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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt220
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-branch.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-format-patch.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-grep.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-push.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-send-pack.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-tag.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/githooks.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt73
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-config.txt4
13 files changed, 253 insertions, 100 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2fd49978d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,220 @@
+Git 2.15 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes.
+
+ * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for
+ 'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a
+ more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing
+ users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be
+ turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of
+ this (mis)feature. That is now scheduled to happen in the upcoming
+ release.
+
+ * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup
+ sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that
+ happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG").
+ We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there
+ might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are
+ greatly appreciated.
+
+
+Updates since v2.14
+-------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * An example that is now obsolete has been removed from a sample hook,
+ and an old example in it that added a sign-off manually has been
+ improved to use the interpret-trailers command.
+
+ * The advice message given when "git rebase" stops for conflicting
+ changes has been improved.
+
+ * The "rerere-train" script (in contrib/) learned the "--overwrite"
+ option to allow overwriting existing recorded resolutions.
+ (merge ad53bf79aa rg/rerere-train-overwrite later to maint).
+
+ * "git contacts" (in contrib/) now lists the address on the
+ "Reported-by:" trailer to its output, in addition to those on
+ S-o-b: and other trailers, to make it easier to notify (and thank)
+ the original bug reporter.
+ (merge 09ac673788 eb/contacts-reported-by later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase", especially when it is run by mistake and ends up
+ trying to replay many changes, spent long time in silence. The
+ command has been taught to show progress report when it spends
+ long time preparing these many changes to replay (which would give
+ the user a chance to abort with ^C).
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
+
+ * Start using selected c99 constructs in small, stable and
+ essentialpart of the system to catch people who care about
+ older compilers that do not grok them.
+
+ * The filter-process interface learned to allow a process with long
+ latency give a "delayed" response.
+
+ * Many uses of comparision callback function the hashmap API uses
+ cast the callback function type when registering it to
+ hashmap_init(), which defeats the compile time type checking when
+ the callback interface changes (e.g. gaining more parameters).
+ The callback implementations have been updated to take "void *"
+ pointers and cast them to the type they expect instead.
+
+ * Because recent Git for Windows do come with a real msgfmt, the
+ build procedure for git-gui has been updated to use it instead of a
+ hand-rolled substitute.
+ (merge 90dbf226ba js/git-gui-msgfmt-on-windows later to maint).
+
+ * "git grep --recurse-submodules" has been reworked to give a more
+ consistent output across submodule boundary (and do its thing
+ without having to fork a separate process).
+
+ * A helper function to read a single whole line into strbuf
+ mistakenly triggered OOM error at EOF under certain conditions,
+ which has been fixed.
+ (merge 642956cf45 rs/strbuf-getwholeline-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The "ref-store" code reorganization continues.
+
+ * "git commit" used to discard the index and re-read from the filesystem
+ just in case the pre-commit hook has updated it in the middle; this
+ has been optimized out when we know we do not run the pre-commit hook.
+ (merge 680ee550d7 kw/commit-keep-index-when-pre-commit-is-not-run later to maint).
+
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.14
+-----------------
+
+ * "%C(color name)" in the pretty print format always produced ANSI
+ color escape codes, which was an early design mistake. They now
+ honor the configuration (e.g. "color.ui = never") and also tty-ness
+ of the output medium.
+ (merge 11b087adfd jk/ref-filter-colors later to maint).
+
+ * The http.{sslkey,sslCert} configuration variables are to be
+ interpreted as a pathname that honors "~[username]/" prefix, but
+ weren't, which has been fixed.
+ (merge 8d1549643e jc/http-sslkey-and-ssl-cert-are-paths later to maint).
+
+ * Numerous bugs in walking of reflogs via "log -g" and friends have
+ been fixed.
+ (merge de239446b6 jk/reflog-walk later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit" when seeing an totally empty message said "you did not
+ edit the message", which is clearly wrong. The message has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge bc17f35f8c ks/commit-abort-on-empty-message-fix later to maint).
+
+ * When a directory is not readable, "gitweb" fails to build the
+ project list. Work this around by skipping such a directory.
+ (merge 46a13857fc hb/gitweb-project-list later to maint).
+
+ * Some versions of GnuPG fails to kill gpg-agent it auto-spawned
+ and such a left-over agent can interfere with a test. Work it
+ around by attempting to kill one before starting a new test.
+ (merge 29ff1f8f74 st/lib-gpg-kill-stray-agent later to maint).
+
+ * A recently added test for the "credential-cache" helper revealed
+ that EOF detection done around the time the connection to the cache
+ daemon is torn down were flaky. This was fixed by reacting to
+ ECONNRESET and behaving as if we got an EOF.
+ (merge 1f180e5eb9 dl/credential-cache-socket-in-xdg-cache later to maint).
+
+ * "git log --tag=no-such-tag" showed log starting from HEAD, which
+ has been fixed---it now shows nothing.
+ (merge 5d34d1ac06 jk/rev-list-empty-input later to maint).
+
+ * The "tag.pager" configuration variable was useless for those who
+ actually create tag objects, as it interfered with the use of an
+ editor. A new mechanism has been introduced for commands to enable
+ pager depending on what operation is being carried out to fix this,
+ and then "git tag -l" is made to run pager by default.
+ (merge 595d59e2b5 ma/pager-per-subcommand-action later to maint).
+
+ * "git push --recurse-submodules $there HEAD:$target" was not
+ propagated down to the submodules, but now it is.
+ (merge c7be7201a7 bw/push-options-recursively-to-submodules later to maint).
+
+ * Commands like "git rebase" accepted the --rerere-autoupdate option
+ from the command line, but did not always use it. This has been
+ fixed.
+ (merge f826fb799e pw/sequence-rerere-autoupdate later to maint).
+
+ * "git clone --recurse-submodules --quiet" did not pass the quiet
+ option down to submodules.
+ (merge 03c004c581 bw/clone-recursive-quiet later to maint).
+
+ * Test portability fix for OBSD.
+ (merge bed67874e2 rs/obsd-getcwd-workaround later to maint).
+ (merge 4c7fda8fc1 rs/t4062-obsd later to maint).
+
+ * Portability fix for OBSD.
+ (merge 29c2eda80b rs/in-obsd-basename-dirname-take-const later to maint).
+
+ * "git am -s" has been taught that some input may end with a trailer
+ block that is not Signed-off-by: and it should refrain from adding
+ an extra blank line before adding a new sign-off in such a case.
+ (merge 735285b403 pw/am-signoff later to maint).
+
+ * "git svn" used with "--localtime" option did not compute the tz
+ offset for the timestamp in question and instead always used the
+ current time, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 1adc4b9a58 ur/svn-local-zone later to maint).
+
+ * Memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged.
+ (merge 83cd6f9017 rs/fsck-obj-leakfix later to maint).
+ (merge 896dca3ab7 rs/unpack-entry-leakfix later to maint).
+ (merge 149d8cbb2e rs/win32-syslog-leakfix later to maint).
+
+ * "git stash -u" used the contents of the committed version of the
+ ".gitignore" file to decide which paths are ignored, even when the
+ file has local changes. The command has been taught to instead use
+ the locally modified contents.
+
+ * bash 4.4 or newer gave a warning on NUL byte in command
+ substitution done in "git stash"; this has been squelched.
+ (merge 5fc92f8828 kd/stash-with-bash-4.4 later to maint).
+
+ * "git grep -L" and "git grep --quiet -L" reported different exit
+ codes; this has been corrected.
+ (merge e1f68c66d5 as/grep-quiet-no-match-exit-code-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
+ (merge 5b114f3bb0 rs/bswap-ubsan-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 168e63554c rs/move-array later to maint).
+ (merge 268ba20110 rs/stat-data-unaligned-reads-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 78e7b98f45 jt/fsck-code-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge c7b0780545 rs/pack-objects-pbase-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge c1e860f1dc js/run-process-parallel-api-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 7a40a95eb4 cc/ref-is-hidden-microcleanup later to maint).
+ (merge c0bb6d9cef ah/doc-wserrorhighlight later to maint).
+ (merge edd64ef4f7 dc/fmt-merge-msg-microcleanup later to maint).
+ (merge fa64a2fdbe jt/subprocess-handshake later to maint).
+ (merge 0ba9c9a0fb jb/t8008-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge a7c28a2161 jt/t1450-fsck-corrupt-packfile later to maint).
+ (merge dff2813391 ab/ref-filter-no-contains later to maint).
+ (merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint).
+ (merge 974ce8078c mf/no-dashed-subcommands later to maint).
+ (merge f81935cc4d jc/perl-git-comment-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge 57ea241ef0 rs/t3700-clean-leftover later to maint).
+ (merge f1068efefe jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint).
+ (merge 0b006014c8 jk/hashcmp-memcmp later to maint).
+ (merge 1e22a9917b rj/add-chmod-error-message later to maint).
+ (merge 881529c846 rs/apply-lose-prefix-length later to maint).
+ (merge 6355a76802 rs/find-pack-entry-bisection later to maint).
+ (merge de3ce210ed rs/merge-microcleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 7f0a02be2f ah/doc-empty-string-is-false later to maint).
+ (merge 70ec6bd63b rs/t1002-do-not-use-sum later to maint).
+ (merge 2456990dfd sb/sha1-file-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 2aac933c62 hv/t5526-andand-chain-fix later to maint).
+ (merge c8d0c4fe9b sb/submodule-parallel-update later to maint).
+ (merge 794b7e1674 mg/format-ref-doc-fix later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index d5c9c4cab6..478b9431e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -216,15 +216,15 @@ boolean::
synonyms are accepted for 'true' and 'false'; these are all
case-insensitive.
- true;; Boolean true can be spelled as `yes`, `on`, `true`,
- or `1`. Also, a variable defined without `= <value>`
+ true;; Boolean true literals are `yes`, `on`, `true`,
+ and `1`. Also, a variable defined without `= <value>`
is taken as true.
- false;; Boolean false can be spelled as `no`, `off`,
- `false`, or `0`.
+ false;; Boolean false literals are `no`, `off`, `false`,
+ `0` and the empty string.
+
When converting value to the canonical form using `--bool` type
-specifier; 'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or
+specifier, 'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or
"false" (spelled in lowercase).
integer::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 81bd0a7b77..d0b3358771 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -267,8 +267,8 @@ start-point is either a local or remote-tracking branch.
Only list branches of the given object.
--format <format>::
- A string that interpolates `%(fieldname)` from the object
- pointed at by a ref being shown. The format is the same as
+ A string that interpolates `%(fieldname)` from a branch ref being shown
+ and the object it points at. The format is the same as
that of linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1].
Examples
diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index cc42c12832..bb370c9c7b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -38,11 +38,12 @@ OPTIONS
key.
<format>::
- A string that interpolates `%(fieldname)` from the
- object pointed at by a ref being shown. If `fieldname`
+ A string that interpolates `%(fieldname)` from a ref being shown
+ and the object it points at. If `fieldname`
is prefixed with an asterisk (`*`) and the ref points
- at a tag object, the value for the field in the object
- tag refers is used. When unspecified, defaults to
+ at a tag object, use the value for the field in the object
+ which the tag object refers to (instead of the field in the tag object).
+ When unspecified, `<format>` defaults to
`%(objectname) SPC %(objecttype) TAB %(refname)`.
It also interpolates `%%` to `%`, and `%xx` where `xx`
are hex digits interpolates to character with hex code
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index c890328b02..6cbe462a77 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[(--reroll-count|-v) <n>]
[--to=<email>] [--cc=<email>]
[--[no-]cover-letter] [--quiet] [--notes[=<ref>]]
+ [--progress]
[<common diff options>]
[ <since> | <revision range> ]
@@ -283,6 +284,9 @@ you can use `--suffix=-patch` to get `0001-description-of-my-change-patch`.
range are always formatted as creation patches, independently
of this flag.
+--progress::
+ Show progress reports on stderr as patches are generated.
+
CONFIGURATION
-------------
You can specify extra mail header lines to be added to each message,
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index 5033483db4..720c7850e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -95,13 +95,6 @@ OPTIONS
<tree> option the prefix of all submodule output will be the name of
the parent project's <tree> object.
---parent-basename <basename>::
- For internal use only. In order to produce uniform output with the
- --recurse-submodules option, this option can be used to provide the
- basename of a parent's <tree> object to a submodule so the submodule
- can prefix its output with the parent's name rather than the SHA1 of
- the submodule.
-
-a::
--text::
Process binary files as if they were text.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 0a639664fd..3e76e99f38 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
'git push' [--all | --mirror | --tags] [--follow-tags] [--atomic] [-n | --dry-run] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>]
[--repo=<repository>] [-f | --force] [-d | --delete] [--prune] [-v | --verbose]
[-u | --set-upstream] [--push-option=<string>]
- [--[no-]signed|--sign=(true|false|if-asked)]
+ [--[no-]signed|--signed=(true|false|if-asked)]
[--force-with-lease[=<refname>[:<expect>]]]
[--no-verify] [<repository> [<refspec>...]]
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ already exists on the remote side.
information, see `push.followTags` in linkgit:git-config[1].
--[no-]signed::
---sign=(true|false|if-asked)::
+--signed=(true|false|if-asked)::
GPG-sign the push request to update refs on the receiving
side, to allow it to be checked by the hooks and/or be
logged. If `false` or `--no-signed`, no signing will be
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
index 966abb0df8..f51c64939b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[verse]
'git send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>]
[--verbose] [--thin] [--atomic]
- [--[no-]signed|--sign=(true|false|if-asked)]
+ [--[no-]signed|--signed=(true|false|if-asked)]
[<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
DESCRIPTION
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet.
refs.
--[no-]signed::
---sign=(true|false|if-asked)::
+--signed=(true|false|if-asked)::
GPG-sign the push request to update refs on the receiving
side, to allow it to be checked by the hooks and/or be
logged. If `false` or `--no-signed`, no signing will be
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index 1eb15afa1c..543fb425ee 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -188,8 +188,8 @@ This option is only applicable when listing tags without annotation lines.
Defaults to HEAD.
<format>::
- A string that interpolates `%(fieldname)` from the object
- pointed at by a ref being shown. The format is the same as
+ A string that interpolates `%(fieldname)` from a tag ref being shown
+ and the object it points at. The format is the same as
that of linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1]. When unspecified,
defaults to `%(refname:strip=2)`.
@@ -205,6 +205,9 @@ it in the repository configuration as follows:
signingKey = <gpg-keyid>
-------------------------------------
+`pager.tag` is only respected when listing tags, i.e., when `-l` is
+used or implied. The default is to use a pager.
+See linkgit:git-config[1].
DISCUSSION
----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 7dd5e03280..6e3a6767e5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ example the following invocations are equivalent:
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.
+foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string which ` git config
+--bool` will convert to `false`.
--exec-path[=<path>]::
Path to wherever your core Git programs are installed.
diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt
index b2514f4d44..623ed1a138 100644
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ it is not suppressed by the `--no-verify` option. A non-zero exit
means a failure of the hook and aborts the commit. It should not
be used as replacement for pre-commit hook.
-The sample `prepare-commit-msg` hook that comes with Git comments
-out the `Conflicts:` part of a merge's commit message.
+The sample `prepare-commit-msg` hook that comes with Git removes the
+help message found in the commented portion of the commit template.
commit-msg
~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 22a39b9299..0000000000
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-builtin API
-===========
-
-Adding a new built-in
----------------------
-
-There are 4 things to do to add a built-in command implementation to
-Git:
-
-. Define the implementation of the built-in command `foo` with
- signature:
-
- int cmd_foo(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
-
-. Add the external declaration for the function to `builtin.h`.
-
-. Add the command to the `commands[]` table defined in `git.c`.
- The entry should look like:
-
- { "foo", cmd_foo, <options> },
-+
-where options is the bitwise-or of:
-
-`RUN_SETUP`::
- If there is not a Git directory to work on, abort. If there
- is a work tree, chdir to the top of it if the command was
- invoked in a subdirectory. If there is no work tree, no
- chdir() is done.
-
-`RUN_SETUP_GENTLY`::
- If there is a Git directory, chdir as per RUN_SETUP, otherwise,
- don't chdir anywhere.
-
-`USE_PAGER`::
-
- If the standard output is connected to a tty, spawn a pager and
- feed our output to it.
-
-`NEED_WORK_TREE`::
-
- Make sure there is a work tree, i.e. the command cannot act
- on bare repositories.
- This only makes sense when `RUN_SETUP` is also set.
-
-. Add `builtin/foo.o` to `BUILTIN_OBJS` in `Makefile`.
-
-Additionally, if `foo` is a new command, there are 3 more things to do:
-
-. Add tests to `t/` directory.
-
-. Write documentation in `Documentation/git-foo.txt`.
-
-. Add an entry for `git-foo` to `command-list.txt`.
-
-. Add an entry for `/git-foo` to `.gitignore`.
-
-
-How a built-in is called
-------------------------
-
-The implementation `cmd_foo()` takes three parameters, `argc`, `argv,
-and `prefix`. The first two are similar to what `main()` of a
-standalone command would be called with.
-
-When `RUN_SETUP` is specified in the `commands[]` table, and when you
-were started from a subdirectory of the work tree, `cmd_foo()` is called
-after chdir(2) to the top of the work tree, and `prefix` gets the path
-to the subdirectory the command started from. This allows you to
-convert a user-supplied pathname (typically relative to that directory)
-to a pathname relative to the top of the work tree.
-
-The return value from `cmd_foo()` becomes the exit status of the
-command.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt
index 20741f345e..7a83a3a6e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt
@@ -187,6 +187,10 @@ Same as `git_config_bool`, except that integers are returned as-is, and
an `is_bool` flag is unset.
`git_config_maybe_bool`::
+Deprecated. Use `git_parse_maybe_bool` instead. They are exactly the
+same, except this function takes an unused argument `name`.
+
+`git_parse_maybe_bool`::
Same as `git_config_bool`, except that it returns -1 on error rather
than dying.