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diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 72967deb78..8579530710 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -376,7 +376,10 @@ For C programs: string_list for sorted string lists, a hash map (mapping struct objects) named "struct decorate", amongst other things. - - When you come up with an API, document it. + - When you come up with an API, document its functions and structures + in the header file that exposes the API to its callers. Use what is + in "strbuf.h" as a model for the appropriate tone and level of + detail. - The first #include in C files, except in platform specific compat/ implementations, must be either "git-compat-util.h", "cache.h" or diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt index fa16dda07a..4b546d025f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt @@ -14,6 +14,21 @@ Backward Compatibility Notes which means some fetches of tags that did not fail with older version of Git will fail without "--force" with this version. + * "git help -a" now gives verbose output (same as "git help -av"). + Those who want the old output may say "git help --no-verbose -a".. + + * "git cpn --help", when "cpn" is an alias to, say, "cherry-pick -n", + reported only the alias expansion of "cpn" in earlier versions of + Git. It now runs "git cherry-pick --help" to show the manual page + of the command, while sending the alias expansion to the standard + error stream. + + * "git send-email" learned to grab address-looking string on any + trailer whose name ends with "-by". This is a backward-incompatible + change. Adding "--suppress-cc=misc-by" on the command line, or + setting sendemail.suppresscc configuration variable to "misc-by", + can be used to disable this behaviour. + Updates since v2.19 ------------------- @@ -69,6 +84,71 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete a handful of options "git stash list" command takes. + * The completion script (in contrib/) learned that "git fetch + --multiple" only takes remote names as arguments and no refspecs. + + * "git status" learns to show progress bar when refreshing the index + takes a long time. + (merge ae9af12287 nd/status-refresh-progress later to maint). + + * "git help -a" and "git help -av" give different pieces of + information, and generally the "verbose" version is more friendly + to the new users. "git help -a" by default now uses the more + verbose output (with "--no-verbose", you can go back to the + original). Also "git help -av" now lists aliases and external + commands, which it did not used to. + + * Unlike "grep", "git grep" by default recurses to the whole tree. + The command learned "git grep --recursive" option, so that "git + grep --no-recursive" can serve as a synonym to setting the + max-depth to 0. + + * When pushing into a repository that borrows its objects from an + alternate object store, "git receive-pack" that responds to the + push request on the other side lists the tips of refs in the + alternate to reduce the amount of objects transferred. This + sometimes is detrimental when the number of refs in the alternate + is absurdly large, in which case the bandwidth saved in potentially + fewer objects transferred is wasted in excessively large ref + advertisement. The alternate refs that are advertised are now + configurable with a pair of configuration variables. + + * "git cmd --help" when "cmd" is aliased used to only say "cmd is + aliased to ...". Now it shows that to the standard error stream + and runs "git $cmd --help" where $cmd is the first word of the + alias expansion. + + * The documentation of "git gc" has been updated to mention that it + is no longer limited to "pruning away crufts" but also updates + ancillary files like commit-graph as a part of repository + optimization. + + * "git p4 unshelve" improvements. + + * The logic to select the default user name and e-mail on Windows has + been improved. + (merge 501afcb8b0 js/mingw-default-ident later to maint). + + * The "rev-list --filter" feature learned to exclude all trees via + "tree:0" filter. + + * "git send-email" learned to grab address-looking string on any + trailer whose name ends with "-by"; --suppress-cc=misc-by on the + command line, or setting sendemail.suppresscc configuration + variable to "misc-by", can be used to disable this behaviour. + + * Developer builds now uses -Wunused-function compilation option. + + * One of our CI tests to run with "unusual/experimental/random" + settings now also uses commit-graph and midx. + + * "git mergetool" learned to take the "--[no-]gui" option, just like + "git difftool" does. + + * "git rebase -i" learned a new insn, 'break', that the user can + insert in the to-do list. Upon hitting it, the command returns + control back to the user. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -132,6 +212,62 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. point running gc to improve the situation); we used to exit with failure in such a case. + * Various codepaths in the core-ish part learned to work on an + arbitrary in-core index structure, not necessarily the default + instance "the_index". + (merge b3c7eef9b0 nd/the-index later to maint). + + * Code clean-up in the internal machinery used by "git status" and + "git commit --dry-run". + (merge 73ba5d78b4 ss/wt-status-committable later to maint). + + * Some environment variables that control the runtime options of Git + used during tests are getting renamed for consistency. + (merge 4231d1ba99 bp/rename-test-env-var later to maint). + + * A new extension to the index file has been introduced, which allows + the index file to be read in parallel for performance. + + * The oidset API was built on top of the oidmap API which in turn is + on the hashmap API. Replace the implementation to build on top of + the khash API and gain performance. + + * Over some transports, fetching objects with an exact commit object + name can be done without first seeing the ref advertisements. The + code has been optimized to exploit this. + + * In a partial clone that will lazily be hydrated from the + originating repository, we generally want to avoid "does this + object exist (locally)?" on objects that we deliberately omitted + when we created the clone. The cache-tree codepath (which is used + to write a tree object out of the index) however insisted that the + object exists, even for paths that are outside of the partial + checkout area. The code has been updated to avoid such a check. + + * To help developers, an EditorConfig file that attempts to follow + the project convention has been added. + (merge b548d698a0 bc/editorconfig later to maint). + + * The result of coverage test can be combined with "git blame" to + check the test coverage of code introduced recently with a new + 'coverage-diff' tool (in contrib/). + (merge 783faedd65 ds/coverage-diff later to maint). + + * An experiment to fuzz test a few areas, hopefully we can gain more + coverage to various areas. + + * More codepaths are moving away from hardcoded hash sizes. + + * The way the Windows port figures out the current directory has been + improved. + + * The way DLLs are loaded on the Windows port has been improved. + + * Some tests have been reorganized and renamed; "ls t/" now gives a + better overview of what is tested for these scripts than before. + + * "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" have been reimplemented in C. + Fixes since v2.19 ----------------- @@ -209,6 +345,55 @@ Fixes since v2.19 used for the first run, which has been corrected. (merge 3e73cc62c0 en/status-multiple-renames-to-the-same-target-fix later to maint). + * "git fetch $repo $object" in a partial clone did not correctly + fetch the asked-for object that is referenced by an object in + promisor packfile, which has been fixed. + + * A corner-case bugfix. + (merge c5cbb27cb5 sm/show-superproject-while-conflicted later to maint). + + * Various fixes to "diff --color-moved-ws". + + * A partial clone that is configured to lazily fetch missing objects + will on-demand issue a "git fetch" request to the originating + repository to fill not-yet-obtained objects. The request has been + optimized for requesting a tree object (and not the leaf blob + objects contained in it) by telling the originating repository that + no blobs are needed. + (merge 4c7f9567ea jt/non-blob-lazy-fetch later to maint). + + * The codepath to support the experimental split-index mode had + remaining "racily clean" issues fixed. + (merge 4c490f3d32 sg/split-index-racefix later to maint). + + * "git log --graph" showing an octopus merge sometimes miscounted the + number of display columns it is consuming to show the merge and its + parent commits, which has been corrected. + (merge 04005834ed np/log-graph-octopus-fix later to maint). + + * "git range-diff" did not work well when the compared ranges had + changes in submodules and the "--submodule=log" was used. + + * The implementation of run_command() API on the UNIX platforms had a + bug that caused a command not on $PATH to be found in the current + directory. + (merge f67b980771 jk/run-command-notdot later to maint). + + * A mutex used in "git pack-objects" were not correctly initialized + and this caused "git repack" to dump core on Windows. + (merge 34204c8166 js/pack-objects-mutex-init-fix later to maint). + + * Under certain circumstances, "git diff D:/a/b/c D:/a/b/d" on + Windows would strip initial parts from the paths because they + were not recognized as absolute, which has been corrected. + (merge ffd04e92e2 js/diff-notice-has-drive-prefix later to maint). + + * The receive.denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead codepath kicked in even + when the push should have been rejected due to other reasons, such + as it does not fast-forward or the update-hook rejects it, which + has been corrected. + (merge b072a25fad jc/receive-deny-current-branch-fix later to maint). + * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 96a7501aad ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly later to maint). (merge b9b07efdb2 tg/conflict-marker-size later to maint). @@ -231,3 +416,17 @@ Fixes since v2.19 (merge c56170a0c4 ma/mailing-list-address-in-git-help later to maint). (merge 6e8fc70fce rs/sequencer-oidset-insert-avoids-dups later to maint). (merge ad0b8f9575 mw/doc-typofixes later to maint). + (merge d9f079ad1a jc/how-to-document-api later to maint). + (merge b1492bf315 ma/t7005-bash-workaround later to maint). + (merge ac1f98a0df du/rev-parse-is-plumbing later to maint). + (merge ca8ed443a5 mm/doc-no-dashed-git later to maint). + (merge ce366a8144 du/get-tar-commit-id-is-plumbing later to maint). + (merge 61018fe9e0 du/cherry-is-plumbing later to maint). + (merge c7e5fe79b9 sb/strbuf-h-update later to maint). + (merge 8d2008196b tq/branch-create-wo-branch-get later to maint). + (merge 2e3c894f4b tq/branch-style-fix later to maint). + (merge c5d844af9c sg/doc-show-branch-typofix later to maint). + (merge 081d91618b ah/doc-updates later to maint). + (merge b84c783882 jc/cocci-preincr later to maint). + (merge 5e495f8122 uk/merge-subtree-doc-update later to maint). + (merge aaaa881822 jk/uploadpack-packobjectshook-fix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index f6f4c21a54..41a9ff2b6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -616,6 +616,24 @@ core.preferSymlinkRefs:: This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that expect HEAD to be a symbolic link. +core.alternateRefsCommand:: + When advertising tips of available history from an alternate, use the shell to + execute the specified command instead of linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1]. The + first argument is the absolute path of the alternate. Output must contain one + hex object id per line (i.e., the same as produced by `git for-each-ref + --format='%(objectname)'`). ++ +Note that you cannot generally put `git for-each-ref` directly into the config +value, as it does not take a repository path as an argument (but you can wrap +the command above in a shell script). + +core.alternateRefsPrefixes:: + When listing references from an alternate, list only references that begin + with the given prefix. Prefixes match as if they were given as arguments to + linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1]. To list multiple prefixes, separate them with + whitespace. If `core.alternateRefsCommand` is set, setting + `core.alternateRefsPrefixes` has no effect. + core.bare:: If true this repository is assumed to be 'bare' and has no working directory associated with it. If this is the case a @@ -1985,6 +2003,27 @@ http.sslCAPath:: with when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_CAPATH` environment variable. +http.sslBackend:: + Name of the SSL backend to use (e.g. "openssl" or "schannel"). + This option is ignored if cURL lacks support for choosing the SSL + backend at runtime. + +http.schannelCheckRevoke:: + Used to enforce or disable certificate revocation checks in cURL + when http.sslBackend is set to "schannel". Defaults to `true` if + unset. Only necessary to disable this if Git consistently errors + and the message is about checking the revocation status of a + certificate. This option is ignored if cURL lacks support for + setting the relevant SSL option at runtime. + +http.schannelUseSSLCAInfo:: + As of cURL v7.60.0, the Secure Channel backend can use the + certificate bundle provided via `http.sslCAInfo`, but that would + override the Windows Certificate Store. Since this is not desirable + by default, Git will tell cURL not to use that bundle by default + when the `schannel` backend was configured via `http.sslBackend`, + unless `http.schannelUseSSLCAInfo` overrides this behavior. + http.pinnedpubkey:: Public key of the https service. It may either be the filename of a PEM or DER encoded public key file or a string starting with @@ -2149,6 +2188,13 @@ imap:: The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described in linkgit:git-imap-send[1]. +index.threads:: + Specifies the number of threads to spawn when loading the index. + This is meant to reduce index load time on multiprocessor machines. + Specifying 0 or 'true' will cause Git to auto-detect the number of + CPU's and set the number of threads accordingly. Specifying 1 or + 'false' will disable multithreading. Defaults to 'true'. + index.version:: Specify the version with which new index files should be initialized. This does not affect existing repositories. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt index 85bca83c30..e64d983c34 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt @@ -177,6 +177,14 @@ diff.tool:: Any other value is treated as a custom diff tool and requires that a corresponding difftool.<tool>.cmd variable is defined. +diff.guitool:: + Controls which diff tool is used by linkgit:git-difftool[1] when + the -g/--gui flag is specified. This variable overrides the value + configured in `merge.guitool`. The list below shows the valid + built-in values. Any other value is treated as a custom diff tool + and requires that a corresponding difftool.<guitool>.cmd variable + is defined. + include::mergetools-diff.txt[] diff.indentHeuristic:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt index 0f9ef2f25e..e99925184d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt @@ -633,11 +633,11 @@ and so at step 3) we compute f(X). Let's take the following graph as an example: ------------- - G-H-I-J - / \ + G-H-I-J + / \ A-B-C-D-E-F O - \ / - K-L-M-N + \ / + K-L-M-N ------------- If we compute the following non optimal function on it: @@ -649,25 +649,25 @@ g(X) = min(number_of_ancestors(X), number_of_descendants(X)) we get: ------------- - 4 3 2 1 - G-H-I-J + 4 3 2 1 + G-H-I-J 1 2 3 4 5 6/ \0 A-B-C-D-E-F O - \ / - K-L-M-N - 4 3 2 1 + \ / + K-L-M-N + 4 3 2 1 ------------- but with the algorithm used by git bisect we get: ------------- - 7 7 6 5 - G-H-I-J + 7 7 6 5 + G-H-I-J 1 2 3 4 5 6/ \0 A-B-C-D-E-F O - \ / - K-L-M-N - 7 7 6 5 + \ / + K-L-M-N + 7 7 6 5 ------------- So we chose G, H, K or L as the best bisection point, which is better @@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ forked of the main branch at a commit named "D" like this: ------------- A-B-C-D-E-F-G <--main \ - H-I-J <--dev + H-I-J <--dev ------------- The commit "D" is called a "merge base" for branch "main" and "dev" diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 9db02928c4..801de2f764 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -311,9 +311,9 @@ branch refers to a specific commit. Let's look at a repo with three commits, one of them tagged, and with branch 'master' checked out: ------------ - HEAD (refers to branch 'master') - | - v + HEAD (refers to branch 'master') + | + v a---b---c branch 'master' (refers to commit 'c') ^ | @@ -329,9 +329,9 @@ to commit 'd': ------------ $ edit; git add; git commit - HEAD (refers to branch 'master') - | - v + HEAD (refers to branch 'master') + | + v a---b---c---d branch 'master' (refers to commit 'd') ^ | @@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ at what happens when we then checkout master: ------------ $ git checkout master - HEAD (refers to branch 'master') + HEAD (refers to branch 'master') e---f | / v a---b---c---d branch 'master' (refers to commit 'd') diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt index b180f1fa5b..030f162f30 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt @@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ two blob objects, or changes between two files on disk. This form is to view the changes on the branch containing and up to the second <commit>, starting at a common ancestor of both <commit>. "git diff A\...B" is equivalent to - "git diff $(git-merge-base A B) B". You can omit any one + "git diff $(git merge-base A B) B". You can omit any one of <commit>, which has the same effect as using HEAD instead. -Just in case if you are doing something exotic, it should be +Just in case you are doing something exotic, it should be noted that all of the <commit> in the above description, except in the last two forms that use ".." notations, can be any <tree>. diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index f5bc98ccb3..c20ee6c789 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ Runs a number of housekeeping tasks within the current repository, such as compressing file revisions (to reduce disk space and increase performance), removing unreachable objects which may have been created from prior invocations of 'git add', packing refs, pruning -reflog, rerere metadata or stale working trees. +reflog, rerere metadata or stale working trees. May also update ancillary +indexes such as the commit-graph. Users are encouraged to run this task on a regular basis within each repository to maintain good disk space utilization and good diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index a3049af1a3..84fe236a8e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [(-O | --open-files-in-pager) [<pager>]] [-z | --null] [ -o | --only-matching ] [-c | --count] [--all-match] [-q | --quiet] - [--max-depth <depth>] + [--max-depth <depth>] [--[no-]recursive] [--color[=<when>] | --no-color] [--break] [--heading] [-p | --show-function] [-A <post-context>] [-B <pre-context>] [-C <context>] @@ -119,11 +119,18 @@ OPTIONS --max-depth <depth>:: For each <pathspec> given on command line, descend at most <depth> - levels of directories. A negative value means no limit. + levels of directories. A value of -1 means no limit. This option is ignored if <pathspec> contains active wildcards. In other words if "a*" matches a directory named "a*", "*" is matched literally so --max-depth is still effective. +-r:: +--recursive:: + Same as `--max-depth=-1`; this is the default. + +--no-recursive:: + Same as `--max-depth=0`. + -w:: --word-regexp:: Match the pattern only at word boundary (either begin at the diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt index 83d25d825a..aab5453bbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-help.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-help - Display help information about Git SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git help' [-a|--all [--verbose]] [-g|--guide] +'git help' [-a|--all [--[no-]verbose]] [-g|--guide] [-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web] [COMMAND|GUIDE] DESCRIPTION @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ guide is brought up. The 'man' program is used by default for this purpose, but this can be overridden by other options or configuration variables. +If an alias is given, git shows the definition of the alias on +standard output. To get the manual page for the aliased command, use +`git COMMAND --help`. + Note that `git --help ...` is identical to `git help ...` because the former is internally converted into the latter. @@ -42,8 +46,10 @@ OPTIONS --all:: Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This option overrides any given command or guide name. - When used with `--verbose` print description for all recognized - commands. + +--verbose:: + When used with `--all` print description for all recognized + commands. This is the default. -c:: --config:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt index 502e00ec35..9f07f4f6ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt @@ -154,13 +154,13 @@ topic origin/master`, the history of remote-tracking branch `origin/master` may have been rewound and rebuilt, leading to a history of this shape: - o---B2 + o---B2 / ---o---o---B1--o---o---o---B (origin/master) \ - B0 + B0 \ - D0---D1---D (topic) + D0---D1---D (topic) where `origin/master` used to point at commits B0, B1, B2 and now it points at B, and your `topic` branch was started on top of it back diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt index 3622d66488..0c7975a050 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt @@ -79,6 +79,17 @@ success of the resolution after the custom tool has exited. Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program to give the user a chance to skip the path. +-g:: +--gui:: + When 'git-mergetool' is invoked with the `-g` or `--gui` option + the default merge tool will be read from the configured + `merge.guitool` variable instead of `merge.tool`. + +--no-gui:: + This overrides a previous `-g` or `--gui` setting and reads the + default merge tool will be read from the configured `merge.tool` + variable. + -O<orderfile>:: Process files in the order specified in the <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line. diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt index 41780a5aa9..f0a0280954 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt @@ -174,21 +174,21 @@ $ git p4 submit --update-shelve 1234 --update-shelve 2345 Unshelve ~~~~~~~~ Unshelving will take a shelved P4 changelist, and produce the equivalent git commit -in the branch refs/remotes/p4/unshelved/<changelist>. +in the branch refs/remotes/p4-unshelved/<changelist>. The git commit is created relative to the current origin revision (HEAD by default). -If the shelved changelist's parent revisions differ, git-p4 will refuse to unshelve; -you need to be unshelving onto an equivalent tree. +A parent commit is created based on the origin, and then the unshelve commit is +created based on that. The origin revision can be changed with the "--origin" option. -If the target branch in refs/remotes/p4/unshelved already exists, the old one will +If the target branch in refs/remotes/p4-unshelved already exists, the old one will be renamed. ---- $ git p4 sync $ git p4 unshelve 12345 -$ git show refs/remotes/p4/unshelved/12345 +$ git show p4-unshelved/12345 <submit more changes via p4 to the same files> $ git p4 unshelve 12345 <refuses to unshelve until git is in sync with p4 again> diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 432baabe33..3407d835bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -441,7 +441,8 @@ See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. --exec <cmd>:: Append "exec <cmd>" after each line creating a commit in the final history. <cmd> will be interpreted as one or more shell - commands. + commands. Any command that fails will interrupt the rebase, + with exit code 1. + You may execute several commands by either using one instance of `--exec` with several commands: @@ -641,6 +642,9 @@ By replacing the command "pick" with the command "edit", you can tell the files and/or the commit message, amend the commit, and continue rebasing. +To interrupt the rebase (just like an "edit" command would do, but without +cherry-picking any commit first), use the "break" command. + If you just want to edit the commit message for a commit, replace the command "pick" with the command "reword". diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 465a4ecbed..f6010ac68b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -321,16 +321,19 @@ Automating auto-cc of: + -- -- 'author' will avoid including the patch author -- 'self' will avoid including the sender +- 'author' will avoid including the patch author. +- 'self' will avoid including the sender. - 'cc' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Cc lines in the patch header except for self (use 'self' for that). - 'bodycc' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Cc lines in the patch body (commit message) except for self (use 'self' for that). - 'sob' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Signed-off-by lines except - for self (use 'self' for that). + for self (use 'self' for that). +- 'misc-by' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Acked-by, + Reviewed-by, Tested-by and other "-by" lines in the patch body, + except Signed-off-by (use 'sob' for that). - 'cccmd' will avoid running the --cc-cmd. -- 'body' is equivalent to 'sob' + 'bodycc' +- 'body' is equivalent to 'sob' + 'bodycc' + 'misc-by'. - 'all' will suppress all auto cc values. -- + diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt index 262db049d7..4a01371227 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- Shows the commit ancestry graph starting from the commits named -with <rev>s or <globs>s (or all refs under refs/heads +with <rev>s or <glob>s (or all refs under refs/heads and/or refs/tags) semi-visually. It cannot show more than 29 branches and commits at a time. diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 92f9c12b87..f2d644e3af 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -187,6 +187,12 @@ This option is only applicable when listing tags without annotation lines. `--create-reflog`, but currently does not negate the setting of `core.logAllRefUpdates`. +--format=<format>:: + 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)`. + <tagname>:: The name of the tag to create, delete, or describe. The new tag name must pass all checks defined by @@ -198,12 +204,6 @@ This option is only applicable when listing tags without annotation lines. The object that the new tag will refer to, usually a commit. Defaults to HEAD. -<format>:: - 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)`. - CONFIGURATION ------------- By default, 'git tag' in sign-with-default mode (-s) will use your diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt index fda8516677..9671423117 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt @@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ a line to the log file "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>" (dereferencing all symbolic refs before creating the log name) describing the change in ref value. Log lines are formatted as: - . oldsha1 SP newsha1 SP committer LF -+ + oldsha1 SP newsha1 SP committer LF + Where "oldsha1" is the 40 character hexadecimal value previously stored in <ref>, "newsha1" is the 40 character hexadecimal value of <newvalue> and "committer" is the committer's name, email address @@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ and date in the standard Git committer ident format. Optionally with -m: - . oldsha1 SP newsha1 SP committer TAB message LF -+ + oldsha1 SP newsha1 SP committer TAB message LF + Where all fields are as described above and "message" is the value supplied to the -m option. diff --git a/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt index 822ad593af..998f52d3df 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git-upload-pack' [--[no-]strict] [--timeout=<n>] [--stateless-rpc] [--advertise-refs] <directory> + DESCRIPTION ----------- Invoked by 'git fetch-pack', learns what diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt index e2ee9fc21b..73520434f6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt @@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ Porcelain Format The porcelain format has a line per attribute. Attributes are listed with a label and value separated by a single space. Boolean attributes (like 'bare' and 'detached') are listed as a label only, and are only present if and only -if the value is true. An empty line indicates the end of a worktree. For -example: +if the value is true. The first attribute of a worktree is always `worktree`, +an empty line indicates the end of the record. For example: ------------ $ git worktree list --porcelain diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 2ac9b1c7fe..00156d64aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -402,11 +402,11 @@ Git so take care if using a foreign front-end. of Git object directories which can be used to search for Git objects. New objects will not be written to these directories. + - Entries that begin with `"` (double-quote) will be interpreted - as C-style quoted paths, removing leading and trailing - double-quotes and respecting backslash escapes. E.g., the value - `"path-with-\"-and-:-in-it":vanilla-path` has two paths: - `path-with-"-and-:-in-it` and `vanilla-path`. +Entries that begin with `"` (double-quote) will be interpreted +as C-style quoted paths, removing leading and trailing +double-quotes and respecting backslash escapes. E.g., the value +`"path-with-\"-and-:-in-it":vanilla-path` has two paths: +`path-with-"-and-:-in-it` and `vanilla-path`. `GIT_DIR`:: If the `GIT_DIR` environment variable is set then it diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 92010b062e..b8392fc330 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -303,21 +303,21 @@ number of pitfalls: attribute. If you decide to use the `working-tree-encoding` attribute in your repository, then it is strongly recommended to ensure that all clients working with the repository support it. - - For example, Microsoft Visual Studio resources files (`*.rc`) or - PowerShell script files (`*.ps1`) are sometimes encoded in UTF-16. - If you declare `*.ps1` as files as UTF-16 and you add `foo.ps1` with - a `working-tree-encoding` enabled Git client, then `foo.ps1` will be - stored as UTF-8 internally. A client without `working-tree-encoding` - support will checkout `foo.ps1` as UTF-8 encoded file. This will - typically cause trouble for the users of this file. - - If a Git client, that does not support the `working-tree-encoding` - attribute, adds a new file `bar.ps1`, then `bar.ps1` will be - stored "as-is" internally (in this example probably as UTF-16). - A client with `working-tree-encoding` support will interpret the - internal contents as UTF-8 and try to convert it to UTF-16 on checkout. - That operation will fail and cause an error. ++ +For example, Microsoft Visual Studio resources files (`*.rc`) or +PowerShell script files (`*.ps1`) are sometimes encoded in UTF-16. +If you declare `*.ps1` as files as UTF-16 and you add `foo.ps1` with +a `working-tree-encoding` enabled Git client, then `foo.ps1` will be +stored as UTF-8 internally. A client without `working-tree-encoding` +support will checkout `foo.ps1` as UTF-8 encoded file. This will +typically cause trouble for the users of this file. ++ +If a Git client, that does not support the `working-tree-encoding` +attribute, adds a new file `bar.ps1`, then `bar.ps1` will be +stored "as-is" internally (in this example probably as UTF-16). +A client with `working-tree-encoding` support will interpret the +internal contents as UTF-8 and try to convert it to UTF-16 on checkout. +That operation will fail and cause an error. - Reencoding content to non-UTF encodings can cause errors as the conversion might not be UTF-8 round trip safe. If you suspect your diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt index 4d63def206..312b6f9259 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt @@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules:: submodule.<name>.ignore:: Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show 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). @@ -84,12 +85,14 @@ submodule.<name>.ignore:: 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 - affected by this setting. +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 +affected by this setting. +-- submodule.<name>.shallow:: When set to true, a clone of this submodule will be performed as a diff --git a/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt index 504c5f1a88..57999e9f36 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt @@ -169,11 +169,15 @@ ACTIVE SUBMODULES A submodule is considered active, - (a) if `submodule.<name>.active` is set to `true` - or - (b) if the submodule's path matches the pathspec in `submodule.active` - or - (c) if `submodule.<name>.url` is set. + a. if `submodule.<name>.active` is set to `true` ++ +or + + b. if the submodule's path matches the pathspec in `submodule.active` ++ +or + + c. if `submodule.<name>.url` is set. and these are evaluated in this order. diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt index 9c8982ec98..c0a326e388 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt @@ -19,10 +19,12 @@ end of a line is ignored. See *perlsyn*(1) for details. An example: - # gitweb configuration file for http://git.example.org - # - our $projectroot = "/srv/git"; # FHS recommendation - our $site_name = 'Example.org >> Repos'; +------------------------------------------------ +# gitweb configuration file for http://git.example.org +# +our $projectroot = "/srv/git"; # FHS recommendation +our $site_name = 'Example.org >> Repos'; +------------------------------------------------ The configuration file is used to override the default settings that @@ -357,6 +359,7 @@ $home_link_str:: + For example, the following setting produces a breadcrumb trail like "home / dev / projects / ..." where "projects" is the home link. ++ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- our @extra_breadcrumbs = ( [ 'home' => 'https://www.example.org/' ], @@ -901,14 +904,16 @@ To enable blame, pickaxe search, and snapshot support (allowing "tar.gz" and "zip" snapshots), while allowing individual projects to turn them off, put the following in your GITWEB_CONFIG file: - $feature{'blame'}{'default'} = [1]; - $feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1; +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +$feature{'blame'}{'default'} = [1]; +$feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1; - $feature{'pickaxe'}{'default'} = [1]; - $feature{'pickaxe'}{'override'} = 1; +$feature{'pickaxe'}{'default'} = [1]; +$feature{'pickaxe'}{'override'} = 1; - $feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = ['zip', 'tgz']; - $feature{'snapshot'}{'override'} = 1; +$feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = ['zip', 'tgz']; +$feature{'snapshot'}{'override'} = 1; +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you allow overriding for the snapshot feature, you can specify which snapshot formats are globally disabled. You can also add any command-line diff --git a/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt b/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt index a5193b1e5c..89821ec74f 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ case "$1" in info "The branch '$1' is new..." else # updating -- make sure it is a fast-forward - mb=$(git-merge-base "$2" "$3") + mb=$(git merge-base "$2" "$3") case "$mb,$2" in "$2,$mb") info "Update is fast-forward" ;; *) noff=y; info "This is not a fast-forward update.";; diff --git a/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt b/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt index 1ae8d1214e..a499a94ac2 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Here is the command sequence you need: ---------------- $ git remote add -f Bproject /path/to/B <1> -$ git merge -s ours --no-commit Bproject/master <2> +$ git merge -s ours --no-commit --allow-unrelated-histories Bproject/master <2> $ git read-tree --prefix=dir-B/ -u Bproject/master <3> $ git commit -m "Merge B project as our subdirectory" <4> diff --git a/Documentation/merge-config.txt b/Documentation/merge-config.txt index 662c2713ca..a7f4ea90c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-config.txt @@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ merge.tool:: Any other value is treated as a custom merge tool and requires that a corresponding mergetool.<tool>.cmd variable is defined. +merge.guitool:: + Controls which merge tool is used by linkgit:git-mergetool[1] when the + -g/--gui flag is specified. The list below shows the valid built-in values. + Any other value is treated as a custom merge tool and requires that a + corresponding mergetool.<guitool>.cmd variable is defined. + include::mergetools-merge.txt[] merge.verbosity:: diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt index 6109ef09aa..417b638cd8 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt @@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] and "N" for no signature - '%GS': show the name of the signer for a signed commit - '%GK': show the key used to sign a signed commit +- '%GF': show the fingerprint of the key used to sign a signed commit +- '%GP': show the fingerprint of the primary key whose subkey was used + to sign a signed commit - '%gD': reflog selector, e.g., `refs/stash@{1}` or `refs/stash@{2 minutes ago`}; the format follows the rules described for the `-g` option. The portion before the `@` is the refname as diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index 7b273635de..5f1672913b 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -731,6 +731,11 @@ the requested refs. + The form '--filter=sparse:path=<path>' similarly uses a sparse-checkout specification contained in <path>. ++ +The form '--filter=tree:<depth>' omits all blobs and trees whose depth +from the root tree is >= <depth> (minimum depth if an object is located +at multiple depths in the commits traversed). Currently, only <depth>=0 +is supported, which omits all blobs and trees. --no-filter:: Turn off any previous `--filter=` argument. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt index 8b001de0db..30fc0e9c93 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ Calling sequence ---------------- * Prepare `struct diff_options` to record the set of diff options, and - then call `diff_setup()` to initialize this structure. This sets up - the vanilla default. + then call `repo_diff_setup()` to initialize this structure. This + sets up the vanilla default. * Fill in the options structure to specify desired output format, rename detection, etc. `diff_opt_parse()` can be used to parse options given diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt index 55b878ade8..03f9ea6ac4 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ revision list. Functions --------- -`init_revisions`:: +`repo_init_revisions`:: - Initialize a rev_info structure with default values. The second + Initialize a rev_info structure with default values. The third parameter may be NULL or can be prefix path, and then the `.prefix` variable will be set to it. This is typically the first function you want to call when you want to deal with a revision list. After calling diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt index db3572626b..7c4d67aa6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt @@ -314,3 +314,44 @@ The remaining data of each directory block is grouped by type: - An ewah bitmap, the n-th bit indicates whether the n-th index entry is not CE_FSMONITOR_VALID. + +== End of Index Entry + + The End of Index Entry (EOIE) is used to locate the end of the variable + length index entries and the begining of the extensions. Code can take + advantage of this to quickly locate the index extensions without having + to parse through all of the index entries. + + Because it must be able to be loaded before the variable length cache + entries and other index extensions, this extension must be written last. + The signature for this extension is { 'E', 'O', 'I', 'E' }. + + The extension consists of: + + - 32-bit offset to the end of the index entries + + - 160-bit SHA-1 over the extension types and their sizes (but not + their contents). E.g. if we have "TREE" extension that is N-bytes + long, "REUC" extension that is M-bytes long, followed by "EOIE", + then the hash would be: + + SHA-1("TREE" + <binary representation of N> + + "REUC" + <binary representation of M>) + +== Index Entry Offset Table + + The Index Entry Offset Table (IEOT) is used to help address the CPU + cost of loading the index by enabling multi-threading the process of + converting cache entries from the on-disk format to the in-memory format. + The signature for this extension is { 'I', 'E', 'O', 'T' }. + + The extension consists of: + + - 32-bit version (currently 1) + + - A number of index offset entries each consisting of: + + - 32-bit offset from the begining of the file to the first cache entry + in this block of entries. + + - 32-bit count of cache entries in this block |