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-rw-r--r--Documentation/CodingGuidelines23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt132
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt38
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-archimport.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-column.txt35
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt31
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-config.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-describe.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-diff.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-gc.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-grep.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-help.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rebase.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitcredentials.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/index-format.txt41
21 files changed, 344 insertions, 56 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 48aa4edfbd..8579530710 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -118,6 +118,24 @@ For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive):
do this
fi
+ - If a command sequence joined with && or || or | spans multiple
+ lines, put each command on a separate line and put && and || and |
+ operators at the end of each line, rather than the start. This
+ means you don't need to use \ to join lines, since the above
+ operators imply the sequence isn't finished.
+
+ (incorrect)
+ grep blob verify_pack_result \
+ | awk -f print_1.awk \
+ | sort >actual &&
+ ...
+
+ (correct)
+ grep blob verify_pack_result |
+ awk -f print_1.awk |
+ sort >actual &&
+ ...
+
- We prefer "test" over "[ ... ]".
- We do not write the noiseword "function" in front of shell
@@ -358,7 +376,10 @@ For C programs:
string_list for sorted string lists, a hash map (mapping struct
objects) named "struct decorate", amongst other things.
- - When you come up with an API, document it.
+ - When you come up with an API, document its functions and structures
+ in the header file that exposes the API to its callers. Use what is
+ in "strbuf.h" as a model for the appropriate tone and level of
+ detail.
- The first #include in C files, except in platform specific compat/
implementations, must be either "git-compat-util.h", "cache.h" or
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt
index 2cc5fd7a9f..ab631660f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Backward Compatibility Notes
which means some fetches of tags that did not fail with older
version of Git will fail without "--force" with this version.
+ * "git help -a" now gives verbose output (same as "git help -av").
+ Those who want the old output may say "git help --no-verbose -a"..
+
Updates since v2.19
-------------------
@@ -58,6 +61,46 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git multi-pack-index" learned to detect corruption in the .midx
file it uses, and this feature has been integrated into "git fsck".
+ * Generation of (experimental) commit-graph files have so far been
+ fairly silent, even though it takes noticeable amount of time in a
+ meaningfully large repository. The users will now see progress
+ output.
+
+ * The minimum version of Windows supported by Windows port fo Git is
+ now set to Vista.
+
+ * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete a handful of
+ options "git stash list" command takes.
+
+ * The completion script (in contrib/) learned that "git fetch
+ --multiple" only takes remote names as arguments and no refspecs.
+
+ * "git status" learns to show progress bar when refreshing the index
+ takes a long time.
+ (merge ae9af12287 nd/status-refresh-progress later to maint).
+
+ * "git help -a" and "git help -av" give different pieces of
+ information, and generally the "verbose" version is more friendly
+ to the new users. "git help -a" by default now uses the more
+ verbose output (with "--no-verbose", you can go back to the
+ original). Also "git help -av" now lists aliases and external
+ commands, which it did not used to.
+
+ * Unlike "grep", "git grep" by default recurses to the whole tree.
+ The command learned "git grep --recursive" option, so that "git
+ grep --no-recursive" can serve as a synonym to setting the
+ max-depth to 0.
+
+ * When pushing into a repository that borrows its objects from an
+ alternate object store, "git receive-pack" that responds to the
+ push request on the other side lists the tips of refs in the
+ alternate to reduce the amount of objects transferred. This
+ sometimes is detrimental when the number of refs in the alternate
+ is absurdly large, in which case the bandwidth saved in potentially
+ fewer objects transferred is wasted in excessively large ref
+ advertisement. The alternate refs that are advertised are now
+ configurable with a pair of configuration variables.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -108,6 +151,51 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Update fsck.skipList implementation and documentation.
(merge 371a655074 ab/fsck-skiplist later to maint).
+ * An alias that expands to another alias has so far been forbidden,
+ but now it is allowed to create such an alias.
+
+ * Various test scripts have been updated for style and also correct
+ handling of exit status of various commands.
+
+ * "gc --auto" ended up calling exit(-1) upon error, which has been
+ corrected to use exit(1). Also the error reporting behaviour when
+ daemonized has been updated to exit with zero status when stopping
+ due to a previously discovered error (which implies there is no
+ point running gc to improve the situation); we used to exit with
+ failure in such a case.
+
+ * Various codepaths in the core-ish part learned to work on an
+ arbitrary in-core index structure, not necessarily the default
+ instance "the_index".
+ (merge b3c7eef9b0 nd/the-index later to maint).
+
+ * Code clean-up in the internal machinery used by "git status" and
+ "git commit --dry-run".
+ (merge 73ba5d78b4 ss/wt-status-committable later to maint).
+
+ * Some environment variables that control the runtime options of Git
+ used during tests are getting renamed for consistency.
+ (merge 4231d1ba99 bp/rename-test-env-var later to maint).
+
+ * A new extension to the index file has been introduced, which allows
+ the index file to be read in parallel for performance.
+
+ * The oidset API was built on top of the oidmap API which in turn is
+ on the hashmap API. Replace the implementation to build on top of
+ the khash API and gain performance.
+
+ * Over some transports, fetching objects with an exact commit object
+ name can be done without first seeing the ref advertisements. The
+ code has been optimized to exploit this.
+
+ * In a partial clone that will lazily be hydrated from the
+ originating repository, we generally want to avoid "does this
+ object exist (locally)?" on objects that we deliberately omitted
+ when we created the clone. The cache-tree codepath (which is used
+ to write a tree object out of the index) however insisted that the
+ object exists, even for paths that are outside of the partial
+ checkout area. The code has been updated to avoid such a check.
+
Fixes since v2.19
-----------------
@@ -170,6 +258,38 @@ Fixes since v2.19
segfault, which has been corrected.
(merge e467a90c7a tg/range-diff-corner-case-fix later to maint).
+ * The recently introduced commit-graph auxiliary data is incompatible
+ with mechanisms such as replace & grafts that "breaks" immutable
+ nature of the object reference relationship. Disable optimizations
+ based on its use (and updating existing commit-graph) when these
+ incompatible features are in use in the repository.
+ (merge 829a321569 ds/commit-graph-with-grafts later to maint).
+
+ * The mailmap file update.
+ (merge 255eb03edf jn/mailmap-update later to maint).
+
+ * The code in "git status" sometimes hit an assertion failure. This
+ was caused by a structure that was reused without cleaning the data
+ used for the first run, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 3e73cc62c0 en/status-multiple-renames-to-the-same-target-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch $repo $object" in a partial clone did not correctly
+ fetch the asked-for object that is referenced by an object in
+ promisor packfile, which has been fixed.
+
+ * A corner-case bugfix.
+ (merge c5cbb27cb5 sm/show-superproject-while-conflicted later to maint).
+
+ * Various fixes to "diff --color-moved-ws".
+
+ * A partial clone that is configured to lazily fetch missing objects
+ will on-demand issue a "git fetch" request to the originating
+ repository to fill not-yet-obtained objects. The request has been
+ optimized for requesting a tree object (and not the leaf blob
+ objects contained in it) by telling the originating repository that
+ no blobs are needed.
+ (merge 4c7f9567ea jt/non-blob-lazy-fetch later to maint).
+
* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 96a7501aad ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly later to maint).
(merge b9b07efdb2 tg/conflict-marker-size later to maint).
@@ -181,3 +301,15 @@ Fixes since v2.19
(merge 0597dd62ba sb/string-list-remove-unused later to maint).
(merge db2d36fad8 bw/protocol-v2 later to maint).
(merge 456d7cd3a9 sg/split-index-test later to maint).
+ (merge 7b6057c852 tq/refs-internal-comment-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 29e8dc50ad tg/t5551-with-curl-7.61.1 later to maint).
+ (merge 55f6bce2c9 fe/doc-updates later to maint).
+ (merge 7987d2232d jk/check-everything-connected-is-long-gone later to maint).
+ (merge 4ba3c9be47 dz/credential-doc-url-matching-rules later to maint).
+ (merge 4c399442f7 ma/commit-graph-docs later to maint).
+ (merge fc0503b04e ma/t1400-undebug-test later to maint).
+ (merge e56b53553a nd/packobjectshook-doc-fix later to maint).
+ (merge c56170a0c4 ma/mailing-list-address-in-git-help later to maint).
+ (merge 6e8fc70fce rs/sequencer-oidset-insert-avoids-dups later to maint).
+ (merge ad0b8f9575 mw/doc-typofixes later to maint).
+ (merge d9f079ad1a jc/how-to-document-api later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 1546833213..552827935a 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ boolean::
false;; Boolean false literals are `no`, `off`, `false`,
`0` and the empty string.
+
-When converting value to the canonical form using `--bool` type
+When converting a value to its canonical form using the `--type=bool` type
specifier, 'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or
"false" (spelled in lowercase).
@@ -616,6 +616,24 @@ core.preferSymlinkRefs::
This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that
expect HEAD to be a symbolic link.
+core.alternateRefsCommand::
+ When advertising tips of available history from an alternate, use the shell to
+ execute the specified command instead of linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1]. The
+ first argument is the absolute path of the alternate. Output must contain one
+ hex object id per line (i.e., the same as produce by `git for-each-ref
+ --format='%(objectname)'`).
++
+Note that you cannot generally put `git for-each-ref` directly into the config
+value, as it does not take a repository path as an argument (but you can wrap
+the command above in a shell script).
+
+core.alternateRefsPrefixes::
+ When listing references from an alternate, list only references that begin
+ with the given prefix. Prefixes match as if they were given as arguments to
+ linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1]. To list multiple prefixes, separate them with
+ whitespace. If `core.alternateRefsCommand` is set, setting
+ `core.alternateRefsPrefixes` has no effect.
+
core.bare::
If true this repository is assumed to be 'bare' and has no
working directory associated with it. If this is the case a
@@ -1643,7 +1661,8 @@ gc.writeCommitGraph::
for details.
gc.logExpiry::
- If the file gc.log exists, then `git gc --auto` won't run
+ If the file gc.log exists, then `git gc --auto` will print
+ its content and exit with status zero instead of running
unless that file is more than 'gc.logExpiry' old. Default is
"1.day". See `gc.pruneExpire` for more ways to specify its
value.
@@ -2148,6 +2167,13 @@ imap::
The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described
in linkgit:git-imap-send[1].
+index.threads::
+ Specifies the number of threads to spawn when loading the index.
+ This is meant to reduce index load time on multiprocessor machines.
+ Specifying 0 or 'true' will cause Git to auto-detect the number of
+ CPU's and set the number of threads accordingly. Specifying 1 or
+ 'false' will disable multithreading. Defaults to 'true'.
+
index.version::
Specify the version with which new index files should be
initialized. This does not affect existing repositories.
@@ -2995,15 +3021,15 @@ uploadpack.packObjectsHook::
was run. I.e., `upload-pack` will feed input intended for
`pack-objects` to the hook, and expects a completed packfile on
stdout.
-
-uploadpack.allowFilter::
- If this option is set, `upload-pack` will support partial
- clone and partial fetch object filtering.
+
Note that this configuration variable is ignored if it is seen in the
repository-level config (this is a safety measure against fetching from
untrusted repositories).
+uploadpack.allowFilter::
+ If this option is set, `upload-pack` will support partial
+ clone and partial fetch object filtering.
+
uploadpack.allowRefInWant::
If this option is set, `upload-pack` will support the `ref-in-want`
feature of the protocol version 2 `fetch` command. This feature
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt
index ea70653369..a595a0ffee 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-archimport(1)
NAME
----
-git-archimport - Import an Arch repository into Git
+git-archimport - Import a GNU Arch repository into Git
SYNOPSIS
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Imports a project from one or more Arch repositories. It will follow branches
+Imports a project from one or more GNU Arch repositories.
+It will follow branches
and repositories within the namespaces defined by the <archive/branch>
parameters supplied. If it cannot find the remote branch a merge comes from
it will just import it as a regular commit. If it can find it, it will mark it
diff --git a/Documentation/git-column.txt b/Documentation/git-column.txt
index 03d18465d4..763afabb6d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-column.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-column.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-This command formats its input into multiple columns.
+This command formats the lines of its standard input into a table with
+multiple columns. Each input line occupies one cell of the table. It
+is used internally by other git commands to format output into
+columns.
OPTIONS
-------
@@ -23,7 +26,7 @@ OPTIONS
--mode=<mode>::
Specify layout mode. See configuration variable column.ui for option
- syntax.
+ syntax in linkgit:git-config[1].
--raw-mode=<n>::
Same as --mode but take mode encoded as a number. This is mainly used
@@ -43,6 +46,34 @@ OPTIONS
--padding=<N>::
The number of spaces between columns. One space by default.
+EXAMPLES
+------
+
+Format data by columns:
+------------
+$ seq 1 24 | git column --mode=column --padding=5
+1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22
+2 5 8 11 14 17 20 23
+3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24
+------------
+
+Format data by rows:
+------------
+$ seq 1 21 | git column --mode=row --padding=5
+1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+8 9 10 11 12 13 14
+15 16 17 18 19 20 21
+------------
+
+List some tags in a table with unequal column widths:
+------------
+$ git tag --list 'v2.4.*' --column=row,dense
+v2.4.0 v2.4.0-rc0 v2.4.0-rc1 v2.4.0-rc2 v2.4.0-rc3
+v2.4.1 v2.4.10 v2.4.11 v2.4.12 v2.4.2
+v2.4.3 v2.4.4 v2.4.5 v2.4.6 v2.4.7
+v2.4.8 v2.4.9
+------------
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt
index dececb79d7..624470e198 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-commit-graph(1)
NAME
----
-git-commit-graph - Write and verify Git commit graph files
+git-commit-graph - Write and verify Git commit-graph files
SYNOPSIS
@@ -17,24 +17,24 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Manage the serialized commit graph file.
+Manage the serialized commit-graph file.
OPTIONS
-------
--object-dir::
- Use given directory for the location of packfiles and commit graph
+ Use given directory for the location of packfiles and commit-graph
file. This parameter exists to specify the location of an alternate
- that only has the objects directory, not a full .git directory. The
- commit graph file is expected to be at <dir>/info/commit-graph and
- the packfiles are expected to be in <dir>/pack.
+ that only has the objects directory, not a full `.git` directory. The
+ commit-graph file is expected to be at `<dir>/info/commit-graph` and
+ the packfiles are expected to be in `<dir>/pack`.
COMMANDS
--------
'write'::
-Write a commit graph file based on the commits found in packfiles.
+Write a commit-graph file based on the commits found in packfiles.
+
With the `--stdin-packs` option, generate the new commit graph by
walking objects only in the specified pack-indexes. (Cannot be combined
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ existing commit-graph file.
'read'::
-Read a graph file given by the commit-graph file and output basic
-details about the graph file. Used for debugging purposes.
+Read the commit-graph file and output basic details about it.
+Used for debugging purposes.
'verify'::
@@ -66,27 +66,28 @@ database. Used to check for corrupted data.
EXAMPLES
--------
-* Write a commit graph file for the packed commits in your local .git folder.
+* Write a commit-graph file for the packed commits in your local `.git`
+ directory.
+
------------------------------------------------
$ git commit-graph write
------------------------------------------------
-* Write a graph file, extending the current graph file using commits
-* in <pack-index>.
+* Write a commit-graph file, extending the current commit-graph file
+ using commits in `<pack-index>`.
+
------------------------------------------------
$ echo <pack-index> | git commit-graph write --stdin-packs
------------------------------------------------
-* Write a graph file containing all reachable commits.
+* Write a commit-graph file containing all reachable commits.
+
------------------------------------------------
$ git show-ref -s | git commit-graph write --stdin-commits
------------------------------------------------
-* Write a graph file containing all commits in the current
-* commit-graph file along with those reachable from HEAD.
+* Write a commit-graph file containing all commits in the current
+ commit-graph file along with those reachable from `HEAD`.
+
------------------------------------------------
$ git rev-parse HEAD | git commit-graph write --stdin-commits --append
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 8e240435be..5e87d82933 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -188,8 +188,8 @@ Valid `<type>`'s include:
--bool-or-int::
--path::
--expiry-date::
- Historical options for selecting a type specifier. Prefer instead `--type`,
- (see: above).
+ Historical options for selecting a type specifier. Prefer instead `--type`
+ (see above).
--no-type::
Un-sets the previously set type specifier (if one was previously set). This
@@ -442,9 +442,9 @@ For URLs in `https://weak.example.com`, `http.sslVerify` is set to
false, while it is set to `true` for all others:
------------
-% git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://good.example.com
+% git config --type=bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://good.example.com
true
-% git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://weak.example.com
+% git config --type=bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://weak.example.com
false
% git config --get-urlmatch http https://weak.example.com
http.cookieFile /tmp/cookie.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index e027fb8c4b..ccdc5f83d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a
commit. If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is
shown. Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of
additional commits on top of the tagged object and the
-abbreviated object name of the most recent commit.
+abbreviated object name of the most recent commit. The result
+is a "human-readable" object name which can also be used to
+identify the commit to other git commands.
By default (without --all or --tags) `git describe` only shows
annotated tags. For more information about creating annotated tags
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
index b180f1fa5b..030f162f30 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
@@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ two blob objects, or changes between two files on disk.
This form is to view the changes on the branch containing
and up to the second <commit>, starting at a common ancestor
of both <commit>. "git diff A\...B" is equivalent to
- "git diff $(git-merge-base A B) B". You can omit any one
+ "git diff $(git merge-base A B) B". You can omit any one
of <commit>, which has the same effect as using HEAD instead.
-Just in case if you are doing something exotic, it should be
+Just in case you are doing something exotic, it should be
noted that all of the <commit> in the above description, except
in the last two forms that use ".." notations, can be any
<tree>.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
index f5bc98ccb3..c20ee6c789 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ Runs a number of housekeeping tasks within the current repository,
such as compressing file revisions (to reduce disk space and increase
performance), removing unreachable objects which may have been
created from prior invocations of 'git add', packing refs, pruning
-reflog, rerere metadata or stale working trees.
+reflog, rerere metadata or stale working trees. May also update ancillary
+indexes such as the commit-graph.
Users are encouraged to run this task on a regular basis within
each repository to maintain good disk space utilization and good
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index a3049af1a3..84fe236a8e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[(-O | --open-files-in-pager) [<pager>]]
[-z | --null]
[ -o | --only-matching ] [-c | --count] [--all-match] [-q | --quiet]
- [--max-depth <depth>]
+ [--max-depth <depth>] [--[no-]recursive]
[--color[=<when>] | --no-color]
[--break] [--heading] [-p | --show-function]
[-A <post-context>] [-B <pre-context>] [-C <context>]
@@ -119,11 +119,18 @@ OPTIONS
--max-depth <depth>::
For each <pathspec> given on command line, descend at most <depth>
- levels of directories. A negative value means no limit.
+ levels of directories. A value of -1 means no limit.
This option is ignored if <pathspec> contains active wildcards.
In other words if "a*" matches a directory named "a*",
"*" is matched literally so --max-depth is still effective.
+-r::
+--recursive::
+ Same as `--max-depth=-1`; this is the default.
+
+--no-recursive::
+ Same as `--max-depth=0`.
+
-w::
--word-regexp::
Match the pattern only at word boundary (either begin at the
diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt
index 83d25d825a..aab5453bbb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-help.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-help - Display help information about Git
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git help' [-a|--all [--verbose]] [-g|--guide]
+'git help' [-a|--all [--[no-]verbose]] [-g|--guide]
[-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web] [COMMAND|GUIDE]
DESCRIPTION
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ guide is brought up. The 'man' program is used by default for this
purpose, but this can be overridden by other options or configuration
variables.
+If an alias is given, git shows the definition of the alias on
+standard output. To get the manual page for the aliased command, use
+`git COMMAND --help`.
+
Note that `git --help ...` is identical to `git help ...` because the
former is internally converted into the latter.
@@ -42,8 +46,10 @@ OPTIONS
--all::
Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This
option overrides any given command or guide name.
- When used with `--verbose` print description for all recognized
- commands.
+
+--verbose::
+ When used with `--all` print description for all recognized
+ commands. This is the default.
-c::
--config::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 1fbc6ebcde..432baabe33 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ command fails, it is rescheduled immediately, with a helpful message how
to proceed.
The `reset` command resets the HEAD, index and worktree to the specified
-revision. It is isimilar to an `exec git reset --hard <label>`, but
+revision. It is similar to an `exec git reset --hard <label>`, but
refuses to overwrite untracked files. If the `reset` command fails, it is
rescheduled immediately, with a helpful message how to edit the todo list
(this typically happens when a `reset` command was inserted into the todo
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 74a9d7edb4..2ac9b1c7fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Note that omitting the `=` in `git -c foo.bar ...` is allowed and sets
`foo.bar` to the boolean true value (just like `[foo]bar` would in a
config file). Including the equals but with an empty value (like `git -c
foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string which `git config
---bool` will convert to `false`.
+--type=bool` will convert to `false`.
--exec-path[=<path>]::
Path to wherever your core Git programs are installed.
@@ -858,7 +858,9 @@ Reporting Bugs
Report bugs to the Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org> where the
development and maintenance is primarily done. You do not have to be
-subscribed to the list to send a message there.
+subscribed to the list to send a message there. See the list archive
+at https://public-inbox.org/git for previous bug reports and other
+discussions.
Issues which are security relevant should be disclosed privately to
the Git Security mailing list <git-security@googlegroups.com>.
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
index f970196bc1..adc759612d 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
@@ -133,6 +133,12 @@ compares hostnames exactly, without considering whether two hosts are part of
the same domain. Likewise, a config entry for `http://example.com` would not
match: Git compares the protocols exactly.
+If the "pattern" URL does include a path component, then this too must match
+exactly: the context `https://example.com/bar/baz.git` will match a config
+entry for `https://example.com/bar/baz.git` (in addition to matching the config
+entry for `https://example.com`) but will not match a config entry for
+`https://example.com/bar`.
+
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
---------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt b/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt
index a5193b1e5c..89821ec74f 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ case "$1" in
info "The branch '$1' is new..."
else
# updating -- make sure it is a fast-forward
- mb=$(git-merge-base "$2" "$3")
+ mb=$(git merge-base "$2" "$3")
case "$mb,$2" in
"$2,$mb") info "Update is fast-forward" ;;
*) noff=y; info "This is not a fast-forward update.";;
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt
index 8b001de0db..30fc0e9c93 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ Calling sequence
----------------
* Prepare `struct diff_options` to record the set of diff options, and
- then call `diff_setup()` to initialize this structure. This sets up
- the vanilla default.
+ then call `repo_diff_setup()` to initialize this structure. This
+ sets up the vanilla default.
* Fill in the options structure to specify desired output format, rename
detection, etc. `diff_opt_parse()` can be used to parse options given
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt
index 18142b6d29..d0d1707c8c 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Calling sequence
it is invoked.
* For each commit, call `graph_next_line()` repeatedly, until
- `graph_is_commit_finished()` returns non-zero. Each call go
+ `graph_is_commit_finished()` returns non-zero. Each call to
`graph_next_line()` will output a single line of the graph. The resulting
lines will not contain any newlines. `graph_next_line()` returns 1 if the
resulting line contains the current commit, or 0 if this is merely a line
@@ -115,7 +115,6 @@ struct commit *commit;
struct git_graph *graph = graph_init(opts);
while ((commit = get_revision(opts)) != NULL) {
- graph_update(graph, commit);
while (!graph_is_commit_finished(graph))
{
struct strbuf sb;
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt
index 55b878ade8..03f9ea6ac4 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ revision list.
Functions
---------
-`init_revisions`::
+`repo_init_revisions`::
- Initialize a rev_info structure with default values. The second
+ Initialize a rev_info structure with default values. The third
parameter may be NULL or can be prefix path, and then the `.prefix`
variable will be set to it. This is typically the first function you
want to call when you want to deal with a revision list. After calling
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt
index c664acbd76..7805b0968c 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ There are two main costs here:
1. Decompressing and parsing commits.
2. Walking the entire graph to satisfy topological order constraints.
-The commit graph file is a supplemental data structure that accelerates
+The commit-graph file is a supplemental data structure that accelerates
commit graph walks. If a user downgrades or disables the 'core.commitGraph'
config setting, then the existing ODB is sufficient. The file is stored
as "commit-graph" either in the .git/objects/info directory or in the info
directory of an alternate.
-The commit graph file stores the commit graph structure along with some
+The commit-graph file stores the commit graph structure along with some
extra metadata to speed up graph walks. By listing commit OIDs in lexi-
cographic order, we can identify an integer position for each commit and
refer to the parents of a commit using those integer positions. We use
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ that of a parent.
Design Details
--------------
-- The commit graph file is stored in a file named 'commit-graph' in the
+- The commit-graph file is stored in a file named 'commit-graph' in the
.git/objects/info directory. This could be stored in the info directory
of an alternate.
@@ -112,12 +112,24 @@ Design Details
- The file format includes parameters for the object ID hash function,
so a future change of hash algorithm does not require a change in format.
+- Commit grafts and replace objects can change the shape of the commit
+ history. The latter can also be enabled/disabled on the fly using
+ `--no-replace-objects`. This leads to difficultly storing both possible
+ interpretations of a commit id, especially when computing generation
+ numbers. The commit-graph will not be read or written when
+ replace-objects or grafts are present.
+
+- Shallow clones create grafts of commits by dropping their parents. This
+ leads the commit-graph to think those commits have generation number 1.
+ If and when those commits are made unshallow, those generation numbers
+ become invalid. Since shallow clones are intended to restrict the commit
+ history to a very small set of commits, the commit-graph feature is less
+ helpful for these clones, anyway. The commit-graph will not be read or
+ written when shallow commits are present.
+
Future Work
-----------
-- The commit graph feature currently does not honor commit grafts. This can
- be remedied by duplicating or refactoring the current graft logic.
-
- After computing and storing generation numbers, we must make graph
walks aware of generation numbers to gain the performance benefits they
enable. This will mostly be accomplished by swapping a commit-date-ordered
@@ -127,7 +139,7 @@ Future Work
- 'log --topo-order'
- 'tag --merged'
-- A server could provide a commit graph file as part of the network protocol
+- A server could provide a commit-graph file as part of the network protocol
to avoid extra calculations by clients. This feature is only of benefit if
the user is willing to trust the file, because verifying the file is correct
is as hard as computing it from scratch.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
index db3572626b..7c4d67aa6a 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
@@ -314,3 +314,44 @@ The remaining data of each directory block is grouped by type:
- An ewah bitmap, the n-th bit indicates whether the n-th index entry
is not CE_FSMONITOR_VALID.
+
+== End of Index Entry
+
+ The End of Index Entry (EOIE) is used to locate the end of the variable
+ length index entries and the begining of the extensions. Code can take
+ advantage of this to quickly locate the index extensions without having
+ to parse through all of the index entries.
+
+ Because it must be able to be loaded before the variable length cache
+ entries and other index extensions, this extension must be written last.
+ The signature for this extension is { 'E', 'O', 'I', 'E' }.
+
+ The extension consists of:
+
+ - 32-bit offset to the end of the index entries
+
+ - 160-bit SHA-1 over the extension types and their sizes (but not
+ their contents). E.g. if we have "TREE" extension that is N-bytes
+ long, "REUC" extension that is M-bytes long, followed by "EOIE",
+ then the hash would be:
+
+ SHA-1("TREE" + <binary representation of N> +
+ "REUC" + <binary representation of M>)
+
+== Index Entry Offset Table
+
+ The Index Entry Offset Table (IEOT) is used to help address the CPU
+ cost of loading the index by enabling multi-threading the process of
+ converting cache entries from the on-disk format to the in-memory format.
+ The signature for this extension is { 'I', 'E', 'O', 'T' }.
+
+ The extension consists of:
+
+ - 32-bit version (currently 1)
+
+ - A number of index offset entries each consisting of:
+
+ - 32-bit offset from the begining of the file to the first cache entry
+ in this block of entries.
+
+ - 32-bit count of cache entries in this block