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-rw-r--r--Documentation/CodingGuidelines9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.1.txt115
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.2.txt32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt97
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/fetch-options.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fetch.txt90
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-replace.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-send-email.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-update-index.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-verify-commit.txt28
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt81
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/index-format.txt35
19 files changed, 494 insertions, 75 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 4d90c77c7b..894546dd75 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -404,6 +404,15 @@ For Python scripts:
documentation for version 2.6 does not mention this prefix, it has
been supported since version 2.6.0.
+Error Messages
+
+ - Do not end error messages with a full stop.
+
+ - Do not capitalize ("unable to open %s", not "Unable to open %s")
+
+ - Say what the error is first ("cannot open %s", not "%s: cannot open")
+
+
Writing Documentation:
Most (if not all) of the documentation pages are written in the
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ce5579db3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+Git v2.0.1 Release Notes
+========================
+
+ * We used to unconditionally disable the pager in the pager process
+ we spawn to feed out output, but that prevented people who want to
+ run "less" within "less" from doing so.
+
+ * Tools that read diagnostic output in our standard error stream do
+ not want to see terminal control sequence (e.g. erase-to-eol).
+ Detect them by checking if the standard error stream is connected
+ to a tty.
+ * Reworded the error message given upon a failure to open an existing
+ loose object file due to e.g. permission issues; it was reported as
+ the object being corrupt, but that is not quite true.
+
+ * "git log -2master" is a common typo that shows two commits starting
+ from whichever random branch that is not 'master' that happens to
+ be checked out currently.
+
+ * The "%<(10,trunc)%s" pretty format specifier in the log family of
+ commands is used to truncate the string to a given length (e.g. 10
+ in the example) with padding to column-align the output, but did
+ not take into account that number of bytes and number of display
+ columns are different.
+
+ * The "mailmap.file" configuration option did not support the tilde
+ expansion (i.e. ~user/path and ~/path).
+
+ * The completion scripts (in contrib/) did not know about quite a few
+ options that are common between "git merge" and "git pull", and a
+ couple of options unique to "git merge".
+
+ * "--ignore-space-change" option of "git apply" ignored the spaces
+ at the beginning of line too aggressively, which is inconsistent
+ with the option of the same name "diff" and "git diff" have.
+
+ * "git blame" miscounted number of columns needed to show localized
+ timestamps, resulting in jaggy left-side-edge of the source code
+ lines in its output.
+
+ * "git blame" assigned the blame to the copy in the working-tree if
+ the repository is set to core.autocrlf=input and the file used CRLF
+ line endings.
+
+ * "git commit --allow-empty-message -C $commit" did not work when the
+ commit did not have any log message.
+
+ * "git diff --find-copies-harder" sometimes pretended as if the mode
+ bits have changed for paths that are marked with assume-unchanged
+ bit.
+
+ * "git format-patch" did not enforce the rule that the "--follow"
+ option from the log/diff family of commands must be used with
+ exactly one pathspec.
+
+ * "git gc --auto" was recently changed to run in the background to
+ give control back early to the end-user sitting in front of the
+ terminal, but it forgot that housekeeping involving reflogs should
+ be done without other processes competing for accesses to the refs.
+
+ * "git grep -O" to show the lines that hit in the pager did not work
+ well with case insensitive search. We now spawn "less" with its
+ "-I" option when it is used as the pager (which is the default).
+
+ * We used to disable threaded "git index-pack" on platforms without
+ thread-safe pread(); use a different workaround for such
+ platforms to allow threaded "git index-pack".
+
+ * The error reporting from "git index-pack" has been improved to
+ distinguish missing objects from type errors.
+
+ * "git mailinfo" used to read beyond the end of header string while
+ parsing an incoming e-mail message to extract the patch.
+
+ * On a case insensitive filesystem, merge-recursive incorrectly
+ deleted the file that is to be renamed to a name that is the same
+ except for case differences.
+
+ * "git pack-objects" unnecessarily copied the previous contents when
+ extending the hashtable, even though it will populate the table
+ from scratch anyway.
+
+ * "git rerere forget" did not work well when merge.conflictstyle
+ was set to a non-default value.
+
+ * "git remote rm" and "git remote prune" can involve removing many
+ refs at once, which is not a very efficient thing to do when very
+ many refs exist in the packed-refs file.
+
+ * "git log --exclude=<glob> --all | git shortlog" worked as expected,
+ but "git shortlog --exclude=<glob> --all", which is supposed to be
+ identical to the above pipeline, was not accepted at the command
+ line argument parser level.
+
+ * The autostash mode of "git rebase -i" did not restore the dirty
+ working tree state if the user aborted the interactive rebase by
+ emptying the insn sheet.
+
+ * "git show -s" (i.e. show log message only) used to incorrectly emit
+ an extra blank line after a merge commit.
+
+ * "git status", even though it is a read-only operation, tries to
+ update the index with refreshed lstat(2) info to optimize future
+ accesses to the working tree opportunistically, but this could
+ race with a "read-write" operation that modify the index while it
+ is running. Detect such a race and avoid overwriting the index.
+
+ * "git status" (and "git commit") behaved as if changes in a modified
+ submodule are not there if submodule.*.ignore configuration is set,
+ which was misleading. The configuration is only to unclutter diff
+ output during the course of development, and should not to hide
+ changes in the "status" output to cause the users forget to commit
+ them.
+
+ * The mode to run tests with HTTP server tests disabled was broken.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8e8321b2ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+Git v2.0.2 Release Notes
+========================
+
+ * Documentation for "git submodule sync" forgot to say that the subcommand
+ can take the "--recursive" option.
+
+ * Mishandling of patterns in .gitignore that has trailing SPs quoted
+ with backslashes (e.g. ones that end with "\ ") have been
+ corrected.
+
+ * Recent updates to "git repack" started to duplicate objects that
+ are in packfiles marked with .keep flag into the new packfile by
+ mistake.
+
+ * "git clone -b brefs/tags/bar" would have mistakenly thought we were
+ following a single tag, even though it was a name of the branch,
+ because it incorrectly used strstr().
+
+ * "%G" (nothing after G) is an invalid pretty format specifier, but
+ the parser did not notice it as garbage.
+
+ * Code to avoid adding the same alternate object store twice was
+ subtly broken for a long time, but nobody seems to have noticed.
+
+ * A handful of code paths had to read the commit object more than
+ once when showing header fields that are usually not parsed. The
+ internal data structure to keep track of the contents of the commit
+ object has been updated to reduce the need for this double-reading,
+ and to allow the caller find the length of the object.
+
+ * During "git rebase --merge", a conflicted patch could not be
+ skipped with "--skip" if the next one also conflicted.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt
index 17360e5d53..eb6b3c3620 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt
@@ -37,11 +37,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
shorter than a page).
* The logic and data used to compute the display width needed for
- UTF-8 strings have been updated to match Unicode 6.3 better.
+ UTF-8 strings have been updated to match Unicode 7.0 better.
* HTTP-based transports learned to propagate the error messages from
the webserver better to the client coming over the HTTP transport.
+ * The completion script for bash (in contrib/) has been updated to
+ handle aliases that define complex sequence of commands better.
+
* The "core.preloadindex" configuration variable is by default
enabled, allowing modern platforms to take advantage of the
multiple cores they have.
@@ -90,7 +93,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
users need to explicitly set the variable to 'true' if they want
to resurrect the now-ignored use case.
- * "git replace" learned the "--edit" subcommand.
+ * "git replace" learned the "--edit" subcommand to create a
+ replacement by editing an existing object.
+
+ * "git send-email" learned "--to-cover" and "--cc-cover" options, to
+ tell it to copy To: and Cc: headers found in the first input file
+ when emitting later input files.
* "git svn" learned to cope with malformed timestamps with only one
digit in the hour part, e.g. 2014-01-07T5:01:02.048176Z, emitted
@@ -99,11 +107,32 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git tag" when editing the tag message shows the name of the tag
being edited as a comment in the editor.
+ * "git verify-commit" command to check GPG signature in signed
+ commits, in a way similar to "git verify-tag" is used to check
+ signed tags, was added.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* Build procedure for 'subtree' (in contrib/) has been cleaned up.
+ * An experimental format to use two files (the base file and
+ incremental changes relative to it) to represent the index has been
+ introduced; this may reduce I/O cost of rewriting a large index
+ when only small part of the working tree changes.
+
+ * Effort to shrink the size of patches Windows folks maintain on top
+ by upstreaming them continues.
+
+ * Patches maintained by msysgit folks for Windows port are being
+ upstreamed here a bit by bit.
+
+ * The leaf function to check validity of a refname format has been
+ micro-optimized, using SSE2 instructions when available. A few
+ breakages during its development have been caught and fixed already
+ but there might remain some more still; please test and report if
+ you find any.
+
* The `core.deltabasecachelimit` used to default to 16 MiB , but this
proved to be too small, and has been bumped to 96 MiB.
@@ -118,6 +147,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
example, "update-ref --stdin [-z]" has been updated to use this
API.
+ * skip_prefix() and strip_suffix() API functions are used a lot more
+ widely throughout the codebase now.
+
* Parts of the test scripts can be skipped by using a range notation,
e.g. "sh t1234-test.sh --run='1-4 6 8-'" to omit test piece 5 and 7
and run everything else.
@@ -147,13 +179,22 @@ notes for details).
* Mishandling of patterns in .gitignore that has trailing SPs quoted
with backslashes (e.g. ones that end with "\ ") have been
corrected.
- (merge e61a6c1 pb/trim-trailing-spaces later to maint).
+ (merge 97c1364be6b pb/trim-trailing-spaces later to maint).
* Reworded the error message given upon a failure to open an existing
loose object file due to e.g. permission issues; it was reported as
the object being corrupt, but that is not quite true.
(merge d6c8a05 jk/report-fail-to-read-objects-better later to maint).
+ * "git log -2master" is a common typo that shows two commits starting
+ from whichever random branch that is not 'master' that happens to
+ be checked out currently.
+ (merge e3fa568 jc/revision-dash-count-parsing later to maint).
+
+ * Code to avoid adding the same alternate object store twice was
+ subtly broken for a long time, but nobody seems to have noticed.
+ (merge 80b4785 rs/fix-alt-odb-path-comparison later to maint).
+
* The "%<(10,trunc)%s" pretty format specifier in the log family of
commands is used to truncate the string to a given length (e.g. 10
in the example) with padding to column-align the output, but did
@@ -161,6 +202,17 @@ notes for details).
columns are different.
(merge 7d50987 as/pretty-truncate later to maint).
+ * "%G" (nothing after G) is an invalid pretty format specifier, but
+ the parser did not notice it as garbage.
+ (merge 958b2eb jk/pretty-G-format-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * A handful of code paths had to read the commit object more than
+ once when showing header fields that are usually not parsed. The
+ internal data structure to keep track of the contents of the commit
+ object has been updated to reduce the need for this double-reading,
+ and to allow the caller find the length of the object.
+ (merge 218aa3a jk/commit-buffer-length later to maint).
+
* The "mailmap.file" configuration option did not support the tilde
expansion (i.e. ~user/path and ~/path).
(merge 9352fd5 ow/config-mailmap-pathname later to maint).
@@ -170,6 +222,10 @@ notes for details).
couple of options unique to "git merge".
(merge 8fee872 jk/complete-merge-pull later to maint).
+ * An ancient rewrite passed a wrong pointer to a curl library
+ function in a rarely used code path.
+ (merge 479eaa8 ah/fix-http-push later to maint).
+
* "--ignore-space-change" option of "git apply" ignored the spaces
at the beginning of line too aggressively, which is inconsistent
with the option of the same name "diff" and "git diff" have.
@@ -185,6 +241,11 @@ notes for details).
line endings.
(merge 4d4813a bc/blame-crlf-test later to maint).
+ * "git clone -b brefs/tags/bar" would have mistakenly thought we were
+ following a single tag, even though it was a name of the branch,
+ because it incorrectly used strstr().
+ (merge 60a5f5f jc/fix-clone-single-starting-at-a-tag later to maint).
+
* "git commit --allow-empty-messag -C $commit" did not work when the
commit did not have any log message.
(merge 076cbd6 jk/commit-C-pick-empty later to maint).
@@ -194,6 +255,11 @@ notes for details).
bit.
(merge 5304810 jk/diff-files-assume-unchanged later to maint).
+ * "filter-branch" left an empty single-parent commit that results when
+ all parents of a merge commit gets mapped to the same commit, even
+ under "--prune-empty".
+ (merge 79bc4ef cb/filter-branch-prune-empty-degenerate-merges later to maint).
+
* "git format-patch" did not enforce the rule that the "--follow"
option from the log/diff family of commands must be used with
exactly one pathspec.
@@ -219,6 +285,13 @@ notes for details).
distinguish missing objects from type errors.
(merge 77583e7 jk/index-pack-report-missing later to maint).
+ * "log --show-signature" incorrectly decided the color to paint a
+ mergetag that was and was not correctly validated.
+ (merge 42c55ce mg/fix-log-mergetag-color later to maint).
+
+ * "log --show-signature" did not pay attention to "--graph" option.
+ (merge cf3983d zk/log-graph-showsig later to maint).
+
* "git mailinfo" used to read beyond the end of header string while
parsing an incoming e-mail message to extract the patch.
(merge b1a013d rs/mailinfo-header-cmp later to maint).
@@ -228,11 +301,21 @@ notes for details).
except for case differences.
(merge baa37bf dt/merge-recursive-case-insensitive later to maint).
+ * Merging changes into a file that ends in an incomplete line made the
+ last line into a complete one, even when the other branch did not
+ change anything around the end of file.
+ (merge ba31180 mk/merge-incomplete-files later to maint).
+
* "git pack-objects" unnecessarily copied the previous contents when
extending the hashtable, even though it will populate the table
from scratch anyway.
(merge fb79947 rs/pack-objects-no-unnecessary-realloc later to maint).
+ * Recent updates to "git repack" started to duplicate objects that
+ are in packfiles marked with .keep flag into the new packfile by
+ mistake.
+ (merge d078d85 jk/repack-pack-keep-objects later to maint).
+
* "git rerere forget" did not work well when merge.conflictstyle
was set to a non-default value.
(merge de3d8bb fc/rerere-conflict-style later to maint).
@@ -253,6 +336,10 @@ notes for details).
emptying the insn sheet.
(merge ddb5432 rr/rebase-autostash-fix later to maint).
+ * During "git rebase --merge", a conflicted patch could not be
+ skipped with "--skip" if the next one also conflicted.
+ (merge 95104c7 bc/fix-rebase-merge-skip later to maint).
+
* "git show -s" (i.e. show log message only) used to incorrectly emit
an extra blank line after a merge commit.
(merge ad2f725 mk/show-s-no-extra-blank-line-for-merges later to maint).
@@ -272,6 +359,10 @@ notes for details).
them.
(merge c215d3d jl/status-added-submodule-is-never-ignored later to maint).
+ * Documentation for "git submodule sync" forgot to say that the subcommand
+ can take the "--recursive" option.
+ (merge 9393ae7 mc/doc-submodule-sync-recurse later to maint).
+
* "git update-index --cacheinfo" in 2.0 release crashed on a
malformed command line.
(merge c8e1ee4 jc/rev-parse-argh-dashed-multi-words later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 9f467d3820..1d718bdb96 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1905,12 +1905,7 @@ pack.useBitmaps::
you are debugging pack bitmaps.
pack.writebitmaps::
- When true, git will write a bitmap index when packing all
- objects to disk (e.g., when `git repack -a` is run). This
- index can speed up the "counting objects" phase of subsequent
- packs created for clones and fetches, at the cost of some disk
- space and extra time spent on the initial repack. Defaults to
- false.
+ This is a deprecated synonym for `repack.writeBitmaps`.
pack.writeBitmapHashCache::
When true, git will include a "hash cache" section in the bitmap
@@ -2187,7 +2182,15 @@ repack.packKeptObjects::
`--pack-kept-objects` was passed. See linkgit:git-repack[1] for
details. Defaults to `false` normally, but `true` if a bitmap
index is being written (either via `--write-bitmap-index` or
- `pack.writeBitmaps`).
+ `repack.writeBitmaps`).
+
+repack.writeBitmaps::
+ When true, git will write a bitmap index when packing all
+ objects to disk (e.g., when `git repack -a` is run). This
+ index can speed up the "counting objects" phase of subsequent
+ packs created for clones and fetches, at the cost of some disk
+ space and extra time spent on the initial repack. Defaults to
+ false.
rerere.autoupdate::
When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index 92c68c3fda..b09a783ee3 100644
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -72,6 +72,14 @@ endif::git-pull[]
setting. See linkgit:git-config[1].
ifndef::git-pull[]
+--refmap=<refspec>::
+ When fetching refs listed on the command line, use the
+ specified refspec (can be given more than once) to map the
+ refs to remote-tracking branches, instead of the values of
+ `remote.*.fetch` configuration variables for the remote
+ repository. See section on "Configured Remote-tracking
+ Branches" for details.
+
-t::
--tags::
Fetch all tags from the remote (i.e., fetch remote tags
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
index 5809aa4eb9..8deb61469d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
@@ -17,22 +17,20 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Fetches named heads or tags from one or more other repositories,
-along with the objects necessary to complete them.
+Fetch branches and/or tags (collectively, "refs") from one or more
+other repositories, along with the objects necessary to complete their
+histories. Remote-tracking branches are updated (see the description
+of <refspec> below for ways to control this behavior).
-The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored
-in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information is left for a later merge
-operation done by 'git merge'.
-
-By default, tags are auto-followed. This means that when fetching
-from a remote, any tags on the remote that point to objects that exist
-in the local repository are fetched. The effect is to fetch tags that
+By default, any tag that points into the histories being fetched is
+also fetched; the effect is to fetch tags that
point at branches that you are interested in. This default behavior
-can be changed by using the --tags or --no-tags options, by
-configuring remote.<name>.tagopt, or by using a refspec that fetches
-tags explicitly.
+can be changed by using the --tags or --no-tags options or by
+configuring remote.<name>.tagopt. By using a refspec that fetches tags
+explicitly, you can fetch tags that do not point into branches you
+are interested in as well.
-'git fetch' can fetch from either a single named repository,
+'git fetch' can fetch from either a single named repository or URL,
or from several repositories at once if <group> is given and
there is a remotes.<group> entry in the configuration file.
(See linkgit:git-config[1]).
@@ -40,6 +38,10 @@ there is a remotes.<group> entry in the configuration file.
When no remote is specified, by default the `origin` remote will be used,
unless there's an upstream branch configured for the current branch.
+The names of refs that are fetched, together with the object names
+they point at, are written to `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information
+may be used by scripts or other git commands, such as linkgit:git-pull[1].
+
OPTIONS
-------
include::fetch-options.txt[]
@@ -49,6 +51,55 @@ include::pull-fetch-param.txt[]
include::urls-remotes.txt[]
+CONFIGURED REMOTE-TRACKING BRANCHES[[CRTB]]
+-------------------------------------------
+
+You often interact with the same remote repository by
+regularly and repeatedly fetching from it. In order to keep track
+of the progress of such a remote repository, `git fetch` allows you
+to configure `remote.<repository>.fetch` configuration variables.
+
+Typically such a variable may look like this:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+[remote "origin"]
+ fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
+------------------------------------------------
+
+This configuration is used in two ways:
+
+* When `git fetch` is run without specifying what branches
+ and/or tags to fetch on the command line, e.g. `git fetch origin`
+ or `git fetch`, `remote.<repository>.fetch` values are used as
+ the refspecs---they specify which refs to fetch and which local refs
+ to update. The example above will fetch
+ all branches that exist in the `origin` (i.e. any ref that matches
+ the left-hand side of the value, `refs/heads/*`) and update the
+ corresponding remote-tracking branches in the `refs/remotes/origin/*`
+ hierarchy.
+
+* When `git fetch` is run with explicit branches and/or tags
+ to fetch on the command line, e.g. `git fetch origin master`, the
+ <refspec>s given on the command line determine what are to be
+ fetched (e.g. `master` in the example,
+ which is a short-hand for `master:`, which in turn means
+ "fetch the 'master' branch but I do not explicitly say what
+ remote-tracking branch to update with it from the command line"),
+ and the example command will
+ fetch _only_ the 'master' branch. The `remote.<repository>.fetch`
+ values determine which
+ remote-tracking branch, if any, is updated. When used in this
+ way, the `remote.<repository>.fetch` values do not have any
+ effect in deciding _what_ gets fetched (i.e. the values are not
+ used as refspecs when the command-line lists refspecs); they are
+ only used to decide _where_ the refs that are fetched are stored
+ by acting as a mapping.
+
+The latter use of the `remote.<repository>.fetch` values can be
+overridden by giving the `--refmap=<refspec>` parameter(s) on the
+command line.
+
+
EXAMPLES
--------
@@ -76,6 +127,19 @@ the local repository by fetching from the branches (respectively)
The `pu` branch will be updated even if it is does not fast-forward,
because it is prefixed with a plus sign; `tmp` will not be.
+* Peek at a remote's branch, without configuring the remote in your local
+repository:
++
+------------------------------------------------
+$ git fetch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git maint
+$ git log FETCH_HEAD
+------------------------------------------------
++
+The first command fetches the `maint` branch from the repository at
+`git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git` and the second command uses
+`FETCH_HEAD` to examine the branch with linkgit:git-log[1]. The fetched
+objects will eventually be removed by git's built-in housekeeping (see
+linkgit:git-gc[1]).
BUGS
----
diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
index 61461b9f33..089dcac047 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
@@ -73,6 +73,14 @@ OPTIONS
newly created object. See linkgit:git-var[1] for details about
how the editor will be chosen.
+--raw::
+ When editing, provide the raw object contents rather than
+ pretty-printed ones. Currently this only affects trees, which
+ will be shown in their binary form. This is harder to work with,
+ but can help when repairing a tree that is so corrupted it
+ cannot be pretty-printed. Note that you may need to configure
+ your editor to cleanly read and write binary data.
+
-l <pattern>::
--list <pattern>::
List replace refs for objects that match the given pattern (or
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 987395d22a..9bd76a5a6b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -245,6 +245,10 @@ print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status.
--show-toplevel::
Show the absolute path of the top-level directory.
+--shared-index-path::
+ Show the path to the shared index file in split index mode, or
+ empty if not in split-index mode.
+
Other Options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index d0fa18aaa8..a60776eb57 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -248,6 +248,18 @@ Automating
cc list. Default is the value of 'sendemail.signedoffbycc' configuration
value; if that is unspecified, default to --signed-off-by-cc.
+--[no-]cc-cover::
+ If this is set, emails found in Cc: headers in the first patch of
+ the series (typically the cover letter) are added to the cc list
+ for each email set. Default is the value of 'sendemail.cccover'
+ configuration value; if that is unspecified, default to --no-cc-cover.
+
+--[no-]to-cover::
+ If this is set, emails found in To: headers in the first patch of
+ the series (typically the cover letter) are added to the to list
+ for each email set. Default is the value of 'sendemail.tocover'
+ configuration value; if that is unspecified, default to --no-to-cover.
+
--suppress-cc=<category>::
Specify an additional category of recipients to suppress the
auto-cc of:
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 89c4d3e394..8e6af65da0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [--cached|--files] [(-n|--summary-limit) <n>]
[commit] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] foreach [--recursive] <command>
-'git submodule' [--quiet] sync [--] [<path>...]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] sync [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
index d6de4a008c..dfc09d93d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
@@ -161,6 +161,17 @@ may not support it yet.
Only meaningful with `--stdin` or `--index-info`; paths are
separated with NUL character instead of LF.
+--split-index::
+--no-split-index::
+ Enable or disable split index mode. If enabled, the index is
+ split into two files, $GIT_DIR/index and $GIT_DIR/sharedindex.<SHA-1>.
+ Changes are accumulated in $GIT_DIR/index while the shared
+ index file contains all index entries stays unchanged. If
+ split-index mode is already enabled and `--split-index` is
+ given again, all changes in $GIT_DIR/index are pushed back to
+ the shared index file. This mode is designed for very large
+ indexes that take a signficant amount of time to read or write.
+
\--::
Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-verify-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-verify-commit.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9413e2802a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/git-verify-commit.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+git-verify-commit(1)
+====================
+
+NAME
+----
+git-verify-commit - Check the GPG signature of commits
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'git verify-commit' <commit>...
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+Validates the gpg signature created by 'git commit -S'.
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+-v::
+--verbose::
+ Print the contents of the commit object before validating it.
+
+<commit>...::
+ SHA-1 identifiers of Git commit objects.
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 3bd68b0167..d0ddfcb0aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,9 +43,11 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from the 'master'
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
-* link:v2.0.0/git.html[documentation for release 2.0]
+* link:v2.0.2/git.html[documentation for release 2.0.2]
* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/2.0.2.txt[2.0.2],
+ link:RelNotes/2.0.1.txt[2.0.1],
link:RelNotes/2.0.0.txt[2.0.0].
* link:v1.9.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.9.4]
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
index 17d2ea6c1e..79653f3134 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
@@ -155,6 +155,10 @@ index::
The current index file for the repository. It is
usually not found in a bare repository.
+sharedindex.<SHA-1>::
+ The shared index part, to be referenced by $GIT_DIR/index and
+ other temporary index files. Only valid in split index mode.
+
info::
Additional information about the repository is recorded
in this directory.
diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
index 18cffc25b8..1ebbf1d738 100644
--- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
@@ -12,9 +12,23 @@ ifndef::git-pull[]
endif::git-pull[]
<refspec>::
- The format of a <refspec> parameter is an optional plus
- `+`, followed by the source ref <src>, followed
- by a colon `:`, followed by the destination ref <dst>.
+ Specifies which refs to fetch and which local refs to update.
+ When no <refspec>s appear on the command line, the refs to fetch
+ are read from `remote.<repository>.fetch` variables instead
+ifndef::git-pull[]
+ (see <<CRTB,CONFIGURED REMOTE-TRACKING BRANCHES>> below).
+endif::git-pull[]
+ifdef::git-pull[]
+ (see linkgit:git-fetch[1]).
+endif::git-pull[]
++
+The format of a <refspec> parameter is an optional plus
+`+`, followed by the source ref <src>, followed
+by a colon `:`, followed by the destination ref <dst>.
+The colon can be omitted when <dst> is empty.
++
+`tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`;
+it requests fetching everything up to the given tag.
+
The remote ref that matches <src>
is fetched, and if <dst> is not empty string, the local
@@ -24,55 +38,34 @@ is updated even if it does not result in a fast-forward
update.
+
[NOTE]
-If the remote branch from which you want to pull is
-modified in non-linear ways such as being rewound and
-rebased frequently, then a pull will attempt a merge with
-an older version of itself, likely conflict, and fail.
-It is under these conditions that you would want to use
-the `+` sign to indicate non-fast-forward updates will
-be needed. There is currently no easy way to determine
-or declare that a branch will be made available in a
-repository with this behavior; the pulling user simply
+When the remote branch you want to fetch is known to
+be rewound and rebased regularly, it is expected that
+its new tip will not be descendant of its previous tip
+(as stored in your remote-tracking branch the last time
+you fetched). You would want
+to use the `+` sign to indicate non-fast-forward updates
+will be needed for such branches. There is no way to
+determine or declare that a branch will be made available
+in a repository with this behavior; the pulling user simply
must know this is the expected usage pattern for a branch.
-+
-[NOTE]
-You never do your own development on branches that appear
-on the right hand side of a <refspec> colon on `Pull:` lines;
-they are to be updated by 'git fetch'. If you intend to do
-development derived from a remote branch `B`, have a `Pull:`
-line to track it (i.e. `Pull: B:remote-B`), and have a separate
-branch `my-B` to do your development on top of it. The latter
-is created by `git branch my-B remote-B` (or its equivalent `git
-checkout -b my-B remote-B`). Run `git fetch` to keep track of
-the progress of the remote side, and when you see something new
-on the remote branch, merge it into your development branch with
-`git pull . remote-B`, while you are on `my-B` branch.
+ifdef::git-pull[]
+
[NOTE]
There is a difference between listing multiple <refspec>
directly on 'git pull' command line and having multiple
-`Pull:` <refspec> lines for a <repository> and running
+`remote.<repository>.fetch` entries in your configuration
+for a <repository> and running a
'git pull' command without any explicit <refspec> parameters.
-<refspec> listed explicitly on the command line are always
+<refspec>s listed explicitly on the command line are always
merged into the current branch after fetching. In other words,
-if you list more than one remote refs, you would be making
-an Octopus. While 'git pull' run without any explicit <refspec>
-parameter takes default <refspec>s from `Pull:` lines, it
-merges only the first <refspec> found into the current branch,
-after fetching all the remote refs. This is because making an
+if you list more than one remote ref, 'git pull' will create
+an Octopus merge. On the other hand, if you do not list any
+explicit <refspec> parameter on the command line, 'git pull'
+will fetch all the <refspec>s it finds in the
+`remote.<repository>.fetch` configuration and merge
+only the first <refspec> found into the current branch.
+This is because making an
Octopus from remote refs is rarely done, while keeping track
of multiple remote heads in one-go by fetching more than one
is often useful.
-+
-Some short-cut notations are also supported.
-+
-* `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`;
- it requests fetching everything up to the given tag.
-ifndef::git-pull[]
-* A parameter <ref> without a colon fetches that ref into FETCH_HEAD,
-endif::git-pull[]
-ifdef::git-pull[]
-* A parameter <ref> without a colon merges <ref> into the current
- branch,
endif::git-pull[]
- and updates the remote-tracking branches (if any).
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
index 077a7096a4..f9c06a7573 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ use the mem* functions than a str* one (memchr vs. strchr e.g.).
Though, one has to be careful about the fact that str* functions often
stop on NULs and that strbufs may have embedded NULs.
-An strbuf is NUL terminated for convenience, but no function in the
+A strbuf is NUL terminated for convenience, but no function in the
strbuf API actually relies on the string being free of NULs.
-strbufs has some invariants that are very important to keep in mind:
+strbufs have some invariants that are very important to keep in mind:
. The `buf` member is never NULL, so it can be used in any usual C
string operations safely. strbuf's _have_ to be initialized either by
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ Data structures
* `struct strbuf`
This is the string buffer structure. The `len` member can be used to
-determine the current length of the string, and `buf` member provides access to
-the string itself.
+determine the current length of the string, and `buf` member provides
+access to the string itself.
Functions
---------
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ strbuf_addstr(sb, "immediate string");
`strbuf_addbuf`::
- Copy the contents of an other buffer at the end of the current one.
+ Copy the contents of another buffer at the end of the current one.
`strbuf_adddup`::
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt
index 59be59b0eb..229f845dfa 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Because Git repositories are accessed by standard path components
server administrators MAY use directory based permissions within
their HTTP server to control repository access.
-Clients SHOULD support Basic authentication as described by RFC 2616.
+Clients SHOULD support Basic authentication as described by RFC 2617.
Servers SHOULD support Basic authentication by relying upon the
HTTP server placed in front of the Git server software.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
index f352a9b22e..fe6f31667d 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
@@ -129,6 +129,9 @@ Git index format
(Version 4) In version 4, the padding after the pathname does not
exist.
+ Interpretation of index entries in split index mode is completely
+ different. See below for details.
+
== Extensions
=== Cached tree
@@ -198,3 +201,35 @@ Git index format
- At most three 160-bit object names of the entry in stages from 1 to 3
(nothing is written for a missing stage).
+=== Split index
+
+ In split index mode, the majority of index entries could be stored
+ in a separate file. This extension records the changes to be made on
+ top of that to produce the final index.
+
+ The signature for this extension is { 'l', 'i, 'n', 'k' }.
+
+ The extension consists of:
+
+ - 160-bit SHA-1 of the shared index file. The shared index file path
+ is $GIT_DIR/sharedindex.<SHA-1>. If all 160 bits are zero, the
+ index does not require a shared index file.
+
+ - An ewah-encoded delete bitmap, each bit represents an entry in the
+ shared index. If a bit is set, its corresponding entry in the
+ shared index will be removed from the final index. Note, because
+ a delete operation changes index entry positions, but we do need
+ original positions in replace phase, it's best to just mark
+ entries for removal, then do a mass deletion after replacement.
+
+ - An ewah-encoded replace bitmap, each bit represents an entry in
+ the shared index. If a bit is set, its corresponding entry in the
+ shared index will be replaced with an entry in this index
+ file. All replaced entries are stored in sorted order in this
+ index. The first "1" bit in the replace bitmap corresponds to the
+ first index entry, the second "1" bit to the second entry and so
+ on. Replaced entries may have empty path names to save space.
+
+ The remaining index entries after replaced ones will be added to the
+ final index. These added entries are also sorted by entry namme then
+ stage.