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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt | 39 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-archimport.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-push.txt | 41 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-tools.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-worktree.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitmodules.txt | 35 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt | 4 |
11 files changed, 127 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt index b757fd119c..f1560f1406 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt @@ -186,6 +186,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features size that can be expressed in size_t, which can be larger than ulong on some platforms. + * "git rebase" learns "--signoff" option. + + * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete "git push + --delete b<TAB>" to complete branch name to be deleted. + + * "git worktree add --lock" allows to lock a worktree immediately + after it's created. This helps prevent a race between "git worktree + add; git worktree lock" and "git worktree prune". + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -302,6 +311,20 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. file is used. Omit the validation during normal use, and instead verify only in "git fsck". + * Having a git command on the upstream side of a pipe in a test + script will hide the exit status from the command, which may cause + us to fail to notice a breakage; rewrite tests in a script to avoid + this issue. + + * Travis CI learns to run coccicheck. + + * "git checkout" that handles a lot of paths has been optimized by + reducing the number of unnecessary checks of paths in the + has_dir_name() function. + + * The internals of the refs API around the cached refs has been + streamlined. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -535,6 +558,19 @@ notes for details). using garbage past the end of the buffer. (merge 5781a9a270 dt/xgethostname-nul-termination later to maint). + * A recent update broke "git add -p ../foo" from a subdirectory. + + * While handy, "git_path()" is a dangerous function to use as a + callsite that uses it safely one day can be broken by changes + to other code that calls it. Reduction of its use continues. + (merge 16d2676c9e jk/war-on-git-path later to maint). + + * The split-index code configuration code used an unsafe git_path() + function without copying its result out. + + * Many stale HTTP(s) links have been updated in our documentation. + (merge 613416f0be jk/update-links-in-docs later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge df2a6e38b7 jk/pager-in-use later to maint). (merge 75ec4a6cb0 ab/branch-list-doc later to maint). @@ -557,3 +593,6 @@ notes for details). (merge d8f4481c4f jk/quarantine-received-objects later to maint). (merge 7ba1ceef95 xy/format-patch-base later to maint). (merge fa1912c89a rs/misc-cppcheck-fixes later to maint). + (merge f17d642d3b ab/push-cas-doc-n-test later to maint). + (merge 61e282425a ss/gitmodules-ignore-doc later to maint). + (merge 8d3047cd5b ss/submodule-shallow-doc later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt index 163b9f6f41..ea70653369 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ OPTIONS pruned. -a:: - Attempt to auto-register archives at http://mirrors.sourcecontrol.net + Attempt to auto-register archives at `http://mirrors.sourcecontrol.net` This is particularly useful with the -D option. -t <tmpdir>:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt index e015f5b3cc..8ac75fcc25 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt @@ -1347,12 +1347,12 @@ author to given a talk and for publishing this paper. References ---------- -- [[[1]]] http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/n02-10.htm['Software Errors Cost U.S. Economy $59.5 Billion Annually'. Nist News Release.] -- [[[2]]] http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConventions.doc.html#16712['Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language'. Sun Microsystems.] -- [[[3]]] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_maintenance['Software maintenance'. Wikipedia.] +- [[[1]]] https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/director/planning/report02-3.pdf['The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infratructure for Software Testing'. Nist Planning Report 02-3], see Executive Summary and Chapter 8. +- [[[2]]] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconvtoc-136057.html['Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language'. Sun Microsystems.] +- [[[3]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_maintenance['Software maintenance'. Wikipedia.] - [[[4]]] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/45195/[Junio C Hamano. 'Automated bisect success story'. Gmane.] -- [[[5]]] http://lwn.net/Articles/317154/[Christian Couder. 'Fully automated bisecting with "git bisect run"'. LWN.net.] -- [[[6]]] http://lwn.net/Articles/277872/[Jonathan Corbet. 'Bisection divides users and developers'. LWN.net.] +- [[[5]]] https://lwn.net/Articles/317154/[Christian Couder. 'Fully automated bisecting with "git bisect run"'. LWN.net.] +- [[[6]]] https://lwn.net/Articles/277872/[Jonathan Corbet. 'Bisection divides users and developers'. LWN.net.] - [[[7]]] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/36652/[Ingo Molnar. 'Re: BUG 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha'. Gmane.] -- [[[8]]] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html[Junio C Hamano and the git-list. 'git-bisect(1) Manual Page'. Linux Kernel Archives.] -- [[[9]]] http://github.com/Ealdwulf/bbchop[Ealdwulf. 'bbchop'. GitHub.] +- [[[8]]] https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html[Junio C Hamano and the git-list. 'git-bisect(1) Manual Page'. Linux Kernel Archives.] +- [[[9]]] https://github.com/Ealdwulf/bbchop[Ealdwulf. 'bbchop'. GitHub.] diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 1624a35888..0a639664fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -217,6 +217,47 @@ with this feature. + "--no-force-with-lease" will cancel all the previous --force-with-lease on the command line. ++ +A general note on safety: supplying this option without an expected +value, i.e. as `--force-with-lease` or `--force-with-lease=<refname>` +interacts very badly with anything that implicitly runs `git fetch` on +the remote to be pushed to in the background, e.g. `git fetch origin` +on your repository in a cronjob. ++ +The protection it offers over `--force` is ensuring that subsequent +changes your work wasn't based on aren't clobbered, but this is +trivially defeated if some background process is updating refs in the +background. We don't have anything except the remote tracking info to +go by as a heuristic for refs you're expected to have seen & are +willing to clobber. ++ +If your editor or some other system is running `git fetch` in the +background for you a way to mitigate this is to simply set up another +remote: ++ + git remote add origin-push $(git config remote.origin.url) + git fetch origin-push ++ +Now when the background process runs `git fetch origin` the references +on `origin-push` won't be updated, and thus commands like: ++ + git push --force-with-lease origin-push ++ +Will fail unless you manually run `git fetch origin-push`. This method +is of course entirely defeated by something that runs `git fetch +--all`, in that case you'd need to either disable it or do something +more tedious like: ++ + git fetch # update 'master' from remote + git tag base master # mark our base point + git rebase -i master # rewrite some commits + git push --force-with-lease=master:base master:master ++ +I.e. create a `base` tag for versions of the upstream code that you've +seen and are willing to overwrite, then rewrite history, and finally +force push changes to `master` if the remote version is still at +`base`, regardless of what your local `remotes/origin/master` has been +updated to in the background. -f:: --force:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 67d48e6883..53f4e14444 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -370,6 +370,11 @@ default is `--no-fork-point`, otherwise the default is `--fork-point`. of the rebased commits (see linkgit:git-am[1]). Incompatible with the --interactive option. +--signoff:: + This flag is passed to 'git am' to sign off all the rebased + commits (see linkgit:git-am[1]). Incompatible with the + --interactive option. + -i:: --interactive:: Make a list of the commits which are about to be rebased. Let the diff --git a/Documentation/git-tools.txt b/Documentation/git-tools.txt index 2f4ff50156..d0fec4cddd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tools.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tools.txt @@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ maintained here. These days, however, search engines fill that role much more efficiently, so this manually-maintained list has been retired. See also the `contrib/` area, and the Git wiki: -http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools +https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt index 553cf8413f..b472acc356 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-worktree - Manage multiple working trees SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git worktree add' [-f] [--detach] [--checkout] [-b <new-branch>] <path> [<branch>] +'git worktree add' [-f] [--detach] [--checkout] [--lock] [-b <new-branch>] <path> [<branch>] 'git worktree list' [--porcelain] 'git worktree lock' [--reason <string>] <worktree> 'git worktree prune' [-n] [-v] [--expire <expire>] @@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ OPTIONS such as configuring sparse-checkout. See "Sparse checkout" in linkgit:git-read-tree[1]. +--lock:: + Keep the working tree locked after creation. This is the + equivalent of `git worktree lock` after `git worktree add`, + but without race condition. + -n:: --dry-run:: With `prune`, do not remove anything; just report what it would diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt index 3a0ec8c53a..7577f27ec2 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt @@ -1429,7 +1429,7 @@ Although Git is a truly distributed system, it is often convenient to organize your project with an informal hierarchy of developers. Linux kernel development is run this way. There is a nice illustration (page 17, "Merges to Mainline") in -http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf[Randy Dunlap's presentation]. +https://web.archive.org/web/20120915203609/http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf[Randy Dunlap's presentation]. It should be stressed that this hierarchy is purely *informal*. There is nothing fundamental in Git that enforces the "chain of diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt index 8f7c50f330..db5d47eb19 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt @@ -66,17 +66,26 @@ submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules:: submodule.<name>.ignore:: Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show - a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered - modified (but will nonetheless show up in the output of status and - commit when it has been staged), "dirty" will ignore all changes - to the submodules work tree and - takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit - recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally - let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up. - Using "none" (the default when this option is not set) also shows - submodules that have untracked files in their work tree as changed. - If this option is also present in the submodules entry in .git/config of - the superproject, the setting there will override the one found in + a submodule as modified. The following values are supported: + + all;; The submodule will never be considered modified (but will + nonetheless show up in the output of status and commit when it has + been staged). + + dirty;; All changes to the submodule's work tree will be ignored, only + committed differences between the HEAD of the submodule and its + recorded state in the superproject are taken into account. + + untracked;; Only untracked files in submodules will be ignored. + Committed differences and modifications to tracked files will show + up. + + none;; No modifiations to submodules are ignored, all of committed + differences, and modifications to tracked and untracked files are + shown. This is the default option. + + If this option is also present in the submodules entry in .git/config + of the superproject, the setting there will override the one found in .gitmodules. Both settings can be overridden on the command line by using the "--ignore-submodule" option. The 'git submodule' commands are not @@ -84,8 +93,8 @@ submodule.<name>.ignore:: submodule.<name>.shallow:: When set to true, a clone of this submodule will be performed as a - shallow clone unless the user explicitly asks for a non-shallow - clone. + shallow clone (with a history depth of 1) unless the user explicitly + asks for a non-shallow clone. EXAMPLES diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt index e6320891b1..9c8982ec98 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt @@ -368,8 +368,8 @@ $logo_url:: $logo_label:: URI and label (title) for the Git logo link (or your site logo, if you chose to use different logo image). By default, these both - refer to Git homepage, http://git-scm.com[]; in the past, they pointed - to Git documentation at http://www.kernel.org[]. + refer to Git homepage, https://git-scm.com[]; in the past, they pointed + to Git documentation at https://www.kernel.org[]. Changing gitweb's look diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt index 25378f68d3..db219f5c07 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt @@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:19:10 -0700 Abstract: In this how-to article, JC talks about how he uses the post-update hook to automate Git documentation page - shown at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/. + shown at https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/. Content-type: text/asciidoc How to rebuild from update hook =============================== -The pages under http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ +The pages under https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ are built from Documentation/ directory of the git.git project and needed to be kept up-to-date. The www.kernel.org/ servers are mirrored and I was told that the origin of the mirror is on |