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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-branch.txt | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-gc.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-merge.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt | 10 |
9 files changed, 44 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.txt index d260b03723..636e226a37 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.txt @@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ Updates since v1.6.4 * Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has been removed. + * "git clone" does not grab objects that it does not need (i.e. + referenced only from refs outside refs/heads and refs/tags + hierarchy) anymore. + * The "git" main binary used to link with libcurl, which then dragged in a large number of external libraries. When using basic plumbing commands in scripts, this unnecessarily slowed things down. We now @@ -154,18 +158,18 @@ Updates since v1.6.4 * With GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outside the source directory; using tmpfs may give faster turnaround. + * With NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER set, DESTDIR= is now honoured, so you can + build for one location, and install into another location to tar it + up. Fixes since v1.6.4 ------------------ -# All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this -# release, unless otherwise noted. - -# Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to -# v1.6.4.X series. +All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.5-rc1-44-ga16753d +O=v1.6.5-rc3-4-gbf8fc21 echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index be0b8cacaa..cd1781498e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ branch.<name>.merge:: branch.<name>.mergeoptions:: Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and - supported options are equal to that of linkgit:git-merge[1], but + supported options are the same as those of linkgit:git-merge[1], but option values containing whitespace characters are currently not supported. diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index aad71dc59a..0e836809c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -30,10 +30,8 @@ commit) will be listed. With `--no-merged` only branches not merged into the named commit will be listed. If the <commit> argument is missing it defaults to 'HEAD' (i.e. the tip of the current branch). -In the command's second form, a new branch named <branchname> will be created. -It will start out with a head equal to the one given as <start-point>. -If no <start-point> is given, the branch will be created with a head -equal to that of the currently checked out branch. +The command's second form creates a new branch head named <branchname> +which points to the current 'HEAD', or <start-point> if given. Note that this will create the new branch, but it will not switch the working tree to it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the @@ -134,11 +132,13 @@ start-point is either a local or remote branch. --contains <commit>:: Only list branches which contain the specified commit. ---merged:: - Only list branches which are fully contained by HEAD. +--merged [<commit>]:: + Only list branches whose tips are reachable from the + specified commit (HEAD if not specified). ---no-merged:: - Do not list branches which are fully contained by HEAD. +--no-merged [<commit>]:: + Only list branches whose tips are not reachable from the + specified commit (HEAD if not specified). <branchname>:: The name of the branch to create or delete. @@ -147,9 +147,9 @@ start-point is either a local or remote branch. may restrict the characters allowed in a branch name. <start-point>:: - The new branch will be created with a HEAD equal to this. It may - be given as a branch name, a commit-id, or a tag. If this option - is omitted, the current branch is assumed. + The new branch head will point to this commit. It may be + given as a branch name, a commit-id, or a tag. If this + option is omitted, the current HEAD will be used instead. <oldbranch>:: The name of an existing branch to rename. @@ -214,7 +214,9 @@ SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-check-ref-format[1], linkgit:git-fetch[1], -linkgit:git-remote[1]. +linkgit:git-remote[1], +link:user-manual.html#what-is-a-branch[``Understanding history: What is +a branch?''] in the Git User's Manual. Author ------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 32ea8564a5..2b40babb6b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--index-filter <command>] [--parent-filter <command>] [--msg-filter <command>] [--commit-filter <command>] [--tag-name-filter <command>] [--subdirectory-filter <directory>] + [--prune-empty] [--original <namespace>] [-d <directory>] [-f | --force] [--] [<rev-list options>...] diff --git a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt index 1c24796d66..a586950b48 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ Takes the list of merged objects on stdin and produces a suitable commit message to be used for the merge commit, usually to be passed as the '<merge-message>' argument of 'git-merge'. -This script is intended mostly for internal use by scripts -automatically invoking 'git-merge'. +This command is intended mostly for internal use by scripts +automatically invoking 'git merge'. OPTIONS ------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index dcac8c8e29..1f6df6ad6b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ much time is spent optimizing the delta compression of the objects in the repository when the --aggressive option is specified. The larger the value, the more time is spent optimizing the delta compression. See the documentation for the --window' option in linkgit:git-repack[1] for -more details. This defaults to 10. +more details. This defaults to 250. The optional configuration variable 'gc.pruneExpire' controls how old the unreferenced loose objects have to be before they are pruned. The diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index af68d694a0..d05f324462 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -28,9 +28,10 @@ OPTIONS include::merge-options.txt[] -m <msg>:: - The commit message to be used for the merge commit (in case - it is created). The 'git-fmt-merge-msg' script can be used - to give a good default for automated 'git-merge' invocations. + Set the commit message to be used for the merge commit (in + case one is created). The 'git fmt-merge-msg' command can be + used to give a good default for automated 'git merge' + invocations. <remote>...:: Other branch heads to merge into our branch. You need at @@ -49,8 +50,8 @@ include::merge-config.txt[] branch.<name>.mergeoptions:: Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and - supported options are equal to that of 'git-merge', but option values - containing whitespace characters are currently not supported. + supported options are the same as those of 'git merge', but option + values containing whitespace characters are currently not supported. HOW MERGE WORKS --------------- diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index 572374f7a6..43d84d15e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -456,6 +456,6 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a of 'A' is 'origin/B' sometimes we say "'A' is tracking 'origin/B'". [[def_working_tree]]working tree:: - The tree of actual checked out files. The working tree is - normally equal to the <<def_HEAD,HEAD>> plus any local changes - that you have made but not yet committed. + The tree of actual checked out files. The working tree normally + contains the contents of the <<def_HEAD,HEAD>> commit's tree, + plus any local changes that you have made but not yet committed. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt index 48bb97f0b1..53aa0c82c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt @@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ compared, but this is not enabled by default because this member is not stable on network filesystems. With `USE_NSEC` compile-time option, `st_mtim.tv_nsec` and `st_ctim.tv_nsec` members are also compared, but this is not enabled by default -because the value of this member becomes meaningless once the -inode is evicted from the inode cache on filesystems that do not -store it on disk. - +because in-core timestamps can have finer granularity than +on-disk timestamps, resulting in meaningless changes when an +inode is evicted from the inode cache. See commit 8ce13b0 +of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git +([PATCH] Sync in core time granuality with filesystems, +2005-01-04). Racy git -------- |