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-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.1.txt64
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.2.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt220
-rw-r--r--Documentation/SubmittingPatches3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-config.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-options.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fast-import.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-format-patch.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-notes.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-push.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rm.txt30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/separating-topic-branches.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt50
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-command.txt99
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/index-format.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/shallow.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt36
-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt7
41 files changed, 652 insertions, 109 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 267dfe135d..361550422a 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -24,8 +24,30 @@ SP_ARTICLES = user-manual
SP_ARTICLES += howto/revert-branch-rebase
SP_ARTICLES += howto/using-merge-subtree
SP_ARTICLES += howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request
+SP_ARTICLES += howto/use-git-daemon
+SP_ARTICLES += howto/update-hook-example
+SP_ARTICLES += howto/setup-git-server-over-http
+SP_ARTICLES += howto/separating-topic-branches
+SP_ARTICLES += howto/revert-a-faulty-merge
+SP_ARTICLES += howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object
+SP_ARTICLES += howto/rebuild-from-update-hook
+SP_ARTICLES += howto/rebuild-from-update-hook
+SP_ARTICLES += howto/rebase-from-internal-branch
+SP_ARTICLES += howto/maintain-git
API_DOCS = $(patsubst %.txt,%,$(filter-out technical/api-index-skel.txt technical/api-index.txt, $(wildcard technical/api-*.txt)))
SP_ARTICLES += $(API_DOCS)
+
+TECH_DOCS = technical/index-format
+TECH_DOCS += technical/pack-format
+TECH_DOCS += technical/pack-heuristics
+TECH_DOCS += technical/pack-protocol
+TECH_DOCS += technical/protocol-capabilities
+TECH_DOCS += technical/protocol-common
+TECH_DOCS += technical/racy-git
+TECH_DOCS += technical/send-pack-pipeline
+TECH_DOCS += technical/shallow
+TECH_DOCS += technical/trivial-merge
+SP_ARTICLES += $(TECH_DOCS)
SP_ARTICLES += technical/api-index
DOC_HTML += $(patsubst %,%.html,$(ARTICLES) $(SP_ARTICLES))
@@ -231,7 +253,7 @@ clean:
$(RM) *.texi *.texi+ *.texi++ git.info gitman.info
$(RM) *.pdf
$(RM) howto-index.txt howto/*.html doc.dep
- $(RM) technical/api-*.html technical/api-index.txt
+ $(RM) technical/*.html technical/api-index.txt
$(RM) $(cmds_txt) *.made
$(RM) manpage-base-url.xsl
@@ -264,7 +286,7 @@ technical/api-index.txt: technical/api-index-skel.txt \
$(QUIET_GEN)cd technical && '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./api-index.sh
technical/%.html: ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-relative-html-prefix=../
-$(patsubst %,%.html,$(API_DOCS) technical/api-index): %.html : %.txt
+$(patsubst %,%.html,$(API_DOCS) technical/api-index $(TECH_DOCS)): %.html : %.txt
$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 -f asciidoc.conf \
$(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) $*.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1f372fa0b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+Git v1.8.0.1 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.8.0
+------------------
+
+ * The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on
+ variable names that was not checked consistently.
+
+ * The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed
+ "echo" to interpret "\a" as if it were a C-string asking for a
+ BEL output.
+
+ * "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing
+ with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle
+ it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file.
+
+ * "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere>
+ pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the
+ string literally.
+
+ * "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read
+ "<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was
+ nonsense.
+
+ * A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git
+ branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM
+ instead.
+
+ * Earlier we fixed documentation to hyphenate "remote-tracking branch"
+ to clarify that these are not a remote entity, but unhyphenated
+ spelling snuck in to a few places since then.
+
+ * "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find
+ the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition
+ does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages.
+
+ * The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the
+ repository-layout docs.
+
+ * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout
+ value when there is no file descriptors to wait on and the http
+ transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call.
+ A workaround has been added for this.
+
+ * Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the
+ From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected.
+
+ * "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking
+ for changes.
+
+ * Bash completion script (in contrib/) did not correctly complete a
+ lazy "git checkout $name_of_remote_tracking_branch_that_is_unique"
+ command line.
+
+ * RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output.
+
+ * "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean
+ "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true").
+
+ * "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say
+ "Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases.
+
+Also contains other minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5d08021a8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Git v1.8.0.2 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.8.0.1
+--------------------
+
+ * "git p4" used to try expanding malformed "$keyword$" that spans
+ across multiple lines.
+
+ * "git update-ref -d --deref SYM" to delete a ref through a symbolic
+ ref that points to it did not remove it correctly.
+
+ * Syntax highlighting in "gitweb" was not quite working.
+
+Also contains other minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..207043adca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,220 @@
+Git v1.8.1 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Backward compatibility notes
+----------------------------
+
+In the next major release (not *this* one), we will change the
+behavior of the "git push" command.
+
+When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the
+traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent
+to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name
+over there). We will use the "simple" semantics that pushes the
+current branch to the branch with the same name, only when the current
+branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. There is a user
+preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this, and
+"git push" will warn about the upcoming change until you set this
+variable in this release.
+
+"git branch --set-upstream" is deprecated and may be removed in a
+relatively distant future. "git branch [-u|--set-upstream-to]" has
+been introduced with a saner order of arguments.
+
+
+Updates since v1.8.0
+--------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * Command-line completion scripts for tcsh and zsh have been added.
+
+ * We used to have a workaround for a bug in ancient "less" that
+ causes it to exit without any output when the terminal is resized.
+ The bug has been fixed in "less" version 406 (June 2007), and the
+ workaround has been removed in this release.
+
+ * Some documentation pages that used to ship only in the plain text
+ format are now formatted in HTML as well.
+
+ * "git-prompt" scriptlet (in contrib/completion) can be told to paint
+ pieces of the hints in the prompt string in colors.
+
+ * A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to
+ give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to
+ override the hardcoded default of 3 lines.
+
+ * When "git checkout" checks out a branch, it tells the user how far
+ behind (or ahead) the new branch is relative to the remote tracking
+ branch it builds upon. The message now also advises how to sync
+ them up by pushing or pulling.
+
+ * "git config --get" used to diagnose presence of multiple
+ definitions of the same variable in the same configuration file as
+ an error, but it now applies the "last one wins" rule used by the
+ internal configuration logic. Strictly speaking, this may be an
+ API regression but it is expected that nobody will notice it in
+ practice.
+
+ * "git log -p -S<string>" now looks for the <string> after applying
+ the textconv filter (if defined); earlier it inspected the contents
+ of the blobs without filtering.
+
+ * "git format-patch" learned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give
+ notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output.
+
+ * "git log --grep=<pcre>" learned to honor the "grep.patterntype"
+ configuration set to "perl".
+
+ * "git replace -d <object>" now interprets <object>, instead of only
+ accepting full hex object name.
+
+ * "git rm $submodule" used to punt on removing a submodule working
+ tree to avoid losing the repository embedded in it. Because
+ recent git uses a mechanism to separate the submodule repository
+ from the submodule working tree, "git rm" learned to detect this
+ case and removes the submodule working tree when it is safe.
+
+ * "git submodule add" learned to add a new submodule at the same
+ path as the path where an unrelated submodule was bound to in an
+ existing revision via the "--name" option.
+
+ * "git submodule sync" learned the "--recursive" option.
+
+ * "diff.submodule" configuration variable can be used to give custom
+ default value to the "git diff --submodule" option.
+
+ * "git symbolic-ref" learned the "-d $symref" option to delete the
+ named symbolic ref, which is more intuitive way to spell it than
+ "update-ref -d --no-deref".
+
+
+Foreign Interface
+
+ * "git cvsimport" can be told to record timezones (other than GMT)
+ per-author via its author info file.
+
+ * The remote helper interface to interact with subversion
+ repositories (one of the GSoC 2012 projects) has been merged.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
+
+ * Compilation on Cygwin with newer header files are supported now.
+
+ * The logic to generate the initial advertisement from
+ "upload-pack" (what is invoked by "git fetch" on the other side
+ of the connection) to list what refs are available in the
+ repository has been optimized.
+
+ * The logic to find set of attributes that match a given path has
+ been optimized.
+
+ * Use preloadindex in "git diff-index" and "git update-index", which
+ has a nice speedup on systems with slow stat calls (and even on
+ Linux).
+
+
+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.8.0
+------------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.0 in the maintenance
+track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
+details).
+
+ * The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on
+ variable names that was not checked consistently.
+ (merge 0971e99 bw/config-lift-variable-name-length-limit later to maint).
+
+ * The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed
+ "echo" to interpret "\a" as if it were a C-string asking for a
+ BEL output.
+ (merge 7bc0911 jc/test-say-color-avoid-echo-escape later to maint).
+
+ * "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing
+ with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle
+ it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file.
+ (merge 3facc60 da/mergetools-p4 later to maint).
+
+ * "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere>
+ pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the
+ string literally.
+ (merge 727b6fc jc/grep-pcre-loose-ends~1 later to maint).
+
+ * "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read
+ "<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was
+ nonsense.
+ (merge 55c6168 nd/grep-true-path later to maint).
+
+ * A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git
+ branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM
+ instead.
+ (merge 13baa9f rs/branch-del-symref later to maint).
+
+ * Update "remote tracking branch" in the documentation to
+ "remote-tracking branch".
+ (merge a6d3bde mm/maint-doc-remote-tracking later to maint).
+
+ * "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find
+ the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition
+ does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages.
+ (merge e980765 ph/pull-rebase-detached later to maint).
+
+ * The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the
+ repository-layout docs.
+ (merge 11fbe18 po/maint-refs-replace-docs later to maint).
+
+ * Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the
+ From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected.
+ (merge 25dc8da js/format-2047 later to maint).
+
+ * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout
+ value when there is no file descriptor to wait on and the http
+ transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call.
+ A workaround has been added for this.
+ (merge 7202b81 sz/maint-curl-multi-timeout later to maint).
+
+ * For a fetch refspec (or the result of applying wildcard on one),
+ we always want the RHS to map to something inside "refs/"
+ hierarchy, but the logic to check it was not exactly right.
+ (merge 5c08c1f jc/maint-fetch-tighten-refname-check later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking
+ for changes.
+ (merge b1c2f57 jk/maint-diff-grep-textconv later to maint).
+
+ * Some HTTP servers ask for auth only during the actual packing phase
+ (not in ls-remote phase); this is not really a recommended
+ configuration, but the clients used to fail to authenticate with
+ such servers.
+ (merge 2e736fd jk/maint-http-half-auth-fetch later to maint).
+
+ * "git p4" used to try expanding malformed "$keyword$" that spans
+ across multiple lines.
+ (merge 6b2bf41 pw/maint-p4-rcs-expansion-newline later to maint).
+
+ * Syntax highlighting in "gitweb" was not quite working.
+ (merge 048b399 rh/maint-gitweb-highlight-ext later to maint).
+
+ * RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output.
+ (merge 0f0ecf6 jk/maint-gitweb-xss later to maint).
+
+ * "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean
+ "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true").
+ (merge 962c38e cn/config-missing-path later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say
+ "Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases.
+ (merge afa8c07 jk/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).
+
+ * We failed to mention a file without any content change but whose
+ permission bit was modified, or (worse yet) a new file without any
+ content in the "git diff --stat" output.
+ (merge 74faaa1 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint).
+
+ * "update-ref -d --deref SYM" to delete a ref through a symbolic ref
+ that points to it did not remove it correctly.
+ (merge b274a71 jh/update-ref-d-through-symref later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 0dbf2c9843..3d8b2fe4d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ message starts, you can put a "From: " line to name that person.
You often want to add additional explanation about the patch,
other than the commit message itself. Place such "cover letter"
-material between the three dash lines and the diffstat.
+material between the three dash lines and the diffstat. Git-notes
+can also be inserted using the `--notes` option.
Do not attach the patch as a MIME attachment, compressed or not.
Do not let your e-mail client send quoted-printable. Do not let
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 9a0544cf1f..e70216dfe6 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -962,12 +962,6 @@ difftool.<tool>.cmd::
difftool.prompt::
Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool.
-diff.wordRegex::
- A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is a "word"
- when performing word-by-word difference calculations. Character
- sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other
- characters are *ignorable* whitespace.
-
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
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
index 75ab8a51ca..89dd634674 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
@@ -107,6 +107,19 @@ diff.suppressBlankEmpty::
A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space
before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
+diff.submodule::
+ Specify the format in which differences in submodules are
+ shown. The "log" format lists the commits in the range like
+ linkgit:git-submodule[1] `summary` does. The "short" format
+ format just shows the names of the commits at the beginning
+ and end of the range. Defaults to short.
+
+diff.wordRegex::
+ A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is a "word"
+ when performing word-by-word difference calculations. Character
+ sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other
+ characters are *ignorable* whitespace.
+
diff.<driver>.command::
The custom diff driver command. See linkgit:gitattributes[5]
for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index cf4b216598..f4f7e250c5 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ any of those replacements occurred.
the commits in the range like linkgit:git-submodule[1] `summary` does.
Omitting the `--submodule` option or specifying `--submodule=short`,
uses the 'short' format. This format just shows the names of the commits
- at the beginning and end of the range.
+ at the beginning and end of the range. Can be tweaked via the
+ `diff.submodule` configuration variable.
--color[=<when>]::
Show colored diff.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
index 8a2ba37904..ec4497e098 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ Date: Sat May 3 11:59:44 2008 -0700
Linux 2.6.26-rc1
-:100644 100644 5cf8258195331a4dbdddff08b8d68642638eea57 4492984efc09ab72ff6219a7bc21fb6a957c4cd5 M Makefile
+:100644 100644 5cf82581... 4492984e... M Makefile
-------------
At this point we can see what the commit does, check it out (if it's
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ Date: Sat May 3 11:59:44 2008 -0700
Linux 2.6.26-rc1
-:100644 100644 5cf8258195331a4dbdddff08b8d68642638eea57 4492984efc09ab72ff6219a7bc21fb6a957c4cd5 M Makefile
+:100644 100644 5cf82581... 4492984e... M Makefile
bisect run success
-------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 0295890621..7bdb039d5e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -188,6 +188,11 @@ OPTIONS
commit log message unmodified. This option lets you
further edit the message taken from these sources.
+--no-edit::
+ Use the selected commit message without launching an editor.
+ For example, `git commit --amend --no-edit` amends a commit
+ without changing its commit message.
+
--amend::
Used to amend the tip of the current branch. Prepare the tree
object you would want to replace the latest commit as usual
@@ -197,10 +202,6 @@ OPTIONS
current tip -- if it was a merge, it will have the parents of
the current tip as parents -- so the current top commit is
discarded.
-
---no-post-rewrite::
- Bypass the post-rewrite hook.
-
+
--
It is a rough equivalent for:
@@ -217,6 +218,9 @@ You should understand the implications of rewriting history if you
amend a commit that has already been published. (See the "RECOVERING
FROM UPSTREAM REBASE" section in linkgit:git-rebase[1].)
+--no-post-rewrite::
+ Bypass the post-rewrite hook.
+
-i::
--include::
Before making a commit out of staged contents so far,
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
index 6695ab3b4b..98d9881d7e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
@@ -137,17 +137,19 @@ This option can be used several times to provide several detection regexes.
-A <author-conv-file>::
CVS by default uses the Unix username when writing its
commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file
- in this format
+ maps the name recorded in CVS to author name, e-mail and
+ optional timezone:
+
---------
exon=Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
- spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org>
+ spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org> America/Chicago
---------
+
'git cvsimport' will make it appear as those authors had
their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly
-all along.
+all along. If a timezone is specified, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE will
+have the corresponding offset applied.
+
For convenience, this data is saved to `$GIT_DIR/cvs-authors`
each time the '-A' option is provided and read from that same
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index 6603a7ab73..d1844ead4a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -442,7 +442,9 @@ their syntax.
^^^^^^
The `from` command is used to specify the commit to initialize
this branch from. This revision will be the first ancestor of the
-new commit.
+new commit. The state of the tree built at this commit will begin
+with the state at the `from` commit, and be altered by the content
+modifications in this commit.
Omitting the `from` command in the first commit of a new branch
will cause fast-import to create that commit with no ancestor. This
@@ -492,7 +494,9 @@ existing value of the branch.
`merge`
^^^^^^^
-Includes one additional ancestor commit. If the `from` command is
+Includes one additional ancestor commit. The additional ancestry
+link does not change the way the tree state is built at this commit.
+If the `from` command is
omitted when creating a new branch, the first `merge` commit will be
the first ancestor of the current commit, and the branch will start
out with no files. An unlimited number of `merge` commands per
@@ -558,8 +562,12 @@ A `<path>` string must use UNIX-style directory separators (forward
slash `/`), may contain any byte other than `LF`, and must not
start with double quote (`"`).
-If an `LF` or double quote must be encoded into `<path>` shell-style
-quoting should be used, e.g. `"path/with\n and \" in it"`.
+A path can use C-style string quoting; this is accepted in all cases
+and mandatory if the filename starts with double quote or contains
+`LF`. In C-style quoting, the complete name should be surrounded with
+double quotes, and any `LF`, backslash, or double quote characters
+must be escaped by preceding them with a backslash (e.g.,
+`"path/with\n, \\ and \" in it"`).
The value of `<path>` must be in canonical form. That is it must not:
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
index 474fa307a0..8c751202d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag] [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
+'git fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag]
+ [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>]
+ [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress]
+ [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 6d43f56279..259dce4994 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[--ignore-if-in-upstream]
[--subject-prefix=Subject-Prefix]
[--to=<email>] [--cc=<email>]
- [--cover-letter] [--quiet]
+ [--cover-letter] [--quiet] [--notes[=<ref>]]
[<common diff options>]
[ <since> | <revision range> ]
@@ -191,6 +191,18 @@ will want to ensure that threading is disabled for `git send-email`.
containing the shortlog and the overall diffstat. You can
fill in a description in the file before sending it out.
+--notes[=<ref>]::
+ Append the notes (see linkgit:git-notes[1]) for the commit
+ after the three-dash line.
++
+The expected use case of this is to write supporting explanation for
+the commit that does not belong to the commit log message proper,
+and include it with the patch submission. While one can simply write
+these explanations after `format-patch` has run but before sending,
+keeping them as git notes allows them to be maintained between versions
+of the patch series (but see the discussion of the `notes.rewrite`
+configuration options in linkgit:git-notes[1] to use this workflow).
+
--[no]-signature=<signature>::
Add a signature to each message produced. Per RFC 3676 the signature
is separated from the body by a line with '-- ' on it. If the
diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
index b95aafae2d..46ef0466be 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ message stored in the commit object, the notes are indented like the
message, after an unindented line saying "Notes (<refname>):" (or
"Notes:" for `refs/notes/commits`).
+Notes can also be added to patches prepared with `git format-patch` by
+using the `--notes` option. Such notes are added as a patch commentary
+after a three dash separator line.
+
To change which notes are shown by 'git log', see the
"notes.displayRef" configuration in linkgit:git-log[1].
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index fe46c4258a..6d19d59ce5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -286,7 +286,8 @@ leading to commit A. The history looks like this:
----------------
Further suppose that the other person already pushed changes leading to A
-back to the original repository you two obtained the original commit X.
+back to the original repository from which you two obtained the original
+commit X.
The push done by the other person updated the branch that used to point at
commit X to point at commit A. It is a fast-forward.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
index 882cb1171b..262436b7b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
@@ -107,21 +107,6 @@ as well as modifications of existing paths.
Typically you would first remove all tracked files from the working
tree using this command:
-Submodules
-~~~~~~~~~~
-Only submodules using a gitfile (which means they were cloned
-with a git version 1.7.8 or newer) will be removed from the work
-tree, as their repository lives inside the .git directory of the
-superproject. If a submodule (or one of those nested inside it)
-still uses a .git directory, `git rm` will fail - no matter if forced
-or not - to protect the submodule's history.
-
-A submodule is considered up-to-date when the HEAD is the same as
-recorded in the index, no tracked files are modified and no untracked
-files that aren't ignored are present in the submodules work tree.
-Ignored files are deemed expendable and won't stop a submodule's work
-tree from being removed.
-
----------------
git ls-files -z | xargs -0 rm -f
----------------
@@ -149,6 +134,21 @@ use the following command:
git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D -z | xargs -0 git rm --cached
----------------
+Submodules
+~~~~~~~~~~
+Only submodules using a gitfile (which means they were cloned
+with a git version 1.7.8 or newer) will be removed from the work
+tree, as their repository lives inside the .git directory of the
+superproject. If a submodule (or one of those nested inside it)
+still uses a .git directory, `git rm` will fail - no matter if forced
+or not - to protect the submodule's history.
+
+A submodule is considered up-to-date when the HEAD is the same as
+recorded in the index, no tracked files are modified and no untracked
+files that aren't ignored are present in the submodules work tree.
+Ignored files are deemed expendable and won't stop a submodule's work
+tree from being removed.
+
EXAMPLES
--------
`git rm Documentation/\*.txt`::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 1d6527ab9f..b1de3bade7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-submodule - Initialize, update or inspect submodules
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git submodule' [--quiet] add [-b branch] [-f|--force] [--name <name>]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>]
[--reference <repository>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
'git submodule' [--quiet] status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt
index 981d3a8fc1..ef68ad2b71 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt
@@ -3,13 +3,14 @@ git-symbolic-ref(1)
NAME
----
-git-symbolic-ref - Read and modify symbolic refs
+git-symbolic-ref - Read, modify and delete symbolic refs
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git symbolic-ref' [-m <reason>] <name> <ref>
'git symbolic-ref' [-q] [--short] <name>
+'git symbolic-ref' --delete [-q] <name>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -21,6 +22,9 @@ argument to see which branch your working tree is on.
Given two arguments, creates or updates a symbolic ref <name> to
point at the given branch <ref>.
+Given `--delete` and an additional argument, deletes the given
+symbolic ref.
+
A symbolic ref is a regular file that stores a string that
begins with `ref: refs/`. For example, your `.git/HEAD` is
a regular file whose contents is `ref: refs/heads/master`.
@@ -28,6 +32,10 @@ a regular file whose contents is `ref: refs/heads/master`.
OPTIONS
-------
+-d::
+--delete::
+ Delete the symbolic ref <name>.
+
-q::
--quiet::
Do not issue an error message if the <name> is not a
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 4a89a12513..cbe0883534 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,10 +43,11 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master'
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
-* link:v1.8.0/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.0]
+* link:v1.8.0.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.0.1]
* release notes for
- link:RelNotes/1.8.0.txt[1.8.0],
+ link:RelNotes/1.8.0.1.txt[1.8.0.1],
+ link:RelNotes/1.8.0.txt[1.8.0].
* link:v1.7.12.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.12.4]
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
index 8823a37067..ea6e4a52c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ Abstract: Imagine that git development is racing along as usual, when our friend
neighborhood maintainer is struck down by a wayward bus. Out of the
hordes of suckers (loyal developers), you have been tricked (chosen) to
step up as the new maintainer. This howto will show you "how to" do it.
+Content-type: text/asciidoc
+
+How to maintain Git
+===================
The maintainer's git time is spent on three activities.
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
index 74a1c0c4ba..4627ee47f2 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,12 @@ Abstract: In this article, JC talks about how he rebases the
the "master" branch, and how "rebase" works. Also discussed
is how this applies to individual developers who sends patches
upstream.
+Content-type: text/asciidoc
+How to rebase from an internal branch
+=====================================
+
+--------------------------------------
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> Dear diary, on Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:57:13AM CEST, I got a letter
@@ -19,6 +24,7 @@ Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
>> > branch to the real branches.
>>
> Actually, wouldn't this be also precisely for what StGIT is intended to?
+--------------------------------------
Exactly my feeling. I was sort of waiting for Catalin to speak
up. With its basing philosophical ancestry on quilt, this is
@@ -156,8 +162,3 @@ you continue on starting from the new "master" head, which is
the #1' commit.
-jc
-
--
-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
-the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
-More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt
index 48c67568d3..00c1b45b79 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:19:10 -0700
Abstract: In this how-to article, JC talks about how he
uses the post-update hook to automate git documentation page
shown at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/.
+Content-type: text/asciidoc
+
+How to rebuild from update hook
+===============================
The pages under http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
are built from Documentation/ directory of the git.git project
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt b/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt
index 323b513ed0..7484735320 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt
@@ -3,11 +3,17 @@ From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: corrupt object on git-gc
Abstract: Some tricks to reconstruct blob objects in order to fix
a corrupted repository.
+Content-type: text/asciidoc
+How to recover a corrupted blob object
+======================================
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Yossi Leybovich wrote:
>
> Did not help still the repository look for this object?
> Any one know how can I track this object and understand which file is it
+-----------------------------------------------------------
So exactly *because* the SHA1 hash is cryptographically secure, the hash
itself doesn't actually tell you anything, in order to fix a corrupt
@@ -31,19 +37,23 @@ original object, so right now the corrupt object is useless, but it's very
interesting for the future, in the hope that you can re-create a
non-corrupt version.
+-----------------------------------------------------------
So:
> ib]$ mv .git/objects/4b/9458b3786228369c63936db65827de3cc06200 ../
+-----------------------------------------------------------
This is the right thing to do, although it's usually best to save it under
it's full SHA1 name (you just dropped the "4b" from the result ;).
Let's see what that tells us:
+-----------------------------------------------------------
> ib]$ git-fsck --full
> broken link from tree 2d9263c6d23595e7cb2a21e5ebbb53655278dff8
> to blob 4b9458b3786228369c63936db65827de3cc06200
> missing blob 4b9458b3786228369c63936db65827de3cc06200
+-----------------------------------------------------------
Ok, I removed the "dangling commit" messages, because they are just
messages about the fact that you probably have rebased etc, so they're not
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
index 6fd711996a..8a685483f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ Abstract: Sometimes a branch that was already merged to the mainline
after the offending branch is fixed.
Message-ID: <7vocz8a6zk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
References: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812181949450.14014@localhost.localdomain>
+Content-type: text/asciidoc
+
+How to revert a faulty merge
+============================
Alan <alan@clueserver.org> said:
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt
index 093c656048..a59ced8d04 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:39:02 -0700
Content-type: text/asciidoc
Message-ID: <7voe7g3uop.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
-Reverting an existing commit
-============================
+How to revert an existing commit
+================================
One of the changes I pulled into the 'master' branch turns out to
break building GIT with GCC 2.95. While they were well intentioned
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/separating-topic-branches.txt b/Documentation/howto/separating-topic-branches.txt
index 6d3eb8ed00..bd1027433b 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/separating-topic-branches.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/separating-topic-branches.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Separating topic branches
Abstract: In this article, JC describes how to separate topic branches.
+Content-type: text/asciidoc
+
+How to separate topic branches
+==============================
This text was originally a footnote to a discussion about the
behaviour of the git diff commands.
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
index 622ee5c8dd..a695f01f0e 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
From: Rutger Nijlunsing <rutger@nospam.com>
Subject: Setting up a git repository which can be pushed into and pulled from over HTTP(S).
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:00:26 +0200
+Content-type: text/asciidoc
+
+How to setup git server over http
+=================================
Since Apache is one of those packages people like to compile
themselves while others prefer the bureaucrat's dream Debian, it is
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt b/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt
index b7f8d416d6..a5193b1e5c 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ Message-ID: <7vfypumlu3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Abstract: An example hooks/update script is presented to
implement repository maintenance policies, such as who can push
into which branch and who can make a tag.
+Content-type: text/asciidoc
+
+How to use the update hook
+==========================
When your developer runs git-push into the repository,
git-receive-pack is run (either locally or over ssh) as that
@@ -32,8 +36,7 @@ like this as your hooks/update script.
[jc: editorial note. This is a much improved version by Carl
since I posted the original outline]
--- >8 -- beginning of script -- >8 --
-
+----------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
umask 002
@@ -111,12 +114,12 @@ then
info "Found matching head pattern: '$head_pattern'"
for user_pattern in $user_patterns; do
- info "Checking user: '$username' against pattern: '$user_pattern'"
- matchlen=$(expr "$username" : "$user_pattern")
- if test "$matchlen" = "${#username}"
- then
- grant "Allowing user: '$username' with pattern: '$user_pattern'"
- fi
+ info "Checking user: '$username' against pattern: '$user_pattern'"
+ matchlen=$(expr "$username" : "$user_pattern")
+ if test "$matchlen" = "${#username}"
+ then
+ grant "Allowing user: '$username' with pattern: '$user_pattern'"
+ fi
done
deny "The user is not in the access list for this branch"
done
@@ -149,13 +152,13 @@ then
info "Found matching head pattern: '$head_pattern'"
for group_pattern in $group_patterns; do
- for groupname in $groups; do
- info "Checking group: '$groupname' against pattern: '$group_pattern'"
- matchlen=$(expr "$groupname" : "$group_pattern")
- if test "$matchlen" = "${#groupname}"
- then
- grant "Allowing group: '$groupname' with pattern: '$group_pattern'"
- fi
+ for groupname in $groups; do
+ info "Checking group: '$groupname' against pattern: '$group_pattern'"
+ matchlen=$(expr "$groupname" : "$group_pattern")
+ if test "$matchlen" = "${#groupname}"
+ then
+ grant "Allowing group: '$groupname' with pattern: '$group_pattern'"
+ fi
done
done
deny "None of the user's groups are in the access list for this branch"
@@ -169,24 +172,21 @@ then
fi
deny >/dev/null "There are no more rules to check. Denying access"
-
--- >8 -- end of script -- >8 --
+----------------------------------------------------
This uses two files, $GIT_DIR/info/allowed-users and
allowed-groups, to describe which heads can be pushed into by
whom. The format of each file would look like this:
- refs/heads/master junio
- +refs/heads/pu junio
- refs/heads/cogito$ pasky
- refs/heads/bw/.* linus
- refs/heads/tmp/.* .*
- refs/tags/v[0-9].* junio
+ refs/heads/master junio
+ +refs/heads/pu junio
+ refs/heads/cogito$ pasky
+ refs/heads/bw/.* linus
+ refs/heads/tmp/.* .*
+ refs/tags/v[0-9].* junio
With this, Linus can push or create "bw/penguin" or "bw/zebra"
or "bw/panda" branches, Pasky can do only "cogito", and JC can
do master and pu branches and make versioned tags. And anybody
can do tmp/blah branches. The '+' sign at the pu record means
that JC can make non-fast-forward pushes on it.
-
-------------
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt
index 4e2f75cb61..23cdf35435 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
+Content-type: text/asciidoc
+
How to use git-daemon
+=====================
Git can be run in inetd mode and in stand alone mode. But all you want is
let a coworker pull from you, and therefore need to set up a git server
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt b/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt
index 98c0033a55..00f693bde8 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ Abstract: Beginning v1.7.9, a contributor can push a signed tag to her
later validate it.
Content-type: text/asciidoc
-Using signed tag in pull requests
-=================================
+How to use a signed tag in pull requests
+========================================
A typical distributed workflow using Git is for a contributor to fork a
project, build on it, publish the result to her public repository, and ask
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-command.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ea9b2eda31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-command.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+Integrating new subcommands
+===========================
+
+This is how-to documentation for people who want to add extension
+commands to git. It should be read alongside api-builtin.txt.
+
+Runtime environment
+-------------------
+
+git subcommands are standalone executables that live in the git exec
+path, normally /usr/lib/git-core. The git executable itself is a
+thin wrapper that knows where the subcommands live, and runs them by
+passing command-line arguments to them.
+
+(If "git foo" is not found in the git exec path, the wrapper
+will look in the rest of your $PATH for it. Thus, it's possible
+to write local git extensions that don't live in system space.)
+
+Implementation languages
+------------------------
+
+Most subcommands are written in C or shell. A few are written in
+Perl.
+
+While we strongly encourage coding in portable C for portability,
+these specific scripting languages are also acceptable. We won't
+accept more without a very strong technical case, as we don't want
+to broaden the git suite's required dependencies. Import utilities,
+surgical tools, remote helpers and other code at the edges of the
+git suite are more lenient and we allow Python (and even Tcl/tk),
+but they should not be used for core functions.
+
+This may change in the future. Especially Python is not allowed in
+core because we need better Python integration in the git Windows
+installer before we can be confident people in that environment
+won't experience an unacceptably large loss of capability.
+
+C commands are normally written as single modules, named after the
+command, that link a collection of functions called libgit. Thus,
+your command 'git-foo' would normally be implemented as a single
+"git-foo.c" (or "builtin/foo.c" if it is to be linked to the main
+binary); this organization makes it easy for people reading the code
+to find things.
+
+See the CodingGuidelines document for other guidance on what we consider
+good practice in C and shell, and api-builtin.txt for the support
+functions available to built-in commands written in C.
+
+What every extension command needs
+----------------------------------
+
+You must have a man page, written in asciidoc (this is what git help
+followed by your subcommand name will display). Be aware that there is
+a local asciidoc configuration and macros which you should use. It's
+often helpful to start by cloning an existing page and replacing the
+text content.
+
+You must have a test, written to report in TAP (Test Anything Protocol).
+Tests are executables (usually shell scripts) that live in the 't'
+subdirectory of the tree. Each test name begins with 't' and a sequence
+number that controls where in the test sequence it will be executed;
+conventionally the rest of the name stem is that of the command
+being tested.
+
+Read the file t/README to learn more about the conventions to be used
+in writing tests, and the test support library.
+
+Integrating a command
+---------------------
+
+Here are the things you need to do when you want to merge a new
+subcommand into the git tree.
+
+0. Don't forget to sign off your patch!
+
+1. Append your command name to one of the variables BUILTIN_OBJS,
+EXTRA_PROGRAMS, SCRIPT_SH, SCRIPT_PERL or SCRIPT_PYTHON.
+
+2. Drop its test in the t directory.
+
+3. If your command is implemented in an interpreted language with a
+p-code intermediate form, make sure .gitignore in the main directory
+includes a pattern entry that ignores such files. Python .pyc and
+.pyo files will already be covered.
+
+4. If your command has any dependency on a particular version of
+your language, document it in the INSTALL file.
+
+5. There is a file command-list.txt in the distribution main directory
+that categorizes commands by type, so they can be listed in appropriate
+subsections in the documentation's summary command list. Add an entry
+for yours. To understand the categories, look at git-cmmands.txt
+in the main directory.
+
+6. Give the maintainer one paragraph to include in the RelNotes file
+to describe the new feature; a good place to do so is in the cover
+letter [PATCH 0/n].
+
+That's all there is to it.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
index 95a8bf3846..84686b5c69 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
@@ -279,6 +279,22 @@ same behaviour as well.
Strip whitespace from a buffer. The second parameter controls if
comments are considered contents to be removed or not.
+`strbuf_split_buf`::
+`strbuf_split_str`::
+`strbuf_split_max`::
+`strbuf_split`::
+
+ Split a string or strbuf into a list of strbufs at a specified
+ terminator character. The returned substrings include the
+ terminator characters. Some of these functions take a `max`
+ parameter, which, if positive, limits the output to that
+ number of substrings.
+
+`strbuf_list_free`::
+
+ Free a list of strbufs (for example, the return values of the
+ `strbuf_split()` functions).
+
`launch_editor`::
Launch the user preferred editor to edit a file and fill the buffer
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
index 94d7a2bd99..7386bcab3e 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ member (you need this if you add things later) and you should set the
`unsorted_string_list_delete_item`.
. Can remove items not matching a criterion from a sorted or unsorted
- list using `filter_string_list`.
+ list using `filter_string_list`, or remove empty strings using
+ `string_list_remove_empty_items`.
. Finally it should free the list using `string_list_clear`.
@@ -75,6 +76,12 @@ Functions
to be deleted. Preserve the order of the items that are
retained.
+`string_list_remove_empty_items`::
+
+ Remove any empty strings from the list. If free_util is true,
+ call free() on the util members of any items that have to be
+ deleted. Preserve the order of the items that are retained.
+
`string_list_longest_prefix`::
Return the longest string within a string_list that is a
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
index 9d25b30178..57d6f915b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
GIT index format
================
-= The git index file has the following format
+== The git index file has the following format
All binary numbers are in network byte order. Version 2 is described
here unless stated otherwise.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt
index 1803e64e46..a7871fb865 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
GIT pack format
===============
-= pack-*.pack files have the following format:
+== pack-*.pack files have the following format:
- A header appears at the beginning and consists of the following:
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ GIT pack format
- The trailer records 20-byte SHA1 checksum of all of the above.
-= Original (version 1) pack-*.idx files have the following format:
+== Original (version 1) pack-*.idx files have the following format:
- The header consists of 256 4-byte network byte order
integers. N-th entry of this table records the number of
@@ -123,8 +123,8 @@ Pack file entry: <+
-= Version 2 pack-*.idx files support packs larger than 4 GiB, and
- have some other reorganizations. They have the format:
+== Version 2 pack-*.idx files support packs larger than 4 GiB, and
+ have some other reorganizations. They have the format:
- A 4-byte magic number '\377tOc' which is an unreasonable
fanout[0] value.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
index d51e20f352..f1a51edf47 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ A few things to remember here:
- The repository path is always quoted with single quotes.
Fetching Data From a Server
-===========================
+---------------------------
When one Git repository wants to get data that a second repository
has, the first can 'fetch' from the second. This operation determines
@@ -134,7 +134,8 @@ with the object name that each reference currently points to.
$ echo -e -n "0039git-upload-pack /schacon/gitbook.git\0host=example.com\0" |
nc -v example.com 9418
- 00887217a7c7e582c46cec22a130adf4b9d7d950fba0 HEAD\0multi_ack thin-pack side-band side-band-64k ofs-delta shallow no-progress include-tag
+ 00887217a7c7e582c46cec22a130adf4b9d7d950fba0 HEAD\0multi_ack thin-pack
+ side-band side-band-64k ofs-delta shallow no-progress include-tag
00441d3fcd5ced445d1abc402225c0b8a1299641f497 refs/heads/integration
003f7217a7c7e582c46cec22a130adf4b9d7d950fba0 refs/heads/master
003cb88d2441cac0977faf98efc80305012112238d9d refs/tags/v0.9
@@ -421,7 +422,7 @@ entire packfile without multiplexing.
Pushing Data To a Server
-========================
+------------------------
Pushing data to a server will invoke the 'receive-pack' process on the
server, which will allow the client to tell it which references it should
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt b/Documentation/technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt
index 681efe4219..9b5a0bc186 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git-send-pack
-=============
+Git-send-pack internals
+=======================
Overall operation
-----------------
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt
index 559263af48..0502a5471e 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
-Def.: Shallow commits do have parents, but not in the shallow
+Shallow commits
+===============
+
+.Definition
+*********************************************************
+Shallow commits do have parents, but not in the shallow
repo, and therefore grafts are introduced pretending that
these commits have no parents.
+*********************************************************
The basic idea is to write the SHA1s of shallow commits into
$GIT_DIR/shallow, and handle its contents like the contents
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt b/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt
index 24c84100b0..c79d4a7c47 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt
@@ -74,24 +74,24 @@ For multiple ancestors, a '+' means that this case applies even if
only one ancestor or remote fits; a '^' means all of the ancestors
must be the same.
-case ancest head remote result
-----------------------------------------
-1 (empty)+ (empty) (empty) (empty)
-2ALT (empty)+ *empty* remote remote
-2 (empty)^ (empty) remote no merge
-3ALT (empty)+ head *empty* head
-3 (empty)^ head (empty) no merge
-4 (empty)^ head remote no merge
-5ALT * head head head
-6 ancest+ (empty) (empty) no merge
-8 ancest^ (empty) ancest no merge
-7 ancest+ (empty) remote no merge
-10 ancest^ ancest (empty) no merge
-9 ancest+ head (empty) no merge
-16 anc1/anc2 anc1 anc2 no merge
-13 ancest+ head ancest head
-14 ancest+ ancest remote remote
-11 ancest+ head remote no merge
+ case ancest head remote result
+ ----------------------------------------
+ 1 (empty)+ (empty) (empty) (empty)
+ 2ALT (empty)+ *empty* remote remote
+ 2 (empty)^ (empty) remote no merge
+ 3ALT (empty)+ head *empty* head
+ 3 (empty)^ head (empty) no merge
+ 4 (empty)^ head remote no merge
+ 5ALT * head head head
+ 6 ancest+ (empty) (empty) no merge
+ 8 ancest^ (empty) ancest no merge
+ 7 ancest+ (empty) remote no merge
+ 10 ancest^ ancest (empty) no merge
+ 9 ancest+ head (empty) no merge
+ 16 anc1/anc2 anc1 anc2 no merge
+ 13 ancest+ head ancest head
+ 14 ancest+ ancest remote remote
+ 11 ancest+ head remote no merge
Only #2ALT and #3ALT use *empty*, because these are the only cases
where there can be conflicts that didn't exist before. Note that we
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 85651b57ae..1b377dc207 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1787,6 +1787,13 @@ $ git format-patch origin
will produce a numbered series of files in the current directory, one
for each patch in the current branch but not in origin/HEAD.
+`git format-patch` can include an initial "cover letter". You can insert
+commentary on individual patches after the three dash line which
+`format-patch` places after the commit message but before the patch
+itself. If you use `git notes` to track your cover letter material,
+`git format-patch --notes` will include the commit's notes in a similar
+manner.
+
You can then import these into your mail client and send them by
hand. However, if you have a lot to send at once, you may prefer to
use the linkgit:git-send-email[1] script to automate the process.