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diff --git a/Documentation/.gitignore b/Documentation/.gitignore index 1c3a9fead5..d62aebd848 100644 --- a/Documentation/.gitignore +++ b/Documentation/.gitignore @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ *.[1-8] *.made *.texi +*.pdf git.info gitman.info howto-index.txt diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 36989b7f65..6346a75dda 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ MAN5_TXT=gitattributes.txt gitignore.txt gitmodules.txt githooks.txt \ gitrepository-layout.txt MAN7_TXT=gitcli.txt gittutorial.txt gittutorial-2.txt \ gitcvs-migration.txt gitcore-tutorial.txt gitglossary.txt \ - gitdiffcore.txt gitrevisions.txt gitworkflows.txt + gitdiffcore.txt gitnamespaces.txt gitrevisions.txt gitworkflows.txt MAN_TXT = $(MAN1_TXT) $(MAN5_TXT) $(MAN7_TXT) MAN_XML=$(patsubst %.txt,%.xml,$(MAN_TXT)) @@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ cmd-list.made: cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt $(MAN1_TXT) clean: $(RM) *.xml *.xml+ *.html *.html+ *.1 *.5 *.7 $(RM) *.texi *.texi+ *.texi++ git.info gitman.info + $(RM) *.pdf $(RM) howto-index.txt howto/*.html doc.dep $(RM) technical/api-*.html technical/api-index.txt $(RM) $(cmds_txt) *.made diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..95905e48f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +Git v1.7.6.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.6 +------------------ + + * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these + functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on + platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected. + + * "git unexecutable" reported that "unexecutable" was not found, even + though the actual error was that "unexecutable" was found but did + not have a proper she-bang line to be executed. + + * "git checkout -b <branch>" was confused when attempting to create a + branch whose name ends with "-g" followed by hexadecimal digits, + and refused to work. + + * "git checkout -b <branch>" sometimes wrote a bogus reflog entry, + causing later "git checkout -" to fail. + + * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files. + + * "git fast-export" forgot to quote pathnames with unsafe characters + in its output. + + * "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories. + + * "git ls-tree" did not error out when asked to show a corrupt tree. + + * "git pull" without any argument left an extra whitespace after the + command name in its reflog. + + * "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches. + + * "git reset [<commit>] paths..." did not reset the index entry correctly + for unmerged paths. + + * "git submodule add" did not allow a relative repository path when + the superproject did not have any default remote url. + + * "git submodule foreach" failed to correctly give the standard input to + the user-supplied command it invoked. + + * submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running + "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git + submodule sync". + + * "git submodule update --quiet" was not really quiet. + + * "git tag -l <glob>..." did not take multiple glob patterns from the + command line. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt index 6d3bfd1968..2ac3d3f297 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt @@ -6,7 +6,14 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n. - * Interix and Cygwin ports got updated. + * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated. + + * A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/). + + * Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists, + before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf + (this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl + does not exist). * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on @@ -18,11 +25,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to - read the entire contents of a file in memory first. + read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round + of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but + now it has been plugged. * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. + * "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that + refer outside your current subdirectory. + * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of diffstat report. @@ -34,6 +46,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic output format of "ack". + * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same + logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. + * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. @@ -59,40 +74,10 @@ Fixes since v1.7.6 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are included in this release. - * "git checkout -b <branch>" sometimes wrote a bogus reflog entry, - causing later "git checkout -" fail. - (merge 71ee7fd jc/checkout-reflog-fix~1 later). - - * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files. - (merge 0508fe5 jk/combine-diff-binary-etc later) - - * "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories. - (merge ea2d325 jl/maint-fetch-recursive-fix later) - - * "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches. - (merge 12bf828 aw/rebase-i-p later) - - * "git submodule add" did not allow a relative repository path when - the superproject did not have any default remote url. - (merge f22a17e8 jl/submodule-add-relurl-wo-upstream later) - - * "git submodule foreach" failed to correctly give the standard input to - the user-supplied command it invoked. - (merge 4dca1aa bc/submodule-foreach-stdin-fix-1.7.4 later) - - * submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running - "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git - submodule sync". - (merge 2cd9de3 jc/submodule-sync-no-auto-vivify later) - - * "git tag -l <glob>..." did not take multiple glob patterns from the - command line. - (merge 588d0e8 jk/tag-list-multiple-patterns later) - -- exec >/var/tmp/1 echo O=$(git describe master) -O=v1.7.6-344-g22f4128 +O=v1.7.6-471-g50b68ae git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master echo git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt index 1320c873ad..ac7006e640 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt @@ -142,41 +142,41 @@ while archiving any tree in your `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file. EXAMPLES -------- -git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -):: +`git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)`:: Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the `/var/tmp/junk` directory. -git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz:: +`git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`:: Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release. -git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar.gz:: +`git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`:: Same as above, but using the builtin tar.gz handling. -git archive --prefix=git-1.4.0/ -o git-1.4.0.tar.gz v1.4.0:: +`git archive --prefix=git-1.4.0/ -o git-1.4.0.tar.gz v1.4.0`:: Same as above, but the format is inferred from the output file. -git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz:: +`git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`:: Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a global extended pax header. -git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip:: +`git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip`:: Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'. -git archive -o latest.zip HEAD:: +`git archive -o latest.zip HEAD`:: Create a Zip archive that contains the contents of the latest commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is inferred by the extension of the output file. -git config tar.tar.xz.command "xz -c":: +`git config tar.tar.xz.command "xz -c"`:: Configure a "tar.xz" format for making LZMA-compressed tarfiles. You can use it specifying `--format=tar.xz`, or by creating an diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index ab60a18470..e4f46bc18d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The command takes various subcommands, and different options depending on the subcommand: git bisect help - git bisect start [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<paths>...] + git bisect start [--no-checkout] [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<paths>...] git bisect bad [<rev>] git bisect good [<rev>...] git bisect skip [(<rev>|<range>)...] @@ -263,6 +263,19 @@ rewind the tree to the pristine state. Finally the script should exit with the status of the real test to let the "git bisect run" command loop determine the eventual outcome of the bisect session. +OPTIONS +------- +--no-checkout:: ++ +Do not checkout the new working tree at each iteration of the bisection +process. Instead just update a special reference named 'BISECT_HEAD' to make +it point to the commit that should be tested. ++ +This option may be useful when the test you would perform in each step +does not require a checked out tree. ++ +If the repository is bare, `--no-checkout` is assumed. + EXAMPLES -------- @@ -343,6 +356,25 @@ $ git bisect run sh -c "make || exit 125; ~/check_test_case.sh" This shows that you can do without a run script if you write the test on a single line. +* Locate a good region of the object graph in a damaged repository ++ +------------ +$ git bisect start HEAD <known-good-commit> [ <boundary-commit> ... ] --no-checkout +$ git bisect run sh -c ' + GOOD=$(git for-each-ref "--format=%(objectname)" refs/bisect/good-*) && + git rev-list --objects BISECT_HEAD --not $GOOD >tmp.$$ && + git pack-objects --stdout >/dev/null <tmp.$$ + rc=$? + rm -f tmp.$$ + test $rc = 0' + +------------ ++ +In this case, when 'git bisect run' finishes, bisect/bad will refer to a commit that +has at least one parent whose reachable graph is fully traversable in the sense +required by 'git pack objects'. + + SEE ALSO -------- link:git-bisect-lk2009.html[Fighting regressions with git bisect], diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt index 6c9c2cb383..7cfa3d92ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt @@ -112,31 +112,31 @@ effect to your index in a row. EXAMPLES -------- -git cherry-pick master:: +`git cherry-pick master`:: Apply the change introduced by the commit at the tip of the master branch and create a new commit with this change. -git cherry-pick ..master:: -git cherry-pick ^HEAD master:: +`git cherry-pick ..master`:: +`git cherry-pick ^HEAD master`:: Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits. -git cherry-pick master{tilde}4 master{tilde}2:: +`git cherry-pick master{tilde}4 master{tilde}2`:: Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with these changes. -git cherry-pick -n master~1 next:: +`git cherry-pick -n master~1 next`:: Apply to the working tree and the index the changes introduced by the second last commit pointed to by master and by the last commit pointed to by next, but do not create any commit with these changes. -git cherry-pick --ff ..next:: +`git cherry-pick --ff ..next`:: If history is linear and HEAD is an ancestor of next, update the working tree and advance the HEAD pointer to match next. @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ git cherry-pick --ff ..next:: are in next but not HEAD to the current branch, creating a new commit for each new change. -git rev-list --reverse master \-- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin:: +`git rev-list --reverse master \-- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin`:: Apply the changes introduced by all commits on the master branch that touched README to the working tree and index, diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index a29ac021d9..f37eada63a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -83,6 +83,10 @@ marks the same across runs. allow that. So fake a tagger to be able to fast-import the output. +--use-done-feature:: + Start the stream with a 'feature done' stanza, and terminate + it with a 'done' command. + --no-data:: Skip output of blob objects and instead refer to blobs via their original SHA-1 hash. This is useful when rewriting the diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 95e480ef79..2969388880 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -102,6 +102,12 @@ OPTIONS when the `cat-blob` command is encountered in the stream. The default behaviour is to write to `stdout`. +--done:: + Require a `done` command at the end of the stream. + This option might be useful for detecting errors that + cause the frontend to terminate before it has started to + write a stream. + --export-pack-edges=<file>:: After creating a packfile, print a line of data to <file> listing the filename of the packfile and the last @@ -331,6 +337,11 @@ and control the current import process. More detailed discussion standard output. This command is optional and is not needed to perform an import. +`done`:: + Marks the end of the stream. This command is optional + unless the `done` feature was requested using the + `--done` command line option or `feature done` command. + `cat-blob`:: Causes fast-import to print a blob in 'cat-file --batch' format to the file descriptor set with `--cat-blob-fd` or @@ -1021,6 +1032,11 @@ notes:: Versions of fast-import not supporting notes will exit with a message indicating so. +done:: + Error out if the stream ends without a 'done' command. + Without this feature, errors causing the frontend to end + abruptly at a convenient point in the stream can go + undetected. `option` ~~~~~~~~ @@ -1050,6 +1066,15 @@ not be passed as option: * cat-blob-fd * force +`done` +~~~~~~ +If the `done` feature is not in use, treated as if EOF was read. +This can be used to tell fast-import to finish early. + +If the `--done` command line option or `feature done` command is +in use, the `done` command is mandatory and marks the end of the +stream. + Crash Reports ------------- If fast-import is supplied invalid input it will terminate with a diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 07b3c6a086..e44a4988b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -155,15 +155,6 @@ OPTIONS Show the filename above the matches in that file instead of at the start of each shown line. --[ABC] <context>:: - Show `context` trailing (`A` -- after), or leading (`B` - -- before), or both (`C` -- context) lines, and place a - line containing `--` between contiguous groups of - matches. - --<num>:: - A shortcut for specifying `-C<num>`. - -p:: --show-function:: Show the preceding line that contains the function name of @@ -172,6 +163,29 @@ OPTIONS patch hunk headers (see 'Defining a custom hunk-header' in linkgit:gitattributes[5]). +-<num>:: +-C <num>:: +--context <num>:: + Show <num> leading and trailing lines, and place a line + containing `--` between contiguous groups of matches. + +-A <num>:: +--after-context <num>:: + Show <num> trailing lines, and place a line containing + `--` between contiguous groups of matches. + +-B <num>:: +--before-context <num>:: + Show <num> leading lines, and place a line containing + `--` between contiguous groups of matches. + +-W:: +--function-context:: + Show the surrounding text from the previous line containing a + function name up to the one before the next function name, + effectively showing the whole function in which the match was + found. + -f <file>:: Read patterns from <file>, one per line. @@ -215,15 +229,15 @@ OPTIONS Examples -------- -git grep {apostrophe}time_t{apostrophe} \-- {apostrophe}*.[ch]{apostrophe}:: +`git grep {apostrophe}time_t{apostrophe} \-- {apostrophe}*.[ch]{apostrophe}`:: Looks for `time_t` in all tracked .c and .h files in the working directory and its subdirectories. -git grep -e {apostrophe}#define{apostrophe} --and \( -e MAX_PATH -e PATH_MAX \):: +`git grep -e {apostrophe}#define{apostrophe} --and \( -e MAX_PATH -e PATH_MAX \)`:: Looks for a line that has `#define` and either `MAX_PATH` or `PATH_MAX`. -git grep --all-match -e NODE -e Unexpected:: +`git grep --all-match -e NODE -e Unexpected`:: Looks for a line that has `NODE` or `Unexpected` in files that have lines that match both. diff --git a/Documentation/git-gui.txt b/Documentation/git-gui.txt index 18f713b67a..0041994443 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gui.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gui.txt @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ version:: Examples -------- -git gui blame Makefile:: +`git gui blame Makefile`:: Show the contents of the file 'Makefile' in the current working directory, and provide annotations for both the @@ -59,41 +59,41 @@ git gui blame Makefile:: uncommitted changes (if any) are explicitly attributed to 'Not Yet Committed'. -git gui blame v0.99.8 Makefile:: +`git gui blame v0.99.8 Makefile`:: Show the contents of 'Makefile' in revision 'v0.99.8' and provide annotations for each line. Unlike the above example the file is read from the object database and not the working directory. -git gui blame --line=100 Makefile:: +`git gui blame --line=100 Makefile`:: Loads annotations as described above and automatically scrolls the view to center on line '100'. -git gui citool:: +`git gui citool`:: Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete. This command returns a non-zero exit code if the window was closed in any way other than by making a commit. -git gui citool --amend:: +`git gui citool --amend`:: Automatically enter the 'Amend Last Commit' mode of the interface. -git gui citool --nocommit:: +`git gui citool --nocommit`:: Behave as normal citool, but instead of making a commit simply terminate with a zero exit code. It still checks that the index does not contain any unmerged entries, so you can use it as a GUI version of linkgit:git-mergetool[1] -git citool:: +`git citool`:: Same as `git gui citool` (above). -git gui browser maint:: +`git gui browser maint`:: Show a browser for the tree of the 'maint' branch. Files selected in the browser can be viewed with the internal diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt index 277d9e141b..f4e0741c11 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt @@ -119,6 +119,14 @@ ScriptAliasMatch \ ScriptAlias /git/ /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- ++ +To serve multiple repositories from different linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] in a +single repository: ++ +---------------------------------------------------------------- +SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/git/([^/]*)" GIT_NAMESPACE=$1 +ScriptAliasMatch ^/git/[^/]*(.*) /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/storage.git$1 +---------------------------------------------------------------- Accelerated static Apache 2.x:: Similar to the above, but Apache can be used to return static diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index 59f8be0be3..6c934660d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -88,45 +88,45 @@ include::diff-generate-patch.txt[] Examples -------- -git log --no-merges:: +`git log --no-merges`:: Show the whole commit history, but skip any merges -git log v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi:: +`git log v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi`:: Show all commits since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories -git log --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk:: +`git log --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk`:: Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'. The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named 'gitk' -git log --name-status release..test:: +`git log --name-status release..test`:: Show the commits that are in the "test" branch but not yet in the "release" branch, along with the list of paths each commit modifies. -git log --follow builtin-rev-list.c:: +`git log --follow builtin-rev-list.c`:: Shows the commits that changed builtin-rev-list.c, including those commits that occurred before the file was given its present name. -git log --branches --not --remotes=origin:: +`git log --branches --not --remotes=origin`:: Shows all commits that are in any of local branches but not in any of remote-tracking branches for 'origin' (what you have that origin doesn't). -git log master --not --remotes=*/master:: +`git log master --not --remotes=*/master`:: Shows all commits that are in local master but not in any remote repository master branches. -git log -p -m --first-parent:: +`git log -p -m --first-parent`:: Shows the history including change diffs, but only from the "main branch" perspective, skipping commits that come from merged diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt index 635c66956e..d7db2a3737 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt @@ -76,12 +76,12 @@ OPTIONS EXAMPLES -------- -git merge-file README.my README README.upstream:: +`git merge-file README.my README README.upstream`:: combines the changes of README.my and README.upstream since README, tries to merge them and writes the result into README.my. -git merge-file -L a -L b -L c tmp/a123 tmp/b234 tmp/c345:: +`git merge-file -L a -L b -L c tmp/a123 tmp/b234 tmp/c345`:: merges tmp/a123 and tmp/c345 with the base tmp/b234, but uses labels `a` and `c` instead of `tmp/a123` and `tmp/c345`. diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 88acfcd4cc..49c6e9fa51 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -327,12 +327,12 @@ a case where you do mean to lose history. Examples -------- -git push:: +`git push`:: Works like `git push <remote>`, where <remote> is the current branch's remote (or `origin`, if no remote is configured for the current branch). -git push origin:: +`git push origin`:: Without additional configuration, works like `git push origin :`. + @@ -344,45 +344,45 @@ use `git config remote.origin.push HEAD`. Any valid <refspec> (like the ones in the examples below) can be configured as the default for `git push origin`. -git push origin ::: +`git push origin :`:: Push "matching" branches to `origin`. See <refspec> in the <<OPTIONS,OPTIONS>> section above for a description of "matching" branches. -git push origin master:: +`git push origin master`:: Find a ref that matches `master` in the source repository (most likely, it would find `refs/heads/master`), and update the same ref (e.g. `refs/heads/master`) in `origin` repository with it. If `master` did not exist remotely, it would be created. -git push origin HEAD:: +`git push origin HEAD`:: A handy way to push the current branch to the same name on the remote. -git push origin master:satellite/master dev:satellite/dev:: +`git push origin master:satellite/master dev:satellite/dev`:: Use the source ref that matches `master` (e.g. `refs/heads/master`) to update the ref that matches `satellite/master` (most probably `refs/remotes/satellite/master`) in the `origin` repository, then do the same for `dev` and `satellite/dev`. -git push origin HEAD:master:: +`git push origin HEAD:master`:: Push the current branch to the remote ref matching `master` in the `origin` repository. This form is convenient to push the current branch without thinking about its local name. -git push origin master:refs/heads/experimental:: +`git push origin master:refs/heads/experimental`:: Create the branch `experimental` in the `origin` repository by copying the current `master` branch. This form is only needed to create a new branch or tag in the remote repository when the local name and the remote name are different; otherwise, the ref name on its own will work. -git push origin :experimental:: +`git push origin :experimental`:: Find a ref that matches `experimental` in the `origin` repository (e.g. `refs/heads/experimental`), and delete it. -git push origin {plus}dev:master:: +`git push origin {plus}dev:master`:: Update the origin repository's master branch with the dev branch, allowing non-fast-forward updates. *This can leave unreferenced commits dangling in the origin repository.* Consider the diff --git a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt index 459c08598f..a3a1d8eea3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-receive-pack - Receive what is pushed into the repository SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-receive-pack' <directory> +'git-receive-pack' [--quiet] <directory> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ are not fast-forwards. OPTIONS ------- +--quiet:: + Print only error messages. + <directory>:: The repository to sync into. @@ -150,7 +153,7 @@ if the repository is packed and is served via a dumb transport. SEE ALSO -------- -linkgit:git-send-pack[1] +linkgit:git-send-pack[1], linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] GIT --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-fd.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-fd.txt index 4aecd4d187..f095d57d09 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote-fd.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote-fd.txt @@ -35,19 +35,19 @@ GIT_TRANSLOOP_DEBUG:: EXAMPLES -------- -git fetch fd::17 master:: +`git fetch fd::17 master`:: Fetch master, using file descriptor #17 to communicate with git-upload-pack. -git fetch fd::17/foo master:: +`git fetch fd::17/foo master`:: Same as above. -git push fd::7,8 master (as URL):: +`git push fd::7,8 master (as URL)`:: Push master, using file descriptor #7 to read data from git-receive-pack and file descriptor #8 to write data to same service. -git push fd::7,8/bar master:: +`git push fd::7,8/bar master`:: Same as above. Documentation diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt index 930b4034ac..4f83dea5a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt @@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ arguments. The first argument specifies a remote repository as in git; it is either the name of a configured remote or a URL. The second argument specifies a URL; it is usually of the form '<transport>://<address>', but any arbitrary string is possible. +The 'GIT_DIR' environment variable is set up for the remote helper +and can be used to determine where to store additional data or from +which directory to invoke auxiliary git commands. When git encounters a URL of the form '<transport>://<address>', where '<transport>' is a protocol that it cannot handle natively, it diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt index 3d0a7d1dac..b311d59c7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt @@ -93,12 +93,12 @@ effect to your index in a row. EXAMPLES -------- -git revert HEAD~3:: +`git revert HEAD~3`:: Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD and create a new commit with the reverted changes. -git revert -n master{tilde}5..master{tilde}2:: +`git revert -n master{tilde}5..master{tilde}2`:: Revert the changes done by commits from the fifth last commit in master (included) to the third last commit in master diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt index da0215d20c..665ad4ddab 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D -z | xargs -0 git rm --cached EXAMPLES -------- -git rm Documentation/\*.txt:: +`git rm Documentation/\*.txt`:: Removes all `*.txt` files from the index that are under the `Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories. + @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ Note that the asterisk `*` is quoted from the shell in this example; this lets git, and not the shell, expand the pathnames of files and subdirectories under the `Documentation/` directory. -git rm -f git-*.sh:: +`git rm -f git-*.sh`:: Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not remove `subdir/git-foo.sh`. diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt index bd3eaa69bf..bed9e1f097 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another repository SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...] +'git send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--quiet] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ OPTIONS the remote repository can lose commits; use it with care. +--quiet:: + Print only error messages. + --verbose:: Run verbosely. diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt index 1f0e30b912..1e38819e67 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt @@ -48,23 +48,23 @@ include::pretty-formats.txt[] EXAMPLES -------- -git show v1.0.0:: +`git show v1.0.0`:: Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags points at. -git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}:: +`git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}`:: Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`. -git show -s --format=%s v1.0.0^\{commit\}:: +`git show -s --format=%s v1.0.0^\{commit\}`:: Shows the subject of the commit pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`. -git show next~10:Documentation/README:: +`git show next~10:Documentation/README`:: Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch `next`. -git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile:: +`git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile`:: Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head of the branch `master`. diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 0ec85742dd..67cf5f0f8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...] 'git submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [-N|--no-fetch] [--rebase] [--reference <repository>] [--merge] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...] -'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [--cached|--files] [--summary-limit <n>] [commit] [--] [<path>...] +'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [--cached|--files] [(-n|--summary-limit) <n>] + [commit] [--] [<path>...] 'git submodule' [--quiet] foreach [--recursive] <command> 'git submodule' [--quiet] sync [--] [<path>...] @@ -108,8 +109,13 @@ status:: repository and `U` if the submodule has merge conflicts. This command is the default command for 'git submodule'. + -If '--recursive' is specified, this command will recurse into nested +If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into nested submodules, and show their status as well. ++ +If you are only interested in changes of the currently initialized +submodules with respect to the commit recorded in the index or the HEAD, +linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-diff[1] will provide that information +too (and can also report changes to a submodule's work tree). init:: Initialize the submodules, i.e. register each submodule name @@ -125,26 +131,29 @@ init:: update:: Update the registered submodules, i.e. clone missing submodules and checkout the commit specified in the index of the containing repository. - This will make the submodules HEAD be detached unless '--rebase' or - '--merge' is specified or the key `submodule.$name.update` is set to + This will make the submodules HEAD be detached unless `--rebase` or + `--merge` is specified or the key `submodule.$name.update` is set to `rebase` or `merge`. + If the submodule is not yet initialized, and you just want to use the setting as stored in .gitmodules, you can automatically initialize the -submodule with the --init option. +submodule with the `--init` option. + -If '--recursive' is specified, this command will recurse into the +If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into the registered submodules, and update any nested submodules within. summary:: Show commit summary between the given commit (defaults to HEAD) and working tree/index. For a submodule in question, a series of commits in the submodule between the given super project commit and the - index or working tree (switched by --cached) are shown. If the option - --files is given, show the series of commits in the submodule between + index or working tree (switched by `--cached`) are shown. If the option + `--files` is given, show the series of commits in the submodule between the index of the super project and the working tree of the submodule - (this option doesn't allow to use the --cached option or to provide an + (this option doesn't allow to use the `--cached` option or to provide an explicit commit). ++ +Using the `--submodule=log` option with linkgit:git-diff[1] will provide that +information too. foreach:: Evaluates an arbitrary shell command in each checked out submodule. @@ -155,9 +164,9 @@ foreach:: superproject, $sha1 is the commit as recorded in the superproject, and $toplevel is the absolute path to the top-level of the superproject. Any submodules defined in the superproject but not checked out are - ignored by this command. Unless given --quiet, foreach prints the name + ignored by this command. Unless given `--quiet`, foreach prints the name of each submodule before evaluating the command. - If --recursive is given, submodules are traversed recursively (i.e. + If `--recursive` is given, submodules are traversed recursively (i.e. the given shell command is evaluated in nested submodules as well). A non-zero return from the command in any submodule causes the processing to terminate. This can be overridden by adding '|| :' @@ -237,13 +246,18 @@ OPTIONS If the key `submodule.$name.update` is set to `rebase`, this option is implicit. +--init:: + This option is only valid for the update command. + Initialize all submodules for which "git submodule init" has not been + called so far before updating. + --reference <repository>:: This option is only valid for add and update commands. These commands sometimes need to clone a remote repository. In this case, this option will be passed to the linkgit:git-clone[1] command. + *NOTE*: Do *not* use this option unless you have read the note -for linkgit:git-clone[1]'s --reference and --shared options carefully. +for linkgit:git-clone[1]'s `--reference` and `--shared` options carefully. --recursive:: This option is only valid for foreach, update and status commands. diff --git a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt index 95b135d8ad..346e7a2079 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt @@ -53,26 +53,26 @@ tar.umask:: EXAMPLES -------- -git tar-tree HEAD junk | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -):: +`git tar-tree HEAD junk | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)`:: Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in `/var/tmp/junk` directory. -git tar-tree v1.4.0 git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz:: +`git tar-tree v1.4.0 git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`:: Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release. -git tar-tree v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz:: +`git tar-tree v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`:: Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a global extended pax header. -git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar:: +`git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar`:: Get a tarball v1.4.0 from example.com. -git tar-tree HEAD:Documentation/ git-docs > git-1.4.0-docs.tar:: +`git tar-tree HEAD:Documentation/ git-docs > git-1.4.0-docs.tar`:: Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory into 'git-1.4.0-docs.tar', with the prefix 'git-docs/'. diff --git a/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt index a58e90ca8d..71f16083d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt @@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ OPTIONS <directory>:: The repository to sync from. +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt b/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt index 99388bd374..76c7f7eec5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt @@ -53,12 +53,12 @@ include::pretty-formats.txt[] Examples -------- -git whatchanged -p v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi:: +`git whatchanged -p v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi`:: Show as patches the commits since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories -git whatchanged --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk:: +`git whatchanged --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk`:: Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'. The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 0172cd7014..710d750cfd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git' [--version] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path] - [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] - [--bare] [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] + [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare] + [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>] [-c <name>=<value>] [--help] <command> [<args>] @@ -330,6 +330,11 @@ help ...`. variable (see core.worktree in linkgit:git-config[1] for a more detailed discussion). +--namespace=<path>:: + Set the git namespace. See linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] for more + details. Equivalent to setting the `GIT_NAMESPACE` environment + variable. + --bare:: Treat the repository as a bare repository. If GIT_DIR environment is not set, it is set to the current working @@ -593,6 +598,10 @@ git so take care if using Cogito etc. This can also be controlled by the '--work-tree' command line option and the core.worktree configuration variable. +'GIT_NAMESPACE':: + Set the git namespace; see linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] for details. + The '--namespace' command-line option also sets this value. + 'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES':: This should be a colon-separated list of absolute paths. If set, it is a list of directories that git should not chdir diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 3d8643437e..25e46aeb7a 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Attributes for all users on a system should be placed in the `$(prefix)/etc/gitattributes` file. Sometimes you would need to override an setting of an attribute -for a path to `unspecified` state. This can be done by listing +for a path to `Unspecified` state. This can be done by listing the name of the attribute prefixed with an exclamation point `!`. @@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ If this attribute is not set or has an invalid value, the value of the (See linkgit:git-config[1]). -USING ATTRIBUTE MACROS +USING MACRO ATTRIBUTES ---------------------- You do not want any end-of-line conversions applied to, nor textual diffs @@ -879,24 +879,27 @@ produced for, any binary file you track. You would need to specify e.g. ------------ but that may become cumbersome, when you have many attributes. Using -attribute macros, you can specify groups of attributes set or unset at -the same time. The system knows a built-in attribute macro, `binary`: +macro attributes, you can define an attribute that, when set, also +sets or unsets a number of other attributes at the same time. The +system knows a built-in macro attribute, `binary`: ------------ *.jpg binary ------------ -which is equivalent to the above. Note that the attribute macros can only -be "Set" (see the above example that sets "binary" macro as if it were an -ordinary attribute --- setting it in turn unsets "text" and "diff"). +Setting the "binary" attribute also unsets the "text" and "diff" +attributes as above. Note that macro attributes can only be "Set", +though setting one might have the effect of setting or unsetting other +attributes or even returning other attributes to the "Unspecified" +state. -DEFINING ATTRIBUTE MACROS +DEFINING MACRO ATTRIBUTES ------------------------- -Custom attribute macros can be defined only in the `.gitattributes` file -at the toplevel (i.e. not in any subdirectory). The built-in attribute -macro "binary" is equivalent to: +Custom macro attributes can be defined only in the `.gitattributes` +file at the toplevel (i.e. not in any subdirectory). The built-in +macro attribute "binary" is equivalent to: ------------ [attr]binary -diff -text diff --git a/Documentation/gitnamespaces.txt b/Documentation/gitnamespaces.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ed8924e856 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/gitnamespaces.txt @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +gitnamespaces(7) +================ + +NAME +---- +gitnamespaces - Git namespaces + +DESCRIPTION +----------- + +Git supports dividing the refs of a single repository into multiple +namespaces, each of which has its own branches, tags, and HEAD. Git can +expose each namespace as an independent repository to pull from and push +to, while sharing the object store, and exposing all the refs to +operations such as linkgit:git-gc[1]. + +Storing multiple repositories as namespaces of a single repository +avoids storing duplicate copies of the same objects, such as when +storing multiple branches of the same source. The alternates mechanism +provides similar support for avoiding duplicates, but alternates do not +prevent duplication between new objects added to the repositories +without ongoing maintenance, while namespaces do. + +To specify a namespace, set the `GIT_NAMESPACE` environment variable to +the namespace. For each ref namespace, git stores the corresponding +refs in a directory under `refs/namespaces/`. For example, +`GIT_NAMESPACE=foo` will store refs under `refs/namespaces/foo/`. You +can also specify namespaces via the `--namespace` option to +linkgit:git[1]. + +Note that namespaces which include a `/` will expand to a hierarchy of +namespaces; for example, `GIT_NAMESPACE=foo/bar` will store refs under +`refs/namespaces/foo/refs/namespaces/bar/`. This makes paths in +`GIT_NAMESPACE` behave hierarchically, so that cloning with +`GIT_NAMESPACE=foo/bar` produces the same result as cloning with +`GIT_NAMESPACE=foo` and cloning from that repo with `GIT_NAMESPACE=bar`. It +also avoids ambiguity with strange namespace paths such as `foo/refs/heads/`, +which could otherwise generate directory/file conflicts within the `refs` +directory. + +linkgit:git-upload-pack[1] and linkgit:git-receive-pack[1] rewrite the +names of refs as specified by `GIT_NAMESPACE`. git-upload-pack and +git-receive-pack will ignore all references outside the specified +namespace. + +The smart HTTP server, linkgit:git-http-backend[1], will pass +GIT_NAMESPACE through to the backend programs; see +linkgit:git-http-backend[1] for sample configuration to expose +repository namespaces as repositories. + +For a simple local test, you can use linkgit:git-remote-ext[1]: + +---------- +git clone ext::'git --namespace=foo %s /tmp/prefixed.git' +---------- + +SECURITY +-------- + +Anyone with access to any namespace within a repository can potentially +access objects from any other namespace stored in the same repository. +You can't directly say "give me object ABCD" if you don't have a ref to +it, but you can do some other sneaky things like: + +. Claiming to push ABCD, at which point the server will optimize out the + need for you to actually send it. Now you have a ref to ABCD and can + fetch it (claiming not to have it, of course). + +. Requesting other refs, claiming that you have ABCD, at which point the + server may generate deltas against ABCD. + +None of this causes a problem if you only host public repositories, or +if everyone who may read one namespace may also read everything in every +other namespace (for instance, if everyone in an organization has read +permission to every repository). diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt index 5cb2b0590a..b0cafe87be 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt @@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ Additionally, if `foo` is a new command, there are 3 more things to do: . Add an entry for `git-foo` to `command-list.txt`. +. Add an entry for `/git-foo` to `.gitignore`. + How a built-in is called ------------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt index 7b233ca196..8930b3fabc 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt @@ -147,8 +147,9 @@ GIT index format - 160-bit object name for the object that would result from writing this span of index as a tree. - An entry can be in an invalidated state and is represented by having -1 - in the entry_count field. + An entry can be in an invalidated state and is represented by having + -1 in the entry_count field. In this case, there is no object name + and the next entry starts immediately after the newline. The entries are written out in the top-down, depth-first order. The first entry represents the root level of the repository, followed by the |