-diff[1] for details). color.decorate.<slot>:: Use customized color for 'git log --decorate' output. `<slot>` is one of `branch`, `remoteBranch`, `tag`, `stash` or `HEAD` for local - branches, remote-tracking branches, tags, stash and HEAD, respectively. + branches, remote-tracking branches, tags, stash and HEAD, respectively + and `grafted` for grafted commits. color.grep:: When set to `always`, always highlight matches. When `false` (or @@ -1041,6 +1215,15 @@ color.pager:: A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in use (default is true). +color.push:: + A boolean to enable/disable color in push errors. May be set to + `always`, `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which + case colors are used only when the error output goes to a terminal. + If unset, then the value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default). + +color.push.error:: + Use customized color for push errors. + color.showBranch:: A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. May be set to `always`, @@ -1063,9 +1246,48 @@ color.status.<slot>:: `untracked` (files which are not tracked by Git), `branch` (the current branch), `nobranch` (the color the 'no branch' warning is shown in, defaulting - to red), or + to red), + `localBranch` or `remoteBranch` (the local and remote branch names, + respectively, when branch and tracking information is displayed in the + status short-format), or `unmerged` (files which have unmerged changes). +color.blame.repeatedLines:: + Use the customized color for the part of git-blame output that + is repeated meta information per line (such as commit id, + author name, date and timezone). Defaults to cyan. + +color.blame.highlightRecent:: + This can be used to color the metadata of a blame line depending + on age of the line. ++ +This setting should be set to a comma-separated list of color and date settings, +starting and ending with a color, the dates should be set from oldest to newest. +The metadata will be colored given the colors if the the line was introduced +before the given timestamp, overwriting older timestamped colors. ++ +Instead of an absolute timestamp relative timestamps work as well, e.g. +2.weeks.ago is valid to address anything older than 2 weeks. ++ +It defaults to 'blue,12 month ago,white,1 month ago,red', which colors +everything older than one year blue, recent changes between one month and +one year old are kept white, and lines introduced within the last month are +colored red. + +blame.coloring:: + This determines the coloring scheme to be applied to blame + output. It can be 'repeatedLines', 'highlightRecent', + or 'none' which is the default. + +color.transport:: + A boolean to enable/disable color when pushes are rejected. May be + set to `always`, `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which + case colors are used only when the error output goes to a terminal. + If unset, then the value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default). + +color.transport.rejected:: + Use customized color when a push was rejected. + color.ui:: This variable determines the default value for variables such as `color.diff` and `color.grep` that control the use of color @@ -1191,6 +1413,14 @@ credential.<url>.*:: credentialCache.ignoreSIGHUP:: Tell git-credential-cache--daemon to ignore SIGHUP, instead of quitting. +completion.commands:: + This is only used by git-completion.bash to add or remove + commands from the list of completed commands. Normally only + porcelain commands and a few select others are completed. You + can add more commands, separated by space, in this + variable. Prefixing the command with '-' will remove it from + the existing list. + include::diff-config.txt[] difftool.<tool>.path:: @@ -1246,7 +1476,16 @@ fetch.unpackLimit:: fetch.prune:: If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the `--prune` - option was given on the command line. See also `remote.<name>.prune`. + option was given on the command line. See also `remote.<name>.prune` + and the PRUNING section of linkgit:git-fetch[1]. + +fetch.pruneTags:: + If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the + `refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*` refspec was provided when pruning, + if not set already. This allows for setting both this option + and `fetch.prune` to maintain a 1=1 mapping to upstream + refs. See also `remote.<name>.pruneTags` and the PRUNING + section of linkgit:git-fetch[1]. fetch.output:: Control how ref update status is printed. Valid values are @@ -1397,6 +1636,24 @@ gc.autoDetach:: Make `git gc --auto` return immediately and run in background if the system supports it. Default is true. +gc.bigPackThreshold:: + If non-zero, all packs larger than this limit are kept when + `git gc` is run. This is very similar to `--keep-base-pack` + except that all packs that meet the threshold are kept, not + just the base pack. Defaults to zero. Common unit suffixes of + 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. ++ +Note that if the number of kept packs is more than gc.autoPackLimit, +this configuration variable is ignored, all packs except the base pack +will be repacked. After this the number of packs should go below +gc.autoPackLimit and gc.bigPackThreshold should be respected again. + +gc.logExpiry:: + If the file gc.log exists, then `git gc --auto` won't run + unless that file is more than 'gc.logExpiry' old. Default is + "1.day". See `gc.pruneExpire` for more ways to specify its + value. + gc.packRefs:: Running `git pack-refs` in a repository renders it unclonable by Git versions prior to 1.5.1.2 over dumb @@ -1444,11 +1701,13 @@ gc.<pattern>.reflogExpireUnreachable:: gc.rerereResolved:: Records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are kept for this many days when 'git rerere gc' is run. + You can also use more human-readable "1.month.ago", etc. The default is 60 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1]. gc.rerereUnresolved:: Records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are kept for this many days when 'git rerere gc' is run. + You can also use more human-readable "1.month.ago", etc. The default is 15 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1]. gitcvs.commitMsgAnnotation:: @@ -1788,6 +2047,7 @@ http.sslVersion:: - tlsv1.0 - tlsv1.1 - tlsv1.2 + - tlsv1.3 + Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_VERSION` environment variable. @@ -1810,8 +2070,8 @@ empty string. http.sslVerify:: Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing - over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY` environment - variable. + over HTTPS. Defaults to true. Can be overridden by the + `GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY` environment variable. http.sslCert:: File containing the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing @@ -1914,7 +2174,10 @@ http.<url>.*:: must match exactly between the config key and the URL. . Host/domain name (e.g., `example.com` in `https://example.com/`). - This field must match exactly between the config key and the URL. + This field must match between the config key and the URL. It is + possible to specify a `*` as part of the host name to match all subdomains + at this level. `https://*.example.com/` for example would match + `https://foo.example.com/`, but not `https://foo.bar.example.com/`. . Port number (e.g., `8080` in `http://example.com:8080/`). This field must match exactly between the config key and the URL. @@ -1949,6 +2212,42 @@ Environment variable settings always override any matches. The URLs that are matched against are those given directly to Git commands. This means any URLs visited as a result of a redirection do not participate in matching. +ssh.variant:: + By default, Git determines the command line arguments to use + based on the basename of the configured SSH command (configured + using the environment variable `GIT_SSH` or `GIT_SSH_COMMAND` or + the config setting `core.sshCommand`). If the basename is + unrecognized, Git will attempt to detect support of OpenSSH + options by first invoking the configured SSH command with the + `-G` (print configuration) option and will subsequently use + OpenSSH options (if that is successful) or no options besides + the host and remote command (if it fails). ++ +The config variable `ssh.variant` can be set to override this detection. +Valid values are `ssh` (to use OpenSSH options), `plink`, `putty`, +`tortoiseplink`, `simple` (no options except the host and remote command). +The default auto-detection can be explicitly requested using the value +`auto`. Any other value is treated as `ssh`. This setting can also be +overridden via the environment variable `GIT_SSH_VARIANT`. ++ +The current command-line parameters used for each variant are as +follows: ++ +-- + +* `ssh` - [-p port] [-4] [-6] [-o option] [username@]host command + +* `simple` - [username@]host command + +* `plink` or `putty` - [-P port] [-4] [-6] [username@]host command + +* `tortoiseplink` - [-P port] [-4] [-6] -batch [username@]host command + +-- ++ +Except for the `simple` variant, command-line parameters are likely to +change as git gains new features. + i18n.commitEncoding:: Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; Git itself does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when @@ -2036,12 +2335,20 @@ log.follow:: i.e. it cannot be used to follow multiple files and does not work well on non-linear history. +log.graphColors:: + A list of colors, separated by commas, that can be used to draw + history lines in `git log --graph`. + log.showRoot:: If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event. This is equivalent to a diff against an empty tree. Tools like linkgit:git-log[1] or linkgit:git-whatchanged[1], which normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by default. +log.showSignature:: + If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and + linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--show-signature`. + log.mailmap:: If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--use-mailmap`. @@ -2205,6 +2512,7 @@ pack.window:: pack.depth:: The maximum delta depth used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50. + Maximum value is 4095. pack.windowMemory:: The maximum size of memory that is consumed by each thread @@ -2241,7 +2549,8 @@ pack.deltaCacheLimit:: The maximum size of a delta, that is cached in linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. This cache is used to speed up the writing object phase by not having to recompute the final delta - result once the best match for all objects is found. Defaults to 1000. + result once the best match for all objects is found. + Defaults to 1000. Maximum value is 65535. pack.threads:: Specifies the number of threads to spawn when searching for best @@ -2321,6 +2630,69 @@ pretty.<name>:: Note that an alias with the same name as a built-in format will be silently ignored. +protocol.allow:: + If set, provide a user defined default policy for all protocols which + don't explicitly have a policy (`protocol.<name>.allow`). By default, + if unset, known-safe protocols (http, https, git, ssh, file) have a + default policy of `always`, known-dangerous protocols (ext) have a + default policy of `never`, and all other protocols have a default + policy of `user`. Supported policies: ++ +-- + +* `always` - protocol is always able to be used. + +* `never` - protocol is never able to be used. + +* `user` - protocol is only able to be used when `GIT_PROTOCOL_FROM_USER` is + either unset or has a value of 1. This policy should be used when you want a + protocol to be directly usable by the user but don't want it used by commands which + execute clone/fetch/push commands without user input, e.g. recursive + submodule initialization. + +-- + +protocol.<name>.allow:: + Set a policy to be used by protocol `<name>` with clone/fetch/push + commands. See `protocol.allow` above for the available policies. ++ +The protocol names currently used by git are: ++ +-- + - `file`: any local file-based path (including `file://` URLs, + or local paths) + + - `git`: the anonymous git protocol over a direct TCP + connection (or proxy, if configured) + + - `ssh`: git over ssh (including `host:path` syntax, + `ssh://`, etc). + + - `http`: git over http, both "smart http" and "dumb http". + Note that this does _not_ include `https`; if you want to configure + both, you must do so individually. + + - any external helpers are named by their protocol (e.g., use + `hg` to allow the `git-remote-hg` helper) +-- + +protocol.version:: + Experimental. If set, clients will attempt to communicate with a + server using the specified protocol version. If unset, no + attempt will be made by the client to communicate using a + particular protocol version, this results in protocol version 0 + being used. + Supported versions: ++ +-- + +* `0` - the original wire protocol. + +* `1` - the original wire protocol with the addition of a version string + in the initial response from the server. + +-- + pull.ff:: By default, Git does not create an extra merge commit when merging a commit that is a descendant of the current commit. Instead, the @@ -2337,6 +2709,10 @@ pull.rebase:: pull" is run. See "branch.<name>.rebase" for setting this on a per-branch basis. + +When `merges`, pass the `--rebase-merges` option to 'git rebase' +so that the local merge commits are included in the rebase (see +linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details). ++ When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase' so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened by running 'git pull'. @@ -2377,6 +2753,8 @@ push.default:: pushing to the same repository you would normally pull from (i.e. central workflow). +* `tracking` - This is a deprecated synonym for `upstream`. + * `simple` - in centralized workflow, work like `upstream` with an added safety to refuse to push if the upstream branch's name is different from the local one. @@ -2423,6 +2801,35 @@ push.gpgSign:: override a value from a lower-priority config file. An explicit command-line flag always overrides this config option. +push.pushOption:: + When no `--push-option=<option>` argument is given from the + command line, `git push` behaves as if each <value> of + this variable is given as `--push-option=<value>`. ++ +This is a multi-valued variable, and an empty value can be used in a +higher priority configuration file (e.g. `.git/config` in a +repository) to clear the values inherited from a lower priority +configuration files (e.g. `$HOME/.gitconfig`). ++ +-- + +Example: + +/etc/gitconfig + push.pushoption = a + push.pushoption = b + +~/.gitconfig + push.pushoption = c + +repo/.git/config + push.pushoption = + push.pushoption = b + +This will result in only b (a and c are cleared). + +-- + push.recurseSubmodules:: Make sure all submodule commits used by the revisions to be pushed are available on a remote-tracking branch. If the value is 'check' @@ -2437,36 +2844,7 @@ push.recurseSubmodules:: is retained. You may override this configuration at time of push by specifying '--recurse-submodules=check|on-demand|no'. -rebase.stat:: - Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last - rebase. False by default. - -rebase.autoSquash:: - If set to true enable `--autosquash` option by default. - -rebase.autoStash:: - When set to true, automatically create a temporary stash - before the operation begins, and apply it after the operation - ends. This means that you can run rebase on a dirty worktree. - However, use with care: the final stash application after a - successful rebase might result in non-trivial conflicts. - Defaults to false. - -rebase.missingCommitsCheck:: - If set to "warn", git rebase -i will print a warning if some - commits are removed (e.g. a line was deleted), however the - rebase will still proceed. If set to "error", it will print - the previous warning and stop the rebase, 'git rebase - --edit-todo' can then be used to correct the error. If set to - "ignore", no checking is done. - To drop a commit without warning or error, use the `drop` - command in the todo-list. - Defaults to "ignore". - -rebase.instructionFormat:: - A format string, as specified in linkgit:git-log[1], to be used for - the instruction list during an interactive rebase. The format will automatically - have the long commit hash prepended to the format. +include::rebase-config.txt[] receive.advertiseAtomic:: By default, git-receive-pack will advertise the atomic push @@ -2474,9 +2852,8 @@ receive.advertiseAtomic:: capability, set this variable to false. receive.advertisePushOptions:: - By default, git-receive-pack will advertise the push options - capability to its clients. If you don't want to advertise this - capability, set this variable to false. + When set to true, git-receive-pack will advertise the push options + capability to its clients. False by default. receive.autogc:: By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after @@ -2674,6 +3051,15 @@ remote.<name>.prune:: remote (as if the `--prune` option was given on the command line). Overrides `fetch.prune` settings, if any. +remote.<name>.pruneTags:: + When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will also + remove any local tags that no longer exist on the remote if pruning + is activated in general via `remote.<name>.prune`, `fetch.prune` or + `--prune`. Overrides `fetch.pruneTags` settings, if any. ++ +See also `remote.<name>.prune` and the PRUNING section of +linkgit:git-fetch[1]. + remotes.<group>:: The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update <group>". See linkgit:git-remote[1]. @@ -2734,8 +3120,8 @@ sendemail.smtpsslcertpath:: sendemail.<identity>.*:: Identity-specific versions of the 'sendemail.*' parameters - found below, taking precedence over those when the this - identity is selected, through command-line or + found below, taking precedence over those when this + identity is selected, through either the command-line or `sendemail.identity`. sendemail.aliasesFile:: @@ -2754,6 +3140,7 @@ sendemail.smtpPass:: sendemail.suppresscc:: sendemail.suppressFrom:: sendemail.to:: +sendemail.tocmd:: sendemail.smtpDomain:: sendemail.smtpServer:: sendemail.smtpServerPort:: @@ -2768,10 +3155,45 @@ sendemail.xmailer:: sendemail.signedoffcc (deprecated):: Deprecated alias for `sendemail.signedoffbycc`. +sendemail.smtpBatchSize:: + Number of messages to be sent per connection, after that a relogin + will happen. If the value is 0 or undefined, send all messages in + one connection. + See also the `--batch-size` option of linkgit:git-send-email[1]. + +sendemail.smtpReloginDelay:: + Seconds wait before reconnecting to smtp server. + See also the `--relogin-delay` option of linkgit:git-send-email[1]. + showbranch.default:: The default set of branches for linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. See linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. +splitIndex.maxPercentChange:: + When the split index feature is used, this specifies the + percent of entries the split index can contain compared to the + total number of entries in both the split index and the shared + index before a new shared index is written. + The value should be between 0 and 100. If the value is 0 then + a new shared index is always written, if it is 100 a new + shared index is never written. + By default the value is 20, so a new shared index is written + if the number of entries in the split index would be greater + than 20 percent of the total number of entries. + See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. + +splitIndex.sharedIndexExpire:: + When the split index feature is used, shared index files that + were not modified since the time this variable specifies will + be removed when a new shared index file is created. The value + "now" expires all entries immediately, and "never" suppresses + expiration altogether. + The default value is "2.weeks.ago". + Note that a shared index file is considered modified (for the + purpose of expiration) each time a new split-index file is + either created based on it or read from it. + See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. + status.relativePaths:: By default, linkgit:git-status[1] shows paths relative to the current directory. Setting this variable to `false` shows paths @@ -2793,6 +3215,23 @@ status.displayCommentPrefix:: behavior of linkgit:git-status[1] in Git 1.8.4 and previous. Defaults to false. +status.renameLimit:: + The number of files to consider when performing rename detection + in linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1]. Defaults to + the value of diff.renameLimit. + +status.renames:: + Whether and how Git detects renames in linkgit:git-status[1] and + linkgit:git-commit[1] . If set to "false", rename detection is + disabled. If set to "true", basic rename detection is enabled. + If set to "copies" or "copy", Git will detect copies, as well. + Defaults to the value of diff.renames. + +status.showStash:: + If set to true, linkgit:git-status[1] will display the number of + entries currently stashed away. + Defaults to false. + status.showUntrackedFiles:: By default, linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1] show files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which @@ -2830,27 +3269,32 @@ status.submoduleSummary:: stash.showPatch:: If this is set to true, the `git stash show` command without an - option will show the stash in patch form. Defaults to false. + option will show the stash entry in patch form. Defaults to false. See description of 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1]. stash.showStat:: If this is set to true, the `git stash show` command without an - option will show diffstat of the stash. Defaults to true. + option will show diffstat of the stash entry. Defaults to true. See description of 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1]. submodule.<name>.url:: The URL for a submodule. This variable is copied from the .gitmodules file to the git config via 'git submodule init'. The user can change the configured URL before obtaining the submodule via 'git submodule - update'. After obtaining the submodule, the presence of this variable - is used as a sign whether the submodule is of interest to git commands. + update'. If neither submodule.<name>.active or submodule.active are + set, the presence of this variable is used as a fallback to indicate + whether the submodule is of interest to git commands. See linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details. submodule.<name>.update:: - The default update procedure for a submodule. This variable - is populated by `git submodule init` from the - linkgit:gitmodules[5] file. See description of 'update' - command in linkgit:git-submodule[1]. + The method by which a submodule is updated by 'git submodule update', + which is the only affected command, others such as + 'git checkout --recurse-submodules' are unaffected. It exists for + historical reasons, when 'git submodule' was the only command to + interact with submodules; settings like `submodule.active` + and `pull.rebase` are more specific. It is populated by + `git submodule init` from the linkgit:gitmodules[5] file. + See description of 'update' command in linkgit:git-submodule[1]. submodule.<name>.branch:: The remote branch name for a submodule, used by `git submodule @@ -2881,6 +3325,22 @@ submodule.<name>.ignore:: "--ignore-submodules" option. The 'git submodule' commands are not affected by this setting. +submodule.<name>.active:: + Boolean value indicating if the submodule is of interest to git + commands. This config option takes precedence over the + submodule.active config option. + +submodule.active:: + A repeated field which contains a pathspec used to match against a + submodule's path to determine if the submodule is of interest to git + commands. + +submodule.recurse:: + Specifies if commands recurse into submodules by default. This + applies to all commands that have a `--recurse-submodules` option, + except `clone`. + Defaults to false. + submodule.fetchJobs:: Specifies how many submodules are fetched/cloned at the same time. A positive integer allows up to that number of submodules fetched @@ -2894,7 +3354,7 @@ submodule.alternateLocation:: value is set to `superproject` the submodule to be cloned computes its alternates location relative to the superprojects alternate. -submodule.alternateErrorStrategy +submodule.alternateErrorStrategy:: Specifies how to treat errors with the alternates for a submodule as computed via `submodule.alternateLocation`. Possible values are `ignore`, `info`, `die`. Default is `die`. @@ -3011,6 +3471,10 @@ uploadpack.packObjectsHook:: was run. I.e., `upload-pack` will feed input intended for `pack-objects` to the hook, and expects a completed packfile on stdout. + +uploadpack.allowFilter:: + If this option is set, `upload-pack` will support partial + clone and partial fetch object filtering. + Note that this configuration variable is ignored if it is seen in the repository-level config (this is a safety measure against fetching from @@ -3026,6 +3490,13 @@ url.<base>.insteadOf:: the best alternative for the particular user, even for a never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one insteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is used. ++ +Note that any protocol restrictions will be applied to the rewritten +URL. If the rewrite changes the URL to use a custom protocol or remote +helper, you may need to adjust the `protocol.*.allow` config to permit +the request. In particular, protocols you expect to use for submodules +must be set to `always` rather than the default of `user`. See the +description of `protocol.allow` above. url.<base>.pushInsteadOf:: Any URL that starts with this value will not be pushed to; @@ -3067,19 +3538,51 @@ user.signingKey:: This option is passed unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter, so you may specify a key using any method that gpg supports. -versionsort.prereleaseSuffix:: - When version sort is used in linkgit:git-tag[1], prerelease - tags (e.g. "1.0-rc1") may appear after the main release - "1.0". By specifying the suffix "-rc" in this variable, - "1.0-rc1" will appear before "1.0". -+ -This variable can be specified multiple times, once per suffix. The -order of suffixes in the config file determines the sorting order -(e.g. if "-pre" appears before "-rc" in the config file then 1.0-preXX -is sorted before 1.0-rcXX). The sorting order between different -suffixes is undefined if they are in multiple config files. +versionsort.prereleaseSuffix (deprecated):: + Deprecated alias for `versionsort.suffix`. Ignored if + `versionsort.suffix` is set. + +versionsort.suffix:: + Even when version sort is used in linkgit:git-tag[1], tagnames + with the same base version but different suffixes are still sorted + lexicographically, resulting e.g. in prerelease tags appearing + after the main release (e.g. "1.0-rc1" after "1.0"). This + variable can be specified to determine the sorting order of tags + with different suffixes. ++ +By specifying a single suffix in this variable, any tagname containing +that suffix will appear before the corresponding main release. E.g. if +the variable is set to "-rc", then all "1.0-rcX" tags will appear before +"1.0". If specified multiple times, once per suffix, then the order of +suffixes in the configuration will determine the sorting order of tagnames +with those suffixes. E.g. if "-pre" appears before "-rc" in the +configuration, then all "1.0-preX" tags will be listed before any +"1.0-rcX" tags. The placement of the main release tag relative to tags +with various suffixes can be determined by specifying the empty suffix +among those other suffixes. E.g. if the suffixes "-rc", "", "-ck" and +"-bfs" appear in the configuration in this order, then all "v4.8-rcX" tags +are listed first, followed by "v4.8", then "v4.8-ckX" and finally +"v4.8-bfsX". ++ +If more than one suffixes match the same tagname, then that tagname will +be sorted according to the suffix which starts at the earliest position in +the tagname. If more than one different matching suffixes start at +that earliest position, then that tagname will be sorted according to the +longest of those suffixes. +The sorting order between different suffixes is undefined if they are +in multiple config files. web.browser:: Specify a web browser that may be used by some commands. Currently only linkgit:git-instaweb[1] and linkgit:git-help[1] may use it. + +worktree.guessRemote:: + With `add`, if no branch argument, and neither of `-b` nor + `-B` nor `--detach` are given, the command defaults to + creating a new branch from HEAD. If `worktree.guessRemote` is + set to true, `worktree add` tries to find a remote-tracking + branch whose name uniquely matches the new branch name. If + such a branch exists, it is checked out and set as "upstream" + for the new branch. If no such match can be found, it falls + back to creating a new branch from the current HEAD. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt index 58f4bd6afa..77caa66c2f 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt @@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ diff.context:: Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of the default of 3. This value is overridden by the -U option. +diff.interHunkContext:: + Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number + of lines, thereby fusing the hunks that are close to each other. + This value serves as the default for the `--inter-hunk-context` + command line option. + diff.external:: If this config variable is set, diff generation is not performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the @@ -99,13 +105,15 @@ diff.noprefix:: If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix. diff.orderFile:: - File indicating how to order files within a diff, using - one shell glob pattern per line. - Can be overridden by the '-O' option to linkgit:git-diff[1]. + File indicating how to order files within a diff. + See the '-O' option to linkgit:git-diff[1] for details. + If `diff.orderFile` is a relative pathname, it is treated as + relative to the top of the working tree. diff.renameLimit:: The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename - detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option `-l`. + detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option `-l`. This setting + has no effect if rename detection is turned off. diff.renames:: Whether and how Git detects renames. If set to "false", @@ -172,10 +180,8 @@ diff.tool:: include::mergetools-diff.txt[] diff.indentHeuristic:: -diff.compactionHeuristic:: - Set one of these options to `true` to enable one of two - experimental heuristics that shift diff hunk boundaries to - make patches easier to read. + Set this option to `true` to enable experimental heuristics + that shift diff hunk boundaries to make patches easier to read. diff.algorithm:: Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows: @@ -195,7 +201,10 @@ diff.algorithm:: + diff.wsErrorHighlight:: - A comma separated list of `old`, `new`, `context`, that - specifies how whitespace errors on lines are highlighted - with `color.diff.whitespace`. Can be overridden by the - command line option `--ws-error-highlight=<kind>` + Highlight whitespace errors in the `context`, `old` or `new` + lines of the diff. Multiple values are separated by comma, + `none` resets previous values, `default` reset the list to + `new` and `all` is a shorthand for `old,new,context`. The + whitespace errors are colored with `color.diff.whitespace`. + The command line option `--ws-error-highlight=<kind>` + overrides this setting. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt index cf5262622f..706916c94c 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt @@ -78,9 +78,10 @@ Example: :100644 100644 5be4a4...... 000000...... M file.c ------------------------------------------------ -When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters -in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, -respectively. +Without the `-z` option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are +quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath` +(see linkgit:git-config[1]). Using `-z` the filename is output +verbatim and the line is terminated by a NUL byte. diff format for merges ---------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt index d2a7ff56e8..231105cff4 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt @@ -53,10 +53,9 @@ The index line includes the SHA-1 checksum before and after the change. The <mode> is included if the file mode does not change; otherwise, separate lines indicate the old and the new mode. -3. TAB, LF, double quote and backslash characters in pathnames - are represented as `\t`, `\n`, `\"` and `\\`, respectively. - If there is need for such substitution then the whole - pathname is put in double quotes. +3. Pathnames with "unusual" characters are quoted as explained for + the configuration variable `core.quotePath` (see + linkgit:git-config[1]). 4. All the `file1` files in the output refer to files before the commit, and all the `file2` files refer to files after the commit. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-heuristic-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-heuristic-options.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 36cb549df9..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/diff-heuristic-options.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,7 +0,0 @@ ---indent-heuristic:: ---no-indent-heuristic:: ---compaction-heuristic:: ---no-compaction-heuristic:: - These are to help debugging and tuning experimental heuristics - (which are off by default) that shift diff hunk boundaries to - make patches easier to read. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index e6215c372c..41064909ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -63,7 +63,12 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[] Synonym for `-p --raw`. endif::git-format-patch[] -include::diff-heuristic-options.txt[] +--indent-heuristic:: + Enable the heuristic that shifts diff hunk boundaries to make patches + easier to read. This is the default. + +--no-indent-heuristic:: + Disable the indent heuristic. --minimal:: Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible @@ -75,6 +80,16 @@ include::diff-heuristic-options.txt[] --histogram:: Generate a diff using the "histogram diff" algorithm. +--anchored=<text>:: + Generate a diff using the "anchored diff" algorithm. ++ +This option may be specified more than once. ++ +If a line exists in both the source and destination, exists only once, +and starts with this text, this algorithm attempts to prevent it from +appearing as a deletion or addition in the output. It uses the "patience +diff" algorithm internally. + --diff-algorithm={patience|minimal|histogram|myers}:: Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows: + @@ -91,7 +106,7 @@ include::diff-heuristic-options.txt[] low-occurrence common elements". -- + -For instance, if you configured diff.algorithm variable to a +For instance, if you configured the `diff.algorithm` variable to a non-default value and want to use the default one, then you have to use `--diff-algorithm=default` option. @@ -113,6 +128,14 @@ have to use `--diff-algorithm=default` option. These parameters can also be set individually with `--stat-width=<width>`, `--stat-name-width=<name-width>` and `--stat-count=<count>`. +--compact-summary:: + Output a condensed summary of extended header information such + as file creations or deletions ("new" or "gone", optionally "+l" + if it's a symlink) and mode changes ("+x" or "-x" for adding + or removing executable bit respectively) in diffstat. The + information is put between the filename part and the graph + part. Implies `--stat`. + --numstat:: Similar to `--stat`, but shows number of added and deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without @@ -192,10 +215,9 @@ ifndef::git-log[] given, do not munge pathnames and use NULs as output field terminators. endif::git-log[] + -Without this option, each pathname output will have TAB, LF, double quotes, -and backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, `\"`, and `\\`, -respectively, and the pathname will be enclosed in double quotes if -any of those replacements occurred. +Without this option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are quoted as +explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath` (see +linkgit:git-config[1]). --name-only:: Show only names of changed files. @@ -232,6 +254,40 @@ ifdef::git-diff[] endif::git-diff[] It is the same as `--color=never`. +--color-moved[=<mode>]:: + Moved lines of code are colored differently. +ifdef::git-diff[] + It can be changed by the `diff.colorMoved` configuration setting. +endif::git-diff[] + The <mode> defaults to 'no' if the option is not given + and to 'zebra' if the option with no mode is given. + The mode must be one of: ++ +-- +no:: + Moved lines are not highlighted. +default:: + Is a synonym for `zebra`. This may change to a more sensible mode + in the future. +plain:: + Any line that is added in one location and was removed + in another location will be colored with 'color.diff.newMoved'. + Similarly 'color.diff.oldMoved' will be used for removed lines + that are added somewhere else in the diff. This mode picks up any + moved line, but it is not very useful in a review to determine + if a block of code was moved without permutation. +zebra:: + Blocks of moved text of at least 20 alphanumeric characters + are detected greedily. The detected blocks are + painted using either the 'color.diff.{old,new}Moved' color or + 'color.diff.{old,new}MovedAlternative'. The change between + the two colors indicates that a new block was detected. +dimmed_zebra:: + Similar to 'zebra', but additional dimming of uninteresting parts + of moved code is performed. The bordering lines of two adjacent + blocks are considered interesting, the rest is uninteresting. +-- + --word-diff[=<mode>]:: Show a word diff, using the <mode> to delimit changed words. By default, words are delimited by whitespace; see @@ -294,22 +350,21 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[] Warn if changes introduce conflict markers or whitespace errors. What are considered whitespace errors is controlled by `core.whitespace` configuration. By default, trailing whitespaces (including - lines that solely consist of whitespaces) and a space character + lines that consist solely of whitespaces) and a space character that is immediately followed by a tab character inside the initial indent of the line are considered whitespace errors. Exits with non-zero status if problems are found. Not compatible with --exit-code. --ws-error-highlight=<kind>:: - Highlight whitespace errors on lines specified by <kind> - in the color specified by `color.diff.whitespace`. <kind> - is a comma separated list of `old`, `new`, `context`. When - this option is not given, only whitespace errors in `new` - lines are highlighted. E.g. `--ws-error-highlight=new,old` - highlights whitespace errors on both deleted and added lines. - `all` can be used as a short-hand for `old,new,context`. - The `diff.wsErrorHighlight` configuration variable can be - used to specify the default behaviour. + Highlight whitespace errors in the `context`, `old` or `new` + lines of the diff. Multiple values are separated by comma, + `none` resets previous values, `default` reset the list to + `new` and `all` is a shorthand for `old,new,context`. When + this option is not given, and the configuration variable + `diff.wsErrorHighlight` is not set, only whitespace errors in + `new` lines are highlighted. The whitespace errors are colored + with `color.diff.whitespace`. endif::git-format-patch[] @@ -393,7 +448,7 @@ endif::git-log[] the diff between the preimage and `/dev/null`. The resulting patch is not meant to be applied with `patch` or `git apply`; this is solely for people who want to just concentrate on reviewing the - text after the change. In addition, the output obviously lack + text after the change. In addition, the output obviously lacks enough information to apply such a patch in reverse, even manually, hence the name of the option. + @@ -422,6 +477,12 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[] + Also, these upper-case letters can be downcased to exclude. E.g. `--diff-filter=ad` excludes added and deleted paths. ++ +Note that not all diffs can feature all types. For instance, diffs +from the index to the working tree can never have Added entries +(because the set of paths included in the diff is limited by what is in +the index). Similarly, copied and renamed entries cannot appear if +detection for those types is disabled. -S<string>:: Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of @@ -455,6 +516,15 @@ occurrences of that string did not change). See the 'pickaxe' entry in linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more information. +--find-object=<object-id>:: + Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of + the specified object. Similar to `-S`, just the argument is different + in that it doesn't search for a specific string but for a specific + object id. ++ +The object can be a blob or a submodule commit. It implies the `-t` option in +`git-log` to also find trees. + --pickaxe-all:: When `-S` or `-G` finds a change, show all the changes in that changeset, not just the files that contain the change @@ -463,14 +533,45 @@ information. --pickaxe-regex:: Treat the <string> given to `-S` as an extended POSIX regular expression to match. + endif::git-format-patch[] -O<orderfile>:: - Output the patch in the order specified in the - <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line. + Control the order in which files appear in the output. This overrides the `diff.orderFile` configuration variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). To cancel `diff.orderFile`, use `-O/dev/null`. ++ +The output order is determined by the order of glob patterns in +<orderfile>. +All files with pathnames that match the first pattern are output +first, all files with pathnames that match the second pattern (but not +the first) are output next, and so on. +All files with pathnames that do not match any pattern are output +last, as if there was an implicit match-all pattern at the end of the +file. +If multiple pathnames have the same rank (they match the same pattern +but no earlier patterns), their output order relative to each other is +the normal order. ++ +<orderfile> is parsed as follows: ++ +-- + - Blank lines are ignored, so they can be used as separators for + readability. + + - Lines starting with a hash ("`#`") are ignored, so they can be used + for comments. Add a backslash ("`\`") to the beginning of the + pattern if it starts with a hash. + + - Each other line contains a single pattern. +-- ++ +Patterns have the same syntax and semantics as patterns used for +fnmatch(3) without the FNM_PATHNAME flag, except a pathname also +matches a pattern if removing any number of the final pathname +components matches the pattern. For example, the pattern "`foo*bar`" +matches "`fooasdfbar`" and "`foo/bar/baz/asdf`" but not "`foobarx`". ifndef::git-format-patch[] -R:: @@ -490,6 +591,9 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --text:: Treat all files as text. +--ignore-cr-at-eol:: + Ignore carriage-return at the end of line when doing a comparison. + --ignore-space-at-eol:: Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL. @@ -511,6 +615,8 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --inter-hunk-context=<lines>:: Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each other. + Defaults to `diff.interHunkContext` or 0 if the config option + is unset. -W:: --function-context:: diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index fb6bebbc61..97d3217df9 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -73,7 +73,22 @@ ifndef::git-pull[] are fetched due to an explicit refspec (either on the command line or in the remote configuration, for example if the remote was cloned with the --mirror option), then they are also - subject to pruning. + subject to pruning. Supplying `--prune-tags` is a shorthand for + providing the tag refspec. ++ +See the PRUNING section below for more details. + +-P:: +--prune-tags:: + Before fetching, remove any local tags that no longer exist on + the remote if `--prune` is enabled. This option should be used + more carefully, unlike `--prune` it will remove any local + references (local tags) that have been created. This option is + a shorthand for providing the explicit tag refspec along with + `--prune`, see the discussion about that in its documentation. ++ +See the PRUNING section below for more details. + endif::git-pull[] ifndef::git-pull[] @@ -173,6 +188,14 @@ endif::git-pull[] is specified. This flag forces progress status even if the standard error stream is not directed to a terminal. +-o <option>:: +--server-option=<option>:: + Transmit the given string to the server when communicating using + protocol version 2. The given string must not contain a NUL or LF + character. + When multiple `--server-option=<option>` are given, they are all + sent to the other side in the order listed on the command line. + -4:: --ipv4:: Use IPv4 addresses only, ignoring IPv6 addresses. diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index 7ed63dce0b..45652fe4a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git add' [--verbose | -v] [--dry-run | -n] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p] [--edit | -e] [--[no-]all | --[no-]ignore-removal | [--update | -u]] - [--intent-to-add | -N] [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--ignore-missing] + [--intent-to-add | -N] [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--ignore-missing] [--renormalize] [--chmod=(+|-)x] [--] [<pathspec>...] DESCRIPTION @@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ OPTIONS the working tree. Note that older versions of Git used to ignore removed files; use `--no-all` option if you want to add modified or new files but ignore removed ones. ++ +For more details about the <pathspec> syntax, see the 'pathspec' entry +in linkgit:gitglossary[7]. -n:: --dry-run:: @@ -165,6 +168,20 @@ for "git add --no-all <pathspec>...", i.e. ignored removed files. be ignored, no matter if they are already present in the work tree or not. +--no-warn-embedded-repo:: + By default, `git add` will warn when adding an embedded + repository to the index without using `git submodule add` to + create an entry in `.gitmodules`. This option will suppress the + warning (e.g., if you are manually performing operations on + submodules). + +--renormalize:: + Apply the "clean" process freshly to all tracked files to + forcibly add them again to the index. This is useful after + changing `core.autocrlf` configuration or the `text` attribute + in order to correct files added with wrong CRLF/LF line endings. + This option implies `-u`. + --chmod=(+|-)x:: Override the executable bit of the added files. The executable bit is only changed in the index, the files on disk are left @@ -176,7 +193,7 @@ for "git add --no-all <pathspec>...", i.e. ignored removed files. for command-line options). -Configuration +CONFIGURATION ------------- The optional configuration variable `core.excludesFile` indicates a path to a @@ -209,7 +226,7 @@ Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not consider `subdir/git-foo.sh`. -Interactive mode +INTERACTIVE MODE ---------------- When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the output of the 'status' subcommand, and then goes into its diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index 12879e4029..6f6c34b0f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--exclude=<path>] [--include=<path>] [--reject] [-q | --quiet] [--[no-]scissors] [-S[<keyid>]] [--patch-format=<format>] [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...] -'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort) +'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit | --show-current-patch) DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -167,6 +167,14 @@ default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this. --abort:: Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation. +--quit:: + Abort the patching operation but keep HEAD and the index + untouched. + +--show-current-patch:: + Show the patch being applied when "git am" is stopped because + of conflicts. + DISCUSSION ---------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt index 94be4b85e0..e44a831339 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-annotate - Annotate file lines with commit information SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git annotate' [options] file [revision] +'git annotate' [<options>] <file> [<revision>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ familiar command name for people coming from other SCM systems. OPTIONS ------- include::blame-options.txt[] -include::diff-heuristic-options.txt[] SEE ALSO -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index 8ddb207409..b9aa39000f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-apply - Apply a patch to files and/or to the index SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--3way] +'git apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index | --intent-to-add] [--3way] [--apply] [--no-add] [--build-fake-ancestor=<file>] [-R | --reverse] [--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z] [-p<n>] [-C<n>] [--inaccurate-eof] [--recount] [--cached] @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ OPTIONS disables it is in effect), make sure the patch is applicable to what the current index file records. If the file to be patched in the working tree is not - up-to-date, it is flagged as an error. This flag also + up to date, it is flagged as an error. This flag also causes the index file to be updated. --cached:: @@ -74,6 +74,14 @@ OPTIONS cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index without using the working tree. This implies `--index`. +--intent-to-add:: + When applying the patch only to the working tree, mark new + files to be added to the index later (see `--intent-to-add` + option in linkgit:git-add[1]). This option is ignored unless + running in a Git repository and `--index` is not specified. + Note that `--index` could be implied by other options such + as `--cached` or `--3way`. + -3:: --3way:: When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on 3-way merge if @@ -108,14 +116,15 @@ the information is read from the current index instead. When `--numstat` has been given, do not munge pathnames, but use a NUL-terminated machine-readable format. + -Without this option, each pathname output will have TAB, LF, double quotes, -and backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, `\"`, and `\\`, -respectively, and the pathname will be enclosed in double quotes if -any of those replacements occurred. +Without this option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are quoted as +explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath` (see +linkgit:git-config[1]). -p<n>:: - Remove <n> leading slashes from traditional diff paths. The - default is 1. + Remove <n> leading path components (separated by slashes) from + traditional diff paths. E.g., with `-p2`, a patch against + `a/dir/file` will be applied directly to `file`. The default is + 1. -C<n>:: Ensure at least <n> lines of surrounding context match before @@ -241,7 +250,7 @@ When `git apply` is used as a "better GNU patch", the user can pass the `--unsafe-paths` option to override this safety check. This option has no effect when `--index` or `--cached` is in use. -Configuration +CONFIGURATION ------------- apply.ignoreWhitespace:: @@ -252,7 +261,7 @@ apply.whitespace:: When no `--whitespace` flag is given from the command line, this configuration item is used as the default. -Submodules +SUBMODULES ---------- If the patch contains any changes to submodules then 'git apply' treats these changes as follows. @@ -260,7 +269,7 @@ treats these changes as follows. If `--index` is specified (explicitly or implicitly), then the submodule commits must match the index exactly for the patch to apply. If any of the submodules are checked-out, then these check-outs are completely -ignored, i.e., they are not required to be up-to-date or clean and they +ignored, i.e., they are not required to be up to date or clean and they are not updated. If `--index` is not specified, then the submodule commits in the patch diff --git a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt index 163b9f6f41..ea70653369 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ OPTIONS pruned. -a:: - Attempt to auto-register archives at http://mirrors.sourcecontrol.net + Attempt to auto-register archives at `http://mirrors.sourcecontrol.net` This is particularly useful with the -D option. -t <tmpdir>:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt index e015f5b3cc..78479b003e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt @@ -1347,12 +1347,12 @@ author to given a talk and for publishing this paper. References ---------- -- [[[1]]] http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/n02-10.htm['Software Errors Cost U.S. Economy $59.5 Billion Annually'. Nist News Release.] -- [[[2]]] http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConventions.doc.html#16712['Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language'. Sun Microsystems.] -- [[[3]]] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_maintenance['Software maintenance'. Wikipedia.] -- [[[4]]] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/45195/[Junio C Hamano. 'Automated bisect success story'. Gmane.] -- [[[5]]] http://lwn.net/Articles/317154/[Christian Couder. 'Fully automated bisecting with "git bisect run"'. LWN.net.] -- [[[6]]] http://lwn.net/Articles/277872/[Jonathan Corbet. 'Bisection divides users and developers'. LWN.net.] -- [[[7]]] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/36652/[Ingo Molnar. 'Re: BUG 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha'. Gmane.] -- [[[8]]] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html[Junio C Hamano and the git-list. 'git-bisect(1) Manual Page'. Linux Kernel Archives.] -- [[[9]]] http://github.com/Ealdwulf/bbchop[Ealdwulf. 'bbchop'. GitHub.] +- [[[1]]] https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/director/planning/report02-3.pdf['The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infratructure for Software Testing'. Nist Planning Report 02-3], see Executive Summary and Chapter 8. +- [[[2]]] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconvtoc-136057.html['Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language'. Sun Microsystems.] +- [[[3]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_maintenance['Software maintenance'. Wikipedia.] +- [[[4]]] https://public-inbox.org/git/7vps5xsbwp.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net/[Junio C Hamano. 'Automated bisect success story'.] +- [[[5]]] https://lwn.net/Articles/317154/[Christian Couder. 'Fully automated bisecting with "git bisect run"'. LWN.net.] +- [[[6]]] https://lwn.net/Articles/277872/[Jonathan Corbet. 'Bisection divides users and developers'. LWN.net.] +- [[[7]]] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119702753411680&w=2[Ingo Molnar. 'Re: BUG 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha'. Linux-kernel mailing list.] +- [[[8]]] https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html[Junio C Hamano and the git-list. 'git-bisect(1) Manual Page'. Linux Kernel Archives.] +- [[[9]]] https://github.com/Ealdwulf/bbchop[Ealdwulf. 'bbchop'. GitHub.] diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index bdd915a66b..4b45d837a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ on the subcommand: git bisect terms [--term-good | --term-bad] git bisect skip [(<rev>|<range>)...] git bisect reset [<commit>] - git bisect visualize + git bisect (visualize|view) git bisect replay <logfile> git bisect log git bisect run <cmd>... @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ respectively, in place of "good" and "bad". (But note that you cannot mix "good" and "bad" with "old" and "new" in a single session.) In this more general usage, you provide `git bisect` with a "new" -commit has some property and an "old" commit that doesn't have that +commit that has some property and an "old" commit that doesn't have that property. Each time `git bisect` checks out a commit, you test if that commit has the property. If it does, mark the commit as "new"; otherwise, mark it as "old". When the bisection is done, `git bisect` @@ -165,8 +165,8 @@ To get a reminder of the currently used terms, use git bisect terms ------------------------------------------------ -You can get just the old (respectively new) term with `git bisect term ---term-old` or `git bisect term --term-good`. +You can get just the old (respectively new) term with `git bisect terms +--term-old` or `git bisect terms --term-good`. If you would like to use your own terms instead of "bad"/"good" or "new"/"old", you can choose any names you like (except existing bisect @@ -193,24 +193,23 @@ git bisect start --term-new fixed --term-old broken Then, use `git bisect <term-old>` and `git bisect <term-new>` instead of `git bisect good` and `git bisect bad` to mark commits. -Bisect visualize -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Bisect visualize/view +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To see the currently remaining suspects in 'gitk', issue the following -command during the bisection process: +command during the bisection process (the subcommand `view` can be used +as an alternative to `visualize`): ------------ $ git bisect visualize ------------ -`view` may also be used as a synonym for `visualize`. - If the `DISPLAY` environment variable is not set, 'git log' is used instead. You can also give command-line options such as `-p` and `--stat`. ------------ -$ git bisect view --stat +$ git bisect visualize --stat ------------ Bisect log and bisect replay diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt index fdc3aea30a..16323eb80e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt @@ -89,8 +89,6 @@ include::blame-options.txt[] abbreviated object name, use <n>+1 digits. Note that 1 column is used for a caret to mark the boundary commit. -include::diff-heuristic-options.txt[] - THE PORCELAIN FORMAT -------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index 1fe73448f3..02eccbb931 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -10,13 +10,15 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git branch' [--color[=<when>] | --no-color] [-r | -a] [--list] [-v [--abbrev=<length> | --no-abbrev]] - [--column[=<options>] | --no-column] - [(--merged | --no-merged | --contains) [<commit>]] [--sort=<key>] - [--points-at <object>] [<pattern>...] -'git branch' [--set-upstream | --track | --no-track] [-l] [-f] <branchname> [<start-point>] + [--column[=<options>] | --no-column] [--sort=<key>] + [(--merged | --no-merged) [<commit>]] + [--contains [<commit]] [--no-contains [<commit>]] + [--points-at <object>] [--format=<format>] [<pattern>...] +'git branch' [--track | --no-track] [-l] [-f] <branchname> [<start-point>] 'git branch' (--set-upstream-to=<upstream> | -u <upstream>) [<branchname>] 'git branch' --unset-upstream [<branchname>] 'git branch' (-m | -M) [<oldbranch>] <newbranch> +'git branch' (-c | -C) [<oldbranch>] <newbranch> 'git branch' (-d | -D) [-r] <branchname>... 'git branch' --edit-description [<branchname>] @@ -35,11 +37,12 @@ as branch creation. With `--contains`, shows only the branches that contain the named commit (in other words, the branches whose tip commits are descendants of the -named commit). With `--merged`, only branches merged into the named -commit (i.e. the branches whose tip commits are reachable from the named -commit) will be listed. With `--no-merged` only branches not merged into -the named commit will be listed. If the <commit> argument is missing it -defaults to `HEAD` (i.e. the tip of the current branch). +named commit), `--no-contains` inverts it. With `--merged`, only branches +merged into the named commit (i.e. the branches whose tip commits are +reachable from the named commit) will be listed. With `--no-merged` only +branches not merged into the named commit will be listed. If the <commit> +argument is missing it defaults to `HEAD` (i.e. the tip of the current +branch). The command's second form creates a new branch head named <branchname> which points to the current `HEAD`, or <start-point> if given. @@ -62,6 +65,10 @@ If <oldbranch> had a corresponding reflog, it is renamed to match renaming. If <newbranch> exists, -M must be used to force the rename to happen. +The `-c` and `-C` options have the exact same semantics as `-m` and +`-M`, except instead of the branch being renamed it along with its +config and reflog will be copied to a new name. + With a `-d` or `-D` option, `<branchname>` will be deleted. You may specify more than one branch for deletion. If the branch currently has a reflog then the reflog will also be deleted. @@ -79,7 +86,7 @@ OPTIONS --delete:: Delete a branch. The branch must be fully merged in its upstream branch, or in `HEAD` if no upstream was set with - `--track` or `--set-upstream`. + `--track` or `--set-upstream-to`. -D:: Shortcut for `--delete --force`. @@ -90,16 +97,19 @@ OPTIONS all changes made to the branch ref, enabling use of date based sha1 expressions such as "<branchname>@\{yesterday}". Note that in non-bare repositories, reflogs are usually - enabled by default by the `core.logallrefupdates` config option. + enabled by default by the `core.logAllRefUpdates` config option. + The negated form `--no-create-reflog` only overrides an earlier + `--create-reflog`, but currently does not negate the setting of + `core.logAllRefUpdates`. -f:: --force:: - Reset <branchname> to <startpoint> if <branchname> exists - already. Without `-f` 'git branch' refuses to change an existing branch. + Reset <branchname> to <startpoint>, even if <branchname> exists + already. Without `-f`, 'git branch' refuses to change an existing branch. In combination with `-d` (or `--delete`), allow deleting the branch irrespective of its merged status. In combination with `-m` (or `--move`), allow renaming the branch even if the new - branch name already exists. + branch name already exists, the same applies for `-c` (or `--copy`). -m:: --move:: @@ -108,6 +118,13 @@ OPTIONS -M:: Shortcut for `--move --force`. +-c:: +--copy:: + Copy a branch and the corresponding reflog. + +-C:: + Shortcut for `--copy --force`. + --color[=<when>]:: Color branches to highlight current, local, and remote-tracking branches. @@ -118,6 +135,10 @@ OPTIONS default to color output. Same as `--color=never`. +-i:: +--ignore-case:: + Sorting and filtering branches are case insensitive. + --column[=<options>]:: --no-column:: Display branch listing in columns. See configuration variable @@ -135,8 +156,13 @@ This option is only applicable in non-verbose mode. List both remote-tracking branches and local branches. --list:: - Activate the list mode. `git branch <pattern>` would try to create a branch, - use `git branch --list <pattern>` to list matching branches. + List branches. With optional `<pattern>...`, e.g. `git + branch --list 'maint-*'`, list only the branches that match + the pattern(s). ++ +This should not be confused with `git branch -l <branchname>`, +which creates a branch named `<branchname>` with a reflog. +See `--create-reflog` above for details. -v:: -vv:: @@ -181,10 +207,8 @@ start-point is either a local or remote-tracking branch. branch.autoSetupMerge configuration variable is true. --set-upstream:: - If specified branch does not exist yet or if `--force` has been - given, acts exactly like `--track`. Otherwise sets up configuration - like `--track` would when creating the branch, except that where - branch points to is not changed. + As this option had confusing syntax, it is no longer supported. + Please use `--track` or `--set-upstream-to` instead. -u <upstream>:: --set-upstream-to=<upstream>:: @@ -206,13 +230,19 @@ start-point is either a local or remote-tracking branch. Only list branches which contain the specified commit (HEAD if not specified). Implies `--list`. +--no-contains [<commit>]:: + Only list branches which don't contain the specified commit + (HEAD if not specified). Implies `--list`. + --merged [<commit>]:: Only list branches whose tips are reachable from the - specified commit (HEAD if not specified). Implies `--list`. + specified commit (HEAD if not specified). Implies `--list`, + incompatible with `--no-merged`. --no-merged [<commit>]:: Only list branches whose tips are not reachable from the - specified commit (HEAD if not specified). Implies `--list`. + specified commit (HEAD if not specified). Implies `--list`, + incompatible with `--merged`. <branchname>:: The name of the branch to create or delete. @@ -246,7 +276,18 @@ start-point is either a local or remote-tracking branch. --points-at <object>:: Only list branches of the given object. -Examples +--format <format>:: + A string that interpolates `%(fieldname)` from a branch ref being shown + and the object it points at. The format is the same as + that of linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1]. + +CONFIGURATION +------------- +`pager.branch` is only respected when listing branches, i.e., when +`--list` is used or implied. The default is to use a pager. +See linkgit:git-config[1]. + +EXAMPLES -------- Start development from a known tag:: @@ -277,20 +318,23 @@ See linkgit:git-fetch[1]. is currently checked out) does not have all commits from the test branch. -Notes +NOTES ----- If you are creating a branch that you want to checkout immediately, it is easier to use the git checkout command with its `-b` option to create a branch and check it out with a single command. -The options `--contains`, `--merged` and `--no-merged` serve three related -but different purposes: +The options `--contains`, `--no-contains`, `--merged` and `--no-merged` +serve four related but different purposes: - `--contains <commit>` is used to find all branches which will need special attention if <commit> were to be rebased or amended, since those branches contain the specified <commit>. +- `--no-contains <commit>` is the inverse of that, i.e. branches that don't + contain the specified <commit>. + - `--merged` is used to find all branches which can be safely deleted, since those branches are fully contained by HEAD. diff --git a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt index 3a8120c3b3..7d6c9dcd17 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt @@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ It is okay to err on the side of caution, causing the bundle file to contain objects already in the destination, as these are ignored when unpacking at the destination. -EXAMPLE -------- +EXAMPLES +-------- Assume you want to transfer the history from a repository R1 on machine A to another repository R2 on machine B. diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt index 204541c690..f90f09b03f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt @@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ OPTIONS <object>. -e:: - Suppress all output; instead exit with zero status if <object> - exists and is a valid object. + Exit with zero status if <object> exists and is a valid + object. If <object> is of an invalid format exit with non-zero and + emits an error on stderr. -p:: Pretty-print the contents of <object> based on its type. @@ -168,7 +169,7 @@ If `-t` is specified, one of the <type>. If `-s` is specified, the size of the <object> in bytes. -If `-e` is specified, no output. +If `-e` is specified, no output, unless the <object> is malformed. If `-p` is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty-printed. @@ -192,7 +193,7 @@ newline. The available atoms are: The 40-hex object name of the object. `objecttype`:: - The type of of the object (the same as `cat-file -t` reports). + The type of the object (the same as `cat-file -t` reports). `objectsize`:: The size, in bytes, of the object (the same as `cat-file -s` diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt index aa3b2bf2fc..3c0578217b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-check-attr - Display gitattributes information SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git check-attr' [-a | --all | attr...] [--] pathname... -'git check-attr' --stdin [-z] [-a | --all | attr...] +'git check-attr' [-a | --all | <attr>...] [--] <pathname>... +'git check-attr' --stdin [-z] [-a | --all | <attr>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index 611754f10b..8b42cb3fb2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-check-ignore - Debug gitignore / exclude files SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git check-ignore' [options] pathname... -'git check-ignore' [options] --stdin +'git check-ignore' [<options>] <pathname>... +'git check-ignore' [<options>] --stdin DESCRIPTION ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-mailmap.txt b/Documentation/git-check-mailmap.txt index 39028ee1a3..aa2055dbeb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-mailmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-mailmap.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-check-mailmap - Show canonical names and email addresses of contacts SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git check-mailmap' [options] <contact>... +'git check-mailmap' [<options>] <contact>... DESCRIPTION diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index 8611a99120..d9de992585 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -77,11 +77,23 @@ reference name expressions (see linkgit:gitrevisions[7]): . at-open-brace `@{` is used as a notation to access a reflog entry. -With the `--branch` option, it expands the ``previous branch syntax'' -`@{-n}`. For example, `@{-1}` is a way to refer the last branch you -were on. This option should be used by porcelains to accept this -syntax anywhere a branch name is expected, so they can act as if you -typed the branch name. +With the `--branch` option, the command takes a name and checks if +it can be used as a valid branch name (e.g. when creating a new +branch). But be cautious when using the +previous checkout syntax that may refer to a detached HEAD state. +The rule `git check-ref-format --branch $name` implements +may be stricter than what `git check-ref-format refs/heads/$name` +says (e.g. a dash may appear at the beginning of a ref component, +but it is explicitly forbidden at the beginning of a branch name). +When run with `--branch` option in a repository, the input is first +expanded for the ``previous checkout syntax'' +`@{-n}`. For example, `@{-1}` is a way to refer the last thing that +was checked out using "git checkout" operation. This option should be +used by porcelains to accept this syntax anywhere a branch name is +expected, so they can act as if you typed the branch name. As an +exception note that, the ``previous checkout operation'' might result +in a commit object name when the N-th last thing checked out was not +a branch. OPTIONS ------- @@ -100,16 +112,16 @@ OPTIONS --normalize:: Normalize 'refname' by removing any leading slash (`/`) characters and collapsing runs of adjacent slashes between - name components into a single slash. Iff the normalized + name components into a single slash. If the normalized refname is valid then print it to standard output and exit - with a status of 0. (`--print` is a deprecated way to spell - `--normalize`.) + with a status of 0, otherwise exit with a non-zero status. + (`--print` is a deprecated way to spell `--normalize`.) EXAMPLES -------- -* Print the name of the previous branch: +* Print the name of the previous thing checked out: + ------------ $ git check-ref-format --branch @{-1} diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 8e2c0662dd..ca5fc9c798 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [--detach] <commit> 'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [[-b|-B|--orphan] <new_branch>] [<start_point>] 'git checkout' [-f|--ours|--theirs|-m|--conflict=<style>] [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>... -'git checkout' [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] [<paths>...] +'git checkout' [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>... +'git checkout' (-p|--patch) [<tree-ish>] [--] [<paths>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ $ git checkout -b <branch> --track <remote>/<branch> ------------ + You could omit <branch>, in which case the command degenerates to -"check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with a +"check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with rather expensive side-effects to show only the tracking information, if exists, for the current branch. @@ -78,20 +79,13 @@ be used to detach HEAD at the tip of the branch (`git checkout + Omitting <branch> detaches HEAD at the tip of the current branch. -'git checkout' [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>...:: +'git checkout' [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>...:: - When <paths> or `--patch` are given, 'git checkout' does *not* - switch branches. It updates the named paths in the working tree - from the index file or from a named <tree-ish> (most often a - commit). In this case, the `-b` and `--track` options are - meaningless and giving either of them results in an error. The - <tree-ish> argument can be used to specify a specific tree-ish - (i.e. commit, tag or tree) to update the index for the given - paths before updating the working tree. -+ -'git checkout' with <paths> or `--patch` is used to restore modified or -deleted paths to their original contents from the index or replace paths -with the contents from a named <tree-ish> (most often a commit-ish). + Overwrite paths in the working tree by replacing with the + contents in the index or in the <tree-ish> (most often a + commit). When a <tree-ish> is given, the paths that + match the <pathspec> are updated both in the index and in + the working tree. + The index may contain unmerged entries because of a previous failed merge. By default, if you try to check out such an entry from the index, the @@ -101,6 +95,14 @@ specific side of the merge can be checked out of the index by using `--ours` or `--theirs`. With `-m`, changes made to the working tree file can be discarded to re-create the original conflicted merge result. +'git checkout' (-p|--patch) [<tree-ish>] [--] [<pathspec>...]:: + This is similar to the "check out paths to the working tree + from either the index or from a tree-ish" mode described + above, but lets you use the interactive interface to show + the "diff" output and choose which hunks to use in the + result. See below for the description of `--patch` option. + + OPTIONS ------- -q:: @@ -256,6 +258,15 @@ section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode. out anyway. In other words, the ref can be held by more than one worktree. +--[no-]recurse-submodules:: + Using --recurse-submodules will update the content of all initialized + submodules according to the commit recorded in the superproject. If + local modifications in a submodule would be overwritten the checkout + will fail unless `-f` is used. If nothing (or --no-recurse-submodules) + is used, the work trees of submodules will not be updated. + Just like linkgit:git-submodule[1], this will detach the + submodules HEAD. + <branch>:: Branch to checkout; if it refers to a branch (i.e., a name that, when prepended with "refs/heads/", is a valid ref), then that @@ -263,11 +274,11 @@ section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode. commit, your HEAD becomes "detached" and you are no longer on any branch (see below for details). + -As a special case, the `"@{-N}"` syntax for the N-th last branch/commit -checks out branches (instead of detaching). You may also specify -`-` which is synonymous with `"@{-1}"`. +You can use the `"@{-N}"` syntax to refer to the N-th last +branch/commit checked out using "git checkout" operation. You may +also specify `-` which is synonymous to `"@{-1}`. + -As a further special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the +As a special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the merge base of `A` and `B` if there is exactly one merge base. You can leave out at most one of `A` and `B`, in which case it defaults to `HEAD`. diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index 35cc34b2fb..a55536f0bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ SYNOPSIS [-l] [-s] [--no-hardlinks] [-q] [-n] [--bare] [--mirror] [-o <name>] [-b <name>] [-u <upload-pack>] [--reference <repository>] [--dissociate] [--separate-git-dir <git dir>] - [--depth <depth>] [--[no-]single-branch] - [--recursive | --recurse-submodules] [--[no-]shallow-submodules] + [--depth <depth>] [--[no-]single-branch] [--no-tags] + [--recurse-submodules[=<pathspec>]] [--[no-]shallow-submodules] [--jobs <n>] [--] <repository> [<directory>] DESCRIPTION @@ -215,14 +215,33 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. branch when `--single-branch` clone was made, no remote-tracking branch is created. ---recursive:: ---recurse-submodules:: - After the clone is created, initialize all submodules within, - using their default settings. This is equivalent to running - `git submodule update --init --recursive` immediately after - the clone is finished. This option is ignored if the cloned - repository does not have a worktree/checkout (i.e. if any of - `--no-checkout`/`-n`, `--bare`, or `--mirror` is given) +--no-tags:: + Don't clone any tags, and set + `remote.<remote>.tagOpt=--no-tags` in the config, ensuring + that future `git pull` and `git fetch` operations won't follow + any tags. Subsequent explicit tag fetches will still work, + (see linkgit:git-fetch[1]). ++ +Can be used in conjunction with `--single-branch` to clone and +maintain a branch with no references other than a single cloned +branch. This is useful e.g. to maintain minimal clones of the default +branch of some repository for search indexing. + +--recurse-submodules[=<pathspec]:: + After the clone is created, initialize and clone submodules + within based on the provided pathspec. If no pathspec is + provided, all submodules are initialized and cloned. + This option can be given multiple times for pathspecs consisting + of multiple entries. The resulting clone has `submodule.active` set to + the provided pathspec, or "." (meaning all submodules) if no + pathspec is provided. ++ +Submodules are initialized and cloned using their default settings. This is +equivalent to running +`git submodule update --init --recursive <pathspec>` immediately after +the clone is finished. This option is ignored if the cloned repository does +not have a worktree/checkout (i.e. if any of `--no-checkout`/`-n`, `--bare`, +or `--mirror` is given) --[no-]shallow-submodules:: All submodules which are cloned will be shallow with a depth of 1. @@ -241,7 +260,7 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. <repository>:: The (possibly remote) repository to clone from. See the - <<URLS,URLS>> section below for more information on specifying + <<URLS,GIT URLS>> section below for more information on specifying repositories. <directory>:: @@ -254,7 +273,7 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. :git-clone: 1 include::urls.txt[] -Examples +EXAMPLES -------- * Clone from upstream: diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4c97b555cc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +git-commit-graph(1) +=================== + +NAME +---- +git-commit-graph - Write and verify Git commit graph files + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'git commit-graph read' [--object-dir <dir>] +'git commit-graph write' <options> [--object-dir <dir>] + + +DESCRIPTION +----------- + +Manage the serialized commit graph file. + + +OPTIONS +------- +--object-dir:: + Use given directory for the location of packfiles and commit graph + file. This parameter exists to specify the location of an alternate + that only has the objects directory, not a full .git directory. The + commit graph file is expected to be at <dir>/info/commit-graph and + the packfiles are expected to be in <dir>/pack. + + +COMMANDS +-------- +'write':: + +Write a commit graph file based on the commits found in packfiles. ++ +With the `--stdin-packs` option, generate the new commit graph by +walking objects only in the specified pack-indexes. (Cannot be combined +with --stdin-commits.) ++ +With the `--stdin-commits` option, generate the new commit graph by +walking commits starting at the commits specified in stdin as a list +of OIDs in hex, one OID per line. (Cannot be combined with +--stdin-packs.) ++ +With the `--append` option, include all commits that are present in the +existing commit-graph file. + +'read':: + +Read a graph file given by the commit-graph file and output basic +details about the graph file. Used for debugging purposes. + + +EXAMPLES +-------- + +* Write a commit graph file for the packed commits in your local .git folder. ++ +------------------------------------------------ +$ git commit-graph write +------------------------------------------------ + +* Write a graph file, extending the current graph file using commits +* in <pack-index>. ++ +------------------------------------------------ +$ echo <pack-index> | git commit-graph write --stdin-packs +------------------------------------------------ + +* Write a graph file containing all reachable commits. ++ +------------------------------------------------ +$ git show-ref -s | git commit-graph write --stdin-commits +------------------------------------------------ + +* Write a graph file containing all commits in the current +* commit-graph file along with those reachable from HEAD. ++ +------------------------------------------------ +$ git rev-parse HEAD | git commit-graph write --stdin-commits --append +------------------------------------------------ + +* Read basic information from the commit-graph file. ++ +------------------------------------------------ +$ git commit-graph read +------------------------------------------------ + + +GIT +--- +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 4f8f20a360..f970a43422 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ OPTIONS --reset-author:: When used with -C/-c/--amend options, or when committing after a - a conflicting cherry-pick, declare that the authorship of the + conflicting cherry-pick, declare that the authorship of the resulting commit now belongs to the committer. This also renews the author timestamp. @@ -112,14 +112,17 @@ OPTIONS `--dry-run`. --long:: - When doing a dry-run, give the output in a the long-format. + When doing a dry-run, give the output in the long-format. Implies `--dry-run`. -z:: --null:: - When showing `short` or `porcelain` status output, terminate - entries in the status output with NUL, instead of LF. If no - format is given, implies the `--porcelain` output format. + When showing `short` or `porcelain` status output, print the + filename verbatim and terminate the entries with NUL, instead of LF. + If no format is given, implies the `--porcelain` output format. + Without the `-z` option, filenames with "unusual" characters are + quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath` + (see linkgit:git-config[1]). -F <file>:: --file=<file>:: @@ -141,6 +144,8 @@ OPTIONS Use the given <msg> as the commit message. If multiple `-m` options are given, their values are concatenated as separate paragraphs. ++ +The `-m` option is mutually exclusive with `-c`, `-C`, and `-F`. -t <file>:: --template=<file>:: @@ -193,11 +198,12 @@ whitespace:: verbatim:: Do not change the message at all. scissors:: - Same as `whitespace`, except that everything from (and - including) the line - "`# ------------------------ >8 ------------------------`" - is truncated if the message is to be edited. "`#`" can be - customized with core.commentChar. + Same as `whitespace` except that everything from (and including) + the line found below is truncated, if the message is to be edited. + "`#`" can be customized with core.commentChar. + + # ------------------------ >8 ------------------------ + default:: Same as `strip` if the message is to be edited. Otherwise `whitespace`. @@ -460,7 +466,7 @@ order). See linkgit:git-var[1] for details. HOOKS ----- This command can run `commit-msg`, `prepare-commit-msg`, `pre-commit`, -and `post-commit` hooks. See linkgit:githooks[5] for more +`post-commit` and `post-rewrite` hooks. See linkgit:githooks[5] for more information. FILES diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index 83f86b9231..18ddc78f42 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ git-config - Get and set repository or global options SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git config' [<file-option>] [type] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] name [value [value_regex]] -'git config' [<file-option>] [type] --add name value -'git config' [<file-option>] [type] --replace-all name value [value_regex] -'git config' [<file-option>] [type] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] --get name [value_regex] -'git config' [<file-option>] [type] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value_regex] -'git config' [<file-option>] [type] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] [--name-only] --get-regexp name_regex [value_regex] -'git config' [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-urlmatch name URL +'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] name [value [value_regex]] +'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] --add name value +'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] --replace-all name value [value_regex] +'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] --get name [value_regex] +'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value_regex] +'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] [--name-only] --get-regexp name_regex [value_regex] +'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [-z|--null] --get-urlmatch name URL 'git config' [<file-option>] --unset name [value_regex] 'git config' [<file-option>] --unset-all name [value_regex] 'git config' [<file-option>] --rename-section old_name new_name @@ -38,12 +38,10 @@ existing values that match the regexp are updated or unset. If you want to handle the lines that do *not* match the regex, just prepend a single exclamation mark in front (see also <<EXAMPLES>>). -The type specifier can be either `--int` or `--bool`, to make -'git config' ensure that the variable(s) are of the given type and -convert the value to the canonical form (simple decimal number for int, -a "true" or "false" string for bool), or `--path`, which does some -path expansion (see `--path` below). If no type specifier is passed, no -checks or transformations are performed on the value. +The `--type=<type>` option instructs 'git config' to ensure that incoming and +outgoing values are canonicalize-able under the given <type>. If no +`--type=<type>` is given, no canonicalization will be performed. Callers may +unset an existing `--type` specifier with `--no-type`. When reading, the values are read from the system, global and repository local configuration files by default, and options @@ -160,25 +158,43 @@ See also <<FILES>>. --list:: List all variables set in config file, along with their values. ---bool:: - 'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or "false" +--type <type>:: + 'git config' will ensure that any input or output is valid under the given + type constraint(s), and will canonicalize outgoing values in `<type>`'s + canonical form. ++ +Valid `<type>`'s include: ++ +- 'bool': canonicalize values as either "true" or "false". +- 'int': canonicalize values as simple decimal numbers. An optional suffix of + 'k', 'm', or 'g' will cause the value to be multiplied by 1024, 1048576, or + 1073741824 upon input. +- 'bool-or-int': canonicalize according to either 'bool' or 'int', as described + above. +- 'path': canonicalize by adding a leading `~` to the value of `$HOME` and + `~user` to the home directory for the specified user. This specifier has no + effect when setting the value (but you can use `git config section.variable + ~/` from the command line to let your shell do the expansion.) +- 'expiry-date': canonicalize by converting from a fixed or relative date-string + to a timestamp. This specifier has no effect when setting the value. +- 'color': When getting a value, canonicalize by converting to an ANSI color + escape sequence. When setting a value, a sanity-check is performed to ensure + that the given value is canonicalize-able as an ANSI color, but it is written + as-is. ++ +--bool:: --int:: - 'git config' will ensure that the output is a simple - decimal number. An optional value suffix of 'k', 'm', or 'g' - in the config file will cause the value to be multiplied - by 1024, 1048576, or 1073741824 prior to output. - --bool-or-int:: - 'git config' will ensure that the output matches the format of - either --bool or --int, as described above. - --path:: - 'git-config' will expand leading '{tilde}' to the value of - '$HOME', and '{tilde}user' to the home directory for the - specified user. This option has no effect when setting the - value (but you can use 'git config bla {tilde}/' from the - command line to let your shell do the expansion). +--expiry-date:: + Historical options for selecting a type specifier. Prefer instead `--type`, + (see: above). + +--no-type:: + Un-sets the previously set type specifier (if one was previously set). This + option requests that 'git config' not canonicalize the retrieved variable. + `--no-type` has no effect without `--type=<type>` or `--<type>`. -z:: --null:: @@ -216,6 +232,8 @@ See also <<FILES>>. output it as the ANSI color escape sequence to the standard output. The optional `default` parameter is used instead, if there is no color configured for `name`. ++ +`--type=color [--default=<default>]` is preferred over `--get-color`. -e:: --edit:: @@ -228,6 +246,16 @@ See also <<FILES>>. using `--file`, `--global`, etc) and `on` when searching all config files. +--default <value>:: + When using `--get`, and the requested variable is not found, behave as if + <value> were the value assigned to the that variable. + +CONFIGURATION +------------- +`pager.config` is only respected when listing configuration, i.e., when +using `--list` or any of the `--get-*` which may return multiple results. +The default is to use a pager. + [[FILES]] FILES ----- diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt index 96208f822e..0216c18ef8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-credential-cache - Helper to temporarily store passwords in memory SYNOPSIS -------- ----------------------------- -git config credential.helper 'cache [options]' +git config credential.helper 'cache [<options>]' ----------------------------- DESCRIPTION @@ -33,10 +33,13 @@ OPTIONS --socket <path>:: Use `<path>` to contact a running cache daemon (or start a new - cache daemon if one is not started). Defaults to - `~/.git-credential-cache/socket`. If your home directory is on a - network-mounted filesystem, you may need to change this to a - local filesystem. You must specify an absolute path. + cache daemon if one is not started). + Defaults to `$XDG_CACHE_HOME/git/credential/socket` unless + `~/.git-credential-cache/` exists in which case + `~/.git-credential-cache/socket` is used instead. + If your home directory is on a network-mounted filesystem, you + may need to change this to a local filesystem. You must specify + an absolute path. CONTROLLING THE DAEMON ---------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt index 25fb963f4b..693dd9d9d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-credential-store - Helper to store credentials on disk SYNOPSIS -------- ------------------- -git config credential.helper 'store [options]' +git config credential.helper 'store [<options>]' ------------------- DESCRIPTION diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt index a336ae5f6f..f98b7c6ed7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ cvspserver stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-cvsserver git-cvsserver pserver Usage: [verse] -'git-cvsserver' [options] [pserver|server] [<directory> ...] +'git-cvsserver' [<options>] [pserver|server] [<directory> ...] OPTIONS ------- @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ allowing access over SSH. ------ [[dbbackend]] -Database Backend +DATABASE BACKEND ---------------- 'git-cvsserver' uses one database per Git head (i.e. CVS module) to @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ access method and requested operation. That means that even if you offer only read access (e.g. by using the pserver method), 'git-cvsserver' should have write access to the database to work reliably (otherwise you need to make sure -that the database is up-to-date any time 'git-cvsserver' is executed). +that the database is up to date any time 'git-cvsserver' is executed). By default it uses SQLite databases in the Git directory, named `gitcvs.<module_name>.sqlite`. Note that the SQLite backend creates @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ git-cvsserver, as described above. When these environment variables are set, the corresponding command-line arguments may not be used. -Eclipse CVS Client Notes +ECLIPSE CVS CLIENT NOTES ------------------------ To get a checkout with the Eclipse CVS client: @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ offer. In that case CVS_SERVER is ignored, and you will have to replace the cvs utility on the server with 'git-cvsserver' or manipulate your `.bashrc` so that calling 'cvs' effectively calls 'git-cvsserver'. -Clients known to work +CLIENTS KNOWN TO WORK --------------------- - CVS 1.12.9 on Debian @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ Clients known to work - Eclipse 3.0, 3.1.2 on MacOSX (see Eclipse CVS Client Notes) - TortoiseCVS -Operations supported +OPERATIONS SUPPORTED -------------------- All the operations required for normal use are supported, including @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ For best consistency with 'cvs', it is probably best to override the defaults by setting `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` to true, and `gitcvs.allBinary` to "guess". -Dependencies +DEPENDENCIES ------------ 'git-cvsserver' depends on DBD::SQLite. diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt index 3c91db7bed..56d54a4898 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--inetd | [--listen=<host_or_ipaddr>] [--port=<n>] [--user=<user> [--group=<group>]]] + [--log-destination=(stderr|syslog|none)] [<directory>...] DESCRIPTION @@ -80,7 +81,8 @@ OPTIONS do not have the 'git-daemon-export-ok' file. --inetd:: - Have the server run as an inetd service. Implies --syslog. + Have the server run as an inetd service. Implies --syslog (may be + overridden with `--log-destination=`). Incompatible with --detach, --port, --listen, --user and --group options. @@ -110,8 +112,28 @@ OPTIONS zero for no limit. --syslog:: - Log to syslog instead of stderr. Note that this option does not imply - --verbose, thus by default only error conditions will be logged. + Short for `--log-destination=syslog`. + +--log-destination=<destination>:: + Send log messages to the specified destination. + Note that this option does not imply --verbose, + thus by default only error conditions will be logged. + The <destination> must be one of: ++ +-- +stderr:: + Write to standard error. + Note that if `--detach` is specified, + the process disconnects from the real standard error, + making this destination effectively equivalent to `none`. +syslog:: + Write to syslog, using the `git-daemon` identifier. +none:: + Disable all logging. +-- ++ +The default destination is `syslog` if `--inetd` or `--detach` is specified, +otherwise `stderr`. --user-path:: --user-path=<path>:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index e4ac448ff5..e027fb8c4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ git-describe(1) NAME ---- -git-describe - Describe a commit using the most recent tag reachable from it - +git-describe - Give an object a human readable name based on an available ref SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] [<commit-ish>...] 'git describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] --dirty[=<mark>] +'git describe' <blob> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -24,15 +24,26 @@ By default (without --all or --tags) `git describe` only shows annotated tags. For more information about creating annotated tags see the -a and -s options to linkgit:git-tag[1]. +If the given object refers to a blob, it will be described +as `<commit-ish>:<path>`, such that the blob can be found +at `<path>` in the `<commit-ish>`, which itself describes the +first commit in which this blob occurs in a reverse revision walk +from HEAD. + OPTIONS ------- <commit-ish>...:: Commit-ish object names to describe. Defaults to HEAD if omitted. --dirty[=<mark>]:: - Describe the working tree. - It means describe HEAD and appends <mark> (`-dirty` by - default) if the working tree is dirty. +--broken[=<mark>]:: + Describe the state of the working tree. When the working + tree matches HEAD, the output is the same as "git describe + HEAD". If the working tree has local modification "-dirty" + is appended to it. If a repository is corrupt and Git + cannot determine if there is local modification, Git will + error out, unless `--broken' is given, which appends + the suffix "-broken" instead. --all:: Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any ref @@ -82,8 +93,25 @@ OPTIONS --match <pattern>:: Only consider tags matching the given `glob(7)` pattern, - excluding the "refs/tags/" prefix. This can be used to avoid - leaking private tags from the repository. + excluding the "refs/tags/" prefix. If used with `--all`, it also + considers local branches and remote-tracking references matching the + pattern, excluding respectively "refs/heads/" and "refs/remotes/" + prefix; references of other types are never considered. If given + multiple times, a list of patterns will be accumulated, and tags + matching any of the patterns will be considered. Use `--no-match` to + clear and reset the list of patterns. + +--exclude <pattern>:: + Do not consider tags matching the given `glob(7)` pattern, excluding + the "refs/tags/" prefix. If used with `--all`, it also does not consider + local branches and remote-tracking references matching the pattern, + excluding respectively "refs/heads/" and "refs/remotes/" prefix; + references of other types are never considered. If given multiple times, + a list of patterns will be accumulated and tags matching any of the + patterns will be excluded. When combined with --match a tag will be + considered when it matches at least one --match pattern and does not + match any of the --exclude patterns. Use `--no-exclude` to clear and + reset the list of patterns. --always:: Show uniquely abbreviated commit object as fallback. @@ -164,6 +192,14 @@ selected and output. Here fewest commits different is defined as the number of commits which would be shown by `git log tag..input` will be the smallest number of commits possible. +BUGS +---- + +Tree objects as well as tag objects not pointing at commits, cannot be described. +When describing blobs, the lightweight tags pointing at blobs are ignored, +but the blob is still described as <committ-ish>:<path> despite the lightweight +tag being favorable. + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt index a171506952..f4bd8155c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt @@ -37,14 +37,14 @@ include::diff-options.txt[] include::diff-format.txt[] -Operating Modes +OPERATING MODES --------------- You can choose whether you want to trust the index file entirely (using the `--cached` flag) or ask the diff logic to show any files that don't match the stat state as being "tentatively changed". Both of these operations are very useful indeed. -Cached Mode +CACHED MODE ----------- If `--cached` is specified, it allows you to ask: @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ So doing a `git diff-index --cached` is basically very useful when you are asking yourself "what have I already marked for being committed, and what's the difference to a previous tree". -Non-cached Mode +NON-CACHED MODE --------------- The "non-cached" mode takes a different approach, and is potentially the more useful of the two in that what it does can't be emulated with @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ a 'git write-tree' + 'git diff-tree'. Thus that's the default mode. The non-cached version asks the question: show me the differences between HEAD and the currently checked out - tree - index contents _and_ files that aren't up-to-date + tree - index contents _and_ files that aren't up to date which is obviously a very useful question too, since that tells you what you *could* commit. Again, the output matches the 'git diff-tree -r' @@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ have not actually done a 'git update-index' on it yet - there is no torvalds@ppc970:~/v2.6/linux> git diff-index --abbrev HEAD :100644 100664 7476bb... 000000... kernel/sched.c -i.e., it shows that the tree has changed, and that `kernel/sched.c` has is -not up-to-date and may contain new stuff. The all-zero sha1 means that to +i.e., it shows that the tree has changed, and that `kernel/sched.c` is +not up to date and may contain new stuff. The all-zero sha1 means that to get the real diff, you need to look at the object in the working directory directly rather than do an object-to-object diff. diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt index 7870e175b7..2319b2b192 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ include::pretty-options.txt[] include::pretty-formats.txt[] -Limiting Output +LIMITING OUTPUT --------------- If you're only interested in differences in a subset of files, for example some architecture-specific files, you might do: diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt index bbab35fcaf..b180f1fa5b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt @@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ git-diff - Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git diff' [options] [<commit>] [--] [<path>...] -'git diff' [options] --cached [<commit>] [--] [<path>...] -'git diff' [options] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...] -'git diff' [options] <blob> <blob> -'git diff' [options] [--no-index] [--] <path> <path> +'git diff' [<options>] [<commit>] [--] [<path>...] +'git diff' [<options>] --cached [<commit>] [--] [<path>...] +'git diff' [<options>] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...] +'git diff' [<options>] <blob> <blob> +'git diff' [<options>] --no-index [--] <path> <path> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Show changes between the working tree and the index or a tree, changes between the index and a tree, changes between two trees, changes between two blob objects, or changes between two files on disk. -'git diff' [--options] [--] [<path>...]:: +'git diff' [<options>] [--] [<path>...]:: This form is to view the changes you made relative to the index (staging area for the next commit). In other @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ two blob objects, or changes between two files on disk. further add to the index but you still haven't. You can stage these changes by using linkgit:git-add[1]. -'git diff' --no-index [--options] [--] [<path>...]:: +'git diff' [<options>] --no-index [--] <path> <path>:: This form is to compare the given two paths on the filesystem. You can omit the `--no-index` option when @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ two blob objects, or changes between two files on disk. or when running the command outside a working tree controlled by Git. -'git diff' [--options] --cached [<commit>] [--] [<path>...]:: +'git diff' [<options>] --cached [<commit>] [--] [<path>...]:: This form is to view the changes you staged for the next commit relative to the named <commit>. Typically you @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ two blob objects, or changes between two files on disk. <commit> is not given, it shows all staged changes. --staged is a synonym of --cached. -'git diff' [--options] <commit> [--] [<path>...]:: +'git diff' [<options>] <commit> [--] [<path>...]:: This form is to view the changes you have in your working tree relative to the named <commit>. You can @@ -56,18 +56,18 @@ two blob objects, or changes between two files on disk. branch name to compare with the tip of a different branch. -'git diff' [--options] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...]:: +'git diff' [<options>] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...]:: This is to view the changes between two arbitrary <commit>. -'git diff' [--options] <commit>..<commit> [--] [<path>...]:: +'git diff' [<options>] <commit>..<commit> [--] [<path>...]:: This is synonymous to the previous form. If <commit> on one side is omitted, it will have the same effect as using HEAD instead. -'git diff' [--options] <commit>\...<commit> [--] [<path>...]:: +'git diff' [<options>] <commit>\...<commit> [--] [<path>...]:: This form is to view the changes on the branch containing and up to the second <commit>, starting at a common ancestor @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ and the range notations ("<commit>..<commit>" and "<commit>\...<commit>") do not mean a range as defined in the "SPECIFYING RANGES" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7]. -'git diff' [options] <blob> <blob>:: +'git diff' [<options>] <blob> <blob>:: This form is to view the differences between the raw contents of two blob objects. @@ -97,6 +97,20 @@ OPTIONS :git-diff: 1 include::diff-options.txt[] +-1 --base:: +-2 --ours:: +-3 --theirs:: + Compare the working tree with the "base" version (stage #1), + "our branch" (stage #2) or "their branch" (stage #3). The + index contains these stages only for unmerged entries i.e. + while resolving conflicts. See linkgit:git-read-tree[1] + section "3-Way Merge" for detailed information. + +-0:: + Omit diff output for unmerged entries and just show + "Unmerged". Can be used only when comparing the working tree + with the index. + <path>...:: The <paths> parameters, when given, are used to limit the diff to the named paths (you can give directory diff --git a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt index 224fb3090b..96c26e6aa8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt @@ -86,10 +86,11 @@ instead. `--no-symlinks` is the default on Windows. Additionally, `$BASE` is set in the environment. -g:: ---gui:: +--[no-]gui:: When 'git-difftool' is invoked with the `-g` or `--gui` option the default diff tool will be read from the configured - `diff.guitool` variable instead of `diff.tool`. + `diff.guitool` variable instead of `diff.tool`. The `--no-gui` + option can be used to override this setting. --[no-]trust-exit-code:: 'git-difftool' invokes a diff tool individually on each file. diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index ed57c684db..ce954be532 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-fast-export - Git data exporter SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git fast-export [options]' | 'git fast-import' +'git fast-export [<options>]' | 'git fast-import' DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ smaller output, and it is usually easy to quickly confirm that there is no private data in the stream. -Limitations +LIMITATIONS ----------- Since 'git fast-import' cannot tag trees, you will not be diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 2b762654bf..e81117d27f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-fast-import - Backend for fast Git data importers SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -frontend | 'git fast-import' [options] +frontend | 'git fast-import' [<options>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Performance and Compression Tuning --depth=<n>:: Maximum delta depth, for blob and tree deltification. - Default is 10. + Default is 50. --export-pack-edges=<file>:: After creating a packfile, print a line of data to @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Performance and Compression Tuning fastimport.unpackLimit:: See linkgit:git-config[1] -Performance +PERFORMANCE ----------- The design of fast-import allows it to import large projects in a minimum amount of memory usage and processing time. Assuming the frontend @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ faster if the source data is stored on a different drive than the destination Git repository (due to less IO contention). -Development Cost +DEVELOPMENT COST ---------------- A typical frontend for fast-import tends to weigh in at approximately 200 lines of Perl/Python/Ruby code. Most developers have been able to @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ an ideal situation, given that most conversion tools are throw-away (use once, and never look back). -Parallel Operation +PARALLEL OPERATION ------------------ Like 'git push' or 'git fetch', imports handled by fast-import are safe to run alongside parallel `git repack -a -d` or `git gc` invocations, @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ this only be used on an otherwise quiet repository. Using --force is not necessary for an initial import into an empty repository. -Technical Discussion +TECHNICAL DISCUSSION -------------------- fast-import tracks a set of branches in memory. Any branch can be created or modified at any point during the import process by sending a @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ directory also allows fast-import to run very quickly, as it does not need to perform any costly file update operations when switching between branches. -Input Format +INPUT FORMAT ------------ With the exception of raw file data (which Git does not interpret) the fast-import input format is text (ASCII) based. This text based @@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@ If the `--done` command-line option or `feature done` command is in use, the `done` command is mandatory and marks the end of the stream. -Responses To Commands +RESPONSES TO COMMANDS --------------------- New objects written by fast-import are not available immediately. Most fast-import commands have no visible effect until the next @@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ To avoid deadlock, such frontends must completely consume any pending output from `progress`, `ls`, `get-mark`, and `cat-blob` before performing writes to fast-import that might block. -Crash Reports +CRASH REPORTS ------------- If fast-import is supplied invalid input it will terminate with a non-zero exit status and create a crash report in the top level of @@ -1247,7 +1247,7 @@ An example crash: END OF CRASH REPORT ==== -Tips and Tricks +TIPS AND TRICKS --------------- The following tips and tricks have been collected from various users of fast-import, and are offered here as suggestions. @@ -1349,7 +1349,7 @@ Your users will feel better knowing how much of the data stream has been processed. -Packfile Optimization +PACKFILE OPTIMIZATION --------------------- When packing a blob fast-import always attempts to deltify against the last blob written. Unless specifically arranged for by the frontend, @@ -1380,7 +1380,7 @@ to force recomputation of all deltas can significantly reduce the final packfile size (30-50% smaller can be quite typical). -Memory Utilization +MEMORY UTILIZATION ------------------ There are a number of factors which affect how much memory fast-import requires to perform an import. Like critical sections of core @@ -1458,7 +1458,7 @@ and lazy loading of subtrees, allows fast-import to efficiently import projects with 2,000+ branches and 45,114+ files in a very limited memory footprint (less than 2.7 MiB per active branch). -Signals +SIGNALS ------- Sending *SIGUSR1* to the 'git fast-import' process ends the current packfile early, simulating a `checkpoint` command. The impatient diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt index f7ebe36a7b..c975884793 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet. infinite even if there is an ancestor-chain that long. --shallow-since=<date>:: - Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow'repository to + Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to include all reachable commits after <date>. --shallow-exclude=<revision>:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index b153aefa68..e319935597 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -99,6 +99,93 @@ The latter use of the `remote.<repository>.fetch` values can be overridden by giving the `--refmap=<refspec>` parameter(s) on the command line. +PRUNING +------- + +Git has a default disposition of keeping data unless it's explicitly +thrown away; this extends to holding onto local references to branches +on remotes that have themselves deleted those branches. + +If left to accumulate, these stale references might make performance +worse on big and busy repos that have a lot of branch churn, and +e.g. make the output of commands like `git branch -a --contains +<commit>` needlessly verbose, as well as impacting anything else +that'll work with the complete set of known references. + +These remote-tracking references can be deleted as a one-off with +either of: + +------------------------------------------------ +# While fetching +$ git fetch --prune <name> + +# Only prune, don't fetch +$ git remote prune <name> +------------------------------------------------ + +To prune references as part of your normal workflow without needing to +remember to run that, set `fetch.prune` globally, or +`remote.<name>.prune` per-remote in the config. See +linkgit:git-config[1]. + +Here's where things get tricky and more specific. The pruning feature +doesn't actually care about branches, instead it'll prune local <-> +remote-references as a function of the refspec of the remote (see +`<refspec>` and <<CRTB,CONFIGURED REMOTE-TRACKING BRANCHES>> above). + +Therefore if the refspec for the remote includes +e.g. `refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*`, or you manually run e.g. `git fetch +--prune <name> "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*"` it won't be stale remote +tracking branches that are deleted, but any local tag that doesn't +exist on the remote. + +This might not be what you expect, i.e. you want to prune remote +`<name>`, but also explicitly fetch tags from it, so when you fetch +from it you delete all your local tags, most of which may not have +come from the `<name>` remote in the first place. + +So be careful when using this with a refspec like +`refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*`, or any other refspec which might map +references from multiple remotes to the same local namespace. + +Since keeping up-to-date with both branches and tags on the remote is +a common use-case the `--prune-tags` option can be supplied along with +`--prune` to prune local tags that don't exist on the remote, and +force-update those tags that differ. Tag pruning can also be enabled +with `fetch.pruneTags` or `remote.<name>.pruneTags` in the config. See +linkgit:git-config[1]. + +The `--prune-tags` option is equivalent to having +`refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*` declared in the refspecs of the remote. This +can lead to some seemingly strange interactions: + +------------------------------------------------ +# These both fetch tags +$ git fetch --no-tags origin 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' +$ git fetch --no-tags --prune-tags origin +------------------------------------------------ + +The reason it doesn't error out when provided without `--prune` or its +config versions is for flexibility of the configured versions, and to +maintain a 1=1 mapping between what the command line flags do, and +what the configuration versions do. + +It's reasonable to e.g. configure `fetch.pruneTags=true` in +`~/.gitconfig` to have tags pruned whenever `git fetch --prune` is +run, without making every invocation of `git fetch` without `--prune` +an error. + +Pruning tags with `--prune-tags` also works when fetching a URL +instead of a named remote. These will all prune tags not found on +origin: + +------------------------------------------------ +$ git fetch origin --prune --prune-tags +$ git fetch origin --prune 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' +$ git fetch <url of origin> --prune --prune-tags +$ git fetch <url of origin> --prune 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' +------------------------------------------------ + OUTPUT ------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 0a09698c03..e6f08ab189 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ git-filter-branch - Rewrite branches SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git filter-branch' [--env-filter <command>] [--tree-filter <command>] +'git filter-branch' [--setup <command>] [--subdirectory-filter <directory>] + [--env-filter <command>] [--tree-filter <command>] [--index-filter <command>] [--parent-filter <command>] [--msg-filter <command>] [--commit-filter <command>] - [--tag-name-filter <command>] [--subdirectory-filter <directory>] - [--prune-empty] + [--tag-name-filter <command>] [--prune-empty] [--original <namespace>] [-d <directory>] [-f | --force] - [--] [<rev-list options>...] + [--state-branch <branch>] [--] [<rev-list options>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -82,12 +82,23 @@ multiple commits. OPTIONS ------- +--setup <command>:: + This is not a real filter executed for each commit but a one + time setup just before the loop. Therefore no commit-specific + variables are defined yet. Functions or variables defined here + can be used or modified in the following filter steps except + the commit filter, for technical reasons. + +--subdirectory-filter <directory>:: + Only look at the history which touches the given subdirectory. + The result will contain that directory (and only that) as its + project root. Implies <<Remap_to_ancestor>>. + --env-filter <command>:: This filter may be used if you only need to modify the environment in which the commit will be performed. Specifically, you might want to rewrite the author/committer name/email/time environment - variables (see linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] for details). Do not forget - to re-export the variables. + variables (see linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] for details). --tree-filter <command>:: This is the filter for rewriting the tree and its contents. @@ -161,20 +172,13 @@ be removed, buyer beware. There is also no support for changing the author or timestamp (or the tag message for that matter). Tags which point to other tags will be rewritten to point to the underlying commit. ---subdirectory-filter <directory>:: - Only look at the history which touches the given subdirectory. - The result will contain that directory (and only that) as its - project root. Implies <<Remap_to_ancestor>>. - --prune-empty:: - Some kind of filters will generate empty commits, that left the tree - untouched. This switch allow git-filter-branch to ignore such - commits. Though, this switch only applies for commits that have one - and only one parent, it will hence keep merges points. Also, this - option is not compatible with the use of `--commit-filter`. Though you - just need to use the function 'git_commit_non_empty_tree "$@"' instead - of the `git commit-tree "$@"` idiom in your commit filter to make that - happen. + Some filters will generate empty commits that leave the tree untouched. + This option instructs git-filter-branch to remove such commits if they + have exactly one or zero non-pruned parents; merge commits will + therefore remain intact. This option cannot be used together with + `--commit-filter`, though the same effect can be achieved by using the + provided `git_commit_non_empty_tree` function in a commit filter. --original <namespace>:: Use this option to set the namespace where the original commits @@ -194,6 +198,12 @@ to other tags will be rewritten to point to the underlying commit. directory or when there are already refs starting with 'refs/original/', unless forced. +--state-branch <branch>:: + This option will cause the mapping from old to new objects to + be loaded from named branch upon startup and saved as a new + commit to that branch upon exit, enabling incremental of large + trees. If '<branch>' does not exist it will be created. + <rev-list options>...:: Arguments for 'git rev-list'. All positive refs included by these options are rewritten. You may also specify options @@ -212,7 +222,15 @@ this purpose, they are instead rewritten to point at the nearest ancestor that was not excluded. -Examples +EXIT STATUS +----------- + +On success, the exit status is `0`. If the filter can't find any commits to +rewrite, the exit status is `2`. On any other error, the exit status may be +any other non-zero value. + + +EXAMPLES -------- Suppose you want to remove a file (containing confidential information @@ -270,7 +288,7 @@ git filter-branch --parent-filter \ or even simpler: ----------------------------------------------- -echo "$commit-id $graft-id" >> .git/info/grafts +git replace --graft $commit-id $graft-id git filter-branch $graft-id..HEAD ----------------------------------------------- @@ -342,12 +360,10 @@ git filter-branch --env-filter ' if test "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "root@localhost" then GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=john@example.com - export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL fi if test "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "root@localhost" then GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=john@example.com - export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL fi ' -- --all -------------------------------------------------------- @@ -390,7 +406,7 @@ git filter-branch --index-filter \ -Checklist for Shrinking a Repository +CHECKLIST FOR SHRINKING A REPOSITORY ------------------------------------ git-filter-branch can be used to get rid of a subset of files, @@ -429,7 +445,7 @@ warned. (or if your git-gc is not new enough to support arguments to `--prune`, use `git repack -ad; git prune` instead). -Notes +NOTES ----- git-filter-branch allows you to make complex shell-scripted rewrites diff --git a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt index 44892c447e..423b6e033b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt @@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ merge.summary:: Synonym to `merge.log`; this is deprecated and will be removed in the future. -EXAMPLE -------- +EXAMPLES +-------- --------- $ git fetch origin master diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt index f57e69bc83..085d177d97 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt @@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git for-each-ref' [--count=<count>] [--shell|--perl|--python|--tcl] [(--sort=<key>)...] [--format=<format>] [<pattern>...] - [--points-at <object>] [(--merged | --no-merged) [<object>]] - [--contains [<object>]] + [--points-at=<object>] + (--merged[=<object>] | --no-merged[=<object>]) + [--contains[=<object>]] [--no-contains[=<object>]] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -25,35 +26,41 @@ host language allowing their direct evaluation in that language. OPTIONS ------- -<count>:: +<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. + +--count=<count>:: By default the command shows all refs that match `<pattern>`. This option makes it stop after showing that many refs. -<key>:: +--sort=<key>:: A field name to sort on. Prefix `-` to sort in descending order of the value. When unspecified, `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 - object pointed at by a ref being shown. If `fieldname` +--format=<format>:: + A string that interpolates `%(fieldname)` from a ref being shown + and the object it points at. If `fieldname` is prefixed with an asterisk (`*`) and the ref points - at a tag object, the value for the field in the object - tag refers is used. When unspecified, defaults to + at a tag object, use the value for the field in the object + which the tag object refers to (instead of the field in the tag object). + When unspecified, `<format>` defaults to `%(objectname) SPC %(objecttype) TAB %(refname)`. It also interpolates `%%` to `%`, and `%xx` where `xx` are hex digits interpolates to character with hex code `xx`; for example `%00` interpolates to `\0` (NUL), `%09` to `\t` (TAB) and `%0a` to `\n` (LF). -<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. +--color[=<when>]: + Respect any colors specified in the `--format` option. The + `<when>` field must be one of `always`, `never`, or `auto` (if + `<when>` is absent, behave as if `always` was given). --shell:: --perl:: @@ -64,21 +71,30 @@ OPTIONS the specified host language. This is meant to produce a scriptlet that can directly be `eval`ed. ---points-at <object>:: +--points-at=<object>:: Only list refs which points at the given object. ---merged [<object>]:: +--merged[=<object>]:: Only list refs whose tips are reachable from the - specified commit (HEAD if not specified). + specified commit (HEAD if not specified), + incompatible with `--no-merged`. ---no-merged [<object>]:: +--no-merged[=<object>]:: Only list refs whose tips are not reachable from the - specified commit (HEAD if not specified). + specified commit (HEAD if not specified), + incompatible with `--merged`. ---contains [<object>]:: +--contains[=<object>]:: Only list refs which contain the specified commit (HEAD if not specified). +--no-contains[=<object>]:: + Only list refs which don't contain the specified commit (HEAD + if not specified). + +--ignore-case:: + Sorting and filtering refs are case insensitive. + FIELD NAMES ----------- @@ -92,11 +108,20 @@ 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. If `strip=<N>` is appended, strips `<N>` - slash-separated path components from the front of the refname - (e.g., `%(refname:strip=2)` turns `refs/tags/foo` into `foo`. - `<N>` must be a positive integer. If a displayed ref has fewer - components than `<N>`, the command aborts with an error. + abbreviation mode. If `lstrip=<N>` (`rstrip=<N>`) is appended, strips `<N>` + slash-separated path components from the front (back) of the refname + (e.g. `%(refname:lstrip=2)` turns `refs/tags/foo` into `foo` and + `%(refname:rstrip=2)` turns `refs/tags/foo` into `refs`). + If `<N>` is a negative number, strip as many path components as + necessary from the specified end to leave `-<N>` path components + (e.g. `%(refname:lstrip=-2)` turns + `refs/tags/foo` into `tags/foo` and `%(refname:rstrip=-1)` + turns `refs/tags/foo` into `refs`). When the ref does not have + enough components, the result becomes an empty string if + stripping with positive <N>, or it becomes the full refname if + stripping with negative <N>. Neither is an error. ++ +`strip` can be used as a synonym to `lstrip`. objecttype:: The type of the object (`blob`, `tree`, `commit`, `tag`). @@ -107,29 +132,48 @@ objectsize:: objectname:: The object name (aka SHA-1). For a non-ambiguous abbreviation of the object name append `:short`. + For an abbreviation of the object name with desired length append + `:short=<length>`, where the minimum length is MINIMUM_ABBREV. The + length may be exceeded to ensure unique object names. 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. Additionally respects `:track` to show - "[ahead N, behind M]" and `:trackshort` to show the terse - version: ">" (ahead), "<" (behind), "<>" (ahead and behind), - or "=" (in sync). Has no effect if the ref does not have - tracking information associated with it. + from the displayed ref. Respects `:short`, `:lstrip` and + `:rstrip` in the same way as `refname` above. Additionally + respects `:track` to show "[ahead N, behind M]" and + `:trackshort` to show the terse version: ">" (ahead), "<" + (behind), "<>" (ahead and behind), or "=" (in sync). `:track` + also prints "[gone]" whenever unknown upstream ref is + encountered. Append `:track,nobracket` to show tracking + information without brackets (i.e "ahead N, behind M"). ++ +For any remote-tracking branch `%(upstream)`, `%(upstream:remotename)` +and `%(upstream:remoteref)` refer to the name of the remote and the +name of the tracked remote ref, respectively. In other words, the +remote-tracking branch can be updated explicitly and individually by +using the refspec `%(upstream:remoteref):%(upstream)` to fetch from +`%(upstream:remotename)`. ++ +Has no effect if the ref does not have tracking information associated +with it. All the options apart from `nobracket` are mutually exclusive, +but if used together the last option is selected. push:: - The name of a local ref which represents the `@{push}` location - for the displayed ref. Respects `:short`, `:track`, and - `:trackshort` options as `upstream` does. Produces an empty - string if no `@{push}` ref is configured. + The name of a local ref which represents the `@{push}` + location for the displayed ref. Respects `:short`, `:lstrip`, + `:rstrip`, `:track`, `:trackshort`, `:remotename`, and `:remoteref` + options as `upstream` does. Produces an empty string if no `@{push}` + ref is configured. HEAD:: '*' if HEAD matches current ref (the checked out branch), ' ' otherwise. color:: - Change output color. Followed by `:<colorname>`, where names - are described in `color.branch.*`. + Change output color. Followed by `:<colorname>`, where color + names are described under Values in the "CONFIGURATION FILE" + section of linkgit:git-config[1]. For example, + `%(color:bold red)`. align:: Left-, middle-, or right-align the content between @@ -146,6 +190,25 @@ align:: quoted, but if nested then only the topmost level performs quoting. +if:: + Used as %(if)...%(then)...%(end) or + %(if)...%(then)...%(else)...%(end). If there is an atom with + value or string literal after the %(if) then everything after + the %(then) is printed, else if the %(else) atom is used, then + everything after %(else) is printed. We ignore space when + evaluating the string before %(then), this is useful when we + use the %(HEAD) atom which prints either "*" or " " and we + want to apply the 'if' condition only on the 'HEAD' ref. + Append ":equals=<string>" or ":notequals=<string>" to compare + the value between the %(if:...) and %(then) atoms with the + given string. + +symref:: + The ref which the given symbolic ref refers to. If not a + symbolic ref, nothing is printed. Respects the `:short`, + `:lstrip` and `:rstrip` options 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. @@ -162,9 +225,15 @@ and `date` to extract the named component. The complete message in a commit and tag object is `contents`. Its first line is `contents:subject`, where subject is the concatenation of all lines of the commit message up to the first blank line. The next -line is 'contents:body', where body is all of the lines after the first +line is `contents:body`, where body is all of the lines after the first blank line. The optional GPG signature is `contents:signature`. The first `N` lines of the message is obtained using `contents:lines=N`. +Additionally, the trailers as interpreted by linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1] +are obtained as `trailers` (or by using the historical alias +`contents:trailers`). Non-trailer lines from the trailer block can be omitted +with `trailers:only`. Whitespace-continuations can be removed from trailers so +that each trailer appears on a line by itself with its full content with +`trailers:unfold`. Both can be used together as `trailers:unfold,only`. For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric order (`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `creatordate`, `taggerdate`). @@ -181,6 +250,14 @@ As a special case for the date-type fields, you may specify a format for the date by adding `:` followed by date format name (see the values the `--date` option to linkgit:git-rev-list[1] takes). +Some atoms like %(align) and %(if) always require a matching %(end). +We call them "opening atoms" and sometimes denote them as %($open). + +When a scripting language specific quoting is in effect, everything +between a top-level opening atom and its matching %(end) is evaluated +according to the semantics of the opening atom and only its result +from the top-level is quoted. + EXAMPLES -------- @@ -268,6 +345,22 @@ eval=`git for-each-ref --shell --format="$fmt" \ eval "$eval" ------------ + +An example to show the usage of %(if)...%(then)...%(else)...%(end). +This prefixes the current branch with a star. + +------------ +git for-each-ref --format="%(if)%(HEAD)%(then)* %(else) %(end)%(refname:short)" refs/heads/ +------------ + + +An example to show the usage of %(if)...%(then)...%(end). +This prints the authorname, if present. + +------------ +git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)%(if)%(authorname)%(then) Authored by: %(authorname)%(end)" +------------ + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-show-ref[1] diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 9b200b379b..b41e1329a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [(--reroll-count|-v) <n>] [--to=<email>] [--cc=<email>] [--[no-]cover-letter] [--quiet] [--notes[=<ref>]] + [--progress] [<common diff options>] [ <since> | <revision range> ] @@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ There are two ways to specify which commits to operate on. The first rule takes precedence in the case of a single <commit>. To apply the second rule, i.e., format everything since the beginning of -history up until <commit>, use the '\--root' option: `git format-patch +history up until <commit>, use the `--root` option: `git format-patch --root <commit>`. If you want to format only <commit> itself, you can do this with `git format-patch -1 <commit>`. @@ -239,7 +240,7 @@ keeping them as Git notes allows them to be maintained between versions of the patch series (but see the discussion of the `notes.rewrite` configuration options in linkgit:git-notes[1] to use this workflow). ---[no]-signature=<signature>:: +--[no-]signature=<signature>:: Add a signature to each message produced. Per RFC 3676 the signature is separated from the body by a line with '-- ' on it. If the signature option is omitted the signature defaults to the Git version @@ -283,6 +284,9 @@ you can use `--suffix=-patch` to get `0001-description-of-my-change-patch`. range are always formatted as creation patches, independently of this flag. +--progress:: + Show progress reports on stderr as patches are generated. + CONFIGURATION ------------- You can specify extra mail header lines to be added to each message, @@ -557,7 +561,7 @@ series A, B, C, the history would be like: ................................................ With `git format-patch --base=P -3 C` (or variants thereof, e.g. with -`--cover-letter` of using `Z..C` instead of `-3 C` to specify the +`--cover-letter` or using `Z..C` instead of `-3 C` to specify the range), the base tree information block is shown at the end of the first message the command outputs (either the first patch, or the cover letter), like this: diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index 852b72c679..24b2dd44fe 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -9,14 +9,15 @@ git-gc - Cleanup unnecessary files and optimize the local repository SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git gc' [--aggressive] [--auto] [--quiet] [--prune=<date> | --no-prune] [--force] +'git gc' [--aggressive] [--auto] [--quiet] [--prune=<date> | --no-prune] [--force] [--keep-largest-pack] DESCRIPTION ----------- Runs a number of housekeeping tasks within the current repository, such as compressing file revisions (to reduce disk space and increase -performance) and removing unreachable objects which may have been -created from prior invocations of 'git add'. +performance), removing unreachable objects which may have been +created from prior invocations of 'git add', packing refs, pruning +reflog, rerere metadata or stale working trees. Users are encouraged to run this task on a regular basis within each repository to maintain good disk space utilization and good @@ -45,20 +46,31 @@ OPTIONS With this option, 'git gc' checks whether any housekeeping is required; if not, it exits without performing any work. Some git commands run `git gc --auto` after performing - operations that could create many loose objects. + operations that could create many loose objects. Housekeeping + is required if there are too many loose objects or too many + packs in the repository. + -Housekeeping is required if there are too many loose objects or -too many packs in the repository. If the number of loose objects -exceeds the value of the `gc.auto` configuration variable, then -all loose objects are combined into a single pack using -`git repack -d -l`. Setting the value of `gc.auto` to 0 -disables automatic packing of loose objects. +If the number of loose objects exceeds the value of the `gc.auto` +configuration variable, then all loose objects are combined into a +single pack using `git repack -d -l`. Setting the value of `gc.auto` +to 0 disables automatic packing of loose objects. + If the number of packs exceeds the value of `gc.autoPackLimit`, -then existing packs (except those marked with a `.keep` file) +then existing packs (except those marked with a `.keep` file +or over `gc.bigPackThreshold` limit) are consolidated into a single pack by using the `-A` option of -'git repack'. Setting `gc.autoPackLimit` to 0 disables -automatic consolidation of packs. +'git repack'. +If the amount of memory is estimated not enough for `git repack` to +run smoothly and `gc.bigPackThreshold` is not set, the largest +pack will also be excluded (this is the equivalent of running `git gc` +with `--keep-base-pack`). +Setting `gc.autoPackLimit` to 0 disables automatic consolidation of +packs. ++ +If houskeeping is required due to many loose objects or packs, all +other housekeeping tasks (e.g. rerere, working trees, reflog...) will +be performed as well. + --prune=<date>:: Prune loose objects older than date (default is 2 weeks ago, @@ -78,7 +90,12 @@ automatic consolidation of packs. Force `git gc` to run even if there may be another `git gc` instance running on this repository. -Configuration +--keep-largest-pack:: + All packs except the largest pack and those marked with a + `.keep` files are consolidated into a single pack. When this + option is used, `gc.bigPackThreshold` is ignored. + +CONFIGURATION ------------- The optional configuration variable `gc.reflogExpire` can be @@ -123,18 +140,22 @@ The optional configuration variable `gc.aggressiveWindow` controls how much time is spent optimizing the delta compression of the objects in the repository when the --aggressive option is specified. The larger the value, the more time is spent optimizing the delta compression. See -the documentation for the --window' option in linkgit:git-repack[1] for +the documentation for the --window option in linkgit:git-repack[1] for more details. This defaults to 250. Similarly, the optional configuration variable `gc.aggressiveDepth` -controls --depth option in linkgit:git-repack[1]. This defaults to 250. +controls --depth option in linkgit:git-repack[1]. This defaults to 50. The optional configuration variable `gc.pruneExpire` controls how old the unreferenced loose objects have to be before they are pruned. The default is "2 weeks ago". +Optional configuration variable `gc.worktreePruneExpire` controls how +old a stale working tree should be before `git worktree prune` deletes +it. Default is "3 months ago". + -Notes +NOTES ----- 'git gc' tries very hard not to delete objects that are referenced diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 0ecea6e491..312409a607 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--threads <num>] [-f <file>] [-e] <pattern> [--and|--or|--not|(|)|-e <pattern>...] + [--recurse-submodules] [--parent-basename <basename>] [ [--[no-]exclude-standard] [--cached | --no-index | --untracked] | <tree>...] [--] [<pathspec>...] @@ -88,6 +89,12 @@ OPTIONS mechanism. Only useful when searching files in the current directory with `--no-index`. +--recurse-submodules:: + Recursively search in each submodule that has been initialized and + checked out in the repository. When used in combination with the + <tree> option the prefix of all submodule output will be the name of + the parent project's <tree> object. + -a:: --text:: Process binary files as if they were text. @@ -147,8 +154,11 @@ OPTIONS -P:: --perl-regexp:: - Use Perl-compatible regexp for patterns. Requires libpcre to be - compiled in. + Use Perl-compatible regular expressions for patterns. ++ +Support for these types of regular expressions is an optional +compile-time dependency. If Git wasn't compiled with support for them +providing this option will cause it to die. -F:: --fixed-strings:: @@ -279,8 +289,11 @@ OPTIONS <pathspec>...:: If given, limit the search to paths matching at least one pattern. Both leading paths match and glob(7) patterns are supported. ++ +For more details about the <pathspec> syntax, see the 'pathspec' entry +in linkgit:gitglossary[7]. -Examples +EXAMPLES -------- `git grep 'time_t' -- '*.[ch]'`:: @@ -295,6 +308,9 @@ Examples Looks for a line that has `NODE` or `Unexpected` in files that have lines that match both. +`git grep solution -- :^Documentation`:: + Looks for `solution`, excluding files in `Documentation`. + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-gui.txt b/Documentation/git-gui.txt index c1a3e8bf07..5f93f8003d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gui.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gui.txt @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ blame:: browser:: Start a tree browser showing all files in the specified - commit (or `HEAD` by default). Files selected through the + commit. Files selected through the browser are opened in the blame viewer. citool:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt index 40d328a4b3..83d25d825a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-help.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-help - Display help information about Git SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git help' [-a|--all] [-g|--guide] +'git help' [-a|--all [--verbose]] [-g|--guide] [-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web] [COMMAND|GUIDE] DESCRIPTION @@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ OPTIONS --all:: Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This option overrides any given command or guide name. + When used with `--verbose` print description for all recognized + commands. + +-c:: +--config:: + List all available configuration variables. This is a short + summary of the list in linkgit:git-config[1]. -g:: --guides:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt index 21a33d2c41..666b042679 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt @@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- Downloads a remote Git repository via HTTP. -*NOTE*: use of this command without -a is deprecated. The -a -behaviour will become the default in a future release. +This command always gets all objects. Historically, there were three options +`-a`, `-c` and `-t` for choosing which objects to download. They are now +silently ignored. OPTIONS ------- @@ -24,12 +25,8 @@ commit-id:: Either the hash or the filename under [URL]/refs/ to pull. --c:: - Get the commit objects. --t:: - Get trees associated with the commit objects. --a:: - Get all the objects. +-a, -c, -t:: + These options are ignored for historical reasons. -v:: Report what is downloaded. diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-push.txt b/Documentation/git-http-push.txt index 2aceb6f26d..ea03a4eeb0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-http-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-http-push.txt @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ OPTIONS The remote refs to update. -Specifying the Refs +SPECIFYING THE REFS ------------------- A '<ref>' specification can be either a single pattern, or a pair diff --git a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt index 5d1e4c80cd..032613c420 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt @@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ Using direct mode with SSL: ......................... -EXAMPLE -------- +EXAMPLES +-------- To submit patches using GMail's IMAP interface, first, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: diff --git a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt index 1b4b65d665..d5b7560bfe 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt @@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ OPTIONS --check-self-contained-and-connected:: Die if the pack contains broken links. For internal use only. +--fsck-objects:: + Die if the pack contains broken objects. For internal use only. + --threads=<n>:: Specifies the number of threads to spawn when resolving deltas. This requires that index-pack be compiled with @@ -90,8 +93,8 @@ OPTIONS --max-input-size=<size>:: Die, if the pack is larger than <size>. -Note ----- +NOTES +----- Once the index has been created, the list of object names is sorted and the SHA-1 hash of that list is printed to stdout. If --stdin was diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt index 9d27197de8..3c5a67fb96 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-init.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt @@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ does not exist, it will be created. TEMPLATE DIRECTORY ------------------ -The template directory contains files and directories that will be copied to -the `$GIT_DIR` after it is created. +Files and directories in the template directory whose name do not start with a +dot will be copied to the `$GIT_DIR` after it is created. The template directory will be one of the following (in order): diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt index 09074c75a4..9111c47a1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt @@ -3,24 +3,27 @@ git-interpret-trailers(1) NAME ---- -git-interpret-trailers - help add structured information into commit messages +git-interpret-trailers - add or parse structured information in commit messages SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git interpret-trailers' [--in-place] [--trim-empty] [(--trailer <token>[(=|:)<value>])...] [<file>...] +'git interpret-trailers' [<options>] [(--trailer <token>[(=|:)<value>])...] [<file>...] +'git interpret-trailers' [<options>] [--parse] [<file>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- -Help adding 'trailers' lines, that look similar to RFC 822 e-mail +Help parsing or adding 'trailers' lines, that look similar to RFC 822 e-mail headers, at the end of the otherwise free-form part of a commit message. This command reads some patches or commit messages from either the -<file> arguments or the standard input if no <file> is specified. Then -this command applies the arguments passed using the `--trailer` -option, if any, to the commit message part of each input file. The -result is emitted on the standard output. +<file> arguments or the standard input if no <file> is specified. If +`--parse` is specified, the output consists of the parsed trailers. + +Otherwise, this command applies the arguments passed using the +`--trailer` option, if any, to the commit message part of each input +file. The result is emitted on the standard output. Some configuration variables control the way the `--trailer` arguments are applied to each commit message and the way any existing trailer in @@ -48,7 +51,7 @@ with only spaces at the end of the commit message part, one blank line will be added before the new trailer. Existing trailers are extracted from the input message by looking for -a group of one or more lines that (i) are all trailers, or (ii) contains at +a group of one or more lines that (i) is all trailers, or (ii) contains at least one Git-generated or user-configured trailer and consists of at least 25% trailers. The group must be preceded by one or more empty (or whitespace-only) lines. @@ -80,6 +83,45 @@ OPTIONS trailer to the input messages. See the description of this command. +--where <placement>:: +--no-where:: + Specify where all new trailers will be added. A setting + provided with '--where' overrides all configuration variables + and applies to all '--trailer' options until the next occurrence of + '--where' or '--no-where'. + +--if-exists <action>:: +--no-if-exists:: + Specify what action will be performed when there is already at + least one trailer with the same <token> in the message. A setting + provided with '--if-exists' overrides all configuration variables + and applies to all '--trailer' options until the next occurrence of + '--if-exists' or '--no-if-exists'. + +--if-missing <action>:: +--no-if-missing:: + Specify what action will be performed when there is no other + trailer with the same <token> in the message. A setting + provided with '--if-missing' overrides all configuration variables + and applies to all '--trailer' options until the next occurrence of + '--if-missing' or '--no-if-missing'. + +--only-trailers:: + Output only the trailers, not any other parts of the input. + +--only-input:: + Output only trailers that exist in the input; do not add any + from the command-line or by following configured `trailer.*` + rules. + +--unfold:: + Remove any whitespace-continuation in trailers, so that each + trailer appears on a line by itself with its full content. + +--parse:: + A convenience alias for `--only-trailers --only-input + --unfold`. + CONFIGURATION VARIABLES ----------------------- @@ -123,7 +165,7 @@ trailer.ifexists:: same <token> in the message. + The valid values for this option are: `addIfDifferentNeighbor` (this -is the default), `addIfDifferent`, `add`, `overwrite` or `doNothing`. +is the default), `addIfDifferent`, `add`, `replace` or `doNothing`. + With `addIfDifferentNeighbor`, a new trailer will be added only if no trailer with the same (<token>, <value>) pair is above or below the line @@ -170,8 +212,8 @@ trailer.<token>.where:: configuration variable and it overrides what is specified by that option for trailers with the specified <token>. -trailer.<token>.ifexist:: - This option takes the same values as the 'trailer.ifexist' +trailer.<token>.ifexists:: + This option takes the same values as the 'trailer.ifexists' configuration variable and it overrides what is specified by that option for trailers with the specified <token>. diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index 32246fdb00..90761f1694 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-log - Show commit logs SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git log' [<options>] [<revision range>] [[\--] <path>...] +'git log' [<options>] [<revision range>] [[--] <path>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ OPTIONS are shown as if 'short' were given, otherwise no ref names are shown. The default option is 'short'. +--decorate-refs=<pattern>:: +--decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>:: + If no `--decorate-refs` is given, pretend as if all refs were + included. For each candidate, do not use it for decoration if it + matches any patterns given to `--decorate-refs-exclude` or if it + doesn't match any of the patterns given to `--decorate-refs`. + --source:: Print out the ref name given on the command line by which each commit was reached. @@ -83,13 +90,13 @@ include::line-range-format.txt[] ways to spell <revision range>, see the 'Specifying Ranges' section of linkgit:gitrevisions[7]. -[\--] <path>...:: +[--] <path>...:: Show only commits that are enough to explain how the files that match the specified paths came to be. See 'History Simplification' below for details and other simplification modes. + -Paths may need to be prefixed with ``\-- '' to separate them from +Paths may need to be prefixed with `--` to separate them from options or the revision range, when confusion arises. include::rev-list-options.txt[] @@ -118,7 +125,7 @@ EXAMPLES `git log --since="2 weeks ago" -- gitk`:: Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'. - The ``--'' is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named + The `--` is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named 'gitk' `git log --name-status release..test`:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt index 446209e206..5298f1bc30 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-ls-files - Show information about files in the index and the working tree SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git ls-files' [-z] [-t] [-v] +'git ls-files' [-z] [-t] [-v] [-f] (--[cached|deleted|others|ignored|stage|unmerged|killed|modified])* (-[c|d|o|i|s|u|k|m])* [--eol] @@ -53,11 +53,12 @@ OPTIONS Show only ignored files in the output. When showing files in the index, print only those matched by an exclude pattern. When showing "other" files, show only those matched by an exclude - pattern. + pattern. Standard ignore rules are not automatically activated, + therefore at least one of the `--exclude*` options is required. -s:: --stage:: - Show staged contents' object name, mode bits and stage number in the output. + Show staged contents' mode bits, object name and stage number in the output. --directory:: If a whole directory is classified as "other", show just its @@ -77,7 +78,8 @@ OPTIONS succeed. -z:: - \0 line termination on output. + \0 line termination on output and do not quote filenames. + See OUTPUT below for more information. -x <pattern>:: --exclude=<pattern>:: @@ -132,6 +134,11 @@ a space) at the start of each line: that are marked as 'assume unchanged' (see linkgit:git-update-index[1]). +-f:: + Similar to `-t`, but use lowercase letters for files + that are marked as 'fsmonitor valid' (see + linkgit:git-update-index[1]). + --full-name:: When run from a subdirectory, the command usually outputs paths relative to the current directory. This @@ -177,7 +184,7 @@ followed by the ("attr/<eolattr>"). Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other specified criteria are shown. -Output +OUTPUT ------ 'git ls-files' just outputs the filenames unless `--stage` is specified in which case it outputs: @@ -196,12 +203,13 @@ the index records up to three such pairs; one from tree O in stage the user (or the porcelain) to see what should eventually be recorded at the path. (see linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information on state) -When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters -in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, -respectively. +Without the `-z` option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are +quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath` +(see linkgit:git-config[1]). Using `-z` the filename is output +verbatim and the line is terminated by a NUL byte. -Exclude Patterns +EXCLUDE PATTERNS ---------------- 'git ls-files' can use a list of "exclude patterns" when diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt index 5f2628c8f8..b9fd3770a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git ls-remote' [--heads] [--tags] [--refs] [--upload-pack=<exec>] - [-q | --quiet] [--exit-code] [--get-url] + [-q | --quiet] [--exit-code] [--get-url] [--sort=<key>] [--symref] [<repository> [<refs>...]] DESCRIPTION @@ -60,6 +60,24 @@ OPTIONS upload-pack only shows the symref HEAD, so it will be the only one shown by ls-remote. +--sort=<key>:: + Sort based on the key given. Prefix `-` to sort in descending order + of the value. Supports "version:refname" or "v:refname" (tag names + are treated as versions). The "version:refname" sort order can also + be affected by the "versionsort.suffix" configuration variable. + See linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1] for more sort options, but be aware + keys like `committerdate` that require access to the objects + themselves will not work for refs whose objects have not yet been + fetched from the remote, and will give a `missing object` error. + +-o <option>:: +--server-option=<option>:: + Transmit the given string to the server when communicating using + protocol version 2. The given string must not contain a NUL or LF + character. + When multiple `--server-option=<option>` are given, they are all + sent to the other side in the order listed on the command line. + <repository>:: The "remote" repository to query. This parameter can be either a URL or the name of a remote (see the GIT URLS and @@ -90,6 +108,10 @@ EXAMPLES c5db5456ae3b0873fc659c19fafdde22313cc441 refs/tags/v0.99.2 7ceca275d047c90c0c7d5afb13ab97efdf51bd6e refs/tags/v0.99.3 +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-check-ref-format[1]. + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt index dbc91f98ff..9dee7bef35 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt @@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ OPTIONS Show object size of blob (file) entries. -z:: - \0 line termination on output. + \0 line termination on output and do not quote filenames. + See OUTPUT FORMAT below for more information. --name-only:: --name-status:: @@ -82,8 +83,6 @@ Output Format ------------- <mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file> -Unless the `-z` option is used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters -in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, respectively. This output format is compatible with what `--index-info --stdin` of 'git update-index' expects. @@ -95,6 +94,11 @@ Object size identified by <object> is given in bytes, and right-justified with minimum width of 7 characters. Object size is given only for blobs (file) entries; for other entries `-` character is used in place of size. +Without the `-z` option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are +quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath` +(see linkgit:git-config[1]). Using `-z` the filename is output +verbatim and the line is terminated by a NUL byte. + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt index b968b64c38..502e00ec35 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt @@ -154,23 +154,71 @@ topic origin/master`, the history of remote-tracking branch `origin/master` may have been rewound and rebuilt, leading to a history of this shape: - o---B1 + o---B2 / - ---o---o---B2--o---o---o---B (origin/master) + ---o---o---B1--o---o---o---B (origin/master) \ - B3 + B0 \ - Derived (topic) + D0---D1---D (topic) -where `origin/master` used to point at commits B3, B2, B1 and now it +where `origin/master` used to point at commits B0, B1, B2 and now it points at B, and your `topic` branch was started on top of it back -when `origin/master` was at B3. This mode uses the reflog of -`origin/master` to find B3 as the fork point, so that the `topic` -can be rebased on top of the updated `origin/master` by: +when `origin/master` was at B0, and you built three commits, D0, D1, +and D, on top of it. Imagine that you now want to rebase the work +you did on the topic on top of the updated origin/master. + +In such a case, `git merge-base origin/master topic` would return the +parent of B0 in the above picture, but B0^..D is *not* the range of +commits you would want to replay on top of B (it includes B0, which +is not what you wrote; it is a commit the other side discarded when +it moved its tip from B0 to B1). + +`git merge-base --fork-point origin/master topic` is designed to +help in such a case. It takes not only B but also B0, B1, and B2 +(i.e. old tips of the remote-tracking branches your repository's +reflog knows about) into account to see on which commit your topic +branch was built and finds B0, allowing you to replay only the +commits on your topic, excluding the commits the other side later +discarded. + +Hence $ fork_point=$(git merge-base --fork-point origin/master topic) + +will find B0, and + $ git rebase --onto origin/master $fork_point topic +will replay D0, D1 and D on top of B to create a new history of this +shape: + + o---B2 + / + ---o---o---B1--o---o---o---B (origin/master) + \ \ + B0 D0'--D1'--D' (topic - updated) + \ + D0---D1---D (topic - old) + +A caveat is that older reflog entries in your repository may be +expired by `git gc`. If B0 no longer appears in the reflog of the +remote-tracking branch `origin/master`, the `--fork-point` mode +obviously cannot find it and fails, avoiding to give a random and +useless result (such as the parent of B0, like the same command +without the `--fork-point` option gives). + +Also, the remote-tracking branch you use the `--fork-point` mode +with must be the one your topic forked from its tip. If you forked +from an older commit than the tip, this mode would not find the fork +point (imagine in the above sample history B0 did not exist, +origin/master started at B1, moved to B2 and then B, and you forked +your topic at origin/master^ when origin/master was B1; the shape of +the history would be the same as above, without B0, and the parent +of B1 is what `git merge-base origin/master topic` correctly finds, +but the `--fork-point` mode will not, because it is not one of the +commits that used to be at the tip of origin/master). + See also -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index b758d5556c..6a5c00e2c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ SYNOPSIS [-s <strategy>] [-X <strategy-option>] [-S[<keyid>]] [--[no-]allow-unrelated-histories] [--[no-]rerere-autoupdate] [-m <msg>] [<commit>...] -'git merge' <msg> HEAD <commit>... 'git merge' --abort +'git merge' --continue DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -45,11 +45,7 @@ a log message from the user describing the changes. D---E---F---G---H master ------------ -The second syntax (<msg> `HEAD` <commit>...) is supported for -historical reasons. Do not use it from the command line or in -new scripts. It is the same as `git merge -m <msg> <commit>...`. - -The third syntax ("`git merge --abort`") can only be run after the +The second syntax ("`git merge --abort`") can only be run after the merge has resulted in conflicts. 'git merge --abort' will abort the merge process and try to reconstruct the pre-merge state. However, if there were uncommitted changes when the merge started (and @@ -61,17 +57,13 @@ reconstruct the original (pre-merge) changes. Therefore: discouraged: while possible, it may leave you in a state that is hard to back out of in the case of a conflict. +The third syntax ("`git merge --continue`") can only be run after the +merge has resulted in conflicts. OPTIONS ------- include::merge-options.txt[] --S[<keyid>]:: ---gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: - GPG-sign the resulting merge commit. The `keyid` argument is - optional and defaults to the committer identity; if specified, - it must be stuck to the option without a space. - -m <msg>:: Set the commit message to be used for the merge commit (in case one is created). @@ -99,6 +91,11 @@ commit or stash your changes before running 'git merge'. 'git merge --abort' is equivalent to 'git reset --merge' when `MERGE_HEAD` is present. +--continue:: + After a 'git merge' stops due to conflicts you can conclude the + merge by running 'git merge --continue' (see "HOW TO RESOLVE + CONFLICTS" section below). + <commit>...:: Commits, usually other branch heads, to merge into our branch. Specifying more than one commit will create a merge with @@ -130,7 +127,7 @@ exception is when the changed index entries are in the state that would result from the merge already.) If all named commits are already ancestors of `HEAD`, 'git merge' -will exit early with the message "Already up-to-date." +will exit early with the message "Already up to date." FAST-FORWARD MERGE ------------------ @@ -277,7 +274,10 @@ After seeing a conflict, you can do two things: * Resolve the conflicts. Git will mark the conflicts in the working tree. Edit the files into shape and - 'git add' them to the index. Use 'git commit' to seal the deal. + 'git add' them to the index. Use 'git commit' or + 'git merge --continue' to seal the deal. The latter command + checks whether there is a (interrupted) merge in progress + before calling 'git commit'. You can work through the conflict with a number of tools: diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktree.txt b/Documentation/git-mktree.txt index c3616e7711..27fe2b32e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mktree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mktree.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- Reads standard input in non-recursive `ls-tree` output format, and creates -a tree object. The order of the tree entries is normalised by mktree so +a tree object. The order of the tree entries is normalized by mktree so pre-sorting the input is not required. The object name of the tree object built is written to the standard output. diff --git a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt index ca28fb8e2a..5cb0eb0855 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt @@ -26,7 +26,18 @@ OPTIONS --refs=<pattern>:: Only use refs whose names match a given shell pattern. The pattern - can be one of branch name, tag name or fully qualified ref name. + can be one of branch name, tag name or fully qualified ref name. If + given multiple times, use refs whose names match any of the given shell + patterns. Use `--no-refs` to clear any previous ref patterns given. + +--exclude=<pattern>:: + Do not use any ref whose name matches a given shell pattern. The + pattern can be one of branch name, tag name or fully qualified ref + name. If given multiple times, a ref will be excluded when it matches + any of the given patterns. When used together with --refs, a ref will + be used as a match only when it matches at least one --refs pattern and + does not match any --exclude patterns. Use `--no-exclude` to clear the + list of exclude patterns. --all:: List all commits reachable from all refs @@ -50,8 +61,8 @@ OPTIONS --always:: Show uniquely abbreviated commit object as fallback. -EXAMPLE -------- +EXAMPLES +-------- Given a commit, find out where it is relative to the local refs. Say somebody wrote you about that fantastic commit 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a. diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt index be7db3048d..e8dec1b3c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git notes' merge --commit [-v | -q] 'git notes' merge --abort [-v | -q] 'git notes' remove [--ignore-missing] [--stdin] [<object>...] -'git notes' prune [-n | -v] +'git notes' prune [-n] [-v] 'git notes' get-ref @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ OPTIONS object that does not have notes attached to it. --stdin:: - Also read the object names to remove notes from from the standard + Also read the object names to remove notes from the standard input (there is no reason you cannot combine this with object names from the command line). diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt index c83aaf39c3..f0de3b891b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt @@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ Submit Git changes back to p4 using 'git p4 submit'. The command the updated p4 remote branch. -EXAMPLE -------- +EXAMPLES +-------- * Clone a repository: + ------------ @@ -149,6 +149,12 @@ To specify a branch other than the current one, use: $ git p4 submit topicbranch ------------ +To specify a single commit or a range of commits, use: +------------ +$ git p4 submit --commit <sha1> +$ git p4 submit --commit <sha1..sha1> +------------ + The upstream reference is generally 'refs/remotes/p4/master', but can be overridden using the `--origin=` command-line option. @@ -157,6 +163,37 @@ The p4 changes will be created as the user invoking 'git p4 submit'. The according to the author of the Git commit. This option requires admin privileges in p4, which can be granted using 'p4 protect'. +To shelve changes instead of submitting, use `--shelve` and `--update-shelve`: + +---- +$ git p4 submit --shelve +$ git p4 submit --update-shelve 1234 --update-shelve 2345 +---- + + +Unshelve +~~~~~~~~ +Unshelving will take a shelved P4 changelist, and produce the equivalent git commit +in the branch refs/remotes/p4/unshelved/<changelist>. + +The git commit is created relative to the current origin revision (HEAD by default). +If the shelved changelist's parent revisions differ, git-p4 will refuse to unshelve; +you need to be unshelving onto an equivalent tree. + +The origin revision can be changed with the "--origin" option. + +If the target branch in refs/remotes/p4/unshelved already exists, the old one will +be renamed. + +---- +$ git p4 sync +$ git p4 unshelve 12345 +$ git show refs/remotes/p4/unshelved/12345 +<submit more changes via p4 to the same files> +$ git p4 unshelve 12345 +<refuses to unshelve until git is in sync with p4 again> + +---- OPTIONS ------- @@ -303,6 +340,15 @@ These options can be used to modify 'git p4 submit' behavior. submit manually or revert. This option always stops after the first (oldest) commit. Git tags are not exported to p4. +--shelve:: + Instead of submitting create a series of shelved changelists. + After creating each shelve, the relevant files are reverted/deleted. + If you have multiple commits pending multiple shelves will be created. + +--update-shelve CHANGELIST:: + Update an existing shelved changelist with this commit. Implies + --shelve. Repeat for multiple shelved changelists. + --conflict=(ask|skip|quit):: Conflicts can occur when applying a commit to p4. When this happens, the default behavior ("ask") is to prompt whether to @@ -315,6 +361,19 @@ These options can be used to modify 'git p4 submit' behavior. p4/master. See the "Sync options" section above for more information. +--commit <sha1>|<sha1..sha1>:: + Submit only the specified commit or range of commits, instead of the full + list of changes that are in the current Git branch. + +--disable-rebase:: + Disable the automatic rebase after all commits have been successfully + submitted. Can also be set with git-p4.disableRebase. + +--disable-p4sync:: + Disable the automatic sync of p4/master from Perforce after commits have + been submitted. Implies --disable-rebase. Can also be set with + git-p4.disableP4Sync. Sync with origin/master still goes ahead if possible. + Rebase options ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ These options can be used to modify 'git p4 rebase' behavior. @@ -322,6 +381,13 @@ These options can be used to modify 'git p4 rebase' behavior. --import-labels:: Import p4 labels. +Unshelve options +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +--origin:: + Sets the git refspec against which the shelved P4 changelist is compared. + Defaults to p4/master. + DEPOT PATH SYNTAX ----------------- The p4 depot path argument to 'git p4 sync' and 'git p4 clone' can @@ -377,7 +443,7 @@ dedicating a client spec just for 'git p4'. The name of the client can be given to 'git p4' in multiple ways. The variable 'git-p4.client' takes precedence if it exists. Otherwise, normal p4 mechanisms of determining the client are used: environment -variable P4CLIENT, a file referenced by P4CONFIG, or the local host name. +variable `P4CLIENT`, a file referenced by `P4CONFIG`, or the local host name. BRANCH DETECTION @@ -446,27 +512,33 @@ General variables ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ git-p4.user:: User specified as an option to all p4 commands, with '-u <user>'. - The environment variable 'P4USER' can be used instead. + The environment variable `P4USER` can be used instead. git-p4.password:: Password specified as an option to all p4 commands, with '-P <password>'. - The environment variable 'P4PASS' can be used instead. + The environment variable `P4PASS` can be used instead. git-p4.port:: Port specified as an option to all p4 commands, with '-p <port>'. - The environment variable 'P4PORT' can be used instead. + The environment variable `P4PORT` can be used instead. git-p4.host:: Host specified as an option to all p4 commands, with '-h <host>'. - The environment variable 'P4HOST' can be used instead. + The environment variable `P4HOST` can be used instead. git-p4.client:: Client specified as an option to all p4 commands, with '-c <client>', including the client spec. +git-p4.retries:: + Specifies the number of times to retry a p4 command (notably, + 'p4 sync') if the network times out. The default value is 3. + Set the value to 0 to disable retries or if your p4 version + does not support retries (pre 2012.2). + Clone and sync variables ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ git-p4.syncFromOrigin:: @@ -623,6 +695,12 @@ git-p4.conflict:: Specify submit behavior when a conflict with p4 is found, as per --conflict. The default behavior is 'ask'. +git-p4.disableRebase:: + Do not rebase the tree against p4/master following a submit. + +git-p4.disableP4Sync:: + Do not sync p4/master with Perforce following a submit. Implies git-p4.disableRebase. + IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS ---------------------- * Changesets from p4 are imported using Git fast-import. diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index 8973510a41..d95b472d16 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -12,14 +12,16 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git pack-objects' [-q | --progress | --all-progress] [--all-progress-implied] [--no-reuse-delta] [--delta-base-offset] [--non-empty] [--local] [--incremental] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>] - [--revs [--unpacked | --all]] [--stdout | base-name] + [--revs [--unpacked | --all]] [--keep-pack=<pack-name>] + [--stdout [--filter=<filter-spec>] | base-name] [--shallow] [--keep-true-parents] < object-list DESCRIPTION ----------- -Reads list of objects from the standard input, and writes a packed -archive with specified base-name, or to the standard output. +Reads list of objects from the standard input, and writes either one or +more packed archives with the specified base-name to disk, or a packed +archive to the standard output. A packed archive is an efficient way to transfer a set of objects between two repositories as well as an access efficient archival @@ -47,9 +49,9 @@ transport by their peers. OPTIONS ------- base-name:: - Write into a pair of files (.pack and .idx), using + Write into pairs of files (.pack and .idx), using <base-name> to determine the name of the created file. - When this option is used, the two files are written in + When this option is used, the two files in a pair are written in <base-name>-<SHA-1>.{pack,idx} files. <SHA-1> is a hash based on the pack content and is written to the standard output of the command. @@ -94,7 +96,9 @@ base-name:: it too deep affects the performance on the unpacker side, because delta data needs to be applied that many times to get to the necessary object. - The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50. ++ +The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50. The maximum +depth is 4095. --window-memory=<n>:: This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`; @@ -108,9 +112,13 @@ base-name:: is taken from the `pack.windowMemory` configuration variable. --max-pack-size=<n>:: - Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with + In unusual scenarios, you may not be able to create files + larger than a certain size on your filesystem, and this option + can be used to tell the command to split the output packfile + into multiple independent packfiles, each not larger than the + given size. The size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB. - If specified, multiple packfiles may be created, which also + This option prevents the creation of a bitmap index. The default is unlimited, unless the config variable `pack.packSizeLimit` is set. @@ -120,6 +128,13 @@ base-name:: has a .keep file to be ignored, even if it would have otherwise been packed. +--keep-pack=<pack-name>:: + This flag causes an object already in the given pack to be + ignored, even if it would have otherwise been + packed. `<pack-name>` is the the pack file name without + leading directory (e.g. `pack-123.pack`). The option could be + specified multiple times to keep multiple packs. + --incremental:: This flag causes an object already in a pack to be ignored even if it would have otherwise been packed. @@ -231,6 +246,49 @@ So does `git bundle` (see linkgit:git-bundle[1]) when it creates a bundle. With this option, parents that are hidden by grafts are packed nevertheless. +--filter=<filter-spec>:: + Requires `--stdout`. Omits certain objects (usually blobs) from + the resulting packfile. See linkgit:git-rev-list[1] for valid + `<filter-spec>` forms. + +--no-filter:: + Turns off any previous `--filter=` argument. + +--missing=<missing-action>:: + A debug option to help with future "partial clone" development. + This option specifies how missing objects are handled. ++ +The form '--missing=error' requests that pack-objects stop with an error if +a missing object is encountered. This is the default action. ++ +The form '--missing=allow-any' will allow object traversal to continue +if a missing object is encountered. Missing objects will silently be +omitted from the results. ++ +The form '--missing=allow-promisor' is like 'allow-any', but will only +allow object traversal to continue for EXPECTED promisor missing objects. +Unexpected missing object will raise an error. + +--exclude-promisor-objects:: + Omit objects that are known to be in the promisor remote. (This + option has the purpose of operating only on locally created objects, + so that when we repack, we still maintain a distinction between + locally created objects [without .promisor] and objects from the + promisor remote [with .promisor].) This is used with partial clone. + +--keep-unreachable:: + Objects unreachable from the refs in packs named with + --unpacked= option are added to the resulting pack, in + addition to the reachable objects that are not in packs marked + with *.keep files. This implies `--revs`. + +--pack-loose-unreachable:: + Pack unreachable loose objects (and their loose counterparts + removed). This implies `--revs`. + +--unpack-unreachable:: + Keep unreachable objects in loose form. This implies `--revs`. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-rev-list[1] diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt index cf71fba1c0..442caff8a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt @@ -56,9 +56,6 @@ OPTIONS This is the default. -<patch>:: - The diff to create the ID of. - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-prune.txt b/Documentation/git-prune.txt index 7a493c80f7..03552dd86f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-prune.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-prune.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-prune - Prune all unreachable objects from the object database SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git prune' [-n] [-v] [--expire <expire>] [--] [<head>...] +'git prune' [-n] [-v] [--progress] [--expire <time>] [--] [<head>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -42,19 +42,22 @@ OPTIONS --verbose:: Report all removed objects. -\--:: - Do not interpret any more arguments as options. +--progress:: + Show progress. --expire <time>:: Only expire loose objects older than <time>. +\--:: + Do not interpret any more arguments as options. + <head>...:: In addition to objects reachable from any of our references, keep objects reachable from listed <head>s. -EXAMPLE -------- +EXAMPLES +-------- To prune objects not used by your repository or another that borrows from your repository via its @@ -64,7 +67,7 @@ borrows from your repository via its $ git prune $(cd ../another && git rev-parse --all) ------------ -Notes +NOTES ----- In most cases, users will not need to call 'git prune' directly, but diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index 4470e4b574..118d9d86f7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-pull - Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local branch SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git pull' [options] [<repository> [<refspec>...]] +'git pull' [<options>] [<repository> [<refspec>...]] DESCRIPTION @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ with uncommitted changes is discouraged: while possible, it leaves you in a state that may be hard to back out of in the case of a conflict. If any of the remote changes overlap with local uncommitted changes, -the merge will be automatically cancelled and the work tree untouched. +the merge will be automatically canceled and the work tree untouched. It is generally best to get any local changes in working order before pulling or stash them away with linkgit:git-stash[1]. @@ -86,12 +86,12 @@ OPTIONS --[no-]recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]:: This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should - be fetched too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5]). - That might be necessary to get the data needed for merging submodule - commits, a feature Git learned in 1.7.3. Notice that the result of a - merge will not be checked out in the submodule, "git submodule update" - has to be called afterwards to bring the work tree up to date with the - merge result. + be fetched and updated, too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and + linkgit:gitmodules[5]). ++ +If the checkout is done via rebase, local submodule commits are rebased as well. ++ +If the update is done via merge, the submodule conflicts are resolved and checked out. Options related to merging ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -101,13 +101,17 @@ Options related to merging include::merge-options.txt[] -r:: ---rebase[=false|true|preserve|interactive]:: +--rebase[=false|true|merges|preserve|interactive]:: When true, rebase the current branch on top of the upstream branch after fetching. If there is a remote-tracking branch corresponding to the upstream branch and the upstream branch was rebased since last fetched, the rebase uses that information to avoid rebasing non-local changes. + +When set to `merges`, rebase using `git rebase --rebase-merges` so that +the local merge commits are included in the rebase (see +linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details). ++ When set to preserve, rebase with the `--preserve-merges` option passed to `git rebase` so that locally created merge commits will not be flattened. + @@ -131,7 +135,7 @@ unless you have read linkgit:git-rebase[1] carefully. --autostash:: --no-autostash:: Before starting rebase, stash local modifications away (see - linkgit:git-stash[1]) if needed, and apply the stash when + linkgit:git-stash[1]) if needed, and apply the stash entry when done. `--no-autostash` is useful to override the `rebase.autoStash` configuration variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). + @@ -159,15 +163,15 @@ present while on branch `<name>`, that value is used instead of In order to determine what URL to use to fetch from, the value of the configuration `remote.<origin>.url` is consulted -and if there is not any such variable, the value on `URL: ` line -in `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>` file is used. +and if there is not any such variable, the value on the `URL:` line +in `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>` is used. In order to determine what remote branches to fetch (and optionally store in the remote-tracking branches) when the command is run without any refspec parameters on the command line, values of the configuration variable `remote.<origin>.fetch` are consulted, and if there aren't any, `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>` -file is consulted and its `Pull: ` lines are used. +is consulted and its `Pull:` lines are used. In addition to the refspec formats described in the OPTIONS section, you can have a globbing refspec that looks like this: @@ -210,7 +214,8 @@ EXAMPLES current branch: + ------------------------------------------------ -$ git pull, git pull origin +$ git pull +$ git pull origin ------------------------------------------------ + Normally the branch merged in is the HEAD of the remote repository, diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 8eefabd0d1..55277a9781 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git push' [--all | --mirror | --tags] [--follow-tags] [--atomic] [-n | --dry-run] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--repo=<repository>] [-f | --force] [-d | --delete] [--prune] [-v | --verbose] - [-u | --set-upstream] [--push-option=<string>] - [--[no-]signed|--sign=(true|false|if-asked)] + [-u | --set-upstream] [-o <string> | --push-option=<string>] + [--[no-]signed|--signed=(true|false|if-asked)] [--force-with-lease[=<refname>[:<expect>]]] [--no-verify] [<repository> [<refspec>...]] @@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ already exists on the remote side. will be tab-separated and sent to stdout instead of stderr. The full symbolic names of the refs will be given. +-d:: --delete:: All listed refs are deleted from the remote repository. This is the same as prefixing all refs with a colon. @@ -141,7 +142,7 @@ already exists on the remote side. information, see `push.followTags` in linkgit:git-config[1]. --[no-]signed:: ---sign=(true|false|if-asked):: +--signed=(true|false|if-asked):: GPG-sign the push request to update refs on the receiving side, to allow it to be checked by the hooks and/or be logged. If `false` or `--no-signed`, no signing will be @@ -156,11 +157,17 @@ already exists on the remote side. Either all refs are updated, or on error, no refs are updated. If the server does not support atomic pushes the push will fail. --o:: ---push-option:: +-o <option>:: +--push-option=<option>:: Transmit the given string to the server, which passes them to the pre-receive as well as the post-receive hook. The given string must not contain a NUL or LF character. + When multiple `--push-option=<option>` are given, they are + all sent to the other side in the order listed on the + command line. + When no `--push-option=<option>` is given from the command + line, the values of configuration variable `push.pushOption` + are used instead. --receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>:: --exec=<git-receive-pack>:: @@ -217,6 +224,47 @@ with this feature. + "--no-force-with-lease" will cancel all the previous --force-with-lease on the command line. ++ +A general note on safety: supplying this option without an expected +value, i.e. as `--force-with-lease` or `--force-with-lease=<refname>` +interacts very badly with anything that implicitly runs `git fetch` on +the remote to be pushed to in the background, e.g. `git fetch origin` +on your repository in a cronjob. ++ +The protection it offers over `--force` is ensuring that subsequent +changes your work wasn't based on aren't clobbered, but this is +trivially defeated if some background process is updating refs in the +background. We don't have anything except the remote tracking info to +go by as a heuristic for refs you're expected to have seen & are +willing to clobber. ++ +If your editor or some other system is running `git fetch` in the +background for you a way to mitigate this is to simply set up another +remote: ++ + git remote add origin-push $(git config remote.origin.url) + git fetch origin-push ++ +Now when the background process runs `git fetch origin` the references +on `origin-push` won't be updated, and thus commands like: ++ + git push --force-with-lease origin-push ++ +Will fail unless you manually run `git fetch origin-push`. This method +is of course entirely defeated by something that runs `git fetch +--all`, in that case you'd need to either disable it or do something +more tedious like: ++ + git fetch # update 'master' from remote + git tag base master # mark our base point + git rebase -i master # rewrite some commits + git push --force-with-lease=master:base master:master ++ +I.e. create a `base` tag for versions of the upstream code that you've +seen and are willing to overwrite, then rewrite history, and finally +force push changes to `master` if the remote version is still at +`base`, regardless of what your local `remotes/origin/master` has been +updated to in the background. -f:: --force:: @@ -253,7 +301,7 @@ origin +master` to force a push to the `master` branch). See the These options are passed to linkgit:git-send-pack[1]. A thin transfer significantly reduces the amount of sent data when the sender and receiver share many of the same objects in common. The default is - \--thin. + `--thin`. -q:: --quiet:: @@ -272,7 +320,7 @@ origin +master` to force a push to the `master` branch). See the standard error stream is not directed to a terminal. --no-recurse-submodules:: ---recurse-submodules=check|on-demand|no:: +--recurse-submodules=check|on-demand|only|no:: May be used to make sure all submodule commits used by the revisions to be pushed are available on a remote-tracking branch. If 'check' is used Git will verify that all submodule commits that @@ -280,11 +328,12 @@ origin +master` to force a push to the `master` branch). See the remote of the submodule. If any commits are missing the push will be aborted and exit with non-zero status. If 'on-demand' is used all submodules that changed in the revisions to be pushed will be - pushed. If on-demand was not able to push all necessary revisions - it will also be aborted and exit with non-zero status. A value of - 'no' or using `--no-recurse-submodules` can be used to override the - push.recurseSubmodules configuration variable when no submodule - recursion is required. + pushed. If on-demand was not able to push all necessary revisions it will + also be aborted and exit with non-zero status. If 'only' is used all + submodules will be recursively pushed while the superproject is left + unpushed. A value of 'no' or using `--no-recurse-submodules` can be used + to override the push.recurseSubmodules configuration variable when no + submodule recursion is required. --[no-]verify:: Toggle the pre-push hook (see linkgit:githooks[5]). The @@ -375,7 +424,7 @@ reason:: refs, no explanation is needed. For a failed ref, the reason for failure is described. -Note about fast-forwards +NOTE ABOUT FAST-FORWARDS ------------------------ When an update changes a branch (or more in general, a ref) that used to @@ -462,7 +511,7 @@ overwrite it. In other words, "git push --force" is a method reserved for a case where you do mean to lose history. -Examples +EXAMPLES -------- `git push`:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt index fa1d557e5b..5c70bc2878 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt @@ -81,12 +81,11 @@ OPTIONS * when both sides add a path identically. The resolution is to add that path. ---prefix=<prefix>/:: +--prefix=<prefix>:: Keep the current index contents, and read the contents of the named tree-ish under the directory at `<prefix>`. The command will refuse to overwrite entries that already - existed in the original index file. Note that the `<prefix>/` - value must end with a slash. + existed in the original index file. --exclude-per-directory=<gitignore>:: When running the command with `-u` and `-m` options, the @@ -115,6 +114,12 @@ OPTIONS directories the index file and index output file are located in. +--[no-]recurse-submodules:: + Using --recurse-submodules will update the content of all initialized + submodules according to the commit recorded in the superproject by + calling read-tree recursively, also setting the submodules HEAD to be + detached at that commit. + --no-sparse-checkout:: Disable sparse checkout support even if `core.sparseCheckout` is true. @@ -127,11 +132,11 @@ OPTIONS The id of the tree object(s) to be read/merged. -Merging +MERGING ------- If `-m` is specified, 'git read-tree' can perform 3 kinds of merge, a single tree merge if only 1 tree is given, a -fast-forward merge with 2 trees, or a 3-way merge if 3 trees are +fast-forward merge with 2 trees, or a 3-way merge if 3 or more trees are provided. @@ -173,6 +178,7 @@ Here are the "carry forward" rules, where "I" denotes the index, "clean" means that index and work tree coincide, and "exists"/"nothing" refer to the presence of a path in the specified commit: +.... I H M Result ------------------------------------------------------- 0 nothing nothing nothing (does not happen) @@ -211,6 +217,7 @@ refer to the presence of a path in the specified commit: 19 no no yes exists exists keep index 20 yes yes no exists exists use M 21 no yes no exists exists fail +.... In all "keep index" cases, the index entry stays as in the original index file. If the entry is not up to date, @@ -375,7 +382,7 @@ middle of doing, and when your working tree is ready (i.e. you have finished your work-in-progress), attempt the merge again. -Sparse checkout +SPARSE CHECKOUT --------------- "Sparse checkout" allows populating the working directory sparsely. diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index de222c81af..0e20a66e73 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ git-rebase - Reapply commits on top of another base tip SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>] +'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [<options>] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>] [<upstream> [<branch>]] -'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>] +'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [<options>] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>] --root [<branch>] -'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort | --edit-todo +'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort | --quit | --edit-todo | --show-current-patch DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -203,24 +203,7 @@ Alternatively, you can undo the 'git rebase' with CONFIGURATION ------------- -rebase.stat:: - Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last - rebase. False by default. - -rebase.autoSquash:: - If set to true enable `--autosquash` option by default. - -rebase.autoStash:: - If set to true enable `--autostash` option by default. - -rebase.missingCommitsCheck:: - If set to "warn", print warnings about removed commits in - interactive mode. If set to "error", print the warnings and - stop the rebase. If set to "ignore", no checking is - done. "ignore" by default. - -rebase.instructionFormat:: - Custom commit list format to use during an `--interactive` rebase. +include::rebase-config.txt[] OPTIONS ------- @@ -252,16 +235,31 @@ leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD. will be reset to where it was when the rebase operation was started. +--quit:: + Abort the rebase operation but HEAD is not reset back to the + original branch. The index and working tree are also left + unchanged as a result. + --keep-empty:: Keep the commits that do not change anything from its parents in the result. +--allow-empty-message:: + By default, rebasing commits with an empty message will fail. + This option overrides that behavior, allowing commits with empty + messages to be rebased. + --skip:: Restart the rebasing process by skipping the current patch. --edit-todo:: Edit the todo list during an interactive rebase. +--show-current-patch:: + Show the current patch in an interactive rebase or when rebase + is stopped because of conflicts. This is the equivalent of + `git show REBASE_HEAD`. + -m:: --merge:: Use merging strategies to rebase. When the recursive (default) merge @@ -329,7 +327,7 @@ which makes little sense. -f:: --force-rebase:: - Force a rebase even if the current branch is up-to-date and + Force a rebase even if the current branch is up to date and the command without `--force` would return without doing anything. + You may find this (or --no-ff with an interactive rebase) helpful after @@ -365,6 +363,12 @@ default is `--no-fork-point`, otherwise the default is `--fork-point`. of the rebased commits (see linkgit:git-am[1]). Incompatible with the --interactive option. +--signoff:: + Add a Signed-off-by: trailer to all the rebased commits. Note + that if `--interactive` is given then only commits marked to be + picked, edited or reworded will have the trailer added. Incompatible + with the `--preserve-merges` option. + -i:: --interactive:: Make a list of the commits which are about to be rebased. Let the @@ -375,6 +379,33 @@ The commit list format can be changed by setting the configuration option rebase.instructionFormat. A customized instruction format will automatically have the long commit hash prepended to the format. +-r:: +--rebase-merges[=(rebase-cousins|no-rebase-cousins)]:: + By default, a rebase will simply drop merge commits from the todo + list, and put the rebased commits into a single, linear branch. + With `--rebase-merges`, the rebase will instead try to preserve + the branching structure within the commits that are to be rebased, + by recreating the merge commits. Any resolved merge conflicts or + manual amendments in these merge commits will have to be + resolved/re-applied manually. ++ +By default, or when `no-rebase-cousins` was specified, commits which do not +have `<upstream>` as direct ancestor will keep their original branch point, +i.e. commits that would be excluded by gitlink:git-log[1]'s +`--ancestry-path` option will keep their original ancestry by default. If +the `rebase-cousins` mode is turned on, such commits are instead rebased +onto `<upstream>` (or `<onto>`, if specified). ++ +The `--rebase-merges` mode is similar in spirit to `--preserve-merges`, but +in contrast to that option works well in interactive rebases: commits can be +reordered, inserted and dropped at will. ++ +It is currently only possible to recreate the merge commits using the +`recursive` merge strategy; Different merge strategies can be used only via +explicit `exec git merge -s <strategy> [...]` commands. ++ +See also REBASING MERGES below. + -p:: --preserve-merges:: Recreate merge commits instead of flattening the history by replaying @@ -420,13 +451,15 @@ without an explicit `--interactive`. --autosquash:: --no-autosquash:: When the commit log message begins with "squash! ..." (or - "fixup! ..."), and there is a commit whose title begins with - the same ..., automatically modify the todo list of rebase -i - so that the commit marked for squashing comes right after the - commit to be modified, and change the action of the moved - commit from `pick` to `squash` (or `fixup`). Ignores subsequent - "fixup! " or "squash! " after the first, in case you referred to an - earlier fixup/squash with `git commit --fixup/--squash`. + "fixup! ..."), and there is already a commit in the todo list that + matches the same `...`, automatically modify the todo list of rebase + -i so that the commit marked for squashing comes right after the + commit to be modified, and change the action of the moved commit + from `pick` to `squash` (or `fixup`). A commit matches the `...` if + the commit subject matches, or if the `...` refers to the commit's + hash. As a fall-back, partial matches of the commit subject work, + too. The recommended way to create fixup/squash commits is by using + the `--fixup`/`--squash` options of linkgit:git-commit[1]. + This option is only valid when the `--interactive` option is used. + @@ -436,7 +469,7 @@ used to override and disable this setting. --autostash:: --no-autostash:: - Automatically create a temporary stash before the operation + Automatically create a temporary stash entry before the operation begins, and apply it after the operation ends. This means that you can run rebase on a dirty worktree. However, use with care: the final stash application after a successful @@ -665,7 +698,7 @@ on this 'subsystem'. You might end up with a history like the following: ------------ - o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o master + o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o master \ o---o---o---o---o subsystem \ @@ -770,12 +803,146 @@ The ripple effect of a "hard case" recovery is especially bad: 'everyone' downstream from 'topic' will now have to perform a "hard case" recovery too! +REBASING MERGES +----------------- + +The interactive rebase command was originally designed to handle +individual patch series. As such, it makes sense to exclude merge +commits from the todo list, as the developer may have merged the +then-current `master` while working on the branch, only to rebase +all the commits onto `master` eventually (skipping the merge +commits). + +However, there are legitimate reasons why a developer may want to +recreate merge commits: to keep the branch structure (or "commit +topology") when working on multiple, inter-related branches. + +In the following example, the developer works on a topic branch that +refactors the way buttons are defined, and on another topic branch +that uses that refactoring to implement a "Report a bug" button. The +output of `git log --graph --format=%s -5` may look like this: + +------------ +* Merge branch 'report-a-bug' +|\ +| * Add the feedback button +* | Merge branch 'refactor-button' +|\ \ +| |/ +| * Use the Button class for all buttons +| * Extract a generic Button class from the DownloadButton one +------------ + +The developer might want to rebase those commits to a newer `master` +while keeping the branch topology, for example when the first topic +branch is expected to be integrated into `master` much earlier than the +second one, say, to resolve merge conflicts with changes to the +DownloadButton class that made it into `master`. + +This rebase can be performed using the `--rebase-merges` option. +It will generate a todo list looking like this: + +------------ +label onto + +# Branch: refactor-button +reset onto +pick 123456 Extract a generic Button class from the DownloadButton one +pick 654321 Use the Button class for all buttons +label refactor-button + +# Branch: report-a-bug +reset refactor-button # Use the Button class for all buttons +pick abcdef Add the feedback button +label report-a-bug + +reset onto +merge -C a1b2c3 refactor-button # Merge 'refactor-button' +merge -C 6f5e4d report-a-bug # Merge 'report-a-bug' +------------ + +In contrast to a regular interactive rebase, there are `label`, `reset` +and `merge` commands in addition to `pick` ones. + +The `label` command associates a label with the current HEAD when that +command is executed. These labels are created as worktree-local refs +(`refs/rewritten/<label>`) that will be deleted when the rebase +finishes. That way, rebase operations in multiple worktrees linked to +the same repository do not interfere with one another. If the `label` +command fails, it is rescheduled immediately, with a helpful message how +to proceed. + +The `reset` command resets the HEAD, index and worktree to the specified +revision. It is isimilar to an `exec git reset --hard <label>`, but +refuses to overwrite untracked files. If the `reset` command fails, it is +rescheduled immediately, with a helpful message how to edit the todo list +(this typically happens when a `reset` command was inserted into the todo +list manually and contains a typo). + +The `merge` command will merge the specified revision into whatever is +HEAD at that time. With `-C <original-commit>`, the commit message of +the specified merge commit will be used. When the `-C` is changed to +a lower-case `-c`, the message will be opened in an editor after a +successful merge so that the user can edit the message. + +If a `merge` command fails for any reason other than merge conflicts (i.e. +when the merge operation did not even start), it is rescheduled immediately. + +At this time, the `merge` command will *always* use the `recursive` +merge strategy, with no way to choose a different one. To work around +this, an `exec` command can be used to call `git merge` explicitly, +using the fact that the labels are worktree-local refs (the ref +`refs/rewritten/onto` would correspond to the label `onto`, for example). + +Note: the first command (`label onto`) labels the revision onto which +the commits are rebased; The name `onto` is just a convention, as a nod +to the `--onto` option. + +It is also possible to introduce completely new merge commits from scratch +by adding a command of the form `merge <merge-head>`. This form will +generate a tentative commit message and always open an editor to let the +user edit it. This can be useful e.g. when a topic branch turns out to +address more than a single concern and wants to be split into two or +even more topic branches. Consider this todo list: + +------------ +pick 192837 Switch from GNU Makefiles to CMake +pick 5a6c7e Document the switch to CMake +pick 918273 Fix detection of OpenSSL in CMake +pick afbecd http: add support for TLS v1.3 +pick fdbaec Fix detection of cURL in CMake on Windows +------------ + +The one commit in this list that is not related to CMake may very well +have been motivated by working on fixing all those bugs introduced by +switching to CMake, but it addresses a different concern. To split this +branch into two topic branches, the todo list could be edited like this: + +------------ +label onto + +pick afbecd http: add support for TLS v1.3 +label tlsv1.3 + +reset onto +pick 192837 Switch from GNU Makefiles to CMake +pick 918273 Fix detection of OpenSSL in CMake +pick fdbaec Fix detection of cURL in CMake on Windows +pick 5a6c7e Document the switch to CMake +label cmake + +reset onto +merge tlsv1.3 +merge cmake +------------ + BUGS ---- The todo list presented by `--preserve-merges --interactive` does not represent the topology of the revision graph. Editing commits and rewording their commit messages should work fine, but attempts to -reorder commits tend to produce counterintuitive results. +reorder commits tend to produce counterintuitive results. Use +`--rebase-merges` in such scenarios instead. For example, an attempt to rearrange ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt index 0ccd5fbc78..dedf97efbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ OPTIONS <directory>:: The repository to sync into. -pre-receive Hook +PRE-RECEIVE HOOK ---------------- Before any ref is updated, if $GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive file exists and is executable, it will be invoked once with no parameters. The @@ -114,7 +114,9 @@ will be performed, and the update, post-receive and post-update hooks will not be invoked either. This can be useful to quickly bail out if the update is not to be supported. -update Hook +See the notes on the quarantine environment below. + +UPDATE HOOK ----------- Before each ref is updated, if $GIT_DIR/hooks/update file exists and is executable, it is invoked once per ref, with three parameters: @@ -136,7 +138,7 @@ ensure the ref will actually be updated, it is only a prerequisite. As such it is not a good idea to send notices (e.g. email) from this hook. Consider using the post-receive hook instead. -post-receive Hook +POST-RECEIVE HOOK ----------------- After all refs were updated (or attempted to be updated), if any ref update was successful, and if $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-receive @@ -196,7 +198,7 @@ after it was updated by 'git-receive-pack', but before the hook was able to evaluate it. It is recommended that hooks rely on sha1-new rather than the current value of refname. -post-update Hook +POST-UPDATE HOOK ---------------- After all other processing, if at least one ref was updated, and if $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-update file exists and is executable, then @@ -214,6 +216,33 @@ if the repository is packed and is served via a dumb transport. exec git update-server-info +QUARANTINE ENVIRONMENT +---------------------- + +When `receive-pack` takes in objects, they are placed into a temporary +"quarantine" directory within the `$GIT_DIR/objects` directory and +migrated into the main object store only after the `pre-receive` hook +has completed. If the push fails before then, the temporary directory is +removed entirely. + +This has a few user-visible effects and caveats: + + 1. Pushes which fail due to problems with the incoming pack, missing + objects, or due to the `pre-receive` hook will not leave any + on-disk data. This is usually helpful to prevent repeated failed + pushes from filling up your disk, but can make debugging more + challenging. + + 2. Any objects created by the `pre-receive` hook will be created in + the quarantine directory (and migrated only if it succeeds). + + 3. The `pre-receive` hook MUST NOT update any refs to point to + quarantined objects. Other programs accessing the repository will + not be able to see the objects (and if the pre-receive hook fails, + those refs would become corrupted). For safety, any ref updates + from within `pre-receive` are automatically rejected. + + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-send-pack[1], linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] diff --git a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt index 44c736f1a8..472a6808cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt @@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ depending on the subcommand: 'git reflog' ['show'] [log-options] [<ref>] 'git reflog expire' [--expire=<time>] [--expire-unreachable=<time>] [--rewrite] [--updateref] [--stale-fix] - [--dry-run] [--verbose] [--all | <refs>...] + [--dry-run | -n] [--verbose] [--all | <refs>...] 'git reflog delete' [--rewrite] [--updateref] - [--dry-run] [--verbose] ref@\{specifier\}... + [--dry-run | -n] [--verbose] ref@\{specifier\}... 'git reflog exists' <ref> Reference logs, or "reflogs", record when the tips of branches and diff --git a/Documentation/git-relink.txt b/Documentation/git-relink.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 3b33c99510..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/git-relink.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ -git-relink(1) -============= - -NAME ----- -git-relink - Hardlink common objects in local repositories - -SYNOPSIS --------- -[verse] -'git relink' [--safe] <dir>... <master_dir> - -DESCRIPTION ------------ -This will scan 1 or more object repositories and look for objects in common -with a master repository. Objects not already hardlinked to the master -repository will be replaced with a hardlink to the master repository. - -OPTIONS -------- ---safe:: - Stops if two objects with the same hash exist but have different sizes. - Default is to warn and continue. - -<dir>:: - Directories containing a .git/objects/ subdirectory. - -GIT ---- -Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt index b25d0b5996..3fc5d94336 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt @@ -55,14 +55,14 @@ some tunnel. the vhost field in the git:// service request (to rest of the argument). Default is not to send vhost in such request (if sent). -ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES: ----------------------- +ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES +--------------------- GIT_TRANSLOOP_DEBUG:: If set, prints debugging information about various reads/writes. -ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES PASSED TO COMMAND: ----------------------------------------- +ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES PASSED TO COMMAND +--------------------------------------- GIT_EXT_SERVICE:: Set to long name (git-upload-pack, etc...) of service helper needs @@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ GIT_EXT_SERVICE_NOPREFIX:: to invoke. -EXAMPLES: ---------- +EXAMPLES +-------- This remote helper is transparently used by Git when you use commands such as "git fetch <URL>", "git clone <URL>", , "git push <URL>" or "git remote add <nick> <URL>", where <URL> diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt index 577b969c1b..0cad37fb81 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt @@ -172,24 +172,28 @@ With `-n` option, the remote heads are not queried first with 'prune':: -Deletes all stale remote-tracking branches under <name>. -These stale branches have already been removed from the remote repository -referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in -"remotes/<name>". +Deletes stale references associated with <name>. By default, stale +remote-tracking branches under <name> are deleted, but depending on +global configuration and the configuration of the remote we might even +prune local tags that haven't been pushed there. Equivalent to `git +fetch --prune <name>`, except that no new references will be fetched. ++ +See the PRUNING section of linkgit:git-fetch[1] for what it'll prune +depending on various configuration. + With `--dry-run` option, report what branches will be pruned, but do not actually prune them. 'update':: -Fetch updates for a named set of remotes in the repository as defined by -remotes.<group>. If a named group is not specified on the command line, +Fetch updates for remotes or remote groups in the repository as defined by +remotes.<group>. If neither group nor remote is specified on the command line, the configuration parameter remotes.default will be used; if remotes.default is not defined, all remotes which do not have the configuration parameter remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate set to true will be updated. (See linkgit:git-config[1]). + -With `--prune` option, prune all the remotes that are updated. +With `--prune` option, run pruning against all the remotes that are updated. DISCUSSION @@ -199,7 +203,7 @@ The remote configuration is achieved using the `remote.origin.url` and `remote.origin.fetch` configuration variables. (See linkgit:git-config[1]). -Examples +EXAMPLES -------- * Add a new remote, fetch, and check out a branch from it diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt index 26afe6ed54..d90e7907f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-repack - Pack unpacked objects in a repository SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git repack' [-a] [-A] [-d] [-f] [-F] [-l] [-n] [-q] [-b] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>] +'git repack' [-a] [-A] [-d] [-f] [-F] [-l] [-n] [-q] [-b] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>] [--threads=<n>] [--keep-pack=<pack-name>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -90,7 +90,12 @@ other objects in that pack they already have locally. space. `--depth` limits the maximum delta depth; making it too deep affects the performance on the unpacker side, because delta data needs to be applied that many times to get to the necessary object. - The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50. ++ +The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50. The maximum +depth is 4095. + +--threads=<n>:: + This option is passed through to `git pack-objects`. --window-memory=<n>:: This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`; @@ -130,6 +135,13 @@ other objects in that pack they already have locally. with `-b` or `repack.writeBitmaps`, as it ensures that the bitmapped packfile has the necessary objects. +--keep-pack=<pack-name>:: + Exclude the given pack from repacking. This is the equivalent + of having `.keep` file on the pack. `<pack-name>` is the the + pack file name without leading directory (e.g. `pack-123.pack`). + The option could be specified multiple times to keep multiple + packs. + --unpack-unreachable=<when>:: When loosening unreachable objects, do not bother loosening any objects older than `<when>`. This can be used to optimize out diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt index e5c57ae6ef..246dc9943c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git replace' [-f] <object> <replacement> 'git replace' [-f] --edit <object> 'git replace' [-f] --graft <commit> [<parent>...] +'git replace' [-f] --convert-graft-file 'git replace' -d <object>... 'git replace' [--format=<format>] [-l [<pattern>]] @@ -87,9 +88,13 @@ OPTIONS content as <commit> except that its parents will be [<parent>...] instead of <commit>'s parents. A replacement ref is then created to replace <commit> with the newly created - commit. See contrib/convert-grafts-to-replace-refs.sh for an - example script based on this option that can convert grafts to - replace refs. + commit. Use `--convert-graft-file` to convert a + `$GIT_DIR/info/grafts` file and use replace refs instead. + +--convert-graft-file:: + Creates graft commits for all entries in `$GIT_DIR/info/grafts` + and deletes that file upon success. The purpose is to help users + with transitioning off of the now-deprecated graft file. -l <pattern>:: --list <pattern>:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt index c32cb0bea1..4d4392d0f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt @@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ ref that is different from the ref you have locally, you can use the its remote name. -EXAMPLE -------- +EXAMPLES +-------- Imagine that you built your work on your `master` branch on top of the `v1.0` release, and want it to be integrated to the project. diff --git a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt index 9ee083c415..031f31fa47 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ development on the topic branch: ------------ you could run `git rebase master topic`, to bring yourself -up-to-date before your topic is ready to be sent upstream. +up to date before your topic is ready to be sent upstream. This would result in falling back to a three-way merge, and it would conflict the same way as the test merge you resolved earlier. 'git rerere' will be run by 'git rebase' to help you resolve this diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt index 25432d9257..1d697d9962 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ $ git pull git://info.example.com/ nitfol <4> in these files are in good order. You do not want to see them when you run "git diff", because you plan to work on other files and changes with these files are distracting. -<2> Somebody asks you to pull, and the changes sounds worthy of merging. +<2> Somebody asks you to pull, and the changes sound worthy of merging. <3> However, you already dirtied the index (i.e. your index does not match the HEAD commit). But you know the pull you are going to make does not affect frotz.c or filfre.c, so you revert the @@ -292,6 +292,54 @@ $ git reset --keep start <3> <3> But you can use "reset --keep" to remove the unwanted commit after you switched to "branch2". +Split a commit apart into a sequence of commits:: ++ +Suppose that you have created lots of logically separate changes and committed +them together. Then, later you decide that it might be better to have each +logical chunk associated with its own commit. You can use git reset to rewind +history without changing the contents of your local files, and then successively +use `git add -p` to interactively select which hunks to include into each commit, +using `git commit -c` to pre-populate the commit message. ++ +------------ +$ git reset -N HEAD^ <1> +$ git add -p <2> +$ git diff --cached <3> +$ git commit -c HEAD@{1} <4> +... <5> +$ git add ... <6> +$ git diff --cached <7> +$ git commit ... <8> +------------ ++ +<1> First, reset the history back one commit so that we remove the original + commit, but leave the working tree with all the changes. The -N ensures + that any new files added with HEAD are still marked so that git add -p + will find them. +<2> Next, we interactively select diff hunks to add using the git add -p + facility. This will ask you about each diff hunk in sequence and you can + use simple commands such as "yes, include this", "No don't include this" + or even the very powerful "edit" facility. +<3> Once satisfied with the hunks you want to include, you should verify what + has been prepared for the first commit by using git diff --cached. This + shows all the changes that have been moved into the index and are about + to be committed. +<4> Next, commit the changes stored in the index. The -c option specifies to + pre-populate the commit message from the original message that you started + with in the first commit. This is helpful to avoid retyping it. The HEAD@{1} + is a special notation for the commit that HEAD used to be at prior to the + original reset commit (1 change ago). See linkgit:git-reflog[1] for more + details. You may also use any other valid commit reference. +<5> You can repeat steps 2-4 multiple times to break the original code into + any number of commits. +<6> Now you've split out many of the changes into their own commits, and might + no longer use the patch mode of git add, in order to select all remaining + uncommitted changes. +<7> Once again, check to verify that you've included what you want to. You may + also wish to verify that git diff doesn't show any remaining changes to be + committed later. +<8> And finally create the final commit. + DISCUSSION ---------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt index ef22f1775b..88609ff435 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt @@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ SYNOPSIS [ --fixed-strings | -F ] [ --date=<format>] [ [ --objects | --objects-edge | --objects-edge-aggressive ] - [ --unpacked ] ] + [ --unpacked ] + [ --filter=<filter-spec> [ --filter-print-omitted ] ] ] + [ --missing=<missing-action> ] [ --pretty | --header ] [ --bisect ] [ --bisect-vars ] diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index b6c6326cdc..e72d332b83 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-rev-parse - Pick out and massage parameters SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git rev-parse' [ --option ] <args>... +'git rev-parse' [<options>] <args>... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ repository. For example: ---- prefix=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix) cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)" -eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")" +# rev-parse provides the -- needed for 'set' +eval "set $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" -- "$@")" ---- --verify:: @@ -125,6 +126,12 @@ can be used. 'git diff-{asterisk}'). In contrast to the `--sq-quote` option, the command input is still interpreted as usual. +--short[=length]:: + Same as `--verify` but shortens the object name to a unique + prefix with at least `length` characters. The minimum length + is 4, the default is the effective value of the `core.abbrev` + configuration variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). + --not:: When showing object names, prefix them with '{caret}' and strip '{caret}' prefix from the object names that already have @@ -135,12 +142,6 @@ can be used. The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict abbreviation mode. ---short:: ---short=number:: - Instead of outputting the full SHA-1 values of object names try to - abbreviate them to a shorter unique name. When no length is specified - 7 is used. The minimum length is 4. - --symbolic:: Usually the object names are output in SHA-1 form (with possible '{caret}' prefix); this option makes them output in a @@ -216,6 +217,10 @@ If `$GIT_DIR` is not defined and the current directory is not detected to lie in a Git repository or work tree print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status. +--absolute-git-dir:: + Like `--git-dir`, but its output is always the canonicalized + absolute path. + --git-common-dir:: Show `$GIT_COMMON_DIR` if defined, else `$GIT_DIR`. @@ -230,6 +235,9 @@ print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status. --is-bare-repository:: When the repository is bare print "true", otherwise "false". +--is-shallow-repository:: + When the repository is shallow print "true", otherwise "false". + --resolve-git-dir <path>:: Check if <path> is a valid repository or a gitfile that points at a valid repository, and print the location of the @@ -256,6 +264,12 @@ print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status. --show-toplevel:: Show the absolute path of the top-level directory. +--show-superproject-working-tree:: + Show the absolute path of the root of the superproject's + working tree (if exists) that uses the current repository as + its submodule. Outputs nothing if the current repository is + not used as a submodule by any project. + --shared-index-path:: Show the path to the shared index file in split index mode, or empty if not in split-index mode. @@ -346,7 +360,7 @@ Example ------------ OPTS_SPEC="\ -some-command [options] <args>... +some-command [<options>] <args>... some-command does foo and bar! -- @@ -371,7 +385,7 @@ When `"$@"` is `-h` or `--help` in the above example, the following usage text would be shown: ------------ -usage: some-command [options] <args>... +usage: some-command [<options>] <args>... some-command does foo and bar! diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt index f1efc116eb..b5c46223c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt @@ -140,20 +140,21 @@ Only submodules using a gitfile (which means they were cloned with a Git version 1.7.8 or newer) will be removed from the work tree, as their repository lives inside the .git directory of the superproject. If a submodule (or one of those nested inside it) -still uses a .git directory, `git rm` will fail - no matter if forced -or not - to protect the submodule's history. If it exists the -submodule.<name> section in the linkgit:gitmodules[5] file will also -be removed and that file will be staged (unless --cached or -n are used). +still uses a .git directory, `git rm` will move the submodules +git directory into the superprojects git directory to protect +the submodule's history. If it exists the submodule.<name> section +in the linkgit:gitmodules[5] file will also be removed and that file +will be staged (unless --cached or -n are used). -A submodule is considered up-to-date when the HEAD is the same as +A submodule is considered up to date when the HEAD is the same as recorded in the index, no tracked files are modified and no untracked files that aren't ignored are present in the submodules work tree. Ignored files are deemed expendable and won't stop a submodule's work tree from being removed. If you only want to remove the local checkout of a submodule from your -work tree without committing the removal, -use linkgit:git-submodule[1] `deinit` instead. +work tree without committing the removal, use linkgit:git-submodule[1] `deinit` +instead. Also see linkgit:gitsubmodules[7] for details on submodule removal. EXAMPLES -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 642d0ef199..4f3efde80c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-send-email - Send a collection of patches as emails SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git send-email' [options] <file|directory|rev-list options>... +'git send-email' [<options>] <file|directory|rev-list options>... 'git send-email' --dump-aliases @@ -84,12 +84,17 @@ See the CONFIGURATION section for `sendemail.multiEdit`. the value of GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT, or GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT if that is not set, as returned by "git var -l". +--reply-to=<address>:: + Specify the address where replies from recipients should go to. + Use this if replies to messages should go to another address than what + is specified with the --from parameter. + --in-reply-to=<identifier>:: Make the first mail (or all the mails with `--no-thread`) appear as a reply to the given Message-Id, which avoids breaking threads to provide a new patch series. The second and subsequent emails will be sent as replies according to - the `--[no]-chain-reply-to` setting. + the `--[no-]chain-reply-to` setting. + So for example when `--thread` and `--no-chain-reply-to` are specified, the second and subsequent patches will be replies to the first one like in the @@ -203,9 +208,9 @@ a password is obtained using 'git-credential'. specify a full pathname of a sendmail-like program instead; the program must support the `-i` option. Default value can be specified by the `sendemail.smtpServer` configuration - option; the built-in default is `/usr/sbin/sendmail` or - `/usr/lib/sendmail` if such program is available, or - `localhost` otherwise. + option; the built-in default is to search for `sendmail` in + `/usr/sbin`, `/usr/lib` and $PATH if such program is + available, falling back to `localhost` otherwise. --smtp-server-port=<port>:: Specifies a port different from the default port (SMTP @@ -248,6 +253,21 @@ must be used for each option. commands and replies will be printed. Useful to debug TLS connection and authentication problems. +--batch-size=<num>:: + Some email servers (e.g. smtp.163.com) limit the number emails to be + sent per session (connection) and this will lead to a failure when + sending many messages. With this option, send-email will disconnect after + sending $<num> messages and wait for a few seconds (see --relogin-delay) + and reconnect, to work around such a limit. You may want to + use some form of credential helper to avoid having to retype + your password every time this happens. Defaults to the + `sendemail.smtpBatchSize` configuration variable. + +--relogin-delay=<int>:: + Waiting $<int> seconds before reconnecting to SMTP server. Used together + with --batch-size option. Defaults to the `sendemail.smtpReloginDelay` + configuration variable. + Automating ~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -377,6 +397,7 @@ have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'. Currently, validation means the following: + -- + * Invoke the sendemail-validate hook if present (see linkgit:githooks[5]). * Warn of patches that contain lines longer than 998 characters; this is due to SMTP limits as described by http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt. -- @@ -437,8 +458,8 @@ sendemail.confirm:: one of 'always', 'never', 'cc', 'compose', or 'auto'. See `--confirm` in the previous section for the meaning of these values. -EXAMPLE -------- +EXAMPLES +-------- Use gmail as the smtp server ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To use 'git send-email' to send your patches through the GMail SMTP server, @@ -452,16 +473,7 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you will need to generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit -https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to setup an -app-specific password. Once setup, you can store it with the credentials -helper: - - $ git credential fill - protocol=smtp - host=smtp.gmail.com - username=youname@gmail.com - password=app-password - +https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to create it. Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the following commands: @@ -470,6 +482,11 @@ following commands: $ edit outgoing/0000-* $ git send-email outgoing/* +The first time you run it, you will be prompted for your credentials. Enter the +app-specific or your regular password as appropriate. If you have credential +helper configured (see linkgit:git-credential[1]), the password will be saved in +the credential store so you won't have to type it the next time. + Note: the following perl modules are required Net::SMTP::SSL, MIME::Base64 and Authen::SASL diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt index a831dd0288..44fd146b91 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [--atomic] - [--[no-]signed|--sign=(true|false|if-asked)] + [--[no-]signed|--signed=(true|false|if-asked)] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...] DESCRIPTION @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet. refs. --[no-]signed:: ---sign=(true|false|if-asked):: +--signed=(true|false|if-asked):: GPG-sign the push request to update refs on the receiving side, to allow it to be checked by the hooks and/or be logged. If `false` or `--no-signed`, no signing will be @@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet. will also fail if the actual call to `gpg --sign` fails. See linkgit:git-receive-pack[1] for the details on the receiving end. +--push-option=<string>:: + Pass the specified string as a push option for consumption by + hooks on the server side. If the server doesn't support push + options, error out. See linkgit:git-push[1] and + linkgit:githooks[5] for details. + <host>:: A remote host to house the repository. When this part is specified, 'git-receive-pack' is invoked via @@ -93,7 +99,7 @@ be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet. The remote refs to update. -Specifying the Refs +SPECIFYING THE REFS ------------------- There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the diff --git a/Documentation/git-shell.txt b/Documentation/git-shell.txt index 54cf2560be..11361f33e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-shell.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-shell.txt @@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ permissions. If a `no-interactive-login` command exists, then it is run and the interactive shell is aborted. -EXAMPLE -------- +EXAMPLES +-------- To disable interactive logins, displaying a greeting instead: diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt index 31af7f2736..bc80905a8a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ git-shortlog - Summarize 'git log' output SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] +'git shortlog' [<options>] [<revision range>] [[--] <path>...] git log --pretty=short | 'git shortlog' [<options>] -'git shortlog' [<options>] [<revision range>] [[\--] <path>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ OPTIONS Each pretty-printed commit will be rewrapped before it is shown. +-c:: +--committer:: + Collect and show committer identities instead of authors. + -w[<width>[,<indent1>[,<indent2>]]]:: Linewrap the output by wrapping each line at `width`. The first line of each entry is indented by `indent1` spaces, and the second @@ -65,11 +69,11 @@ them. ways to spell <revision range>, see the "Specifying Ranges" section of linkgit:gitrevisions[7]. -[\--] <path>...:: +[--] <path>...:: Consider only commits that are enough to explain how the files that match the specified paths came to be. + -Paths may need to be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from +Paths may need to be prefixed with `--` to separate them from options or the revision range, when confusion arises. MAPPING AUTHORS diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt index 7818e0f098..262db049d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt @@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ The "fixes" branch adds one commit "Introduce "reset type" flag to The current branch is "master". -EXAMPLE -------- +EXAMPLES +-------- If you keep your primary branches immediately under `refs/heads`, and topic branches in subdirectories of diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-index.txt b/Documentation/git-show-index.txt index a8a9509e0e..424e4ba84c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-index.txt @@ -14,13 +14,27 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Read the idx file for a Git packfile created with -'git pack-objects' command from the standard input, and -dump its contents. +Read the `.idx` file for a Git packfile (created with +linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] or linkgit:git-index-pack[1]) from the +standard input, and dump its contents. The output consists of one object +per line, with each line containing two or three space-separated +columns: -The information it outputs is subset of what you can get from -'git verify-pack -v'; this command only shows the packfile -offset and SHA-1 of each object. + - the first column is the offset in bytes of the object within the + corresponding packfile + + - the second column is the object id of the object + + - if the index version is 2 or higher, the third column contains the + CRC32 of the object data + +The objects are output in the order in which they are found in the index +file, which should be (in a correctly constructed file) sorted by object +id. + +Note that you can get more information on a packfile by calling +linkgit:git-verify-pack[1]. However, as this command considers only the +index file itself, it's both faster and more flexible. GIT --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt index c0aa871c9e..d28e6154c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt @@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ $ git show-ref --heads --hash ... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -EXAMPLE -------- +EXAMPLES +-------- To show all references called "master", whether tags or heads or anything else, and regardless of how deep in the reference naming hierarchy they are, diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt index 82a4125a2d..fcf528c1b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-show - Show various types of objects SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git show' [options] <object>... +'git show' [<options>] [<object>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ This manual page describes only the most frequently used options. OPTIONS ------- <object>...:: - The names of objects to show. + The names of objects to show (defaults to 'HEAD'). For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7]. @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ EXAMPLES Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head of the branch `master`. -Discussion +DISCUSSION ---------- include::i18n.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-stash.txt b/Documentation/git-stash.txt index 2e9cef06e6..7ef8c47911 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-stash.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-stash.txt @@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git stash' drop [-q|--quiet] [<stash>] 'git stash' ( pop | apply ) [--index] [-q|--quiet] [<stash>] 'git stash' branch <branchname> [<stash>] -'git stash' [save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-q|--quiet] - [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [<message>]] +'git stash' [push [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-q|--quiet] + [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-m|--message <message>] + [--] [<pathspec>...]] 'git stash' clear 'git stash' create [<message>] 'git stash' store [-m|--message <message>] [-q|--quiet] <commit> @@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ and reverts the working directory to match the `HEAD` commit. The modifications stashed away by this command can be listed with `git stash list`, inspected with `git stash show`, and restored (potentially on top of a different commit) with `git stash apply`. -Calling `git stash` without any arguments is equivalent to `git stash save`. +Calling `git stash` without any arguments is equivalent to `git stash push`. A stash is by default listed as "WIP on 'branchname' ...", but you can give a more descriptive message on the command line when you create one. @@ -45,14 +46,24 @@ stash index (e.g. the integer `n` is equivalent to `stash@{n}`). OPTIONS ------- -save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-q|--quiet] [<message>]:: +push [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-q|--quiet] [-m|--message <message>] [--] [<pathspec>...]:: - Save your local modifications to a new 'stash', and run `git reset - --hard` to revert them. The <message> part is optional and gives - the description along with the stashed state. For quickly making - a snapshot, you can omit _both_ "save" and <message>, but giving - only <message> does not trigger this action to prevent a misspelled - subcommand from making an unwanted stash. + Save your local modifications to a new 'stash entry' and roll them + back to HEAD (in the working tree and in the index). + The <message> part is optional and gives + the description along with the stashed state. ++ +For quickly making a snapshot, you can omit "push". In this mode, +non-option arguments are not allowed to prevent a misspelled +subcommand from making an unwanted stash entry. The two exceptions to this +are `stash -p` which acts as alias for `stash push -p` and pathspecs, +which are allowed after a double hyphen `--` for disambiguation. ++ +When pathspec is given to 'git stash push', the new stash entry records the +modified states only for the files that match the pathspec. The index +entries and working tree files are then rolled back to the state in +HEAD only for these files, too, leaving files that do not match the +pathspec intact. + If the `--keep-index` option is used, all changes already added to the index are left intact. @@ -73,12 +84,18 @@ linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode. The `--patch` option implies `--keep-index`. You can use `--no-keep-index` to override this. +save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-q|--quiet] [<message>]:: + + This option is deprecated in favour of 'git stash push'. It + differs from "stash push" in that it cannot take pathspecs, + and any non-option arguments form the message. + list [<options>]:: - List the stashes that you currently have. Each 'stash' is listed - with its name (e.g. `stash@{0}` is the latest stash, `stash@{1}` is + List the stash entries that you currently have. Each 'stash entry' is + listed with its name (e.g. `stash@{0}` is the latest entry, `stash@{1}` is the one before, etc.), the name of the branch that was current when the - stash was made, and a short description of the commit the stash was + entry was made, and a short description of the commit the entry was based on. + ---------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -91,11 +108,12 @@ command to control what is shown and how. See linkgit:git-log[1]. show [<stash>]:: - Show the changes recorded in the stash as a diff between the - stashed state and its original parent. When no `<stash>` is given, - shows the latest one. By default, the command shows the diffstat, but - it will accept any format known to 'git diff' (e.g., `git stash show - -p stash@{1}` to view the second most recent stash in patch form). + Show the changes recorded in the stash entry as a diff between the + stashed contents and the commit back when the stash entry was first + created. When no `<stash>` is given, it shows the latest one. + By default, the command shows the diffstat, but it will accept any + format known to 'git diff' (e.g., `git stash show -p stash@{1}` + to view the second most recent entry in patch form). You can use stash.showStat and/or stash.showPatch config variables to change the default behavior. @@ -103,7 +121,7 @@ pop [--index] [-q|--quiet] [<stash>]:: Remove a single stashed state from the stash list and apply it on top of the current working tree state, i.e., do the inverse - operation of `git stash save`. The working directory must + operation of `git stash push`. The working directory must match the index. + Applying the state can fail with conflicts; in this case, it is not @@ -122,7 +140,7 @@ apply [--index] [-q|--quiet] [<stash>]:: Like `pop`, but do not remove the state from the stash list. Unlike `pop`, `<stash>` may be any commit that looks like a commit created by - `stash save` or `stash create`. + `stash push` or `stash create`. branch <branchname> [<stash>]:: @@ -133,45 +151,46 @@ branch <branchname> [<stash>]:: `stash@{<revision>}`, it then drops the `<stash>`. When no `<stash>` is given, applies the latest one. + -This is useful if the branch on which you ran `git stash save` has +This is useful if the branch on which you ran `git stash push` has changed enough that `git stash apply` fails due to conflicts. Since -the stash is applied on top of the commit that was HEAD at the time -`git stash` was run, it restores the originally stashed state with -no conflicts. +the stash entry is applied on top of the commit that was HEAD at the +time `git stash` was run, it restores the originally stashed state +with no conflicts. clear:: - Remove all the stashed states. Note that those states will then + Remove all the stash entries. Note that those entries will then be subject to pruning, and may be impossible to recover (see 'Examples' below for a possible strategy). drop [-q|--quiet] [<stash>]:: - Remove a single stashed state from the stash list. When no `<stash>` - is given, it removes the latest one. i.e. `stash@{0}`, otherwise - `<stash>` must be a valid stash log reference of the form - `stash@{<revision>}`. + Remove a single stash entry from the list of stash entries. + When no `<stash>` is given, it removes the latest one. + i.e. `stash@{0}`, otherwise `<stash>` must be a valid stash + log reference of the form `stash@{<revision>}`. create:: - Create a stash (which is a regular commit object) and return its - object name, without storing it anywhere in the ref namespace. + Create a stash entry (which is a regular commit object) and + return its object name, without storing it anywhere in the ref + namespace. This is intended to be useful for scripts. It is probably not - the command you want to use; see "save" above. + the command you want to use; see "push" above. store:: Store a given stash created via 'git stash create' (which is a dangling merge commit) in the stash ref, updating the stash reflog. This is intended to be useful for scripts. It is - probably not the command you want to use; see "save" above. + probably not the command you want to use; see "push" above. DISCUSSION ---------- -A stash is represented as a commit whose tree records the state of the -working directory, and its first parent is the commit at `HEAD` when -the stash was created. The tree of the second parent records the -state of the index when the stash is made, and it is made a child of +A stash entry is represented as a commit whose tree records the state +of the working directory, and its first parent is the commit at `HEAD` +when the entry was created. The tree of the second parent records the +state of the index when the entry is made, and it is made a child of the `HEAD` commit. The ancestry graph looks like this: .----W @@ -239,14 +258,14 @@ $ git stash pop Testing partial commits:: -You can use `git stash save --keep-index` when you want to make two or +You can use `git stash push --keep-index` when you want to make two or more commits out of the changes in the work tree, and you want to test each change before committing: + ---------------------------------------------------------------- # ... hack hack hack ... $ git add --patch foo # add just first part to the index -$ git stash save --keep-index # save all other changes to the stash +$ git stash push --keep-index # save all other changes to the stash $ edit/build/test first part $ git commit -m 'First part' # commit fully tested change $ git stash pop # prepare to work on all other changes @@ -255,12 +274,12 @@ $ edit/build/test remaining parts $ git commit foo -m 'Remaining parts' ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Recovering stashes that were cleared/dropped erroneously:: +Recovering stash entries that were cleared/dropped erroneously:: -If you mistakenly drop or clear stashes, they cannot be recovered +If you mistakenly drop or clear stash entries, they cannot be recovered through the normal safety mechanisms. However, you can try the -following incantation to get a list of stashes that are still in your -repository, but not reachable any more: +following incantation to get a list of stash entries that are still in +your repository, but not reachable any more: + ---------------------------------------------------------------- git fsck --unreachable | diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index 725065ef2d..c4467ffb98 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ OPTIONS --branch:: Show the branch and tracking info even in short-format. +--show-stash:: + Show the number of entries currently stashed away. + --porcelain[=<version>]:: Give the output in an easy-to-parse format for scripts. This is similar to the short output, but will remain stable @@ -94,8 +97,27 @@ configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1]. (and suppresses the output of submodule summaries when the config option `status.submoduleSummary` is set). ---ignored:: +--ignored[=<mode>]:: Show ignored files as well. ++ +The mode parameter is used to specify the handling of ignored files. +It is optional: it defaults to 'traditional'. ++ +The possible options are: ++ + - 'traditional' - Shows ignored files and directories, unless + --untracked-files=all is specifed, in which case + individual files in ignored directories are + displayed. + - 'no' - Show no ignored files. + - 'matching' - Shows ignored files and directories matching an + ignore pattern. ++ +When 'matching' mode is specified, paths that explicitly match an +ignored pattern are shown. If a directory matches an ignore pattern, +then it is shown, but not paths contained in the ignored directory. If +a directory does not match an ignore pattern, but all contents are +ignored, then the directory is not shown, but all contents are shown. -z:: Terminate entries with NUL, instead of LF. This implies @@ -108,6 +130,23 @@ configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1]. without options are equivalent to 'always' and 'never' respectively. +--ahead-behind:: +--no-ahead-behind:: + Display or do not display detailed ahead/behind counts for the + branch relative to its upstream branch. Defaults to true. + +--renames:: +--no-renames:: + Turn on/off rename detection regardless of user configuration. + See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--no-renames`. + +--find-renames[=<n>]:: + Turn on rename detection, optionally setting the similarity + threshold. + See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--find-renames`. + +<pathspec>...:: + See the 'pathspec' entry in linkgit:gitglossary[7]. OUTPUT ------ @@ -125,14 +164,15 @@ the status.relativePaths config option below. Short Format ~~~~~~~~~~~~ -In the short-format, the status of each path is shown as +In the short-format, the status of each path is shown as one of these +forms - XY PATH1 -> PATH2 + XY PATH + XY ORIG_PATH -> PATH -where `PATH1` is the path in the `HEAD`, and the " `-> PATH2`" part is -shown only when `PATH1` corresponds to a different path in the -index/worktree (i.e. the file is renamed). The `XY` is a two-letter -status code. +where `ORIG_PATH` is where the renamed/copied contents came +from. `ORIG_PATH` is only shown when the entry is renamed or +copied. The `XY` is a two-letter status code. The fields (including the `->`) are separated from each other by a single space. If a filename contains whitespace or other nonprintable @@ -159,15 +199,17 @@ in which case `XY` are `!!`. X Y Meaning ------------------------------------------------- - [MD] not updated + [AMD] not updated M [ MD] updated in index A [ MD] added to index - D [ M] deleted from index + D deleted from index R [ MD] renamed in index C [ MD] copied in index [MARC] index and work tree matches [ MARC] M work tree changed since index [ MARC] D deleted in work tree + [ D] R renamed in work tree + [ D] C copied in work tree ------------------------------------------------- D D unmerged, both deleted A U unmerged, added by us @@ -181,6 +223,17 @@ in which case `XY` are `!!`. ! ! ignored ------------------------------------------------- +Submodules have more state and instead report + M the submodule has a different HEAD than + recorded in the index + m the submodule has modified content + ? the submodule has untracked files +since modified content or untracked files in a submodule cannot be added +via `git add` in the superproject to prepare a commit. + +'m' and '?' are applied recursively. For example if a nested submodule +in a submodule contains an untracked file, this is reported as '?' as well. + If -b is used the short-format status is preceded by a line ## branchname tracking info @@ -210,6 +263,8 @@ field from the first filename). Third, filenames containing special characters are not specially formatted; no quoting or backslash-escaping is performed. +Any submodule changes are reported as modified `M` instead of `m` or single `?`. + Porcelain Format Version 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -272,13 +327,13 @@ Renamed or copied entries have the following format: of similarity between the source and target of the move or copy). For example "R100" or "C75". <path> The pathname. In a renamed/copied entry, this - is the path in the index and in the working tree. + is the target path. <sep> When the `-z` option is used, the 2 pathnames are separated with a NUL (ASCII 0x00) byte; otherwise, a tab (ASCII 0x09) byte separates them. - <origPath> The pathname in the commit at HEAD. This is only - present in a renamed/copied entry, and tells - where the renamed/copied contents came from. + <origPath> The pathname in the commit at HEAD or in the index. + This is only present in a renamed/copied entry, and + tells where the renamed/copied contents came from. -------------------------------------------------------- Unmerged entries have the following format; the first character is @@ -322,10 +377,9 @@ When the `-z` option is given, pathnames are printed as is and without any quoting and lines are terminated with a NUL (ASCII 0x00) byte. -Otherwise, all pathnames will be "C-quoted" if they contain any tab, -linefeed, double quote, or backslash characters. In C-quoting, these -characters will be replaced with the corresponding C-style escape -sequences and the resulting pathname will be double quoted. +Without the `-z` option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are +quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath` +(see linkgit:git-config[1]). CONFIGURATION @@ -351,6 +405,19 @@ ignored submodules you can either use the --ignore-submodules=dirty command line option or the 'git submodule summary' command, which shows a similar output but does not honor these settings. +BACKGROUND REFRESH +------------------ + +By default, `git status` will automatically refresh the index, updating +the cached stat information from the working tree and writing out the +result. Writing out the updated index is an optimization that isn't +strictly necessary (`status` computes the values for itself, but writing +them out is just to save subsequent programs from repeating our +computation). When `status` is run in the background, the lock held +during the write may conflict with other simultaneous processes, causing +them to fail. Scripts running `status` in the background should consider +using `git --no-optional-locks status` (see linkgit:git[1] for details). + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:gitignore[5] diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index d841573475..ba3c4df550 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -9,106 +9,69 @@ git-submodule - Initialize, update or inspect submodules SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git submodule' [--quiet] add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>] - [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--] <repository> [<path>] +'git submodule' [--quiet] add [<options>] [--] <repository> [<path>] 'git submodule' [--quiet] status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...] 'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...] 'git submodule' [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] (--all|[--] <path>...) -'git submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch] - [--[no-]recommend-shallow] [-f|--force] [--rebase|--merge] - [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--recursive] - [--jobs <n>] [--] [<path>...] -'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [--cached|--files] [(-n|--summary-limit) <n>] - [commit] [--] [<path>...] +'git submodule' [--quiet] update [<options>] [--] [<path>...] +'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [<options>] [--] [<path>...] 'git submodule' [--quiet] foreach [--recursive] <command> 'git submodule' [--quiet] sync [--recursive] [--] [<path>...] +'git submodule' [--quiet] absorbgitdirs [--] [<path>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- Inspects, updates and manages submodules. -A submodule allows you to keep another Git repository in a subdirectory -of your repository. The other repository has its own history, which does not -interfere with the history of the current repository. This can be used to -have external dependencies such as third party libraries for example. - -When cloning or pulling a repository containing submodules however, -these will not be checked out by default; the 'init' and 'update' -subcommands will maintain submodules checked out and at -appropriate revision in your working tree. - -Submodules are composed from a so-called `gitlink` tree entry -in the main repository that refers to a particular commit object -within the inner repository that is completely separate. -A record in the `.gitmodules` (see linkgit:gitmodules[5]) file at the -root of the source tree assigns a logical name to the submodule and -describes the default URL the submodule shall be cloned from. -The logical name can be used for overriding this URL within your -local repository configuration (see 'submodule init'). - -Submodules are not to be confused with remotes, which are other -repositories of the same project; submodules are meant for -different projects you would like to make part of your source tree, -while the history of the two projects still stays completely -independent and you cannot modify the contents of the submodule -from within the main project. -If you want to merge the project histories and want to treat the -aggregated whole as a single project from then on, you may want to -add a remote for the other project and use the 'subtree' merge strategy, -instead of treating the other project as a submodule. Directories -that come from both projects can be cloned and checked out as a whole -if you choose to go that route. +For more information about submodules, see linkgit:gitsubmodules[7]. COMMANDS -------- -add:: +add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>] [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--] <repository> [<path>]:: Add the given repository as a submodule at the given path to the changeset to be committed next to the current project: the current project is termed the "superproject". + -This requires at least one argument: <repository>. The optional -argument <path> is the relative location for the cloned submodule -to exist in the superproject. If <path> is not given, the -"humanish" part of the source repository is used ("repo" for -"/path/to/repo.git" and "foo" for "host.xz:foo/.git"). -The <path> is also used as the submodule's logical name in its -configuration entries unless `--name` is used to specify a logical name. -+ <repository> is the URL of the new submodule's origin repository. This may be either an absolute URL, or (if it begins with ./ -or ../), the location relative to the superproject's origin +or ../), the location relative to the superproject's default remote repository (Please note that to specify a repository 'foo.git' which is located right next to a superproject 'bar.git', you'll have to use '../foo.git' instead of './foo.git' - as one might expect when following the rules for relative URLs - because the evaluation of relative URLs in Git is identical to that of relative directories). -If the superproject doesn't have an origin configured ++ +The default remote is the remote of the remote-tracking branch +of the current branch. If no such remote-tracking branch exists or +the HEAD is detached, "origin" is assumed to be the default remote. +If the superproject doesn't have a default remote configured the superproject is its own authoritative upstream and the current working directory is used instead. + -<path> is the relative location for the cloned submodule to -exist in the superproject. If <path> does not exist, then the -submodule is created by cloning from the named URL. If <path> does -exist and is already a valid Git repository, then this is added -to the changeset without cloning. This second form is provided -to ease creating a new submodule from scratch, and presumes -the user will later push the submodule to the given URL. +The optional argument <path> is the relative location for the cloned +submodule to exist in the superproject. If <path> is not given, the +canonical part of the source repository is used ("repo" for +"/path/to/repo.git" and "foo" for "host.xz:foo/.git"). If <path> +exists and is already a valid Git repository, then it is staged +for commit without cloning. The <path> is also used as the submodule's +logical name in its configuration entries unless `--name` is used +to specify a logical name. + -In either case, the given URL is recorded into .gitmodules for -use by subsequent users cloning the superproject. If the URL is -given relative to the superproject's repository, the presumption -is the superproject and submodule repositories will be kept -together in the same relative location, and only the -superproject's URL needs to be provided: git-submodule will correctly -locate the submodule using the relative URL in .gitmodules. - -status:: +The given URL is recorded into `.gitmodules` for use by subsequent users +cloning the superproject. If the URL is given relative to the +superproject's repository, the presumption is the superproject and +submodule repositories will be kept together in the same relative +location, and only the superproject's URL needs to be provided. +git-submodule will correctly locate the submodule using the relative +URL in `.gitmodules`. + +status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]:: Show the status of the submodules. This will print the SHA-1 of the currently checked out commit for each submodule, along with the submodule path and the output of 'git describe' for the - SHA-1. Each SHA-1 will be prefixed with `-` if the submodule is not - initialized, `+` if the currently checked out submodule commit + SHA-1. Each SHA-1 will possibly be prefixed with `-` if the submodule is + not initialized, `+` if the currently checked out submodule commit does not match the SHA-1 found in the index of the containing repository and `U` if the submodule has merge conflicts. + @@ -120,84 +83,92 @@ submodules with respect to the commit recorded in the index or the HEAD, linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-diff[1] will provide that information too (and can also report changes to a submodule's work tree). -init:: +init [--] [<path>...]:: Initialize the submodules recorded in the index (which were - added and committed elsewhere) by copying submodule - names and urls from .gitmodules to .git/config. - Optional <path> arguments limit which submodules will be initialized. - It will also copy the value of `submodule.$name.update` into - .git/config. - The key used in .git/config is `submodule.$name.url`. - This command does not alter existing information in .git/config. - You can then customize the submodule clone URLs in .git/config - for your local setup and proceed to `git submodule update`; - you can also just use `git submodule update --init` without - the explicit 'init' step if you do not intend to customize - any submodule locations. - -deinit:: + added and committed elsewhere) by setting `submodule.$name.url` + in .git/config. It uses the same setting from `.gitmodules` as + a template. If the URL is relative, it will be resolved using + the default remote. If there is no default remote, the current + repository will be assumed to be upstream. ++ +Optional <path> arguments limit which submodules will be initialized. +If no path is specified and submodule.active has been configured, submodules +configured to be active will be initialized, otherwise all submodules are +initialized. ++ +When present, it will also copy the value of `submodule.$name.update`. +This command does not alter existing information in .git/config. +You can then customize the submodule clone URLs in .git/config +for your local setup and proceed to `git submodule update`; +you can also just use `git submodule update --init` without +the explicit 'init' step if you do not intend to customize +any submodule locations. ++ +See the add subcommand for the definition of default remote. + +deinit [-f|--force] (--all|[--] <path>...):: Unregister the given submodules, i.e. remove the whole `submodule.$name` section from .git/config together with their work tree. Further calls to `git submodule update`, `git submodule foreach` and `git submodule sync` will skip any unregistered submodules until they are initialized again, so use this command if you don't want to - have a local checkout of the submodule in your working tree anymore. If - you really want to remove a submodule from the repository and commit - that use linkgit:git-rm[1] instead. + have a local checkout of the submodule in your working tree anymore. + When the command is run without pathspec, it errors out, instead of deinit-ing everything, to prevent mistakes. + If `--force` is specified, the submodule's working tree will be removed even if it contains local modifications. ++ +If you really want to remove a submodule from the repository and commit +that use linkgit:git-rm[1] instead. See linkgit:gitsubmodules[7] for removal +options. -update:: +update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch] [--[no-]recommend-shallow] [-f|--force] [--checkout|--rebase|--merge] [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--recursive] [--jobs <n>] [--] [<path>...]:: + -- Update the registered submodules to match what the superproject expects by cloning missing submodules and updating the working tree of the submodules. The "updating" can be done in several ways depending on command line options and the value of `submodule.<name>.update` -configuration variable. Supported update procedures are: +configuration variable. The command line option takes precedence over +the configuration variable. If neither is given, a 'checkout' is performed. +The 'update' procedures supported both from the command line as well as +through the `submodule.<name>.update` configuration are: checkout;; the commit recorded in the superproject will be - checked out in the submodule on a detached HEAD. This is - done when `--checkout` option is given, or no option is - given, and `submodule.<name>.update` is unset, or if it is - set to 'checkout'. + checked out in the submodule on a detached HEAD. + If `--force` is specified, the submodule will be checked out (using -`git checkout --force` if appropriate), even if the commit specified +`git checkout --force`), even if the commit specified in the index of the containing repository already matches the commit checked out in the submodule. rebase;; the current branch of the submodule will be rebased - onto the commit recorded in the superproject. This is done - when `--rebase` option is given, or no option is given, and - `submodule.<name>.update` is set to 'rebase'. + onto the commit recorded in the superproject. merge;; the commit recorded in the superproject will be merged - into the current branch in the submodule. This is done - when `--merge` option is given, or no option is given, and - `submodule.<name>.update` is set to 'merge'. + into the current branch in the submodule. + +The following 'update' procedures are only available via the +`submodule.<name>.update` configuration variable: custom command;; arbitrary shell command that takes a single argument (the sha1 of the commit recorded in the - superproject) is executed. This is done when no option is - given, and `submodule.<name>.update` has the form of - '!command'. + superproject) is executed. When `submodule.<name>.update` + is set to '!command', the remainder after the exclamation mark + is the custom command. -When no option is given and `submodule.<name>.update` is set to 'none', -the submodule is not updated. + none;; the submodule is not updated. If the submodule is not yet initialized, and you just want to use the -setting as stored in .gitmodules, you can automatically initialize the +setting as stored in `.gitmodules`, you can automatically initialize the submodule with the `--init` option. If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into the registered submodules, and update any nested submodules within. -- -summary:: +summary [--cached|--files] [(-n|--summary-limit) <n>] [commit] [--] [<path>...]:: Show commit summary between the given commit (defaults to HEAD) and working tree/index. For a submodule in question, a series of commits in the submodule between the given super project commit and the @@ -210,14 +181,19 @@ summary:: Using the `--submodule=log` option with linkgit:git-diff[1] will provide that information too. -foreach:: +foreach [--recursive] <command>:: Evaluates an arbitrary shell command in each checked out submodule. - The command has access to the variables $name, $path, $sha1 and - $toplevel: - $name is the name of the relevant submodule section in .gitmodules, - $path is the name of the submodule directory relative to the - superproject, $sha1 is the commit as recorded in the superproject, - and $toplevel is the absolute path to the top-level of the superproject. + The command has access to the variables $name, $sm_path, $displaypath, + $sha1 and $toplevel: + $name is the name of the relevant submodule section in `.gitmodules`, + $sm_path is the path of the submodule as recorded in the immediate + superproject, $displaypath contains the relative path from the + current working directory to the submodules root directory, + $sha1 is the commit as recorded in the immediate + superproject, and $toplevel is the absolute path to the top-level + of the immediate superproject. + Note that to avoid conflicts with '$PATH' on Windows, the '$path' + variable is now a deprecated synonym of '$sm_path' variable. Any submodules defined in the superproject but not checked out are ignored by this command. Unless given `--quiet`, foreach prints the name of each submodule before evaluating the command. @@ -227,30 +203,54 @@ foreach:: the processing to terminate. This can be overridden by adding '|| :' to the end of the command. + -As an example, +git submodule foreach \'echo $path {backtick}git -rev-parse HEAD{backtick}'+ will show the path and currently checked out -commit for each submodule. +As an example, the command below will show the path and currently +checked out commit for each submodule: ++ +-------------- +git submodule foreach 'echo $path `git rev-parse HEAD`' +-------------- -sync:: +sync [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]:: Synchronizes submodules' remote URL configuration setting - to the value specified in .gitmodules. It will only affect those + to the value specified in `.gitmodules`. It will only affect those submodules which already have a URL entry in .git/config (that is the case when they are initialized or freshly added). This is useful when submodule URLs change upstream and you need to update your local repositories accordingly. + -"git submodule sync" synchronizes all submodules while -"git submodule sync \-- A" synchronizes submodule "A" only. +`git submodule sync` synchronizes all submodules while +`git submodule sync -- A` synchronizes submodule "A" only. + If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into the registered submodules, and sync any nested submodules within. +absorbgitdirs:: + If a git directory of a submodule is inside the submodule, + move the git directory of the submodule into its superprojects + `$GIT_DIR/modules` path and then connect the git directory and + its working directory by setting the `core.worktree` and adding + a .git file pointing to the git directory embedded in the + superprojects git directory. ++ +A repository that was cloned independently and later added as a submodule or +old setups have the submodules git directory inside the submodule instead of +embedded into the superprojects git directory. ++ +This command is recursive by default. + OPTIONS ------- -q:: --quiet:: Only print error messages. +--progress:: + This option is only valid for add and update commands. + Progress status is reported on the standard error stream + by default when it is attached to a terminal, unless -q + is specified. This flag forces progress status even if the + standard error stream is not directed to a terminal. + --all:: This option is only valid for the deinit command. Unregister all submodules in the working tree. @@ -374,7 +374,15 @@ the submodule itself. this option will be passed to the linkgit:git-clone[1] command. + *NOTE*: Do *not* use this option unless you have read the note -for linkgit:git-clone[1]'s `--reference` and `--shared` options carefully. +for linkgit:git-clone[1]'s `--reference`, `--shared`, and `--dissociate` +options carefully. + +--dissociate:: + This option is only valid for add and update commands. These + commands sometimes need to clone a remote repository. In this case, + this option will be passed to the linkgit:git-clone[1] command. ++ +*NOTE*: see the NOTE for the `--reference` option. --recursive:: This option is only valid for foreach, update, status and sync commands. @@ -390,7 +398,7 @@ for linkgit:git-clone[1]'s `--reference` and `--shared` options carefully. --[no-]recommend-shallow:: This option is only valid for the update command. The initial clone of a submodule will use the recommended - `submodule.<name>.shallow` as provided by the .gitmodules file + `submodule.<name>.shallow` as provided by the `.gitmodules` file by default. To ignore the suggestions use `--no-recommend-shallow`. -j <n>:: @@ -406,12 +414,16 @@ for linkgit:git-clone[1]'s `--reference` and `--shared` options carefully. FILES ----- -When initializing submodules, a .gitmodules file in the top-level directory +When initializing submodules, a `.gitmodules` file in the top-level directory of the containing repository is used to find the url of each submodule. This file should be formatted in the same way as `$GIT_DIR/config`. The key to each submodule url is "submodule.$name.url". See linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details. +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:gitsubmodules[7], linkgit:gitmodules[5]. + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 9bee9b0c4c..7ea24fc942 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-svn - Bidirectional operation between a Subversion repository and Git SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git svn' <command> [options] [arguments] +'git svn' <command> [<options>] [<arguments>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ If you still want the old default, you can get it by passing `--prefix ""` on the command line (`--prefix=""` may not work if your Perl's Getopt::Long is < v2.37). +--ignore-refs=<regex>;; + When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will + be preserved as a config key. See 'fetch' for a description + of `--ignore-refs`. --ignore-paths=<regex>;; When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will be preserved as a config key. See 'fetch' for a description @@ -138,6 +142,18 @@ the same local time zone. --parent;; Fetch only from the SVN parent of the current HEAD. +--ignore-refs=<regex>;; + Ignore refs for branches or tags matching the Perl regular + expression. A "negative look-ahead assertion" like + `^refs/remotes/origin/(?!tags/wanted-tag|wanted-branch).*$` + can be used to allow only certain refs. ++ +[verse] +config key: svn-remote.<name>.ignore-refs ++ +If the ignore-refs configuration key is set, and the command-line +option is also given, both regular expressions will be used. + --ignore-paths=<regex>;; This allows one to specify a Perl regular expression that will cause skipping of all matching paths from checkout from SVN. @@ -408,7 +424,7 @@ Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log' 'set-tree':: You should consider using 'dcommit' instead of this command. Commit specified commit or tree objects to SVN. This relies on - your imported fetch data being up-to-date. This makes + your imported fetch data being up to date. This makes absolutely no attempts to do patching when committing to SVN, it simply overwrites files with those specified in the tree or commit. All merging is assumed to have taken place @@ -443,6 +459,21 @@ Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log' (URL) may be omitted if you are working from a 'git svn'-aware repository (that has been `init`-ed with 'git svn'). The -r<revision> option is required for this. ++ +The commit message is supplied either directly with the `-m` or `-F` +option, or indirectly from the tag or commit when the second tree-ish +denotes such an object, or it is requested by invoking an editor (see +`--edit` option below). + +-m <msg>;; +--message=<msg>;; + Use the given `msg` as the commit message. This option + disables the `--edit` option. + +-F <filename>;; +--file=<filename>;; + Take the commit message from the given file. This option + disables the `--edit` option. 'info':: Shows information about a file or directory similar to what @@ -604,7 +635,8 @@ config key: svn.findcopiesharder -A<filename>:: --authors-file=<filename>:: - Syntax is compatible with the file used by 'git cvsimport': + Syntax is compatible with the file used by 'git cvsimport' but + an empty email address can be supplied with '<>': + ------------------------------------------------------------------------ loginname = Joe User <user@example.com> @@ -623,8 +655,14 @@ config key: svn.authorsfile If this option is specified, for each SVN committer name that does not exist in the authors file, the given file is executed with the committer name as the first argument. The program is - expected to return a single line of the form "Name <email>", - which will be treated as if included in the authors file. + expected to return a single line of the form "Name <email>" or + "Name <>", which will be treated as if included in the authors + file. ++ +Due to historical reasons a relative 'filename' is first searched +relative to the current directory for 'init' and 'clone' and relative +to the root of the working tree for 'fetch'. If 'filename' is +not found, it is searched like any other command in '$PATH'. + [verse] config key: svn.authorsProg @@ -669,7 +707,7 @@ creating the branch or tag. config key: svn.useLogAuthor --add-author-from:: - When committing to svn from Git (as part of 'commit-diff', 'set-tree' or 'dcommit' + When committing to svn from Git (as part of 'set-tree' or 'dcommit' operations), if the existing log message doesn't already have a `From:` or `Signed-off-by:` line, append a `From:` line based on the Git commit's author string. If you use this, then `--use-log-author` diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 80019c584b..87c4288ffc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -9,13 +9,14 @@ git-tag - Create, list, delete or verify a tag object signed with GPG SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git tag' [-a | -s | -u <keyid>] [-f] [-m <msg> | -F <file>] +'git tag' [-a | -s | -u <keyid>] [-f] [-m <msg> | -F <file>] [-e] <tagname> [<commit> | <object>] 'git tag' -d <tagname>... -'git tag' [-n[<num>]] -l [--contains <commit>] [--points-at <object>] - [--column[=<options>] | --no-column] [--create-reflog] [--sort=<key>] - [--format=<format>] [--[no-]merged [<commit>]] [<pattern>...] -'git tag' -v <tagname>... +'git tag' [-n[<num>]] -l [--contains <commit>] [--no-contains <commit>] + [--points-at <object>] [--column[=<options>] | --no-column] + [--create-reflog] [--sort=<key>] [--format=<format>] + [--[no-]merged [<commit>]] [<pattern>...] +'git tag' -v [--format=<format>] <tagname>... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -33,8 +34,8 @@ in the tag message. If `-m <msg>` or `-F <file>` is given and `-a`, `-s`, and `-u <keyid>` are absent, `-a` is implied. -Otherwise just a tag reference for the SHA-1 object name of the commit object is -created (i.e. a lightweight tag). +Otherwise, a tag reference that points directly at the given object +(i.e., a lightweight tag) is created. A GnuPG signed tag object will be created when `-s` or `-u <keyid>` is used. When `-u <keyid>` is not used, the @@ -82,18 +83,24 @@ OPTIONS -n<num>:: <num> specifies how many lines from the annotation, if any, - are printed when using -l. - The default is not to print any annotation lines. - If no number is given to `-n`, only the first line is printed. - If the tag is not annotated, the commit message is displayed instead. - --l <pattern>:: ---list <pattern>:: - List tags with names that match the given pattern (or all if no - pattern is given). Running "git tag" without arguments also - lists all tags. The pattern is a shell wildcard (i.e., matched - using fnmatch(3)). Multiple patterns may be given; if any of - them matches, the tag is shown. + are printed when using -l. Implies `--list`. ++ +The default is not to print any annotation lines. +If no number is given to `-n`, only the first line is printed. +If the tag is not annotated, the commit message is displayed instead. + +-l:: +--list:: + List tags. With optional `<pattern>...`, e.g. `git tag --list + 'v-*'`, list only the tags that match the pattern(s). ++ +Running "git tag" without arguments also lists all tags. The pattern +is a shell wildcard (i.e., matched using fnmatch(3)). Multiple +patterns may be given; if any of them matches, the tag is shown. ++ +This option is implicitly supplied if any other list-like option such +as `--contains` is provided. See the documentation for each of those +options for details. --sort=<key>:: Sort based on the key given. Prefix `-` to sort in @@ -101,13 +108,22 @@ OPTIONS multiple times, in which case the last key becomes the primary key. Also supports "version:refname" or "v:refname" (tag names are treated as versions). The "version:refname" sort - order can also be affected by the - "versionsort.prereleaseSuffix" configuration variable. + order can also be affected by the "versionsort.suffix" + configuration variable. The keys supported are the same as those in `git for-each-ref`. Sort order defaults to the value configured for the `tag.sort` variable if it exists, or lexicographic order otherwise. See linkgit:git-config[1]. +--color[=<when>]: + Respect any colors specified in the `--format` option. The + `<when>` field must be one of `always`, `never`, or `auto` (if + `<when>` is absent, behave as if `always` was given). + +-i:: +--ignore-case:: + Sorting and filtering tags are case insensitive. + --column[=<options>]:: --no-column:: Display tag listing in columns. See configuration variable @@ -118,10 +134,23 @@ This option is only applicable when listing tags without annotation lines. --contains [<commit>]:: Only list tags which contain the specified commit (HEAD if not - specified). + specified). Implies `--list`. + +--no-contains [<commit>]:: + Only list tags which don't contain the specified commit (HEAD if + not specified). Implies `--list`. + +--merged [<commit>]:: + Only list tags whose commits are reachable from the specified + commit (`HEAD` if not specified), incompatible with `--no-merged`. + +--no-merged [<commit>]:: + Only list tags whose commits are not reachable from the specified + commit (`HEAD` if not specified), incompatible with `--merged`. --points-at <object>:: - Only list tags of the given object. + Only list tags of the given object (HEAD if not + specified). Implies `--list`. -m <msg>:: --message=<msg>:: @@ -138,6 +167,12 @@ This option is only applicable when listing tags without annotation lines. Implies `-a` if none of `-a`, `-s`, or `-u <keyid>` is given. +-e:: +--edit:: + The message taken from file with `-F` and command line with + `-m` are usually used as the tag message unmodified. + This option lets you further edit the message taken from these sources. + --cleanup=<mode>:: This option sets how the tag message is cleaned up. The '<mode>' can be one of 'verbatim', 'whitespace' and 'strip'. The @@ -146,7 +181,11 @@ This option is only applicable when listing tags without annotation lines. 'strip' removes both whitespace and commentary. --create-reflog:: - Create a reflog for the tag. + Create a reflog for the tag. To globally enable reflogs for tags, see + `core.logAllRefUpdates` in linkgit:git-config[1]. + The negated form `--no-create-reflog` only overrides an earlier + `--create-reflog`, but currently does not negate the setting of + `core.logAllRefUpdates`. <tagname>:: The name of the tag to create, delete, or describe. @@ -160,16 +199,11 @@ This option is only applicable when listing tags without annotation lines. Defaults to HEAD. <format>:: - A string that interpolates `%(fieldname)` from the object - pointed at by a ref being shown. The format is the same as + A string that interpolates `%(fieldname)` from a tag ref being shown + and the object it points at. The format is the same as that of linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1]. When unspecified, defaults to `%(refname:strip=2)`. ---[no-]merged [<commit>]:: - Only list tags whose tips are reachable, or not reachable - if `--no-merged` is used, from the specified commit (`HEAD` - if not specified). - CONFIGURATION ------------- By default, 'git tag' in sign-with-default mode (-s) will use your @@ -182,6 +216,9 @@ it in the repository configuration as follows: signingKey = <gpg-keyid> ------------------------------------- +`pager.tag` is only respected when listing tags, i.e., when `-l` is +used or implied. The default is to use a pager. +See linkgit:git-config[1]. DISCUSSION ---------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-tools.txt b/Documentation/git-tools.txt index 2f4ff50156..d0fec4cddd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tools.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tools.txt @@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ maintained here. These days, however, search engines fill that role much more efficiently, so this manually-maintained list has been retired. See also the `contrib/` area, and the Git wiki: -http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools +https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index 7386c93162..4e8e762e68 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -16,9 +16,11 @@ SYNOPSIS [--chmod=(+|-)x] [--[no-]assume-unchanged] [--[no-]skip-worktree] + [--[no-]fsmonitor-valid] [--ignore-submodules] [--[no-]split-index] [--[no-|test-|force-]untracked-cache] + [--[no-]fsmonitor] [--really-refresh] [--unresolve] [--again | -g] [--info-only] [--index-info] [-z] [--stdin] [--index-version <n>] @@ -111,6 +113,12 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually. set and unset the "skip-worktree" bit for the paths. See section "Skip-worktree bit" below for more information. +--[no-]fsmonitor-valid:: + When one of these flags is specified, the object name recorded + for the paths are not updated. Instead, these options + set and unset the "fsmonitor valid" bit for the paths. See + section "File System Monitor" below for more information. + -g:: --again:: Runs 'git update-index' itself on the paths whose index @@ -153,7 +161,7 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually. + Version 4 performs a simple pathname compression that reduces index size by 30%-50% on large repositories, which results in faster load -time. Version 4 is relatively young (first released in in 1.8.0 in +time. Version 4 is relatively young (first released in 1.8.0 in October 2012). Other Git implementations such as JGit and libgit2 may not support it yet. @@ -163,14 +171,16 @@ may not support it yet. --split-index:: --no-split-index:: - Enable or disable split index mode. If enabled, the index is - split into two files, $GIT_DIR/index and $GIT_DIR/sharedindex.<SHA-1>. - Changes are accumulated in $GIT_DIR/index while the shared - index file contains all index entries stays unchanged. If - split-index mode is already enabled and `--split-index` is - given again, all changes in $GIT_DIR/index are pushed back to - the shared index file. This mode is designed for very large - indexes that take a significant amount of time to read or write. + Enable or disable split index mode. If split-index mode is + already enabled and `--split-index` is given again, all + changes in $GIT_DIR/index are pushed back to the shared index + file. ++ +These options take effect whatever the value of the `core.splitIndex` +configuration variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). But a warning is +emitted when the change goes against the configured value, as the +configured value will take effect next time the index is read and this +will remove the intended effect of the option. --untracked-cache:: --no-untracked-cache:: @@ -199,6 +209,15 @@ will remove the intended effect of the option. `--untracked-cache` used to imply `--test-untracked-cache` but this option would enable the extension unconditionally. +--fsmonitor:: +--no-fsmonitor:: + Enable or disable files system monitor feature. These options + take effect whatever the value of the `core.fsmonitor` + configuration variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). But a warning + is emitted when the change goes against the configured value, as + the configured value will take effect next time the index is + read and this will remove the intended effect of the option. + \--:: Do not interpret any more arguments as options. @@ -209,10 +228,10 @@ will remove the intended effect of the option. cleaner names. The same applies to directories ending '/' and paths with '//' -Using --refresh +USING --REFRESH --------------- `--refresh` does not calculate a new sha1 file or bring the index -up-to-date for mode/content changes. But what it *does* do is to +up to date for mode/content changes. But what it *does* do is to "re-match" the stat information of a file with the index, so that you can refresh the index for a file that hasn't been changed but where the stat entry is out of date. @@ -220,7 +239,7 @@ the stat entry is out of date. For example, you'd want to do this after doing a 'git read-tree', to link up the stat index details with the proper files. -Using --cacheinfo or --info-only +USING --CACHEINFO OR --INFO-ONLY -------------------------------- `--cacheinfo` is used to register a file that is not in the current working directory. This is useful for minimum-checkout @@ -242,7 +261,7 @@ useful when the file is available, but you do not wish to update the object database. -Using --index-info +USING --INDEX-INFO ------------------ `--index-info` is a more powerful mechanism that lets you feed @@ -298,7 +317,7 @@ $ git ls-files -s ------------ -Using ``assume unchanged'' bit +USING ``ASSUME UNCHANGED'' BIT ------------------------------ Many operations in Git depend on your filesystem to have an @@ -331,7 +350,7 @@ the index (use `git update-index --really-refresh` if you want to mark them as "assume unchanged"). -Examples +EXAMPLES -------- To update and refresh only the files already checked out: @@ -368,7 +387,7 @@ M foo.c <9> now it checks with lstat(2) and finds it has been changed. -Skip-worktree bit +SKIP-WORKTREE BIT ----------------- Skip-worktree bit can be defined in one (long) sentence: When reading @@ -388,7 +407,32 @@ Although this bit looks similar to assume-unchanged bit, its goal is different from assume-unchanged bit's. Skip-worktree also takes precedence over assume-unchanged bit when both are set. -Untracked cache +SPLIT INDEX +----------- + +This mode is designed for repositories with very large indexes, and +aims at reducing the time it takes to repeatedly write these indexes. + +In this mode, the index is split into two files, $GIT_DIR/index and +$GIT_DIR/sharedindex.<SHA-1>. Changes are accumulated in +$GIT_DIR/index, the split index, while the shared index file contains +all index entries and stays unchanged. + +All changes in the split index are pushed back to the shared index +file when the number of entries in the split index reaches a level +specified by the splitIndex.maxPercentChange config variable (see +linkgit:git-config[1]). + +Each time a new shared index file is created, the old shared index +files are deleted if their modification time is older than what is +specified by the splitIndex.sharedIndexExpire config variable (see +linkgit:git-config[1]). + +To avoid deleting a shared index file that is still used, its +modification time is updated to the current time everytime a new split +index based on the shared index file is either created or read from. + +UNTRACKED CACHE --------------- This cache is meant to speed up commands that involve determining @@ -420,7 +464,61 @@ command reads the index; while when `--[no-|force-]untracked-cache` are used, the untracked cache is immediately added to or removed from the index. -Configuration +Before 2.17, the untracked cache had a bug where replacing a directory +with a symlink to another directory could cause it to incorrectly show +files tracked by git as untracked. See the "status: add a failing test +showing a core.untrackedCache bug" commit to git.git. A workaround for +that is (and this might work for other undiscovered bugs in the +future): + +---------------- +$ git -c core.untrackedCache=false status +---------------- + +This bug has also been shown to affect non-symlink cases of replacing +a directory with a file when it comes to the internal structures of +the untracked cache, but no case has been reported where this resulted in +wrong "git status" output. + +There are also cases where existing indexes written by git versions +before 2.17 will reference directories that don't exist anymore, +potentially causing many "could not open directory" warnings to be +printed on "git status". These are new warnings for existing issues +that were previously silently discarded. + +As with the bug described above the solution is to one-off do a "git +status" run with `core.untrackedCache=false` to flush out the leftover +bad data. + +FILE SYSTEM MONITOR +------------------- + +This feature is intended to speed up git operations for repos that have +large working directories. + +It enables git to work together with a file system monitor (see the +"fsmonitor-watchman" section of linkgit:githooks[5]) that can +inform it as to what files have been modified. This enables git to avoid +having to lstat() every file to find modified files. + +When used in conjunction with the untracked cache, it can further improve +performance by avoiding the cost of scanning the entire working directory +looking for new files. + +If you want to enable (or disable) this feature, it is easier to use +the `core.fsmonitor` configuration variable (see +linkgit:git-config[1]) than using the `--fsmonitor` option to +`git update-index` in each repository, especially if you want to do so +across all repositories you use, because you can set the configuration +variable in your `$HOME/.gitconfig` just once and have it affect all +repositories you touch. + +When the `core.fsmonitor` configuration variable is changed, the +file system monitor is added to or removed from the index the next time +a command reads the index. When `--[no-]fsmonitor` are used, the file +system monitor is immediately added to or removed from the index. + +CONFIGURATION ------------- The command honors `core.filemode` configuration variable. If diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt index 969bfab2ab..bc8fdfd469 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ modifications are performed. Note that while each individual <ref> is updated or deleted atomically, a concurrent reader may still see a subset of the modifications. -Logging Updates +LOGGING UPDATES --------------- If config parameter "core.logAllRefUpdates" is true and the ref is one under "refs/heads/", "refs/remotes/", "refs/notes/", or the symbolic ref HEAD; or diff --git a/Documentation/git-var.txt b/Documentation/git-var.txt index 44ff9541df..6072f936ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-var.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-var.txt @@ -23,14 +23,14 @@ OPTIONS as well. (However, the configuration variables listing functionality is deprecated in favor of `git config -l`.) -EXAMPLE +EXAMPLES -------- $ git var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com> 1121223278 -0600 VARIABLES ----------- +--------- GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT:: The author of a piece of code. diff --git a/Documentation/git-verify-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-verify-tag.txt index d590edcebd..0b8075dad9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-verify-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-verify-tag.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-verify-tag - Check the GPG signature of tags SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git verify-tag' <tag>... +'git verify-tag' [--format=<format>] <tag>... DESCRIPTION ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt index 2d6b09a43c..fd952a5ff9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-web--browse - Git helper script to launch a web browser SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git web{litdd}browse' [OPTIONS] URL/FILE ... +'git web{litdd}browse' [<options>] <url|file>... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ variable exists then 'git web{litdd}browse' will treat the specified tool as a custom command and will use a shell eval to run the command with the URLs passed as arguments. -Note about konqueror +NOTE ABOUT KONQUEROR -------------------- When 'konqueror' is specified by a command-line option or a diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt index e257c19ebe..afc6576a14 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt @@ -9,10 +9,12 @@ git-worktree - Manage multiple working trees SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git worktree add' [-f] [--detach] [--checkout] [-b <new-branch>] <path> [<branch>] +'git worktree add' [-f] [--detach] [--checkout] [--lock] [-b <new-branch>] <path> [<commit-ish>] 'git worktree list' [--porcelain] 'git worktree lock' [--reason <string>] <worktree> +'git worktree move' <worktree> <new-path> 'git worktree prune' [-n] [-v] [--expire <expire>] +'git worktree remove' [-f] <worktree> 'git worktree unlock' <worktree> DESCRIPTION @@ -25,19 +27,16 @@ out more than one branch at a time. With `git worktree add` a new working tree is associated with the repository. This new working tree is called a "linked working tree" as opposed to the "main working tree" prepared by "git init" or "git clone". A repository has one main working tree (if it's not a -bare repository) and zero or more linked working trees. +bare repository) and zero or more linked working trees. When you are done +with a linked working tree, remove it with `git worktree remove`. -When you are done with a linked working tree you can simply delete it. -The working tree's administrative files in the repository (see -"DETAILS" below) will eventually be removed automatically (see +If a working tree is deleted without using `git worktree remove`, then +its associated administrative files, which reside in the repository +(see "DETAILS" below), will eventually be removed automatically (see `gc.worktreePruneExpire` in linkgit:git-config[1]), or you can run `git worktree prune` in the main or any linked working tree to clean up any stale administrative files. -If you move a linked working tree, you need to manually update the -administrative files so that they do not get pruned automatically. See -section "DETAILS" for more information. - If a linked working tree is stored on a portable device or network share which is not always mounted, you can prevent its administrative files from being pruned by issuing the `git worktree lock` command, optionally @@ -45,16 +44,30 @@ specifying `--reason` to explain why the working tree is locked. COMMANDS -------- -add <path> [<branch>]:: +add <path> [<commit-ish>]:: -Create `<path>` and checkout `<branch>` into it. The new working directory +Create `<path>` and checkout `<commit-ish>` into it. The new working directory is linked to the current repository, sharing everything except working directory specific files such as HEAD, index, etc. `-` may also be -specified as `<branch>`; it is synonymous with `@{-1}`. +specified as `<commit-ish>`; it is synonymous with `@{-1}`. ++ +If <commit-ish> is a branch name (call it `<branch>`) and is not found, +and neither `-b` nor `-B` nor `--detach` are used, but there does +exist a tracking branch in exactly one remote (call it `<remote>`) +with a matching name, treat as equivalent to: ++ +------------ +$ git worktree add --track -b <branch> <path> <remote>/<branch> +------------ + -If `<branch>` is omitted and neither `-b` nor `-B` nor `--detached` used, -then, as a convenience, a new branch based at HEAD is created automatically, -as if `-b $(basename <path>)` was specified. +If `<commit-ish>` is omitted and neither `-b` nor `-B` nor `--detach` used, +then, as a convenience, the new worktree is associated with a branch +(call it `<branch>`) named after `$(basename <path>)`. If `<branch>` +doesn't exist, a new branch based on HEAD is automatically created as +if `-b <branch>` was given. If `<branch>` does exist, it will be +checked out in the new worktree, if it's not checked out anywhere +else, otherwise the command will refuse to create the worktree (unless +`--force` is used). list:: @@ -71,10 +84,22 @@ files from being pruned automatically. This also prevents it from being moved or deleted. Optionally, specify a reason for the lock with `--reason`. +move:: + +Move a working tree to a new location. Note that the main working tree +or linked working trees containing submodules cannot be moved. + prune:: Prune working tree information in $GIT_DIR/worktrees. +remove:: + +Remove a working tree. Only clean working trees (no untracked files +and no modification in tracked files) can be removed. Unclean working +trees or ones with submodules can be removed with `--force`. The main +working tree cannot be removed. + unlock:: Unlock a working tree, allowing it to be pruned, moved or deleted. @@ -84,29 +109,51 @@ OPTIONS -f:: --force:: - By default, `add` refuses to create a new working tree when `<branch>` - is already checked out by another working tree. This option overrides - that safeguard. + By default, `add` refuses to create a new working tree when + `<commit-ish>` is a branch name and is already checked out by + another working tree and `remove` refuses to remove an unclean + working tree. This option overrides these safeguards. -b <new-branch>:: -B <new-branch>:: With `add`, create a new branch named `<new-branch>` starting at - `<branch>`, and check out `<new-branch>` into the new working tree. - If `<branch>` is omitted, it defaults to HEAD. + `<commit-ish>`, and check out `<new-branch>` into the new working tree. + If `<commit-ish>` is omitted, it defaults to HEAD. By default, `-b` refuses to create a new branch if it already exists. `-B` overrides this safeguard, resetting `<new-branch>` to - `<branch>`. + `<commit-ish>`. --detach:: With `add`, detach HEAD in the new working tree. See "DETACHED HEAD" in linkgit:git-checkout[1]. --[no-]checkout:: - By default, `add` checks out `<branch>`, however, `--no-checkout` can + By default, `add` checks out `<commit-ish>`, however, `--no-checkout` can be used to suppress checkout in order to make customizations, such as configuring sparse-checkout. See "Sparse checkout" in linkgit:git-read-tree[1]. +--[no-]guess-remote:: + With `worktree add <path>`, without `<commit-ish>`, instead + of creating a new branch from HEAD, if there exists a tracking + branch in exactly one remote matching the basename of `<path>`, + base the new branch on the remote-tracking branch, and mark + the remote-tracking branch as "upstream" from the new branch. ++ +This can also be set up as the default behaviour by using the +`worktree.guessRemote` config option. + +--[no-]track:: + When creating a new branch, if `<commit-ish>` is a branch, + mark it as "upstream" from the new branch. This is the + default if `<commit-ish>` is a remote-tracking branch. See + "--track" in linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. + +--lock:: + Keep the working tree locked after creation. This is the + equivalent of `git worktree lock` after `git worktree add`, + but without race condition. + -n:: --dry-run:: With `prune`, do not remove anything; just report what it would @@ -167,7 +214,7 @@ thumb is do not make any assumption about whether a path belongs to $GIT_DIR or $GIT_COMMON_DIR when you need to directly access something inside $GIT_DIR. Use `git rev-parse --git-path` to get the final path. -If you move a linked working tree, you need to update the 'gitdir' file +If you manually move a linked working tree, you need to update the 'gitdir' file in the entry's directory. For example, if a linked working tree is moved to `/newpath/test-next` and its `.git` file points to `/path/main/.git/worktrees/test-next`, then update @@ -191,7 +238,7 @@ The worktree list command has two output formats. The default format shows the details on a single line with columns. For example: ------------ -S git worktree list +$ git worktree list /path/to/bare-source (bare) /path/to/linked-worktree abcd1234 [master] /path/to/other-linked-worktree 1234abc (detached HEAD) @@ -206,7 +253,7 @@ if the value is true. An empty line indicates the end of a worktree. For example: ------------ -S git worktree list --porcelain +$ git worktree list --porcelain worktree /path/to/bare-source bare @@ -237,8 +284,7 @@ $ pushd ../temp # ... hack hack hack ... $ git commit -a -m 'emergency fix for boss' $ popd -$ rm -rf ../temp -$ git worktree prune +$ git worktree remove ../temp ------------ BUGS @@ -247,13 +293,6 @@ Multiple checkout in general is still experimental, and the support for submodules is incomplete. It is NOT recommended to make multiple checkouts of a superproject. -git-worktree could provide more automation for tasks currently -performed manually, such as: - -- `remove` to remove a linked working tree and its administrative files (and - warn if the working tree is dirty) -- `mv` to move or rename a working tree and update its administrative files - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index cc215361f1..dba7f0c18e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git' [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c <name>=<value>] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path] - [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare] + [-p|--paginate|-P|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare] [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>] [--super-prefix=<path>] <command> [<args>] @@ -35,502 +35,6 @@ manual page gives you an overview of the command-line command syntax. 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Including the equals but with an empty value (like `git -c -foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string. +foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string which `git config +--bool` will convert to `false`. --exec-path[=<path>]:: Path to wherever your core Git programs are installed. @@ -598,6 +103,7 @@ foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string. configuration options (see the "Configuration Mechanism" section below). +-P:: --no-pager:: Do not pipe Git output into a pager. @@ -654,6 +160,20 @@ foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string. Add "icase" magic to all pathspec. This is equivalent to setting the `GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS` environment variable to `1`. +--no-optional-locks:: + Do not perform optional operations that require locks. This is + equivalent to setting the `GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS` to `0`. + +--list-cmds=group[,group...]:: + List commands by group. This is an internal/experimental + option and may change or be removed in the future. Supported + groups are: builtins, parseopt (builtin commands that use + parse-options), main (all commands in libexec directory), + others (all other commands in `$PATH` that have git- prefix), + list-<category> (see categories in command-list.txt), + nohelpers (exclude helper commands), alias and config + (retrieve command list from config variable completion.commands) + GIT COMMANDS ------------ @@ -1013,11 +533,10 @@ other If either of these environment variables is set then 'git fetch' and 'git push' will use the specified command instead of 'ssh' when they need to connect to a remote system. - The command will be given exactly two or four arguments: the - 'username@host' (or just 'host') from the URL and the shell - command to execute on that remote system, optionally preceded by - `-p` (literally) and the 'port' from the URL when it specifies - something other than the default SSH port. + The command-line parameters passed to the configured command are + determined by the ssh variant. See `ssh.variant` option in + linkgit:git-config[1] for details. + + `$GIT_SSH_COMMAND` takes precedence over `$GIT_SSH`, and is interpreted by the shell, which allows additional arguments to be included. @@ -1029,6 +548,12 @@ Usually it is easier to configure any desired options through your personal `.ssh/config` file. Please consult your ssh documentation for further details. +`GIT_SSH_VARIANT`:: + If this environment variable is set, it overrides Git's autodetection + whether `GIT_SSH`/`GIT_SSH_COMMAND`/`core.sshCommand` refer to OpenSSH, + plink or tortoiseplink. This variable overrides the config setting + `ssh.variant` that serves the same purpose. + `GIT_ASKPASS`:: If this environment variable is set, then Git commands which need to acquire passwords or passphrases (e.g. for HTTP or IMAP authentication) @@ -1080,6 +605,10 @@ into it. Unsetting the variable, or setting it to empty, "0" or "false" (case insensitive) disables trace messages. +`GIT_TRACE_FSMONITOR`:: + Enables trace messages for the filesystem monitor extension. + See `GIT_TRACE` for available trace output options. + `GIT_TRACE_PACK_ACCESS`:: Enables trace messages for all accesses to any packs. For each access, the pack file name and an offset in the pack is @@ -1128,6 +657,16 @@ of clones and fetches. variable. See `GIT_TRACE` for available trace output options. +`GIT_TRACE_CURL_NO_DATA`:: + When a curl trace is enabled (see `GIT_TRACE_CURL` above), do not dump + data (that is, only dump info lines and headers). + +`GIT_REDACT_COOKIES`:: + This can be set to a comma-separated list of strings. When a curl trace + is enabled (see `GIT_TRACE_CURL` above), whenever a "Cookies:" header + sent by the client is dumped, values of cookies whose key is in that + list (case-sensitive) are redacted. + `GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS`:: Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all pathspecs literally, rather than as glob patterns. For example, @@ -1171,30 +710,61 @@ of clones and fetches. cloning a repository to make a backup). `GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL`:: - If set, provide a colon-separated list of protocols which are - allowed to be used with fetch/push/clone. This is useful to - restrict recursive submodule initialization from an untrusted - repository. Any protocol not mentioned will be disallowed (i.e., - this is a whitelist, not a blacklist). If the variable is not - set at all, all protocols are enabled. The protocol names - currently used by git are: - - - `file`: any local file-based path (including `file://` URLs, - or local paths) - - - `git`: the anonymous git protocol over a direct TCP - connection (or proxy, if configured) - - - `ssh`: git over ssh (including `host:path` syntax, - `ssh://`, etc). - - - `http`: git over http, both "smart http" and "dumb http". - Note that this does _not_ include `https`; if you want both, - you should specify both as `http:https`. - - - any external helpers are named by their protocol (e.g., use - `hg` to allow the `git-remote-hg` helper) - + If set to a colon-separated list of protocols, behave as if + `protocol.allow` is set to `never`, and each of the listed + protocols has `protocol.<name>.allow` set to `always` + (overriding any existing configuration). In other words, any + protocol not mentioned will be disallowed (i.e., this is a + whitelist, not a blacklist). See the description of + `protocol.allow` in linkgit:git-config[1] for more details. + +`GIT_PROTOCOL_FROM_USER`:: + Set to 0 to prevent protocols used by fetch/push/clone which are + configured to the `user` state. This is useful to restrict recursive + submodule initialization from an untrusted repository or for programs + which feed potentially-untrusted URLS to git commands. See + linkgit:git-config[1] for more details. + +`GIT_PROTOCOL`:: + For internal use only. Used in handshaking the wire protocol. + Contains a colon ':' separated list of keys with optional values + 'key[=value]'. Presence of unknown keys and values must be + ignored. + +`GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS`:: + If set to `0`, Git will complete any requested operation without + performing any optional sub-operations that require taking a lock. + For example, this will prevent `git status` from refreshing the + index as a side effect. This is useful for processes running in + the background which do not want to cause lock contention with + other operations on the repository. Defaults to `1`. + +`GIT_REDIRECT_STDIN`:: +`GIT_REDIRECT_STDOUT`:: +`GIT_REDIRECT_STDERR`:: + Windows-only: allow redirecting the standard input/output/error + handles to paths specified by the environment variables. This is + particularly useful in multi-threaded applications where the + canonical way to pass standard handles via `CreateProcess()` is + not an option because it would require the handles to be marked + inheritable (and consequently *every* spawned process would + inherit them, possibly blocking regular Git operations). The + primary intended use case is to use named pipes for communication + (e.g. `\\.\pipe\my-git-stdin-123`). ++ +Two special values are supported: `off` will simply close the +corresponding standard handle, and if `GIT_REDIRECT_STDERR` is +`2>&1`, standard error will be redirected to the same handle as +standard output. + +`GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS` (deprecated):: + If set to `yes`, print an ellipsis following an + (abbreviated) SHA-1 value. This affects indications of + detached HEADs (linkgit:git-checkout[1]) and the raw + diff output (linkgit:git-diff[1]). Printing an + ellipsis in the cases mentioned is no longer considered + adequate and support for it is likely to be removed in the + foreseeable future (along with the variable). Discussion[[Discussion]] ------------------------ @@ -1290,6 +860,9 @@ Report bugs to the Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org> where the development and maintenance is primarily done. You do not have to be subscribed to the list to send a message there. +Issues which are security relevant should be disclosed privately to +the Git Security mailing list <git-security@googlegroups.com>. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:gittutorial[7], linkgit:gittutorial-2[7], diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index e0b66c1220..92010b062e 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ gitattributes(5) NAME ---- -gitattributes - defining attributes per path +gitattributes - Defining attributes per path SYNOPSIS -------- @@ -21,9 +21,11 @@ Each line in `gitattributes` file is of form: pattern attr1 attr2 ... That is, a pattern followed by an attributes list, -separated by whitespaces. When the pattern matches the -path in question, the attributes listed on the line are given to -the path. +separated by whitespaces. Leading and trailing whitespaces are +ignored. Lines that begin with '#' are ignored. Patterns +that begin with a double quote are quoted in C style. +When the pattern matches the path in question, the attributes +listed on the line are given to the path. Each attribute can be in one of these states for a given path: @@ -54,9 +56,16 @@ Unspecified:: When more than one pattern matches the path, a later line overrides an earlier line. This overriding is done per -attribute. The rules how the pattern matches paths are the -same as in `.gitignore` files; see linkgit:gitignore[5]. -Unlike `.gitignore`, negative patterns are forbidden. +attribute. + +The rules by which the pattern matches paths are the same as in +`.gitignore` files (see linkgit:gitignore[5]), with a few exceptions: + + - negative patterns are forbidden + + - patterns that match a directory do not recursively match paths + inside that directory (so using the trailing-slash `path/` syntax is + pointless in an attributes file; use `path/**` instead) When deciding what attributes are assigned to a path, Git consults `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file (which has the highest @@ -86,7 +95,7 @@ is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead. Attributes for all users on a system should be placed in the `$(prefix)/etc/gitattributes` file. -Sometimes you would need to override an setting of an attribute +Sometimes you would need to override a setting of an attribute for a path to `Unspecified` state. This can be done by listing the name of the attribute prefixed with an exclamation point `!`. @@ -149,7 +158,10 @@ unspecified. This attribute sets a specific line-ending style to be used in the working directory. It enables end-of-line conversion without any -content checks, effectively setting the `text` attribute. +content checks, effectively setting the `text` attribute. Note that +setting this attribute on paths which are in the index with CRLF line +endings may make the paths to be considered dirty. Adding the path to +the index again will normalize the line endings in the index. Set to string value "crlf":: @@ -227,11 +239,8 @@ From a clean working directory: ------------------------------------------------- $ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes -$ rm .git/index # Remove the index to force Git to -$ git reset # re-scan the working directory +$ git add --renormalize . $ git status # Show files that will be normalized -$ git add -u -$ git add .gitattributes $ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization" ------------------------------------------------- @@ -270,6 +279,94 @@ few exceptions. Even though... catch potential problems early, safety triggers. +`working-tree-encoding` +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Git recognizes files encoded in ASCII or one of its supersets (e.g. +UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ...) as text files. Files encoded in certain other +encodings (e.g. UTF-16) are interpreted as binary and consequently +built-in Git text processing tools (e.g. 'git diff') as well as most Git +web front ends do not visualize the contents of these files by default. + +In these cases you can tell Git the encoding of a file in the working +directory with the `working-tree-encoding` attribute. If a file with this +attribute is added to Git, then Git reencodes the content from the +specified encoding to UTF-8. Finally, Git stores the UTF-8 encoded +content in its internal data structure (called "the index"). On checkout +the content is reencoded back to the specified encoding. + +Please note that using the `working-tree-encoding` attribute may have a +number of pitfalls: + +- Alternative Git implementations (e.g. JGit or libgit2) and older Git + versions (as of March 2018) do not support the `working-tree-encoding` + attribute. If you decide to use the `working-tree-encoding` attribute + in your repository, then it is strongly recommended to ensure that all + clients working with the repository support it. + + For example, Microsoft Visual Studio resources files (`*.rc`) or + PowerShell script files (`*.ps1`) are sometimes encoded in UTF-16. + If you declare `*.ps1` as files as UTF-16 and you add `foo.ps1` with + a `working-tree-encoding` enabled Git client, then `foo.ps1` will be + stored as UTF-8 internally. A client without `working-tree-encoding` + support will checkout `foo.ps1` as UTF-8 encoded file. This will + typically cause trouble for the users of this file. + + If a Git client, that does not support the `working-tree-encoding` + attribute, adds a new file `bar.ps1`, then `bar.ps1` will be + stored "as-is" internally (in this example probably as UTF-16). + A client with `working-tree-encoding` support will interpret the + internal contents as UTF-8 and try to convert it to UTF-16 on checkout. + That operation will fail and cause an error. + +- Reencoding content to non-UTF encodings can cause errors as the + conversion might not be UTF-8 round trip safe. If you suspect your + encoding to not be round trip safe, then add it to + `core.checkRoundtripEncoding` to make Git check the round trip + encoding (see linkgit:git-config[1]). SHIFT-JIS (Japanese character + set) is known to have round trip issues with UTF-8 and is checked by + default. + +- Reencoding content requires resources that might slow down certain + Git operations (e.g 'git checkout' or 'git add'). + +Use the `working-tree-encoding` attribute only if you cannot store a file +in UTF-8 encoding and if you want Git to be able to process the content +as text. + +As an example, use the following attributes if your '*.ps1' files are +UTF-16 encoded with byte order mark (BOM) and you want Git to perform +automatic line ending conversion based on your platform. + +------------------------ +*.ps1 text working-tree-encoding=UTF-16 +------------------------ + +Use the following attributes if your '*.ps1' files are UTF-16 little +endian encoded without BOM and you want Git to use Windows line endings +in the working directory. Please note, it is highly recommended to +explicitly define the line endings with `eol` if the `working-tree-encoding` +attribute is used to avoid ambiguity. + +------------------------ +*.ps1 text working-tree-encoding=UTF-16LE eol=CRLF +------------------------ + +You can get a list of all available encodings on your platform with the +following command: + +------------------------ +iconv --list +------------------------ + +If you do not know the encoding of a file, then you can use the `file` +command to guess the encoding: + +------------------------ +file foo.ps1 +------------------------ + + `ident` ^^^^^^^ @@ -325,6 +422,9 @@ You can declare that a filter turns a content that by itself is unusable into a usable content by setting the filter.<driver>.required configuration variable to `true`. +Note: Whenever the clean filter is changed, the repo should be renormalized: +$ git add --renormalize . + For example, in .gitattributes, you would assign the `filter` attribute for paths. @@ -387,46 +487,14 @@ Long Running Filter Process If the filter command (a string value) is defined via `filter.<driver>.process` then Git can process all blobs with a single filter invocation for the entire life of a single Git -command. This is achieved by using a packet format (pkt-line, -see technical/protocol-common.txt) based protocol over standard -input and standard output as follows. All packets, except for the -"*CONTENT" packets and the "0000" flush packet, are considered -text and therefore are terminated by a LF. - -Git starts the filter when it encounters the first file -that needs to be cleaned or smudged. After the filter started -Git sends a welcome message ("git-filter-client"), a list of supported -protocol version numbers, and a flush packet. Git expects to read a welcome -response message ("git-filter-server"), exactly one protocol version number -from the previously sent list, and a flush packet. All further -communication will be based on the selected version. The remaining -protocol description below documents "version=2". Please note that -"version=42" in the example below does not exist and is only there -to illustrate how the protocol would look like with more than one -version. - -After the version negotiation Git sends a list of all capabilities that -it supports and a flush packet. Git expects to read a list of desired -capabilities, which must be a subset of the supported capabilities list, -and a flush packet as response: ------------------------- -packet: git> git-filter-client -packet: git> version=2 -packet: git> version=42 -packet: git> 0000 -packet: git< git-filter-server -packet: git< version=2 -packet: git< 0000 -packet: git> capability=clean -packet: git> capability=smudge -packet: git> capability=not-yet-invented -packet: git> 0000 -packet: git< capability=clean -packet: git< capability=smudge -packet: git< 0000 ------------------------- -Supported filter capabilities in version 2 are "clean" and -"smudge". +command. This is achieved by using the long-running process protocol +(described in technical/long-running-process-protocol.txt). + +When Git encounters the first file that needs to be cleaned or smudged, +it starts the filter and performs the handshake. In the handshake, the +welcome message sent by Git is "git-filter-client", only version 2 is +suppported, and the supported capabilities are "clean", "smudge", and +"delay". Afterwards Git sends a list of "key=value" pairs terminated with a flush packet. The list will contain at least the filter command @@ -512,11 +580,66 @@ the protocol then Git will stop the filter process and restart it with the next file that needs to be processed. Depending on the `filter.<driver>.required` flag Git will interpret that as error. -After the filter has processed a blob it is expected to wait for -the next "key=value" list containing a command. Git will close -the command pipe on exit. The filter is expected to detect EOF -and exit gracefully on its own. Git will wait until the filter -process has stopped. +Delay +^^^^^ + +If the filter supports the "delay" capability, then Git can send the +flag "can-delay" after the filter command and pathname. This flag +denotes that the filter can delay filtering the current blob (e.g. to +compensate network latencies) by responding with no content but with +the status "delayed" and a flush packet. +------------------------ +packet: git> command=smudge +packet: git> pathname=path/testfile.dat +packet: git> can-delay=1 +packet: git> 0000 +packet: git> CONTENT +packet: git> 0000 +packet: git< status=delayed +packet: git< 0000 +------------------------ + +If the filter supports the "delay" capability then it must support the +"list_available_blobs" command. If Git sends this command, then the +filter is expected to return a list of pathnames representing blobs +that have been delayed earlier and are now available. +The list must be terminated with a flush packet followed +by a "success" status that is also terminated with a flush packet. If +no blobs for the delayed paths are available, yet, then the filter is +expected to block the response until at least one blob becomes +available. The filter can tell Git that it has no more delayed blobs +by sending an empty list. As soon as the filter responds with an empty +list, Git stops asking. All blobs that Git has not received at this +point are considered missing and will result in an error. + +------------------------ +packet: git> command=list_available_blobs +packet: git> 0000 +packet: git< pathname=path/testfile.dat +packet: git< pathname=path/otherfile.dat +packet: git< 0000 +packet: git< status=success +packet: git< 0000 +------------------------ + +After Git received the pathnames, it will request the corresponding +blobs again. These requests contain a pathname and an empty content +section. The filter is expected to respond with the smudged content +in the usual way as explained above. +------------------------ +packet: git> command=smudge +packet: git> pathname=path/testfile.dat +packet: git> 0000 +packet: git> 0000 # empty content! +packet: git< status=success +packet: git< 0000 +packet: git< SMUDGED_CONTENT +packet: git< 0000 +packet: git< 0000 # empty list, keep "status=success" unchanged! +------------------------ + +Example +^^^^^^^ A long running filter demo implementation can be found in `contrib/long-running-filter/example.pl` located in the Git @@ -686,6 +809,8 @@ patterns are available: - `fountain` suitable for Fountain documents. +- `golang` suitable for source code in the Go language. + - `html` suitable for HTML/XHTML documents. - `java` suitable for source code in the Java language. @@ -1104,8 +1229,8 @@ to: ------------ -EXAMPLE -------- +EXAMPLES +-------- If you have these three `gitattributes` file: diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt index dfe7d83727..592e06d839 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt @@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ couple of magic command-line options: + --------------------------------------------- $ git describe -h -usage: git describe [options] <commit-ish>* - or: git describe [options] --dirty +usage: git describe [<options>] <commit-ish>* + or: git describe [<options>] --dirty --contains find the tag that comes after the commit --debug debug search strategy on stderr @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ different things. * The `--index` option is used to ask a command that usually works on files in the working tree to *also* affect the index. For example, `git stash apply` usually - merges changes recorded in a stash to the working tree, + merges changes recorded in a stash entry to the working tree, but with the `--index` option, it also merges changes to the index as well. diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt index 22309cfb48..e29a9effcc 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt @@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ So after you do a `cp -a` to create a new copy, you'll want to do $ git update-index --refresh ---------------- + -in the new repository to make sure that the index file is up-to-date. +in the new repository to make sure that the index file is up to date. Note that the second point is true even across machines. You can duplicate a remote Git repository with *any* regular copy mechanism, be it @@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ $ git checkout-index -u -a ---------------- where the `-u` flag means that you want the checkout to keep the index -up-to-date (so that you don't have to refresh it afterward), and the +up to date (so that you don't have to refresh it afterward), and the `-a` flag means "check out all files" (if you have a stale copy or an older version of a checked out tree you may also need to add the `-f` flag first, to tell 'git checkout-index' to *force* overwriting of any old @@ -1283,7 +1283,7 @@ run a single command, 'git-receive-pack'. First, you need to create an empty repository on the remote machine that will house your public repository. This empty -repository will be populated and be kept up-to-date by pushing +repository will be populated and be kept up to date by pushing into it later. Obviously, this repository creation needs to be done only once. @@ -1429,7 +1429,7 @@ Although Git is a truly distributed system, it is often convenient to organize your project with an informal hierarchy of developers. Linux kernel development is run this way. There is a nice illustration (page 17, "Merges to Mainline") in -http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf[Randy Dunlap's presentation]. +https://web.archive.org/web/20120915203609/http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf[Randy Dunlap's presentation]. It should be stressed that this hierarchy is purely *informal*. There is nothing fundamental in Git that enforces the "chain of @@ -1450,7 +1450,7 @@ transport protocols (HTTP), you need to keep this repository would contain a call to 'git update-server-info' but you need to manually enable the hook with `mv post-update.sample post-update`. This makes sure -'git update-server-info' keeps the necessary files up-to-date. +'git update-server-info' keeps the necessary files up to date. 3. Push into the public repository from your primary repository. @@ -1658,4 +1658,4 @@ link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual] GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite. +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt index f3a75d1ce1..f970196bc1 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt @@ -101,16 +101,6 @@ $ git help credential-foo $ git config --global credential.helper foo ------------------------------------------- -If there are multiple instances of the `credential.helper` configuration -variable, each helper will be tried in turn, and may provide a username, -password, or nothing. Once Git has acquired both a username and a -password, no more helpers will be tried. - -If `credential.helper` is configured to the empty string, this resets -the helper list to empty (so you may override a helper set by a -lower-priority config file by configuring the empty-string helper, -followed by whatever set of helpers you would like). - CREDENTIAL CONTEXTS ------------------- @@ -162,6 +152,16 @@ helper:: shell (so, for example, setting this to `foo --option=bar` will execute `git credential-foo --option=bar` via the shell. See the manual of specific helpers for examples of their use. ++ +If there are multiple instances of the `credential.helper` configuration +variable, each helper will be tried in turn, and may provide a username, +password, or nothing. Once Git has acquired both a username and a +password, no more helpers will be tried. ++ +If `credential.helper` is configured to the empty string, this resets +the helper list to empty (so you may override a helper set by a +lower-priority config file by configuring the empty-string helper, +followed by whatever set of helpers you would like). username:: diff --git a/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt b/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt index 4c6143c511..1cd1283d0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt @@ -203,4 +203,4 @@ link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual] GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite. +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt index 08cf62278e..c0a60f3158 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt @@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ format sections of the manual for 'git diff-{asterisk}' commands) or diff-patch format. -diffcore-break: For Splitting Up "Complete Rewrites" ----------------------------------------------------- +diffcore-break: For Splitting Up Complete Rewrites +-------------------------------------------------- The second transformation in the chain is diffcore-break, and is controlled by the -B option to the 'git diff-{asterisk}' commands. This is @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ the original is used), and can be customized by giving a number after "-B" option (e.g. "-B75" to tell it to use 75%). -diffcore-rename: For Detection Renames and Copies +diffcore-rename: For Detecting Renames and Copies ------------------------------------------------- This transformation is used to detect renames and copies, and is @@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ the expense of making it slower. Without `--find-copies-harder`, copied happened to have been modified in the same changeset. -diffcore-merge-broken: For Putting "Complete Rewrites" Back Together --------------------------------------------------------------------- +diffcore-merge-broken: For Putting Complete Rewrites Back Together +------------------------------------------------------------------ This transformation is used to merge filepairs broken by diffcore-break, and not transformed into rename/copy by @@ -288,4 +288,4 @@ link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual] GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite. +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/giteveryday.txt b/Documentation/giteveryday.txt index 35473ad02f..10c8ff93c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/giteveryday.txt +++ b/Documentation/giteveryday.txt @@ -307,9 +307,16 @@ master or exposed as a part of a stable branch. <9> backport a critical fix. <10> create a signed tag. <11> make sure master was not accidentally rewound beyond that -already pushed out. `ko` shorthand points at the Git maintainer's +already pushed out. +<12> In the output from `git show-branch`, `master` should have +everything `ko/master` has, and `next` should have +everything `ko/next` has, etc. +<13> push out the bleeding edge, together with new tags that point +into the pushed history. + +In this example, the `ko` shorthand points at the Git maintainer's repository at kernel.org, and looks like this: -+ + ------------ (in .git/config) [remote "ko"] @@ -320,12 +327,6 @@ repository at kernel.org, and looks like this: push = +refs/heads/pu push = refs/heads/maint ------------ -+ -<12> In the output from `git show-branch`, `master` should have -everything `ko/master` has, and `next` should have -everything `ko/next` has, etc. -<13> push out the bleeding edge, together with new tags that point -into the pushed history. Repository Administration[[ADMINISTRATION]] diff --git a/Documentation/gitglossary.txt b/Documentation/gitglossary.txt index 212e254adc..571f640f5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitglossary.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitglossary.txt @@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual] GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite. +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt index 9565dc3fda..e3c283a174 100644 --- a/Documentation/githooks.txt +++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt @@ -22,14 +22,16 @@ changed via the `core.hooksPath` configuration variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). Before Git invokes a hook, it changes its working directory to either -the root of the working tree in a non-bare repository, or to the -$GIT_DIR in a bare repository. +$GIT_DIR in a bare repository or the root of the working tree in a non-bare +repository. An exception are hooks triggered during a push ('pre-receive', +'update', 'post-receive', 'post-update', 'push-to-checkout') which are always +executed in $GIT_DIR. Hooks can get their arguments via the environment, command-line arguments, and stdin. See the documentation for each hook below for details. -'git init' may copy hooks to the new repository, depending on its +`git init` may copy hooks to the new repository, depending on its configuration. See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section in linkgit:git-init[1] for details. When the rest of this document refers to "default hooks" it's talking about the default template shipped @@ -43,9 +45,9 @@ HOOKS applypatch-msg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by 'git am'. It takes a single +This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-am[1]. It takes a single parameter, the name of the file that holds the proposed commit -log message. Exiting with a non-zero status causes 'git am' to abort +log message. Exiting with a non-zero status causes `git am` to abort before applying the patch. The hook is allowed to edit the message file in place, and can @@ -59,7 +61,7 @@ The default 'applypatch-msg' hook, when enabled, runs the pre-applypatch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by 'git am'. It takes no parameter, and is +This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-am[1]. It takes no parameter, and is invoked after the patch is applied, but before a commit is made. If it exits with non-zero status, then the working tree will not be @@ -74,33 +76,33 @@ The default 'pre-applypatch' hook, when enabled, runs the post-applypatch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by 'git am'. It takes no parameter, +This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-am[1]. It takes no parameter, and is invoked after the patch is applied and a commit is made. This hook is meant primarily for notification, and cannot affect -the outcome of 'git am'. +the outcome of `git am`. pre-commit ~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by 'git commit', and can be bypassed +This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-commit[1], and can be bypassed with the `--no-verify` option. It takes no parameters, and is invoked before obtaining the proposed commit log message and making a commit. Exiting with a non-zero status from this script -causes the 'git commit' command to abort before creating a commit. +causes the `git commit` command to abort before creating a commit. The default 'pre-commit' hook, when enabled, catches introduction of lines with trailing whitespaces and aborts the commit when such a line is found. -All the 'git commit' hooks are invoked with the environment +All the `git commit` hooks are invoked with the environment variable `GIT_EDITOR=:` if the command will not bring up an editor to modify the commit message. prepare-commit-msg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by 'git commit' right after preparing the +This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-commit[1] right after preparing the default log message, and before the editor is started. It takes one to three parameters. The first is the name of the file @@ -112,24 +114,23 @@ commit is a merge or a `.git/MERGE_MSG` file exists); `squash` (if a `.git/SQUASH_MSG` file exists); or `commit`, followed by a commit SHA-1 (if a `-c`, `-C` or `--amend` option was given). -If the exit status is non-zero, 'git commit' will abort. +If the exit status is non-zero, `git commit` will abort. The purpose of the hook is to edit the message file in place, and it is not suppressed by the `--no-verify` option. A non-zero exit means a failure of the hook and aborts the commit. It should not be used as replacement for pre-commit hook. -The sample `prepare-commit-msg` hook that comes with Git comments -out the `Conflicts:` part of a merge's commit message. +The sample `prepare-commit-msg` hook that comes with Git removes the +help message found in the commented portion of the commit template. commit-msg ~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by 'git commit', and can be bypassed -with the `--no-verify` option. It takes a single parameter, the -name of the file that holds the proposed commit log message. -Exiting with a non-zero status causes the 'git commit' to -abort. +This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-commit[1] and linkgit:git-merge[1], and can be +bypassed with the `--no-verify` option. It takes a single parameter, +the name of the file that holds the proposed commit log message. +Exiting with a non-zero status causes the command to abort. The hook is allowed to edit the message file in place, and can be used to normalize the message into some project standard format. It @@ -142,16 +143,16 @@ The default 'commit-msg' hook, when enabled, detects duplicate post-commit ~~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by 'git commit'. It takes no parameters, and is +This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-commit[1]. It takes no parameters, and is invoked after a commit is made. This hook is meant primarily for notification, and cannot affect -the outcome of 'git commit'. +the outcome of `git commit`. pre-rebase ~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is called by 'git rebase' and can be used to prevent a +This hook is called by linkgit:git-rebase[1] and can be used to prevent a branch from getting rebased. The hook may be called with one or two parameters. The first parameter is the upstream from which the series was forked. The second parameter is the branch being @@ -160,16 +161,17 @@ rebased, and is not set when rebasing the current branch. post-checkout ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked when a 'git checkout' is run after having updated the +This hook is invoked when a linkgit:git-checkout[1] is run after having updated the worktree. The hook is given three parameters: the ref of the previous HEAD, the ref of the new HEAD (which may or may not have changed), and a flag indicating whether the checkout was a branch checkout (changing branches, flag=1) or a file checkout (retrieving a file from the index, flag=0). -This hook cannot affect the outcome of 'git checkout'. +This hook cannot affect the outcome of `git checkout`. -It is also run after 'git clone', unless the --no-checkout (-n) option is +It is also run after linkgit:git-clone[1], unless the `--no-checkout` (`-n`) option is used. The first parameter given to the hook is the null-ref, the second the -ref of the new HEAD and the flag is always 1. +ref of the new HEAD and the flag is always 1. Likewise for `git worktree add` +unless `--no-checkout` is used. This hook can be used to perform repository validity checks, auto-display differences from the previous HEAD if different, or set working dir metadata @@ -178,10 +180,10 @@ properties. post-merge ~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by 'git merge', which happens when a 'git pull' +This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-merge[1], which happens when a `git pull` is done on a local repository. The hook takes a single parameter, a status flag specifying whether or not the merge being done was a squash merge. -This hook cannot affect the outcome of 'git merge' and is not executed, +This hook cannot affect the outcome of `git merge` and is not executed, if the merge failed due to conflicts. This hook can be used in conjunction with a corresponding pre-commit hook to @@ -192,10 +194,10 @@ for an example of how to do this. pre-push ~~~~~~~~ -This hook is called by 'git push' and can be used to prevent a push from taking -place. The hook is called with two parameters which provide the name and -location of the destination remote, if a named remote is not being used both -values will be the same. +This hook is called by linkgit:git-push[1] and can be used to prevent +a push from taking place. The hook is called with two parameters +which provide the name and location of the destination remote, if a +named remote is not being used both values will be the same. Information about what is to be pushed is provided on the hook's standard input with lines of the form: @@ -214,7 +216,7 @@ SHA-1>` will be 40 `0`. If the local commit was specified by something other than a name which could be expanded (such as `HEAD~`, or a SHA-1) it will be supplied as it was originally given. -If this hook exits with a non-zero status, 'git push' will abort without +If this hook exits with a non-zero status, `git push` will abort without pushing anything. Information about why the push is rejected may be sent to the user by writing to standard error. @@ -222,8 +224,8 @@ to the user by writing to standard error. pre-receive ~~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by 'git-receive-pack' on the remote repository, -which happens when a 'git push' is done on a local repository. +This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-receive-pack[1] when it reacts to +`git push` and updates reference(s) in its repository. Just before starting to update refs on the remote repository, the pre-receive hook is invoked. Its exit status determines the success or failure of the update. @@ -244,7 +246,7 @@ updated. If the hook exits with zero, updating of individual refs can still be prevented by the <<update,'update'>> hook. Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to -'git send-pack' on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages +`git send-pack` on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages for the user. The number of push options given on the command line of @@ -256,12 +258,15 @@ environment variables will not be set. If the client selects to use push options, but doesn't transmit any, the count variable will be set to zero, `GIT_PUSH_OPTION_COUNT=0`. +See the section on "Quarantine Environment" in +linkgit:git-receive-pack[1] for some caveats. + [[update]] update ~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by 'git-receive-pack' on the remote repository, -which happens when a 'git push' is done on a local repository. +This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-receive-pack[1] when it reacts to +`git push` and updates reference(s) in its repository. Just before updating the ref on the remote repository, the update hook is invoked. Its exit status determines the success or failure of the ref update. @@ -274,7 +279,7 @@ three parameters: - and the new object name to be stored in the ref. A zero exit from the update hook allows the ref to be updated. -Exiting with a non-zero status prevents 'git-receive-pack' +Exiting with a non-zero status prevents `git receive-pack` from updating that ref. This hook can be used to prevent 'forced' update on certain refs by @@ -294,7 +299,7 @@ membership. See linkgit:git-shell[1] for how you might use the login shell to restrict the user's access to only git commands. Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to -'git send-pack' on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages +`git send-pack` on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages for the user. The default 'update' hook, when enabled--and with @@ -305,8 +310,8 @@ unannotated tags to be pushed. post-receive ~~~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by 'git-receive-pack' on the remote repository, -which happens when a 'git push' is done on a local repository. +This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-receive-pack[1] when it reacts to +`git push` and updates reference(s) in its repository. It executes on the remote repository once after all the refs have been updated. @@ -315,7 +320,7 @@ arguments, but gets the same information as the <<pre-receive,'pre-receive'>> hook does on its standard input. -This hook does not affect the outcome of 'git-receive-pack', as it +This hook does not affect the outcome of `git receive-pack`, as it is called after the real work is done. This supersedes the <<post-update,'post-update'>> hook in that it gets @@ -323,7 +328,7 @@ both old and new values of all the refs in addition to their names. Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to -'git send-pack' on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages +`git send-pack` on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages for the user. The default 'post-receive' hook is empty, but there is @@ -344,8 +349,8 @@ will be set to zero, `GIT_PUSH_OPTION_COUNT=0`. post-update ~~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by 'git-receive-pack' on the remote repository, -which happens when a 'git push' is done on a local repository. +This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-receive-pack[1] when it reacts to +`git push` and updates reference(s) in its repository. It executes on the remote repository once after all the refs have been updated. @@ -353,7 +358,7 @@ It takes a variable number of parameters, each of which is the name of ref that was actually updated. This hook is meant primarily for notification, and cannot affect -the outcome of 'git-receive-pack'. +the outcome of `git receive-pack`. The 'post-update' hook can tell what are the heads that were pushed, but it does not know what their original and updated values are, @@ -363,20 +368,20 @@ updated values of the refs. You might consider it instead if you need them. When enabled, the default 'post-update' hook runs -'git update-server-info' to keep the information used by dumb -transports (e.g., HTTP) up-to-date. If you are publishing +`git update-server-info` to keep the information used by dumb +transports (e.g., HTTP) up to date. If you are publishing a Git repository that is accessible via HTTP, you should probably enable this hook. Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to -'git send-pack' on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages +`git send-pack` on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages for the user. push-to-checkout ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by 'git-receive-pack' on the remote repository, -which happens when a 'git push' is done on a local repository, when +This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-receive-pack[1] when it reacts to +`git push` and updates reference(s) in its repository, and when the push tries to update the branch that is currently checked out and the `receive.denyCurrentBranch` configuration variable is set to `updateInstead`. Such a push by default is refused if the working @@ -395,8 +400,8 @@ when the tip of the current branch is updated to the new commit, and exit with a zero status. For example, the hook can simply run `git read-tree -u -m HEAD "$1"` -in order to emulate 'git fetch' that is run in the reverse direction -with `git push`, as the two-tree form of `read-tree -u -m` is +in order to emulate `git fetch` that is run in the reverse direction +with `git push`, as the two-tree form of `git read-tree -u -m` is essentially the same as `git checkout` that switches branches while keeping the local changes in the working tree that do not interfere with the difference between the branches. @@ -405,15 +410,16 @@ with the difference between the branches. pre-auto-gc ~~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by 'git gc --auto'. It takes no parameter, and -exiting with non-zero status from this script causes the 'git gc --auto' -to abort. +This hook is invoked by `git gc --auto` (see linkgit:git-gc[1]). It +takes no parameter, and exiting with non-zero status from this script +causes the `git gc --auto` to abort. post-rewrite ~~~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by commands that rewrite commits (`git commit ---amend`, 'git-rebase'; currently 'git-filter-branch' does 'not' call +This hook is invoked by commands that rewrite commits +(linkgit:git-commit[1] when called with `--amend` and +linkgit:git-rebase[1]; currently `git filter-branch` does 'not' call it!). Its first argument denotes the command it was invoked by: currently one of `amend` or `rebase`. Further command-dependent arguments may be passed in the future. @@ -442,6 +448,42 @@ rebase:: The commits are guaranteed to be listed in the order that they were processed by rebase. +sendemail-validate +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-send-email[1]. It takes a single parameter, +the name of the file that holds the e-mail to be sent. Exiting with a +non-zero status causes `git send-email` to abort before sending any +e-mails. + +fsmonitor-watchman +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +This hook is invoked when the configuration option `core.fsmonitor` is +set to `.git/hooks/fsmonitor-watchman`. It takes two arguments, a version +(currently 1) and the time in elapsed nanoseconds since midnight, +January 1, 1970. + +The hook should output to stdout the list of all files in the working +directory that may have changed since the requested time. The logic +should be inclusive so that it does not miss any potential changes. +The paths should be relative to the root of the working directory +and be separated by a single NUL. + +It is OK to include files which have not actually changed. All changes +including newly-created and deleted files should be included. When +files are renamed, both the old and the new name should be included. + +Git will limit what files it checks for changes as well as which +directories are checked for untracked files based on the path names +given. + +An optimized way to tell git "all files have changed" is to return +the filename `/`. + +The exit status determines whether git will use the data from the +hook to limit its search. On error, it will fall back to verifying +all files and folders. GIT --- diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 63260f0056..ff5d7f9ed6 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -102,12 +102,11 @@ PATTERN FORMAT (relative to the toplevel of the work tree if not from a `.gitignore` file). - - Otherwise, Git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable - for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag: - wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname. - For example, "Documentation/{asterisk}.html" matches - "Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html" - or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html". + - Otherwise, Git treats the pattern as a shell glob: "`*`" matches + anything except "`/`", "`?`" matches any one character except "`/`" + and "`[]`" matches one character in a selected range. See + fnmatch(3) and the FNM_PATHNAME flag for a more detailed + description. - A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname. For example, "/{asterisk}.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.txt b/Documentation/gitk.txt index e382dd96df..244cd01493 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitk.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitk.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ gitk - The Git repository browser SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'gitk' [<options>] [<revision range>] [\--] [<path>...] +'gitk' [<options>] [<revision range>] [--] [<path>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -178,19 +178,21 @@ used by default. If '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME' is not set it defaults to History ------- Gitk was the first graphical repository browser. It's written in -tcl/tk and started off in a separate repository but was later merged -into the main Git repository. +tcl/tk. +'gitk' is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable +versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience +of end users. + +gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project: + + git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk SEE ALSO -------- 'qgit(1)':: A repository browser written in C++ using Qt. -'gitview(1)':: - A repository browser written in Python using Gtk. It's based on - 'bzrk(1)' and distributed in the contrib area of the Git repository. - 'tig(1)':: A minimal repository browser and Git tool output highlighter written in C using Ncurses. diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt index 8f7c50f330..4d63def206 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ gitmodules(5) NAME ---- -gitmodules - defining submodule properties +gitmodules - Defining submodule properties SYNOPSIS -------- @@ -66,17 +66,26 @@ submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules:: submodule.<name>.ignore:: Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show - a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered - modified (but will nonetheless show up in the output of status and - commit when it has been staged), "dirty" will ignore all changes - to the submodules work tree and - takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit - recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally - let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up. - Using "none" (the default when this option is not set) also shows - submodules that have untracked files in their work tree as changed. - If this option is also present in the submodules entry in .git/config of - the superproject, the setting there will override the one found in + a submodule as modified. The following values are supported: + + all;; The submodule will never be considered modified (but will + nonetheless show up in the output of status and commit when it has + been staged). + + dirty;; All changes to the submodule's work tree will be ignored, only + committed differences between the HEAD of the submodule and its + recorded state in the superproject are taken into account. + + untracked;; Only untracked files in submodules will be ignored. + Committed differences and modifications to tracked files will show + up. + + none;; No modifiations to submodules are ignored, all of committed + differences, and modifications to tracked and untracked files are + shown. This is the default option. + + If this option is also present in the submodules entry in .git/config + of the superproject, the setting there will override the one found in .gitmodules. Both settings can be overridden on the command line by using the "--ignore-submodule" option. The 'git submodule' commands are not @@ -84,8 +93,8 @@ submodule.<name>.ignore:: submodule.<name>.shallow:: When set to true, a clone of this submodule will be performed as a - shallow clone unless the user explicitly asks for a non-shallow - clone. + shallow clone (with a history depth of 1) unless the user explicitly + asks for a non-shallow clone. EXAMPLES diff --git a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt index 9e8681f9e1..9d1459aac6 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt @@ -102,6 +102,14 @@ Capabilities for Pushing + Supported commands: 'connect'. +'stateless-connect':: + Experimental; for internal use only. + Can attempt to connect to a remote server for communication + using git's wire-protocol version 2. See the documentation + for the stateless-connect command for more information. ++ +Supported commands: 'stateless-connect'. + 'push':: Can discover remote refs and push local commits and the history leading up to them to new or existing remote refs. @@ -136,6 +144,14 @@ Capabilities for Fetching + Supported commands: 'connect'. +'stateless-connect':: + Experimental; for internal use only. + Can attempt to connect to a remote server for communication + using git's wire-protocol version 2. See the documentation + for the stateless-connect command for more information. ++ +Supported commands: 'stateless-connect'. + 'fetch':: Can discover remote refs and transfer objects reachable from them to the local object store. @@ -375,6 +391,22 @@ Supported if the helper has the "export" capability. + Supported if the helper has the "connect" capability. +'stateless-connect' <service>:: + Experimental; for internal use only. + Connects to the given remote service for communication using + git's wire-protocol version 2. Valid replies to this command + are empty line (connection established), 'fallback' (no smart + transport support, fall back to dumb transports) and just + exiting with error message printed (can't connect, don't bother + trying to fall back). After line feed terminating the positive + (empty) response, the output of the service starts. Messages + (both request and response) must consist of zero or more + PKT-LINEs, terminating in a flush packet. The client must not + expect the server to store any state in between request-response + pairs. After the connection ends, the remote helper exits. ++ +Supported if the helper has the "stateless-connect" capability. + If a fatal error occurs, the program writes the error message to stderr and exits. The caller should expect that a suitable error message has been printed if the child closes the connection without @@ -452,16 +484,27 @@ set by Git if the remote helper has the 'option' capability. Request the helper to perform a force update. Defaults to 'false'. -'option cloning {'true'|'false'}:: +'option cloning' {'true'|'false'}:: Notify the helper this is a clone request (i.e. the current repository is guaranteed empty). -'option update-shallow {'true'|'false'}:: +'option update-shallow' {'true'|'false'}:: Allow to extend .git/shallow if the new refs require it. -'option pushcert {'true'|'false'}:: +'option pushcert' {'true'|'false'}:: GPG sign pushes. +'option push-option <string>:: + Transmit <string> as a push option. As the push option + must not contain LF or NUL characters, the string is not encoded. + +'option from-promisor' {'true'|'false'}:: + Indicate that these objects are being fetched from a promisor. + +'option no-dependents' {'true'|'false'}:: + Indicate that only the objects wanted need to be fetched, not + their dependents. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-remote[1] diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt index a5f99cbb11..e85148f05e 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ objects/info/packs:: This file is to help dumb transports discover what packs are available in this object store. Whenever a pack is added or removed, `git update-server-info` should be run - to keep this file up-to-date if the repository is + to keep this file up to date if the repository is published for dumb transports. 'git repack' does this by default. @@ -208,6 +208,10 @@ info/exclude:: 'git clean' look at it but the core Git commands do not look at it. See also: linkgit:gitignore[5]. +info/attributes:: + Defines which attributes to assign to a path, similar to per-directory + `.gitattributes` files. See also: linkgit:gitattributes[5]. + info/sparse-checkout:: This file stores sparse checkout patterns. See also: linkgit:git-read-tree[1]. @@ -271,11 +275,6 @@ worktrees/<id>/locked:: or manually by `git worktree prune`. The file may contain a string explaining why the repository is locked. -worktrees/<id>/link:: - If this file exists, it is a hard link to the linked .git - file. It is used to detect if the linked repository is - manually removed. - SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-init[1], @@ -289,4 +288,4 @@ link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual] GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite. +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt b/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt index 27dec5b91d..1f6cceaefb 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ gitrevisions(7) NAME ---- -gitrevisions - specifying revisions and ranges for Git +gitrevisions - Specifying revisions and ranges for Git SYNOPSIS -------- diff --git a/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3b9faabdbb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt @@ -0,0 +1,279 @@ +gitsubmodules(7) +================ + +NAME +---- +gitsubmodules - mounting one repository inside another + +SYNOPSIS +-------- + .gitmodules, $GIT_DIR/config +------------------ +git submodule +git <command> --recurse-submodules +------------------ + +DESCRIPTION +----------- + +A submodule is a repository embedded inside another repository. +The submodule has its own history; the repository it is embedded +in is called a superproject. + +On the filesystem, a submodule usually (but not always - see FORMS below) +consists of (i) a Git directory located under the `$GIT_DIR/modules/` +directory of its superproject, (ii) a working directory inside the +superproject's working directory, and a `.git` file at the root of +the submodule's working directory pointing to (i). + +Assuming the submodule has a Git directory at `$GIT_DIR/modules/foo/` +and a working directory at `path/to/bar/`, the superproject tracks the +submodule via a `gitlink` entry in the tree at `path/to/bar` and an entry +in its `.gitmodules` file (see linkgit:gitmodules[5]) of the form +`submodule.foo.path = path/to/bar`. + +The `gitlink` entry contains the object name of the commit that the +superproject expects the submodule's working directory to be at. + +The section `submodule.foo.*` in the `.gitmodules` file gives additional +hints to Git's porcelain layer. For example, the `submodule.foo.url` +setting specifies where to obtain the submodule. + +Submodules can be used for at least two different use cases: + +1. Using another project while maintaining independent history. + Submodules allow you to contain the working tree of another project + within your own working tree while keeping the history of both + projects separate. Also, since submodules are fixed to an arbitrary + version, the other project can be independently developed without + affecting the superproject, allowing the superproject project to + fix itself to new versions only when desired. + +2. Splitting a (logically single) project into multiple + repositories and tying them back together. This can be used to + overcome current limitations of Git's implementation to have + finer grained access: + + * Size of the Git repository: + In its current form Git scales up poorly for large repositories containing + content that is not compressed by delta computation between trees. + For example, you can use submodules to hold large binary assets + and these repositories can be shallowly cloned such that you do not + have a large history locally. + * Transfer size: + In its current form Git requires the whole working tree present. It + does not allow partial trees to be transferred in fetch or clone. + If the project you work on consists of multiple repositories tied + together as submodules in a superproject, you can avoid fetching the + working trees of the repositories you are not interested in. + * Access control: + By restricting user access to submodules, this can be used to implement + read/write policies for different users. + +The configuration of submodules +------------------------------- + +Submodule operations can be configured using the following mechanisms +(from highest to lowest precedence): + + * The command line for those commands that support taking submodules + as part of their pathspecs. Most commands have a boolean flag + `--recurse-submodules` which specify whether to recurse into submodules. + Examples are `grep` and `checkout`. + Some commands take enums, such as `fetch` and `push`, where you can + specify how submodules are affected. + + * The configuration inside the submodule. This includes `$GIT_DIR/config` + in the submodule, but also settings in the tree such as a `.gitattributes` + or `.gitignore` files that specify behavior of commands inside the + submodule. ++ +For example an effect from the submodule's `.gitignore` file +would be observed when you run `git status --ignore-submodules=none` in +the superproject. This collects information from the submodule's working +directory by running `status` in the submodule while paying attention +to the `.gitignore` file of the submodule. ++ +The submodule's `$GIT_DIR/config` file would come into play when running +`git push --recurse-submodules=check` in the superproject, as this would +check if the submodule has any changes not published to any remote. The +remotes are configured in the submodule as usual in the `$GIT_DIR/config` +file. + + * The configuration file `$GIT_DIR/config` in the superproject. + Git only recurses into active submodules (see "ACTIVE SUBMODULES" + section below). ++ +If the submodule is not yet initialized, then the configuration +inside the submodule does not exist yet, so where to +obtain the submodule from is configured here for example. + + * The `.gitmodules` file inside the superproject. A project usually + uses this file to suggest defaults for the upstream collection + of repositories for the mapping that is required between a + submodule's name and its path. ++ +This file mainly serves as the mapping between the name and path of submodules +in the superproject, such that the submodule's Git directory can be +located. ++ +If the submodule has never been initialized, this is the only place +where submodule configuration is found. It serves as the last fallback +to specify where to obtain the submodule from. + +FORMS +----- + +Submodules can take the following forms: + + * The basic form described in DESCRIPTION with a Git directory, +a working directory, a `gitlink`, and a `.gitmodules` entry. + + * "Old-form" submodule: A working directory with an embedded +`.git` directory, and the tracking `gitlink` and `.gitmodules` entry in +the superproject. This is typically found in repositories generated +using older versions of Git. ++ +It is possible to construct these old form repositories manually. ++ +When deinitialized or deleted (see below), the submodule's Git +directory is automatically moved to `$GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/` +of the superproject. + + * Deinitialized submodule: A `gitlink`, and a `.gitmodules` entry, +but no submodule working directory. The submodule's Git directory +may be there as after deinitializing the Git directory is kept around. +The directory which is supposed to be the working directory is empty instead. ++ +A submodule can be deinitialized by running `git submodule deinit`. +Besides emptying the working directory, this command only modifies +the superproject's `$GIT_DIR/config` file, so the superproject's history +is not affected. This can be undone using `git submodule init`. + + * Deleted submodule: A submodule can be deleted by running +`git rm <submodule path> && git commit`. This can be undone +using `git revert`. ++ +The deletion removes the superproject's tracking data, which are +both the `gitlink` entry and the section in the `.gitmodules` file. +The submodule's working directory is removed from the file +system, but the Git directory is kept around as it to make it +possible to checkout past commits without requiring fetching +from another repository. ++ +To completely remove a submodule, manually delete +`$GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/`. + +ACTIVE SUBMODULES +----------------- + +A submodule is considered active, + + (a) if `submodule.<name>.active` is set to `true` + or + (b) if the submodule's path matches the pathspec in `submodule.active` + or + (c) if `submodule.<name>.url` is set. + +and these are evaluated in this order. + +For example: + + [submodule "foo"] + active = false + url = https://example.org/foo + [submodule "bar"] + active = true + url = https://example.org/bar + [submodule "baz"] + url = https://example.org/baz + +In the above config only the submodule 'bar' and 'baz' are active, +'bar' due to (a) and 'baz' due to (c). 'foo' is inactive because +(a) takes precedence over (c) + +Note that (c) is a historical artefact and will be ignored if the +(a) and (b) specify that the submodule is not active. In other words, +if we have an `submodule.<name>.active` set to `false` or if the +submodule's path is excluded in the pathspec in `submodule.active`, the +url doesn't matter whether it is present or not. This is illustrated in +the example that follows. + + [submodule "foo"] + active = true + url = https://example.org/foo + [submodule "bar"] + url = https://example.org/bar + [submodule "baz"] + url = https://example.org/baz + [submodule "bob"] + ignore = true + [submodule] + active = b* + active = :(exclude) baz + +In here all submodules except 'baz' (foo, bar, bob) are active. +'foo' due to its own active flag and all the others due to the +submodule active pathspec, which specifies that any submodule +starting with 'b' except 'baz' are also active, regardless of the +presence of the .url field. + +Workflow for a third party library +---------------------------------- + + # add a submodule + git submodule add <url> <path> + + # occasionally update the submodule to a new version: + git -C <path> checkout <new version> + git add <path> + git commit -m "update submodule to new version" + + # See the list of submodules in a superproject + git submodule status + + # See FORMS on removing submodules + + +Workflow for an artificially split repo +-------------------------------------- + + # Enable recursion for relevant commands, such that + # regular commands recurse into submodules by default + git config --global submodule.recurse true + + # Unlike the other commands below clone still needs + # its own recurse flag: + git clone --recurse <URL> <directory> + cd <directory> + + # Get to know the code: + git grep foo + git ls-files + + # Get new code + git fetch + git pull --rebase + + # change worktree + git checkout + git reset + +Implementation details +---------------------- + +When cloning or pulling a repository containing submodules the submodules +will not be checked out by default; You can instruct 'clone' to recurse +into submodules. The 'init' and 'update' subcommands of 'git submodule' +will maintain submodules checked out and at an appropriate revision in +your working tree. Alternatively you can set 'submodule.recurse' to have +'checkout' recursing into submodules. + + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-submodule[1], linkgit:gitmodules[5]. + +GIT +--- +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt index 30d2119565..e0976f6017 100644 --- a/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt +++ b/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt @@ -433,4 +433,4 @@ link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual] GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite. +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt index b3b58d324e..242de31cb6 100644 --- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ summary of the situation with 'git status': $ git status On branch master Changes to be committed: -Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. +Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) modified: file1 @@ -674,4 +674,4 @@ link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual] GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite. +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt index e6320891b1..9c8982ec98 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt @@ -368,8 +368,8 @@ $logo_url:: $logo_label:: URI and label (title) for the Git logo link (or your site logo, if you chose to use different logo image). By default, these both - refer to Git homepage, http://git-scm.com[]; in the past, they pointed - to Git documentation at http://www.kernel.org[]. + refer to Git homepage, https://git-scm.com[]; in the past, they pointed + to Git documentation at https://www.kernel.org[]. Changing gitweb's look diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.txt index 96156e5e1f..88450589af 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.txt @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ separator (rules for Perl's "`split(" ", $line)`"). * Fields use modified URI encoding, defined in RFC 3986, section 2.1 (Percent-Encoding), or rather "Query string encoding" (see -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string#URL_encoding[]), the difference +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string#URL_encoding[]), the difference being that SP (" ") can be encoded as "{plus}" (and therefore "{plus}" has to be also percent-encoded). + diff --git a/Documentation/gitworkflows.txt b/Documentation/gitworkflows.txt index f16c414ea7..ca11c7bdaf 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitworkflows.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitworkflows.txt @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ beginning. It is always easier to squash a few commits together than to split one big commit into several. Don't be afraid of making too small or imperfect steps along the way. You can always go back later and edit the commits with `git rebase --interactive` before you -publish them. You can use `git stash save --keep-index` to run the +publish them. You can use `git stash push --keep-index` to run the test suite independent of other uncommitted changes; see the EXAMPLES section of linkgit:git-stash[1]. @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ the unstable branch into the stable one. Hence the following: .Merge upwards [caption="Rule: "] ===================================== -Always commit your fixes to the oldest supported branch that require +Always commit your fixes to the oldest supported branch that requires them. Then (periodically) merge the integration branches upwards into each other. ===================================== @@ -407,8 +407,8 @@ follows. `git pull <url> <branch>` ===================================== -Occasionally, the maintainer may get merge conflicts when he tries to -pull changes from downstream. In this case, he can ask downstream to +Occasionally, the maintainer may get merge conflicts when they try to +pull changes from downstream. In this case, they can ask downstream to do the merge and resolve the conflicts themselves (perhaps they will know better how to resolve them). It is one of the rare cases where downstream 'should' merge from upstream. @@ -477,4 +477,4 @@ linkgit:git-am[1] GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite. +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index 8ad29e61a9..6c2d23dc48 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -384,10 +384,33 @@ full pathname may have special meaning: + Glob magic is incompatible with literal magic. +attr;; +After `attr:` comes a space separated list of "attribute +requirements", all of which must be met in order for the +path to be considered a match; this is in addition to the +usual non-magic pathspec pattern matching. +See linkgit:gitattributes[5]. ++ +Each of the attribute requirements for the path takes one of +these forms: + +- "`ATTR`" requires that the attribute `ATTR` be set. + +- "`-ATTR`" requires that the attribute `ATTR` be unset. + +- "`ATTR=VALUE`" requires that the attribute `ATTR` be + set to the string `VALUE`. + +- "`!ATTR`" requires that the attribute `ATTR` be + unspecified. ++ + exclude;; After a path matches any non-exclude pathspec, it will be run - through all exclude pathspec (magic signature: `!`). If it - matches, the path is ignored. + through all exclude pathspecs (magic signature: `!` or its + synonym `^`). If it matches, the path is ignored. When there + is no non-exclude pathspec, the exclusion is applied to the + result set as if invoked without any pathspec. -- [[def_parent]]parent:: @@ -440,7 +463,7 @@ exclude;; [[def_push]]push:: Pushing a <<def_branch,branch>> means to get the branch's <<def_head_ref,head ref>> from a remote <<def_repository,repository>>, - find out if it is a direct ancestor to the branch's local + find out if it is an ancestor to the branch's local head ref, and in that case, putting all objects, which are <<def_reachable,reachable>> from the local head ref, and which are missing from the remote @@ -547,6 +570,10 @@ The most notable example is `HEAD`. is created by giving the `--depth` option to linkgit:git-clone[1], and its history can be later deepened with linkgit:git-fetch[1]. +[[def_stash]]stash entry:: + An <<def_object,object>> used to temporarily store the contents of a + <<def_dirty,dirty>> working directory and the index for future reuse. + [[def_submodule]]submodule:: A <<def_repository,repository>> that holds the history of a separate project inside another repository (the latter of diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt index 25378f68d3..db219f5c07 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt @@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:19:10 -0700 Abstract: In this how-to article, JC talks about how he uses the post-update hook to automate Git documentation page - shown at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/. + shown at https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/. Content-type: text/asciidoc How to rebuild from update hook =============================== -The pages under http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ +The pages under https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ are built from Documentation/ directory of the git.git project and needed to be kept up-to-date. The www.kernel.org/ servers are mirrored and I was told that the origin of the mirror is on diff --git a/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.txt b/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.txt index 9c4cd0915f..8994e2559e 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.txt @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ valid pack like: # now add our object data cat object >>tmp.pack # and then append the pack trailer - /path/to/git.git/test-sha1 -b <tmp.pack >trailer + /path/to/git.git/t/helper/test-tool sha1 -b <tmp.pack >trailer cat trailer >>tmp.pack ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/i18n.txt b/Documentation/i18n.txt index 2dd79db5cb..7e36e5b55b 100644 --- a/Documentation/i18n.txt +++ b/Documentation/i18n.txt @@ -42,11 +42,11 @@ mind. + ------------ [i18n] - commitencoding = ISO-8859-1 + commitEncoding = ISO-8859-1 ------------ + Commit objects created with the above setting record the value -of `i18n.commitencoding` in its `encoding` header. This is to +of `i18n.commitEncoding` in its `encoding` header. This is to help other people who look at them later. Lack of this header implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8. @@ -54,15 +54,15 @@ implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8. `encoding` header of a commit object, and try to re-code the log message into UTF-8 unless otherwise specified. You can specify the desired output encoding with - `i18n.logoutputencoding` in `.git/config` file, like this: + `i18n.logOutputEncoding` in `.git/config` file, like this: + ------------ [i18n] - logoutputencoding = ISO-8859-1 + logOutputEncoding = ISO-8859-1 ------------ + If you do not have this configuration variable, the value of -`i18n.commitencoding` is used instead. +`i18n.commitEncoding` is used instead. Note that we deliberately chose not to re-code the commit log message when a commit is made to force UTF-8 at the commit diff --git a/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh b/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh index 327f69bcf5..17231d8e59 100755 --- a/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh +++ b/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh @@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ repository=${1?repository} destdir=${2?destination} +GIT_MAN_REF=${3?master} -head=master GIT_DIR= +GIT_DIR= for d in "$repository/.git" "$repository" do - if GIT_DIR="$d" git rev-parse refs/heads/master >/dev/null 2>&1 + if GIT_DIR="$d" git rev-parse "$GIT_MAN_REF" >/dev/null 2>&1 then GIT_DIR="$d" export GIT_DIR @@ -27,12 +28,12 @@ export GIT_INDEX_FILE GIT_WORK_TREE rm -f "$GIT_INDEX_FILE" trap 'rm -f "$GIT_INDEX_FILE"' 0 -git read-tree $head +git read-tree "$GIT_MAN_REF" git checkout-index -a -f --prefix="$destdir"/ if test -n "$GZ" then - git ls-tree -r --name-only $head | + git ls-tree -r --name-only "$GIT_MAN_REF" | xargs printf "$destdir/%s\n" | xargs gzip -f fi diff --git a/Documentation/merge-config.txt b/Documentation/merge-config.txt index df3ea3779b..662c2713ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-config.txt @@ -26,12 +26,22 @@ merge.ff:: allowed (equivalent to giving the `--ff-only` option from the command line). +merge.verifySignatures:: + If true, this is equivalent to the --verify-signatures command + line option. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details. + include::fmt-merge-msg-config.txt[] merge.renameLimit:: The number of files to consider when performing rename detection during a merge; if not specified, defaults to the value of - diff.renameLimit. + diff.renameLimit. This setting has no effect if rename detection + is turned off. + +merge.renames:: + Whether and how Git detects renames. If set to "false", + rename detection is disabled. If set to "true", basic rename + detection is enabled. Defaults to the value of diff.renames. merge.renormalize:: Tell Git that canonical representation of files in the diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt index 5b4a62e936..63a3fc0954 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt @@ -35,13 +35,20 @@ set to `no` at the beginning of them. --no-ff:: Create a merge commit even when the merge resolves as a fast-forward. This is the default behaviour when merging an - annotated (and possibly signed) tag. + annotated (and possibly signed) tag that is not stored in + its natural place in 'refs/tags/' hierarchy. --ff-only:: Refuse to merge and exit with a non-zero status unless the - current `HEAD` is already up-to-date or the merge can be + current `HEAD` is already up to date or the merge can be resolved as a fast-forward. +-S[<keyid>]:: +--gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: + GPG-sign the resulting merge commit. The `keyid` argument is + optional and defaults to the committer identity; if specified, + it must be stuck to the option without a space. + --log[=<n>]:: --no-log:: In addition to branch names, populate the log message with @@ -51,6 +58,16 @@ set to `no` at the beginning of them. With --no-log do not list one-line descriptions from the actual commits being merged. +--signoff:: +--no-signoff:: + Add Signed-off-by line by the committer at the end of the commit + log message. The meaning of a signoff depends on the project, + but it typically certifies that committer has + the rights to submit this work under the same license and + agrees to a Developer Certificate of Origin + (see http://developercertificate.org/ for more information). ++ +With --no-signoff do not add a Signed-off-by line. --stat:: -n:: diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt index 2eb92b9327..aa66cbe41e 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt @@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ recursive:: causing mismerges by tests done on actual merge commits taken from Linux 2.6 kernel development history. Additionally this can detect and handle merges involving - renames. This is the default merge strategy when - pulling or merging one branch. + renames, but currently cannot make use of detected + copies. This is the default merge strategy when pulling + or merging one branch. + The 'recursive' strategy can take the following options: @@ -39,7 +40,8 @@ even look at what the other tree contains at all. It discards everything the other tree did, declaring 'our' history contains all that happened in it. theirs;; - This is the opposite of 'ours'. + This is the opposite of 'ours'; note that, unlike 'ours', there is + no 'theirs' merge strategy to confuse this merge option with. patience;; With this option, 'merge-recursive' spends a little extra time @@ -57,11 +59,12 @@ diff-algorithm=[patience|minimal|histogram|myers];; ignore-space-change;; ignore-all-space;; ignore-space-at-eol;; +ignore-cr-at-eol;; Treats lines with the indicated type of whitespace change as unchanged for the sake of a three-way merge. Whitespace changes mixed with other changes to a line are not ignored. - See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `-b`, `-w`, and - `--ignore-space-at-eol`. + See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `-b`, `-w`, + `--ignore-space-at-eol`, and `--ignore-cr-at-eol`. + * If 'their' version only introduces whitespace changes to a line, 'our' version is used; @@ -82,12 +85,14 @@ no-renormalize;; `merge.renormalize` configuration variable. no-renames;; - Turn off rename detection. + Turn off rename detection. This overrides the `merge.renames` + configuration variable. See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--no-renames`. find-renames[=<n>];; Turn on rename detection, optionally setting the similarity - threshold. This is the default. + threshold. This is the default. This overrides the + 'merge.renames' configuration variable. See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--find-renames`. rename-threshold=<n>;; diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt index 3bcee2ddb1..6109ef09aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt @@ -173,12 +173,17 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] - '%Cblue': switch color to blue - '%Creset': reset color - '%C(...)': color specification, as described under Values in the - "CONFIGURATION FILE" section of linkgit:git-config[1]; - adding `auto,` at the beginning will emit color only when colors are - enabled for log output (by `color.diff`, `color.ui`, or `--color`, and - respecting the `auto` settings of the former if we are going to a - terminal). `auto` alone (i.e. `%C(auto)`) will turn on auto coloring - on the next placeholders until the color is switched again. + "CONFIGURATION FILE" section of linkgit:git-config[1]. + By default, colors are shown only when enabled for log output (by + `color.diff`, `color.ui`, or `--color`, and respecting the `auto` + settings of the former if we are going to a terminal). `%C(auto,...)` + is accepted as a historical synonym for the default (e.g., + `%C(auto,red)`). Specifying `%C(always,...) will show the colors + even when color is not otherwise enabled (though consider + just using `--color=always` to enable color for the whole output, + including this format and anything else git might color). `auto` + alone (i.e. `%C(auto)`) will turn on auto coloring on the next + placeholders until the color is switched again. - '%m': left (`<`), right (`>`) or boundary (`-`) mark - '%n': newline - '%%': a raw '%' @@ -197,8 +202,15 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] - '%>>(<N>)', '%>>|(<N>)': similar to '%>(<N>)', '%>|(<N>)' respectively, except that if the next placeholder takes more spaces than given and there are spaces on its left, use those spaces -- '%><(<N>)', '%><|(<N>)': similar to '% <(<N>)', '%<|(<N>)' +- '%><(<N>)', '%><|(<N>)': similar to '%<(<N>)', '%<|(<N>)' respectively, but padding both sides (i.e. the text is centered) +- %(trailers[:options]): display the trailers of the body as interpreted + by linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1]. The `trailers` string may be + followed by a colon and zero or more comma-separated options. If the + `only` option is given, omit non-trailer lines from the trailer block. + If the `unfold` option is given, behave as if interpret-trailer's + `--unfold` option was given. E.g., `%(trailers:only,unfold)` to do + both. NOTE: Some placeholders may depend on other options given to the revision traversal engine. For example, the `%g*` reflog options will @@ -211,8 +223,8 @@ If you add a `+` (plus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, a line-feed is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the placeholder expands to a non-empty string. -If you add a `-` (minus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, line-feeds that -immediately precede the expansion are deleted if and only if the +If you add a `-` (minus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, all consecutive +line-feeds immediately preceding the expansion are deleted if and only if the placeholder expands to an empty string. If you add a ` ` (space) after '%' of a placeholder, a space diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt index 1ebbf1d738..c579793af5 100644 --- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt +++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt @@ -23,9 +23,11 @@ ifdef::git-pull[] endif::git-pull[] + The format of a <refspec> parameter is an optional plus -`+`, followed by the source ref <src>, followed +`+`, followed by the source <src>, followed by a colon `:`, followed by the destination ref <dst>. -The colon can be omitted when <dst> is empty. +The colon can be omitted when <dst> is empty. <src> is +typically a ref, but it can also be a fully spelled hex object +name. + `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`; it requests fetching everything up to the given tag. diff --git a/Documentation/rebase-config.txt b/Documentation/rebase-config.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..42e1ba7575 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/rebase-config.txt @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +rebase.stat:: + Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last + rebase. False by default. + +rebase.autoSquash:: + If set to true enable `--autosquash` option by default. + +rebase.autoStash:: + When set to true, automatically create a temporary stash entry + before the operation begins, and apply it after the operation + ends. This means that you can run rebase on a dirty worktree. + However, use with care: the final stash application after a + successful rebase might result in non-trivial conflicts. + This option can be overridden by the `--no-autostash` and + `--autostash` options of linkgit:git-rebase[1]. + Defaults to false. + +rebase.missingCommitsCheck:: + If set to "warn", git rebase -i will print a warning if some + commits are removed (e.g. a line was deleted), however the + rebase will still proceed. If set to "error", it will print + the previous warning and stop the rebase, 'git rebase + --edit-todo' can then be used to correct the error. If set to + "ignore", no checking is done. + To drop a commit without warning or error, use the `drop` + command in the todo list. + Defaults to "ignore". + +rebase.instructionFormat:: + A format string, as specified in linkgit:git-log[1], to be used for the + todo list during an interactive rebase. The format will + automatically have the long commit hash prepended to the format. + +rebase.abbreviateCommands:: + If set to true, `git rebase` will use abbreviated command names in the + todo list resulting in something like this: ++ +------------------------------------------- + p deadbee The oneline of the commit + p fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit + ... +------------------------------------------- ++ +instead of: ++ +------------------------------------------- + pick deadbee The oneline of the commit + pick fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit + ... +------------------------------------------- ++ +Defaults to false. diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index 5da7cf5a8d..7b273635de 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -91,9 +91,14 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] Consider the limiting patterns to be fixed strings (don't interpret pattern as a regular expression). +-P:: --perl-regexp:: - Consider the limiting patterns to be Perl-compatible regular expressions. - Requires libpcre to be compiled in. + Consider the limiting patterns to be Perl-compatible regular + expressions. ++ +Support for these types of regular expressions is an optional +compile-time dependency. If Git wasn't compiled with support for them +providing this option will cause it to die. --remove-empty:: Stop when a given path disappears from the tree. @@ -133,8 +138,8 @@ parents) and `--max-parents=-1` (negative numbers denote no upper limit). for all following revision specifiers, up to the next `--not`. --all:: - Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/` are listed on the - command line as '<commit>'. + Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/`, along with `HEAD`, are + listed on the command line as '<commit>'. --branches[=<pattern>]:: Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/heads` are listed @@ -179,6 +184,14 @@ explicitly. Pretend as if all objects mentioned by reflogs are listed on the command line as `<commit>`. +--single-worktree:: + By default, all working trees will be examined by the + following options when there are more than one (see + linkgit:git-worktree[1]): `--all`, `--reflog` and + `--indexed-objects`. + This option forces them to examine the current working tree + only. + --ignore-missing:: Upon seeing an invalid object name in the input, pretend as if the bad input was not given. @@ -673,6 +686,11 @@ ifdef::git-rev-list[] all object IDs which I need to download if I have the commit object _bar_ but not _foo_''. +--in-commit-order:: + Print tree and blob ids in order of the commits. The tree + and blob ids are printed after they are first referenced + by a commit. + --objects-edge:: Similar to `--objects`, but also print the IDs of excluded commits prefixed with a ``-'' character. This is used by @@ -693,8 +711,60 @@ ifdef::git-rev-list[] --unpacked:: Only useful with `--objects`; print the object IDs that are not in packs. + +--filter=<filter-spec>:: + Only useful with one of the `--objects*`; omits objects (usually + blobs) from the list of printed objects. The '<filter-spec>' + may be one of the following: ++ +The form '--filter=blob:none' omits all blobs. ++ +The form '--filter=blob:limit=<n>[kmg]' omits blobs larger than n bytes +or units. n may be zero. The suffixes k, m, and g can be used to name +units in KiB, MiB, or GiB. For example, 'blob:limit=1k' is the same +as 'blob:limit=1024'. ++ +The form '--filter=sparse:oid=<blob-ish>' uses a sparse-checkout +specification contained in the blob (or blob-expression) '<blob-ish>' +to omit blobs that would not be not required for a sparse checkout on +the requested refs. ++ +The form '--filter=sparse:path=<path>' similarly uses a sparse-checkout +specification contained in <path>. + +--no-filter:: + Turn off any previous `--filter=` argument. + +--filter-print-omitted:: + Only useful with `--filter=`; prints a list of the objects omitted + by the filter. Object IDs are prefixed with a ``~'' character. + +--missing=<missing-action>:: + A debug option to help with future "partial clone" development. + This option specifies how missing objects are handled. ++ +The form '--missing=error' requests that rev-list stop with an error if +a missing object is encountered. This is the default action. ++ +The form '--missing=allow-any' will allow object traversal to continue +if a missing object is encountered. Missing objects will silently be +omitted from the results. ++ +The form '--missing=allow-promisor' is like 'allow-any', but will only +allow object traversal to continue for EXPECTED promisor missing objects. +Unexpected missing objects will raise an error. ++ +The form '--missing=print' is like 'allow-any', but will also print a +list of the missing objects. Object IDs are prefixed with a ``?'' character. endif::git-rev-list[] +--exclude-promisor-objects:: + (For internal use only.) Prefilter object traversal at + promisor boundary. This is used with partial clone. This is + stronger than `--missing=allow-promisor` because it limits the + traversal, rather than just silencing errors about missing + objects. + --no-walk[=(sorted|unsorted)]:: Only show the given commits, but do not traverse their ancestors. This has no effect if a range is specified. If the argument @@ -764,7 +834,8 @@ timezone value. 1970). As with `--raw`, this is always in UTC and therefore `-local` has no effect. + -`--date=format:...` feeds the format `...` to your system `strftime`. +`--date=format:...` feeds the format `...` to your system `strftime`, +except for %z and %Z, which are handled internally. Use `--date=format:%c` to show the date in your system locale's preferred format. See the `strftime` manual for a complete list of format placeholders. When using `-local`, the correct syntax is @@ -785,11 +856,11 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] --parents:: Print also the parents of the commit (in the form "commit parent..."). - Also enables parent rewriting, see 'History Simplification' below. + Also enables parent rewriting, see 'History Simplification' above. --children:: Print also the children of the commit (in the form "commit child..."). - Also enables parent rewriting, see 'History Simplification' below. + Also enables parent rewriting, see 'History Simplification' above. ifdef::git-rev-list[] --timestamp:: @@ -832,7 +903,7 @@ you would get an output like this: to be drawn properly. Cannot be combined with `--no-walk`. + -This enables parent rewriting, see 'History Simplification' below. +This enables parent rewriting, see 'History Simplification' above. + This implies the `--topo-order` option by default, but the `--date-order` option may also be specified. diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index ba11b9c95e..7d1bd44094 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ syntax. Here are various ways to spell object names. The ones listed near the end of this list name trees and blobs contained in a commit. +NOTE: This document shows the "raw" syntax as seen by git. The shell +and other UIs might require additional quoting to protect special +characters and to avoid word splitting. + '<sha1>', e.g. 'dae86e1950b1277e545cee180551750029cfe735', 'dae86e':: The full SHA-1 object name (40-byte hexadecimal string), or a leading substring that is unique within the repository. @@ -96,7 +100,8 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8. refers to the branch that the branch specified by branchname is set to build on top of (configured with `branch.<name>.remote` and `branch.<name>.merge`). A missing branchname defaults to the - current one. + current one. These suffixes are also accepted when spelled in uppercase, and + they mean the same thing no matter the case. '<branchname>@\{push\}', e.g. 'master@\{push\}', '@\{push\}':: The suffix '@\{push}' reports the branch "where we would push to" if @@ -122,6 +127,9 @@ refs/remotes/myfork/mybranch Note in the example that we set up a triangular workflow, where we pull from one location and push to another. In a non-triangular workflow, '@\{push}' is the same as '@\{upstream}', and there is no need for it. ++ +This suffix is also accepted when spelled in uppercase, and means the same +thing no matter the case. '<rev>{caret}', e.g. 'HEAD{caret}, v1.5.1{caret}0':: A suffix '{caret}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of @@ -182,6 +190,8 @@ existing tag object. is matched. ':/!-foo' performs a negative match, while ':/!!foo' matches a literal '!' character, followed by 'foo'. Any other sequence beginning with ':/!' is reserved for now. + Depending on the given text, the shell's word splitting rules might + require additional quoting. '<rev>:<path>', e.g. 'HEAD:README', ':README', 'master:./README':: A suffix ':' followed by a path names the blob or tree @@ -267,7 +277,7 @@ The '..' (two-dot) Range Notation:: for commits that are reachable from r2 excluding those that are reachable from r1 by '{caret}r1 r2' and it can be written as 'r1..r2'. -The '...' (three dot) Symmetric Difference Notation:: +The '...' (three-dot) Symmetric Difference Notation:: A similar notation 'r1\...r2' is called symmetric difference of 'r1' and 'r2' and is defined as 'r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)'. @@ -291,7 +301,7 @@ The 'r1{caret}@' notation means all parents of 'r1'. The 'r1{caret}!' notation includes commit 'r1' but excludes all of its parents. By itself, this notation denotes the single commit 'r1'. -The '<rev>{caret}-{<n>}' notation includes '<rev>' but excludes the <n>th +The '<rev>{caret}-<n>' notation includes '<rev>' but excludes the <n>th parent (i.e. a shorthand for '<rev>{caret}<n>..<rev>'), with '<n>' = 1 if not given. This is typically useful for merge commits where you can just pass '<commit>{caret}-' to get all the commits in the branch @@ -333,7 +343,7 @@ Revision Range Summary as giving commit '<rev>' and then all its parents prefixed with '{caret}' to exclude them (and their ancestors). -'<rev>{caret}-{<n>}', e.g. 'HEAD{caret}-, HEAD{caret}-2':: +'<rev>{caret}-<n>', e.g. 'HEAD{caret}-, HEAD{caret}-2':: Equivalent to '<rev>{caret}<n>..<rev>', with '<n>' = 1 if not given. @@ -341,6 +351,7 @@ Here are a handful of examples using the Loeliger illustration above, with each step in the notation's expansion and selection carefully spelt out: +.... Args Expanded arguments Selected commits D G H D D F G H I J D F @@ -363,3 +374,4 @@ spelt out: = B ^B^1 ^B^2 ^B^3 = B ^D ^E ^F B F^! D = F ^I ^J D G H D F +.... diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt index cfc063018c..870c8edbfb 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ always NULL-terminated at the element pointed to by `argv[argc]`. This makes the result suitable for passing to functions expecting to receive argv from main(), or the link:api-run-command.html[run-command API]. -The link:api-string-list.html[string-list API] is similar, but cannot be +The string-list API (documented in string-list.h) is similar, but cannot be used for these purposes; instead of storing a straight string pointer, it contains an item structure with a `util` field that is not compatible with the traditional argv interface. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 22a39b9299..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,73 +0,0 @@ -builtin API -=========== - -Adding a new built-in ---------------------- - -There are 4 things to do to add a built-in command implementation to -Git: - -. Define the implementation of the built-in command `foo` with - signature: - - int cmd_foo(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix); - -. Add the external declaration for the function to `builtin.h`. - -. Add the command to the `commands[]` table defined in `git.c`. - The entry should look like: - - { "foo", cmd_foo, <options> }, -+ -where options is the bitwise-or of: - -`RUN_SETUP`:: - If there is not a Git directory to work on, abort. If there - is a work tree, chdir to the top of it if the command was - invoked in a subdirectory. If there is no work tree, no - chdir() is done. - -`RUN_SETUP_GENTLY`:: - If there is a Git directory, chdir as per RUN_SETUP, otherwise, - don't chdir anywhere. - -`USE_PAGER`:: - - If the standard output is connected to a tty, spawn a pager and - feed our output to it. - -`NEED_WORK_TREE`:: - - Make sure there is a work tree, i.e. the command cannot act - on bare repositories. - This only makes sense when `RUN_SETUP` is also set. - -. Add `builtin/foo.o` to `BUILTIN_OBJS` in `Makefile`. - -Additionally, if `foo` is a new command, there are 3 more things to do: - -. Add tests to `t/` directory. - -. Write documentation in `Documentation/git-foo.txt`. - -. Add an entry for `git-foo` to `command-list.txt`. - -. Add an entry for `/git-foo` to `.gitignore`. - - -How a built-in is called ------------------------- - -The implementation `cmd_foo()` takes three parameters, `argc`, `argv, -and `prefix`. The first two are similar to what `main()` of a -standalone command would be called with. - -When `RUN_SETUP` is specified in the `commands[]` table, and when you -were started from a subdirectory of the work tree, `cmd_foo()` is called -after chdir(2) to the top of the work tree, and `prefix` gets the path -to the subdirectory the command started from. This allows you to -convert a user-supplied pathname (typically relative to that directory) -to a pathname relative to the top of the work tree. - -The return value from `cmd_foo()` becomes the exit status of the -command. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt index 20741f345e..fa39ac9d71 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt @@ -47,21 +47,23 @@ will first feed the user-wide one to the callback, and then the repo-specific one; by overwriting, the higher-priority repo-specific value is left at the end). -The `git_config_with_options` function lets the caller examine config +The `config_with_options` function lets the caller examine config while adjusting some of the default behavior of `git_config`. It should almost never be used by "regular" Git code that is looking up configuration variables. It is intended for advanced callers like `git-config`, which are intentionally tweaking the normal config-lookup process. It takes two extra parameters: -`filename`:: -If this parameter is non-NULL, it specifies the name of a file to -parse for configuration, rather than looking in the usual files. Regular -`git_config` defaults to `NULL`. +`config_source`:: +If this parameter is non-NULL, it specifies the source to parse for +configuration, rather than looking in the usual files. See `struct +git_config_source` in `config.h` for details. Regular `git_config` defaults +to `NULL`. -`respect_includes`:: -Specify whether include directives should be followed in parsed files. -Regular `git_config` defaults to `1`. +`opts`:: +Specify options to adjust the behavior of parsing config files. See `struct +config_options` in `config.h` for details. As an example: regular `git_config` +sets `opts.respect_includes` to `1` by default. Reading Specific Files ---------------------- @@ -186,7 +188,7 @@ parsing is successful, the return value is the result. Same as `git_config_bool`, except that integers are returned as-is, and an `is_bool` flag is unset. -`git_config_maybe_bool`:: +`git_parse_maybe_bool`:: Same as `git_config_bool`, except that it returns -1 on error rather than dying. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-decorate.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-decorate.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1d52a6ce14..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-decorate.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -decorate API -============ - -Talk about <decorate.h> - -(Linus) diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt index 7f8e78d916..4f44ca24f6 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt @@ -22,16 +22,41 @@ The notable options are: `flags`:: - A bit-field of options (the `*IGNORED*` flags are mutually exclusive): + A bit-field of options: `DIR_SHOW_IGNORED`::: - Return just ignored files in `entries[]`, not untracked files. + Return just ignored files in `entries[]`, not untracked + files. This flag is mutually exclusive with + `DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO`. `DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO`::: - Similar to `DIR_SHOW_IGNORED`, but return ignored files in `ignored[]` - in addition to untracked files in `entries[]`. + Similar to `DIR_SHOW_IGNORED`, but return ignored files in + `ignored[]` in addition to untracked files in + `entries[]`. This flag is mutually exclusive with + `DIR_SHOW_IGNORED`. + +`DIR_KEEP_UNTRACKED_CONTENTS`::: + + Only has meaning if `DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO` is also set; if this is set, the + untracked contents of untracked directories are also returned in + `entries[]`. + +`DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO_MODE_MATCHING`::: + + Only has meaning if `DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO` is also set; if + this is set, returns ignored files and directories that match + an exclude pattern. If a directory matches an exclude pattern, + then the directory is returned and the contained paths are + not. A directory that does not match an exclude pattern will + not be returned even if all of its contents are ignored. In + this case, the contents are returned as individual entries. ++ +If this is set, files and directories that explicitly match an ignore +pattern are reported. Implicity ignored directories (directories that +do not match an ignore pattern, but whose contents are all ignored) +are not reported, instead all of the contents are reported. `DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED`::: diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt index 2602668677..e7cbb7c13a 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt @@ -16,10 +16,15 @@ Data Structure of no interest to the calling programs. The name of the attribute can be retrieved by calling `git_attr_name()`. -`struct git_attr_check`:: +`struct attr_check_item`:: - This structure represents a set of attributes to check in a call - to `git_check_attr()` function, and receives the results. + This structure represents one attribute and its value. + +`struct attr_check`:: + + This structure represents a collection of `attr_check_item`. + It is passed to `git_check_attr()` function, specifying the + attributes to check, and receives their values. Attribute Values @@ -27,7 +32,7 @@ Attribute Values An attribute for a path can be in one of four states: Set, Unset, Unspecified or set to a string, and `.value` member of `struct -git_attr_check` records it. There are three macros to check these: +attr_check_item` records it. There are three macros to check these: `ATTR_TRUE()`:: @@ -48,49 +53,51 @@ value of the attribute for the path. Querying Specific Attributes ---------------------------- -* Prepare an array of `struct git_attr_check` to define the list of - attributes you would want to check. To populate this array, you would - need to define necessary attributes by calling `git_attr()` function. +* Prepare `struct attr_check` using attr_check_initl() + function, enumerating the names of attributes whose values you are + interested in, terminated with a NULL pointer. Alternatively, an + empty `struct attr_check` can be prepared by calling + `attr_check_alloc()` function and then attributes you want to + ask about can be added to it with `attr_check_append()` + function. * Call `git_check_attr()` to check the attributes for the path. -* Inspect `git_attr_check` structure to see how each of the attribute in - the array is defined for the path. +* Inspect `attr_check` structure to see how each of the + attribute in the array is defined for the path. Example ------- -To see how attributes "crlf" and "indent" are set for different paths. +To see how attributes "crlf" and "ident" are set for different paths. -. Prepare an array of `struct git_attr_check` with two elements (because - we are checking two attributes). Initialize their `attr` member with - pointers to `struct git_attr` obtained by calling `git_attr()`: +. Prepare a `struct attr_check` with two elements (because + we are checking two attributes): ------------ -static struct git_attr_check check[2]; +static struct attr_check *check; static void setup_check(void) { - if (check[0].attr) + if (check) return; /* already done */ - check[0].attr = git_attr("crlf"); - check[1].attr = git_attr("ident"); + check = attr_check_initl("crlf", "ident", NULL); } ------------ -. Call `git_check_attr()` with the prepared array of `struct git_attr_check`: +. Call `git_check_attr()` with the prepared `struct attr_check`: ------------ const char *path; setup_check(); - git_check_attr(path, ARRAY_SIZE(check), check); + git_check_attr(path, check); ------------ -. Act on `.value` member of the result, left in `check[]`: +. Act on `.value` member of the result, left in `check->items[]`: ------------ - const char *value = check[0].value; + const char *value = check->items[0].value; if (ATTR_TRUE(value)) { The attribute is Set, by listing only the name of the @@ -109,20 +116,39 @@ static void setup_check(void) } ------------ +To see how attributes in argv[] are set for different paths, only +the first step in the above would be different. + +------------ +static struct attr_check *check; +static void setup_check(const char **argv) +{ + check = attr_check_alloc(); + while (*argv) { + struct git_attr *attr = git_attr(*argv); + attr_check_append(check, attr); + argv++; + } +} +------------ + Querying All Attributes ----------------------- To get the values of all attributes associated with a file: -* Call `git_all_attrs()`, which returns an array of `git_attr_check` - structures. +* Prepare an empty `attr_check` structure by calling + `attr_check_alloc()`. + +* Call `git_all_attrs()`, which populates the `attr_check` + with the attributes attached to the path. -* Iterate over the `git_attr_check` array to examine the attribute - names and values. The name of the attribute described by a - `git_attr_check` object can be retrieved via - `git_attr_name(check[i].attr)`. (Please note that no items will be - returned for unset attributes, so `ATTR_UNSET()` will return false - for all returned `git_array_check` objects.) +* Iterate over the `attr_check.items[]` array to examine + the attribute names and values. The name of the attribute + described by a `attr_check.items[]` object can be retrieved via + `git_attr_name(check->items[i].attr)`. (Please note that no items + will be returned for unset attributes, so `ATTR_UNSET()` will return + false for all returned `attr_check.items[]` objects.) -* Free the `git_array_check` array. +* Free the `attr_check` struct by calling `attr_check_free()`. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 28f5a8b715..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,285 +0,0 @@ -hashmap API -=========== - -The hashmap API is a generic implementation of hash-based key-value mappings. - -Data Structures ---------------- - -`struct hashmap`:: - - The hash table structure. Members can be used as follows, but should - not be modified directly: -+ -The `size` member keeps track of the total number of entries (0 means the -hashmap is empty). -+ -`tablesize` is the allocated size of the hash table. A non-0 value indicates -that the hashmap is initialized. It may also be useful for statistical purposes -(i.e. `size / tablesize` is the current load factor). -+ -`cmpfn` stores the comparison function specified in `hashmap_init()`. In -advanced scenarios, it may be useful to change this, e.g. to switch between -case-sensitive and case-insensitive lookup. - -`struct hashmap_entry`:: - - An opaque structure representing an entry in the hash table, which must - be used as first member of user data structures. Ideally it should be - followed by an int-sized member to prevent unused memory on 64-bit - systems due to alignment. -+ -The `hash` member is the entry's hash code and the `next` member points to the -next entry in case of collisions (i.e. if multiple entries map to the same -bucket). - -`struct hashmap_iter`:: - - An iterator structure, to be used with hashmap_iter_* functions. - -Types ------ - -`int (*hashmap_cmp_fn)(const void *entry, const void *entry_or_key, const void *keydata)`:: - - User-supplied function to test two hashmap entries for equality. Shall - return 0 if the entries are equal. -+ -This function is always called with non-NULL `entry` / `entry_or_key` -parameters that have the same hash code. When looking up an entry, the `key` -and `keydata` parameters to hashmap_get and hashmap_remove are always passed -as second and third argument, respectively. Otherwise, `keydata` is NULL. - -Functions ---------- - -`unsigned int strhash(const char *buf)`:: -`unsigned int strihash(const char *buf)`:: -`unsigned int memhash(const void *buf, size_t len)`:: -`unsigned int memihash(const void *buf, size_t len)`:: - - Ready-to-use hash functions for strings, using the FNV-1 algorithm (see - http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/fnv). -+ -`strhash` and `strihash` take 0-terminated strings, while `memhash` and -`memihash` operate on arbitrary-length memory. -+ -`strihash` and `memihash` are case insensitive versions. - -`unsigned int sha1hash(const unsigned char *sha1)`:: - - Converts a cryptographic hash (e.g. SHA-1) into an int-sized hash code - for use in hash tables. Cryptographic hashes are supposed to have - uniform distribution, so in contrast to `memhash()`, this just copies - the first `sizeof(int)` bytes without shuffling any bits. Note that - the results will be different on big-endian and little-endian - platforms, so they should not be stored or transferred over the net. - -`void hashmap_init(struct hashmap *map, hashmap_cmp_fn equals_function, size_t initial_size)`:: - - Initializes a hashmap structure. -+ -`map` is the hashmap to initialize. -+ -The `equals_function` can be specified to compare two entries for equality. -If NULL, entries are considered equal if their hash codes are equal. -+ -If the total number of entries is known in advance, the `initial_size` -parameter may be used to preallocate a sufficiently large table and thus -prevent expensive resizing. If 0, the table is dynamically resized. - -`void hashmap_free(struct hashmap *map, int free_entries)`:: - - Frees a hashmap structure and allocated memory. -+ -`map` is the hashmap to free. -+ -If `free_entries` is true, each hashmap_entry in the map is freed as well -(using stdlib's free()). - -`void hashmap_entry_init(void *entry, unsigned int hash)`:: - - Initializes a hashmap_entry structure. -+ -`entry` points to the entry to initialize. -+ -`hash` is the hash code of the entry. -+ -The hashmap_entry structure does not hold references to external resources, -and it is safe to just discard it once you are done with it (i.e. if -your structure was allocated with xmalloc(), you can just free(3) it, -and if it is on stack, you can just let it go out of scope). - -`void *hashmap_get(const struct hashmap *map, const void *key, const void *keydata)`:: - - Returns the hashmap entry for the specified key, or NULL if not found. -+ -`map` is the hashmap structure. -+ -`key` is a hashmap_entry structure (or user data structure that starts with -hashmap_entry) that has at least been initialized with the proper hash code -(via `hashmap_entry_init`). -+ -If an entry with matching hash code is found, `key` and `keydata` are passed -to `hashmap_cmp_fn` to decide whether the entry matches the key. - -`void *hashmap_get_from_hash(const struct hashmap *map, unsigned int hash, const void *keydata)`:: - - Returns the hashmap entry for the specified hash code and key data, - or NULL if not found. -+ -`map` is the hashmap structure. -+ -`hash` is the hash code of the entry to look up. -+ -If an entry with matching hash code is found, `keydata` is passed to -`hashmap_cmp_fn` to decide whether the entry matches the key. The -`entry_or_key` parameter points to a bogus hashmap_entry structure that -should not be used in the comparison. - -`void *hashmap_get_next(const struct hashmap *map, const void *entry)`:: - - Returns the next equal hashmap entry, or NULL if not found. This can be - used to iterate over duplicate entries (see `hashmap_add`). -+ -`map` is the hashmap structure. -+ -`entry` is the hashmap_entry to start the search from, obtained via a previous -call to `hashmap_get` or `hashmap_get_next`. - -`void hashmap_add(struct hashmap *map, void *entry)`:: - - Adds a hashmap entry. This allows to add duplicate entries (i.e. - separate values with the same key according to hashmap_cmp_fn). -+ -`map` is the hashmap structure. -+ -`entry` is the entry to add. - -`void *hashmap_put(struct hashmap *map, void *entry)`:: - - Adds or replaces a hashmap entry. If the hashmap contains duplicate - entries equal to the specified entry, only one of them will be replaced. -+ -`map` is the hashmap structure. -+ -`entry` is the entry to add or replace. -+ -Returns the replaced entry, or NULL if not found (i.e. the entry was added). - -`void *hashmap_remove(struct hashmap *map, const void *key, const void *keydata)`:: - - Removes a hashmap entry matching the specified key. If the hashmap - contains duplicate entries equal to the specified key, only one of - them will be removed. -+ -`map` is the hashmap structure. -+ -`key` is a hashmap_entry structure (or user data structure that starts with -hashmap_entry) that has at least been initialized with the proper hash code -(via `hashmap_entry_init`). -+ -If an entry with matching hash code is found, `key` and `keydata` are -passed to `hashmap_cmp_fn` to decide whether the entry matches the key. -+ -Returns the removed entry, or NULL if not found. - -`void hashmap_iter_init(struct hashmap *map, struct hashmap_iter *iter)`:: -`void *hashmap_iter_next(struct hashmap_iter *iter)`:: -`void *hashmap_iter_first(struct hashmap *map, struct hashmap_iter *iter)`:: - - Used to iterate over all entries of a hashmap. -+ -`hashmap_iter_init` initializes a `hashmap_iter` structure. -+ -`hashmap_iter_next` returns the next hashmap_entry, or NULL if there are no -more entries. -+ -`hashmap_iter_first` is a combination of both (i.e. initializes the iterator -and returns the first entry, if any). - -`const char *strintern(const char *string)`:: -`const void *memintern(const void *data, size_t len)`:: - - Returns the unique, interned version of the specified string or data, - similar to the `String.intern` API in Java and .NET, respectively. - Interned strings remain valid for the entire lifetime of the process. -+ -Can be used as `[x]strdup()` or `xmemdupz` replacement, except that interned -strings / data must not be modified or freed. -+ -Interned strings are best used for short strings with high probability of -duplicates. -+ -Uses a hashmap to store the pool of interned strings. - -Usage example -------------- - -Here's a simple usage example that maps long keys to double values. ------------- -struct hashmap map; - -struct long2double { - struct hashmap_entry ent; /* must be the first member! */ - long key; - double value; -}; - -static int long2double_cmp(const struct long2double *e1, const struct long2double *e2, const void *unused) -{ - return !(e1->key == e2->key); -} - -void long2double_init(void) -{ - hashmap_init(&map, (hashmap_cmp_fn) long2double_cmp, 0); -} - -void long2double_free(void) -{ - hashmap_free(&map, 1); -} - -static struct long2double *find_entry(long key) -{ - struct long2double k; - hashmap_entry_init(&k, memhash(&key, sizeof(long))); - k.key = key; - return hashmap_get(&map, &k, NULL); -} - -double get_value(long key) -{ - struct long2double *e = find_entry(key); - return e ? e->value : 0; -} - -void set_value(long key, double value) -{ - struct long2double *e = find_entry(key); - if (!e) { - e = malloc(sizeof(struct long2double)); - hashmap_entry_init(e, memhash(&key, sizeof(long))); - e->key = key; - hashmap_add(&map, e); - } - e->value = value; -} ------------- - -Using variable-sized keys -------------------------- - -The `hashmap_entry_get` and `hashmap_entry_remove` functions expect an ordinary -`hashmap_entry` structure as key to find the correct entry. If the key data is -variable-sized (e.g. a FLEX_ARRAY string) or quite large, it is undesirable -to create a full-fledged entry structure on the heap and copy all the key data -into the structure. - -In this case, the `keydata` parameter can be used to pass -variable-sized key data directly to the comparison function, and the `key` -parameter can be a stripped-down, fixed size entry structure allocated on the -stack. - -See test-hashmap.c for an example using arbitrary-length strings as keys. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-object-access.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-object-access.txt index 03bb0e950d..5b29622d00 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-object-access.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-object-access.txt @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ object access API ================= -Talk about <sha1_file.c> and <object.h> family, things like +Talk about <sha1-file.c> and <object.h> family, things like * read_sha1_file() * read_object_with_reference() * has_sha1_file() * write_sha1_file() -* pretend_sha1_file() +* pretend_object_file() * lookup_{object,commit,tag,blob,tree} * parse_{object,commit,tag,blob,tree} * Use of object flags diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-oid-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-oid-array.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9febfb1d52 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-oid-array.txt @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +oid-array API +============== + +The oid-array API provides storage and manipulation of sets of object +identifiers. The emphasis is on storage and processing efficiency, +making them suitable for large lists. Note that the ordering of items is +not preserved over some operations. + +Data Structures +--------------- + +`struct oid_array`:: + + A single array of object IDs. This should be initialized by + assignment from `OID_ARRAY_INIT`. The `oid` member contains + the actual data. The `nr` member contains the number of items in + the set. The `alloc` and `sorted` members are used internally, + and should not be needed by API callers. + +Functions +--------- + +`oid_array_append`:: + Add an item to the set. The object ID will be placed at the end of + the array (but note that some operations below may lose this + ordering). + +`oid_array_lookup`:: + Perform a binary search of the array for a specific object ID. + If found, returns the offset (in number of elements) of the + object ID. If not found, returns a negative integer. If the array + is not sorted, this function has the side effect of sorting it. + +`oid_array_clear`:: + Free all memory associated with the array and return it to the + initial, empty state. + +`oid_array_for_each`:: + Iterate over each element of the list, executing the callback + function for each one. Does not sort the list, so any custom + hash order is retained. If the callback returns a non-zero + value, the iteration ends immediately and the callback's + return is propagated; otherwise, 0 is returned. + +`oid_array_for_each_unique`:: + Iterate over each unique element of the list in sorted order, + but otherwise behave like `oid_array_for_each`. If the array + is not sorted, this function has the side effect of sorting + it. + +Examples +-------- + +----------------------------------------- +int print_callback(const struct object_id *oid, + void *data) +{ + printf("%s\n", oid_to_hex(oid)); + return 0; /* always continue */ +} + +void some_func(void) +{ + struct sha1_array hashes = OID_ARRAY_INIT; + struct object_id oid; + + /* Read objects into our set */ + while (read_object_from_stdin(oid.hash)) + oid_array_append(&hashes, &oid); + + /* Check if some objects are in our set */ + while (read_object_from_stdin(oid.hash)) { + if (oid_array_lookup(&hashes, &oid) >= 0) + printf("it's in there!\n"); + + /* + * Print the unique set of objects. We could also have + * avoided adding duplicate objects in the first place, + * but we would end up re-sorting the array repeatedly. + * Instead, this will sort once and then skip duplicates + * in linear time. + */ + oid_array_for_each_unique(&hashes, print_callback, NULL); +} +----------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt index 27bd701c0d..829b558110 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt @@ -168,6 +168,11 @@ There are some macros to easily define options: Introduce an option with string argument. The string argument is put into `str_var`. +`OPT_STRING_LIST(short, long, &struct string_list, arg_str, description)`:: + Introduce an option with string argument. + The string argument is stored as an element in `string_list`. + Use of `--no-option` will clear the list of preceding values. + `OPT_INTEGER(short, long, &int_var, description)`:: Introduce an option with integer argument. The integer is put into `int_var`. @@ -178,13 +183,13 @@ There are some macros to easily define options: scale the provided value by 1024, 1024^2 or 1024^3 respectively. The scaled value is put into `unsigned_long_var`. -`OPT_DATE(short, long, &int_var, description)`:: +`OPT_DATE(short, long, ×tamp_t_var, description)`:: Introduce an option with date argument, see `approxidate()`. - The timestamp is put into `int_var`. + The timestamp is put into `timestamp_t_var`. -`OPT_EXPIRY_DATE(short, long, &int_var, description)`:: +`OPT_EXPIRY_DATE(short, long, ×tamp_t_var, description)`:: Introduce an option with expiry date argument, see `parse_expiry_date()`. - The timestamp is put into `int_var`. + The timestamp is put into `timestamp_t_var`. `OPT_CALLBACK(short, long, &var, arg_str, description, func_ptr)`:: Introduce an option with argument. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt index 37379d8337..46c3d5c355 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt @@ -32,11 +32,8 @@ Iteration functions * `for_each_glob_ref_in()` the previous and `for_each_ref_in()` combined. -* `head_ref_submodule()`, `for_each_ref_submodule()`, - `for_each_ref_in_submodule()`, `for_each_tag_ref_submodule()`, - `for_each_branch_ref_submodule()`, `for_each_remote_ref_submodule()` - do the same as the functions described above but for a specified - submodule. +* Use `refs_` API for accessing submodules. The submodule ref store could + be obtained with `get_submodule_ref_store()`. * `for_each_rawref()` can be used to learn about broken ref and symref. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt index 540e455689..eb1fa9853e 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt @@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ parse_pathspec(). This function takes several arguments: - prefix and args come from cmd_* functions -get_pathspec() is obsolete and should never be used in new code. - parse_pathspec() helps catch unsupported features and reject them politely. At a lower level, different pathspec-related functions may not support the same set of features. Such pathspec-sensitive diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt deleted file mode 100644 index dcc52943a5..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,80 +0,0 @@ -sha1-array API -============== - -The sha1-array API provides storage and manipulation of sets of SHA-1 -identifiers. The emphasis is on storage and processing efficiency, -making them suitable for large lists. Note that the ordering of items is -not preserved over some operations. - -Data Structures ---------------- - -`struct sha1_array`:: - - A single array of SHA-1 hashes. This should be initialized by - assignment from `SHA1_ARRAY_INIT`. The `sha1` member contains - the actual data. The `nr` member contains the number of items in - the set. The `alloc` and `sorted` members are used internally, - and should not be needed by API callers. - -Functions ---------- - -`sha1_array_append`:: - Add an item to the set. The sha1 will be placed at the end of - the array (but note that some operations below may lose this - ordering). - -`sha1_array_lookup`:: - Perform a binary search of the array for a specific sha1. - If found, returns the offset (in number of elements) of the - sha1. If not found, returns a negative integer. If the array is - not sorted, this function has the side effect of sorting it. - -`sha1_array_clear`:: - Free all memory associated with the array and return it to the - initial, empty state. - -`sha1_array_for_each_unique`:: - Efficiently iterate over each unique element of the list, - executing the callback function for each one. If the array is - not sorted, this function has the side effect of sorting it. If - the callback returns a non-zero value, the iteration ends - immediately and the callback's return is propagated; otherwise, - 0 is returned. - -Examples --------- - ------------------------------------------ -int print_callback(const unsigned char sha1[20], - void *data) -{ - printf("%s\n", sha1_to_hex(sha1)); - return 0; /* always continue */ -} - -void some_func(void) -{ - struct sha1_array hashes = SHA1_ARRAY_INIT; - unsigned char sha1[20]; - - /* Read objects into our set */ - while (read_object_from_stdin(sha1)) - sha1_array_append(&hashes, sha1); - - /* Check if some objects are in our set */ - while (read_object_from_stdin(sha1)) { - if (sha1_array_lookup(&hashes, sha1) >= 0) - printf("it's in there!\n"); - - /* - * Print the unique set of objects. We could also have - * avoided adding duplicate objects in the first place, - * but we would end up re-sorting the array repeatedly. - * Instead, this will sort once and then skip duplicates - * in linear time. - */ - sha1_array_for_each_unique(&hashes, print_callback, NULL); -} ------------------------------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt deleted file mode 100644 index c08402b12e..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,209 +0,0 @@ -string-list API -=============== - -The string_list API offers a data structure and functions to handle -sorted and unsorted string lists. A "sorted" list is one whose -entries are sorted by string value in `strcmp()` order. - -The 'string_list' struct used to be called 'path_list', but was renamed -because it is not specific to paths. - -The caller: - -. Allocates and clears a `struct string_list` variable. - -. Initializes the members. You might want to set the flag `strdup_strings` - if the strings should be strdup()ed. For example, this is necessary - when you add something like git_path("..."), since that function returns - a static buffer that will change with the next call to git_path(). -+ -If you need something advanced, you can manually malloc() the `items` -member (you need this if you add things later) and you should set the -`nr` and `alloc` members in that case, too. - -. Adds new items to the list, using `string_list_append`, - `string_list_append_nodup`, `string_list_insert`, - `string_list_split`, and/or `string_list_split_in_place`. - -. Can check if a string is in the list using `string_list_has_string` or - `unsorted_string_list_has_string` and get it from the list using - `string_list_lookup` for sorted lists. - -. Can sort an unsorted list using `string_list_sort`. - -. Can remove duplicate items from a sorted list using - `string_list_remove_duplicates`. - -. Can remove individual items of an unsorted list using - `unsorted_string_list_delete_item`. - -. Can remove items not matching a criterion from a sorted or unsorted - list using `filter_string_list`, or remove empty strings using - `string_list_remove_empty_items`. - -. Finally it should free the list using `string_list_clear`. - -Example: - ----- -struct string_list list = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP; -int i; - -string_list_append(&list, "foo"); -string_list_append(&list, "bar"); -for (i = 0; i < list.nr; i++) - printf("%s\n", list.items[i].string) ----- - -NOTE: It is more efficient to build an unsorted list and sort it -afterwards, instead of building a sorted list (`O(n log n)` instead of -`O(n^2)`). -+ -However, if you use the list to check if a certain string was added -already, you should not do that (using unsorted_string_list_has_string()), -because the complexity would be quadratic again (but with a worse factor). - -Functions ---------- - -* General ones (works with sorted and unsorted lists as well) - -`string_list_init`:: - - Initialize the members of the string_list, set `strdup_strings` - member according to the value of the second parameter. - -`filter_string_list`:: - - Apply a function to each item in a list, retaining only the - items for which the function returns true. If free_util is - true, call free() on the util members of any items that have - to be deleted. Preserve the order of the items that are - retained. - -`string_list_remove_empty_items`:: - - Remove any empty strings from the list. If free_util is true, - call free() on the util members of any items that have to be - deleted. Preserve the order of the items that are retained. - -`print_string_list`:: - - Dump a string_list to stdout, useful mainly for debugging purposes. It - can take an optional header argument and it writes out the - string-pointer pairs of the string_list, each one in its own line. - -`string_list_clear`:: - - Free a string_list. The `string` pointer of the items will be freed in - case the `strdup_strings` member of the string_list is set. The second - parameter controls if the `util` pointer of the items should be freed - or not. - -* Functions for sorted lists only - -`string_list_has_string`:: - - Determine if the string_list has a given string or not. - -`string_list_insert`:: - - Insert a new element to the string_list. The returned pointer can be - handy if you want to write something to the `util` pointer of the - string_list_item containing the just added string. If the given - string already exists the insertion will be skipped and the - pointer to the existing item returned. -+ -Since this function uses xrealloc() (which die()s if it fails) if the -list needs to grow, it is safe not to check the pointer. I.e. you may -write `string_list_insert(...)->util = ...;`. - -`string_list_lookup`:: - - Look up a given string in the string_list, returning the containing - string_list_item. If the string is not found, NULL is returned. - -`string_list_remove_duplicates`:: - - Remove all but the first of consecutive entries that have the - same string value. If free_util is true, call free() on the - util members of any items that have to be deleted. - -* Functions for unsorted lists only - -`string_list_append`:: - - Append a new string to the end of the string_list. If - `strdup_string` is set, then the string argument is copied; - otherwise the new `string_list_entry` refers to the input - string. - -`string_list_append_nodup`:: - - Append a new string to the end of the string_list. The new - `string_list_entry` always refers to the input string, even if - `strdup_string` is set. This function can be used to hand - ownership of a malloc()ed string to a `string_list` that has - `strdup_string` set. - -`string_list_sort`:: - - Sort the list's entries by string value in `strcmp()` order. - -`unsorted_string_list_has_string`:: - - It's like `string_list_has_string()` but for unsorted lists. - -`unsorted_string_list_lookup`:: - - It's like `string_list_lookup()` but for unsorted lists. -+ -The above two functions need to look through all items, as opposed to their -counterpart for sorted lists, which performs a binary search. - -`unsorted_string_list_delete_item`:: - - Remove an item from a string_list. The `string` pointer of the items - will be freed in case the `strdup_strings` member of the string_list - is set. The third parameter controls if the `util` pointer of the - items should be freed or not. - -`string_list_split`:: -`string_list_split_in_place`:: - - Split a string into substrings on a delimiter character and - append the substrings to a `string_list`. If `maxsplit` is - non-negative, then split at most `maxsplit` times. Return the - number of substrings appended to the list. -+ -`string_list_split` requires a `string_list` that has `strdup_strings` -set to true; it leaves the input string untouched and makes copies of -the substrings in newly-allocated memory. -`string_list_split_in_place` requires a `string_list` that has -`strdup_strings` set to false; it splits the input string in place, -overwriting the delimiter characters with NULs and creating new -string_list_items that point into the original string (the original -string must therefore not be modified or freed while the `string_list` -is in use). - - -Data structures ---------------- - -* `struct string_list_item` - -Represents an item of the list. The `string` member is a pointer to the -string, and you may use the `util` member for any purpose, if you want. - -* `struct string_list` - -Represents the list itself. - -. The array of items are available via the `items` member. -. The `nr` member contains the number of items stored in the list. -. The `alloc` member is used to avoid reallocating at every insertion. - You should not tamper with it. -. Setting the `strdup_strings` member to 1 will strdup() the strings - before adding them, see above. -. The `compare_strings_fn` member is used to specify a custom compare - function, otherwise `strcmp()` is used as the default function. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt index 941fa178dd..fb06089393 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ submodule config cache API The submodule config cache API allows to read submodule configurations/information from specified revisions. Internally information is lazily read into a cache that is used to avoid -unnecessary parsing of the same .gitmodule files. Lookups can be done by +unnecessary parsing of the same .gitmodules files. Lookups can be done by submodule path or name. Usage @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Data Structures Functions --------- -`void submodule_free()`:: +`void submodule_free(struct repository *r)`:: Use these to free the internally cached values. @@ -47,16 +47,20 @@ Functions Can be passed to the config parsing infrastructure to parse local (worktree) submodule configurations. -`const struct submodule *submodule_from_path(const unsigned char *commit_sha1, const char *path)`:: +`const struct submodule *submodule_from_path(const unsigned char *treeish_name, const char *path)`:: - Lookup values for one submodule by its commit_sha1 and path. + Given a tree-ish in the superproject and a path, return the + submodule that is bound at the path in the named tree. -`const struct submodule *submodule_from_name(const unsigned char *commit_sha1, const char *name)`:: +`const struct submodule *submodule_from_name(const unsigned char *treeish_name, const char *name)`:: The same as above but lookup by name. -If given the null_sha1 as commit_sha1 the local configuration of a -submodule will be returned (e.g. consolidated values from local git +Whenever a submodule configuration is parsed in `parse_submodule_config_option` +via e.g. `gitmodules_config()`, it will overwrite the null_sha1 entry. +So in the normal case, when HEAD:.gitmodules is parsed first and then overlayed +with the repository configuration, the null_sha1 entry contains the local +configuration of a submodule (e.g. consolidated values from local git configuration and the .gitmodules file in the worktree). For an example usage see test-submodule-config.c. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-tree-walking.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-tree-walking.txt index 14af37c3f1..bde18622a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-tree-walking.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-tree-walking.txt @@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ Initializing `fill_tree_descriptor`:: - Initialize a `tree_desc` and decode its first entry given the sha1 of - a tree. Returns the `buffer` member if the sha1 is a valid tree - identifier and NULL otherwise. + Initialize a `tree_desc` and decode its first entry given the + object ID of a tree. Returns the `buffer` member if the latter + is a valid tree identifier and NULL otherwise. `setup_traverse_info`:: diff --git a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ad6af8105c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +Git commit graph format +======================= + +The Git commit graph stores a list of commit OIDs and some associated +metadata, including: + +- The generation number of the commit. Commits with no parents have + generation number 1; commits with parents have generation number + one more than the maximum generation number of its parents. We + reserve zero as special, and can be used to mark a generation + number invalid or as "not computed". + +- The root tree OID. + +- The commit date. + +- The parents of the commit, stored using positional references within + the graph file. + +These positional references are stored as unsigned 32-bit integers +corresponding to the array position withing the list of commit OIDs. We +use the most-significant bit for special purposes, so we can store at most +(1 << 31) - 1 (around 2 billion) commits. + +== Commit graph files have the following format: + +In order to allow extensions that add extra data to the graph, we organize +the body into "chunks" and provide a binary lookup table at the beginning +of the body. The header includes certain values, such as number of chunks +and hash type. + +All 4-byte numbers are in network order. + +HEADER: + + 4-byte signature: + The signature is: {'C', 'G', 'P', 'H'} + + 1-byte version number: + Currently, the only valid version is 1. + + 1-byte Hash Version (1 = SHA-1) + We infer the hash length (H) from this value. + + 1-byte number (C) of "chunks" + + 1-byte (reserved for later use) + Current clients should ignore this value. + +CHUNK LOOKUP: + + (C + 1) * 12 bytes listing the table of contents for the chunks: + First 4 bytes describe the chunk id. Value 0 is a terminating label. + Other 8 bytes provide the byte-offset in current file for chunk to + start. (Chunks are ordered contiguously in the file, so you can infer + the length using the next chunk position if necessary.) Each chunk + ID appears at most once. + + The remaining data in the body is described one chunk at a time, and + these chunks may be given in any order. Chunks are required unless + otherwise specified. + +CHUNK DATA: + + OID Fanout (ID: {'O', 'I', 'D', 'F'}) (256 * 4 bytes) + The ith entry, F[i], stores the number of OIDs with first + byte at most i. Thus F[255] stores the total + number of commits (N). + + OID Lookup (ID: {'O', 'I', 'D', 'L'}) (N * H bytes) + The OIDs for all commits in the graph, sorted in ascending order. + + Commit Data (ID: {'C', 'G', 'E', 'T' }) (N * (H + 16) bytes) + * The first H bytes are for the OID of the root tree. + * The next 8 bytes are for the positions of the first two parents + of the ith commit. Stores value 0xffffffff if no parent in that + position. If there are more than two parents, the second value + has its most-significant bit on and the other bits store an array + position into the Large Edge List chunk. + * The next 8 bytes store the generation number of the commit and + the commit time in seconds since EPOCH. The generation number + uses the higher 30 bits of the first 4 bytes, while the commit + time uses the 32 bits of the second 4 bytes, along with the lowest + 2 bits of the lowest byte, storing the 33rd and 34th bit of the + commit time. + + Large Edge List (ID: {'E', 'D', 'G', 'E'}) [Optional] + This list of 4-byte values store the second through nth parents for + all octopus merges. The second parent value in the commit data stores + an array position within this list along with the most-significant bit + on. Starting at that array position, iterate through this list of commit + positions for the parents until reaching a value with the most-significant + bit on. The other bits correspond to the position of the last parent. + +TRAILER: + + H-byte HASH-checksum of all of the above. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e1a883eb46 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt @@ -0,0 +1,182 @@ +Git Commit Graph Design Notes +============================= + +Git walks the commit graph for many reasons, including: + +1. Listing and filtering commit history. +2. Computing merge bases. + +These operations can become slow as the commit count grows. The merge +base calculation shows up in many user-facing commands, such as 'merge-base' +or 'status' and can take minutes to compute depending on history shape. + +There are two main costs here: + +1. Decompressing and parsing commits. +2. Walking the entire graph to satisfy topological order constraints. + +The commit graph file is a supplemental data structure that accelerates +commit graph walks. If a user downgrades or disables the 'core.commitGraph' +config setting, then the existing ODB is sufficient. The file is stored +as "commit-graph" either in the .git/objects/info directory or in the info +directory of an alternate. + +The commit graph file stores the commit graph structure along with some +extra metadata to speed up graph walks. By listing commit OIDs in lexi- +cographic order, we can identify an integer position for each commit and +refer to the parents of a commit using those integer positions. We use +binary search to find initial commits and then use the integer positions +for fast lookups during the walk. + +A consumer may load the following info for a commit from the graph: + +1. The commit OID. +2. The list of parents, along with their integer position. +3. The commit date. +4. The root tree OID. +5. The generation number (see definition below). + +Values 1-4 satisfy the requirements of parse_commit_gently(). + +Define the "generation number" of a commit recursively as follows: + + * A commit with no parents (a root commit) has generation number one. + + * A commit with at least one parent has generation number one more than + the largest generation number among its parents. + +Equivalently, the generation number of a commit A is one more than the +length of a longest path from A to a root commit. The recursive definition +is easier to use for computation and observing the following property: + + If A and B are commits with generation numbers N and M, respectively, + and N <= M, then A cannot reach B. That is, we know without searching + that B is not an ancestor of A because it is further from a root commit + than A. + + Conversely, when checking if A is an ancestor of B, then we only need + to walk commits until all commits on the walk boundary have generation + number at most N. If we walk commits using a priority queue seeded by + generation numbers, then we always expand the boundary commit with highest + generation number and can easily detect the stopping condition. + +This property can be used to significantly reduce the time it takes to +walk commits and determine topological relationships. Without generation +numbers, the general heuristic is the following: + + If A and B are commits with commit time X and Y, respectively, and + X < Y, then A _probably_ cannot reach B. + +This heuristic is currently used whenever the computation is allowed to +violate topological relationships due to clock skew (such as "git log" +with default order), but is not used when the topological order is +required (such as merge base calculations, "git log --graph"). + +In practice, we expect some commits to be created recently and not stored +in the commit graph. We can treat these commits as having "infinite" +generation number and walk until reaching commits with known generation +number. + +We use the macro GENERATION_NUMBER_INFINITY = 0xFFFFFFFF to mark commits not +in the commit-graph file. If a commit-graph file was written by a version +of Git that did not compute generation numbers, then those commits will +have generation number represented by the macro GENERATION_NUMBER_ZERO = 0. + +Since the commit-graph file is closed under reachability, we can guarantee +the following weaker condition on all commits: + + If A and B are commits with generation numbers N amd M, respectively, + and N < M, then A cannot reach B. + +Note how the strict inequality differs from the inequality when we have +fully-computed generation numbers. Using strict inequality may result in +walking a few extra commits, but the simplicity in dealing with commits +with generation number *_INFINITY or *_ZERO is valuable. + +We use the macro GENERATION_NUMBER_MAX = 0x3FFFFFFF to for commits whose +generation numbers are computed to be at least this value. We limit at +this value since it is the largest value that can be stored in the +commit-graph file using the 30 bits available to generation numbers. This +presents another case where a commit can have generation number equal to +that of a parent. + +Design Details +-------------- + +- The commit graph file is stored in a file named 'commit-graph' in the + .git/objects/info directory. This could be stored in the info directory + of an alternate. + +- The core.commitGraph config setting must be on to consume graph files. + +- The file format includes parameters for the object ID hash function, + so a future change of hash algorithm does not require a change in format. + +Future Work +----------- + +- The commit graph feature currently does not honor commit grafts. This can + be remedied by duplicating or refactoring the current graft logic. + +- The 'commit-graph' subcommand does not have a "verify" mode that is + necessary for integration with fsck. + +- After computing and storing generation numbers, we must make graph + walks aware of generation numbers to gain the performance benefits they + enable. This will mostly be accomplished by swapping a commit-date-ordered + priority queue with one ordered by generation number. The following + operations are important candidates: + + - 'log --topo-order' + - 'tag --merged' + +- Currently, parse_commit_gently() requires filling in the root tree + object for a commit. This passes through lookup_tree() and consequently + lookup_object(). Also, it calls lookup_commit() when loading the parents. + These method calls check the ODB for object existence, even if the + consumer does not need the content. For example, we do not need the + tree contents when computing merge bases. Now that commit parsing is + removed from the computation time, these lookup operations are the + slowest operations keeping graph walks from being fast. Consider + loading these objects without verifying their existence in the ODB and + only loading them fully when consumers need them. Consider a method + such as "ensure_tree_loaded(commit)" that fully loads a tree before + using commit->tree. + +- The current design uses the 'commit-graph' subcommand to generate the graph. + When this feature stabilizes enough to recommend to most users, we should + add automatic graph writes to common operations that create many commits. + For example, one could compute a graph on 'clone', 'fetch', or 'repack' + commands. + +- A server could provide a commit graph file as part of the network protocol + to avoid extra calculations by clients. This feature is only of benefit if + the user is willing to trust the file, because verifying the file is correct + is as hard as computing it from scratch. + +Related Links +------------- +[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/git/issues/detail?id=8 + Chromium work item for: Serialized Commit Graph + +[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20110713070517.GC18566@sigill.intra.peff.net/ + An abandoned patch that introduced generation numbers. + +[2] https://public-inbox.org/git/20170908033403.q7e6dj7benasrjes@sigill.intra.peff.net/ + Discussion about generation numbers on commits and how they interact + with fsck. + +[3] https://public-inbox.org/git/20170908034739.4op3w4f2ma5s65ku@sigill.intra.peff.net/ + More discussion about generation numbers and not storing them inside + commit objects. A valuable quote: + + "I think we should be moving more in the direction of keeping + repo-local caches for optimizations. Reachability bitmaps have been + a big performance win. I think we should be doing the same with our + properties of commits. Not just generation numbers, but making it + cheap to access the graph structure without zlib-inflating whole + commit objects (i.e., packv4 or something like the "metapacks" I + proposed a few years ago)." + +[4] https://public-inbox.org/git/20180108154822.54829-1-git@jeffhostetler.com/T/#u + A patch to remove the ahead-behind calculation from 'status'. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition.txt b/Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4ab6cd1012 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition.txt @@ -0,0 +1,821 @@ +Git hash function transition +============================ + +Objective +--------- +Migrate Git from SHA-1 to a stronger hash function. + +Background +---------- +At its core, the Git version control system is a content addressable +filesystem. It uses the SHA-1 hash function to name content. For +example, files, directories, and revisions are referred to by hash +values unlike in other traditional version control systems where files +or versions are referred to via sequential numbers. The use of a hash +function to address its content delivers a few advantages: + +* Integrity checking is easy. Bit flips, for example, are easily + detected, as the hash of corrupted content does not match its name. +* Lookup of objects is fast. + +Using a cryptographically secure hash function brings additional +advantages: + +* Object names can be signed and third parties can trust the hash to + address the signed object and all objects it references. +* Communication using Git protocol and out of band communication + methods have a short reliable string that can be used to reliably + address stored content. + +Over time some flaws in SHA-1 have been discovered by security +researchers. On 23 February 2017 the SHAttered attack +(https://shattered.io) demonstrated a practical SHA-1 hash collision. + +Git v2.13.0 and later subsequently moved to a hardened SHA-1 +implementation by default, which isn't vulnerable to the SHAttered +attack. + +Thus Git has in effect already migrated to a new hash that isn't SHA-1 +and doesn't share its vulnerabilities, its new hash function just +happens to produce exactly the same output for all known inputs, +except two PDFs published by the SHAttered researchers, and the new +implementation (written by those researchers) claims to detect future +cryptanalytic collision attacks. + +Regardless, it's considered prudent to move past any variant of SHA-1 +to a new hash. There's no guarantee that future attacks on SHA-1 won't +be published in the future, and those attacks may not have viable +mitigations. + +If SHA-1 and its variants were to be truly broken, Git's hash function +could not be considered cryptographically secure any more. This would +impact the communication of hash values because we could not trust +that a given hash value represented the known good version of content +that the speaker intended. + +SHA-1 still possesses the other properties such as fast object lookup +and safe error checking, but other hash functions are equally suitable +that are believed to be cryptographically secure. + +Goals +----- +Where NewHash is a strong 256-bit hash function to replace SHA-1 (see +"Selection of a New Hash", below): + +1. The transition to NewHash can be done one local repository at a time. + a. Requiring no action by any other party. + b. A NewHash repository can communicate with SHA-1 Git servers + (push/fetch). + c. Users can use SHA-1 and NewHash identifiers for objects + interchangeably (see "Object names on the command line", below). + d. New signed objects make use of a stronger hash function than + SHA-1 for their security guarantees. +2. Allow a complete transition away from SHA-1. + a. Local metadata for SHA-1 compatibility can be removed from a + repository if compatibility with SHA-1 is no longer needed. +3. Maintainability throughout the process. + a. The object format is kept simple and consistent. + b. Creation of a generalized repository conversion tool. + +Non-Goals +--------- +1. Add NewHash support to Git protocol. This is valuable and the + logical next step but it is out of scope for this initial design. +2. Transparently improving the security of existing SHA-1 signed + objects. +3. Intermixing objects using multiple hash functions in a single + repository. +4. Taking the opportunity to fix other bugs in Git's formats and + protocols. +5. Shallow clones and fetches into a NewHash repository. (This will + change when we add NewHash support to Git protocol.) +6. Skip fetching some submodules of a project into a NewHash + repository. (This also depends on NewHash support in Git + protocol.) + +Overview +-------- +We introduce a new repository format extension. Repositories with this +extension enabled use NewHash instead of SHA-1 to name their objects. +This affects both object names and object content --- both the names +of objects and all references to other objects within an object are +switched to the new hash function. + +NewHash repositories cannot be read by older versions of Git. + +Alongside the packfile, a NewHash repository stores a bidirectional +mapping between NewHash and SHA-1 object names. The mapping is generated +locally and can be verified using "git fsck". Object lookups use this +mapping to allow naming objects using either their SHA-1 and NewHash names +interchangeably. + +"git cat-file" and "git hash-object" gain options to display an object +in its sha1 form and write an object given its sha1 form. This +requires all objects referenced by that object to be present in the +object database so that they can be named using the appropriate name +(using the bidirectional hash mapping). + +Fetches from a SHA-1 based server convert the fetched objects into +NewHash form and record the mapping in the bidirectional mapping table +(see below for details). Pushes to a SHA-1 based server convert the +objects being pushed into sha1 form so the server does not have to be +aware of the hash function the client is using. + +Detailed Design +--------------- +Repository format extension +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +A NewHash repository uses repository format version `1` (see +Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt) with extensions +`objectFormat` and `compatObjectFormat`: + + [core] + repositoryFormatVersion = 1 + [extensions] + objectFormat = newhash + compatObjectFormat = sha1 + +The combination of setting `core.repositoryFormatVersion=1` and +populating `extensions.*` ensures that all versions of Git later than +`v0.99.9l` will die instead of trying to operate on the NewHash +repository, instead producing an error message. + + # Between v0.99.9l and v2.7.0 + $ git status + fatal: Expected git repo version <= 0, found 1 + # After v2.7.0 + $ git status + fatal: unknown repository extensions found: + objectformat + compatobjectformat + +See the "Transition plan" section below for more details on these +repository extensions. + +Object names +~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Objects can be named by their 40 hexadecimal digit sha1-name or 64 +hexadecimal digit newhash-name, plus names derived from those (see +gitrevisions(7)). + +The sha1-name of an object is the SHA-1 of the concatenation of its +type, length, a nul byte, and the object's sha1-content. This is the +traditional <sha1> used in Git to name objects. + +The newhash-name of an object is the NewHash of the concatenation of its +type, length, a nul byte, and the object's newhash-content. + +Object format +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The content as a byte sequence of a tag, commit, or tree object named +by sha1 and newhash differ because an object named by newhash-name refers to +other objects by their newhash-names and an object named by sha1-name +refers to other objects by their sha1-names. + +The newhash-content of an object is the same as its sha1-content, except +that objects referenced by the object are named using their newhash-names +instead of sha1-names. Because a blob object does not refer to any +other object, its sha1-content and newhash-content are the same. + +The format allows round-trip conversion between newhash-content and +sha1-content. + +Object storage +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Loose objects use zlib compression and packed objects use the packed +format described in Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt, just like +today. The content that is compressed and stored uses newhash-content +instead of sha1-content. + +Pack index +~~~~~~~~~~ +Pack index (.idx) files use a new v3 format that supports multiple +hash functions. They have the following format (all integers are in +network byte order): + +- A header appears at the beginning and consists of the following: + - The 4-byte pack index signature: '\377t0c' + - 4-byte version number: 3 + - 4-byte length of the header section, including the signature and + version number + - 4-byte number of objects contained in the pack + - 4-byte number of object formats in this pack index: 2 + - For each object format: + - 4-byte format identifier (e.g., 'sha1' for SHA-1) + - 4-byte length in bytes of shortened object names. This is the + shortest possible length needed to make names in the shortened + object name table unambiguous. + - 4-byte integer, recording where tables relating to this format + are stored in this index file, as an offset from the beginning. + - 4-byte offset to the trailer from the beginning of this file. + - Zero or more additional key/value pairs (4-byte key, 4-byte + value). Only one key is supported: 'PSRC'. See the "Loose objects + and unreachable objects" section for supported values and how this + is used. All other keys are reserved. Readers must ignore + unrecognized keys. +- Zero or more NUL bytes. This can optionally be used to improve the + alignment of the full object name table below. +- Tables for the first object format: + - A sorted table of shortened object names. These are prefixes of + the names of all objects in this pack file, packed together + without offset values to reduce the cache footprint of the binary + search for a specific object name. + + - A table of full object names in pack order. This allows resolving + a reference to "the nth object in the pack file" (from a + reachability bitmap or from the next table of another object + format) to its object name. + + - A table of 4-byte values mapping object name order to pack order. + For an object in the table of sorted shortened object names, the + value at the corresponding index in this table is the index in the + previous table for that same object. + + This can be used to look up the object in reachability bitmaps or + to look up its name in another object format. + + - A table of 4-byte CRC32 values of the packed object data, in the + order that the objects appear in the pack file. This is to allow + compressed data to be copied directly from pack to pack during + repacking without undetected data corruption. + + - A table of 4-byte offset values. For an object in the table of + sorted shortened object names, the value at the corresponding + index in this table indicates where that object can be found in + the pack file. These are usually 31-bit pack file offsets, but + large offsets are encoded as an index into the next table with the + most significant bit set. + + - A table of 8-byte offset entries (empty for pack files less than + 2 GiB). Pack files are organized with heavily used objects toward + the front, so most object references should not need to refer to + this table. +- Zero or more NUL bytes. +- Tables for the second object format, with the same layout as above, + up to and not including the table of CRC32 values. +- Zero or more NUL bytes. +- The trailer consists of the following: + - A copy of the 20-byte NewHash checksum at the end of the + corresponding packfile. + + - 20-byte NewHash checksum of all of the above. + +Loose object index +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +A new file $GIT_OBJECT_DIR/loose-object-idx contains information about +all loose objects. Its format is + + # loose-object-idx + (newhash-name SP sha1-name LF)* + +where the object names are in hexadecimal format. The file is not +sorted. + +The loose object index is protected against concurrent writes by a +lock file $GIT_OBJECT_DIR/loose-object-idx.lock. To add a new loose +object: + +1. Write the loose object to a temporary file, like today. +2. Open loose-object-idx.lock with O_CREAT | O_EXCL to acquire the lock. +3. Rename the loose object into place. +4. Open loose-object-idx with O_APPEND and write the new object +5. Unlink loose-object-idx.lock to release the lock. + +To remove entries (e.g. in "git pack-refs" or "git-prune"): + +1. Open loose-object-idx.lock with O_CREAT | O_EXCL to acquire the + lock. +2. Write the new content to loose-object-idx.lock. +3. Unlink any loose objects being removed. +4. Rename to replace loose-object-idx, releasing the lock. + +Translation table +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The index files support a bidirectional mapping between sha1-names +and newhash-names. The lookup proceeds similarly to ordinary object +lookups. For example, to convert a sha1-name to a newhash-name: + + 1. Look for the object in idx files. If a match is present in the + idx's sorted list of truncated sha1-names, then: + a. Read the corresponding entry in the sha1-name order to pack + name order mapping. + b. Read the corresponding entry in the full sha1-name table to + verify we found the right object. If it is, then + c. Read the corresponding entry in the full newhash-name table. + That is the object's newhash-name. + 2. Check for a loose object. Read lines from loose-object-idx until + we find a match. + +Step (1) takes the same amount of time as an ordinary object lookup: +O(number of packs * log(objects per pack)). Step (2) takes O(number of +loose objects) time. To maintain good performance it will be necessary +to keep the number of loose objects low. See the "Loose objects and +unreachable objects" section below for more details. + +Since all operations that make new objects (e.g., "git commit") add +the new objects to the corresponding index, this mapping is possible +for all objects in the object store. + +Reading an object's sha1-content +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The sha1-content of an object can be read by converting all newhash-names +its newhash-content references to sha1-names using the translation table. + +Fetch +~~~~~ +Fetching from a SHA-1 based server requires translating between SHA-1 +and NewHash based representations on the fly. + +SHA-1s named in the ref advertisement that are present on the client +can be translated to NewHash and looked up as local objects using the +translation table. + +Negotiation proceeds as today. Any "have"s generated locally are +converted to SHA-1 before being sent to the server, and SHA-1s +mentioned by the server are converted to NewHash when looking them up +locally. + +After negotiation, the server sends a packfile containing the +requested objects. We convert the packfile to NewHash format using +the following steps: + +1. index-pack: inflate each object in the packfile and compute its + SHA-1. Objects can contain deltas in OBJ_REF_DELTA format against + objects the client has locally. These objects can be looked up + using the translation table and their sha1-content read as + described above to resolve the deltas. +2. topological sort: starting at the "want"s from the negotiation + phase, walk through objects in the pack and emit a list of them, + excluding blobs, in reverse topologically sorted order, with each + object coming later in the list than all objects it references. + (This list only contains objects reachable from the "wants". If the + pack from the server contained additional extraneous objects, then + they will be discarded.) +3. convert to newhash: open a new (newhash) packfile. Read the topologically + sorted list just generated. For each object, inflate its + sha1-content, convert to newhash-content, and write it to the newhash + pack. Record the new sha1<->newhash mapping entry for use in the idx. +4. sort: reorder entries in the new pack to match the order of objects + in the pack the server generated and include blobs. Write a newhash idx + file +5. clean up: remove the SHA-1 based pack file, index, and + topologically sorted list obtained from the server in steps 1 + and 2. + +Step 3 requires every object referenced by the new object to be in the +translation table. This is why the topological sort step is necessary. + +As an optimization, step 1 could write a file describing what non-blob +objects each object it has inflated from the packfile references. This +makes the topological sort in step 2 possible without inflating the +objects in the packfile for a second time. The objects need to be +inflated again in step 3, for a total of two inflations. + +Step 4 is probably necessary for good read-time performance. "git +pack-objects" on the server optimizes the pack file for good data +locality (see Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt). + +Details of this process are likely to change. It will take some +experimenting to get this to perform well. + +Push +~~~~ +Push is simpler than fetch because the objects referenced by the +pushed objects are already in the translation table. The sha1-content +of each object being pushed can be read as described in the "Reading +an object's sha1-content" section to generate the pack written by git +send-pack. + +Signed Commits +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +We add a new field "gpgsig-newhash" to the commit object format to allow +signing commits without relying on SHA-1. It is similar to the +existing "gpgsig" field. Its signed payload is the newhash-content of the +commit object with any "gpgsig" and "gpgsig-newhash" fields removed. + +This means commits can be signed +1. using SHA-1 only, as in existing signed commit objects +2. using both SHA-1 and NewHash, by using both gpgsig-newhash and gpgsig + fields. +3. using only NewHash, by only using the gpgsig-newhash field. + +Old versions of "git verify-commit" can verify the gpgsig signature in +cases (1) and (2) without modifications and view case (3) as an +ordinary unsigned commit. + +Signed Tags +~~~~~~~~~~~ +We add a new field "gpgsig-newhash" to the tag object format to allow +signing tags without relying on SHA-1. Its signed payload is the +newhash-content of the tag with its gpgsig-newhash field and "-----BEGIN PGP +SIGNATURE-----" delimited in-body signature removed. + +This means tags can be signed +1. using SHA-1 only, as in existing signed tag objects +2. using both SHA-1 and NewHash, by using gpgsig-newhash and an in-body + signature. +3. using only NewHash, by only using the gpgsig-newhash field. + +Mergetag embedding +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The mergetag field in the sha1-content of a commit contains the +sha1-content of a tag that was merged by that commit. + +The mergetag field in the newhash-content of the same commit contains the +newhash-content of the same tag. + +Submodules +~~~~~~~~~~ +To convert recorded submodule pointers, you need to have the converted +submodule repository in place. The translation table of the submodule +can be used to look up the new hash. + +Loose objects and unreachable objects +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Fast lookups in the loose-object-idx require that the number of loose +objects not grow too high. + +"git gc --auto" currently waits for there to be 6700 loose objects +present before consolidating them into a packfile. We will need to +measure to find a more appropriate threshold for it to use. + +"git gc --auto" currently waits for there to be 50 packs present +before combining packfiles. Packing loose objects more aggressively +may cause the number of pack files to grow too quickly. This can be +mitigated by using a strategy similar to Martin Fick's exponential +rolling garbage collection script: +https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/35215 + +"git gc" currently expels any unreachable objects it encounters in +pack files to loose objects in an attempt to prevent a race when +pruning them (in case another process is simultaneously writing a new +object that refers to the about-to-be-deleted object). This leads to +an explosion in the number of loose objects present and disk space +usage due to the objects in delta form being replaced with independent +loose objects. Worse, the race is still present for loose objects. + +Instead, "git gc" will need to move unreachable objects to a new +packfile marked as UNREACHABLE_GARBAGE (using the PSRC field; see +below). To avoid the race when writing new objects referring to an +about-to-be-deleted object, code paths that write new objects will +need to copy any objects from UNREACHABLE_GARBAGE packs that they +refer to to new, non-UNREACHABLE_GARBAGE packs (or loose objects). +UNREACHABLE_GARBAGE are then safe to delete if their creation time (as +indicated by the file's mtime) is long enough ago. + +To avoid a proliferation of UNREACHABLE_GARBAGE packs, they can be +combined under certain circumstances. If "gc.garbageTtl" is set to +greater than one day, then packs created within a single calendar day, +UTC, can be coalesced together. The resulting packfile would have an +mtime before midnight on that day, so this makes the effective maximum +ttl the garbageTtl + 1 day. If "gc.garbageTtl" is less than one day, +then we divide the calendar day into intervals one-third of that ttl +in duration. Packs created within the same interval can be coalesced +together. The resulting packfile would have an mtime before the end of +the interval, so this makes the effective maximum ttl equal to the +garbageTtl * 4/3. + +This rule comes from Thirumala Reddy Mutchukota's JGit change +https://git.eclipse.org/r/90465. + +The UNREACHABLE_GARBAGE setting goes in the PSRC field of the pack +index. More generally, that field indicates where a pack came from: + + - 1 (PACK_SOURCE_RECEIVE) for a pack received over the network + - 2 (PACK_SOURCE_AUTO) for a pack created by a lightweight + "gc --auto" operation + - 3 (PACK_SOURCE_GC) for a pack created by a full gc + - 4 (PACK_SOURCE_UNREACHABLE_GARBAGE) for potential garbage + discovered by gc + - 5 (PACK_SOURCE_INSERT) for locally created objects that were + written directly to a pack file, e.g. from "git add ." + +This information can be useful for debugging and for "gc --auto" to +make appropriate choices about which packs to coalesce. + +Caveats +------- +Invalid objects +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The conversion from sha1-content to newhash-content retains any +brokenness in the original object (e.g., tree entry modes encoded with +leading 0, tree objects whose paths are not sorted correctly, and +commit objects without an author or committer). This is a deliberate +feature of the design to allow the conversion to round-trip. + +More profoundly broken objects (e.g., a commit with a truncated "tree" +header line) cannot be converted but were not usable by current Git +anyway. + +Shallow clone and submodules +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Because it requires all referenced objects to be available in the +locally generated translation table, this design does not support +shallow clone or unfetched submodules. Protocol improvements might +allow lifting this restriction. + +Alternates +~~~~~~~~~~ +For the same reason, a newhash repository cannot borrow objects from a +sha1 repository using objects/info/alternates or +$GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_REPOSITORIES. + +git notes +~~~~~~~~~ +The "git notes" tool annotates objects using their sha1-name as key. +This design does not describe a way to migrate notes trees to use +newhash-names. That migration is expected to happen separately (for +example using a file at the root of the notes tree to describe which +hash it uses). + +Server-side cost +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Until Git protocol gains NewHash support, using NewHash based storage +on public-facing Git servers is strongly discouraged. Once Git +protocol gains NewHash support, NewHash based servers are likely not +to support SHA-1 compatibility, to avoid what may be a very expensive +hash reencode during clone and to encourage peers to modernize. + +The design described here allows fetches by SHA-1 clients of a +personal NewHash repository because it's not much more difficult than +allowing pushes from that repository. This support needs to be guarded +by a configuration option --- servers like git.kernel.org that serve a +large number of clients would not be expected to bear that cost. + +Meaning of signatures +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The signed payload for signed commits and tags does not explicitly +name the hash used to identify objects. If some day Git adopts a new +hash function with the same length as the current SHA-1 (40 +hexadecimal digit) or NewHash (64 hexadecimal digit) objects then the +intent behind the PGP signed payload in an object signature is +unclear: + + object e7e07d5a4fcc2a203d9873968ad3e6bd4d7419d7 + type commit + tag v2.12.0 + tagger Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1487962205 -0800 + + Git 2.12 + +Does this mean Git v2.12.0 is the commit with sha1-name +e7e07d5a4fcc2a203d9873968ad3e6bd4d7419d7 or the commit with +new-40-digit-hash-name e7e07d5a4fcc2a203d9873968ad3e6bd4d7419d7? + +Fortunately NewHash and SHA-1 have different lengths. If Git starts +using another hash with the same length to name objects, then it will +need to change the format of signed payloads using that hash to +address this issue. + +Object names on the command line +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +To support the transition (see Transition plan below), this design +supports four different modes of operation: + + 1. ("dark launch") Treat object names input by the user as SHA-1 and + convert any object names written to output to SHA-1, but store + objects using NewHash. This allows users to test the code with no + visible behavior change except for performance. This allows + allows running even tests that assume the SHA-1 hash function, to + sanity-check the behavior of the new mode. + + 2. ("early transition") Allow both SHA-1 and NewHash object names in + input. Any object names written to output use SHA-1. This allows + users to continue to make use of SHA-1 to communicate with peers + (e.g. by email) that have not migrated yet and prepares for mode 3. + + 3. ("late transition") Allow both SHA-1 and NewHash object names in + input. Any object names written to output use NewHash. In this + mode, users are using a more secure object naming method by + default. The disruption is minimal as long as most of their peers + are in mode 2 or mode 3. + + 4. ("post-transition") Treat object names input by the user as + NewHash and write output using NewHash. This is safer than mode 3 + because there is less risk that input is incorrectly interpreted + using the wrong hash function. + +The mode is specified in configuration. + +The user can also explicitly specify which format to use for a +particular revision specifier and for output, overriding the mode. For +example: + +git --output-format=sha1 log abac87a^{sha1}..f787cac^{newhash} + +Selection of a New Hash +----------------------- +In early 2005, around the time that Git was written, Xiaoyun Wang, +Yiqun Lisa Yin, and Hongbo Yu announced an attack finding SHA-1 +collisions in 2^69 operations. In August they published details. +Luckily, no practical demonstrations of a collision in full SHA-1 were +published until 10 years later, in 2017. + +The hash function NewHash to replace SHA-1 should be stronger than +SHA-1 was: we would like it to be trustworthy and useful in practice +for at least 10 years. + +Some other relevant properties: + +1. A 256-bit hash (long enough to match common security practice; not + excessively long to hurt performance and disk usage). + +2. High quality implementations should be widely available (e.g. in + OpenSSL). + +3. The hash function's properties should match Git's needs (e.g. Git + requires collision and 2nd preimage resistance and does not require + length extension resistance). + +4. As a tiebreaker, the hash should be fast to compute (fortunately + many contenders are faster than SHA-1). + +Some hashes under consideration are SHA-256, SHA-512/256, SHA-256x16, +K12, and BLAKE2bp-256. + +Transition plan +--------------- +Some initial steps can be implemented independently of one another: +- adding a hash function API (vtable) +- teaching fsck to tolerate the gpgsig-newhash field +- excluding gpgsig-* from the fields copied by "git commit --amend" +- annotating tests that depend on SHA-1 values with a SHA1 test + prerequisite +- using "struct object_id", GIT_MAX_RAWSZ, and GIT_MAX_HEXSZ + consistently instead of "unsigned char *" and the hardcoded + constants 20 and 40. +- introducing index v3 +- adding support for the PSRC field and safer object pruning + + +The first user-visible change is the introduction of the objectFormat +extension (without compatObjectFormat). This requires: +- implementing the loose-object-idx +- teaching fsck about this mode of operation +- using the hash function API (vtable) when computing object names +- signing objects and verifying signatures +- rejecting attempts to fetch from or push to an incompatible + repository + +Next comes introduction of compatObjectFormat: +- translating object names between object formats +- translating object content between object formats +- generating and verifying signatures in the compat format +- adding appropriate index entries when adding a new object to the + object store +- --output-format option +- ^{sha1} and ^{newhash} revision notation +- configuration to specify default input and output format (see + "Object names on the command line" above) + +The next step is supporting fetches and pushes to SHA-1 repositories: +- allow pushes to a repository using the compat format +- generate a topologically sorted list of the SHA-1 names of fetched + objects +- convert the fetched packfile to newhash format and generate an idx + file +- re-sort to match the order of objects in the fetched packfile + +The infrastructure supporting fetch also allows converting an existing +repository. In converted repositories and new clones, end users can +gain support for the new hash function without any visible change in +behavior (see "dark launch" in the "Object names on the command line" +section). In particular this allows users to verify NewHash signatures +on objects in the repository, and it should ensure the transition code +is stable in production in preparation for using it more widely. + +Over time projects would encourage their users to adopt the "early +transition" and then "late transition" modes to take advantage of the +new, more futureproof NewHash object names. + +When objectFormat and compatObjectFormat are both set, commands +generating signatures would generate both SHA-1 and NewHash signatures +by default to support both new and old users. + +In projects using NewHash heavily, users could be encouraged to adopt +the "post-transition" mode to avoid accidentally making implicit use +of SHA-1 object names. + +Once a critical mass of users have upgraded to a version of Git that +can verify NewHash signatures and have converted their existing +repositories to support verifying them, we can add support for a +setting to generate only NewHash signatures. This is expected to be at +least a year later. + +That is also a good moment to advertise the ability to convert +repositories to use NewHash only, stripping out all SHA-1 related +metadata. This improves performance by eliminating translation +overhead and security by avoiding the possibility of accidentally +relying on the safety of SHA-1. + +Updating Git's protocols to allow a server to specify which hash +functions it supports is also an important part of this transition. It +is not discussed in detail in this document but this transition plan +assumes it happens. :) + +Alternatives considered +----------------------- +Upgrading everyone working on a particular project on a flag day +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Projects like the Linux kernel are large and complex enough that +flipping the switch for all projects based on the repository at once +is infeasible. + +Not only would all developers and server operators supporting +developers have to switch on the same flag day, but supporting tooling +(continuous integration, code review, bug trackers, etc) would have to +be adapted as well. This also makes it difficult to get early feedback +from some project participants testing before it is time for mass +adoption. + +Using hash functions in parallel +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +(e.g. https://public-inbox.org/git/22708.8913.864049.452252@chiark.greenend.org.uk/ ) +Objects newly created would be addressed by the new hash, but inside +such an object (e.g. commit) it is still possible to address objects +using the old hash function. +* You cannot trust its history (needed for bisectability) in the + future without further work +* Maintenance burden as the number of supported hash functions grows + (they will never go away, so they accumulate). In this proposal, by + comparison, converted objects lose all references to SHA-1. + +Signed objects with multiple hashes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Instead of introducing the gpgsig-newhash field in commit and tag objects +for newhash-content based signatures, an earlier version of this design +added "hash newhash <newhash-name>" fields to strengthen the existing +sha1-content based signatures. + +In other words, a single signature was used to attest to the object +content using both hash functions. This had some advantages: +* Using one signature instead of two speeds up the signing process. +* Having one signed payload with both hashes allows the signer to + attest to the sha1-name and newhash-name referring to the same object. +* All users consume the same signature. Broken signatures are likely + to be detected quickly using current versions of git. + +However, it also came with disadvantages: +* Verifying a signed object requires access to the sha1-names of all + objects it references, even after the transition is complete and + translation table is no longer needed for anything else. To support + this, the design added fields such as "hash sha1 tree <sha1-name>" + and "hash sha1 parent <sha1-name>" to the newhash-content of a signed + commit, complicating the conversion process. +* Allowing signed objects without a sha1 (for after the transition is + complete) complicated the design further, requiring a "nohash sha1" + field to suppress including "hash sha1" fields in the newhash-content + and signed payload. + +Lazily populated translation table +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Some of the work of building the translation table could be deferred to +push time, but that would significantly complicate and slow down pushes. +Calculating the sha1-name at object creation time at the same time it is +being streamed to disk and having its newhash-name calculated should be +an acceptable cost. + +Document History +---------------- + +2017-03-03 +bmwill@google.com, jonathantanmy@google.com, jrnieder@gmail.com, +sbeller@google.com + +Initial version sent to +http://public-inbox.org/git/20170304011251.GA26789@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com + +2017-03-03 jrnieder@gmail.com +Incorporated suggestions from jonathantanmy and sbeller: +* describe purpose of signed objects with each hash type +* redefine signed object verification using object content under the + first hash function + +2017-03-06 jrnieder@gmail.com +* Use SHA3-256 instead of SHA2 (thanks, Linus and brian m. carlson).[1][2] +* Make sha3-based signatures a separate field, avoiding the need for + "hash" and "nohash" fields (thanks to peff[3]). +* Add a sorting phase to fetch (thanks to Junio for noticing the need + for this). +* Omit blobs from the topological sort during fetch (thanks to peff). +* Discuss alternates, git notes, and git servers in the caveats + section (thanks to Junio Hamano, brian m. carlson[4], and Shawn + Pearce). +* Clarify language throughout (thanks to various commenters, + especially Junio). + +2017-09-27 jrnieder@gmail.com, sbeller@google.com +* use placeholder NewHash instead of SHA3-256 +* describe criteria for picking a hash function. +* include a transition plan (thanks especially to Brandon Williams + for fleshing these ideas out) +* define the translation table (thanks, Shawn Pearce[5], Jonathan + Tan, and Masaya Suzuki) +* avoid loose object overhead by packing more aggressively in + "git gc --auto" + +[1] http://public-inbox.org/git/CA+55aFzJtejiCjV0e43+9oR3QuJK2PiFiLQemytoLpyJWe6P9w@mail.gmail.com/ +[2] http://public-inbox.org/git/CA+55aFz+gkAsDZ24zmePQuEs1XPS9BP_s8O7Q4wQ7LV7X5-oDA@mail.gmail.com/ +[3] http://public-inbox.org/git/20170306084353.nrns455dvkdsfgo5@sigill.intra.peff.net/ +[4] http://public-inbox.org/git/20170304224936.rqqtkdvfjgyezsht@genre.crustytoothpaste.net +[5] https://public-inbox.org/git/CAJo=hJtoX9=AyLHHpUJS7fueV9ciZ_MNpnEPHUz8Whui6g9F0A@mail.gmail.com/ diff --git a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt index 1c561bdd92..64f49d0bbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt @@ -214,10 +214,16 @@ smart server reply: S: Cache-Control: no-cache S: S: 001e# service=git-upload-pack\n + S: 0000 S: 004895dcfa3633004da0049d3d0fa03f80589cbcaf31 refs/heads/maint\0multi_ack\n S: 0042d049f6c27a2244e12041955e262a404c7faba355 refs/heads/master\n S: 003c2cb58b79488a98d2721cea644875a8dd0026b115 refs/tags/v1.0\n S: 003fa3c2e2402b99163d1d59756e5f207ae21cccba4c refs/tags/v1.0^{}\n + S: 0000 + +The client may send Extra Parameters (see +Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt) as a colon-separated string +in the Git-Protocol HTTP header. Dumb Server Response ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @@ -269,7 +275,12 @@ the C locale ordering. The stream SHOULD include the default ref named `HEAD` as the first ref. The stream MUST include capability declarations behind a NUL on the first ref. +The returned response contains "version 1" if "version=1" was sent as an +Extra Parameter. + smart_reply = PKT-LINE("# service=$servicename" LF) + "0000" + *1("version 1") ref_list "0000" ref_list = empty_list / non_empty_list diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt index ade0b0c445..db3572626b 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt @@ -295,3 +295,22 @@ The remaining data of each directory block is grouped by type: in the previous ewah bitmap. - One NUL. + +== File System Monitor cache + + The file system monitor cache tracks files for which the core.fsmonitor + hook has told us about changes. The signature for this extension is + { 'F', 'S', 'M', 'N' }. + + The extension starts with + + - 32-bit version number: the current supported version is 1. + + - 64-bit time: the extension data reflects all changes through the given + time which is stored as the nanoseconds elapsed since midnight, + January 1, 1970. + + - 32-bit bitmap size: the size of the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID bitmap. + + - An ewah bitmap, the n-th bit indicates whether the n-th index entry + is not CE_FSMONITOR_VALID. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/long-running-process-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/long-running-process-protocol.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..aa0aa9af1c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/technical/long-running-process-protocol.txt @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +Long-running process protocol +============================= + +This protocol is used when Git needs to communicate with an external +process throughout the entire life of a single Git command. All +communication is in pkt-line format (see technical/protocol-common.txt) +over standard input and standard output. + +Handshake +--------- + +Git starts by sending a welcome message (for example, +"git-filter-client"), a list of supported protocol version numbers, and +a flush packet. Git expects to read the welcome message with "server" +instead of "client" (for example, "git-filter-server"), exactly one +protocol version number from the previously sent list, and a flush +packet. All further communication will be based on the selected version. +The remaining protocol description below documents "version=2". Please +note that "version=42" in the example below does not exist and is only +there to illustrate how the protocol would look like with more than one +version. + +After the version negotiation Git sends a list of all capabilities that +it supports and a flush packet. Git expects to read a list of desired +capabilities, which must be a subset of the supported capabilities list, +and a flush packet as response: +------------------------ +packet: git> git-filter-client +packet: git> version=2 +packet: git> version=42 +packet: git> 0000 +packet: git< git-filter-server +packet: git< version=2 +packet: git< 0000 +packet: git> capability=clean +packet: git> capability=smudge +packet: git> capability=not-yet-invented +packet: git> 0000 +packet: git< capability=clean +packet: git< capability=smudge +packet: git< 0000 +------------------------ + +Shutdown +-------- + +Git will close +the command pipe on exit. The filter is expected to detect EOF +and exit gracefully on its own. Git will wait until the filter +process has stopped. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt index 8e5bf60be3..70a99fd142 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt @@ -36,6 +36,98 @@ Git pack format - The trailer records 20-byte SHA-1 checksum of all of the above. +=== Object types + +Valid object types are: + +- OBJ_COMMIT (1) +- OBJ_TREE (2) +- OBJ_BLOB (3) +- OBJ_TAG (4) +- OBJ_OFS_DELTA (6) +- OBJ_REF_DELTA (7) + +Type 5 is reserved for future expansion. Type 0 is invalid. + +=== Deltified representation + +Conceptually there are only four object types: commit, tree, tag and +blob. However to save space, an object could be stored as a "delta" of +another "base" object. These representations are assigned new types +ofs-delta and ref-delta, which is only valid in a pack file. + +Both ofs-delta and ref-delta store the "delta" to be applied to +another object (called 'base object') to reconstruct the object. The +difference between them is, ref-delta directly encodes 20-byte base +object name. If the base object is in the same pack, ofs-delta encodes +the offset of the base object in the pack instead. + +The base object could also be deltified if it's in the same pack. +Ref-delta can also refer to an object outside the pack (i.e. the +so-called "thin pack"). When stored on disk however, the pack should +be self contained to avoid cyclic dependency. + +The delta data is a sequence of instructions to reconstruct an object +from the base object. If the base object is deltified, it must be +converted to canonical form first. Each instruction appends more and +more data to the target object until it's complete. There are two +supported instructions so far: one for copy a byte range from the +source object and one for inserting new data embedded in the +instruction itself. + +Each instruction has variable length. Instruction type is determined +by the seventh bit of the first octet. The following diagrams follow +the convention in RFC 1951 (Deflate compressed data format). + +==== Instruction to copy from base object + + +----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------+-------+-------+ + | 1xxxxxxx | offset1 | offset2 | offset3 | offset4 | size1 | size2 | size3 | + +----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------+-------+-------+ + +This is the instruction format to copy a byte range from the source +object. It encodes the offset to copy from and the number of bytes to +copy. Offset and size are in little-endian order. + +All offset and size bytes are optional. This is to reduce the +instruction size when encoding small offsets or sizes. The first seven +bits in the first octet determines which of the next seven octets is +present. If bit zero is set, offset1 is present. If bit one is set +offset2 is present and so on. + +Note that a more compact instruction does not change offset and size +encoding. For example, if only offset2 is omitted like below, offset3 +still contains bits 16-23. It does not become offset2 and contains +bits 8-15 even if it's right next to offset1. + + +----------+---------+---------+ + | 10000101 | offset1 | offset3 | + +----------+---------+---------+ + +In its most compact form, this instruction only takes up one byte +(0x80) with both offset and size omitted, which will have default +values zero. There is another exception: size zero is automatically +converted to 0x10000. + +==== Instruction to add new data + + +----------+============+ + | 0xxxxxxx | data | + +----------+============+ + +This is the instruction to construct target object without the base +object. The following data is appended to the target object. The first +seven bits of the first octet determines the size of data in +bytes. The size must be non-zero. + +==== Reserved instruction + + +----------+============ + | 00000000 | + +----------+============ + +This is the instruction reserved for future expansion. + == Original (version 1) pack-*.idx files have the following format: - The header consists of 256 4-byte network byte order diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index c59ac9936a..7fee6b780a 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -39,6 +39,19 @@ communicates with that invoked process over the SSH connection. The file:// transport runs the 'upload-pack' or 'receive-pack' process locally and communicates with it over a pipe. +Extra Parameters +---------------- + +The protocol provides a mechanism in which clients can send additional +information in its first message to the server. These are called "Extra +Parameters", and are supported by the Git, SSH, and HTTP protocols. + +Each Extra Parameter takes the form of `<key>=<value>` or `<key>`. + +Servers that receive any such Extra Parameters MUST ignore all +unrecognized keys. Currently, the only Extra Parameter recognized is +"version=1". + Git Transport ------------- @@ -46,18 +59,25 @@ The Git transport starts off by sending the command and repository on the wire using the pkt-line format, followed by a NUL byte and a hostname parameter, terminated by a NUL byte. - 0032git-upload-pack /project.git\0host=myserver.com\0 + 0033git-upload-pack /project.git\0host=myserver.com\0 + +The transport may send Extra Parameters by adding an additional NUL +byte, and then adding one or more NUL-terminated strings: + + 003egit-upload-pack /project.git\0host=myserver.com\0\0version=1\0 -- - git-proto-request = request-command SP pathname NUL [ host-parameter NUL ] + git-proto-request = request-command SP pathname NUL + [ host-parameter NUL ] [ NUL extra-parameters ] request-command = "git-upload-pack" / "git-receive-pack" / "git-upload-archive" ; case sensitive pathname = *( %x01-ff ) ; exclude NUL host-parameter = "host=" hostname [ ":" port ] + extra-parameters = 1*extra-parameter + extra-parameter = 1*( %x01-ff ) NUL -- -Only host-parameter is allowed in the git-proto-request. Clients -MUST NOT attempt to send additional parameters. It is used for the +host-parameter is used for the git-daemon name based virtual hosting. See --interpolated-path option to git daemon, with the %H/%CH format characters. @@ -117,6 +137,12 @@ we execute it without the leading '/'. v ssh user@example.com "git-upload-pack '~alice/project.git'" +Depending on the value of the `protocol.version` configuration variable, +Git may attempt to send Extra Parameters as a colon-separated string in +the GIT_PROTOCOL environment variable. This is done only if +the `ssh.variant` configuration variable indicates that the ssh command +supports passing environment variables as an argument. + A few things to remember here: - The "command name" is spelled with dash (e.g. git-upload-pack), but @@ -137,11 +163,13 @@ Reference Discovery ------------------- When the client initially connects the server will immediately respond -with a listing of each reference it has (all branches and tags) along +with a version number (if "version=1" is sent as an Extra Parameter), +and a listing of each reference it has (all branches and tags) along with the object name that each reference currently points to. - $ echo -e -n "0039git-upload-pack /schacon/gitbook.git\0host=example.com\0" | + $ echo -e -n "0044git-upload-pack /schacon/gitbook.git\0host=example.com\0\0version=1\0" | nc -v example.com 9418 + 000aversion 1 00887217a7c7e582c46cec22a130adf4b9d7d950fba0 HEAD\0multi_ack thin-pack side-band side-band-64k ofs-delta shallow no-progress include-tag 00441d3fcd5ced445d1abc402225c0b8a1299641f497 refs/heads/integration @@ -165,7 +193,8 @@ immediately after the ref itself, if presented. A conforming server MUST peel the ref if it's an annotated tag. ---- - advertised-refs = (no-refs / list-of-refs) + advertised-refs = *1("version 1") + (no-refs / list-of-refs) *shallow flush-pkt @@ -199,7 +228,7 @@ After reference and capabilities discovery, the client can decide to terminate the connection by sending a flush-pkt, telling the server it can now gracefully terminate, and disconnect, when it does not need any pack data. This can happen with the ls-remote command, and also can happen when -the client already is up-to-date. +the client already is up to date. Otherwise, it enters the negotiation phase, where the client and server determine what the minimal packfile necessary for transport is, @@ -212,6 +241,7 @@ out of what the server said it could do with the first 'want' line. upload-request = want-list *shallow-line *1depth-request + [filter-request] flush-pkt want-list = first-want @@ -227,6 +257,8 @@ out of what the server said it could do with the first 'want' line. additional-want = PKT-LINE("want" SP obj-id) depth = 1*DIGIT + + filter-request = PKT-LINE("filter" SP filter-spec) ---- Clients MUST send all the obj-ids it wants from the reference @@ -249,6 +281,11 @@ complete those commits. Commits whose parents are not received as a result are defined as shallow and marked as such in the server. This information is sent back to the client in the next step. +The client can optionally request that pack-objects omit various +objects from the packfile using one of several filtering techniques. +These are intended for use with partial clone and partial fetch +operations. See `rev-list` for possible "filter-spec" values. + Once all the 'want's and 'shallow's (and optional 'deepen') are transferred, clients MUST send a flush-pkt, to tell the server side that it is done sending the list. @@ -351,14 +388,19 @@ ACK after 'done' if there is at least one common base and multi_ack or multi_ack_detailed is enabled. The server always sends NAK after 'done' if there is no common base found. +Instead of 'ACK' or 'NAK', the server may send an error message (for +example, if it does not recognize an object in a 'want' line received +from the client). + Then the server will start sending its packfile data. ---- - server-response = *ack_multi ack / nak + server-response = *ack_multi ack / nak / error-line ack_multi = PKT-LINE("ACK" SP obj-id ack_status) ack_status = "continue" / "common" / "ready" ack = PKT-LINE("ACK" SP obj-id) nak = PKT-LINE("NAK") + error-line = PKT-LINE("ERR" SP explanation-text) ---- A simple clone may look like this (with no 'have' lines): @@ -468,13 +510,10 @@ that it wants to update, it sends a line listing the obj-id currently on the server, the obj-id the client would like to update it to and the name of the reference. -This list is followed by a flush-pkt. Then the push options are transmitted -one per packet followed by another flush-pkt. After that the packfile that -should contain all the objects that the server will need to complete the new -references will be sent. +This list is followed by a flush-pkt. ---- - update-request = *shallow ( command-list | push-cert ) [packfile] + update-requests = *shallow ( command-list | push-cert ) shallow = PKT-LINE("shallow" SP obj-id) @@ -495,12 +534,35 @@ references will be sent. PKT-LINE("pusher" SP ident LF) PKT-LINE("pushee" SP url LF) PKT-LINE("nonce" SP nonce LF) + *PKT-LINE("push-option" SP push-option LF) PKT-LINE(LF) *PKT-LINE(command LF) *PKT-LINE(gpg-signature-lines LF) PKT-LINE("push-cert-end" LF) - packfile = "PACK" 28*(OCTET) + push-option = 1*( VCHAR | SP ) +---- + +If the server has advertised the 'push-options' capability and the client has +specified 'push-options' as part of the capability list above, the client then +sends its push options followed by a flush-pkt. + +---- + push-options = *PKT-LINE(push-option) flush-pkt +---- + +For backwards compatibility with older Git servers, if the client sends a push +cert and push options, it MUST send its push options both embedded within the +push cert and after the push cert. (Note that the push options within the cert +are prefixed, but the push options after the cert are not.) Both these lists +MUST be the same, modulo the prefix. + +After that the packfile that +should contain all the objects that the server will need to complete the new +references will be sent. + +---- + packfile = "PACK" 28*(OCTET) ---- If the receiving end does not support delete-refs, the sending end MUST diff --git a/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0bed2472c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt @@ -0,0 +1,324 @@ +Partial Clone Design Notes +========================== + +The "Partial Clone" feature is a performance optimization for Git that +allows Git to function without having a complete copy of the repository. +The goal of this work is to allow Git better handle extremely large +repositories. + +During clone and fetch operations, Git downloads the complete contents +and history of the repository. This includes all commits, trees, and +blobs for the complete life of the repository. For extremely large +repositories, clones can take hours (or days) and consume 100+GiB of disk +space. + +Often in these repositories there are many blobs and trees that the user +does not need such as: + + 1. files outside of the user's work area in the tree. For example, in + a repository with 500K directories and 3.5M files in every commit, + we can avoid downloading many objects if the user only needs a + narrow "cone" of the source tree. + + 2. large binary assets. For example, in a repository where large build + artifacts are checked into the tree, we can avoid downloading all + previous versions of these non-mergeable binary assets and only + download versions that are actually referenced. + +Partial clone allows us to avoid downloading such unneeded objects *in +advance* during clone and fetch operations and thereby reduce download +times and disk usage. Missing objects can later be "demand fetched" +if/when needed. + +Use of partial clone requires that the user be online and the origin +remote be available for on-demand fetching of missing objects. This may +or may not be problematic for the user. For example, if the user can +stay within the pre-selected subset of the source tree, they may not +encounter any missing objects. Alternatively, the user could try to +pre-fetch various objects if they know that they are going offline. + + +Non-Goals +--------- + +Partial clone is a mechanism to limit the number of blobs and trees downloaded +*within* a given range of commits -- and is therefore independent of and not +intended to conflict with existing DAG-level mechanisms to limit the set of +requested commits (i.e. shallow clone, single branch, or fetch '<refspec>'). + + +Design Overview +--------------- + +Partial clone logically consists of the following parts: + +- A mechanism for the client to describe unneeded or unwanted objects to + the server. + +- A mechanism for the server to omit such unwanted objects from packfiles + sent to the client. + +- A mechanism for the client to gracefully handle missing objects (that + were previously omitted by the server). + +- A mechanism for the client to backfill missing objects as needed. + + +Design Details +-------------- + +- A new pack-protocol capability "filter" is added to the fetch-pack and + upload-pack negotiation. + + This uses the existing capability discovery mechanism. + See "filter" in Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt. + +- Clients pass a "filter-spec" to clone and fetch which is passed to the + server to request filtering during packfile construction. + + There are various filters available to accommodate different situations. + See "--filter=<filter-spec>" in Documentation/rev-list-options.txt. + +- On the server pack-objects applies the requested filter-spec as it + creates "filtered" packfiles for the client. + + These filtered packfiles are *incomplete* in the traditional sense because + they may contain objects that reference objects not contained in the + packfile and that the client doesn't already have. For example, the + filtered packfile may contain trees or tags that reference missing blobs + or commits that reference missing trees. + +- On the client these incomplete packfiles are marked as "promisor packfiles" + and treated differently by various commands. + +- On the client a repository extension is added to the local config to + prevent older versions of git from failing mid-operation because of + missing objects that they cannot handle. + See "extensions.partialClone" in Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt" + + +Handling Missing Objects +------------------------ + +- An object may be missing due to a partial clone or fetch, or missing due + to repository corruption. To differentiate these cases, the local + repository specially indicates such filtered packfiles obtained from the + promisor remote as "promisor packfiles". + + These promisor packfiles consist of a "<name>.promisor" file with + arbitrary contents (like the "<name>.keep" files), in addition to + their "<name>.pack" and "<name>.idx" files. + +- The local repository considers a "promisor object" to be an object that + it knows (to the best of its ability) that the promisor remote has promised + that it has, either because the local repository has that object in one of + its promisor packfiles, or because another promisor object refers to it. + + When Git encounters a missing object, Git can see if it a promisor object + and handle it appropriately. If not, Git can report a corruption. + + This means that there is no need for the client to explicitly maintain an + expensive-to-modify list of missing objects.[a] + +- Since almost all Git code currently expects any referenced object to be + present locally and because we do not want to force every command to do + a dry-run first, a fallback mechanism is added to allow Git to attempt + to dynamically fetch missing objects from the promisor remote. + + When the normal object lookup fails to find an object, Git invokes + fetch-object to try to get the object from the server and then retry + the object lookup. This allows objects to be "faulted in" without + complicated prediction algorithms. + + For efficiency reasons, no check as to whether the missing object is + actually a promisor object is performed. + + Dynamic object fetching tends to be slow as objects are fetched one at + a time. + +- `checkout` (and any other command using `unpack-trees`) has been taught + to bulk pre-fetch all required missing blobs in a single batch. + +- `rev-list` has been taught to print missing objects. + + This can be used by other commands to bulk prefetch objects. + For example, a "git log -p A..B" may internally want to first do + something like "git rev-list --objects --quiet --missing=print A..B" + and prefetch those objects in bulk. + +- `fsck` has been updated to be fully aware of promisor objects. + +- `repack` in GC has been updated to not touch promisor packfiles at all, + and to only repack other objects. + +- The global variable "fetch_if_missing" is used to control whether an + object lookup will attempt to dynamically fetch a missing object or + report an error. + + We are not happy with this global variable and would like to remove it, + but that requires significant refactoring of the object code to pass an + additional flag. We hope that concurrent efforts to add an ODB API can + encompass this. + + +Fetching Missing Objects +------------------------ + +- Fetching of objects is done using the existing transport mechanism using + transport_fetch_refs(), setting a new transport option + TRANS_OPT_NO_DEPENDENTS to indicate that only the objects themselves are + desired, not any object that they refer to. + + Because some transports invoke fetch_pack() in the same process, fetch_pack() + has been updated to not use any object flags when the corresponding argument + (no_dependents) is set. + +- The local repository sends a request with the hashes of all requested + objects as "want" lines, and does not perform any packfile negotiation. + It then receives a packfile. + +- Because we are reusing the existing fetch-pack mechanism, fetching + currently fetches all objects referred to by the requested objects, even + though they are not necessary. + + +Current Limitations +------------------- + +- The remote used for a partial clone (or the first partial fetch + following a regular clone) is marked as the "promisor remote". + + We are currently limited to a single promisor remote and only that + remote may be used for subsequent partial fetches. + + We accept this limitation because we believe initial users of this + feature will be using it on repositories with a strong single central + server. + +- Dynamic object fetching will only ask the promisor remote for missing + objects. We assume that the promisor remote has a complete view of the + repository and can satisfy all such requests. + +- Repack essentially treats promisor and non-promisor packfiles as 2 + distinct partitions and does not mix them. Repack currently only works + on non-promisor packfiles and loose objects. + +- Dynamic object fetching invokes fetch-pack once *for each item* + because most algorithms stumble upon a missing object and need to have + it resolved before continuing their work. This may incur significant + overhead -- and multiple authentication requests -- if many objects are + needed. + +- Dynamic object fetching currently uses the existing pack protocol V0 + which means that each object is requested via fetch-pack. The server + will send a full set of info/refs when the connection is established. + If there are large number of refs, this may incur significant overhead. + + +Future Work +----------- + +- Allow more than one promisor remote and define a strategy for fetching + missing objects from specific promisor remotes or of iterating over the + set of promisor remotes until a missing object is found. + + A user might want to have multiple geographically-close cache servers + for fetching missing blobs while continuing to do filtered `git-fetch` + commands from the central server, for example. + + Or the user might want to work in a triangular work flow with multiple + promisor remotes that each have an incomplete view of the repository. + +- Allow repack to work on promisor packfiles (while keeping them distinct + from non-promisor packfiles). + +- Allow non-pathname-based filters to make use of packfile bitmaps (when + present). This was just an omission during the initial implementation. + +- Investigate use of a long-running process to dynamically fetch a series + of objects, such as proposed in [5,6] to reduce process startup and + overhead costs. + + It would be nice if pack protocol V2 could allow that long-running + process to make a series of requests over a single long-running + connection. + +- Investigate pack protocol V2 to avoid the info/refs broadcast on + each connection with the server to dynamically fetch missing objects. + +- Investigate the need to handle loose promisor objects. + + Objects in promisor packfiles are allowed to reference missing objects + that can be dynamically fetched from the server. An assumption was + made that loose objects are only created locally and therefore should + not reference a missing object. We may need to revisit that assumption + if, for example, we dynamically fetch a missing tree and store it as a + loose object rather than a single object packfile. + + This does not necessarily mean we need to mark loose objects as promisor; + it may be sufficient to relax the object lookup or is-promisor functions. + + +Non-Tasks +--------- + +- Every time the subject of "demand loading blobs" comes up it seems + that someone suggests that the server be allowed to "guess" and send + additional objects that may be related to the requested objects. + + No work has gone into actually doing that; we're just documenting that + it is a common suggestion. We're not sure how it would work and have + no plans to work on it. + + It is valid for the server to send more objects than requested (even + for a dynamic object fetch), but we are not building on that. + + +Footnotes +--------- + +[a] expensive-to-modify list of missing objects: Earlier in the design of + partial clone we discussed the need for a single list of missing objects. + This would essentially be a sorted linear list of OIDs that the were + omitted by the server during a clone or subsequent fetches. + + This file would need to be loaded into memory on every object lookup. + It would need to be read, updated, and re-written (like the .git/index) + on every explicit "git fetch" command *and* on any dynamic object fetch. + + The cost to read, update, and write this file could add significant + overhead to every command if there are many missing objects. For example, + if there are 100M missing blobs, this file would be at least 2GiB on disk. + + With the "promisor" concept, we *infer* a missing object based upon the + type of packfile that references it. + + +Related Links +------------- +[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/git/issues/detail?id=2 + Chromium work item for: Partial Clone + +[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20170113155253.1644-1-benpeart@microsoft.com/ + Subject: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand + Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:52:53 -0500 + +[2] https://public-inbox.org/git/cover.1506714999.git.jonathantanmy@google.com/ + Subject: [PATCH 00/18] Partial clone (from clone to lazy fetch in 18 patches) + Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:11:36 -0700 + +[3] https://public-inbox.org/git/20170426221346.25337-1-jonathantanmy@google.com/ + Subject: Proposal for missing blob support in Git repos + Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 15:13:46 -0700 + +[4] https://public-inbox.org/git/1488999039-37631-1-git-send-email-git@jeffhostetler.com/ + Subject: [PATCH 00/10] RFC Partial Clone and Fetch + Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 18:50:29 +0000 + +[5] https://public-inbox.org/git/20170505152802.6724-1-benpeart@microsoft.com/ + Subject: [PATCH v7 00/10] refactor the filter process code into a reusable module + Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 11:27:52 -0400 + +[6] https://public-inbox.org/git/20170714132651.170708-1-benpeart@microsoft.com/ + Subject: [RFC/PATCH v2 0/1] Add support for downloading blobs on demand + Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 09:26:50 -0400 diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt index 26dcc6f502..332d209b58 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt @@ -309,3 +309,11 @@ to accept a signed push certificate, and asks the <nonce> to be included in the push certificate. A send-pack client MUST NOT send a push-cert packet unless the receive-pack server advertises this capability. + +filter +------ + +If the upload-pack server advertises the 'filter' capability, +fetch-pack may send "filter" commands to request a partial clone +or partial fetch and request that the server omit various objects +from the packfile. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..49bda76d23 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,414 @@ + Git Wire Protocol, Version 2 +============================== + +This document presents a specification for a version 2 of Git's wire +protocol. Protocol v2 will improve upon v1 in the following ways: + + * Instead of multiple service names, multiple commands will be + supported by a single service + * Easily extendable as capabilities are moved into their own section + of the protocol, no longer being hidden behind a NUL byte and + limited by the size of a pkt-line + * Separate out other information hidden behind NUL bytes (e.g. agent + string as a capability and symrefs can be requested using 'ls-refs') + * Reference advertisement will be omitted unless explicitly requested + * ls-refs command to explicitly request some refs + * Designed with http and stateless-rpc in mind. With clear flush + semantics the http remote helper can simply act as a proxy + +In protocol v2 communication is command oriented. When first contacting a +server a list of capabilities will advertised. Some of these capabilities +will be commands which a client can request be executed. Once a command +has completed, a client can reuse the connection and request that other +commands be executed. + + Packet-Line Framing +--------------------- + +All communication is done using packet-line framing, just as in v1. See +`Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt` and +`Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt` for more information. + +In protocol v2 these special packets will have the following semantics: + + * '0000' Flush Packet (flush-pkt) - indicates the end of a message + * '0001' Delimiter Packet (delim-pkt) - separates sections of a message + + Initial Client Request +------------------------ + +In general a client can request to speak protocol v2 by sending +`version=2` through the respective side-channel for the transport being +used which inevitably sets `GIT_PROTOCOL`. More information can be +found in `pack-protocol.txt` and `http-protocol.txt`. In all cases the +response from the server is the capability advertisement. + + Git Transport +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +When using the git:// transport, you can request to use protocol v2 by +sending "version=2" as an extra parameter: + + 003egit-upload-pack /project.git\0host=myserver.com\0\0version=2\0 + + SSH and File Transport +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +When using either the ssh:// or file:// transport, the GIT_PROTOCOL +environment variable must be set explicitly to include "version=2". + + HTTP Transport +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +When using the http:// or https:// transport a client makes a "smart" +info/refs request as described in `http-protocol.txt` and requests that +v2 be used by supplying "version=2" in the `Git-Protocol` header. + + C: Git-Protocol: version=2 + C: + C: GET $GIT_URL/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.0 + +A v2 server would reply: + + S: 200 OK + S: <Some headers> + S: ... + S: + S: 000eversion 2\n + S: <capability-advertisement> + +Subsequent requests are then made directly to the service +`$GIT_URL/git-upload-pack`. (This works the same for git-receive-pack). + + Capability Advertisement +-------------------------- + +A server which decides to communicate (based on a request from a client) +using protocol version 2, notifies the client by sending a version string +in its initial response followed by an advertisement of its capabilities. +Each capability is a key with an optional value. Clients must ignore all +unknown keys. Semantics of unknown values are left to the definition of +each key. Some capabilities will describe commands which can be requested +to be executed by the client. + + capability-advertisement = protocol-version + capability-list + flush-pkt + + protocol-version = PKT-LINE("version 2" LF) + capability-list = *capability + capability = PKT-LINE(key[=value] LF) + + key = 1*(ALPHA | DIGIT | "-_") + value = 1*(ALPHA | DIGIT | " -_.,?\/{}[]()<>!@#$%^&*+=:;") + + Command Request +----------------- + +After receiving the capability advertisement, a client can then issue a +request to select the command it wants with any particular capabilities +or arguments. There is then an optional section where the client can +provide any command specific parameters or queries. Only a single +command can be requested at a time. + + request = empty-request | command-request + empty-request = flush-pkt + command-request = command + capability-list + [command-args] + flush-pkt + command = PKT-LINE("command=" key LF) + command-args = delim-pkt + *command-specific-arg + + command-specific-args are packet line framed arguments defined by + each individual command. + +The server will then check to ensure that the client's request is +comprised of a valid command as well as valid capabilities which were +advertised. If the request is valid the server will then execute the +command. A server MUST wait till it has received the client's entire +request before issuing a response. The format of the response is +determined by the command being executed, but in all cases a flush-pkt +indicates the end of the response. + +When a command has finished, and the client has received the entire +response from the server, a client can either request that another +command be executed or can terminate the connection. A client may +optionally send an empty request consisting of just a flush-pkt to +indicate that no more requests will be made. + + Capabilities +-------------- + +There are two different types of capabilities: normal capabilities, +which can be used to to convey information or alter the behavior of a +request, and commands, which are the core actions that a client wants to +perform (fetch, push, etc). + +Protocol version 2 is stateless by default. This means that all commands +must only last a single round and be stateless from the perspective of the +server side, unless the client has requested a capability indicating that +state should be maintained by the server. Clients MUST NOT require state +management on the server side in order to function correctly. This +permits simple round-robin load-balancing on the server side, without +needing to worry about state management. + + agent +~~~~~~~ + +The server can advertise the `agent` capability with a value `X` (in the +form `agent=X`) to notify the client that the server is running version +`X`. The client may optionally send its own agent string by including +the `agent` capability with a value `Y` (in the form `agent=Y`) in its +request to the server (but it MUST NOT do so if the server did not +advertise 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 programmatically assume +the presence or absence of particular features. + + ls-refs +~~~~~~~~~ + +`ls-refs` is the command used to request a reference advertisement in v2. +Unlike the current reference advertisement, ls-refs takes in arguments +which can be used to limit the refs sent from the server. + +Additional features not supported in the base command will be advertised +as the value of the command in the capability advertisement in the form +of a space separated list of features: "<command>=<feature 1> <feature 2>" + +ls-refs takes in the following arguments: + + symrefs + In addition to the object pointed by it, show the underlying ref + pointed by it when showing a symbolic ref. + peel + Show peeled tags. + ref-prefix <prefix> + When specified, only references having a prefix matching one of + the provided prefixes are displayed. + +The output of ls-refs is as follows: + + output = *ref + flush-pkt + ref = PKT-LINE(obj-id SP refname *(SP ref-attribute) LF) + ref-attribute = (symref | peeled) + symref = "symref-target:" symref-target + peeled = "peeled:" obj-id + + fetch +~~~~~~~ + +`fetch` is the command used to fetch a packfile in v2. It can be looked +at as a modified version of the v1 fetch where the ref-advertisement is +stripped out (since the `ls-refs` command fills that role) and the +message format is tweaked to eliminate redundancies and permit easy +addition of future extensions. + +Additional features not supported in the base command will be advertised +as the value of the command in the capability advertisement in the form +of a space separated list of features: "<command>=<feature 1> <feature 2>" + +A `fetch` request can take the following arguments: + + want <oid> + Indicates to the server an object which the client wants to + retrieve. Wants can be anything and are not limited to + advertised objects. + + have <oid> + Indicates to the server an object which the client has locally. + This allows the server to make a packfile which only contains + the objects that the client needs. Multiple 'have' lines can be + supplied. + + done + Indicates to the server that negotiation should terminate (or + not even begin if performing a clone) and that the server should + use the information supplied in the request to construct the + packfile. + + thin-pack + Request that a thin pack be sent, which is a pack with deltas + which reference base objects not contained within the pack (but + are known to exist at the receiving end). This can reduce the + network traffic significantly, but it requires the receiving end + to know how to "thicken" these packs by adding the missing bases + to the pack. + + no-progress + Request that progress information that would normally be sent on + side-band channel 2, during the packfile transfer, should not be + sent. However, the side-band channel 3 is still used for error + responses. + + include-tag + Request that annotated tags should be sent if the objects they + point to are being sent. + + ofs-delta + Indicate that the client understands PACKv2 with delta referring + to its base by position in pack rather than by an oid. That is, + they can read OBJ_OFS_DELTA (ake type 6) in a packfile. + +If the 'shallow' feature is advertised the following arguments can be +included in the clients request as well as the potential addition of the +'shallow-info' section in the server's response as explained below. + + shallow <oid> + A client must notify the server of all commits for which it only + has shallow copies (meaning that it doesn't have the parents of + a commit) by supplying a 'shallow <oid>' line for each such + object so that the server is aware of the limitations of the + client's history. This is so that the server is aware that the + client may not have all objects reachable from such commits. + + deepen <depth> + Requests that the fetch/clone should be shallow having a commit + depth of <depth> relative to the remote side. + + deepen-relative + Requests that the semantics of the "deepen" command be changed + to indicate that the depth requested is relative to the client's + current shallow boundary, instead of relative to the requested + commits. + + deepen-since <timestamp> + Requests that the shallow clone/fetch should be cut at a + specific time, instead of depth. Internally it's equivalent to + doing "git rev-list --max-age=<timestamp>". Cannot be used with + "deepen". + + deepen-not <rev> + Requests that the shallow clone/fetch should be cut at a + specific revision specified by '<rev>', instead of a depth. + Internally it's equivalent of doing "git rev-list --not <rev>". + Cannot be used with "deepen", but can be used with + "deepen-since". + +If the 'filter' feature is advertised, the following argument can be +included in the client's request: + + filter <filter-spec> + Request that various objects from the packfile be omitted + using one of several filtering techniques. These are intended + for use with partial clone and partial fetch operations. See + `rev-list` for possible "filter-spec" values. + +The response of `fetch` is broken into a number of sections separated by +delimiter packets (0001), with each section beginning with its section +header. + + output = *section + section = (acknowledgments | shallow-info | packfile) + (flush-pkt | delim-pkt) + + acknowledgments = PKT-LINE("acknowledgments" LF) + (nak | *ack) + (ready) + ready = PKT-LINE("ready" LF) + nak = PKT-LINE("NAK" LF) + ack = PKT-LINE("ACK" SP obj-id LF) + + shallow-info = PKT-LINE("shallow-info" LF) + *PKT-LINE((shallow | unshallow) LF) + shallow = "shallow" SP obj-id + unshallow = "unshallow" SP obj-id + + packfile = PKT-LINE("packfile" LF) + *PKT-LINE(%x01-03 *%x00-ff) + + acknowledgments section + * If the client determines that it is finished with negotiations + by sending a "done" line, the acknowledgments sections MUST be + omitted from the server's response. + + * Always begins with the section header "acknowledgments" + + * The server will respond with "NAK" if none of the object ids sent + as have lines were common. + + * The server will respond with "ACK obj-id" for all of the + object ids sent as have lines which are common. + + * A response cannot have both "ACK" lines as well as a "NAK" + line. + + * The server will respond with a "ready" line indicating that + the server has found an acceptable common base and is ready to + make and send a packfile (which will be found in the packfile + section of the same response) + + * If the server has found a suitable cut point and has decided + to send a "ready" line, then the server can decide to (as an + optimization) omit any "ACK" lines it would have sent during + its response. This is because the server will have already + determined the objects it plans to send to the client and no + further negotiation is needed. + + shallow-info section + * If the client has requested a shallow fetch/clone, a shallow + client requests a fetch or the server is shallow then the + server's response may include a shallow-info section. The + shallow-info section will be included if (due to one of the + above conditions) the server needs to inform the client of any + shallow boundaries or adjustments to the clients already + existing shallow boundaries. + + * Always begins with the section header "shallow-info" + + * If a positive depth is requested, the server will compute the + set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth. + + * The server sends a "shallow obj-id" line for each commit whose + parents will not be sent in the following packfile. + + * The server sends an "unshallow obj-id" line for each commit + which the client has indicated is shallow, but is no longer + shallow as a result of the fetch (due to its parents being + sent in the following packfile). + + * The server MUST NOT send any "unshallow" lines for anything + which the client has not indicated was shallow as a part of + its request. + + * This section is only included if a packfile section is also + included in the response. + + packfile section + * This section is only included if the client has sent 'want' + lines in its request and either requested that no more + negotiation be done by sending 'done' or if the server has + decided it has found a sufficient cut point to produce a + packfile. + + * Always begins with the section header "packfile" + + * The transmission of the packfile begins immediately after the + section header + + * The data transfer of the packfile is always multiplexed, using + the same semantics of the 'side-band-64k' capability from + protocol version 1. This means that each packet, during the + packfile data stream, is made up of a leading 4-byte pkt-line + length (typical of the pkt-line format), followed by a 1-byte + stream code, followed by the actual data. + + The stream code can be one of: + 1 - pack data + 2 - progress messages + 3 - fatal error message just before stream aborts + + server-option +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +If advertised, indicates that any number of server specific options can be +included in a request. This is done by sending each option as a +"server-option=<option>" capability line in the capability-list section of +a request. + +The provided options must not contain a NUL or LF character. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt b/Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt index 00ad37986e..e03eaccebc 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt @@ -86,3 +86,15 @@ for testing format-1 compatibility. When the config key `extensions.preciousObjects` is set to `true`, objects in the repository MUST NOT be deleted (e.g., by `git-prune` or `git repack -d`). + +`partialclone` +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +When the config key `extensions.partialclone` is set, it indicates +that the repo was created with a partial clone (or later performed +a partial fetch) and that the remote may have omitted sending +certain unwanted objects. Such a remote is called a "promisor remote" +and it promises that all such omitted objects can be fetched from it +in the future. + +The value of this key is the name of the promisor remote. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt index 5183b15422..01dedfe9ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt @@ -8,20 +8,22 @@ repo, and therefore grafts are introduced pretending that these commits have no parents. ********************************************************* -The basic idea is to write the SHA-1s of shallow commits into -$GIT_DIR/shallow, and handle its contents like the contents -of $GIT_DIR/info/grafts (with the difference that shallow -cannot contain parent information). - -This information is stored in a new file instead of grafts, or -even the config, since the user should not touch that file -at all (even throughout development of the shallow clone, it -was never manually edited!). +$GIT_DIR/shallow lists commit object names and tells Git to +pretend as if they are root commits (e.g. "git log" traversal +stops after showing them; "git fsck" does not complain saying +the commits listed on their "parent" lines do not exist). Each line contains exactly one SHA-1. When read, a commit_graft will be constructed, which has nr_parent < 0 to make it easier to discern from user provided grafts. +Note that the shallow feature could not be changed easily to +use replace refs: a commit containing a `mergetag` is not allowed +to be replaced, not even by a root commit. Such a commit can be +made shallow, though. Also, having a `shallow` file explicitly +listing all the commits made shallow makes it a *lot* easier to +do shallow-specific things such as to deepen the history. + Since fsck-objects relies on the library to read the objects, it honours shallow commits automatically. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt b/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt index c79d4a7c47..1f1c33d0da 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ or the result. If multiple cases apply, the one used is listed first. A result which changes the index is an error if the index is not empty -and not up-to-date. +and not up to date. Entries marked '+' have stat information. Spaces marked '*' don't affect the result. @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ empty, no entry is left for that stage). Otherwise, the given entry is left in stage 0, and there are no other entries. A result of "no merge" is an error if the index is not empty and not -up-to-date. +up to date. *empty* means that the tree must not have a directory-file conflict with the entry. diff --git a/Documentation/texi.xsl b/Documentation/texi.xsl new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0f8ff07eca --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/texi.xsl @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +<!-- texi.xsl: + convert refsection elements into refsect elements that docbook2texi can + understand --> +<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" + version="1.0"> + +<xsl:output method="xml" + encoding="UTF-8" + doctype-public="-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" + doctype-system="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" /> + +<xsl:template match="//refsection"> + <xsl:variable name="element">refsect<xsl:value-of select="count(ancestor-or-self::refsection)" /></xsl:variable> + <xsl:element name="{$element}"> + <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" /> + </xsl:element> +</xsl:template> + +<!-- Copy all other nodes through. --> +<xsl:template match="node()|@*"> + <xsl:copy> + <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" /> + </xsl:copy> +</xsl:template> + +</xsl:stylesheet> diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 5e07454572..eff7890274 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example: git checkout -b new_branch_name -HEAD is now at 427abfa... Linux v2.6.17 +HEAD is now at 427abfa Linux v2.6.17 ------------------------------------------------ The HEAD then refers to the SHA-1 of the commit instead of to a branch, @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ Bisecting: 3537 revisions left to test after this If you run `git branch` at this point, you'll see that Git has temporarily moved you in "(no branch)". HEAD is now detached from any -branch and points directly to a commit (with commit id 65934...) that +branch and points directly to a commit (with commit id 65934) that is reachable from "master" but not from v2.6.18. Compile and test it, and see whether it crashes. Assume it does crash. Then: @@ -549,14 +549,14 @@ says "bisect". Choose a safe-looking commit nearby, note its commit id, and check it out with: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git reset --hard fb47ddb2db... +$ git reset --hard fb47ddb2db ------------------------------------------------- then test, run `bisect good` or `bisect bad` as appropriate, and continue. Instead of `git bisect visualize` and then `git reset --hard -fb47ddb2db...`, you might just want to tell Git that you want to skip +fb47ddb2db`, you might just want to tell Git that you want to skip the current commit: ------------------------------------------------- @@ -1556,7 +1556,7 @@ so on a different branch and then coming back), unstash the work-in-progress changes. ------------------------------------------------ -$ git stash save "work in progress for foo feature" +$ git stash push -m "work in progress for foo feature" ------------------------------------------------ This command will save your changes away to the `stash`, and @@ -2044,10 +2044,12 @@ If a push would not result in a <<fast-forwards,fast-forward>> of the remote branch, then it will fail with an error like: ------------------------------------------------- -error: remote 'refs/heads/master' is not an ancestor of - local 'refs/heads/master'. - Maybe you are not up-to-date and need to pull first? -error: failed to push to 'ssh://yourserver.com/~you/proj.git' + ! [rejected] master -> master (non-fast-forward) +error: failed to push some refs to '...' +hint: Updates were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind +hint: its remote counterpart. Integrate the remote changes (e.g. +hint: 'git pull ...') before pushing again. +hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details. ------------------------------------------------- This can happen, for example, if you: @@ -2193,7 +2195,7 @@ $ cd work Linus's tree will be stored in the remote-tracking branch named origin/master, and can be updated using linkgit:git-fetch[1]; you can track other public trees using linkgit:git-remote[1] to set up a "remote" and -linkgit:git-fetch[1] to keep them up-to-date; see +linkgit:git-fetch[1] to keep them up to date; see <<repositories-and-branches>>. Now create the branches in which you are going to work; these start out @@ -3414,7 +3416,7 @@ commit abc Author: Date: ... -:100644 100644 4b9458b... newsha... M somedirectory/myfile +:100644 100644 4b9458b newsha M somedirectory/myfile commit xyz @@ -3422,7 +3424,7 @@ Author: Date: ... -:100644 100644 oldsha... 4b9458b... M somedirectory/myfile +:100644 100644 oldsha 4b9458b M somedirectory/myfile ------------------------------------------------ This tells you that the immediately following version of the file was @@ -3447,7 +3449,7 @@ and your repository is good again! $ git log --raw --all ------------------------------------------------ -and just looked for the sha of the missing object (4b9458b..) in that +and just looked for the sha of the missing object (4b9458b) in that whole thing. It's up to you--Git does *have* a lot of information, it is just missing one particular blob version. @@ -4112,9 +4114,9 @@ program, e.g. `diff3`, `merge`, or Git's own merge-file, on the blob objects from these three stages yourself, like this: ------------------------------------------------ -$ git cat-file blob 263414f... >hello.c~1 -$ git cat-file blob 06fa6a2... >hello.c~2 -$ git cat-file blob cc44c73... >hello.c~3 +$ git cat-file blob 263414f >hello.c~1 +$ git cat-file blob 06fa6a2 >hello.c~2 +$ git cat-file blob cc44c73 >hello.c~3 $ git merge-file hello.c~2 hello.c~1 hello.c~3 ------------------------------------------------ @@ -4372,7 +4374,7 @@ $ git log --no-merges t/ ------------------------ In the pager (`less`), just search for "bundle", go a few lines back, -and see that it is in commit 18449ab0... Now just copy this object name, +and see that it is in commit 18449ab0. Now just copy this object name, and paste it into the command line ------------------- @@ -4395,6 +4397,10 @@ itself! Git Glossary ============ +[[git-explained]] +Git explained +------------- + include::glossary-content.txt[] [[git-quick-start]] @@ -4636,6 +4642,10 @@ $ git gc Appendix B: Notes and todo list for this manual =============================================== +[[todo-list]] +Todo list +--------- + This is a work in progress. The basic requirements: |