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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.5.txt | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.5.txt | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.4.txt | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt | 126 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.1.txt | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.0.txt | 74 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-notes.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-push.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 44 |
11 files changed, 360 insertions, 83 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..92ff92b1e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git v1.8.5.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.5.5 +-------------------- + + * We used to allow committing a path ".Git/config" with Git that is + running on a case sensitive filesystem, but an attempt to check out + such a path with Git that runs on a case insensitive filesystem + would have clobbered ".git/config", which is definitely not what + the user would have expected. Git now prevents you from tracking + a path with ".Git" (in any case combination) as a path component. + + * On Windows, certain path components that are different from ".git" + are mapped to ".git", e.g. "git~1/config" is treated as if it were + ".git/config". HFS+ has a similar issue, where certain unicode + codepoints are ignored, e.g. ".g\u200cit/config" is treated as if + it were ".git/config". Pathnames with these potential issues are + rejected on the affected systems. Git on systems that are not + affected by this issue (e.g. Linux) can also be configured to + reject them to ensure cross platform interoperability of the hosted + projects. + + * "git fsck" notices a tree object that records such a path that can + be confused with ".git", and with receive.fsckObjects configuration + set to true, an attempt to "git push" such a tree object will be + rejected. Such a path may not be a problem on a well behaving + filesystem but in order to protect those on HFS+ and on case + insensitive filesystems, this check is enabled on all platforms. + +A big "thanks!" for bringing this issue to us goes to our friends in +the Mercurial land, namely, Matt Mackall and Augie Fackler. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8d6ac0cf53 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git v1.9.5 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v1.9.4 +------------------ + + * We used to allow committing a path ".Git/config" with Git that is + running on a case sensitive filesystem, but an attempt to check out + such a path with Git that runs on a case insensitive filesystem + would have clobbered ".git/config", which is definitely not what + the user would have expected. Git now prevents you from tracking + a path with ".Git" (in any case combination) as a path component. + + * On Windows, certain path components that are different from ".git" + are mapped to ".git", e.g. "git~1/config" is treated as if it were + ".git/config". HFS+ has a similar issue, where certain unicode + codepoints are ignored, e.g. ".g\u200cit/config" is treated as if + it were ".git/config". Pathnames with these potential issues are + rejected on the affected systems. Git on systems that are not + affected by this issue (e.g. Linux) can also be configured to + reject them to ensure cross platform interoperability of the hosted + projects. + + * "git fsck" notices a tree object that records such a path that can + be confused with ".git", and with receive.fsckObjects configuration + set to true, an attempt to "git push" such a tree object will be + rejected. Such a path may not be a problem on a well behaving + filesystem but in order to protect those on HFS+ and on case + insensitive filesystems, this check is enabled on all platforms. + +A big "thanks!" for bringing this issue to us goes to our friends in +the Mercurial land, namely, Matt Mackall and Augie Fackler. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3a16f697e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git v2.0.5 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.0.4 +------------------ + + * We used to allow committing a path ".Git/config" with Git that is + running on a case sensitive filesystem, but an attempt to check out + such a path with Git that runs on a case insensitive filesystem + would have clobbered ".git/config", which is definitely not what + the user would have expected. Git now prevents you from tracking + a path with ".Git" (in any case combination) as a path component. + + * On Windows, certain path components that are different from ".git" + are mapped to ".git", e.g. "git~1/config" is treated as if it were + ".git/config". HFS+ has a similar issue, where certain unicode + codepoints are ignored, e.g. ".g\u200cit/config" is treated as if + it were ".git/config". Pathnames with these potential issues are + rejected on the affected systems. Git on systems that are not + affected by this issue (e.g. Linux) can also be configured to + reject them to ensure cross platform interoperability of the hosted + projects. + + * "git fsck" notices a tree object that records such a path that can + be confused with ".git", and with receive.fsckObjects configuration + set to true, an attempt to "git push" such a tree object will be + rejected. Such a path may not be a problem on a well behaving + filesystem but in order to protect those on HFS+ and on case + insensitive filesystems, this check is enabled on all platforms. + +A big "thanks!" for bringing this issue to us goes to our friends in +the Mercurial land, namely, Matt Mackall and Augie Fackler. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d16e5f041f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git v2.1.4 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.1.3 +------------------ + + * We used to allow committing a path ".Git/config" with Git that is + running on a case sensitive filesystem, but an attempt to check out + such a path with Git that runs on a case insensitive filesystem + would have clobbered ".git/config", which is definitely not what + the user would have expected. Git now prevents you from tracking + a path with ".Git" (in any case combination) as a path component. + + * On Windows, certain path components that are different from ".git" + are mapped to ".git", e.g. "git~1/config" is treated as if it were + ".git/config". HFS+ has a similar issue, where certain unicode + codepoints are ignored, e.g. ".g\u200cit/config" is treated as if + it were ".git/config". Pathnames with these potential issues are + rejected on the affected systems. Git on systems that are not + affected by this issue (e.g. Linux) can also be configured to + reject them to ensure cross platform interoperability of the hosted + projects. + + * "git fsck" notices a tree object that records such a path that can + be confused with ".git", and with receive.fsckObjects configuration + set to true, an attempt to "git push" such a tree object will be + rejected. Such a path may not be a problem on a well behaving + filesystem but in order to protect those on HFS+ and on case + insensitive filesystems, this check is enabled on all platforms. + +A big "thanks!" for bringing this issue to us goes to our friends in +the Mercurial land, namely, Matt Mackall and Augie Fackler. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt index d4001c5ae5..e98ecbcff6 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt @@ -9,71 +9,72 @@ Ports * Building on older MacOS X systems automatically sets the necessary NO_APPLE_COMMON_CRYPTO build-time option. - * The support to build with NO_PTHREADS has been resurrected. + * Building with NO_PTHREADS has been resurrected. - * Compilation options has been updated a bit to support z/OS port - better. + * Compilation options have been updated a bit to better support the + z/OS port. UI, Workflows & Features - * "git archive" learned to filter what gets archived with pathspec. + * "git archive" learned to filter what gets archived with a pathspec. * "git config --edit --global" starts from a skeletal per-user configuration file contents, instead of a total blank, when the - user does not already have any. This immediately reduces the - need for a later "Have you forgotten setting core.user?" and we - can add more to the template as we gain more experience. + user does not already have any global config. This immediately + reduces the need to later ask "Have you forgotten to set + core.user?", and we can add more to the template as we gain + more experience. * "git stash list -p" used to be almost always a no-op because each stash entry is represented as a merge commit. It learned to show the difference between the base commit version and the working tree - version, which is in line with what "git show" gives. + version, which is in line with what "git stash show" gives. * Sometimes users want to report a bug they experience on their repository, but they are not at liberty to share the contents of the repository. "fast-export" was taught an "--anonymize" option - to replace blob contents, names of people and paths and log + to replace blob contents, names of people, paths and log messages with bland and simple strings to help them. * "git difftool" learned an option to stop feeding paths to the diff backend when it exits with a non-zero status. - * "git grep" allows to paint (or not paint) partial matches on + * "git grep" learned to paint (or not paint) partial matches on context lines when showing "grep -C<num>" output in color. - * "log --date=iso" uses a slight variant of ISO 8601 format that is - made more human readable. A new "--date=iso-strict" option gives - datetime output that is more strictly conformant. + * "log --date=iso" uses a slight variant of the ISO 8601 format that is + more human readable. A new "--date=iso-strict" option gives + datetime output that conforms more strictly. * The logic "git prune" uses is more resilient against various corner cases. * A broken reimplementation of Git could write an invalid index that - records both stage #0 and higher stage entries for the same path. + records both stage #0 and higher-stage entries for the same path. We now notice and reject such an index, as there is no sensible fallback (we do not know if the broken tool wanted to resolve and - forgot to remove higher stage entries, or if it wanted to unresolve - and forgot to remove the stage#0 entry). + forgot to remove the higher-stage entries, or if it wanted to unresolve + and forgot to remove the stage #0 entry). - * The temporary files "git mergetool" uses are named to avoid too + * The temporary files "git mergetool" uses are renamed to avoid too many dots in them (e.g. a temporary file for "hello.c" used to be named e.g. "hello.BASE.4321.c" but now uses underscore instead, - e.g. "hello_BASE_4321.c"). + e.g. "hello_BASE_4321.c", to allow us to have multiple variants). - * The temporary files "git mergetools" uses can be placed in a newly + * The temporary files "git mergetool" uses can be placed in a newly created temporary directory, instead of the current directory, by setting the mergetool.writeToTemp configuration variable. * "git mergetool" understands "--tool bc" now, as version 4 of BeyondCompare can be driven the same way as its version 3 and it - feels awkward to say "--tool bc3". + feels awkward to say "--tool bc3" to run version 4. * The "pre-receive" and "post-receive" hooks are no longer required to consume their input fully (not following this requirement used to result in intermittent errors in "git push"). - * The pretty-format specifier "%d", which expanded to " (tagname)" + * The pretty-format specifier "%d", which expands to " (tagname)" for a tagged commit, gained a cousin "%D" that just gives the "tagname" without frills. @@ -86,17 +87,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features without having to "trust" the server. * "git interpret-trailers" is a new filter to programmatically edit - the tail end of the commit log messages. + the tail end of the commit log messages, e.g. "Signed-off-by:". * "git help everyday" shows the "Everyday Git in 20 commands or so" - document, whose contents have been updated to more modern Git - practice. + document, whose contents have been updated to match more modern + Git practice. - * On the "git svn" front, work to reduce memory consumption and - to improve handling of mergeinfo progresses. + * On the "git svn" front, work progresses to reduce memory consumption and + to improve handling of mergeinfo. -Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The API to manipulate the "refs" has been restructured to make it more transactional, with the eventual goal to allow all-or-none @@ -106,34 +107,34 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * The lockfile API and its users have been cleaned up. * We no longer attempt to keep track of individual dependencies to - the header files in the build procedure, relying on automated + the header files in the build procedure, relying instead on automated dependency generation support from modern compilers. * In tests, we have been using NOT_{MINGW,CYGWIN} test prerequisites long before negated prerequisites e.g. !MINGW were invented. The former has been converted to the latter to avoid confusion. - * Looking up remotes configuration in a repository with very many - remotes defined has been optimized. + * Optimized looking up a remote's configuration in a repository with very many + remotes defined. * There are cases where you lock and open to write a file, close it - to show the updated contents to external processes, and then have - to update the file again while still holding the lock, but the - lockfile API lacked support for such an access pattern. + to show the updated contents to an external processes, and then have + to update the file again while still holding the lock; now the + lockfile API has support for such an access pattern. * The API to allocate the structure to keep track of commit decoration has been updated to make it less cumbersome to use. * An in-core caching layer to let us avoid reading the same - configuration files number of times has been added. A few commands + configuration files several times has been added. A few commands have been converted to use this subsystem. * Various code paths have been cleaned up and simplified by using - "strbuf", "starts_with()", and "skip_prefix()" APIs more. + the "strbuf", "starts_with()", and "skip_prefix()" APIs more. * A few codepaths that died when large blobs that would not fit in core are involved in their operation have been taught to punt - instead, by e.g. marking too large a blob as not to be diffed. + instead, by e.g. marking a too-large blob as not to be diffed. * A few more code paths in "commit" and "checkout" have been taught to repopulate the cache-tree in the index, to help speed up later @@ -141,7 +142,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. "status"). * A common programming mistake to assign the same short option name - to two separate options is detected by parse_options() API to help + to two separate options is detected by the parse_options() API to help developers. * The code path to write out the packed-refs file has been optimized, @@ -153,7 +154,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. especially matters in a repository with a large number of existing refs. - * "git fsck" was taught to check contents of tag objects a bit more. + * "git fsck" was taught to check the contents of tag objects a bit more. * "git hash-object" was taught a "--literally" option to help debugging. @@ -162,16 +163,17 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. original before feeding the filter. Instead, stream the file contents directly to the filter and process its output. - * The scripts in the test suite can be run with "-x" option to show - a shell-trace of each command run in them. + * The scripts in the test suite can be run with the "-x" option to show + a shell-trace of each command they run. * The "run-command" API learned to manage the argv and environment - array for child process, alleviating the need for the callers to + arrays for child process, alleviating the need for the callers to allocate and deallocate them. * Some people use AsciiDoctor, instead of AsciiDoc, to format our - documentation set; the documentation has been adjusted, as - AsciiDoctor is pickier than AsciiDoc in its input mark-up. + documentation set; the documentation has been adjusted to be usable + by both, as AsciiDoctor is pickier than AsciiDoc about its input + mark-up. Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -189,21 +191,21 @@ notes for details). format", which was counterintuitive. * "git -c section.var command" and "git -c section.var= command" - should pass the configuration differently (the former should be a + should pass the configuration value differently (the former should be a boolean true, the latter should be an empty string). * Applying a patch not generated by Git in a subdirectory used to - check the whitespace breakage using the attributes for incorrect + check for whitespace breakage using the attributes of incorrect paths. Also whitespace checks were performed even for paths - excluded via "git apply --exclude=<path>" mechanism. + excluded via the "git apply --exclude=<path>" mechanism. - * "git bundle create" with date-range specification were meant to + * "git bundle create" with a date-range specification was meant to exclude tags outside the range, but it didn't. - * "git add x" where x that used to be a directory has become a + * "git add x" where x used to be a directory and is now a symbolic link to a directory misbehaved. - * The prompt script checked $GIT_DIR/ref/stash file to see if there + * The prompt script checked the $GIT_DIR/ref/stash file to see if there is a stash, which was a no-no. * Pack-protocol documentation had a minor typo. @@ -217,7 +219,7 @@ notes for details). (merge 107efbe rs/daemon-fixes later to maint). * With sufficiently long refnames, "git fast-import" could have - overflown an on-stack buffer. + overflowed an on-stack buffer. * After "pack-refs --prune" packed refs at the top-level, it failed to prune them. @@ -232,8 +234,8 @@ notes for details). to first check out <branch>. (merge 95c6826 so/rebase-doc later to maint). - * "git push" over HTTP transport had an artificial limit on number of - refs that can be pushed imposed by the command line length. + * "git push" over HTTP transport had an artificial limit on the number of + refs that can be pushed, imposed by the command line length. (merge 26be19b jk/send-pack-many-refspecs later to maint). * When receiving an invalid pack stream that records the same object @@ -248,19 +250,19 @@ notes for details). detached HEAD as a starting point to traverse objects still in use. (merge c40fdd0 mk/reachable-protect-detached-head later to maint). - * "git config --add section.var val" used to lose existing - section.var whose value was an empty string. + * "git config --add section.var val" when section.var already has an + empty-string value used to lose the empty-string value. (merge c1063be ta/config-add-to-empty-or-true-fix later to maint). * "git fsck" failed to report that it found corrupt objects via its exit status in some cases. (merge 30d1038 jk/fsck-exit-code-fix later to maint). - * Use of "--verbose" option used to break "git branch --merged". + * Use of the "--verbose" option used to break "git branch --merged". (merge 12994dd jk/maint-branch-verbose-merged later to maint). - * Some MUAs mangled a line in a message that begins with "From " to - ">From " when writing to a mailbox file and feeding such an input + * Some MUAs mangle a line in a message that begins with "From " to + ">From " when writing to a mailbox file, and feeding such an input to "git am" used to lose such a line. (merge 85de86a jk/mbox-from-line later to maint). @@ -273,8 +275,8 @@ notes for details). coding guidelines. (merge 1c4b660 da/include-compat-util-first-in-c later to maint). - * t7004 test, which tried to run Git with small stack space, has been - updated to give a bit larger stack to avoid false breakage on some + * The t7004 test, which tried to run Git with small stack space, has been + updated to use a bit larger stack to avoid false breakage on some platforms. (merge b9a1907 sk/tag-contains-wo-recursion later to maint). @@ -287,11 +289,11 @@ notes for details). CGI.pm as of 4.04; use CGI::start_from instead. (merge 4750f4b rm/gitweb-start-form later to maint). - * Newer versions of 'meld' breaks the auto-detection we use to see if + * Newer versions of 'meld' break the auto-detection we use to see if they are new enough to support the `--output` option. (merge b12d045 da/mergetool-meld later to maint). - * "git pack-objects" forgot to disable the codepath to generate + * "git pack-objects" forgot to disable the codepath to generate the object reachability bitmap when it needs to split the resulting pack. (merge 2113471 jk/pack-objects-no-bitmap-when-splitting later to maint). @@ -301,7 +303,7 @@ notes for details). index file. (merge 729dbbd jk/cache-tree-protect-from-broken-libgit2 later to maint). - * "git fetch" into a repository where branch B was deleted earlier + * "git fetch" into a repository where branch B was deleted earlier, back when it had reflog enabled, and then branch B/C is fetched into it without reflog enabled, which is arguably an unlikely corner case, unnecessarily failed. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d5a3cd9e73 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git v2.2.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.2 +---------------- + + * We used to allow committing a path ".Git/config" with Git that is + running on a case sensitive filesystem, but an attempt to check out + such a path with Git that runs on a case insensitive filesystem + would have clobbered ".git/config", which is definitely not what + the user would have expected. Git now prevents you from tracking + a path with ".Git" (in any case combination) as a path component. + + * On Windows, certain path components that are different from ".git" + are mapped to ".git", e.g. "git~1/config" is treated as if it were + ".git/config". HFS+ has a similar issue, where certain unicode + codepoints are ignored, e.g. ".g\u200cit/config" is treated as if + it were ".git/config". Pathnames with these potential issues are + rejected on the affected systems. Git on systems that are not + affected by this issue (e.g. Linux) can also be configured to + reject them to ensure cross platform interoperability of the hosted + projects. + + * "git fsck" notices a tree object that records such a path that can + be confused with ".git", and with receive.fsckObjects configuration + set to true, an attempt to "git push" such a tree object will be + rejected. Such a path may not be a problem on a well behaving + filesystem but in order to protect those on HFS+ and on case + insensitive filesystems, this check is enabled on all platforms. + +A big "thanks!" for bringing this issue to us goes to our friends in +the Mercurial land, namely, Matt Mackall and Augie Fackler. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..880c062117 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +Git v2.3 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.2 +------------------ + +Ports + + * + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * It was cumbersome to use "GIT_SSH" mechanism when the user wanted + to pass an extra set of arguments to the underlying ssh. A new + environment variable GIT_SSH_COMMAND can be used for this. + + * A request to store an empty note via "git notes" meant to remove + note from the object but with --allow-empty we will store a + (surprise!) note that is empty. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.2 +---------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.2 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * "git checkout $treeish $path", when $path in the index and the + working tree already matched what is in $treeish at the $path, + still overwrote the $path unnecessarily. + (merge c5326bd jk/checkout-from-tree later to maint). + + * "git config --get-color" did not parse its command line arguments + carefully. + (merge cb35722 jk/colors-fix later to maint). + + * open() emulated on Windows platforms did not give EISDIR upon + an attempt to open a directory for writing. + (merge ba6fad0 js/windows-open-eisdir-error later to maint). + + * A few code paths used abs() when they should have used labs() on + long integers. + (merge 83915ba rs/maint-config-use-labs later to maint). + (merge 31a8aa1 rs/receive-pack-use-labs later to maint). + + * "gitweb" used to depend on a behaviour recent CGI.pm deprecated. + (merge 13dbf46 jk/gitweb-with-newer-cgi-multi-param later to maint). + + * "git init" (hence "git clone") initialized the per-repository + configuration file .git/config with x-bit by mistake. + (merge 1f32ecf mh/config-flip-xbit-back-after-checking later to maint). + + * Git 2.0 was supposed to make the "simple" mode for the default of + "git push", but it didn't. + (merge 00a6fa0 jk/push-simple later to maint). + + * "Everyday" document had a broken link. + (merge 366c8d4 po/everyday-doc later to maint). + + * A few test fixes. + (merge 880ef58 jk/no-perl-tests later to maint). + + * The build procedure did not bother fixing perl and python scripts + when NO_PERL and NO_PYTHON build-time configuration changed. + (merge ca2051d jk/rebuild-perl-scripts-with-no-perl-seting-change later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 922072596f..9335ff2ae2 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -246,6 +246,17 @@ core.precomposeunicode:: When false, file names are handled fully transparent by Git, which is backward compatible with older versions of Git. +core.protectHFS:: + If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would + be considered equivalent to `.git` on an HFS+ filesystem. + Defaults to `true` on Mac OS, and `false` elsewhere. + +core.protectNTFS:: + If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would + cause problems with the NTFS filesystem, e.g. conflict with + 8.3 "short" names. + Defaults to `true` on Windows, and `false` elsewhere. + core.trustctime:: If false, the ctime differences between the index and the working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time @@ -839,6 +850,10 @@ accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`, `blue`, `blink` and `reverse`. The first color given is the foreground; the second is the background. The position of the attribute, if any, doesn't matter. ++ +Colors (foreground and background) may also be given as numbers between +0 and 255; these use ANSI 256-color mode (but note that not all +terminals may support this). color.diff:: Whether to use ANSI escape sequences to add color to patches. diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt index 310f0a5e8c..851518d531 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt @@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git notes' [list [<object>]] -'git notes' add [-f] [-F <file> | -m <msg> | (-c | -C) <object>] [<object>] +'git notes' add [-f] [--allow-empty] [-F <file> | -m <msg> | (-c | -C) <object>] [<object>] 'git notes' copy [-f] ( --stdin | <from-object> <to-object> ) -'git notes' append [-F <file> | -m <msg> | (-c | -C) <object>] [<object>] -'git notes' edit [<object>] +'git notes' append [--allow-empty] [-F <file> | -m <msg> | (-c | -C) <object>] [<object>] +'git notes' edit [--allow-empty] [<object>] 'git notes' show [<object>] 'git notes' merge [-v | -q] [-s <strategy> ] <notes-ref> 'git notes' merge --commit [-v | -q] @@ -155,6 +155,10 @@ OPTIONS Like '-C', but with '-c' the editor is invoked, so that the user can further edit the note message. +--allow-empty:: + Allow an empty note object to be stored. The default behavior is + to automatically remove empty notes. + --ref <ref>:: Manipulate the notes tree in <ref>. This overrides 'GIT_NOTES_REF' and the "core.notesRef" configuration. The ref @@ -287,7 +291,7 @@ arbitrary files using 'git hash-object': ------------ $ cc *.c $ blob=$(git hash-object -w a.out) -$ git notes --ref=built add -C "$blob" HEAD +$ git notes --ref=built add --allow-empty -C "$blob" HEAD ------------ (You cannot simply use `git notes --ref=built add -F a.out HEAD` diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 21b3f29c3b..b17283ab7a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ When the command line does not specify what to push with `<refspec>...` arguments or `--all`, `--mirror`, `--tags` options, the command finds the default `<refspec>` by consulting `remote.*.push` configuration, and if it is not found, honors `push.default` configuration to decide -what to push (See gitlink:git-config[1] for the meaning of `push.default`). +what to push (See linkgit:git-config[1] for the meaning of `push.default`). OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]] diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 9202010d80..73dc0ad0a0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,35 +43,45 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from the 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v2.1.3/git.html[documentation for release 2.1.3] +* link:v2.2.1/git.html[documentation for release 2.2.1] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.2.1.txt[2.2.1], + link:RelNotes/2.2.0.txt[2.2]. + +* link:v2.1.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.1.4] + +* release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.1.4.txt[2.1.4], link:RelNotes/2.1.3.txt[2.1.3], link:RelNotes/2.1.2.txt[2.1.2], link:RelNotes/2.1.1.txt[2.1.1], link:RelNotes/2.1.0.txt[2.1]. -* link:v2.0.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.0.4] +* link:v2.0.5/git.html[documentation for release 2.0.5] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.0.5.txt[2.0.5], link:RelNotes/2.0.4.txt[2.0.4], link:RelNotes/2.0.3.txt[2.0.3], link:RelNotes/2.0.2.txt[2.0.2], link:RelNotes/2.0.1.txt[2.0.1], link:RelNotes/2.0.0.txt[2.0.0]. -* link:v1.9.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.9.4] +* link:v1.9.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.9.5] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.9.5.txt[1.9.5], link:RelNotes/1.9.4.txt[1.9.4], link:RelNotes/1.9.3.txt[1.9.3], link:RelNotes/1.9.2.txt[1.9.2], link:RelNotes/1.9.1.txt[1.9.1], link:RelNotes/1.9.0.txt[1.9.0]. -* link:v1.8.5.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.5.5] +* link:v1.8.5.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.5.6] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.8.5.6.txt[1.8.5.6], link:RelNotes/1.8.5.5.txt[1.8.5.5], link:RelNotes/1.8.5.4.txt[1.8.5.4], link:RelNotes/1.8.5.3.txt[1.8.5.3], @@ -876,19 +886,21 @@ other and the `core.editor` option in linkgit:git-config[1]. 'GIT_SSH':: - If this environment variable is set then 'git fetch' - and 'git push' will use this command instead - of 'ssh' when they need to connect to a remote system. - The '$GIT_SSH' 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. +'GIT_SSH_COMMAND':: + 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. + -To pass options to the program that you want to list in GIT_SSH -you will need to wrap the program and options into a shell script, -then set GIT_SSH to refer to the shell script. +`$GIT_SSH_COMMAND` takes precedence over `$GIT_SSH`, and is interpreted +by the shell, which allows additional arguments to be included. +`$GIT_SSH` on the other hand must be just the path to a program +(which can be a wrapper shell script, if additional arguments are +needed). + Usually it is easier to configure any desired options through your personal `.ssh/config` file. Please consult your ssh documentation |