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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.4.txt | 63 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt | 51 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 15 |
8 files changed, 145 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b0256a2dc9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +Git v2.6.4 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.6.3 +------------------ + + * The "configure" script did not test for -lpthread correctly, which + upset some linkers. + + * Add support for talking http/https over socks proxy. + + * Portability fix for Windows, which may rewrite $SHELL variable using + non-POSIX paths. + + * We now consistently allow all hooks to ignore their standard input, + rather than having git complain of SIGPIPE. + + * Fix shell quoting in contrib script. + + * Test portability fix for a topic in v2.6.1. + + * Allow tilde-expansion in some http config variables. + + * Give a useful special case "diff/show --word-diff-regex=." as an + example in the documentation. + + * Fix for a corner case in filter-branch. + + * Make git-p4 work on a detached head. + + * Documentation clarification for "check-ignore" without "--verbose". + + * Just like the working tree is cleaned up when the user cancelled + submission in P4Submit.applyCommit(), clean up the mess if "p4 + submit" fails. + + * Having a leftover .idx file without corresponding .pack file in + the repository hurts performance; "git gc" learned to prune them. + + * The code to prepare the working tree side of temporary directory + for the "dir-diff" feature forgot that symbolic links need not be + copied (or symlinked) to the temporary area, as the code already + special cases and overwrites them. Besides, it was wrong to try + computing the object name of the target of symbolic link, which may + not even exist or may be a directory. + + * There was no way to defeat a configured rebase.autostash variable + from the command line, as "git rebase --no-autostash" was missing. + + * Allow "git interpret-trailers" to run outside of a Git repository. + + * Produce correct "dirty" marker for shell prompts, even when we + are on an orphan or an unborn branch. + + * Some corner cases have been fixed in string-matching done in "git + status". + + * Apple's common crypto implementation of SHA1_Update() does not take + more than 4GB at a time, and we now have a compile-time workaround + for it. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt index ca2c24bea2..aa8224cb1e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt @@ -66,6 +66,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features a superset of "--no-progress". Extend the command to support the usual "--[no-]progress". + * The semantics of tranfer.hideRefs configuration variable have been + extended to work better with the ref "namespace" feature that lets + you throw unrelated bunches of repositories in a single physical + repository and virtually serve them as separate ones. + + * send-email config variables whose values are pathnames now go + through the ~username/ expansion. + + * bash completion learnt to TAB-complete recipient addresses given + to send-email. + + * The credential-cache daemon can be told to ignore SIGHUP to work + around issue when running Git from inside emacs. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -118,6 +132,30 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * With a "debug" helper, debugging of a single "git" invocation in our test scripts has become a lot easier. + * The "configure" script did not test for -lpthread correctly, which + upset some linkers. + + * Cross completed task off of subtree project's todo list. + + * Test cleanups for the subtree project. + + * Clean up style in an ancient test t9300. + + * Work around some test flakiness with p4d. + + * Fsck did not correctly detect a NUL-truncated header in a tag. + + * Use a safer behavior when we hit errors verifying remote certificates. + + * Speed up filter-branch for cases where we only care about rewriting + commits, not tree data. + + * The parse-options API has been updated to make "-h" command line + option work more consistently in all commands. + + * "git svn rebase/mkdirs" got optimized by keeping track of empty + directories better. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -341,6 +379,19 @@ notes for details). requested range. However, we were hand-crafting a range request and it did not kick in. + * Having a leftover .idx file without corresponding .pack file in + the repository hurts performance; "git gc" learned to prune them. + (merge 478f34d dk/gc-idx-wo-pack later to maint). + + * Apple's common crypto implementation of SHA1_Update() does not take + more than 4GB at a time, and we now have a compile-time workaround + for it. + (merge 001fd7a ad/sha1-update-chunked later to maint). + + * Produce correct "dirty" marker for shell prompts, even when we + are on an orphan or an unborn branch. + (merge c26f70c sg/bash-prompt-dirty-orphan later to maint). + * Code clean-up, minor fixes etc. (merge 15ed07d jc/rerere later to maint). (merge e7a7401 pt/pull-builtin later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index b4b01948d0..2d06b11f25 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1122,6 +1122,9 @@ credential.<url>.*:: example.com. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details on how URLs are matched. +credentialCache.ignoreSIGHUP:: + Tell git-credential-cache--daemon to ignore SIGHUP, instead of quitting. + include::diff-config.txt[] difftool.<tool>.path:: diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index d56ca90998..306b7e3604 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -267,6 +267,9 @@ expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters. A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the newline. + +For example, `--word-diff-regex=.` will treat each character as a word +and, correspondingly, show differences character by character. ++ The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index 59531abba4..e94367a5ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via -`--stdin`, show the pattern from .gitignore (or other input files to -the exclude mechanism) that decides if the pathname is excluded or -included. Later patterns within a file take precedence over earlier -ones. +`--stdin`, check whether the file is excluded by .gitignore (or other +input files to the exclude mechanism) and output the path if it is +excluded. By default, tracked files are not shown at all since they are not subject to exclude rules; but see `--no-index'. @@ -32,7 +31,8 @@ OPTIONS -v, --verbose:: Also output details about the matching pattern (if any) - for each given pathname. + for each given pathname. For precedence rules within and + between exclude sources, see linkgit:gitignore[5]. --stdin:: Read pathnames from the standard input, one per line, diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index b9134d234f..771a7b5b09 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git send-email' [options] <file|directory|rev-list options>... +'git send-email' --dump-aliases DESCRIPTION @@ -387,6 +388,16 @@ default to '--validate'. Send emails even if safety checks would prevent it. +Information +~~~~~~~~~~~ + +--dump-aliases:: + Instead of the normal operation, dump the shorthand alias names from + the configured alias file(s), one per line in alphabetical order. Note, + this only includes the alias name and not its expanded email addresses. + See 'sendemail.aliasesfile' for more information about aliases. + + CONFIGURATION ------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index 1a296bc29a..3df9c26f44 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--[no-]assume-unchanged] [--[no-]skip-worktree] [--ignore-submodules] + [--[no-|force-]untracked-cache] [--really-refresh] [--unresolve] [--again | -g] [--info-only] [--index-info] [-z] [--stdin] [--index-version <n>] diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index c2e2a94e75..cbf157be43 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from the 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v2.6.3/git.html[documentation for release 2.6.3] +* link:v2.6.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.6.4] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.6.4.txt[2.6.4], link:RelNotes/2.6.3.txt[2.6.3], link:RelNotes/2.6.2.txt[2.6.2], link:RelNotes/2.6.1.txt[2.6.1], @@ -1056,7 +1057,7 @@ of clones and fetches. cloning of shallow repositories. See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output options. -GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS:: +'GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS':: Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all pathspecs literally, rather than as glob patterns. For example, running `GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS=1 git log -- '*.c'` will search @@ -1065,15 +1066,15 @@ GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS:: literal paths to Git (e.g., paths previously given to you by `git ls-tree`, `--raw` diff output, etc). -GIT_GLOB_PATHSPECS:: +'GIT_GLOB_PATHSPECS':: Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all pathspecs as glob patterns (aka "glob" magic). -GIT_NOGLOB_PATHSPECS:: +'GIT_NOGLOB_PATHSPECS':: Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all pathspecs as literal (aka "literal" magic). -GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS:: +'GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS':: Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all pathspecs as case-insensitive. @@ -1087,7 +1088,7 @@ GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS:: variable when it is invoked as the top level command by the end user, to be recorded in the body of the reflog. -`GIT_REF_PARANOIA`:: +'GIT_REF_PARANOIA':: If set to `1`, include broken or badly named refs when iterating over lists of refs. In a normal, non-corrupted repository, this does nothing. However, enabling it may help git to detect and @@ -1098,7 +1099,7 @@ GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS:: an operation has touched every ref (e.g., because you are cloning a repository to make a backup). -`GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL`:: +'GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL':: If set, provide a colon-separated list of protocols which are allowed to be used with fetch/push/clone. This is useful to restrict recursive submodule initialization from an untrusted |