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-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt68
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt31
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt69
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt261
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt110
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-config.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-options.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/everyday.txto2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fast-import.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-format-patch.txt60
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-init.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-log.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-notes.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-send-email.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-worktree.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitattributes.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/githooks.txt73
-rwxr-xr-xDocumentation/lint-gitlink.perl71
-rw-r--r--Documentation/merge-options.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-formats.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt2
34 files changed, 742 insertions, 161 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 3e39e2815b..35c1385ef7 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ else
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-asciidoc-no-roff
endif
endif
-ifdef MAN_BOLD_LITERAL
+ifndef NO_MAN_BOLD_LITERAL
XMLTO_EXTRA += -m manpage-bold-literal.xsl
endif
ifdef DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ ifndef V
QUIET_DBLATEX = @echo ' ' DBLATEX $@;
QUIET_XSLTPROC = @echo ' ' XSLTPROC $@;
QUIET_GEN = @echo ' ' GEN $@;
+ QUIET_LINT = @echo ' ' LINT $@;
QUIET_STDERR = 2> /dev/null
QUIET_SUBDIR0 = +@subdir=
QUIET_SUBDIR1 = ;$(NO_SUBDIR) echo ' ' SUBDIR $$subdir; \
@@ -427,4 +428,7 @@ quick-install-html: require-htmlrepo
print-man1:
@for i in $(MAN1_TXT); do echo $$i; done
+lint-docs::
+ $(QUIET_LINT)$(PERL_PATH) lint-gitlink.perl
+
.PHONY: FORCE
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eac12490a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+Git 2.10 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Backward compatibility notes
+----------------------------
+
+Updates since v2.9
+------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * "git pull --rebase --verify-signature" learned to warn the user
+ that "--verify-signature" is a no-op when rebasing.
+
+ * An upstream project can make a recommendation to shallowly clone
+ some submodules in the .gitmodules file it ships.
+
+ * "git worktree add" learned that '-' can be used as a short-hand for
+ "@{-1}", the previous branch.
+
+ * Update the funcname definition to support css files.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * "git fast-import" learned the same performance trick to avoid
+ creating too small a packfile as "git fetch" and "git push" have,
+ using *.unpackLimit configuration.
+
+ * When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a
+ connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around
+ for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has
+ been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections.
+ (merge a43b68a ew/daemon-socket-keepalive later to maint).
+
+ * "git upload-pack" command has been updated to use the parse-options
+ API.
+
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.9
+----------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.8 in the maintenance
+track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
+notes for details).
+
+ * The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format
+ string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring
+ --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to
+ a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as
+ "auto".
+ (merge b15a3e0 et/pretty-format-c-auto later to maint).
+
+ * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n"
+ option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the
+ bitmap index.
+ (merge fb85db8 jk/rev-list-count-with-bitmap later to maint).
+
+ * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited
+ by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire
+ file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file,
+ which has been fixed.
+ (merge 6f8d9bc rs/xdiff-hunk-with-func-line later to maint).
+
+ * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt
index af184783bc..fedd9968e5 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt
@@ -67,4 +67,35 @@ Fixes since v2.8.2
recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run
from the root level of the superproject.
+ * The test scripts for "git p4" (but not "git p4" implementation
+ itself) has been updated so that they would work even on a system
+ where the installed version of Python is python 3.
+
+ * The "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable makes it an error
+ if users do not explicitly set user.name and user.email. However,
+ its check was not done early enough and allowed another error to
+ trigger, reporting that the default value we guessed from the
+ system setting was unusable. This was a suboptimal end-user
+ experience as we want the users to set user.name/user.email without
+ relying on the auto-detection at all.
+
+ * "git mv old new" did not adjust the path for a submodule that lives
+ as a subdirectory inside old/ directory correctly.
+
+ * "git push" from a corrupt repository that attempts to push a large
+ number of refs deadlocked; the thread to relay rejection notices
+ for these ref updates blocked on writing them to the main thread,
+ after the main thread at the receiving end notices that the push
+ failed and decides not to read these notices and return a failure.
+
+ * A question by "git send-email" to ask the identity of the sender
+ has been updated.
+
+ * Recent update to Git LFS broke "git p4" by changing the output from
+ its "lfs pointer" subcommand.
+
+ * Some multi-byte encoding can have a backslash byte as a later part
+ of one letter, which would confuse "highlight" filter used in
+ gitweb.
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f4e2552836
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+Git v2.8.4 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.8.3
+------------------
+
+ * Documentation for "git merge --verify-signatures" has been updated
+ to clarify that the signature of only the commit at the tip is
+ verified. Also the phrasing used for signature and key validity is
+ adjusted to align with that used by OpenPGP.
+
+ * On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a
+ dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to
+ customize this behaviour.
+
+ * Portability enhancement for "rebase -i" to help platforms whose
+ shell does not like "for i in <empty>" (which is not POSIX-kosher).
+
+ * "git fsck" learned to catch NUL byte in a commit object as
+ potential error and warn.
+
+ * CI test was taught to build documentation pages.
+
+ * Many 'linkgit:<git documentation page>' references were broken,
+ which are all fixed with this.
+
+ * "git describe --contains" often made a hard-to-justify choice of
+ tag to give name to a given commit, because it tried to come up
+ with a name with smallest number of hops from a tag, causing an old
+ commit whose close descendant that is recently tagged were not
+ described with respect to an old tag but with a newer tag. It did
+ not help that its computation of "hop" count was further tweaked to
+ penalize being on a side branch of a merge. The logic has been
+ updated to favor using the tag with the oldest tagger date, which
+ is a lot easier to explain to the end users: "We describe a commit
+ in terms of the (chronologically) oldest tag that contains the
+ commit."
+
+ * Running tests with '-x' option to trace the individual command
+ executions is a useful way to debug test scripts, but some tests
+ that capture the standard error stream and check what the command
+ said can be broken with the trace output mixed in. When running
+ our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output
+ to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs
+ being tested intact.
+
+ * "http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname,
+ but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion.
+
+ * When de-initialising all submodules, "git submodule deinit" gave a
+ faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit .", which would
+ result in a strange error message in a pathological corner case.
+ This has been corrected to suggest "submodule deinit --all" instead.
+
+ * Many commands normalize command line arguments from NFD to NFC
+ variant of UTF-8 on OSX, but commands in the "diff" family did
+ not, causing "git diff $path" to complain that no such path is
+ known to Git. They have been taught to do the normalization.
+
+ * A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed.
+
+ * "git difftool" learned to handle unmerged paths correctly in
+ dir-diff mode.
+
+ * The "are we talking with TTY, doing an interactive session?"
+ detection has been updated to work better for "Git for Windows".
+
+
+Also contains other minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
index 70fa66c8f1..b61d36712f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
Git 2.9 Release Notes
=====================
-Backward compatibility note
----------------------------
+Backward compatibility notes
+----------------------------
The end-user facing Porcelain level commands in the "git diff" and
-"git log" by default enables the rename detection; you can still use
-"diff.renames" configuration variable to disable this.
+"git log" family by default enable the rename detection; you can still
+use "diff.renames" configuration variable to disable this.
Merging two branches that have no common ancestor with "git merge" is
by default forbidden now to prevent creating such an unusual merge by
@@ -16,14 +16,22 @@ The output formats of "git log" that indents the commit log message by
4 spaces now expands HT in the log message by default. You can use
the "--no-expand-tabs" option to disable this.
+"git commit-tree" plumbing command required the user to always sign
+its result when the user sets the commit.gpgsign configuration
+variable, which was an ancient mistake, which this release corrects.
+A script that drives commit-tree, if it relies on this mistake, now
+needs to read commit.gpgsign and pass the -S option as necessary.
+
Updates since v2.8
------------------
UI, Workflows & Features
- * The end-user facing Porcelain level commands like "diff" and "log"
- now enables the rename detection by default.
+ * Comes with git-multimail 1.3.1 (in contrib/).
+
+ * The end-user facing commands like "git diff" and "git log"
+ now enable the rename detection by default.
* The credential.helper configuration variable is cumulative and
there is no good way to override it from the command line. As
@@ -31,7 +39,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
as the signal to clear the values specified in various files.
* A new "interactive.diffFilter" configuration can be used to
- customize the diff shown in "git add -i" session.
+ customize the diff shown in "git add -i" sessions.
* "git p4" now allows P4 author names to be mapped to Git author
names.
@@ -56,7 +64,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
to be used in a rare event that merges histories of two projects
that started their lives independently.
- * "git pull" has been taught to pass --allow-unrelated-histories
+ * "git pull" has been taught to pass the "--allow-unrelated-histories"
option to underlying "git merge".
* "git apply -v" learned to report paths in the patch that were
@@ -79,7 +87,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* When "git log" shows the log message indented by 4-spaces, the
remainder of a line after a HT does not align in the way the author
- originally intended. The command now expands tabs by default in
+ originally intended. The command now expands tabs by default to help
such a case, and allows the users to override it with a new option,
"--no-expand-tabs".
@@ -89,13 +97,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git rerere" can encounter two or more files with the same conflict
signature that have to be resolved in different ways, but there was
no way to record these separate resolutions.
- (merge 890fca8 jc/rerere-multi later to maint).
* "git p4" learned to record P4 jobs in Git commit that imports from
the history in Perforce.
* "git describe --contains" often made a hard-to-justify choice of
- tag to give name to a given commit, because it tried to come up
+ tag to name a given commit, because it tried to come up
with a name with smallest number of hops from a tag, causing an old
commit whose close descendant that is recently tagged were not
described with respect to an old tag but with a newer tag. It did
@@ -105,16 +112,55 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
is a lot easier to explain to the end users: "We describe a commit
in terms of the (chronologically) oldest tag that contains the
commit."
- (merge 7550424 js/name-rev-use-oldest-ref later to maint).
- * "git clone" learned "--shallow-submodules" option.
+ * "git clone" learned the "--shallow-submodules" option.
* HTTP transport clients learned to throw extra HTTP headers at the
server, specified via http.extraHeader configuration variable.
- * Patch output from "git diff" and friends has been tweaked to be
- more readable by using a blank line as a strong hint that the
- contents before and after it belong to a logically separate unit.
+ * The "--compaction-heuristic" option to "git diff" family of
+ commands enables a heuristic to make the patch output more readable
+ by using a blank line as a strong hint that the contents before and
+ after it belong to logically separate units. It is still
+ experimental.
+
+ * A new configuration variable core.hooksPath allows customizing
+ where the hook directory is.
+
+ * An earlier addition of "sanitize_submodule_env" with 14111fc4 (git:
+ submodule honor -c credential.* from command line, 2016-02-29)
+ turned out to be a convoluted no-op; implement what it wanted to do
+ correctly, and stop filtering settings given via "git -c var=val".
+
+ * "git commit --dry-run" reported "No, no, you cannot commit." in one
+ case where "git commit" would have allowed you to commit, and this
+ improves it a little bit ("git commit --dry-run --short" still does
+ not give you the correct answer, for example). This is a stop-gap
+ measure in that "commit --short --dry-run" still gives an incorrect
+ result.
+
+ * The experimental "multiple worktree" feature gains more safety to
+ forbid operations on a branch that is checked out or being actively
+ worked on elsewhere, by noticing that e.g. it is being rebased.
+
+ * "git format-patch" learned a new "--base" option to record what
+ (public, well-known) commit the original series was built on in
+ its output.
+
+ * "git commit" learned to pay attention to the "commit.verbose"
+ configuration variable and act as if the "--verbose" option
+ was given from the command line.
+
+ * Updated documentation gives hints to GMail users with two-factor
+ auth enabled that they need app-specific-password when using
+ "git send-email".
+
+ * The manpage output of our documentation did not render well in
+ terminal; typeset literals in bold by default to make them stand
+ out more.
+
+ * The mark-up in the top-level README.md file has been updated to
+ typeset CLI command names differently from the body text.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -136,7 +182,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* A major part of "git submodule update" has been ported to C to take
advantage of the recently added framework to run download tasks in
- parallel.
+ parallel. Other updates to "git submodule" that move pieces of
+ logic to C continues.
* Rename bunch of tests on "git clone" for better organization.
@@ -150,22 +197,15 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
do not attempt to look into refs/* when we know we do not have a
Git repository.
- * Code restructuring around the "refs" area to prepare for pluggable
+ * Code restructuring around the "refs" API to prepare for pluggable
refs backends.
- * Sources to many test helper binaries (and the generated helpers)
+ * Sources to many test helper binaries and the generated helpers
have been moved to t/helper/ subdirectory to reduce clutter at the
top level of the tree.
- Note that this can break your tests if you check out revisions
- across the merge boundary of this topic, e0b58519 (Merge branch
- 'nd/test-helpers', 2016-04-29), as bin-wrappers/test-* are not
- rebuilt to point the underlying executables. For now, "make
- distclean" is your friend.
-
* Unify internal logic between "git tag -v" and "git verify-tag"
commands by making one directly call into the other.
- (merge bef234b st/verify-tag later to maint).
* "merge-recursive" strategy incorrectly checked if a path that is
involved in its internal merge exists in the working tree.
@@ -173,12 +213,56 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The test scripts for "git p4" (but not "git p4" implementation
itself) has been updated so that they would work even on a system
where the installed version of Python is python 3.
- (merge 1fb3fb4 ld/p4-test-py3 later to maint).
* As nobody maintains our in-tree git.spec.in and distros use their
own spec file, we stopped pretending that we support "make rpm".
- * Move from unsigned char[20] to struct object_id continues.
+ * Move from "unsigned char[20]" to "struct object_id" continues.
+
+ * The code for warning_errno/die_errno has been refactored and a new
+ error_errno() reporting helper is introduced.
+ (merge 1da045f nd/error-errno later to maint).
+
+ * Running tests with '-x' option to trace the individual command
+ executions is a useful way to debug test scripts, but some tests
+ that capture the standard error stream and check what the command
+ said can be broken with the trace output mixed in. When running
+ our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output
+ to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs
+ being tested intact.
+
+ * t0040 had too many unnecessary repetitions in its test data. Teach
+ test-parse-options program so that a caller can tell what it
+ expects in its output, so that these repetitions can be cleaned up.
+
+ * Add perf test for "rebase -i".
+
+ * Common mistakes when writing gitlink: in our documentation are
+ found by "make check-docs".
+
+ * t9xxx series has been updated primarily for readability, while
+ fixing small bugs in it. A few scripted Porcelain commands have
+ also been updated to fix possible bugs around their use of
+ "test -z" and "test -n".
+
+ * CI test was taught to run git-svn tests.
+
+ * "git cat-file --batch-all" has been sped up, by taking advantage
+ of the fact that it does not have to read a list of objects, in two
+ ways.
+
+ * test updates to make it more readable and maintainable.
+ (merge e6273f4 es/t1500-modernize later to maint).
+
+ * "make DEVELOPER=1" worked as expected; setting DEVELOPER=1 in
+ config.mak didn't.
+ (merge 51dd3e8 mm/makefile-developer-can-be-in-config-mak later to maint).
+
+ * The way how "submodule--helper list" signals unmatch error to its
+ callers has been updated.
+
+ * A bash-ism "local" has been removed from "git submodule" scripted
+ Porcelain.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -267,12 +351,11 @@ notes for details).
* Support for CRAM-MD5 authentication method in "git imap-send" did
not work well.
- * Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation b updating a few APIs
- we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change.
- (merge 1245c74 ky/imap-send-openssl-1.1.0 later to maint).
+ * Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation by updating a few API
+ elements we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change.
* The socks5:// proxy support added back in 2.6.4 days was not aware
- that socks5h:// proxies behave differently.
+ that socks5h:// proxies behave differently from socks5:// proxies.
* "git config" had a codepath that tried to pass a NULL to
printf("%s"), which nobody seems to have noticed.
@@ -293,13 +376,12 @@ notes for details).
* When "git merge" notices that the merge can be resolved purely at
the tree level (without having to merge blobs) and the resulting
tree happens to already exist in the object store, it forgot to
- update the index, which lead to an inconsistent state for later
- operations.
+ update the index, which left an inconsistent state that would
+ break later operations.
* "git submodule" reports the paths of submodules the command
- recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run
- from the root level of the superproject.
- (merge 2ab5660 sb/submodule-path-misc-bugs later to maint).
+ recurses into, but these paths were incorrectly reported when
+ the command was not run from the root level of the superproject.
* The "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable makes it an error
if users do not explicitly set user.name and user.email. However,
@@ -308,68 +390,123 @@ notes for details).
system setting was unusable. This was a suboptimal end-user
experience as we want the users to set user.name/user.email without
relying on the auto-detection at all.
- (merge d3c06c1 da/user-useconfigonly later to maint).
* "git mv old new" did not adjust the path for a submodule that lives
as a subdirectory inside old/ directory correctly.
- (merge a127331 sb/mv-submodule-fix later to maint).
* "git replace -e" did not honour "core.editor" configuration.
- (merge 36b1437 js/replace-edit-use-editor-configuration later to maint).
* "git push" from a corrupt repository that attempts to push a large
number of refs deadlocked; the thread to relay rejection notices
for these ref updates blocked on writing them to the main thread,
after the main thread at the receiving end notices that the push
failed and decides not to read these notices and return a failure.
- (merge f924b52a jk/push-client-deadlock-fix later to maint).
* mmap emulation on Windows has been optimized and work better without
consuming paging store when not needed.
- (merge d5425d1 js/win32-mmap later to maint).
* A question by "git send-email" to ask the identity of the sender
has been updated.
- (merge 0d6b21e jd/send-email-to-whom later to maint).
* UI consistency improvements for "git mergetool".
- (merge cce076e nf/mergetool-prompt later to maint).
* "git rebase -m" could be asked to rebase an entire branch starting
from the root, but failed by assuming that there always is a parent
commit to the first commit on the branch.
- (merge 79f4344 bw/rebase-merge-entire-branch later to maint).
* Fix a broken "p4 lfs" test.
- (merge 9e220fe ls/p4-lfs-test-fix-2.7.0 later to maint).
* Recent update to Git LFS broke "git p4" by changing the output from
its "lfs pointer" subcommand.
- (merge 82f2567 ls/p4-lfs later to maint).
* "git fetch" test t5510 was flaky while running a (forced) automagic
garbage collection.
- (merge bb05510 js/close-packs-before-gc later to maint).
* Documentation updates to help contributors setting up Travis CI
test for their patches.
- (merge 0e5d028 ls/travis-submitting-patches later to maint).
* Some multi-byte encoding can have a backslash byte as a later part
of one letter, which would confuse "highlight" filter used in
gitweb.
- (merge 029f372 sk/gitweb-highlight-encoding later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit-tree" plumbing command required the user to always sign
+ its result when the user sets the commit.gpgsign configuration
+ variable, which was an ancient mistake. Rework "git rebase" that
+ relied on this mistake so that it reads commit.gpgsign and pass (or
+ not pass) the -S option to "git commit-tree" to keep the end-user
+ expectation the same, while teaching "git commit-tree" to ignore
+ the configuration variable. This will stop requiring the users to
+ sign commit objects used internally as an implementation detail of
+ "git stash".
+
+ * "http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname,
+ but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion.
+
+ * Consolidate description of tilde-expansion that is done to
+ configuration variables that take pathname to a single place.
+
+ * Correct faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit ." when
+ de-initialising all submodules, which would result in a strange
+ error message in a pathological corner case.
+
+ * Many 'linkgit:<git documentation page>' references were broken,
+ which are all fixed with this.
+
+ * "git rerere" can get confused by conflict markers deliberately left
+ by the inner merge step, because they are indistinguishable from
+ the real conflict markers left by the outermost merge which are
+ what the end user and "rerere" need to look at. This was fixed by
+ making the conflict markers left by the inner merges a bit longer.
+ (merge 0f9fd5c jc/ll-merge-internal later to maint).
+
+ * CI test was taught to build documentation pages.
+
+ * "git fsck" learned to catch NUL byte in a commit object as
+ potential error and warn.
+
+ * Portability enhancement for "rebase -i" to help platforms whose
+ shell does not like "for i in <empty>" (which is not POSIX-kosher).
+
+ * On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a
+ dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to
+ customize this behaviour.
+
+ * Documentation for "git merge --verify-signatures" has been updated
+ to clarify that the signature of only the commit at the tip is
+ verified. Also the phrasing used for signature and key validity is
+ adjusted to align with that used by OpenPGP.
+
+ * A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed.
+
+ * Many commands normalize command line arguments from NFD to NFC
+ variant of UTF-8 on OSX, but commands in the "diff" family did
+ not, causing "git diff $path" to complain that no such path is
+ known to Git. They have been taught to do the normalization.
+
+ * "git difftool" learned to handle unmerged paths correctly in
+ dir-diff mode.
+
+ * The "are we talking with TTY, doing an interactive session?"
+ detection has been updated to work better for "Git for Windows".
+
+ * We forgot to add "git log --decorate=auto" to documentation when we
+ added the feature back in v2.1.0 timeframe.
+ (merge 462cbb4 rj/log-decorate-auto later to maint).
+
+ * "git fast-import --export-marks" would overwrite the existing marks
+ file even when it makes a dump from its custom die routine.
+ Prevent it from doing so when we have an import-marks file but
+ haven't finished reading it.
+ (merge f4beed6 fc/fast-import-broken-marks-file later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase -i", after it fails to auto-resolve the conflict, had
+ an unnecessary call to "git rerere" from its very early days, which
+ was spotted recently; the call has been removed.
+ (merge 7063693 js/rebase-i-dedup-call-to-rerere later to maint).
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
- (merge 8b5a3e9 kn/for-each-tag-branch later to maint).
- (merge 99dab16 sb/misc-cleanups later to maint).
- (merge 7a6a44c cc/apply later to maint).
- (merge 6594883 nd/remove-unused later to maint).
- (merge 0ff7410 sg/test-lib-simplify-expr-away later to maint).
- (merge 060e776 jk/fix-attribute-macro-in-2.5 later to maint).
- (merge d16df0c rt/string-list-lookup-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge 376eb60 sb/config-exit-status-list later to maint).
- (merge 9cea46c ew/doc-split-pack-disables-bitmap later to maint).
- (merge fa72245 ew/normal-to-e later to maint).
- (merge 2e39a24 rn/glossary-typofix later to maint).
- (merge cadfbef sb/clean-test-fix later to maint).
+ (merge cd82b7a pa/cherry-pick-doc-typo later to maint).
+ (merge 2bb73ae rs/patch-id-use-skip-prefix later to maint).
+ (merge aa20cbc rs/apply-name-terminate later to maint).
+ (merge fe17fc0 jc/t2300-setup later to maint).
+ (merge e256eec jk/shell-portability later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index ece0acdbab..58673cf21e 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -81,13 +81,16 @@ 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
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. The value of `include.path` is subject to tilde expansion: `~/`
-is expanded to the value of `$HOME`, and `~user/` to the specified
-user's home directory. See below for examples.
+found. See below for examples.
+
Example
~~~~~~~
@@ -114,7 +117,7 @@ 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 $HOME directory
+ path = ~/foo ; expand "foo" in your `$HOME` directory
Values
@@ -169,6 +172,13 @@ thing on the same output line (e.g. opening parenthesis before the
list of branch names in `log --decorate` output) is set to be
painted with `bold` or some other attribute.
+pathname::
+ A variable that takes a pathname value can be given a
+ string that begins with "`~/`" or "`~user/`", and the usual
+ tilde expansion happens to such a string: `~/`
+ is expanded to the value of `$HOME`, and `~user/` to the
+ specified user's home directory.
+
Variables
~~~~~~~~~
@@ -269,6 +279,12 @@ See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
+
The default is true (when core.filemode is not specified in the config file).
+core.hideDotFiles::
+ (Windows-only) If true, mark newly-created directories and files whose
+ name starts with a dot as hidden. If 'dotGitOnly', only the `.git/`
+ directory is hidden, but no other files starting with a dot. The
+ default mode is 'dotGitOnly'.
+
core.ignoreCase::
If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable
Git to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive,
@@ -337,9 +353,9 @@ core.quotePath::
core.eol::
Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for
- files that have the `text` property set. Alternatives are
- 'lf', 'crlf' and 'native', which uses the platform's native
- line ending. The default value is `native`. See
+ files that have the `text` property set when core.autocrlf is false.
+ Alternatives are 'lf', 'crlf' and 'native', which uses the platform's
+ native line ending. The default value is `native`. See
linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information on end-of-line
conversion.
@@ -486,10 +502,10 @@ repository's usual working tree).
core.logAllRefUpdates::
Enable the reflog. Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file
- "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>", by appending the new and old
+ "`$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>`", by appending the new and old
SHA-1, the date/time and the reason of the update, but
only when the file exists. If this configuration
- variable is set to true, missing "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>"
+ variable is set to true, missing "`$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>`"
file is automatically created for branch heads (i.e. under
refs/heads/), remote refs (i.e. under refs/remotes/),
note refs (i.e. under refs/notes/), and the symbolic ref HEAD.
@@ -593,12 +609,11 @@ be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't be.
Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
core.excludesFile::
- In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and
- '.git/info/exclude', Git looks into this file for patterns
- of files which are not meant to be tracked. "`~/`" is expanded
- to the value of `$HOME` and "`~user/`" to the specified user's
- home directory. Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore.
- If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore
+ Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to
+ describe paths that are not meant to be tracked, in addition
+ to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and '.git/info/exclude'.
+ Defaults to `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore`.
+ If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either not set or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/ignore`
is used instead. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
core.askPass::
@@ -615,8 +630,25 @@ core.attributesFile::
'.git/info/attributes', Git looks into this file for attributes
(see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same
way as for `core.excludesFile`. Its default value is
- $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not
- set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead.
+ `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes`. If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either not
+ set or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/attributes` is used instead.
+
+core.hooksPath::
+ By default Git will look for your hooks in the
+ '$GIT_DIR/hooks' directory. Set this to different path,
+ e.g. '/etc/git/hooks', and Git will try to find your hooks in
+ that directory, e.g. '/etc/git/hooks/pre-receive' instead of
+ in '$GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive'.
++
+The path can be either absolute or relative. A relative path is
+taken as relative to the directory where the hooks are run (see
+the "DESCRIPTION" section of linkgit:githooks[5]).
++
+This configuration variable is useful in cases where you'd like to
+centrally configure your Git hooks instead of configuring them on a
+per-repository basis, or as a more flexible and centralized
+alternative to having an `init.templateDir` where you've changed
+default hooks.
core.editor::
Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
@@ -1106,9 +1138,12 @@ commit.status::
message. Defaults to true.
commit.template::
- Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages.
- "`~/`" is expanded to the value of `$HOME` and "`~user/`" to the
- specified user's home directory.
+ Specify the pathname of a file to use as the template for
+ new commit messages.
+
+commit.verbose::
+ A boolean or int to specify the level of verbose with `git commit`.
+ See linkgit:git-commit[1].
credential.helper::
Specify an external helper to be called when a username or
@@ -1154,6 +1189,15 @@ difftool.<tool>.cmd::
difftool.prompt::
Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool.
+fastimport.unpackLimit::
+ If the number of objects imported by linkgit:git-fast-import[1]
+ is below this limit, then the objects will be unpacked into
+ loose object files. However if the number of imported objects
+ equals or exceeds this limit then the pack will be stored as a
+ pack. Storing the pack from a fast-import can make the import
+ operation complete faster, especially on slow filesystems. If
+ not set, the value of `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead.
+
fetch.recurseSubmodules::
This option can be either set to a boolean value or to 'on-demand'.
Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior of fetch and pull to
@@ -1259,6 +1303,10 @@ format.outputDirectory::
Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the
current working directory.
+format.useAutoBase::
+ A boolean value which lets you enable the `--base=auto` option of
+ format-patch by default.
+
filter.<driver>.clean::
The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree
file to a blob upon checkin. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for
@@ -1335,7 +1383,7 @@ gc.worktreePruneExpire::
'git worktree prune --expire 3.months.ago'.
This config variable can be used to set a different grace
period. The value "now" may be used to disable the grace
- period and prune $GIT_DIR/worktrees immediately, or "never"
+ period and prune `$GIT_DIR/worktrees` immediately, or "never"
may be used to suppress pruning.
gc.reflogExpire::
@@ -1475,13 +1523,13 @@ grep.fallbackToNoIndex::
is executed outside of a git repository. Defaults to false.
gpg.program::
- Use this custom program instead of "gpg" found on $PATH when
+ Use this custom program instead of "`gpg`" found on `$PATH` when
making or verifying a PGP signature. The program must support the
same command-line interface as GPG, namely, to verify a detached
- signature, "gpg --verify $file - <$signature" is run, and the
+ signature, "`gpg --verify $file - <$signature`" is run, and the
program is expected to signal a good signature by exiting with
code 0, and to generate an ASCII-armored detached signature, the
- standard input of "gpg -bsau $key" is fed with the contents to be
+ standard input of "`gpg -bsau $key`" is fed with the contents to be
signed, and the program is expected to send the result to its
standard output.
@@ -1494,7 +1542,7 @@ gui.diffContext::
made by the linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default is "5".
gui.displayUntracked::
- Determines if linkgit::git-gui[1] shows untracked files
+ Determines if linkgit:git-gui[1] shows untracked files
in the file list. The default is "true".
gui.encoding::
@@ -1662,11 +1710,12 @@ http.extraHeader::
config, an empty value will reset the extra headers to the empty list.
http.cookieFile::
- File containing previously stored cookie lines which should be used
+ The pathname of a file containing previously stored cookie lines,
+ which should be used
in the Git http session, if they match the server. The file format
of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or
- the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see linkgit:curl[1]).
- NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is only used as
+ the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see `curl(1)`).
+ NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is used only as
input unless http.saveCookies is set.
http.saveCookies::
@@ -1916,7 +1965,10 @@ log.decorate::
command. If 'short' is specified, the ref name prefixes 'refs/heads/',
'refs/tags/' and 'refs/remotes/' will not be printed. If 'full' is
specified, the full ref name (including prefix) will be printed.
- This is the same as the log commands '--decorate' option.
+ If 'auto' is specified, then if the output is going to a terminal,
+ the ref names are shown as if 'short' were given, otherwise no ref
+ names are shown. This is the same as the '--decorate' option
+ of the `git log`.
log.follow::
If `true`, `git log` will act as if the `--follow` option was used when
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
index edba56522b..d78cfc5a37 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
@@ -170,6 +170,11 @@ diff.tool::
include::mergetools-diff.txt[]
+diff.compactionHeuristic::
+ Set this option to `true` to enable an experimental heuristic that
+ shifts the hunk boundary in an attempt to make the resulting
+ patch easier to read.
+
diff.algorithm::
Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows:
+
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 4b0318e2ac..d9ae681d8f 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,13 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[]
Synonym for `-p --raw`.
endif::git-format-patch[]
+--compaction-heuristic::
+--no-compaction-heuristic::
+ These are to help debugging and tuning an experimental
+ heuristic (which is off by default) that shifts the hunk
+ boundary in an attempt to make the resulting patch easier
+ to read.
+
--minimal::
Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible
diff is produced.
@@ -271,7 +278,7 @@ For example, `--word-diff-regex=.` will treat each character as a word
and, correspondingly, show differences character by character.
+
The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see
-linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly
+linkgit:gitattributes[5] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly
overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers
override configuration settings.
diff --git a/Documentation/everyday.txto b/Documentation/everyday.txto
index c5047d8f9b..ae555bd47e 100644
--- a/Documentation/everyday.txto
+++ b/Documentation/everyday.txto
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Everyday Git With 20 Commands Or So
===================================
-This document has been moved to linkgit:giteveryday[1].
+This document has been moved to linkgit:giteveryday[7].
Please let the owners of the referring site know so that they can update the
link you clicked to get here.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
index e94367a5ed..611754f10b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ EXIT STATUS
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:gitignore[5]
-linkgit:gitconfig[5]
+linkgit:git-config[1]
linkgit:git-ls-files[1]
GIT
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
index 6154e57238..c104a594af 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ effect to your index in a row.
--allow-empty-message::
By default, cherry-picking a commit with an empty message will fail.
- This option overrides that behaviour, allowing commits with empty
+ This option overrides that behavior, allowing commits with empty
messages to be cherry picked.
--keep-redundant-commits::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 48c33d7ed7..cb69faab68 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ OPTIONS
stuck to the option without a space.
--no-gpg-sign::
- Countermand `commit.gpgSign` configuration variable that is
- set to force each and every commit to be signed.
+ Do not GPG-sign commit, to countermand a `--gpg-sign` option
+ given earlier on the command line.
Commit Information
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 9ec6b3cc17..d474226eb7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -290,7 +290,8 @@ configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1].
what changes the commit has.
Note that this diff output doesn't have its
lines prefixed with '#'. This diff will not be a part
- of the commit message.
+ of the commit message. See the `commit.verbose` configuration
+ variable in linkgit:git-config[1].
+
If specified twice, show in addition the unified diff between
what would be committed and the worktree files, i.e. the unstaged
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index 66910aa2fa..644df993f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ Performance and Compression Tuning
Maximum size of each output packfile.
The default is unlimited.
+fastimport.unpackLimit::
+ See linkgit:git-config[1]
Performance
-----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 73fd9e8230..003731f6a9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ to other tags will be rewritten to point to the underlying commit.
Remap to ancestor
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-By using linkgit:rev-list[1] arguments, e.g., path limiters, you can limit the
+By using linkgit:git-rev-list[1] arguments, e.g., path limiters, you can limit the
set of revisions which get rewritten. However, positive refs on the command
line are distinguished: we don't let them be excluded by such limiters. For
this purpose, they are instead rewritten to point at the nearest ancestor that
diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index c52578bb87..d9d406dcfb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ returns an empty string instead.
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).
+values the `--date` option to linkgit:git-rev-list[1] takes).
EXAMPLES
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 6821441d7d..bdeecd59e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -265,6 +265,11 @@ you can use `--suffix=-patch` to get `0001-description-of-my-change-patch`.
Output an all-zero hash in each patch's From header instead
of the hash of the commit.
+--base=<commit>::
+ Record the base tree information to identify the state the
+ patch series applies to. See the BASE TREE INFORMATION section
+ below for details.
+
--root::
Treat the revision argument as a <revision range>, even if it
is just a single commit (that would normally be treated as a
@@ -520,6 +525,61 @@ This should help you to submit patches inline using KMail.
5. Back in the compose window: add whatever other text you wish to the
message, complete the addressing and subject fields, and press send.
+BASE TREE INFORMATION
+---------------------
+
+The base tree information block is used for maintainers or third party
+testers to know the exact state the patch series applies to. It consists
+of the 'base commit', which is a well-known commit that is part of the
+stable part of the project history everybody else works off of, and zero
+or more 'prerequisite patches', which are well-known patches in flight
+that is not yet part of the 'base commit' that need to be applied on top
+of 'base commit' in topological order before the patches can be applied.
+
+The 'base commit' is shown as "base-commit: " followed by the 40-hex of
+the commit object name. A 'prerequisite patch' is shown as
+"prerequisite-patch-id: " followed by the 40-hex 'patch id', which can
+be obtained by passing the patch through the `git patch-id --stable`
+command.
+
+Imagine that on top of the public commit P, you applied well-known
+patches X, Y and Z from somebody else, and then built your three-patch
+series A, B, C, the history would be like:
+
+................................................
+---P---X---Y---Z---A---B---C
+................................................
+
+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
+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:
+
+------------
+base-commit: P
+prerequisite-patch-id: X
+prerequisite-patch-id: Y
+prerequisite-patch-id: Z
+------------
+
+For non-linear topology, such as
+
+................................................
+---P---X---A---M---C
+ \ /
+ Y---Z---B
+................................................
+
+You can also use `git format-patch --base=P -3 C` to generate patches
+for A, B and C, and the identifiers for P, X, Y, Z are appended at the
+end of the first message.
+
+If set `--base=auto` in cmdline, it will track base commit automatically,
+the base commit will be the merge base of tip commit of the remote-tracking
+branch and revision-range specified in cmdline.
+For a local branch, you need to track a remote branch by `git branch
+--set-upstream-to` before using this option.
EXAMPLES
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt
index 8174d27efd..6364e5dc45 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-init.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt
@@ -130,7 +130,12 @@ The template directory will be one of the following (in order):
- the default template directory: `/usr/share/git-core/templates`.
The default template directory includes some directory structure, suggested
-"exclude patterns" (see linkgit:gitignore[5]), and sample hook files (see linkgit:githooks[5]).
+"exclude patterns" (see linkgit:gitignore[5]), and sample hook files.
+
+The sample hooks are all disabled by default, To enable one of the
+sample hooks rename it by removing its `.sample` suffix.
+
+See linkgit:githooks[5] for more general info on hook execution.
EXAMPLES
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index 03f958029a..dec379b3e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -29,12 +29,14 @@ OPTIONS
(works only for a single file).
--no-decorate::
---decorate[=short|full|no]::
+--decorate[=short|full|auto|no]::
Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown. If 'short' is
specified, the ref name prefixes 'refs/heads/', 'refs/tags/' and
'refs/remotes/' will not be printed. If 'full' is specified, the
- full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. The default option
- is 'short'.
+ full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. If 'auto' is
+ specified, then if the output is going to a terminal, the ref names
+ are shown as if 'short' were given, otherwise no ref names are
+ shown. The default option is 'short'.
--source::
Print out the ref name given on the command line by which each
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index 0947084140..3bbc731f67 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
+
-This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
+This can be enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
--no-scissors::
Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
index 8de349968a..9c4fd6812c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
@@ -402,4 +402,4 @@ on the `notes.rewrite.<command>` and `notes.rewriteRef` settings.
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 771a7b5b09..a88d18604a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -450,6 +450,19 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
smtpUser = yourname@gmail.com
smtpServerPort = 587
+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
+
+
Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
following commands:
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 13adebf7b7..bf3bb372ee 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ SYNOPSIS
[--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
'git submodule' [--quiet] status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
-'git submodule' [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] [--] <path>...
+'git submodule' [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] (--all|[--] <path>...)
'git submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch]
- [-f|--force] [--rebase|--merge] [--reference <repository>]
- [--depth <depth>] [--recursive] [--jobs <n>] [--] [<path>...]
+ [--[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] foreach [--recursive] <command>
@@ -140,12 +141,15 @@ deinit::
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 work tree anymore. If
+ 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.
+
-If `--force` is specified, the submodule's work tree will be removed even if
-it contains local modifications.
+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.
update::
+
@@ -247,6 +251,10 @@ OPTIONS
--quiet::
Only print error messages.
+--all::
+ This option is only valid for the deinit command. Unregister all
+ submodules in the working tree.
+
-b::
--branch::
Branch of repository to add as submodule.
@@ -257,8 +265,8 @@ OPTIONS
--force::
This option is only valid for add, deinit and update commands.
When running add, allow adding an otherwise ignored submodule path.
- When running deinit the submodule work trees will be removed even if
- they contain local changes.
+ When running deinit the submodule working trees will be removed even
+ if they contain local changes.
When running update (only effective with the checkout procedure),
throw away local changes in submodules when switching to a
different commit; and always run a checkout operation in the
@@ -377,6 +385,12 @@ for linkgit:git-clone[1]'s `--reference` and `--shared` options carefully.
clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revisions.
See linkgit:git-clone[1]
+--[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
+ by default. To ignore the suggestions use `--no-recommend-shallow`.
+
-j <n>::
--jobs <n>::
This option is only valid for the update command.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt
index 0abc806ea9..822ad593af 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-upload-pack - Send objects packed back to git-fetch-pack
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-upload-pack' [--strict] [--timeout=<n>] <directory>
-
+'git-upload-pack' [--[no-]strict] [--timeout=<n>] [--stateless-rpc]
+ [--advertise-refs] <directory>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Invoked by 'git fetch-pack', learns what
@@ -25,12 +25,22 @@ repository. For push operations, see 'git send-pack'.
OPTIONS
-------
---strict::
+--[no-]strict::
Do not try <directory>/.git/ if <directory> is no Git directory.
--timeout=<n>::
Interrupt transfer after <n> seconds of inactivity.
+--stateless-rpc::
+ Perform only a single read-write cycle with stdin and stdout.
+ This fits with the HTTP POST request processing model where
+ a program may read the request, write a response, and must exit.
+
+--advertise-refs::
+ Only the initial ref advertisement is output, and the program exits
+ immediately. This fits with the HTTP GET request model, where
+ no request content is received but a response must be produced.
+
<directory>::
The repository to sync from.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
index c62234538b..23d8d2ace0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ add <path> [<branch>]::
Create `<path>` and checkout `<branch>` into it. The new working directory
is linked to the current repository, sharing everything except working
-directory specific files such as HEAD, index, etc.
+directory specific files such as HEAD, index, etc. `-` may also be
+specified as `<branch>`; it is synonymous with `@{-1}`.
+
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,
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 34ff007a98..5490d3c601 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,11 +43,18 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from the 'master'
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
-* link:v2.8.2/git.html[documentation for release 2.8.2]
+* link:v2.9.0/git.html[documentation for release 2.9]
* release notes for
- link:RelNotes/2.8.2.txt[2.8.2].
- link:RelNotes/2.8.1.txt[2.8.1].
+ link:RelNotes/2.9.0.txt[2.9].
+
+* link:v2.8.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.8.4]
+
+* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/2.8.4.txt[2.8.4],
+ link:RelNotes/2.8.3.txt[2.8.3],
+ link:RelNotes/2.8.2.txt[2.8.2],
+ link:RelNotes/2.8.1.txt[2.8.1],
link:RelNotes/2.8.0.txt[2.8].
* link:v2.7.3/git.html[documentation for release 2.7.3]
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index e3b1de8033..8882a3e914 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -525,6 +525,8 @@ patterns are available:
- `csharp` suitable for source code in the C# language.
+- `css` suitable for cascading style sheets.
+
- `fortran` suitable for source code in the Fortran language.
- `fountain` suitable for Fountain documents.
diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt
index a2f59b194c..d82e912e55 100644
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -7,24 +7,35 @@ githooks - Hooks used by Git
SYNOPSIS
--------
-$GIT_DIR/hooks/*
+$GIT_DIR/hooks/* (or \`git config core.hooksPath`/*)
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Hooks are little scripts you can place in `$GIT_DIR/hooks`
-directory to trigger action at certain points. When
-'git init' is run, a handful of example hooks are copied into the
-`hooks` directory of the new repository, but by default they are
-all disabled. To enable a hook, rename it by removing its `.sample`
-suffix.
+Hooks are programs you can place in a hooks directory to trigger
+actions at certain points in git's execution. Hooks that don't have
+the executable bit set are ignored.
-NOTE: It is also a requirement for a given hook to be executable.
-However - in a freshly initialized repository - the `.sample` files are
-executable by default.
+By default the hooks directory is `$GIT_DIR/hooks`, but that can be
+changed via the `core.hooksPath` configuration variable (see
+linkgit:git-config[1]).
-This document describes the currently defined hooks.
+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.
+
+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
+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
+with Git.
+
+The currently supported hooks are described below.
HOOKS
-----
@@ -32,15 +43,15 @@ HOOKS
applypatch-msg
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-This hook is invoked by 'git am' script. It takes a single
+This hook is invoked by 'git am'. It takes a single
parameter, the name of the file that holds the proposed commit
-log message. Exiting with non-zero status causes
-'git am' to abort before applying the patch.
+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
be used to normalize the message into some project standard
-format (if the project has one). It can also be used to refuse
-the commit after inspecting the message file.
+format. It can also be used to refuse the commit after inspecting
+the message file.
The default 'applypatch-msg' hook, when enabled, runs the
'commit-msg' hook, if the latter is enabled.
@@ -73,10 +84,10 @@ pre-commit
~~~~~~~~~~
This hook is invoked by 'git commit', and can be bypassed
-with `--no-verify` option. It takes no parameter, and is
+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 non-zero status from this script
-causes the 'git commit' to abort.
+making a commit. Exiting with a non-zero status from this script
+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
@@ -115,15 +126,15 @@ commit-msg
~~~~~~~~~~
This hook is invoked by 'git commit', and can be bypassed
-with `--no-verify` option. It takes a single parameter, the
+with the `--no-verify` option. It takes a single parameter, the
name of the file that holds the proposed commit log message.
-Exiting with non-zero status causes the 'git commit' to
+Exiting with a non-zero status causes the 'git commit' 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 (if the project has one). It can also be used to refuse
-the commit after inspecting the message file.
+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
+can also be used to refuse the commit after inspecting the message
+file.
The default 'commit-msg' hook, when enabled, detects duplicate
"Signed-off-by" lines, and aborts the commit if one is found.
@@ -131,8 +142,8 @@ The default 'commit-msg' hook, when enabled, detects duplicate
post-commit
~~~~~~~~~~~
-This hook is invoked by 'git commit'. It takes no
-parameter, and is invoked after a commit is made.
+This hook is invoked by 'git commit'. 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'.
@@ -267,9 +278,11 @@ does not know the entire set of branches, so it would end up
firing one e-mail per ref when used naively, though. The
<<post-receive,'post-receive'>> hook is more suited to that.
-Another use suggested on the mailing list is to use this hook to
-implement access control which is finer grained than the one
-based on filesystem group.
+In an environment that restricts the users' access only to git
+commands over the wire, this hook can be used to implement access
+control without relying on filesystem ownership and group
+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
diff --git a/Documentation/lint-gitlink.perl b/Documentation/lint-gitlink.perl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..476cc30b83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/lint-gitlink.perl
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use File::Find;
+use Getopt::Long;
+
+my $basedir = ".";
+GetOptions("basedir=s" => \$basedir)
+ or die("Cannot parse command line arguments\n");
+
+my $found_errors = 0;
+
+sub report {
+ my ($where, $what, $error) = @_;
+ print "$where: $error: $what\n";
+ $found_errors = 1;
+}
+
+sub grab_section {
+ my ($page) = @_;
+ open my $fh, "<", "$basedir/$page.txt";
+ my $firstline = <$fh>;
+ chomp $firstline;
+ close $fh;
+ my ($section) = ($firstline =~ /.*\((\d)\)$/);
+ return $section;
+}
+
+sub lint {
+ my ($file) = @_;
+ open my $fh, "<", $file
+ or return;
+ while (<$fh>) {
+ my $where = "$file:$.";
+ while (s/linkgit:((.*?)\[(\d)\])//) {
+ my ($target, $page, $section) = ($1, $2, $3);
+
+ # De-AsciiDoc
+ $page =~ s/{litdd}/--/g;
+
+ if ($page !~ /^git/) {
+ report($where, $target, "nongit link");
+ next;
+ }
+ if (! -f "$basedir/$page.txt") {
+ report($where, $target, "no such source");
+ next;
+ }
+ $real_section = grab_section($page);
+ if ($real_section != $section) {
+ report($where, $target,
+ "wrong section (should be $real_section)");
+ next;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ close $fh;
+}
+
+sub lint_it {
+ lint($File::Find::name) if -f && /\.txt$/;
+}
+
+if (!@ARGV) {
+ find({ wanted => \&lint_it, no_chdir => 1 }, $basedir);
+} else {
+ for (@ARGV) {
+ lint($_);
+ }
+}
+
+exit $found_errors;
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt
index dfb43d000f..5b4a62e936 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt
@@ -89,8 +89,11 @@ option can be used to override --squash.
--verify-signatures::
--no-verify-signatures::
- Verify that the commits being merged have good and trusted GPG signatures
- and abort the merge in case they do not.
+ Verify that the tip commit of the side branch being merged is
+ signed with a valid key, i.e. a key that has a valid uid: in the
+ default trust model, this means the signing key has been signed by
+ a trusted key. If the tip commit of the side branch is not signed
+ with a valid key, the merge is aborted.
--summary::
--no-summary::
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 671cebd95c..29b19b992f 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -143,8 +143,8 @@ ifndef::git-rev-list[]
- '%N': commit notes
endif::git-rev-list[]
- '%GG': raw verification message from GPG for a signed commit
-- '%G?': show "G" for a Good signature, "B" for a Bad signature, "U" for a good,
- untrusted signature and "N" for no signature
+- '%G?': show "G" for a good (valid) signature, "B" for a bad signature,
+ "U" for a good signature with unknown validity and "N" for no signature
- '%GS': show the name of the signer for a signed commit
- '%GK': show the key used to sign a signed commit
- '%gD': reflog selector, e.g., `refs/stash@{1}`
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
index e44426dd04..75368f26ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ appended to its command line, which is one of:
The details of the credential will be provided on the helper's stdin
stream. The exact format is the same as the input/output format of the
`git credential` plumbing command (see the section `INPUT/OUTPUT
-FORMAT` in linkgit:git-credential[7] for a detailed specification).
+FORMAT` in linkgit:git-credential[1] for a detailed specification).
For a `get` operation, the helper should produce a list of attributes
on stdout in the same format. A helper is free to produce a subset, or
@@ -268,4 +268,4 @@ See also
linkgit:gitcredentials[7]
-linkgit:git-config[5] (See configuration variables `credential.*`)
+linkgit:git-config[1] (See configuration variables `credential.*`)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
index 695bd4bf43..27bd701c0d 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
@@ -144,8 +144,12 @@ There are some macros to easily define options:
`OPT_COUNTUP(short, long, &int_var, description)`::
Introduce a count-up option.
- `int_var` is incremented on each use of `--option`, and
- reset to zero with `--no-option`.
+ Each use of `--option` increments `int_var`, starting from zero
+ (even if initially negative), and `--no-option` resets it to
+ zero. To determine if `--option` or `--no-option` was encountered at
+ all, initialize `int_var` to a negative value, and if it is still
+ negative after parse_options(), then neither `--option` nor
+ `--no-option` was seen.
`OPT_BIT(short, long, &int_var, description, mask)`::
Introduce a boolean option.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
index c6977bbc5a..8b36343802 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ Push Certificate
A push certificate begins with a set of header lines. After the
header and an empty line, the protocol commands follow, one per
-line. Note that the the trailing LF in push-cert PKT-LINEs is _not_
+line. Note that the trailing LF in push-cert PKT-LINEs is _not_
optional; it must be present.
Currently, the following header fields are defined: