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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.2.txt | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt | 37 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fetch.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-push.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-replace.txt | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitignore.txt | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitmodules.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt | 37 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/merge-strategies.txt | 8 |
13 files changed, 188 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3ac4984f10 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Git v1.8.5.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.5.1 +-------------------- + + * "git diff -- ':(icase)makefile'" was unnecessarily rejected at the + command line parser. + + * "git cat-file --batch-check=ok" did not check the existence of + the named object. + + * "git am --abort" sometimes complained about not being able to write + a tree with an 0{40} object in it. + + * Two processes creating loose objects at the same time could have + failed unnecessarily when the name of their new objects started + with the same byte value, due to a race condition. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt index 7120c220e4..a966ab4887 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt @@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. UI, Workflows & Features + * "gitweb" learned to treat ref hierarchies other than refs/heads as + if they are additional branch namespaces (e.g. refs/changes/ in + Gerrit). + * "git for-each-ref --format=..." learned a few formatting directives; e.g. "%(color:red)%(HEAD)%(color:reset) %(refname:short) %(subject)". @@ -105,6 +109,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * The deprecated parse-options macro OPT_BOOLEAN has been removed; + use OPT_BOOL or OPT_COUNTUP in new code. + + * A few duplicate implementations of prefix/suffix string comparison + functions have been unified to starts_with() and ends_with(). + * The new PERLLIB_EXTRA makefile variable can be used to specify additional directories Perl modules (e.g. the ones necessary to run git-svn) are installed on the platform when building. @@ -131,6 +141,33 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.5 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes for details). + * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error + out, but it didn't. + (merge c57f628 mm/mv-file-to-no-such-dir-with-slash later to maint). + + * A workaround to an old bug in glibc prior to glibc 2.17 has been + retired; this would remove a side effect of the workaround that + corrupts system error messages in non-C locales. + + * SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket + layer in "git send-email". + (merge 5508f3e tr/send-email-ssl later to maint). + + * "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before + editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned + control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the + first modified path was a submodule. + (merge 1a72cfd jl/commit-v-strip-marker later to maint). + + * "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored. + Diagnose it as an error. + (merge 5594bca nd/transport-positive-depth-only later to maint). + + * Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are + parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks + to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1. + (merge a2036d7 tb/clone-ssh-with-colon-for-port later to maint). + * "git diff -- ':(icase)makefile'" was unnecessarily rejected at the command line parser. (merge 887c6c1 nd/magic-pathspec later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index 10657134a8..5809aa4eb9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ 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]). +When no remote is specified, by default the `origin` remote will be used, +unless there's an upstream branch configured for the current branch. + OPTIONS ------- include::fetch-options.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index d94edcd4b4..cdab9ed503 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -51,8 +51,7 @@ base-name:: <base-name> to determine the name of the created file. When this option is used, the two files are written in <base-name>-<SHA-1>.{pack,idx} files. <SHA-1> is a hash - of the sorted object names to make the resulting filename - based on the pack content, and written to the standard + based on the pack content and is written to the standard output of the command. --stdout:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 9eec740910..2b7f4f939f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -56,8 +56,13 @@ it can be any arbitrary "SHA-1 expression", such as `master~4` or + The <dst> tells which ref on the remote side is updated with this push. Arbitrary expressions cannot be used here, an actual ref must -be named. If `:`<dst> is omitted, the same ref as <src> will be -updated. +be named. +If `git push [<repository>]` without any `<refspec>` argument is set to +update some ref at the destination with `<src>` with +`remote.<repository>.push` configuration variable, `:<dst>` part can +be omitted---such a push will update a ref that `<src>` normally updates +without any `<refspec>` on the command line. Otherwise, missing +`:<dst>` means to update the same ref as the `<src>`. + The object referenced by <src> is used to update the <dst> reference on the remote side. By default this is only allowed if <dst> is not diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 94e07fdab5..2889be6bdc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -324,6 +324,16 @@ fresh commits so it can be remerged successfully without needing to "revert the reversion" (see the link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for details). +--fork-point:: +--no-fork-point:: + Use 'git merge-base --fork-point' to find a better common ancestor + between `upstream` and `branch` when calculating which commits have + have been introduced by `branch` (see linkgit:git-merge-base[1]). ++ +If no non-option arguments are given on the command line, then the default is +`--fork-point @{u}` otherwise the `upstream` argument is interpreted literally +unless the `--fork-point` option is specified. + --ignore-whitespace:: --whitespace=<option>:: These flag are passed to the 'git apply' program diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt index f373ab48d4..0a02f70657 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git replace' [-f] <object> <replacement> 'git replace' -d <object>... -'git replace' -l [<pattern>] +'git replace' [--format=<format>] [-l [<pattern>]] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -70,6 +70,23 @@ OPTIONS Typing "git replace" without arguments, also lists all replace refs. +--format=<format>:: + When listing, use the specified <format>, which can be one of + 'short', 'medium' and 'long'. When omitted, the format + defaults to 'short'. + +FORMATS +------- + +The following format are available: + +* 'short': + <replaced sha1> +* 'medium': + <replaced sha1> -> <replacement sha1> +* 'long': + <replaced sha1> (<replaced type>) -> <replacement sha1> (<replacement type>) + CREATING REPLACEMENT OBJECTS ---------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 4448ce2704..aec372646f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v1.8.5.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.5.1] +* link:v1.8.5.2/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.5.2] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.8.5.2.txt[1.8.5.2], link:RelNotes/1.8.5.1.txt[1.8.5.1], link:RelNotes/1.8.5.txt[1.8.5]. @@ -806,6 +807,15 @@ temporary file --- it is removed when 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' exits. + For a path that is unmerged, 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' is called with 1 parameter, <path>. ++ +For each path 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' is called, two environment variables, +'GIT_DIFF_PATH_COUNTER' and 'GIT_DIFF_PATH_TOTAL' are set. + +'GIT_DIFF_PATH_COUNTER':: + A 1-based counter incremented by one for every path. + +'GIT_DIFF_PATH_TOTAL':: + The total number of paths. other ~~~~~ diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index f971960512..205e80ef88 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -79,8 +79,10 @@ PATTERN FORMAT - An optional prefix "`!`" which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become - included again. If a negated pattern matches, this will - override lower precedence patterns sources. + included again. It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent + directory of that file is excluded. Git doesn't list excluded + directories for performance reasons, so any patterns on contained + files have no effect, no matter where they are defined. Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first "`!`" for patterns that begin with a literal "`!`", for example, "`\!important!.txt`". @@ -182,6 +184,19 @@ Another example: The second .gitignore prevents Git from ignoring `arch/foo/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S`. +Example to exclude everything except a specific directory `foo/bar` +(note the `/*` - without the slash, the wildcard would also exclude +everything within `foo/bar`): + +-------------------------------------------------------------- + $ cat .gitignore + # exclude everything except directory foo/bar + /* + !/foo + /foo/* + !/foo/bar +-------------------------------------------------------------- + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-rm[1], diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt index f7be93f631..347a9f76ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ submodule.<name>.url:: linkgit:git-clone[1] or (if it begins with ./ or ../) a location relative to the superproject's origin repository. +In addition, there are a number of optional keys: + submodule.<name>.update:: Defines what to do when the submodule is updated by the superproject. If 'checkout' (the default), the new commit specified in the diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt index e2113d93c9..db4154f9d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt @@ -849,6 +849,43 @@ time zones in the form of "+/-HHMM", such as "+0200". + Project specific override is not supported. +extra-branch-refs:: + List of additional directories under "refs" which are going to + be used as branch refs. For example if you have a gerrit setup + where all branches under refs/heads/ are official, + push-after-review ones and branches under refs/sandbox/, + refs/wip and refs/other are user ones where permissions are + much wider, then you might want to set this variable as + follows: ++ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +$feature{'extra-branch-refs'}{'default'} = + ['sandbox', 'wip', 'other']; +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ++ +This feature can be configured on per-repository basis after setting +$feature{'extra-branch-refs'}{'override'} to true, via repository's +`gitweb.extraBranchRefs` configuration variable, which contains a +space separated list of refs. An example: ++ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +[gitweb] + extraBranchRefs = sandbox wip other +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ++ +The gitweb.extraBranchRefs is actually a multi-valued configuration +variable, so following example is also correct and the result is the +same as of the snippet above: ++ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +[gitweb] + extraBranchRefs = sandbox + extraBranchRefs = wip other +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ++ +It is an error to specify a ref that does not pass "git check-ref-format" +scrutiny. Duplicated values are filtered. + EXAMPLES -------- diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index aa1c8880dd..378306f581 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -323,24 +323,26 @@ including Documentation/chapter_1/figure_1.jpg. A pathspec that begins with a colon `:` has special meaning. In the short form, the leading colon `:` is followed by zero or more "magic signature" letters (which optionally is terminated by another colon `:`), -and the remainder is the pattern to match against the path. The optional -colon that terminates the "magic signature" can be omitted if the pattern -begins with a character that cannot be a "magic signature" and is not a -colon. +and the remainder is the pattern to match against the path. +The "magic signature" consists of ASCII symbols that are neither +alphanumeric, glob, regex special charaters nor colon. +The optional colon that terminates the "magic signature" can be +omitted if the pattern begins with a character that does not belong to +"magic signature" symbol set and is not a colon. + In the long form, the leading colon `:` is followed by a open parenthesis `(`, a comma-separated list of zero or more "magic words", and a close parentheses `)`, and the remainder is the pattern to match against the path. + -The "magic signature" consists of an ASCII symbol that is not -alphanumeric. +A pathspec with only a colon means "there is no pathspec". This form +should not be combined with other pathspec. + -- -top `/`;; - The magic word `top` (mnemonic: `/`) makes the pattern match - from the root of the working tree, even when you are running - the command from inside a subdirectory. +top;; + The magic word `top` (magic signature: `/`) makes the pattern + match from the root of the working tree, even when you are + running the command from inside a subdirectory. literal;; Wildcards in the pattern such as `*` or `?` are treated @@ -377,14 +379,12 @@ full pathname may have special meaning: - Other consecutive asterisks are considered invalid. + Glob magic is incompatible with literal magic. + +exclude;; + After a path matches any non-exclude pathspec, it will be run + through all exclude pathspec (magic signature: `!`). If it + matches, the path is ignored. -- -+ -Currently only the slash `/` is recognized as the "magic signature", -but it is envisioned that we will support more types of magic in later -versions of Git. -+ -A pathspec with only a colon means "there is no pathspec". This form -should not be combined with other pathspec. [[def_parent]]parent:: A <<def_commit_object,commit object>> contains a (possibly empty) list diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt index 49a9a7d53f..fb6e593e7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt @@ -113,3 +113,11 @@ subtree:: match the tree structure of A, instead of reading the trees at the same level. This adjustment is also done to the common ancestor tree. + +With the strategies that use 3-way merge (including the default, 'recursive'), +if a change is made on both branches, but later reverted on one of the +branches, that change will be present in the merged result; some people find +this behavior confusing. It occurs because only the heads and the merge base +are considered when performing a merge, not the individual commits. The merge +algorithm therefore considers the reverted change as no change at all, and +substitutes the changed version instead. |