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diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 7e4d5716a6..e5ca3b75d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -237,8 +237,18 @@ For Python scripts: Writing Documentation: - Most (if not all) of the documentation pages are written in AsciiDoc - and processed into HTML output and manpages. + Most (if not all) of the documentation pages are written in the + AsciiDoc format in *.txt files (e.g. Documentation/git.txt), and + processed into HTML and manpages (e.g. git.html and git.1 in the + same directory). + + The documentation liberally mixes US and UK English (en_US/UK) + norms for spelling and grammar, which is somewhat unfortunate. + In an ideal world, it would have been better if it consistently + used only one and not the other, and we would have picked en_US + (if you wish to correct the English of some of the existing + documentation, please see the documentation-related advice in the + Documentation/SubmittingPatches file). Every user-visible change should be reflected in the documentation. The same general rule as for code applies -- imitate the existing diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 62dbd9ac7c..0cfdc36b44 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ MAN7_TXT += gittutorial.txt MAN7_TXT += gitworkflows.txt MAN_TXT = $(MAN1_TXT) $(MAN5_TXT) $(MAN7_TXT) -MAN_XML=$(patsubst %.txt,%.xml,$(MAN_TXT)) -MAN_HTML=$(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(MAN_TXT)) +MAN_XML = $(patsubst %.txt,%.xml,$(MAN_TXT)) +MAN_HTML = $(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(MAN_TXT)) OBSOLETE_HTML = git-remote-helpers.html -DOC_HTML=$(MAN_HTML) $(OBSOLETE_HTML) +DOC_HTML = $(MAN_HTML) $(OBSOLETE_HTML) ARTICLES = howto-index ARTICLES += everyday @@ -74,35 +74,35 @@ SP_ARTICLES += technical/api-index DOC_HTML += $(patsubst %,%.html,$(ARTICLES) $(SP_ARTICLES)) -DOC_MAN1=$(patsubst %.txt,%.1,$(MAN1_TXT)) -DOC_MAN5=$(patsubst %.txt,%.5,$(MAN5_TXT)) -DOC_MAN7=$(patsubst %.txt,%.7,$(MAN7_TXT)) - -prefix?=$(HOME) -bindir?=$(prefix)/bin -htmldir?=$(prefix)/share/doc/git-doc -pdfdir?=$(prefix)/share/doc/git-doc -mandir?=$(prefix)/share/man -man1dir=$(mandir)/man1 -man5dir=$(mandir)/man5 -man7dir=$(mandir)/man7 -# DESTDIR= +DOC_MAN1 = $(patsubst %.txt,%.1,$(MAN1_TXT)) +DOC_MAN5 = $(patsubst %.txt,%.5,$(MAN5_TXT)) +DOC_MAN7 = $(patsubst %.txt,%.7,$(MAN7_TXT)) + +prefix ?= $(HOME) +bindir ?= $(prefix)/bin +htmldir ?= $(prefix)/share/doc/git-doc +infodir ?= $(prefix)/share/info +pdfdir ?= $(prefix)/share/doc/git-doc +mandir ?= $(prefix)/share/man +man1dir = $(mandir)/man1 +man5dir = $(mandir)/man5 +man7dir = $(mandir)/man7 +# DESTDIR = ASCIIDOC = asciidoc ASCIIDOC_EXTRA = MANPAGE_XSL = manpage-normal.xsl XMLTO = xmlto XMLTO_EXTRA = -INSTALL?=install +INSTALL ?= install RM ?= rm -f MAN_REPO = ../../git-manpages HTML_REPO = ../../git-htmldocs -infodir?=$(prefix)/share/info -MAKEINFO=makeinfo -INSTALL_INFO=install-info -DOCBOOK2X_TEXI=docbook2x-texi -DBLATEX=dblatex +MAKEINFO = makeinfo +INSTALL_INFO = install-info +DOCBOOK2X_TEXI = docbook2x-texi +DBLATEX = dblatex ifndef PERL_PATH PERL_PATH = /usr/bin/perl endif diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt index 806a965a1b..be68524cff 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.10 not exclude them and tried to apply funny patches only to fail. * "git blame" started missing quite a few changes from the origin - since we stopped using the diff minimalization by default in v1.7.2 + since we stopped using the diff minimization by default in v1.7.2 era. * When PATH contains an unreadable directory, alias expansion code diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt index a0d24d1270..f0cfd02d6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.11.1 * "git diff --no-index" did not work with pagers correctly. * "git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that - claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it. + claimed that the tree-ish HEAD did not have COPYING in it. * When "git log" gets "--simplify-merges/by-decoration" together with "--first-parent", the combination of these options makes the diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt index cf3f455ced..7796df3fe4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.5.3 -------------------- * The single-key mode of "git add -p" was easily fooled into thinking - that it was told to add everthing ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by + that it was told to add everything ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by mistake. * Setting a git command that uses custom configuration via "-c var=val" diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt index e74f4ef1ef..b9c66aa1b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt @@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ Fixes since v1.7.8.1 * The configuration file parser used for sizes (e.g. bigFileThreshold) did not correctly interpret 'g' suffix. - * The replacement implemention for snprintf used on platforms with + * The replacement implementation for snprintf used on platforms with native snprintf that is broken did not use va_copy correctly. * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter replaced all LF with CRLF, which might - be techinically correct but not friendly to people who are trying + be technically correct but not friendly to people who are trying to recover from earlier mistakes of using CRLF in the repository data in the first place. It now refrains from doing so for LF that follows a CR. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt index b4d90bba0f..249311361e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * Updates to bash completion scripts. * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed - dependency automatically when the complier supports it. + dependency automatically when the compiler supports it. * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes part and also has a colon between "hh:mm". @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort". - * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients + * "git daemon" gives more human readable error messages to clients using ERR packets when appropriate. * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon". diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt index 1354ad03f5..769a6fc06c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Fixes since v1.8.2 common prefix and suffix between the two filenames overlapped. * "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not - acccumulate the prefix paths. + accumulate the prefix paths. * "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt index dab4831ca0..708df1ae19 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt @@ -58,4 +58,4 @@ Fixes since v1.8.2.1 conflicts have been applied. * "git bundle" did not like a bundle created using a commit without - any message as its one of the prerequistes. + any message as its one of the prerequisites. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fc3ea185a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Git v1.8.3.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v1.8.3 +------------------ + + * When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we + used to complain and die. The check has been loosened. + + * Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories "!dir" was + broken in the update to v1.8.3. + +Also contains a handful of trivial code clean-ups, documentation +updates, updates to the test suite, etc. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..26ae142c3d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +Git v1.8.3.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.3.1 +-------------------- + + * Cloning with "git clone --depth N" while fetch.fsckobjects (or + transfer.fsckobjects) is set to true did not tell the cut-off + points of the shallow history to the process that validates the + objects and the history received, causing the validation to fail. + + * "git checkout foo" DWIMs the intended "upstream" and turns it into + "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo". This codepath has been + updated to correctly take existing remote definitions into account. + + * "git fetch" into a shallow repository from a repository that does + not know about the shallow boundary commits (e.g. a different fork + from the repository the current shallow repository was cloned from) + did not work correctly. + + * "git subtree" (in contrib/) had one codepath with loose error + checks to lose data at the remote side. + + * "git log --ancestry-path A...B" did not work as expected, as it did + not pay attention to the fact that the merge base between A and B + was the bottom of the range being specified. + + * "git diff -c -p" was not showing a deleted line from a hunk when + another hunk immediately begins where the earlier one ends. + + * "git merge @{-1}~22" was rewritten to "git merge frotz@{1}~22" + incorrectly when your previous branch was "frotz" (it should be + rewritten to "git merge frotz~22" instead). + + * "git commit --allow-empty-message -m ''" should not start an + editor. + + * "git push --[no-]verify" was not documented. + + * An entry for "file://" scheme in the enumeration of URL types Git + can take in the HTML documentation was made into a clickable link + by mistake. + + * zsh prompt script that borrowed from bash prompt script did not + work due to slight differences in array variable notation between + these two shells. + + * The bash prompt code (in contrib/) displayed the name of the branch + being rebased when "rebase -i/-m/-p" modes are in use, but not the + plain vanilla "rebase". + + * "git push $there HEAD:branch" did not resolve HEAD early enough, so + it was easy to flip it around while push is still going on and push + out a branch that the user did not originally intended when the + command was started. + + * "difftool --dir-diff" did not copy back changes made by the + end-user in the diff tool backend to the working tree in some + cases. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9ba4f4da0f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Git v1.8.3.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.3.2 +-------------------- + + * "git apply" parsed patches that add new files, generated by programs + other than Git, incorrectly. This is an old breakage in v1.7.11. + + * Older cURL wanted piece of memory we call it with to be stable, but + we updated the auth material after handing it to a call. + + * "git pull" into nothing trashed "local changes" that were in the + index. + + * Many "git submodule" operations did not work on a submodule at a + path whose name is not in ASCII. + + * "cherry-pick" had a small leak in its error codepath. + + * Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like + "A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part + needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes + around the name, and comparison was done between quoted and + unquoted strings). It also mishandled names that need RFC2047 + quoting. + + * "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each + request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one + when used as a persistent CGI. + + * The wildmatch engine did not honor WM_CASEFOLD option correctly. + + * "git log -c --follow $path" segfaulted upon hitting the commit that + renamed the $path being followed. + + * When a reflog notation is used for implicit "current branch", + e.g. "git log @{u}", we did not say which branch and worse said + "branch ''" in the error messages. + + * Mac OS X does not like to write(2) more than INT_MAX number of + bytes; work it around by chopping write(2) into smaller pieces. + + * Newer MacOS X encourages the programs to compile and link with + their CommonCrypto, not with OpenSSL. + +Also contains various minor documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..56f106e262 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Git v1.8.3.4 Release Notes +========================== + +This update is mostly to propagate documentation fixes and test +updates from the master front back to the maintenance track. + +Fixes since v1.8.3.3 +-------------------- + + * The bisect log listed incorrect commits when bisection ends with + only skipped ones. + + * The test coverage framework was left broken for some time. + + * The test suite for HTTP transport did not run with Apache 2.4. + + * "git diff" used to fail when core.safecrlf is set and the working + tree contents had mixed CRLF/LF line endings. Committing such a + content must be prohibited, but "git diff" should help the user to + locate and fix such problems without failing. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt index 0fdb84068b..ead568e7f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -41,12 +41,20 @@ Updates since v1.8.2 Foreign interface - * remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/) have been updated; - especially, the latter has been accelerated to help Emacs folks, + * remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/ since v1.8.2) have + been updated; especially, the latter has been done in an + accelerated schedule (read: we may not have merged to this release + if we were following the usual "cook sufficiently in next before + unleashing it to the world" workflow) in order to help Emacs folks, whose primary SCM seems to be stagnating. + UI, Workflows & Features + * A handful of updates applied to gitk, including an addition of + "revert" action, showing dates in tags in a nicer way, making + colors configurable, and support for -G'pickaxe' search. + * The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) learned to show how many changes there are in total and how many have been replayed during a "git rebase" session. @@ -106,9 +114,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features of erroneous inputs was suboptimal and has been improved. * When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues - a message meant to help the system administrator to enable it. - An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by - issuing custom messages to refuse such an access has been added. + a message meant to help the system administrator to enable it. An + explicit way has been added to issue custom messages to refuse an + access over the network to help the end users who connect to the + service expecting an interactive shell. * In addition to the case where the user edits the log message with the "e)dit" option of "am -i", replace the "Applying: this patch" @@ -118,8 +127,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git status" suggests users to look into using --untracked=no option when it takes too long. - * "git status" shows a bit more information during a - rebase/bisect session. + * "git status" shows a bit more information during a rebase/bisect + session. * "git fetch" learned to fetch a commit at the tip of an unadvertised ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the @@ -236,7 +245,6 @@ details). * Various subcommands of "git remote" simply ignored extraneous command line arguments instead of diagnosing them as errors. - (merge b17dd3f tr/remote-tighten-commandline-parsing later to maint). * When receive-pack detects an error in the pack header it received in order to decide which of unpack-objects or index-pack to run, it @@ -259,7 +267,6 @@ details). buffer around as human readable object names. This was not a huge problem but was exposed by a new change that uses these names in error output. - (merge 70d26c6 tr/copy-revisions-from-stdin later to maint). * Smart-capable HTTP servers were not restricted via the GIT_NAMESPACE mechanism when talking with commit-walking clients, @@ -304,11 +311,9 @@ details). * Fix a 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without a trailing slash) to a directory "dir". - (merge efa5f82 jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix later to maint-1.8.1). * "git apply --whitespace=fix" was not prepared to see a line getting longer after fixing whitespaces (e.g. tab-in-indent aka Python). - (merge 329b26e jc/apply-ws-fix-tab-in-indent later to maint-1.8.1). * The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) did not notice when we are in a middle of a "git revert" session. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..806545aafd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +Git v1.8.4.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v1.8.4 +------------------ + + * Some people still use rather old versions of bash, which cannot + grok some constructs like 'printf -v varname' the prompt and + completion code started to use recently. The completion and + prompt scripts have been adjusted to work better with these old + versions of bash. + + * "git rebase -i" had a minor bug (the same could be in other + programs, as the root cause is pretty generic) where the code + feeds a random, data dependeant string to 'echo' and expects it + to come out literally. + + * "submodule.<name>.path" variable mistakenly set to the empty + "true" caused the configuration parser to segfault. + + * Output from "git log --full-diff -- <pathspec>" looked strange, + because comparison was done with the previous ancestor that + touched the specified <pathspec>, causing the patches for paths + outside the pathspec to show more than the single commit has + changed. + + * The auto-tag-following code in "git fetch" tries to reuse the + same transport twice when the serving end does not cooperate and + does not give tags that point to commits that are asked for as + part of the primary transfer. Unfortunately, Git-aware transport + helper interface is not designed to be used more than once, hence + this did not work over smart-http transfer. Fixed. + + * Send a large request to read(2)/write(2) as a smaller but still + reasonably large chunks, which would improve the latency when the + operation needs to be killed and incidentally works around broken + 64-bit systems that cannot take a 2GB write or read in one go. + + * A ".mailmap" file that ends with an incomplete line, when read + from a blob, was not handled properly. + + * The recent "short-cut clone connectivity check" topic broke a + shallow repository when a fetch operation tries to auto-follow + tags. + + * On platforms with fgetc() and friends defined as macros, + the configuration parser did not compile. + +Also contains a handful of trivial code clean-ups, documentation +updates, updates to the test suite, etc. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..02f681b710 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,486 @@ +Git v1.8.4 Release Notes +======================== + +Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0) +------------------------------------------ + +When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the +traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent +to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name +over there). In Git 2.0, the default will change to the "simple" +semantics that pushes: + + - only the current branch to the branch with the same name, and only + when the current branch is set to integrate with that remote + branch, if you are pushing to the same remote as you fetch from; or + + - only the current branch to the branch with the same name, if you + are pushing to a remote that is not where you usually fetch from. + +Use the user preference configuration variable "push.default" to +change this. If you are an old-timer who is used to the "matching" +semantics, you can set the variable to "matching" to keep the +traditional behaviour. If you want to live in the future early, you +can set it to "simple" today without waiting for Git 2.0. + +When "git add -u" (and "git add -A") is run inside a subdirectory and +does not specify which paths to add on the command line, it +will operate on the entire tree in Git 2.0 for consistency +with "git commit -a" and other commands. There will be no +mechanism to make plain "git add -u" behave like "git add -u .". +Current users of "git add -u" (without a pathspec) should start +training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ." +before Git 2.0 comes. A warning is issued when these commands are +run without a pathspec and when you have local changes outside the +current directory, because the behaviour in Git 2.0 will be different +from today's version in such a situation. + +In Git 2.0, "git add <path>" will behave as "git add -A <path>", so +that "git add dir/" will notice paths you removed from the directory +and record the removal. Versions before Git 2.0, including this +release, will keep ignoring removals, but the users who rely on this +behaviour are encouraged to start using "git add --ignore-removal <path>" +now before 2.0 is released. + + +Updates since v1.8.3 +-------------------- + +Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. + + * Cygwin port has been updated for more recent Cygwin 1.7. + + * "git rebase -i" now honors --strategy and -X options. + + * Git-gui has been updated to its 0.18.0 version. + + * MediaWiki remote helper (in contrib/) has been updated to use the + credential helper interface from Git.pm. + + * Update build for Cygwin 1.[57]. Torsten Bögershausen reports that + this is fine with Cygwin 1.7 ($gmane/225824) so let's try moving it + ahead. + + * The credential helper to talk to keychain on OS X (in contrib/) has + been updated to kick in not just when talking http/https but also + imap(s) and smtp. + + * Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and + maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better. + + * With "export" remote-helper protocol, (1) a push that tries to + update a remote ref whose name is different from the pushing side + does not work yet, and (2) the helper may not know how to do + --dry-run; these problematic cases are disabled for now. + + * git-remote-hg/bzr (in contrib/) updates. + + * git-remote-mw (in contrib/) hints users to check the certificate, + when https:// connection failed. + + * git-remote-mw (in contrib/) adds a command to allow previewing the + contents locally before pushing it out, when working with a + MediaWiki remote. + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Sample "post-receive-email" hook script got an enhanced replacement + "multimail" (in contrib/). + + * Also in contrib/ is a new "contacts" script that runs "git blame" + to find out the people who may be interested in a set of changes. + + * "git clean" command learned an interactive mode. + + * The "--head" option to "git show-ref" was only to add "HEAD" to the + list of candidate refs to be filtered by the usual rules + (e.g. "--heads" that only show refs under refs/heads). The meaning + of the option has been changed to always show "HEAD" regardless of + what filtering will be applied to any other ref. + + This is a backward incompatible change and might cause breakages to + people's existing scripts. + + * "git show -s" was less discoverable than it should have been. It + now has a natural synonym "git show --no-patch". + + * "git check-mailmap" is a new command that lets you map usernames + and e-mail addresses through the mailmap mechanism, just like many + built-in commands do. + + * "git name-rev" learned to name an annotated tag object back to its + tagname; "git name-rev $(git rev-parse v1.0.0)" gives "tags/v1.0.0", + for example. + + * "git cat-file --batch-check=<format>" is added, primarily to allow + on-disk footprint of objects in packfiles (often they are a lot + smaller than their true size, when expressed as deltas) to be + reported. + + * "git rebase [-i]" used to leave just "rebase" as its reflog messages + for some operations. They have been reworded to be more informative. + + * In addition to the choice from "rebase, merge, or checkout-detach", + "submodule update" can allow a custom command to be used in to + update the working tree of submodules via the "submodule.*.update" + configuration variable. + + * "git submodule update" can optionally clone the submodule + repositories shallowly. + + * "git format-patch" learned "--from[=whom]" option, which sets the + "From: " header to the specified person (or the person who runs the + command, if "=whom" part is missing) and move the original author + information to an in-body From: header as necessary. + + * The configuration variable "merge.ff" was cleary a tri-state to + choose one from "favor fast-forward when possible", "always create + a merge even when the history could fast-forward" and "do not + create any merge, only update when the history fast-forwards", but + the command line parser did not implement the usual convention of + "last one wins, and command line overrides the configuration" + correctly. + + * "gitweb" learned to optionally place extra links that point at the + levels higher than the Gitweb pages themselves in the breadcrumbs, + so that it can be used as part of a larger installation. + + * "git log --format=" now honors i18n.logoutputencoding configuration + variable. + + * The "push.default=simple" mode of "git push" has been updated to + behave like "current" without requiring a remote tracking + information, when you push to a remote that is different from where + you fetch from (i.e. a triangular workflow). + + * Having multiple "fixup!" on a line in the rebase instruction sheet + did not work very well with "git rebase -i --autosquash". + + * "git log" learned the "--author-date-order" option, with which the + output is topologically sorted and commits in parallel histories + are shown intermixed together based on the author timestamp. + + * Various subcommands of "git submodule" refused to run from anywhere + other than the top of the working tree of the superproject, but + they have been taught to let you run from a subdirectory. + + * "git diff" learned a mode that ignores hunks whose change consists + only of additions and removals of blank lines, which is the same as + "diff -B" (ignore blank lines) of GNU diff. + + * "git rm" gives a single message followed by list of paths to report + multiple paths that cannot be removed. + + * "git rebase" can be told with ":/look for this string" syntax commits + to replay the changes onto and where the work to be replayed begins. + + * Many tutorials teach users to set "color.ui" to "auto" as the first + thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to + Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto". + + * On Cygwin, "cygstart" is now recognised as a possible way to start + a web browser (used in "help -w" and "instaweb" among others). + + * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration + variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override + with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line). + + * "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string, + directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref + "refs/<some hierarchy>/<name>" exists. This disambiguation order + is unlikely to change, but we should warn about the ambiguity just + like we warn when more than one refs/ hierarchies share the same + name. + + * "git rebase" learned "--[no-]autostash" option to save local + changes instead of refusing to run (to which people's normal + response was to stash them and re-run). This introduced a corner + case breakage to "git am --abort" but it has been fixed. + + * "check-ignore" (new feature since 1.8.2) has been updated to work + more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes. + + * "git describe" learned "--first-parent" option to limit its closest + tagged commit search to the first-parent chain. + + * "git merge foo" that might have meant "git merge origin/foo" is + diagnosed with a more informative error message. + + * "git log -L<line>,<range>:<filename>" has been added. This may + still have leaks and rough edges, though. + + * We used the approxidate() parser for "--expire=<timestamp>" options + of various commands, but it is better to treat --expire=all and + --expire=now a bit more specially than using the current timestamp. + "git gc" and "git reflog" have been updated with a new parsing + function for expiry dates. + + * Updates to completion (both bash and zsh) helpers. + + * The behaviour of the "--chain-reply-to" option of "git send-email" + have changed at 1.7.0, and we added a warning/advice message to + help users adjust to the new behaviour back then, but we kept it + around for too long. The message has finally been removed. + + * "git fetch origin master" unlike "git fetch origin" or "git fetch" + did not update "refs/remotes/origin/master"; this was an early + design decision to keep the update of remote tracking branches + predictable, but in practice it turns out that people find it more + convenient to opportunistically update them whenever we have a + chance, and we have been updating them when we run "git push" which + already breaks the original "predictability" anyway. + + * The configuration variable core.checkstat was advertised in the + documentation but the code expected core.statinfo instead. + For now, we accept both core.checkstat and core.statinfo, but the + latter will be removed in the longer term. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + + * On Cygwin, we used to use our own lstat(2) emulation that is + allegedly faster than the platform one in codepaths where some of + the information it returns did not matter, but it started to bite + us in a few codepaths where the trick it uses to cheat does show + breakages. This emulation has been removed and we use the native + lstat(2) emulation supplied by Cygwin now. + + * The function attributes extensions are used to catch mistakes in + use of our own variadic functions that use NULL sentinel at the end + (i.e. like execl(3)) and format strings (i.e. like printf(3)). + + * The code to allow configuration data to be read from in-tree blob + objects is in. This may help working in a bare repository and + submodule updates. + + * Fetching between repositories with many refs employed O(n^2) + algorithm to match up the common objects, which has been corrected. + + * The original way to specify remote repository using .git/branches/ + used to have a nifty feature. The code to support the feature was + still in a function but the caller was changed not to call it 5 + years ago, breaking that feature and leaving the supporting code + unreachable. The dead code has been removed. + + * "git pack-refs" that races with new ref creation or deletion have + been susceptible to lossage of refs under right conditions, which + has been tightened up. + + * We read loose and packed references in two steps, but after + deciding to read a loose ref but before actually opening it to read + it, another process racing with us can unlink it, which would cause + us to barf. The codepath has been updated to retry when such a + race is detected, instead of outright failing. + + * Uses of the platform fnmatch(3) function (many places in the code, + matching pathspec, .gitignore and .gitattributes to name a few) + have been replaced with wildmatch, allowing "foo/**/bar" that would + match foo/bar, foo/a/bar, foo/a/b/bar, etc. + + * Memory ownership and lifetime rules for what for-each-ref feeds to + its callbacks have been clarified (in short, "you do not own it, so + make a copy if you want to keep it"). + + * The revision traversal logic to improve culling of irrelevant + parents while traversing a mergy history has been updated. + + * Some leaks in unpack-trees (used in merge, cherry-pick and other + codepaths) have been plugged. + + * The codepath to read from marks files in fast-import/export did not + have to accept anything but 40-hex representation of the object + name. Further, fast-export did not need full in-core object + representation to have parsed wen reading from them. These + codepaths have been optimized by taking advantage of these access + patterns. + + * Object lookup logic, when the object hashtable starts to become + crowded, has been optimized. + + * When TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY setting is used, it was handled somewhat + inconsistently between the test framework and t/Makefile, and logic + to summarize the results looked at a wrong place. + + * "git clone" uses a lighter-weight implementation when making sure + that the history behind refs are complete. + + * Many warnings from sparse source checker in compat/ area has been + squelched. + + * The code to reading and updating packed-refs file has been updated, + correcting corner case bugs. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.8.3 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for +details). + + * Newer Net::SMTP::SSL module does not want the user programs to use + the default behaviour to let server certificate go without + verification, so by default enable the verification with a + mechanism to turn it off if needed. + (merge 35035bb rr/send-email-ssl-verify later to maint). + + * When "git" is spawned in such a way that any of the low 3 file + descriptors is closed, our first open() may yield file descriptor 2, + and writing error message to it would screw things up in a big way. + (merge a11c396 tr/protect-low-3-fds later to maint). + + * The mailmap mechanism unnecessarily downcased the e-mail addresses + in the output, and also ignored the human name when it is a single + character name. + (merge bd23794 jc/mailmap-case-insensitivity later to maint). + + * In two places we did not check return value (expected to be a file + descriptor) correctly. + (merge a77f106 tr/fd-gotcha-fixes later to maint). + + * Logic to auto-detect character encodings in the commit log message + did not reject overlong and invalid UTF-8 characters. + (merge 81050ac bc/commit-invalid-utf8 later to maint). + + * Pass port number as a separate argument when "send-email" initializes + Net::SMTP, instead of as a part of the hostname, i.e. host:port. + This allows GSSAPI codepath to match with the hostname given. + (merge 1a741bf bc/send-email-use-port-as-separate-param later to maint). + + * "git diff" refused to even show difference when core.safecrlf is + set to true (i.e. error out) and there are offending lines in the + working tree files. + (merge 5430bb2 jc/maint-diff-core-safecrlf later to maint). + + * A test that should have failed but didn't revealed a bug that needs + to be corrected. + (merge 94d75d1 jc/t1512-fix later to maint). + + * An overlong path to a .git directory may have overflown the + temporary path buffer used to create a name for lockfiles. + (merge 2fbd4f9 mh/maint-lockfile-overflow later to maint). + + * Invocations of "git checkout" used internally by "git rebase" were + counted as "checkout", and affected later "git checkout -" to the + the user to an unexpected place. + (merge 3bed291 rr/rebase-checkout-reflog later to maint). + + * The configuration variable column.ui was poorly documented. + (merge 5e62cc1 rr/column-doc later to maint). + + * "git name-rev --refs=tags/v*" were forbidden, which was a bit + inconvenient (you had to give a pattern to match refs fully, like + --refs=refs/tags/v*). + (merge 98c5c4a nk/name-rev-abbreviated-refs later to maint). + + * "git apply" parsed patches that add new files, generated by + programs other than Git, incorrectly. This is an old breakage in + v1.7.11 and will need to be merged down to the maintenance tracks. + + * Older cURL wanted piece of memory we call it with to be stable, but + we updated the auth material after handing it to a call. + + * "git pull" into nothing trashed "local changes" that were in the + index, and this avoids it. + + * Many "git submodule" operations do not work on a submodule at a + path whose name is not in ASCII. + + * "cherry-pick" had a small leak in an error codepath. + + * Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like + "A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part + needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes + around the name, and comparison was done between quoted and + unquoted strings). It also mishandled names that need RFC2047 + quoting. + + * Call to discard_cache/discard_index (used when we use different + contents of the index in-core, in many operations like commit, + apply, and merge) used to leak memory that held the array of index + entries, which has been plugged. + (merge a0fc4db rs/discard-index-discard-array later to maint). + + * "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each + request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one + when used as a persistent CGI. + + * The wildmatch engine did not honor WM_CASEFOLD option correctly. + + * "git log -c --follow $path" segfaulted upon hitting the commit that + renamed the $path being followed. + + * When a reflog notation is used for implicit "current branch", we + did not say which branch and worse said "branch ''". + + * "difftool --dir-diff" did not copy back changes made by the + end-user in the diff tool backend to the working tree in some + cases. + + * "git push $there HEAD:branch" did not resolve HEAD early enough, so + it was easy to flip it around while push is still going on and push + out a branch that the user did not originally intended when the + command was started. + + * The bash prompt code (in contrib/) displayed the name of the branch + being rebased when "rebase -i/-m/-p" modes are in use, but not the + plain vanilla "rebase". + + * Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories "!dir" was + broken in the update to v1.8.3. + + * zsh prompt script that borrowed from bash prompt script did not + work due to slight differences in array variable notation between + these two shells. + + * An entry for "file://" scheme in the enumeration of URL types Git + can take in the HTML documentation was made into a clickable link + by mistake. + + * "git push --[no-]verify" was not documented. + + * Stop installing the git-remote-testpy script that is only used for + testing. + + * "git commit --allow-empty-message -m ''" should not start an + editor. + + * "git merge @{-1}~22" was rewritten to "git merge frotz@{1}~22" + incorrectly when your previous branch was "frotz" (it should be + rewritten to "git merge frotz~22" instead). + + * "git diff -c -p" was not showing a deleted line from a hunk when + another hunk immediately begins where the earlier one ends. + + * "git log --ancestry-path A...B" did not work as expected, as it did + not pay attention to the fact that the merge base between A and B + was the bottom of the range being specified. + + * Mac OS X does not like to write(2) more than INT_MAX number of + bytes; work it around by chopping write(2) into smaller pieces. + + * Newer MacOS X encourages the programs to compile and link with + their CommonCrypto, not with OpenSSL. + + * "git clone foo/bar:baz" cannot be a request to clone from a remote + over git-over-ssh specified in the scp style. This case is now + detected and clones from a local repository at "foo/bar:baz". + + * When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we + used to complain and die. Loosen the check. + + * "git subtree" (in contrib/) had one codepath with loose error + checks to lose data at the remote side. + + * "git fetch" into a shallow repository from a repository that does + not know about the shallow boundary commits (e.g. a different fork + from the repository the current shallow repository was cloned from) + did not work correctly. + + * "git checkout foo" DWIMs the intended "upstream" and turns it into + "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo". This codepath has been + updated to correctly take existing remote definitions into account. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ac5c3fafe5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,338 @@ +Git v1.8.5 Release Notes +======================== + +Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0) +------------------------------------------ + +When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the +traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent +to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name +over there). In Git 2.0, the default will change to the "simple" +semantics that pushes: + + - only the current branch to the branch with the same name, and only + when the current branch is set to integrate with that remote + branch, if you are pushing to the same remote as you fetch from; or + + - only the current branch to the branch with the same name, if you + are pushing to a remote that is not where you usually fetch from. + +Use the user preference configuration variable "push.default" to +change this. If you are an old-timer who is used to the "matching" +semantics, you can set the variable to "matching" to keep the +traditional behaviour. If you want to live in the future early, you +can set it to "simple" today without waiting for Git 2.0. + +When "git add -u" (and "git add -A") is run inside a subdirectory and +does not specify which paths to add on the command line, it +will operate on the entire tree in Git 2.0 for consistency +with "git commit -a" and other commands. There will be no +mechanism to make plain "git add -u" behave like "git add -u .". +Current users of "git add -u" (without a pathspec) should start +training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ." +before Git 2.0 comes. A warning is issued when these commands are +run without a pathspec and when you have local changes outside the +current directory, because the behaviour in Git 2.0 will be different +from today's version in such a situation. + +In Git 2.0, "git add <path>" will behave as "git add -A <path>", so +that "git add dir/" will notice paths you removed from the directory +and record the removal. Versions before Git 2.0, including this +release, will keep ignoring removals, but the users who rely on this +behaviour are encouraged to start using "git add --ignore-removal <path>" +now before 2.0 is released. + + +Updates since v1.8.4 +-------------------- + +Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. + + * "git-svn" used with SVN 1.8.0 when talking over https:// connection + dumped core due to a bug in the serf library that SVN uses. Work + it around on our side, even though the SVN side is being fixed. + + * On MacOS X, we detected if the filesystem needs the "pre-composed + unicode strings" workaround, but did not automatically enable it. + Now we do. + + * remote-hg remote helper misbehaved when interacting with a local Hg + repository relative to the home directory, e.g. "clone hg::~/there". + + * imap-send ported to OS X uses Apple's security framework instead of + OpenSSL one. + + * Subversion 1.8.0 that was recently released breaks older subversion + clients coming over http/https in various ways. + + * "git fast-import" treats an empty path given to "ls" as the root of + the tree. + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now, + e.g. "git log @". + + * "git check-ignore" follows the same rule as "git add" and "git + status" in that the ignore/exclude mechanism does not take effect + on paths that are already tracked. With "--no-index" option, it + can be used to diagnose which paths that should have been ignored + have been mistakenly added to the index. + + * Some irrelevant "advice" messages that are shared with "git status" + output have been removed from the commit log template. + + * "update-refs" learnt a "--stdin" option to read multiple update + requests and perform them in an all-or-none fashion. + + * Just like "make -C <directory>", "git -C <directory> ..." tells Git + to go there before doing anything else. + + * Just like "git checkout -" knows to check out and "git merge -" + knows to merge the branch you were previously on, "git cherry-pick" + now understands "git cherry-pick -" to pick from the previous + branch. + + * "git status" now omits the prefix to make its output a comment in a + commit log editor, which is not necessary for human consumption. + + * Make "foo^{tag}" to peel a tag to itself, i.e. no-op., and fail if + "foo" is not a tag. "git rev-parse --verify v1.0^{tag}" would be + a more convenient way to say "test $(git cat-file -t v1.0) = tag". + + * "git branch -v -v" (and "git status") did not distinguish among a + branch that does not build on any other branch, a branch that is in + sync with the branch it builds on, and a branch that is configured + to build on some other branch that no longer exists. + + * A packfile that stores the same object more than once is broken and + will be rejected by "git index-pack" that is run when receiving + data over the wire. + + * Earlier we started rejecting an attempt to add 0{40} object name to + the index and to tree objects, but it sometimes is necessary to + allow so to be able to use tools like filter-branch to correct such + broken tree objects. "filter-branch" can again be used to to do + so. + + * "git config" did not provide a way to set or access numbers larger + than a native "int" on the platform; it now provides 64-bit signed + integers on all platforms. + + * "git pull --rebase" always chose to do the bog-standard flattening + rebase. You can tell it to run "rebase --preserve-merges" by + setting "pull.rebase" configuration to "preserve". + + * "git push --no-thin" actually disables the "thin pack transfer" + optimization. + + * Magic pathspecs like ":(icase)makefile" that matches both + Makefile and makefile can be used in more places. + + * The "http.*" variables can now be specified per URL that the + configuration applies. For example, + + [http] + sslVerify = true + [http "https://weak.example.com/"] + sslVerify = false + + would flip http.sslVerify off only when talking to that specified + site. + + * "git mv A B" when moving a submodule A has been taught to + relocate its working tree and to adjust the paths in the + .gitmodules file. + + * "git blame" can now take more than one -L option to discover the + origin of multiple blocks of the lines. + + * The http transport clients can optionally ask to save cookies + with http.savecookies configuration variable. + + * "git push" learned a more fine grained control over a blunt + "--force" when requesting a non-fast-forward update with the + "--force-with-lease=<refname>:<expected object name>" option. + + * "git diff --diff-filter=<classes of changes>" can now take + lowercase letters (e.g. "--diff-filter=d") to mean "show + everything but these classes". "git diff-files -q" is now a + deprecated synonym for "git diff-files --diff-filter=d". + + * "git fetch" (hence "git pull" as well) learned to check + "fetch.prune" and "remote.*.prune" configuration variables and + to behave as if the "--prune" command line option was given. + + * "git check-ignore -z" applied the NUL termination to both its input + (with --stdin) and its output, but "git check-attr -z" ignored the + option on the output side. Make both honor -z on the input and + output side the same way. + + * "git whatchanged" may still be used by old timers, but mention of + it in documents meant for new users will only waste readers' time + wonderig what the difference is between it and "git log". Make it + less prominent in the general part of the documentation and explain + that it is merely a "git log" with different default behaviour in + its own document. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + + * If a build-time fallback is set to "cat" instead of "less", we + should apply the same "no subprocess or pipe" optimization as we + apply to user-supplied GIT_PAGER=cat. + + * Many commands use --dashed-option as a operation mode selector + (e.g. "git tag --delete") that the user can use at most one + (e.g. "git tag --delete --verify" is a nonsense) and you cannot + negate (e.g. "git tag --no-delete" is a nonsense). parse-options + API learned a new OPT_CMDMODE macro to make it easier to implement + such a set of options. + + * OPT_BOOLEAN() in parse-options API was misdesigned to be "counting + up" but many subcommands expect it to behave as "on/off". Update + them to use OPT_BOOL() which is a proper boolean. + + * "git gc" exits early without doing a double-work when it detects + that another instance of itself is already running. + + * Under memory pressure and/or file descriptor pressure, we used to + close pack windows that are not used and also closed filehandle to + an open but unused packfiles. These are now controlled separately + to better cope with the load. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.8.4 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.4 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for +details). + + * When running "fetch -q", a long silence while the sender side + computes the set of objects to send can be mistaken by proxies as + dropped connection. The server side has been taught to send a + small empty messages to keep the connection alive. + (merge 115dedd jk/upload-pack-keepalive later to maint). + + * "git rebase" had a portability regression in v1.8.4 to trigger a + bug in some BSD shell implementations. + (merge 99855dd mm/rebase-continue-freebsd-WB later to maint). + + * "git branch --track" had a minor regression in v1.8.3.2 and later + that made it impossible to base your local work on anything but a + local branch of the upstream repository you are tracking from. + (merge b0f49ff jh/checkout-auto-tracking later to maint). + + * When the webserver responds with "405 Method Not Allowed", "git + http-backend" should tell the client what methods are allowed with + the "Allow" header. + (merge 9247be0 bc/http-backend-allow-405 later to maint). + + * When there is no sufficient overlap between old and new history + during a "git fetch" into a shallow repository, objects that the + sending side knows the receiving end has were unnecessarily sent. + (merge f21d2a7 nd/fetch-into-shallow later to maint). + + * "git cvsserver" computed the permission mode bits incorrectly for + executable files. + (merge 1b48d56 jc/cvsserver-perm-bit-fix later to maint). + + * When send-email comes up with an error message to die with upon + failure to start an SSL session, it tried to read the error string + from a wrong place. + (merge 6cb0c88 bc/send-email-ssl-die-message-fix later to maint). + + * The implementation of "add -i" has a crippling code to work around + ActiveState Perl limitation but it by mistake also triggered on Git + for Windows where MSYS perl is used. + (merge df17e77 js/add-i-mingw later to maint). + + * We made sure that we notice the user-supplied GIT_DIR is actually a + gitfile, but did not do the same when the default ".git" is a + gitfile. + (merge 487a2b7 nd/git-dir-pointing-at-gitfile later to maint). + + * When an object is not found after checking the packfiles and then + loose object directory, read_sha1_file() re-checks the packfiles to + prevent racing with a concurrent repacker; teach the same logic to + has_sha1_file(). + (merge 45e8a74 jk/has-sha1-file-retry-packed later to maint). + + * "git commit --author=$name", when $name is not in the canonical + "A. U. Thor <au.thor@example.xz>" format, looks for a matching name + from existing history, but did not consult mailmap to grab the + preferred author name. + (merge ea16794 ap/commit-author-mailmap later to maint). + + * "git ls-files -k" needs to crawl only the part of the working tree + that may overlap the paths in the index to find killed files, but + shared code with the logic to find all the untracked files, which + made it unnecessarily inefficient. + (merge 680be04 jc/ls-files-killed-optim later to maint). + + * The commit object names in the insn sheet that was prepared at the + beginning of "rebase -i" session can become ambiguous as the + rebasing progresses and the repository gains more commits. Make + sure the internal record is kept with full 40-hex object names. + (merge 75c6976 es/rebase-i-no-abbrev later to maint). + + * "git rebase --preserve-merges" internally used the merge machinery + and as a side effect, left merge summary message in the log, but + when rebasing, there should not be a need for merge summary. + (merge a9f739c rt/rebase-p-no-merge-summary later to maint). + + * A call to xread() was used without a loop around to cope with short + read in the codepath to stream new contents to a pack. + (merge e92527c js/xread-in-full later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" forgot that the comment character can be + configurable while reading its insn sheet. + (merge 7bca7af es/rebase-i-respect-core-commentchar later to maint). + + * The mailmap support code read past the allocated buffer when the + mailmap file ended with an incomplete line. + (merge f972a16 jk/mailmap-incomplete-line later to maint). + + * We used to send a large request to read(2)/write(2) as a single + system call, which was bad from the latency point of view when + the operation needs to be killed, and also triggered an error on + broken 64-bit systems that refuse to take more than 2GB read or + write in one go. + (merge a487916 sp/clip-read-write-to-8mb later to maint). + + * "git fetch" that auto-followed tags incorrectly reused the + connection with Git-aware transport helper (like the sample "ext::" + helper shipped with Git). + (merge 0f73f8b jc/transport-do-not-use-connect-twice-in-fetch later to maint). + + * "git log --full-diff -- <pathspec>" showed a huge diff for paths + outside the given <pathspec> for each commit, instead of showing + the change relative to the parent of the commit. "git reflog -p" + had a similar problem. + (merge 838f9a1 tr/log-full-diff-keep-true-parents later to maint). + + * Setting submodule.*.path configuration variable to true (without + giving "= value") caused Git to segfault. + (merge 4b05440 jl/some-submodule-config-are-not-boolean later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" (there could be others, as the root cause is pretty + generic) fed a random, data dependeant string to 'echo' and + expects it to come out literally, corrupting its error message. + (merge 89b0230 mm/no-shell-escape-in-die-message later to maint). + + * Some people still use rather old versions of bash, which cannot + grok some constructs like 'printf -v varname' the prompt and + completion code started to use recently. + (merge a44aa69 bc/completion-for-bash-3.0 later to maint). + + * Code to read configuration from a blob object did not compile on + platforms with fgetc() etc. implemented as macros. + (merge 49d6cfa hv/config-from-blob later to maint-1.8.3). + + * The recent "short-cut clone connectivity check" topic broke a + shallow repository when a fetch operation tries to auto-follow tags. + (merge 6da8bdc nd/fetch-pack-shallow-fix later to maint-1.8.3). diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index d0a4733e45..705557689d 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -65,7 +65,20 @@ feature does not trigger when it shouldn't. Also make sure that the test suite passes after your commit. Do not forget to update the documentation to describe the updated behaviour. -Oh, another thing. I am picky about whitespaces. Make sure your +Speaking of the documentation, it is currently a liberal mixture of US +and UK English norms for spelling and grammar, which is somewhat +unfortunate. A huge patch that touches the files all over the place +only to correct the inconsistency is not welcome, though. Potential +clashes with other changes that can result from such a patch are not +worth it. We prefer to gradually reconcile the inconsistencies in +favor of US English, with small and easily digestible patches, as a +side effect of doing some other real work in the vicinity (e.g. +rewriting a paragraph for clarity, while turning en_UK spelling to +en_US). Obvious typographical fixes are much more welcomed ("teh -> +"the"), preferably submitted as independent patches separate from +other documentation changes. + +Oh, another thing. We are picky about whitespaces. Make sure your changes do not trigger errors with the sample pre-commit hook shipped in templates/hooks--pre-commit. To help ensure this does not happen, run git diff --check on your changes before you commit. diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt index b0d31df0e7..0cebc4f692 100644 --- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt @@ -10,27 +10,14 @@ Include additional statistics at the end of blame output. -L <start>,<end>:: - Annotate only the given line range. <start> and <end> can take - one of these forms: - - - number -+ -If <start> or <end> is a number, it specifies an -absolute line number (lines count from 1). -+ - -- /regex/ -+ -This form will use the first line matching the given -POSIX regex. If <end> is a regex, it will search -starting at the line given by <start>. -+ - -- +offset or -offset +-L :<regex>:: + Annotate only the given line range. May be specified multiple times. + Overlapping ranges are allowed. + -This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number -of lines before or after the line given by <start>. +<start> and <end> are optional. ``-L <start>'' or ``-L <start>,'' spans from +<start> to end of file. ``-L ,<end>'' spans from start of file to <end>. + +include::line-range-format.txt[] -l:: Show long rev (Default: off). diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 6e53fc5074..c3f70023ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -170,8 +170,8 @@ advice.*:: pushNeedsForce:: Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an - object that is not a committish, or make the remote - ref point at an object that is not a committish. + object that is not a commit-ish, or make the remote + ref point at an object that is not a commit-ish. statusHints:: Show directions on how to proceed from the current state in the output of linkgit:git-status[1], in @@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ advice.*:: amWorkDir:: Advice that shows the location of the patch file when linkgit:git-am[1] fails to apply it. + rmHints:: + In case of failure in the output of linkgit:git-rm[1], + show directions on how to proceed from the current state. -- core.fileMode:: @@ -210,17 +213,6 @@ The default is true, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1] will probe and set core.fileMode false if appropriate when the repository is created. -core.ignoreCygwinFSTricks:: - This option is only used by Cygwin implementation of Git. If false, - the Cygwin stat() and lstat() functions are used. This may be useful - if your repository consists of a few separate directories joined in - one hierarchy using Cygwin mount. If true, Git uses native Win32 API - whenever it is possible and falls back to Cygwin functions only to - handle symbol links. The native mode is more than twice faster than - normal Cygwin l/stat() functions. True by default, unless core.filemode - is true, in which case ignoreCygwinFSTricks is ignored as Cygwin's - POSIX emulation is required to support core.filemode. - core.ignorecase:: If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable Git to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive, @@ -561,22 +553,20 @@ sequence.editor:: When not configured the default commit message editor is used instead. core.pager:: - The command that Git will use to paginate output. Can - be overridden with the `GIT_PAGER` environment - variable. Note that Git sets the `LESS` environment - variable to `FRSX` if it is unset when it runs the - pager. One can change these settings by setting the - `LESS` variable to some other value. Alternately, - these settings can be overridden on a project or - global basis by setting the `core.pager` option. - Setting `core.pager` has no effect on the `LESS` - environment variable behaviour above, so if you want - to override Git's default settings this way, you need - to be explicit. For example, to disable the S option - in a backward compatible manner, set `core.pager` - to `less -+S`. This will be passed to the shell by - Git, which will translate the final command to - `LESS=FRSX less -+S`. + Text viewer for use by Git commands (e.g., 'less'). The value + is meant to be interpreted by the shell. The order of preference + is the `$GIT_PAGER` environment variable, then `core.pager` + configuration, then `$PAGER`, and then the default chosen at + compile time (usually 'less'). ++ +When the `LESS` environment variable is unset, Git sets it to `FRSX` +(if `LESS` environment variable is set, Git does not change it at +all). If you want to selectively override Git's default setting +for `LESS`, you can set `core.pager` to e.g. `less -+S`. This will +be passed to the shell by Git, which will translate the final +command to `LESS=FRSX less -+S`. The environment tells the command +to set the `S` option to chop long lines but the command line +resets it to the default to fold long lines. core.whitespace:: A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to @@ -774,6 +764,10 @@ branch.<name>.rebase:: "git pull" is run. See "pull.rebase" for doing this in a non branch-specific manner. + + When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase' + so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened + by running 'git pull'. ++ *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details). @@ -795,8 +789,8 @@ browser.<tool>.path:: working repository in gitweb (see linkgit:git-instaweb[1]). clean.requireForce:: - A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f - or -n. Defaults to true. + A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f, + -i or -n. Defaults to true. color.branch:: A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of @@ -876,16 +870,17 @@ The values of these variables may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>. color.interactive:: When set to `always`, always use colors for interactive prompts - and displays (such as those used by "git-add --interactive"). - When false (or `never`), never. When set to `true` or `auto`, use - colors only when the output is to the terminal. Defaults to false. + and displays (such as those used by "git-add --interactive" and + "git-clean --interactive"). When false (or `never`), never. + When set to `true` or `auto`, use colors only when the output is + to the terminal. Defaults to false. color.interactive.<slot>:: - Use customized color for 'git add --interactive' - output. `<slot>` may be `prompt`, `header`, `help` or `error`, for - four distinct types of normal output from interactive - commands. The values of these variables may be specified as - in color.branch.<slot>. + Use customized color for 'git add --interactive' and 'git clean + --interactive' output. `<slot>` may be `prompt`, `header`, `help` + or `error`, for four distinct types of normal output from + interactive commands. The values of these variables may be + specified as in color.branch.<slot>. color.pager:: A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in @@ -919,17 +914,21 @@ color.ui:: as `color.diff` and `color.grep` that control the use of color per command family. Its scope will expand as more commands learn configuration to set a default for the `--color` option. Set it - to `always` if you want all output not intended for machine - consumption to use color, to `true` or `auto` if you want such - output to use color when written to the terminal, or to `false` or - `never` if you prefer Git commands not to use color unless enabled - explicitly with some other configuration or the `--color` option. + to `false` or `never` if you prefer Git commands not to use + color unless enabled explicitly with some other configuration + or the `--color` option. Set it to `always` if you want all + output not intended for machine consumption to use color, to + `true` or `auto` (this is the default since Git 1.8.4) if you + want such output to use color when written to the terminal. column.ui:: Specify whether supported commands should output in columns. This variable consists of a list of tokens separated by spaces or commas: + +These options control when the feature should be enabled +(defaults to 'never'): ++ -- `always`;; always show in columns @@ -937,24 +936,39 @@ column.ui:: never show in columns `auto`;; show in columns if the output is to the terminal +-- ++ +These options control layout (defaults to 'column'). Setting any +of these implies 'always' if none of 'always', 'never', or 'auto' are +specified. ++ +-- `column`;; - fill columns before rows (default) + fill columns before rows `row`;; fill rows before columns `plain`;; show in one column +-- ++ +Finally, these options can be combined with a layout option (defaults +to 'nodense'): ++ +-- `dense`;; make unequal size columns to utilize more space `nodense`;; make equal size columns -- -+ -This option defaults to 'never'. column.branch:: Specify whether to output branch listing in `git branch` in columns. See `column.ui` for details. +column.clean:: + Specify the layout when list items in `git clean -i`, which always + shows files and directories in columns. See `column.ui` for details. + column.status:: Specify whether to output untracked files in `git status` in columns. See `column.ui` for details. @@ -1049,6 +1063,10 @@ fetch.unpackLimit:: especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead. +fetch.prune:: + If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the `--prune` + option was given on the command line. See also `remote.<name>.prune`. + format.attach:: Enable multipart/mixed attachments as the default for 'format-patch'. The value can also be a double quoted string @@ -1433,7 +1451,11 @@ http.cookiefile:: of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see linkgit:curl[1]). NOTE that the file specified with http.cookiefile is only used as - input. No cookies will be stored in the file. + input unless http.saveCookies is set. + +http.savecookies:: + If set, store cookies received during requests to the file specified by + http.cookiefile. Has no effect if http.cookiefile is unset. http.sslVerify:: Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing @@ -1513,6 +1535,51 @@ http.useragent:: of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1). Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT' environment variable. +http.<url>.*:: + Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to some urls. + For a config key to match a URL, each element of the config key is + compared to that of the URL, in the following order: ++ +-- +. Scheme (e.g., `https` in `https://example.com/`). This field + must match exactly between the config key and the URL. + +. Host/domain name (e.g., `example.com` in `https://example.com/`). + This field must match exactly between the config key and the URL. + +. Port number (e.g., `8080` in `http://example.com:8080/`). + This field must match exactly between the config key and the URL. + Omitted port numbers are automatically converted to the correct + default for the scheme before matching. + +. Path (e.g., `repo.git` in `https://example.com/repo.git`). The + path field of the config key must match the path field of the URL + either exactly or as a prefix of slash-delimited path elements. This means + a config key with path `foo/` matches URL path `foo/bar`. A prefix can only + match on a slash (`/`) boundary. Longer matches take precedence (so a config + key with path `foo/bar` is a better match to URL path `foo/bar` than a config + key with just path `foo/`). + +. User name (e.g., `user` in `https://user@example.com/repo.git`). If + the config key has a user name it must match the user name in the + URL exactly. If the config key does not have a user name, that + config key will match a URL with any user name (including none), + but at a lower precedence than a config key with a user name. +-- ++ +The list above is ordered by decreasing precedence; a URL that matches +a config key's path is preferred to one that matches its user name. For example, +if the URL is `https://user@example.com/foo/bar` a config key match of +`https://example.com/foo` will be preferred over a config key match of +`https://user@example.com`. ++ +All URLs are normalized before attempting any matching (the password part, +if embedded in the URL, is always ignored for matching purposes) so that +equivalent urls that are simply spelled differently will match properly. +Environment variable settings always override any matches. The urls that are +matched against are those given directly to Git commands. This means any URLs +visited as a result of a redirection do not participate in matching. + i18n.commitEncoding:: Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; Git itself does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when @@ -1814,6 +1881,10 @@ pull.rebase:: pull" is run. See "branch.<name>.rebase" for setting this on a per-branch basis. + + When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase' + so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened + by running 'git pull'. ++ *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details). @@ -1826,39 +1897,59 @@ pull.twohead:: The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch. push.default:: - Defines the action `git push` should take if no refspec is given - on the command line, no refspec is configured in the remote, and - no refspec is implied by any of the options given on the command - line. Possible values are: + Defines the action `git push` should take if no refspec is + explicitly given. Different values are well-suited for + specific workflows; for instance, in a purely central workflow + (i.e. the fetch source is equal to the push destination), + `upstream` is probably what you want. Possible values are: + -- -* `nothing` - do not push anything. -* `matching` - push all branches having the same name in both ends. - This is for those who prepare all the branches into a publishable - shape and then push them out with a single command. It is not - appropriate for pushing into a repository shared by multiple users, - since locally stalled branches will attempt a non-fast forward push - if other users updated the branch. - + - This is currently the default, but Git 2.0 will change the default - to `simple`. -* `upstream` - push the current branch to its upstream branch - (`tracking` is a deprecated synonym for this). - With this, `git push` will update the same remote ref as the one which - is merged by `git pull`, making `push` and `pull` symmetrical. - See "branch.<name>.merge" for how to configure the upstream branch. -* `simple` - like `upstream`, but refuses to push if the upstream - branch's name is different from the local one. This is the safest - option and is well-suited for beginners. It will become the default - in Git 2.0. -* `current` - push the current branch to a branch of the same name. --- + +* `nothing` - do not push anything (error out) unless a refspec is + explicitly given. This is primarily meant for people who want to + avoid mistakes by always being explicit. + +* `current` - push the current branch to update a branch with the same + name on the receiving end. Works in both central and non-central + workflows. + +* `upstream` - push the current branch back to the branch whose + changes are usually integrated into the current branch (which is + called `@{upstream}`). This mode only makes sense if you are + pushing to the same repository you would normally pull from + (i.e. central workflow). + +* `simple` - in centralized workflow, work like `upstream` with an + added safety to refuse to push if the upstream branch's name is + different from the local one. ++ +When pushing to a remote that is different from the remote you normally +pull from, work as `current`. This is the safest option and is suited +for beginners. ++ +This mode will become the default in Git 2.0. + +* `matching` - push all branches having the same name on both ends. + This makes the repository you are pushing to remember the set of + branches that will be pushed out (e.g. if you always push 'maint' + and 'master' there and no other branches, the repository you push + to will have these two branches, and your local 'maint' and + 'master' will be pushed there). + -The `simple`, `current` and `upstream` modes are for those who want to -push out a single branch after finishing work, even when the other -branches are not yet ready to be pushed out. If you are working with -other people to push into the same shared repository, you would want -to use one of these. +To use this mode effectively, you have to make sure _all_ the +branches you would push out are ready to be pushed out before +running 'git push', as the whole point of this mode is to allow you +to push all of the branches in one go. If you usually finish work +on only one branch and push out the result, while other branches are +unfinished, this mode is not for you. Also this mode is not +suitable for pushing into a shared central repository, as other +people may add new branches there, or update the tip of existing +branches outside your control. ++ +This is currently the default, but Git 2.0 will change the default +to `simple`. + +-- rebase.stat:: Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last @@ -1867,6 +1958,14 @@ rebase.stat:: rebase.autosquash:: If set to true enable '--autosquash' option by default. +rebase.autostash:: + When set to true, automatically create a temporary stash + before the operation begins, and apply it after the operation + ends. This means that you can run rebase on a dirty worktree. + However, use with care: the final stash application after a + successful rebase might result in non-trivial conflicts. + Defaults to false. + receive.autogc:: By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after receiving data from git-push and updating refs. You can stop @@ -1984,6 +2083,12 @@ remote.<name>.vcs:: Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause Git to interact with the remote with the git-remote-<vcs> helper. +remote.<name>.prune:: + When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will also + remove any remote-tracking branches which no longer exist on the + remote (as if the `--prune` option was give on the command line). + Overrides `fetch.prune` settings, if any. + remotes.<group>:: The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update <group>". See linkgit:git-remote[1]. @@ -2022,6 +2127,10 @@ sendemail.smtpencryption:: sendemail.smtpssl:: Deprecated alias for 'sendemail.smtpencryption = ssl'. +sendemail.smtpsslcertpath:: + Path to ca-certificates (either a directory or a single file). + Set it to an empty string to disable certificate verification. + sendemail.<identity>.*:: Identity-specific versions of the 'sendemail.*' parameters found below, taking precedence over those when the this @@ -2066,6 +2175,21 @@ status.relativePaths:: relative to the repository root (this was the default for Git prior to v1.5.4). +status.short:: + Set to true to enable --short by default in linkgit:git-status[1]. + The option --no-short takes precedence over this variable. + +status.branch:: + Set to true to enable --branch by default in linkgit:git-status[1]. + The option --no-branch takes precedence over this variable. + +status.displayCommentPrefix:: + If set to true, linkgit:git-status[1] will insert a comment + prefix before each output line (starting with + `core.commentChar`, i.e. `#` by default). This was the + behavior of linkgit:git-status[1] in Git 1.8.4 and previous. + Defaults to false. + status.showUntrackedFiles:: By default, linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1] show files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which @@ -2164,6 +2288,17 @@ uploadpack.allowtipsha1inwant:: of a hidden ref (by default, such a request is rejected). see also `uploadpack.hiderefs`. +uploadpack.keepalive:: + When `upload-pack` has started `pack-objects`, there may be a + quiet period while `pack-objects` prepares the pack. Normally + it would output progress information, but if `--quiet` was used + for the fetch, `pack-objects` will output nothing at all until + the pack data begins. Some clients and networks may consider + the server to be hung and give up. Setting this option instructs + `upload-pack` to send an empty keepalive packet every + `uploadpack.keepalive` seconds. Setting this option to 0 + disables keepalive packets entirely. The default is 5 seconds. + url.<base>.insteadOf:: Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some site serves a diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 104579dc75..bbed2cd79c 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[] {git-diff? This is the default.} endif::git-format-patch[] +-s:: +--no-patch:: + Suppress diff output. Useful for commands like `git show` that + show the patch by default, or to cancel the effect of `--patch`. + -U<n>:: --unified=<n>:: Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of @@ -333,7 +338,7 @@ endif::git-log[] a fraction, with a decimal point before it. I.e., `-M5` becomes 0.5, and is thus the same as `-M50%`. Similarly, `-M05` is the same as `-M5%`. To limit detection to exact renames, use - `-M100%`. + `-M100%`. The default similarity index is 50%. -C[<n>]:: --find-copies[=<n>]:: @@ -383,14 +388,36 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[] that matches other criteria, nothing is selected. -S<string>:: - Look for differences that introduce or remove an instance of - <string>. Note that this is different than the string simply - appearing in diff output; see the 'pickaxe' entry in - linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more details. + Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of + the specified string (i.e. addition/deletion) in a file. + Intended for the scripter's use. ++ +It is useful when you're looking for an exact block of code (like a +struct), and want to know the history of that block since it first +came into being: use the feature iteratively to feed the interesting +block in the preimage back into `-S`, and keep going until you get the +very first version of the block. -G<regex>:: - Look for differences whose added or removed line matches - the given <regex>. + Look for differences whose patch text contains added/removed + lines that match <regex>. ++ +To illustrate the difference between `-S<regex> --pickaxe-regex` and +`-G<regex>`, consider a commit with the following diff in the same +file: ++ +---- ++ return !regexec(regexp, two->ptr, 1, ®match, 0); +... +- hit = !regexec(regexp, mf2.ptr, 1, ®match, 0); +---- ++ +While `git log -G"regexec\(regexp"` will show this commit, `git log +-S"regexec\(regexp" --pickaxe-regex` will not (because the number of +occurrences of that string did not change). ++ +See the 'pickaxe' entry in linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more +information. --pickaxe-all:: When `-S` or `-G` finds a change, show all the changes in that @@ -398,8 +425,8 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[] in <string>. --pickaxe-regex:: - Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX - regex to match. + Treat the <string> given to `-S` as an extended POSIX regular + expression to match. endif::git-format-patch[] -O<orderfile>:: @@ -439,6 +466,9 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] differences even if one line has whitespace where the other line has none. +--ignore-blank-lines:: + Ignore changes whose lines are all blank. + --inter-hunk-context=<lines>:: Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each other. @@ -480,7 +510,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --ignore-submodules[=<when>]:: Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when> can be - either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default + either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default. Using "none" will consider the submodule modified when it either contains untracked or modified files or its HEAD differs from the commit recorded in the superproject and can be used to override any settings of the diff --git a/Documentation/everyday.txt b/Documentation/everyday.txt index e1fba85660..2a18c1f6f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/everyday.txt +++ b/Documentation/everyday.txt @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ and maintain access to the repository by developers. * linkgit:git-shell[1] can be used as a 'restricted login shell' for shared central repository users. -link:howto/update-hook-example.txt[update hook howto] has a good +link:howto/update-hook-example.html[update hook howto] has a good example of managing a shared central repository. diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index 9cb649673d..ba1fe49582 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ endif::git-pull[] ifndef::git-pull[] -t:: --tags:: - This is a short-hand for giving "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" + This is a short-hand for giving `refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*` refspec from the command line, to ask all tags to be fetched and stored locally. Because this acts as an explicit refspec, the default refspecs (configured with the diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index 19d57a80f5..54d8461d61 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--keep-cr | --no-keep-cr] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] +'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[no-]utf8] [--3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date] [--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace] [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>] [--exclude=<path>] [--include=<path>] [--reject] [-q | --quiet] - [--scissors | --no-scissors] + [--[no-]scissors] [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...] 'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort) @@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ OPTIONS --keep-non-patch:: Pass `-b` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). ---keep-cr:: ---no-keep-cr:: +--[no-]keep-cr:: With `--keep-cr`, call 'git mailsplit' (see linkgit:git-mailsplit[1]) with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of lines. `am.keepcr` configuration variable can be used to specify the @@ -133,7 +132,7 @@ default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this. --resolvemsg=<msg>:: When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed to the screen before exiting. This overrides the - standard message informing you to use `--resolved` + standard message informing you to use `--continue` or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'. @@ -177,7 +176,7 @@ aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways: . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should - have produced. Then run the command with the '--resolved' option. + have produced. Then run the command with the '--continue' option. The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch, diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt index 250e5228a3..b97aaab4ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git archive' [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>] - [-o | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes] + [-o <file> | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes] [--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish> [<path>...] diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt index 0eed3e3f29..afeb86c6cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt @@ -1320,7 +1320,7 @@ So git bisect is unconditional goodness - and feel free to quote that ;-) _____________ -Acknowledgements +Acknowledgments ---------------- Many thanks to Junio Hamano for his help in reviewing this paper, for diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt index 9a05c2b3d2..f2c85cc633 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt @@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ git-blame - Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L n,m] - [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>] [--abbrev=<n>] - [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file> +'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] + [-L <range>] [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>] + [--abbrev=<n>] [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ DESCRIPTION Annotates each line in the given file with information from the revision which last modified the line. Optionally, start annotating from the given revision. -The command can also limit the range of lines annotated. +When specified one or more times, `-L` restricts annotation to the requested +lines. The origin of lines is automatically followed across whole-file renames (currently there is no option to turn the rename-following @@ -130,7 +131,10 @@ SPECIFYING RANGES Unlike 'git blame' and 'git annotate' in older versions of git, the extent of the annotation can be limited to both line ranges and revision -ranges. When you are interested in finding the origin for +ranges. The `-L` option, which limits annotation to a range of lines, may be +specified multiple times. + +When you are interested in finding the origin for lines 40-60 for file `foo`, you can use the `-L` option like so (they mean the same thing -- both ask for 21 lines starting at line 40): diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index b7cb625b89..311b33674e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ working tree to it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the new branch. When a local branch is started off a remote-tracking branch, Git sets up the -branch so that 'git pull' will appropriately merge from +branch (specifically the `branch.<name>.remote` and `branch.<name>.merge` +configuration entries) so that 'git pull' will appropriately merge from the remote-tracking branch. This behavior may be changed via the global `branch.autosetupmerge` configuration flag. That setting can be overridden by using the `--track` and `--no-track` options, and @@ -156,7 +157,8 @@ This option is only applicable in non-verbose mode. -t:: --track:: - When creating a new branch, set up configuration to mark the + When creating a new branch, set up `branch.<name>.remote` and + `branch.<name>.merge` configuration entries to mark the start-point branch as "upstream" from the new branch. This configuration will tell git to show the relationship between the two branches in `git status` and `git branch -v`. Furthermore, diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt index 30d585af5d..322f5ed315 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt @@ -54,16 +54,20 @@ OPTIONS --textconv:: Show the content as transformed by a textconv filter. In this case, - <object> has be of the form <treeish>:<path>, or :<path> in order + <object> has be of the form <tree-ish>:<path>, or :<path> in order to apply the filter to the content recorded in the index at <path>. --batch:: - Print the SHA-1, type, size, and contents of each object provided on - stdin. May not be combined with any other options or arguments. +--batch=<format>:: + Print object information and contents for each object provided + on stdin. May not be combined with any other options or arguments. + See the section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details. --batch-check:: - Print the SHA-1, type, and size of each object provided on stdin. May not - be combined with any other options or arguments. +--batch-check=<format>:: + Print object information for each object provided on stdin. May + not be combined with any other options or arguments. See the + section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details. OUTPUT ------ @@ -78,28 +82,81 @@ If '-p' is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty-printed. If <type> is specified, the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will be returned. -If '--batch' is specified, output of the following form is printed for each -object specified on stdin: +BATCH OUTPUT +------------ + +If `--batch` or `--batch-check` is given, `cat-file` will read objects +from stdin, one per line, and print information about them. By default, +the whole line is considered as an object, as if it were fed to +linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. + +You can specify the information shown for each object by using a custom +`<format>`. The `<format>` is copied literally to stdout for each +object, with placeholders of the form `%(atom)` expanded, followed by a +newline. The available atoms are: + +`objectname`:: + The 40-hex object name of the object. + +`objecttype`:: + The type of of the object (the same as `cat-file -t` reports). + +`objectsize`:: + The size, in bytes, of the object (the same as `cat-file -s` + reports). + +`objectsize:disk`:: + The size, in bytes, that the object takes up on disk. See the + note about on-disk sizes in the `CAVEATS` section below. + +`rest`:: + If this atom is used in the output string, input lines are split + at the first whitespace boundary. All characters before that + whitespace are considered to be the object name; characters + after that first run of whitespace (i.e., the "rest" of the + line) are output in place of the `%(rest)` atom. + +If no format is specified, the default format is `%(objectname) +%(objecttype) %(objectsize)`. + +If `--batch` is specified, the object information is followed by the +object contents (consisting of `%(objectsize)` bytes), followed by a +newline. + +For example, `--batch` without a custom format would produce: ------------ <sha1> SP <type> SP <size> LF <contents> LF ------------ -If '--batch-check' is specified, output of the following form is printed for -each object specified on stdin: +Whereas `--batch-check='%(objectname) %(objecttype)'` would produce: ------------ -<sha1> SP <type> SP <size> LF +<sha1> SP <type> LF ------------ -For both '--batch' and '--batch-check', output of the following form is printed -for each object specified on stdin that does not exist in the repository: +If a name is specified on stdin that cannot be resolved to an object in +the repository, then `cat-file` will ignore any custom format and print: ------------ <object> SP missing LF ------------ + +CAVEATS +------- + +Note that the sizes of objects on disk are reported accurately, but care +should be taken in drawing conclusions about which refs or objects are +responsible for disk usage. The size of a packed non-delta object may be +much larger than the size of objects which delta against it, but the +choice of which object is the base and which is the delta is arbitrary +and is subject to change during a repack. Note also that multiple copies +of an object may be present in the object database; in this case, it is +undefined which copy's size will be reported. + + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt index 5abdbaa51c..00e2aa2df2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt @@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ OPTIONS Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line. -z:: - Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with a - NUL character instead of a linefeed character. + The output format is modified to be machine-parseable. + If `--stdin` is also given, input paths are separated + with a NUL character instead of a linefeed character. \--:: Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes and all following @@ -48,6 +49,10 @@ OUTPUT The output is of the form: <path> COLON SP <attribute> COLON SP <info> LF +unless `-z` is in effect, in which case NUL is used as delimiter: +<path> NUL <attribute> NUL <info> NUL + + <path> is the path of a file being queried, <attribute> is an attribute being queried and <info> can be either: @@ -56,6 +61,11 @@ being queried and <info> can be either: 'set';; when the attribute is defined as true. <value>;; when a value has been assigned to the attribute. +Buffering happens as documented under the `GIT_FLUSH` option in +linkgit:git[1]. The caller is responsible for avoiding deadlocks +caused by overfilling an input buffer or reading from an empty output +buffer. + EXAMPLES -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index 854e4d0c42..ee2e091704 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -39,6 +39,19 @@ OPTIONS below). If `--stdin` is also given, input paths are separated with a NUL character instead of a linefeed character. +-n, --non-matching:: + Show given paths which don't match any pattern. This only + makes sense when `--verbose` is enabled, otherwise it would + not be possible to distinguish between paths which match a + pattern and those which don't. + +--no-index:: + Don't look in the index when undertaking the checks. This can + be used to debug why a path became tracked by e.g. `git add .` + and was not ignored by the rules as expected by the user or when + developing patterns including negation to match a path previously + added with `git add -f`. + OUTPUT ------ @@ -65,6 +78,20 @@ are also used instead of colons and hard tabs: <source> <NULL> <linenum> <NULL> <pattern> <NULL> <pathname> <NULL> +If `-n` or `--non-matching` are specified, non-matching pathnames will +also be output, in which case all fields in each output record except +for <pathname> will be empty. This can be useful when running +non-interactively, so that files can be incrementally streamed to +STDIN of a long-running check-ignore process, and for each of these +files, STDOUT will indicate whether that file matched a pattern or +not. (Without this option, it would be impossible to tell whether the +absence of output for a given file meant that it didn't match any +pattern, or that the output hadn't been generated yet.) + +Buffering happens as documented under the `GIT_FLUSH` option in +linkgit:git[1]. The caller is responsible for avoiding deadlocks +caused by overfilling an input buffer or reading from an empty output +buffer. EXIT STATUS ----------- @@ -82,7 +109,7 @@ SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:gitignore[5] linkgit:gitconfig[5] -linkgit:git-ls-files[5] +linkgit:git-ls-files[1] GIT --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-mailmap.txt b/Documentation/git-check-mailmap.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..39028ee1a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-check-mailmap.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +git-check-mailmap(1) +==================== + +NAME +---- +git-check-mailmap - Show canonical names and email addresses of contacts + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'git check-mailmap' [options] <contact>... + + +DESCRIPTION +----------- + +For each ``Name $$<user@host>$$'' or ``$$<user@host>$$'' from the command-line +or standard input (when using `--stdin`), look up the person's canonical name +and email address (see "Mapping Authors" below). If found, print them; +otherwise print the input as-is. + + +OPTIONS +------- +--stdin:: + Read contacts, one per line, from the standard input after exhausting + contacts provided on the command-line. + + +OUTPUT +------ + +For each contact, a single line is output, terminated by a newline. If the +name is provided or known to the 'mailmap', ``Name $$<user@host>$$'' is +printed; otherwise only ``$$<user@host>$$'' is printed. + + +MAPPING AUTHORS +--------------- + +include::mailmap.txt[] + + +GIT +--- +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index ec1739a896..fc02959ba4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ Git imposes the following rules on how references are named: . They cannot contain a sequence `@{`. +. They cannot be the single character `@`. + . They cannot contain a `\`. These rules make it easy for shell script based tools to parse @@ -83,8 +85,7 @@ typed the branch name. OPTIONS ------- ---allow-onelevel:: ---no-allow-onelevel:: +--[no-]allow-onelevel:: Controls whether one-level refnames are accepted (i.e., refnames that do not contain multiple `/`-separated components). The default is `--no-allow-onelevel`. diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 23a9413525..ca118ac6bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -131,9 +131,9 @@ entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored. "--track" in linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. + If no '-b' option is given, the name of the new branch will be -derived from the remote-tracking branch. If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/" -is prefixed it is stripped away, and then the part up to the -next slash (which would be the nickname of the remote) is removed. +derived from the remote-tracking branch, by looking at the local part of +the refspec configured for the corresponding remote, and then stripping +the initial part up to the "*". This would tell us to use "hack" as the local branch when branching off of "origin/hack" (or "remotes/origin/hack", or even "refs/remotes/origin/hack"). If the given name has no slash, or the above diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry.txt index f6c19c734d..2d0daae626 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry.txt @@ -14,8 +14,7 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- The changeset (or "diff") of each commit between the fork-point and <head> is compared against each commit between the fork-point and <upstream>. -The commits are compared with their 'patch id', obtained from -the 'git patch-id' program. +The diffs are compared after removing any whitespace and line numbers. Every commit that doesn't exist in the <upstream> branch has its id (sha1) reported, prefixed by a symbol. The ones that have diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt index bdc3ab80c7..89979228b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <path>... +'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-i] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <path>... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -34,7 +34,13 @@ OPTIONS -f:: --force:: If the Git configuration variable clean.requireForce is not set - to false, 'git clean' will refuse to run unless given -f or -n. + to false, 'git clean' will refuse to run unless given -f, -n or + -i. + +-i:: +--interactive:: + Show what would be done and clean files interactively. See + ``Interactive mode'' for details. -n:: --dry-run:: @@ -63,6 +69,67 @@ OPTIONS Remove only files ignored by Git. This may be useful to rebuild everything from scratch, but keep manually created files. +Interactive mode +---------------- +When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the +files and directories to be cleaned, and goes into its +interactive command loop. + +The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and +gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends +with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given +and type return, like this: + +------------ + *** Commands *** + 1: clean 2: filter by pattern 3: select by numbers + 4: ask each 5: quit 6: help + What now> 1 +------------ + +You also could say `c` or `clean` above as long as the choice is unique. + +The main command loop has 6 subcommands. + +clean:: + + Start cleaning files and directories, and then quit. + +filter by pattern:: + + This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an + "Input ignore patterns>>" prompt. You can input space-seperated + patterns to exclude files and directories from deletion. + E.g. "*.c *.h" will excludes files end with ".c" and ".h" from + deletion. When you are satisfied with the filtered result, press + ENTER (empty) back to the main menu. + +select by numbers:: + + This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an + "Select items to delete>>" prompt. When the prompt ends with double + '>>' like this, you can make more than one selection, concatenated + with whitespace or comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" + to choose 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second number in a + range is omitted, all remaining items are selected. E.g. "7-" to + choose 7,8,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose everything. + Also when you are satisfied with the filtered result, press ENTER + (empty) back to the main menu. + +ask each:: + + This will start to clean, and you must confirm one by one in order + to delete items. Please note that this action is not as efficient + as the above two actions. + +quit:: + + This lets you quit without do cleaning. + +help:: + + Show brief usage of interactive git-clean. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:gitignore[5] diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index 5c16e317f6..450f158779 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [-o <name>] [-b <name>] [-u <upload-pack>] [--reference <repository>] [--separate-git-dir <git dir>] [--depth <depth>] [--[no-]single-branch] - [--recursive|--recurse-submodules] [--] <repository> + [--recursive | --recurse-submodules] [--] <repository> [<directory>] DESCRIPTION @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. with a long history, and would want to send in fixes as patches. ---single-branch:: +--[no-]single-branch:: Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch, either specified by the `--branch` option or the primary branch remote's `HEAD` points at. When creating a shallow @@ -239,8 +239,8 @@ Examples * Clone from upstream: + ------------ -$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.6 my2.6 -$ cd my2.6 +$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux.git my-linux +$ cd my-linux $ make ------------ @@ -257,10 +257,10 @@ $ git show-branch * Clone from upstream while borrowing from an existing local directory: + ------------ -$ git clone --reference my2.6 \ - git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.7 \ - my2.7 -$ cd my2.7 +$ git clone --reference /git/linux.git \ + git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux.git \ + my-linux +$ cd my-linux ------------ @@ -271,13 +271,6 @@ $ git clone --bare -l /home/proj/.git /pub/scm/proj.git ------------ -* Create a repository on the kernel.org machine that borrows from Linus: -+ ------------- -$ git clone --bare -l -s /pub/scm/.../torvalds/linux-2.6.git \ - /pub/scm/.../me/subsys-2.6.git ------------- - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 8172938653..1a7616c73a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--dry-run] [(-c | -C | --fixup | --squash) <commit>] [-F <file> | -m <msg>] [--reset-author] [--allow-empty] [--allow-empty-message] [--no-verify] [-e] [--author=<author>] - [--date=<date>] [--cleanup=<mode>] [--status | --no-status] + [--date=<date>] [--cleanup=<mode>] [--[no-]status] [-i | -o] [-S[<keyid>]] [--] [<file>...] DESCRIPTION diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index 9ae2508f3f..e9917b89a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git config' [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get name [value_regex] 'git config' [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value_regex] 'git config' [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-regexp name_regex [value_regex] +'git config' [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-urlmatch name URL 'git config' [<file-option>] --unset name [value_regex] 'git config' [<file-option>] --unset-all name [value_regex] 'git config' [<file-option>] --rename-section old_name new_name @@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ OPTIONS --get:: Get the value for a given key (optionally filtered by a regex matching the value). Returns error code 1 if the key was not - found and error code 2 if multiple key values were found. + found and the last value if multiple key values were found. --get-all:: Like get, but does not fail if the number of values for the key @@ -95,29 +96,55 @@ OPTIONS in which section and variable names are lowercased, but subsection names are not. +--get-urlmatch name URL:: + When given a two-part name section.key, the value for + section.<url>.key whose <url> part matches the best to the + given URL is returned (if no such key exists, the value for + section.key is used as a fallback). When given just the + section as name, do so for all the keys in the section and + list them. + --global:: - For writing options: write to global ~/.gitconfig file rather than - the repository .git/config, write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file - if this file exists and the ~/.gitconfig file doesn't. + For writing options: write to global `~/.gitconfig` file + rather than the repository `.git/config`, write to + `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config` file if this file exists and the + `~/.gitconfig` file doesn't. + -For reading options: read only from global ~/.gitconfig and from -$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config rather than from all available files. +For reading options: read only from global `~/.gitconfig` and from +`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config` rather than from all available files. + See also <<FILES>>. --system:: - For writing options: write to system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig - rather than the repository .git/config. + For writing options: write to system-wide + `$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig` rather than the repository + `.git/config`. + -For reading options: read only from system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig +For reading options: read only from system-wide `$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig` rather than from all available files. + See also <<FILES>>. +--local:: + For writing options: write to the repository `.git/config` file. + This is the default behavior. ++ +For reading options: read only from the repository `.git/config` rather than +from all available files. ++ +See also <<FILES>>. + -f config-file:: --file config-file:: Use the given config file instead of the one specified by GIT_CONFIG. +--blob blob:: + Similar to '--file' but use the given blob instead of a file. E.g. + you can use 'master:.gitmodules' to read values from the file + '.gitmodules' in the master branch. See "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" + section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7] for a more complete list of + ways to spell blob names. + --remove-section:: Remove the given section from the configuration file. @@ -186,8 +213,7 @@ See also <<FILES>>. Opens an editor to modify the specified config file; either '--system', '--global', or repository (default). ---includes:: ---no-includes:: +--[no-]includes:: Respect `include.*` directives in config files when looking up values. Defaults to on. @@ -198,23 +224,23 @@ FILES If not set explicitly with '--file', there are four files where 'git config' will search for configuration options: -$GIT_DIR/config:: - Repository specific configuration file. - -~/.gitconfig:: - User-specific configuration file. Also called "global" - configuration file. +$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig:: + System-wide configuration file. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config:: Second user-specific configuration file. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set - or empty, $HOME/.config/git/config will be used. Any single-valued + or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/config` will be used. Any single-valued variable set in this file will be overwritten by whatever is in - ~/.gitconfig. It is a good idea not to create this file if + `~/.gitconfig`. It is a good idea not to create this file if you sometimes use older versions of Git, as support for this file was added fairly recently. -$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig:: - System-wide configuration file. +~/.gitconfig:: + User-specific configuration file. Also called "global" + configuration file. + +$GIT_DIR/config:: + Repository specific configuration file. If no further options are given, all reading options will read all of these files that are available. If the global or the system-wide configuration @@ -222,6 +248,10 @@ file are not available they will be ignored. If the repository configuration file is not available or readable, 'git config' will exit with a non-zero error code. However, in neither case will an error message be issued. +The files are read in the order given above, with last value found taking +precedence over values read earlier. When multiple values are taken then all +values of a key from all files will be used. + All writing options will per default write to the repository specific configuration file. Note that this also affects options like '--replace-all' and '--unset'. *'git config' will only ever change one file at a time*. @@ -274,6 +304,13 @@ Given a .git/config like this: gitproxy=proxy-command for kernel.org gitproxy=default-proxy ; for all the rest + ; HTTP + [http] + sslVerify + [http "https://weak.example.com"] + sslVerify = false + cookieFile = /tmp/cookie.txt + you can set the filemode to true with ------------ @@ -359,6 +396,19 @@ RESET=$(git config --get-color "" "reset") echo "${WS}your whitespace color or blue reverse${RESET}" ------------ +For URLs in `https://weak.example.com`, `http.sslVerify` is set to +false, while it is set to `true` for all others: + +------------ +% git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://good.example.com +true +% git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://weak.example.com +false +% git config --get-urlmatch http https://weak.example.com +http.cookiefile /tmp/cookie.txt +http.sslverify false +------------ + include::config.txt[] GIT diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential.txt b/Documentation/git-credential.txt index 7da0f13a5c..b211440373 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential.txt @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ usernames and passwords. The git-credential command exposes this interface to scripts which may want to retrieve, store, or prompt for credentials in the same manner as Git. The design of this scriptable interface models the internal C API; see -link:technical/api-credentials.txt[the Git credential API] for more +link:technical/api-credentials.html[the Git credential API] for more background on the concepts. git-credential takes an "action" option on the command-line (one of diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt index bfb106cccd..223f731523 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt @@ -16,8 +16,10 @@ SYNOPSIS [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=<file>] [--enable=<service>] [--disable=<service>] [--allow-override=<service>] [--forbid-override=<service>] - [--access-hook=<path>] - [--inetd | [--listen=<host_or_ipaddr>] [--port=<n>] [--user=<user> [--group=<group>]] + [--access-hook=<path>] [--[no-]informative-errors] + [--inetd | + [--listen=<host_or_ipaddr>] [--port=<n>] + [--user=<user> [--group=<group>]]] [<directory>...] DESCRIPTION @@ -169,8 +171,7 @@ Git configuration files in that directory are readable by `<user>`. repository configuration. By default, all the services are overridable. ---informative-errors:: ---no-informative-errors:: +--[no-]informative-errors:: When informative errors are turned on, git-daemon will report more verbose errors to the client, differentiating conditions like "no such repository" from "repository not exported". This diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 28e5ec0e2c..d20ca402a1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-describe - Show the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] <committish>... +'git describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] <commit-ish>... 'git describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] --dirty[=<mark>] DESCRIPTION @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ see the -a and -s options to linkgit:git-tag[1]. OPTIONS ------- -<committish>...:: - Committish object names to describe. +<commit-ish>...:: + Commit-ish object names to describe. --dirty[=<mark>]:: Describe the working tree. @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ OPTIONS --candidates=<n>:: Instead of considering only the 10 most recent tags as - candidates to describe the input committish consider + candidates to describe the input commit-ish consider up to <n> candidates. Increasing <n> above 10 will take slightly longer but may produce a more accurate result. An <n> of 0 will cause only exact matches to be output. @@ -88,6 +88,11 @@ OPTIONS --always:: Show uniquely abbreviated commit object as fallback. +--first-parent:: + Follow only the first parent commit upon seeing a merge commit. + This is useful when you wish to not match tags on branches merged + in the history of the target commit. + EXAMPLES -------- @@ -140,7 +145,7 @@ be sufficient to disambiguate these commits. SEARCH STRATEGY --------------- -For each committish supplied, 'git describe' will first look for +For each commit-ish supplied, 'git describe' will first look for a tag which tags exactly that commit. Annotated tags will always be preferred over lightweight tags, and tags with newer dates will always be preferred over tags with older dates. If an exact match @@ -149,10 +154,12 @@ is found, its name will be output and searching will stop. If an exact match was not found, 'git describe' will walk back through the commit history to locate an ancestor commit which has been tagged. The ancestor's tag will be output along with an -abbreviation of the input committish's SHA-1. +abbreviation of the input commit-ish's SHA-1. If '--first-parent' was +specified then the walk will only consider the first parent of each +commit. If multiple tags were found during the walk then the tag which -has the fewest commits different from the input committish will be +has the fewest commits different from the input commit-ish will be selected and output. Here fewest commits different is defined as the number of commits which would be shown by `git log tag..input` will be the smallest number of commits possible. diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt index c0b7c581ad..a86cf62e68 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-diff-index(1) NAME ---- -git-diff-index - Compares content and mode of blobs between the index and repository +git-diff-index - Compare a tree to the working tree or index SYNOPSIS @@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via a tree -object with the content of the current index and, optionally -ignoring the stat state of the file on disk. When paths are -specified, compares only those named paths. Otherwise all -entries in the index are compared. +Compares the content and mode of the blobs found in a tree object +with the corresponding tracked files in the working tree, or with the +corresponding paths in the index. When <path> arguments are present, +compares only paths matching those patterns. Otherwise all tracked +files are compared. OPTIONS ------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt index a7b46208f6..33fbd8c56f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- Show changes between the working tree and the index or a tree, changes -between the index and a tree, changes between two trees, or changes -between two files on disk. +between the index and a tree, changes between two trees, changes between +two blob objects, or changes between two files on disk. 'git diff' [--options] [--] [<path>...]:: @@ -28,10 +28,15 @@ between two files on disk. words, the differences are what you _could_ tell Git to further add to the index but you still haven't. You can stage these changes by using linkgit:git-add[1]. -+ -If exactly two paths are given and at least one points outside -the current repository, 'git diff' will compare the two files / -directories. This behavior can be forced by --no-index. + +'git diff' --no-index [--options] [--] [<path>...]:: + + This form is to compare the given two paths on the + filesystem. You can omit the `--no-index` option when + running the command in a working tree controlled by Git and + at least one of the paths points outside the working tree, + or when running the command outside a working tree + controlled by Git. 'git diff' [--options] --cached [<commit>] [--] [<path>...]:: @@ -56,11 +61,6 @@ directories. This behavior can be forced by --no-index. This is to view the changes between two arbitrary <commit>. -'git diff' [options] <blob> <blob>:: - - This form is to view the differences between the raw - contents of two blob objects. - 'git diff' [--options] <commit>..<commit> [--] [<path>...]:: This is synonymous to the previous form. If <commit> on @@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ and the range notations ("<commit>..<commit>" and "<commit>\...<commit>") do not mean a range as defined in the "SPECIFYING RANGES" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7]. +'git diff' [options] <blob> <blob>:: + + This form is to view the differences between the raw + contents of two blob objects. + OPTIONS ------- :git-diff: 1 diff --git a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt index 8361e6e4e3..11887e63a0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt @@ -69,8 +69,7 @@ with custom merge tool commands and has the same value as `$MERGED`. --tool-help:: Print a list of diff tools that may be used with `--tool`. ---symlinks:: ---no-symlinks:: +--[no-]symlinks:: 'git difftool''s default behavior is create symlinks to the working tree when run in `--dir-diff` mode and the right-hand side of the comparison yields the same content as the file in diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index 03fc8c39d8..85f1f30fdf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -106,11 +106,11 @@ marks the same across runs. different from the commit's first parent). [<git-rev-list-args>...]:: - A list of arguments, acceptable to 'git rev-parse' and - 'git rev-list', that specifies the specific objects and references - to export. For example, `master~10..master` causes the - current master reference to be exported along with all objects - added since its 10th ancestor commit. + A list of arguments, acceptable to 'git rev-parse' and + 'git rev-list', that specifies the specific objects and references + to export. For example, `master~10..master` causes the + current master reference to be exported along with all objects + added since its 10th ancestor commit. EXAMPLES -------- @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Limitations ----------- Since 'git fast-import' cannot tag trees, you will not be -able to export the linux-2.6.git repository completely, as it contains +able to export the linux.git repository completely, as it contains a tag referencing a tree instead of a commit. GIT diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index bf1a02a80d..73f980638e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -361,8 +361,8 @@ and control the current import process. More detailed discussion `--cat-blob-fd` or `stdout` if unspecified. `feature`:: - Require that fast-import supports the specified feature, or - abort if it does not. + Enable the specified feature. This requires that fast-import + supports the specified feature, and aborts if it does not. `option`:: Specify any of the options listed under OPTIONS that do not @@ -380,8 +380,8 @@ change to the project. ('author' (SP <name>)? SP LT <email> GT SP <when> LF)? 'committer' (SP <name>)? SP LT <email> GT SP <when> LF data - ('from' SP <committish> LF)? - ('merge' SP <committish> LF)? + ('from' SP <commit-ish> LF)? + ('merge' SP <commit-ish> LF)? (filemodify | filedelete | filecopy | filerename | filedeleteall | notemodify)* LF? .... @@ -460,9 +460,9 @@ as the current commit on that branch is automatically assumed to be the first ancestor of the new commit. As `LF` is not valid in a Git refname or SHA-1 expression, no -quoting or escaping syntax is supported within `<committish>`. +quoting or escaping syntax is supported within `<commit-ish>`. -Here `<committish>` is any of the following: +Here `<commit-ish>` is any of the following: * The name of an existing branch already in fast-import's internal branch table. If fast-import doesn't know the name, it's treated as a SHA-1 @@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ additional ancestors (forming a 16-way merge). For this reason it is suggested that frontends do not use more than 15 `merge` commands per commit; 16, if starting a new, empty branch. -Here `<committish>` is any of the commit specification expressions +Here `<commit-ish>` is any of the commit specification expressions also accepted by `from` (see above). `filemodify` @@ -677,8 +677,8 @@ paths for a commit are encouraged to do so. `notemodify` ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Included in a `commit` `<notes_ref>` command to add a new note -annotating a `<committish>` or change this annotation contents. -Internally it is similar to filemodify 100644 on `<committish>` +annotating a `<commit-ish>` or change this annotation contents. +Internally it is similar to filemodify 100644 on `<commit-ish>` path (maybe split into subdirectories). It's not advised to use any other commands to write to the `<notes_ref>` tree except `filedeleteall` to delete all existing notes in this tree. @@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ External data format:: commit that is to be annotated. + .... - 'N' SP <dataref> SP <committish> LF + 'N' SP <dataref> SP <commit-ish> LF .... + Here `<dataref>` can be either a mark reference (`:<idnum>`) @@ -704,13 +704,13 @@ Inline data format:: command. + .... - 'N' SP 'inline' SP <committish> LF + 'N' SP 'inline' SP <commit-ish> LF data .... + See below for a detailed description of the `data` command. -In both formats `<committish>` is any of the commit specification +In both formats `<commit-ish>` is any of the commit specification expressions also accepted by `from` (see above). `mark` @@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ lightweight (non-annotated) tags see the `reset` command below. .... 'tag' SP <name> LF - 'from' SP <committish> LF + 'from' SP <commit-ish> LF 'tagger' (SP <name>)? SP LT <email> GT SP <when> LF data .... @@ -786,11 +786,11 @@ branch from an existing commit without creating a new commit. .... 'reset' SP <ref> LF - ('from' SP <committish> LF)? + ('from' SP <commit-ish> LF)? LF? .... -For a detailed description of `<ref>` and `<committish>` see above +For a detailed description of `<ref>` and `<commit-ish>` see above under `commit` and `from`. The `LF` after the command is optional (it used to be required). diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt index b81e90d8e7..444b805d35 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt @@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag] - [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] - [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] - [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...] + [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] + [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] + [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet. --no-progress:: Do not show the progress. +--check-self-contained-and-connected:: + Output "connectivity-ok" if the received pack is + self-contained and connected. + -v:: Run verbosely. diff --git a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt index 3a0f55ec8e..bb1232a52c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt @@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ OPTIONS Do not list one-line descriptions from the actual commits being merged. ---summary:: ---no-summary:: +--[no-]summary:: Synonyms to --log and --no-log; these are deprecated and will be removed in the future. diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 39118774af..9e0ef0eaf3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -187,6 +187,21 @@ will want to ensure that threading is disabled for `git send-email`. The negated form `--no-cc` discards all `Cc:` headers added so far (from config or command line). +--from:: +--from=<ident>:: + Use `ident` in the `From:` header of each commit email. If the + author ident of the commit is not textually identical to the + provided `ident`, place a `From:` header in the body of the + message with the original author. If no `ident` is given, use + the committer ident. ++ +Note that this option is only useful if you are actually sending the +emails and want to identify yourself as the sender, but retain the +original author (and `git am` will correctly pick up the in-body +header). Note also that `git send-email` already handles this +transformation for you, and this option should not be used if you are +feeding the result to `git send-email`. + --add-header=<header>:: Add an arbitrary header to the email headers. This is in addition to any configured headers, and may be used multiple times. @@ -227,6 +242,7 @@ configuration options in linkgit:git-notes[1] to use this workflow). Note that the leading character does not have to be a dot; for example, you can use `--suffix=-patch` to get `0001-description-of-my-change-patch`. +-q:: --quiet:: Do not print the names of the generated files to standard output. diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt index e5878bd97b..25c431d3c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt @@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ index file, all SHA-1 references in `refs` namespace, and all reflogs Print out objects that exist but that aren't reachable from any of the reference nodes. ---dangling:: ---no-dangling:: +--[no-]dangling:: Print objects that exist but that are never 'directly' used (default). `--no-dangling` can be used to omit this information from the output. @@ -78,8 +77,7 @@ index file, all SHA-1 references in `refs` namespace, and all reflogs a blob, the contents are written into the file, rather than its object name. ---progress:: ---no-progress:: +--[no-]progress:: Progress status is reported on the standard error stream by default when it is attached to a terminal, unless --no-progress or --verbose is specified. --progress forces diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index b370b025b8..e158a3b31f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-gc - Cleanup unnecessary files and optimize the local repository SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git gc' [--aggressive] [--auto] [--quiet] [--prune=<date> | --no-prune] +'git gc' [--aggressive] [--auto] [--quiet] [--prune=<date> | --no-prune] [--force] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -62,8 +62,9 @@ automatic consolidation of packs. --prune=<date>:: Prune loose objects older than date (default is 2 weeks ago, - overridable by the config variable `gc.pruneExpire`). This - option is on by default. + overridable by the config variable `gc.pruneExpire`). + --prune=all prunes loose objects regardless of their age. + --prune is on by default. --no-prune:: Do not prune any loose objects. @@ -71,6 +72,10 @@ automatic consolidation of packs. --quiet:: Suppress all progress reports. +--force:: + Force `git gc` to run even if there may be another `git gc` + instance running on this repository. + Configuration ------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 50d46e1a7b..8497aa4494 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [-W | --function-context] [-f <file>] [-e] <pattern> [--and|--or|--not|(|)|-e <pattern>...] - [ [--exclude-standard] [--cached | --no-index | --untracked] | <tree>...] + [ [--[no-]exclude-standard] [--cached | --no-index | --untracked] | <tree>...] [--] [<pathspec>...] DESCRIPTION diff --git a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt index bde8eec30d..7a4e055520 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt @@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ OPTIONS --strict:: Die, if the pack contains broken objects or links. +--check-self-contained-and-connected:: + Die if the pack contains broken links. For internal use only. + --threads=<n>:: Specifies the number of threads to spawn when resolving deltas. This requires that index-pack be compiled with diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index a976534ab8..34097efea7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -62,6 +62,18 @@ produced by --stat etc. Note that only message is considered, if also a diff is shown its size is not included. +-L <start>,<end>:<file>:: +-L :<regex>:<file>:: + + Trace the evolution of the line range given by "<start>,<end>" + (or the funcname regex <regex>) within the <file>. You may + not give any pathspec limiters. This is currently limited to + a walk starting from a single revision, i.e., you may only + give zero or one positive revision arguments. + You can specify this option more than once. ++ +include::line-range-format.txt[] + <revision range>:: Show only commits in the specified revision range. When no <revision range> is specified, it defaults to `HEAD` (i.e. the @@ -84,7 +96,7 @@ include::rev-list-options.txt[] include::pretty-formats.txt[] -Common diff options +COMMON DIFF OPTIONS ------------------- :git-log: 1 @@ -92,7 +104,7 @@ include::diff-options.txt[] include::diff-generate-patch.txt[] -Examples +EXAMPLES -------- `git log --no-merges`:: @@ -115,9 +127,9 @@ Examples 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 + Shows the commits that changed builtin/rev-list.c, including those commits that occurred before the file was given its present name. @@ -140,15 +152,20 @@ Examples This makes sense only when following a strict policy of merging all topic branches when staying on a single integration branch. +`git log -L '/int main/',/^}/:main.c`:: + + Shows how the function `main()` in the file 'main.c' evolved + over time. + `git log -3`:: Limits the number of commits to show to 3. -Discussion +DISCUSSION ---------- include::i18n.txt[] -Configuration +CONFIGURATION ------------- See linkgit:git-config[1] for core variables and linkgit:git-diff[1] diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt index 774de5e9d9..2e22915eb8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt @@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ OPTIONS exit without talking to the remote. <repository>:: - Location of the repository. The shorthand defined in - $GIT_DIR/branches/ can be used. Use "." (dot) to list references in - the local repository. + The "remote" repository to query. This parameter can be + either a URL or the name of a remote (see the GIT URLS and + REMOTES sections of linkgit:git-fetch[1]). <refs>...:: When unspecified, all references, after filtering done @@ -70,9 +70,8 @@ EXAMPLES $ git ls-remote http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git master pu rc 5fe978a5381f1fbad26a80e682ddd2a401966740 refs/heads/master c781a84b5204fb294c9ccc79f8b3baceeb32c061 refs/heads/pu - b1d096f2926c4e37c9c0b6a7bf2119bedaa277cb refs/heads/rc - $ echo http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git >.git/branches/public - $ git ls-remote --tags public v\* + $ git remote add korg http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git + $ git ls-remote --tags korg v\* d6602ec5194c87b0fc87103ca4d67251c76f233a refs/tags/v0.99 f25a265a342aed6041ab0cc484224d9ca54b6f41 refs/tags/v0.99.1 c5db5456ae3b0873fc659c19fafdde22313cc441 refs/tags/v0.99.2 diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt index 97e7a8e9e7..164a3c6ede 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch> +'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--[no-]scissors] <msg> <patch> DESCRIPTION diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt index d7db2a3737..d2fc12ec77 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git merge-file' [-L <current-name> [-L <base-name> [-L <other-name>]]] [--ours|--theirs|--union] [-p|--stdout] [-q|--quiet] [--marker-size=<n>] - <current-file> <base-file> <other-file> + [--[no-]diff3] <current-file> <base-file> <other-file> DESCRIPTION @@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ OPTIONS -q:: Quiet; do not warn about conflicts. +--diff3:: + Show conflicts in "diff3" style. + --ours:: --theirs:: --union:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt index c5f84b6495..58731c1942 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Reads three treeish, and output trivial merge results and +Reads three tree-ish, and output trivial merge results and conflicting stages to the standard output. This is similar to what three-way 'git read-tree -m' does, but instead of storing the results in the index, the command outputs the entries to the diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index 42391f2ae7..a74c3713c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ especially if those changes were further modified after the merge was started), 'git merge --abort' will in some cases be unable to reconstruct the original (pre-merge) changes. Therefore: -*Warning*: Running 'git merge' with uncommitted changes is -discouraged: while possible, it leaves you in a state that is hard to +*Warning*: Running 'git merge' with non-trivial uncommitted changes is +discouraged: while possible, it may leave you in a state that is hard to back out of in the case of a conflict. @@ -76,8 +76,7 @@ The 'git fmt-merge-msg' command can be used to give a good default for automated 'git merge' invocations. ---rerere-autoupdate:: ---no-rerere-autoupdate:: +--[no-]rerere-autoupdate:: Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the result of auto-conflict resolution if possible. @@ -187,11 +186,11 @@ In such a case, you can "unwrap" the tag yourself before feeding it to `git merge`, or pass `--ff-only` when you do not have any work on your own. e.g. ---- +---- git fetch origin git merge v1.2.3^0 git merge --ff-only v1.2.3 ---- +---- HOW CONFLICTS ARE PRESENTED diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt index 6b563c500f..07137f252b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-mergetool - Run merge conflict resolution tools to resolve merge conflicts SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git mergetool' [--tool=<tool>] [-y|--no-prompt|--prompt] [<file>...] +'git mergetool' [--tool=<tool>] [-y | --[no-]prompt] [<file>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-mv.txt b/Documentation/git-mv.txt index e93fcb49fd..b1f79881ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mv.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mv.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -This script is used to move or rename a file, directory or symlink. +Move or rename a file, directory or symlink. git mv [-v] [-f] [-n] [-k] <source> <destination> git mv [-v] [-f] [-n] [-k] <source> ... <destination directory> @@ -44,6 +44,14 @@ OPTIONS --verbose:: Report the names of files as they are moved. +SUBMODULES +---------- +Moving a submodule using a gitfile (which means they were cloned +with a Git version 1.7.8 or newer) will update the gitfile and +core.worktree setting to make the submodule work in the new location. +It also will attempt to update the submodule.<name>.path setting in +the linkgit:gitmodules[5] file and stage that file (unless -n is used). + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt index ad1d1468c9..ca28fb8e2a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git name-rev' [--tags] [--refs=<pattern>] - ( --all | --stdin | <committish>... ) + ( --all | --stdin | <commit-ish>... ) DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -25,14 +25,17 @@ OPTIONS Do not use branch names, but only tags to name the commits --refs=<pattern>:: - Only use refs whose names match a given shell pattern. + Only use refs whose names match a given shell pattern. The pattern + can be one of branch name, tag name or fully qualified ref name. --all:: List all commits reachable from all refs --stdin:: - Read from stdin, append "(<rev_name>)" to all sha1's of nameable - commits, and pass to stdout + Transform stdin by substituting all the 40-character SHA-1 + hexes (say $hex) with "$hex ($rev_name)". When used with + --name-only, substitute with "$rev_name", omitting $hex + altogether. Intended for the scripter's use. --name-only:: Instead of printing both the SHA-1 and the name, print only diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt index c579fbc2b8..8cba16d67f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt @@ -176,13 +176,16 @@ Sync options These options can be used in the initial 'clone' as well as in subsequent 'sync' operations. ---branch <branch>:: - Import changes into given branch. If the branch starts with - 'refs/', it will be used as is. Otherwise if it does not start - with 'p4/', that prefix is added. The branch is assumed to - name a remote tracking, but this can be modified using - '--import-local', or by giving a full ref name. The default - branch is 'master'. +--branch <ref>:: + Import changes into <ref> instead of refs/remotes/p4/master. + If <ref> starts with refs/, it is used as is. Otherwise, if + it does not start with p4/, that prefix is added. ++ +By default a <ref> not starting with refs/ is treated as the +name of a remote-tracking branch (under refs/remotes/). This +behavior can be modified using the --import-local option. ++ +The default <ref> is "master". + This example imports a new remote "p4/proj2" into an existing Git repository: diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt index f131677478..154081f2de 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ Subsequent updates to branches always create new files under `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory hierarchy. A recommended practice to deal with a repository with too many -refs is to pack its refs with `--all --prune` once, and -occasionally run `git pack-refs --prune`. Tags are by +refs is to pack its refs with `--all` once, and +occasionally run `git pack-refs`. Tags are by definition stationary and are not expected to change. Branch heads will be packed with the initial `pack-refs --all`, but only the currently active branch heads will become unpacked, diff --git a/Documentation/git-prune.txt b/Documentation/git-prune.txt index 80d01b0571..bf824108c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-prune.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-prune.txt @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ borrows from your repository via its `.git/objects/info/alternates`: ------------ -$ git prune $(cd ../another && $(git rev-parse --all)) +$ git prune $(cd ../another && git rev-parse --all) ------------ Notes diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index 24ab07a3f8..beea10b148 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-pull(1) NAME ---- -git-pull - Fetch from and merge with another repository or a local branch +git-pull - Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local branch SYNOPSIS @@ -102,12 +102,18 @@ include::merge-options.txt[] :git-pull: 1 -r:: ---rebase:: - Rebase the current branch on top of the upstream branch after - fetching. If there is a remote-tracking branch corresponding to - the upstream branch and the upstream branch was rebased since last - fetched, the rebase uses that information to avoid rebasing - non-local changes. +--rebase[=false|true|preserve]:: + When true, rebase the current branch on top of the upstream + branch after fetching. If there is a remote-tracking branch + corresponding to the upstream branch and the upstream branch + was rebased since last fetched, the rebase uses that information + to avoid rebasing non-local changes. ++ +When preserve, also rebase the current branch on top of the upstream +branch, but pass `--preserve-merges` along to `git rebase` so that +locally created merge commits will not be flattened. ++ +When false, merge the current branch into the upstream branch. + See `pull.rebase`, `branch.<name>.rebase` and `branch.autosetuprebase` in linkgit:git-config[1] if you want to make `git pull` always use diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index eb2883c94c..9eec740910 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git push' [--all | --mirror | --tags] [--follow-tags] [-n | --dry-run] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--repo=<repository>] [-f | --force] [--prune] [-v | --verbose] [-u | --set-upstream] - [<repository> [<refspec>...]] + [--force-with-lease[=<refname>[:<expect>]]] + [--no-verify] [<repository> [<refspec>...]] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -120,7 +121,7 @@ already exists on the remote side. --follow-tags:: Push all the refs that would be pushed without this option, and also push annotated tags in `refs/tags` that are missing - from the remote but are pointing at committish that are + from the remote but are pointing at commit-ish that are reachable from the refs being pushed. --receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>:: @@ -130,12 +131,75 @@ already exists on the remote side. repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in a directory on the default $PATH. +--[no-]force-with-lease:: +--force-with-lease=<refname>:: +--force-with-lease=<refname>:<expect>:: + Usually, "git push" refuses to update a remote ref that is + not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it. ++ +This option bypasses the check, but instead requires that the +current value of the ref to be the expected value. "git push" +fails otherwise. ++ +Imagine that you have to rebase what you have already published. +You will have to bypass the "must fast-forward" rule in order to +replace the history you originally published with the rebased history. +If somebody else built on top of your original history while you are +rebasing, the tip of the branch at the remote may advance with her +commit, and blindly pushing with `--force` will lose her work. ++ +This option allows you to say that you expect the history you are +updating is what you rebased and want to replace. If the remote ref +still points at the commit you specified, you can be sure that no +other people did anything to the ref (it is like taking a "lease" on +the ref without explicitly locking it, and you update the ref while +making sure that your earlier "lease" is still valid). ++ +`--force-with-lease` alone, without specifying the details, will protect +all remote refs that are going to be updated by requiring their +current value to be the same as the remote-tracking branch we have +for them, unless specified with a `--force-with-lease=<refname>:<expect>` +option that explicitly states what the expected value is. ++ +`--force-with-lease=<refname>`, without specifying the expected value, will +protect the named ref (alone), if it is going to be updated, by +requiring its current value to be the same as the remote-tracking +branch we have for it. ++ +`--force-with-lease=<refname>:<expect>` will protect the named ref (alone), +if it is going to be updated, by requiring its current value to be +the same as the specified value <expect> (which is allowed to be +different from the remote-tracking branch we have for the refname, +or we do not even have to have such a remote-tracking branch when +this form is used). ++ +Note that all forms other than `--force-with-lease=<refname>:<expect>` +that specifies the expected current value of the ref explicitly are +still experimental and their semantics may change as we gain experience +with this feature. ++ +"--no-force-with-lease" will cancel all the previous --force-with-lease on the +command line. + -f:: --force:: Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it. - This flag disables the check. This can cause the - remote repository to lose commits; use it with care. + Also, when `--force-with-lease` option is used, the command refuses + to update a remote ref whose current value does not match + what is expected. ++ +This flag disables these checks, and can cause the remote repository +to lose commits; use it with care. ++ +Note that `--force` applies to all the refs that are pushed, hence +using it with `push.default` set to `matching` or with multiple push +destinations configured with `remote.*.push` may overwrite refs +other than the current branch (including local refs that are +strictly behind their remote counterpart). To force a push to only +one branch, use a `+` in front of the refspec to push (e.g `git push +origin +master` to force a push to the `master` branch). See the +`<refspec>...` section above for details. --repo=<repository>:: This option is only relevant if no <repository> argument is @@ -162,8 +226,7 @@ useful if you write an alias or script around 'git push'. linkgit:git-pull[1] and other commands. For more information, see 'branch.<name>.merge' in linkgit:git-config[1]. ---thin:: ---no-thin:: +--[no-]thin:: These options are passed to linkgit:git-send-pack[1]. A thin transfer significantly reduces the amount of sent data when the sender and receiver share many of the same objects in common. The default is @@ -196,6 +259,11 @@ useful if you write an alias or script around 'git push'. be pushed. If on-demand was not able to push all necessary revisions it will also be aborted and exit with non-zero status. +--[no-]verify:: + Toggle the pre-push hook (see linkgit:githooks[5]). The + default is \--verify, giving the hook a chance to prevent the + push. With \--no-verify, the hook is bypassed completely. + include::urls-remotes.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index aca840525e..94e07fdab5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ rebase.stat:: rebase.autosquash:: If set to true enable '--autosquash' option by default. +rebase.autostash:: + If set to true enable '--autostash' option by default. + OPTIONS ------- --onto <newbase>:: @@ -319,7 +322,7 @@ You may find this (or --no-ff with an interactive rebase) helpful after reverting a topic branch merge, as this option recreates the topic branch with fresh commits so it can be remerged successfully without needing to "revert the reversion" (see the -link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for details). +link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for details). --ignore-whitespace:: --whitespace=<option>:: @@ -386,7 +389,9 @@ squash/fixup series. the same ..., automatically modify the todo list of rebase -i so that the commit marked for squashing comes right after the commit to be modified, and change the action of the moved - commit from `pick` to `squash` (or `fixup`). + commit from `pick` to `squash` (or `fixup`). Ignores subsequent + "fixup! " or "squash! " after the first, in case you referred to an + earlier fixup/squash with `git commit --fixup/--squash`. + This option is only valid when the '--interactive' option is used. + @@ -394,6 +399,13 @@ If the '--autosquash' option is enabled by default using the configuration variable `rebase.autosquash`, this option can be used to override and disable this setting. +--[no-]autostash:: + Automatically create a temporary stash before the operation + begins, and apply it after the operation ends. This means + that you can run rebase on a dirty worktree. However, use + with care: the final stash application after a successful + rebase might result in non-trivial conflicts. + --no-ff:: With --interactive, cherry-pick all rebased commits instead of fast-forwarding over the unchanged ones. This ensures that the @@ -404,7 +416,7 @@ Without --interactive, this is a synonym for --force-rebase. You may find this helpful after reverting a topic branch merge, as this option recreates the topic branch with fresh commits so it can be remerged successfully without needing to "revert the reversion" (see the -link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for details). +link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for details). include::merge-strategies.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt index fb8697ea4c..70791b9fd8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt @@ -67,14 +67,19 @@ them. --expire=<time>:: Entries older than this time are pruned. Without the option it is taken from configuration `gc.reflogExpire`, - which in turn defaults to 90 days. + which in turn defaults to 90 days. --expire=all prunes + entries regardless of their age; --expire=never turns off + pruning of reachable entries (but see --expire-unreachable). --expire-unreachable=<time>:: Entries older than this time and not reachable from the current tip of the branch are pruned. Without the option it is taken from configuration `gc.reflogExpireUnreachable`, which in turn defaults to - 30 days. + 30 days. --expire-unreachable=all prunes unreachable + entries regardless of their age; --expire-unreachable=never + turns off early pruning of unreachable entries (but see + --expire). --all:: Instead of listing <refs> explicitly, prune all refs. diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt index 7a6f354680..9c3e3bf83a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git remote' [-v | --verbose] -'git remote add' [-t <branch>] [-m <master>] [-f] [--tags|--no-tags] [--mirror=<fetch|push>] <name> <url> +'git remote add' [-t <branch>] [-m <master>] [-f] [--[no-]tags] [--mirror=<fetch|push>] <name> <url> 'git remote rename' <old> <new> 'git remote remove' <name> 'git remote set-head' <name> (-a | -d | <branch>) @@ -187,18 +187,25 @@ Examples $ git remote origin $ git branch -r -origin/master -$ git remote add linux-nfs git://linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6.git + origin/HEAD -> origin/master + origin/master +$ git remote add staging git://git.kernel.org/.../gregkh/staging.git $ git remote -linux-nfs origin -$ git fetch -* refs/remotes/linux-nfs/master: storing branch 'master' ... - commit: bf81b46 +staging +$ git fetch staging +... +From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging + * [new branch] master -> staging/master + * [new branch] staging-linus -> staging/staging-linus + * [new branch] staging-next -> staging/staging-next $ git branch -r -origin/master -linux-nfs/master -$ git checkout -b nfs linux-nfs/master + origin/HEAD -> origin/master + origin/master + staging/master + staging/staging-linus + staging/staging-next +$ git checkout -b staging staging/master ... ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt index a404b47b7b..f445cb38fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git reset' [-q] [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>... -'git reset' (--patch | -p) [<tree-sh>] [--] [<paths>...] +'git reset' (--patch | -p) [<tree-ish>] [--] [<paths>...] 'git reset' [--soft | --mixed | --hard | --merge | --keep] [-q] [<commit>] DESCRIPTION diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt index 65ac27e0c9..045b37b82e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [ \--right-only ] [ \--cherry-mark ] [ \--cherry-pick ] - [ \--encoding[=<encoding>] ] + [ \--encoding=<encoding> ] [ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ] [ \--regexp-ignore-case | -i ] [ \--extended-regexp | -E ] diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 947d62fd25..d068a65377 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -24,9 +24,23 @@ distinguish between them. OPTIONS ------- + +Operation Modes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Each of these options must appear first on the command line. + --parseopt:: Use 'git rev-parse' in option parsing mode (see PARSEOPT section below). +--sq-quote:: + Use 'git rev-parse' in shell quoting mode (see SQ-QUOTE + section below). In contrast to the `--sq` option below, this + mode does only quoting. Nothing else is done to command input. + +Options for --parseopt +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + --keep-dashdash:: Only meaningful in `--parseopt` mode. Tells the option parser to echo out the first `--` met instead of skipping it. @@ -36,10 +50,8 @@ OPTIONS the first non-option argument. This can be used to parse sub-commands that take options themselves. ---sq-quote:: - Use 'git rev-parse' in shell quoting mode (see SQ-QUOTE - section below). In contrast to the `--sq` option below, this - mode does only quoting. Nothing else is done to command input. +Options for Filtering +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --revs-only:: Do not output flags and parameters not meant for @@ -55,10 +67,29 @@ OPTIONS --no-flags:: Do not output flag parameters. +Options for Output +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + --default <arg>:: If there is no parameter given by the user, use `<arg>` instead. +--prefix <arg>:: + Behave as if 'git rev-parse' was invoked from the `<arg>` + subdirectory of the working tree. Any relative filenames are + resolved as if they are prefixed by `<arg>` and will be printed + in that form. ++ +This can be used to convert arguments to a command run in a subdirectory +so that they can still be used after moving to the top-level of the +repository. For example: ++ +---- +prefix=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix) +cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)" +eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")" +---- + --verify:: Verify that exactly one parameter is provided, and that it can be turned into a raw 20-byte SHA-1 that can be used to @@ -67,7 +98,7 @@ OPTIONS + If you want to make sure that the output actually names an object in your object database and/or can be used as a specific type of object -you require, you can add "^{type}" peeling operator to the parmeter. +you require, you can add "^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter. For example, `git rev-parse "$VAR^{commit}"` will make sure `$VAR` names an existing object that is a commit-ish (i.e. a commit, or an annotated tag that points at a commit). To make sure that `$VAR` @@ -94,6 +125,17 @@ can be used. strip '{caret}' prefix from the object names that already have one. +--abbrev-ref[=(strict|loose)]:: + A non-ambiguous short name of the objects name. + The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict + abbreviation mode. + +--short:: +--short=number:: + Instead of outputting the full SHA-1 values of object names try to + abbreviate them to a shorter unique name. When no length is specified + 7 is used. The minimum length is 4. + --symbolic:: Usually the object names are output in SHA-1 form (with possible '{caret}' prefix); this option makes them output in a @@ -107,16 +149,8 @@ can be used. unfortunately named tag "master"), and show them as full refnames (e.g. "refs/heads/master"). ---abbrev-ref[=(strict|loose)]:: - A non-ambiguous short name of the objects name. - The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict - abbreviation mode. - ---disambiguate=<prefix>:: - Show every object whose name begins with the given prefix. - The <prefix> must be at least 4 hexadecimal digits long to - avoid listing each and every object in the repository by - mistake. +Options for Objects +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --all:: Show all refs found in `refs/`. @@ -139,18 +173,20 @@ shown. If the pattern does not contain a globbing character (`?`, character (`?`, `*`, or `[`), it is turned into a prefix match by appending `/*`. ---show-toplevel:: - Show the absolute path of the top-level directory. +--disambiguate=<prefix>:: + Show every object whose name begins with the given prefix. + The <prefix> must be at least 4 hexadecimal digits long to + avoid listing each and every object in the repository by + mistake. ---show-prefix:: - When the command is invoked from a subdirectory, show the - path of the current directory relative to the top-level - directory. +Options for Files +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---show-cdup:: - When the command is invoked from a subdirectory, show the - path of the top-level directory relative to the current - directory (typically a sequence of "../", or an empty string). +--local-env-vars:: + List the GIT_* environment variables that are local to the + repository (e.g. GIT_DIR or GIT_WORK_TREE, but not GIT_EDITOR). + Only the names of the variables are listed, not their value, + even if they are set. --git-dir:: Show `$GIT_DIR` if defined. Otherwise show the path to @@ -172,17 +208,27 @@ print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status. --is-bare-repository:: When the repository is bare print "true", otherwise "false". ---local-env-vars:: - List the GIT_* environment variables that are local to the - repository (e.g. GIT_DIR or GIT_WORK_TREE, but not GIT_EDITOR). - Only the names of the variables are listed, not their value, - even if they are set. +--resolve-git-dir <path>:: + Check if <path> is a valid repository or a gitfile that + points at a valid repository, and print the location of the + repository. If <path> is a gitfile then the resolved path + to the real repository is printed. ---short:: ---short=number:: - Instead of outputting the full SHA-1 values of object names try to - abbreviate them to a shorter unique name. When no length is specified - 7 is used. The minimum length is 4. +--show-cdup:: + When the command is invoked from a subdirectory, show the + path of the top-level directory relative to the current + directory (typically a sequence of "../", or an empty string). + +--show-prefix:: + When the command is invoked from a subdirectory, show the + path of the current directory relative to the top-level + directory. + +--show-toplevel:: + Show the absolute path of the top-level directory. + +Other Options +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --since=datestring:: --after=datestring:: @@ -197,12 +243,6 @@ print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status. <args>...:: Flags and parameters to be parsed. ---resolve-git-dir <path>:: - Check if <path> is a valid repository or a gitfile that - points at a valid repository, and print the location of the - repository. If <path> is a gitfile then the resolved path - to the real repository is printed. - include::revisions.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt index 70152e8b1e..2de67a5496 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-revert - Revert some existing commits SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git revert' [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] <commit>... +'git revert' [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] <commit>... 'git revert' --continue 'git revert' --quit 'git revert' --abort @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ brought in by the merge. As a result, later merges will only bring in tree changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously reverted merge. This may or may not be what you want. + -See the link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for +See the link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for more details. --no-edit:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt index 1d876c2619..9d731b453d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt @@ -134,14 +134,16 @@ use the following command: git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D -z | xargs -0 git rm --cached ---------------- -Submodules -~~~~~~~~~~ +SUBMODULES +---------- Only submodules using a gitfile (which means they were cloned with a Git version 1.7.8 or newer) will be removed from the work tree, as their repository lives inside the .git directory of the superproject. If a submodule (or one of those nested inside it) still uses a .git directory, `git rm` will fail - no matter if forced -or not - to protect the submodule's history. +or not - to protect the submodule's history. If it exists the +submodule.<name> section in the linkgit:gitmodules[5] file will also +be removed and that file will be staged (unless --cached or -n are used). A submodule is considered up-to-date when the HEAD is the same as recorded in the index, no tracked files are modified and no untracked diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 40a9a9abc1..f0e57a597b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -198,6 +198,12 @@ must be used for each option. --smtp-ssl:: Legacy alias for '--smtp-encryption ssl'. +--smtp-ssl-cert-path:: + Path to ca-certificates (either a directory or a single file). + Set it to an empty string to disable certificate verification. + Defaults to the value set to the 'sendemail.smtpsslcertpath' + configuration variable, if set, or `/etc/ssl/certs` otherwise. + --smtp-user=<user>:: Username for SMTP-AUTH. Default is the value of 'sendemail.smtpuser'; if a username is not specified (with '--smtp-user' or 'sendemail.smtpuser'), diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt index de4d352da2..b0a309b117 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ commit IDs. Results can be filtered using a pattern and tags can be dereferenced into object IDs. Additionally, it can be used to test whether a particular ref exists. +By default, shows the tags, heads, and remote refs. + The --exclude-existing form is a filter that does the inverse, it shows the refs from stdin that don't exist in the local repository. @@ -32,14 +34,14 @@ OPTIONS --head:: - Show the HEAD reference. + Show the HEAD reference, even if it would normally be filtered out. --tags:: --heads:: - Limit to only "refs/heads" and "refs/tags", respectively. These - options are not mutually exclusive; when given both, references stored - in "refs/heads" and "refs/tags" are displayed. + Limit to "refs/heads" and "refs/tags", respectively. These options + are not mutually exclusive; when given both, references stored in + "refs/heads" and "refs/tags" are displayed. -d:: --dereference:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt index ae4edcccfb..4e617e6979 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt @@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ include::pretty-options.txt[] include::pretty-formats.txt[] +COMMON DIFF OPTIONS +------------------- + +:git-log: 1 +include::diff-options.txt[] + +include::diff-generate-patch.txt[] + + EXAMPLES -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-stash.txt b/Documentation/git-stash.txt index 711ffe17a7..db7e803038 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-stash.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-stash.txt @@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git stash' drop [-q|--quiet] [<stash>] 'git stash' ( pop | apply ) [--index] [-q|--quiet] [<stash>] 'git stash' branch <branchname> [<stash>] -'git stash' [save [--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-q|--quiet] +'git stash' [save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-q|--quiet] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [<message>]] 'git stash' clear -'git stash' create +'git stash' create [<message>] +'git stash' store [-m|--message <message>] [-q|--quiet] <commit> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -151,7 +152,15 @@ create:: Create a stash (which is a regular commit object) and return its object name, without storing it anywhere in the ref namespace. + This is intended to be useful for scripts. It is probably not + the command you want to use; see "save" above. +store:: + + Store a given stash created via 'git stash create' (which is a + dangling merge commit) in the stash ref, updating the stash + reflog. This is intended to be useful for scripts. It is + probably not the command you want to use; see "save" above. DISCUSSION ---------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 74d5bdc59d..bfef8a0c62 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git submodule' [--quiet] add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>] - [--reference <repository>] [--] <repository> [<path>] + [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--] <repository> [<path>] 'git submodule' [--quiet] status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...] 'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...] 'git submodule' [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] [--] <path>... 'git submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch] - [-f|--force] [--rebase] [--reference <repository>] + [-f|--force] [--rebase] [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--merge] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...] 'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [--cached|--files] [(-n|--summary-limit) <n>] [commit] [--] [<path>...] @@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ argument <path> is the relative location for the cloned submodule to exist in the superproject. If <path> is not given, the "humanish" part of the source repository is used ("repo" for "/path/to/repo.git" and "foo" for "host.xz:foo/.git"). +The <path> is also used as the submodule's logical name in its +configuration entries unless `--name` is used to specify a logical name. + <repository> is the URL of the new submodule's origin repository. This may be either an absolute URL, or (if it begins with ./ @@ -124,8 +126,10 @@ 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 - and url found in .gitmodules into .git/config. + Initialize the submodules recorded in the index (which were + added and committed elsewhere) by copying submodule + names and urls from .gitmodules to .git/config. + Optional <path> arguments limit which submodules will be initialized. It will also copy the value of `submodule.$name.update` into .git/config. The key used in .git/config is `submodule.$name.url`. @@ -155,7 +159,9 @@ update:: This will make the submodules HEAD be detached unless `--rebase` or `--merge` is specified or the key `submodule.$name.update` is set to `rebase`, `merge` or `none`. `none` can be overridden by specifying - `--checkout`. + `--checkout`. Setting the key `submodule.$name.update` to `!command` + will cause `command` to be run. `command` can be any arbitrary shell + command that takes a single argument, namely the sha1 to update to. + If the submodule is not yet initialized, and you just want to use the setting as stored in .gitmodules, you can automatically initialize the @@ -258,7 +264,7 @@ OPTIONS --remote:: This option is only valid for the update command. Instead of using the superproject's recorded SHA-1 to update the submodule, use the - status of the submodule's remote tracking branch. The remote used + status of the submodule's remote-tracking branch. The remote used is branch's remote (`branch.<name>.remote`), defaulting to `origin`. The remote branch used defaults to `master`, but the branch name may be overridden by setting the `submodule.<name>.branch` option in @@ -324,6 +330,12 @@ for linkgit:git-clone[1]'s `--reference` and `--shared` options carefully. only in the submodules of the current repo, but also in any nested submodules inside those submodules (and so on). +--depth:: + This option is valid for add and update commands. Create a 'shallow' + clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revisions. + See linkgit:git-clone[1] + + <path>...:: Paths to submodule(s). When specified this will restrict the command to only operate on the submodules found at the specified paths. diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 7706d41c87..4dd3bcb511 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ COMMANDS When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will be preserved as a config key. See 'fetch' for a description of '--ignore-paths'. +--include-paths=<regex>;; + When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will + be preserved as a config key. See 'fetch' for a description + of '--include-paths'. --no-minimize-url;; When tracking multiple directories (using --stdlayout, --branches, or --tags options), git svn will attempt to connect @@ -146,6 +150,14 @@ Skip "branches" and "tags" of first level directories;; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- +--include-paths=<regex>;; + This allows one to specify a Perl regular expression that will + cause the inclusion of only matching paths from checkout from SVN. + The '--include-paths' option should match for every 'fetch' + (including automatic fetches due to 'clone', 'dcommit', + 'rebase', etc) on a given repository. '--ignore-paths' takes + precedence over '--include-paths'. + --log-window-size=<n>;; Fetch <n> log entries per request when scanning Subversion history. The default is 100. For very large Subversion repositories, larger @@ -244,7 +256,7 @@ first have already been pushed into SVN. For each patch, one may answer "yes" (accept this patch), "no" (discard this patch), "all" (accept all patches), or "quit". + - 'git svn dcommit' returns immediately if answer if "no" or "quit", without + 'git svn dcommit' returns immediately if answer is "no" or "quit", without committing anything to SVN. 'branch':: @@ -259,13 +271,15 @@ first have already been pushed into SVN. Create a tag by using the tags_subdir instead of the branches_subdir specified during git svn init. --d;; ---destination;; +-d<path>;; +--destination=<path>;; + If more than one --branches (or --tags) option was given to the 'init' or 'clone' command, you must provide the location of the branch (or - tag) you wish to create in the SVN repository. The value of this - option must match one of the paths specified by a --branches (or - --tags) option. You can see these paths with the commands + tag) you wish to create in the SVN repository. <path> specifies which + path to use to create the branch or tag and should match the pattern + on the left-hand side of one of the configured branches or tags + refspecs. You can see these refspecs with the commands + git config --get-all svn-remote.<name>.branches git config --get-all svn-remote.<name>.tags @@ -286,6 +300,11 @@ where <name> is the name of the SVN repository as specified by the -R option to git config --get-all svn-remote.<name>.commiturl + +--parents;; + Create parent folders. This parameter is equivalent to the parameter + --parents on svn cp commands and is useful for non-standard repository + layouts. + 'tag':: Create a tag in the SVN repository. This is a shorthand for 'branch -t'. @@ -1020,6 +1039,25 @@ comma-separated list of names within braces. For example: tags = tags/{1.0,2.0}/src:refs/remotes/tags/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Multiple fetch, branches, and tags keys are supported: + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +[svn-remote "messy-repo"] + url = http://server.org/svn + fetch = trunk/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/trunk + fetch = branches/demos/june-project-a-demo:refs/remotes/project-a/demos/june-demo + branches = branches/server/*:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/* + branches = branches/demos/2011/*:refs/remotes/project-a/2011-demos/* + tags = tags/server/*:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/* +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +Creating a branch in such a configuration requires disambiguating which +location to use using the -d or --destination flag: + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +$ git svn branch -d branches/server release-2-3-0 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + Note that git-svn keeps track of the highest revision in which a branch or tag has appeared. If the subset of branches or tags is changed after fetching, then .git/svn/.metadata must be manually edited to remove (or diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 22894cbee6..c418c44d40 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -42,6 +42,17 @@ committer identity for the current user is used to find the GnuPG key for signing. The configuration variable `gpg.program` is used to specify custom GnuPG binary. +Tag objects (created with `-a`, `s`, or `-u`) are called "annotated" +tags; they contain a creation date, the tagger name and e-mail, a +tagging message, and an optional GnuPG signature. Whereas a +"lightweight" tag is simply a name for an object (usually a commit +object). + +Annotated tags are meant for release while lightweight tags are meant +for private or temporary object labels. For this reason, some git +commands for naming objects (like `git describe`) will ignore +lightweight tags by default. + OPTIONS ------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index 670e9fb2c2..e0a87029cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ SYNOPSIS [--refresh] [-q] [--unmerged] [--ignore-missing] [(--cacheinfo <mode> <object> <file>)...] [--chmod=(+|-)x] - [--assume-unchanged | --no-assume-unchanged] - [--skip-worktree | --no-skip-worktree] + [--[no-]assume-unchanged] + [--[no-]skip-worktree] [--ignore-submodules] [--really-refresh] [--unresolve] [--again | -g] [--info-only] [--index-info] @@ -77,8 +77,7 @@ OPTIONS --chmod=(+|-)x:: Set the execute permissions on the updated files. ---assume-unchanged:: ---no-assume-unchanged:: +--[no-]assume-unchanged:: When these flags are specified, the object names recorded for the paths are not updated. Instead, these options set and unset the "assume unchanged" bit for the @@ -102,8 +101,7 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually. Like '--refresh', but checks stat information unconditionally, without regard to the "assume unchanged" setting. ---skip-worktree:: ---no-skip-worktree:: +--[no-]skip-worktree:: When one of these flags is specified, the object name recorded for the paths are not updated. Instead, these options set and unset the "skip-worktree" bit for the paths. See diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt index 0df13ff6f4..0a0a5512b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-update-ref - Update the object name stored in a ref safely SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git update-ref' [-m <reason>] (-d <ref> [<oldvalue>] | [--no-deref] <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>]) +'git update-ref' [-m <reason>] (-d <ref> [<oldvalue>] | [--no-deref] <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>] | --stdin [-z]) DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -58,6 +58,58 @@ archive by creating a symlink tree). With `-d` flag, it deletes the named <ref> after verifying it still contains <oldvalue>. +With `--stdin`, update-ref reads instructions from standard input and +performs all modifications together. Specify commands of the form: + + update SP <ref> SP <newvalue> [SP <oldvalue>] LF + create SP <ref> SP <newvalue> LF + delete SP <ref> [SP <oldvalue>] LF + verify SP <ref> [SP <oldvalue>] LF + option SP <opt> LF + +Quote fields containing whitespace as if they were strings in C source +code. Alternatively, use `-z` to specify commands without quoting: + + update SP <ref> NUL <newvalue> NUL [<oldvalue>] NUL + create SP <ref> NUL <newvalue> NUL + delete SP <ref> NUL [<oldvalue>] NUL + verify SP <ref> NUL [<oldvalue>] NUL + option SP <opt> NUL + +Lines of any other format or a repeated <ref> produce an error. +Command meanings are: + +update:: + Set <ref> to <newvalue> after verifying <oldvalue>, if given. + Specify a zero <newvalue> to ensure the ref does not exist + after the update and/or a zero <oldvalue> to make sure the + ref does not exist before the update. + +create:: + Create <ref> with <newvalue> after verifying it does not + exist. The given <newvalue> may not be zero. + +delete:: + Delete <ref> after verifying it exists with <oldvalue>, if + given. If given, <oldvalue> may not be zero. + +verify:: + Verify <ref> against <oldvalue> but do not change it. If + <oldvalue> zero or missing, the ref must not exist. + +option:: + Modify behavior of the next command naming a <ref>. + The only valid option is `no-deref` to avoid dereferencing + a symbolic ref. + +Use 40 "0" or the empty string to specify a zero value, except that +with `-z` an empty <oldvalue> is considered missing. + +If all <ref>s can be locked with matching <oldvalue>s +simultaneously, all modifications are performed. Otherwise, no +modifications are performed. Note that while each individual +<ref> is updated or deleted atomically, a concurrent reader may +still see a subset of the modifications. Logging Updates --------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt index ba79cb4f35..5aec4ecffb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ The following browsers (or commands) are currently supported: * dillo * open (this is the default under Mac OS X GUI) * start (this is the default under MinGW) +* cygstart (this is the default under Cygwin) Custom commands may also be specified. diff --git a/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt b/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt index c600b61e2b..8b63ceb00e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt @@ -13,43 +13,17 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Shows commit logs and diff output each commit introduces. The -command internally invokes 'git rev-list' piped to -'git diff-tree', and takes command line options for both of -these commands. -This manual page describes only the most frequently used options. +Shows commit logs and diff output each commit introduces. +New users are encouraged to use linkgit:git-log[1] instead. The +`whatchanged` command is essentially the same as linkgit:git-log[1] +but defaults to show the raw format diff output and to skip merges. -OPTIONS -------- --p:: - Show textual diffs, instead of the Git internal diff - output format that is useful only to tell the changed - paths and their nature of changes. +The command is kept primarily for historical reasons; fingers of +many people who learned Git long before `git log` was invented by +reading Linux kernel mailing list are trained to type it. --<n>:: - Limit output to <n> commits. - -<since>..<until>:: - Limit output to between the two named commits (bottom - exclusive, top inclusive). - --r:: - Show Git internal diff output, but for the whole tree, - not just the top level. - --m:: - By default, differences for merge commits are not shown. - With this flag, show differences to that commit from all - of its parents. -+ -However, it is not very useful in general, although it -*is* useful on a file-by-file basis. - -include::pretty-options.txt[] - -include::pretty-formats.txt[] Examples -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 9e302b0a60..5d68d33e46 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git - the stupid content tracker SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git' [--version] [--help] [-c <name>=<value>] +'git' [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c <name>=<value>] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path] [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare] [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>] @@ -43,12 +43,26 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: +* link:v1.8.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.4] + +* release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.8.4.txt[1.8.4]. + +* link:v1.8.3.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.3.4] + +* release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.8.3.4.txt[1.8.3.4], + link:RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt[1.8.3.3], + link:RelNotes/1.8.3.2.txt[1.8.3.2], + link:RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt[1.8.3.1], + link:RelNotes/1.8.3.txt[1.8.3]. + * link:v1.8.2.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.2.3] * release notes for - link:RelNotes/1.8.2.3.txt[1.8.2.3]. - link:RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt[1.8.2.2]. - link:RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt[1.8.2.1]. + link:RelNotes/1.8.2.3.txt[1.8.2.3], + link:RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt[1.8.2.2], + link:RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt[1.8.2.1], link:RelNotes/1.8.2.txt[1.8.2]. * link:v1.8.1.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.1.6] @@ -381,6 +395,20 @@ displayed. See linkgit:git-help[1] for more information, because `git --help ...` is converted internally into `git help ...`. +-C <path>:: + Run as if git was started in '<path>' instead of the current working + directory. When multiple `-C` options are given, each subsequent + non-absolute `-C <path>` is interpreted relative to the preceding `-C + <path>`. ++ +This option affects options that expect path name like `--git-dir` and +`--work-tree` in that their interpretations of the path names would be +made relative to the working directory caused by the `-C` option. For +example the following invocations are equivalent: + + git --git-dir=a.git --work-tree=b -C c status + git --git-dir=c/a.git --work-tree=c/b status + -c <name>=<value>:: Pass a configuration parameter to the command. The value given will override values from configuration files. @@ -443,10 +471,25 @@ help ...`. linkgit:git-replace[1] for more information. --literal-pathspecs:: - Treat pathspecs literally, rather than as glob patterns. This is - equivalent to setting the `GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS` environment + Treat pathspecs literally (i.e. no globbing, no pathspec magic). + This is equivalent to setting the `GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS` environment variable to `1`. +--glob-pathspecs: + Add "glob" magic to all pathspec. This is equivalent to setting + the `GIT_GLOB_PATHSPECS` environment variable to `1`. Disabling + globbing on individual pathspecs can be done using pathspec + magic ":(literal)" + +--noglob-pathspecs: + Add "literal" magic to all pathspec. This is equivalent to setting + the `GIT_NOGLOB_PATHSPECS` environment variable to `1`. Enabling + globbing on individual pathspecs can be done using pathspec + magic ":(glob)" + +--icase-pathspecs: + Add "icase" magic to all pathspec. This is equivalent to setting + the `GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS` environment variable to `1`. GIT COMMANDS ------------ @@ -677,9 +720,7 @@ Git so take care if using Cogito etc. The '--git-dir' command-line option also sets this value. 'GIT_WORK_TREE':: - Set the path to the working tree. The value will not be - used in combination with repositories found automatically in - a .git directory (i.e. $GIT_DIR is not set). + Set the path to the root of the working tree. This can also be controlled by the '--work-tree' command line option and the core.worktree configuration variable. @@ -811,8 +852,9 @@ for further details. 'GIT_FLUSH':: If this environment variable is set to "1", then commands such as 'git blame' (in incremental mode), 'git rev-list', 'git log', - and 'git whatchanged' will force a flush of the output stream - after each commit-oriented record have been flushed. If this + 'git check-attr' and 'git check-ignore' will + force a flush of the output stream after each record have been + flushed. If this variable is set to "0", the output of these commands will be done using completely buffered I/O. If this environment variable is not set, Git will choose buffered or record-oriented flushing @@ -832,6 +874,19 @@ for further details. as a file path and will try to write the trace messages into it. +'GIT_TRACE_PACK_ACCESS':: + If this variable is set to a path, a file will be created at + the given path logging all accesses to any packs. For each + access, the pack file name and an offset in the pack is + recorded. This may be helpful for troubleshooting some + pack-related performance problems. + +'GIT_TRACE_PACKET':: + If this variable is set, it shows a trace of all packets + coming in or out of a given program. This can help with + debugging object negotiation or other protocol issues. Tracing + is turned off at a packet starting with "PACK". + GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS:: Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all pathspecs literally, rather than as glob patterns. For example, @@ -841,6 +896,18 @@ GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS:: literal paths to Git (e.g., paths previously given to you by `git ls-tree`, `--raw` diff output, etc). +GIT_GLOB_PATHSPECS:: + Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all + pathspecs as glob patterns (aka "glob" magic). + +GIT_NOGLOB_PATHSPECS:: + Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all + pathspecs as literal (aka "literal" magic). + +GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS:: + Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all + pathspecs as case-insensitive. + Discussion[[Discussion]] ------------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt index 9ac5088acd..7d54b77f3c 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ couple of magic command line options: + --------------------------------------------- $ git describe -h -usage: git describe [options] <committish>* +usage: git describe [options] <commit-ish>* or: git describe [options] --dirty --contains find the tag that comes after the commit diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt index f538a870c7..058a352980 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt @@ -534,42 +534,9 @@ all, but just show the actual commit message. In fact, together with the 'git rev-list' program (which generates a list of revisions), 'git diff-tree' ends up being a veritable fount of -changes. A trivial (but very useful) script called 'git whatchanged' is -included with Git which does exactly this, and shows a log of recent -activities. - -To see the whole history of our pitiful little git-tutorial project, you -can do - ----------------- -$ git log ----------------- - -which shows just the log messages, or if we want to see the log together -with the associated patches use the more complex (and much more -powerful) - ----------------- -$ git whatchanged -p ----------------- - -and you will see exactly what has changed in the repository over its -short history. - -[NOTE] -When using the above two commands, the initial commit will be shown. -If this is a problem because it is huge, you can hide it by setting -the log.showroot configuration variable to false. Having this, you -can still show it for each command just adding the `--root` option, -which is a flag for 'git diff-tree' accepted by both commands. - -With that, you should now be having some inkling of what Git does, and -can explore on your own. - -[NOTE] -Most likely, you are not directly using the core -Git Plumbing commands, but using Porcelain such as 'git add', `git-rm' -and `git-commit'. +changes. You can emulate `git log`, `git log -p`, etc. with a trivial +script that pipes the output of `git rev-list` to `git diff-tree --stdin`, +which was exactly how early versions of `git log` were implemented. Tagging a version diff --git a/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt b/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt index 5ab5b0727f..5ea94cbceb 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ points. You can use these, for example, to send all commits to the shared repository to a mailing list. See linkgit:githooks[5]. You can enforce finer grained permissions using update hooks. See -link:howto/update-hook-example.txt[Controlling access to branches using +link:howto/update-hook-example.html[Controlling access to branches using update hooks]. Providing CVS Access to a Git Repository diff --git a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt index 568d75783a..c8b3e51c84 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt @@ -222,26 +222,35 @@ version prefixed with '+'. diffcore-pickaxe: For Detecting Addition/Deletion of Specified String --------------------------------------------------------------------- -This transformation is used to find filepairs that represent -changes that touch a specified string, and is controlled by the --S option and the `--pickaxe-all` option to the 'git diff-*' -commands. - -When diffcore-pickaxe is in use, it checks if there are -filepairs whose "result" side and whose "origin" side have -different number of specified string. Such a filepair represents -"the string appeared in this changeset". It also checks for the -opposite case that loses the specified string. - -When `--pickaxe-all` is not in effect, diffcore-pickaxe leaves -only such filepairs that touch the specified string in its -output. When `--pickaxe-all` is used, diffcore-pickaxe leaves all -filepairs intact if there is such a filepair, or makes the -output empty otherwise. The latter behaviour is designed to -make reviewing of the changes in the context of the whole +This transformation limits the set of filepairs to those that change +specified strings between the preimage and the postimage in a certain +way. -S<block of text> and -G<regular expression> options are used to +specify different ways these strings are sought. + +"-S<block of text>" detects filepairs whose preimage and postimage +have different number of occurrences of the specified block of text. +By definition, it will not detect in-file moves. Also, when a +changeset moves a file wholesale without affecting the interesting +string, diffcore-rename kicks in as usual, and `-S` omits the filepair +(since the number of occurrences of that string didn't change in that +rename-detected filepair). When used with `--pickaxe-regex`, treat +the <block of text> as an extended POSIX regular expression to match, +instead of a literal string. + +"-G<regular expression>" (mnemonic: grep) detects filepairs whose +textual diff has an added or a deleted line that matches the given +regular expression. This means that it will detect in-file (or what +rename-detection considers the same file) moves, which is noise. The +implementation runs diff twice and greps, and this can be quite +expensive. + +When `-S` or `-G` are used without `--pickaxe-all`, only filepairs +that match their respective criterion are kept in the output. When +`--pickaxe-all` is used, if even one filepair matches their respective +criterion in a changeset, the entire changeset is kept. This behavior +is designed to make reviewing changes in the context of the whole changeset easier. - diffcore-order: For Sorting the Output Based on Filenames --------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt index da746419b3..f1f4ca9727 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt @@ -120,6 +120,11 @@ connecting (see the 'connect' command under COMMANDS). When choosing between 'push' and 'export', Git prefers 'push'. Other frontends may have some other order of preference. +'no-private-update':: + When using the 'refspec' capability, git normally updates the + private ref on successful push. This update is disabled when + the remote-helper declares the capability 'no-private-update'. + Capabilities for Fetching ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @@ -143,6 +148,10 @@ Supported commands: 'list', 'fetch'. + Supported commands: 'list', 'import'. +'check-connectivity':: + Can guarantee that when a clone is requested, the received + pack is self contained and is connected. + If a helper advertises 'connect', Git will use it if possible and fall back to another capability if the helper requests so when connecting (see the 'connect' command under COMMANDS). @@ -159,11 +168,11 @@ Miscellaneous capabilities carried out. 'refspec' <refspec>:: - This modifies the 'import' capability, allowing the produced - fast-import stream to modify refs in a private namespace - instead of writing to refs/heads or refs/remotes directly. + For remote helpers that implement 'import' or 'export', this capability + allows the refs to be constrained to a private namespace, instead of + writing to refs/heads or refs/remotes directly. It is recommended that all importers providing the 'import' - capability use this. + capability use this. It's mandatory for 'export'. + A helper advertising the capability `refspec refs/heads/*:refs/svn/origin/branches/*` @@ -174,8 +183,14 @@ ref. This capability can be advertised multiple times. The first applicable refspec takes precedence. The left-hand of refspecs advertised with this capability must cover all refs reported by -the list command. If a helper does not need a specific 'refspec' -capability then it should advertise `refspec *:*`. +the list command. If no 'refspec' capability is advertised, +there is an implied `refspec *:*`. ++ +When writing remote-helpers for decentralized version control +systems, it is advised to keep a local copy of the repository to +interact with, and to let the private namespace refs point to this +local repository, while the refs/remotes namespace is used to track +the remote repository. 'bidi-import':: This modifies the 'import' capability. @@ -270,6 +285,9 @@ Optionally may output a 'lock <file>' line indicating a file under GIT_DIR/objects/pack which is keeping a pack until refs can be suitably updated. + +If option 'check-connectivity' is requested, the helper must output +'connectivity-ok' if the clone is self-contained and connected. ++ Supported if the helper has the "fetch" capability. 'push' +<src>:<dst>:: @@ -416,6 +434,9 @@ set by Git if the remote helper has the 'option' capability. must not rely on this option being set before connect request occurs. +'option check-connectivity' \{'true'|'false'\}:: + Request the helper to check connectivity of a clone. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-remote[1] diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt index d6f3393c5f..aa03882ddb 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt @@ -211,6 +211,9 @@ shallow:: and maintained by shallow clone mechanism. See `--depth` option to linkgit:git-clone[1] and linkgit:git-fetch[1]. +modules:: + Contains the git-repositories of the submodules. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-init[1], diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt index ea0526ecc4..305db633cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt @@ -336,8 +336,26 @@ $home_link_str:: used as the first component of gitweb's "breadcrumb trail": `<home link> / <project> / <action>`. Can be set at build time using the `GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR` variable. By default it is set to "projects", - as this link leads to the list of projects. Other popular choice it to - set it to the name of site. + as this link leads to the list of projects. Another popular choice is to + set it to the name of site. Note that it is treated as raw HTML so it + should not be set from untrusted sources. + +@extra_breadcrumbs:: + Additional links to be added to the start of the breadcrumb trail before + the home link, to pages that are logically "above" the gitweb projects + list, such as the organization and department which host the gitweb + server. Each element of the list is a reference to an array, in which + element 0 is the link text (equivalent to `$home_link_str`) and element + 1 is the target URL (equivalent to `$home_link`). ++ +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/' ], + [ 'dev' => 'https://dev.example.org/' ], + ); +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- $logo_url:: $logo_label:: diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.txt index 40969f1098..cca14b8cc3 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.txt @@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ repositories, you can configure Apache like this: The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under '/pub/git' and will serve them as `http://git.domain.org/dir-under-pub-git`, -both as cloneable Git URL and as browseable gitweb interface. If you then +both as clonable Git URL and as browseable gitweb interface. If you then start your linkgit:git-daemon[1] with `--base-path=/pub/git --export-all` then you can even use the `git://` URL with exactly the same path. diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index 68a18e1497..e4706615be 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -82,6 +82,18 @@ to point at the new commit. to the top <<def_directory,directory>> of the stored revision. +[[def_commit-ish]]commit-ish (also committish):: + A <<def_commit_object,commit object>> or an + <<def_object,object>> that can be recursively dereferenced to + a commit object. + The following are all commit-ishes: + a commit object, + a <<def_tag_object,tag object>> that points to a commit + object, + a tag object that points to a tag object that points to a + commit object, + etc. + [[def_core_git]]core Git:: Fundamental data structures and utilities of Git. Exposes only limited source code management tools. @@ -113,7 +125,7 @@ Note that commands that operate on the history of the current branch while the HEAD is detached. They update the HEAD to point at the tip of the updated history without affecting any branch. Commands that update or inquire information _about_ the current branch (e.g. `git -branch --set-upstream-to` that sets what remote tracking branch the +branch --set-upstream-to` that sets what remote-tracking branch the current branch integrates with) obviously do not work, as there is no (real) current branch to ask about in this state. @@ -267,7 +279,7 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a The default upstream <<def_repository,repository>>. Most projects have at least one upstream project which they track. By default 'origin' is used for that purpose. New upstream updates - will be fetched into remote <<def_remote_tracking_branch,remote-tracking branches>> named + will be fetched into <<def_remote_tracking_branch,remote-tracking branches>> named origin/name-of-upstream-branch, which you can see using `git branch -r`. @@ -322,10 +334,54 @@ and a close parentheses `)`, and the remainder is the pattern to match against the path. + The "magic signature" consists of an ASCII symbol that is not -alphanumeric. Currently only the slash `/` is recognized as a -"magic signature": it makes the pattern match from the root of -the working tree, even when you are running the command from -inside a subdirectory. +alphanumeric. ++ +-- +top `/`;; + The magic word `top` (mnemonic: `/`) makes the pattern match + from the root of the working tree, even when you are running + the command from inside a subdirectory. + +literal;; + Wildcards in the pattern such as `*` or `?` are treated + as literal characters. + +icase;; + Case insensitive match. + +glob;; + Git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable for + consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag: + wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname. + For example, "Documentation/{asterisk}.html" matches + "Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html" + or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html". ++ +Two consecutive asterisks ("`**`") in patterns matched against +full pathname may have special meaning: + + - A leading "`**`" followed by a slash means match in all + directories. For example, "`**/foo`" matches file or directory + "`foo`" anywhere, the same as pattern "`foo`". "**/foo/bar" + matches file or directory "`bar`" anywhere that is directly + under directory "`foo`". + + - A trailing "/**" matches everything inside. For example, + "abc/**" matches all files inside directory "abc", relative + to the location of the `.gitignore` file, with infinite depth. + + - A slash followed by two consecutive asterisks then a slash + matches zero or more directories. For example, "`a/**/b`" + matches "`a/b`", "`a/x/b`", "`a/x/y/b`" and so on. + + - Other consecutive asterisks are considered invalid. ++ +Glob magic is incompatible with literal magic. +-- ++ +Currently only the slash `/` is recognized as the "magic signature", +but it is envisioned that we will support more types of magic in later +versions of Git. + A pathspec with only a colon means "there is no pathspec". This form should not be combined with other pathspec. @@ -383,10 +439,20 @@ should not be combined with other pathspec. to the result. [[def_ref]]ref:: - A 40-byte hex representation of a <<def_SHA1,SHA-1>> or a name that - denotes a particular <<def_object,object>>. They may be stored in - a file under `$GIT_DIR/refs/` directory, or - in the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file. + A name that begins with `refs/` (e.g. `refs/heads/master`) + that points to an <<def_object_name,object name>> or another + ref (the latter is called a <<def_symref,symbolic ref>>). + For convenience, a ref can sometimes be abbreviated when used + as an argument to a Git command; see linkgit:gitrevisions[7] + for details. + Refs are stored in the <<def_repository,repository>>. ++ +The ref namespace is hierarchical. +Different subhierarchies are used for different purposes (e.g. the +`refs/heads/` hierarchy is used to represent local branches). ++ +There are a few special-purpose refs that do not begin with `refs/`. +The most notable example is `HEAD`. [[def_reflog]]reflog:: A reflog shows the local "history" of a ref. In other words, @@ -400,12 +466,13 @@ should not be combined with other pathspec. <<def_ref,ref>> and local ref. [[def_remote_tracking_branch]]remote-tracking branch:: - A regular Git <<def_branch,branch>> that is used to follow changes from - another <<def_repository,repository>>. A remote-tracking - branch should not contain direct modifications or have local commits - made to it. A remote-tracking branch can usually be - identified as the right-hand-side <<def_ref,ref>> in a Pull: - <<def_refspec,refspec>>. + A <<def_ref,ref>> that is used to follow changes from another + <<def_repository,repository>>. It typically looks like + 'refs/remotes/foo/bar' (indicating that it tracks a branch named + 'bar' in a remote named 'foo'), and matches the right-hand-side of + a configured fetch <<def_refspec,refspec>>. A remote-tracking + branch should not contain direct modifications or have local + commits made to it. [[def_repository]]repository:: A collection of <<def_ref,refs>> together with an @@ -485,10 +552,19 @@ should not be combined with other pathspec. with refs to the associated blob and/or tree objects. A <<def_tree,tree>> is equivalent to a <<def_directory,directory>>. -[[def_tree-ish]]tree-ish:: - A <<def_ref,ref>> pointing to either a <<def_commit_object,commit - object>>, a <<def_tree_object,tree object>>, or a <<def_tag_object,tag - object>> pointing to a tag or commit or tree object. +[[def_tree-ish]]tree-ish (also treeish):: + A <<def_tree_object,tree object>> or an <<def_object,object>> + that can be recursively dereferenced to a tree object. + Dereferencing a <<def_commit_object,commit object>> yields the + tree object corresponding to the <<def_revision,revision>>'s + top <<def_directory,directory>>. + The following are all tree-ishes: + a <<def_commit-ish,commit-ish>>, + a tree object, + a <<def_tag_object,tag object>> that points to a tree object, + a tag object that points to a tag object that points to a tree + object, + etc. [[def_unmerged_index]]unmerged index:: An <<def_index,index>> which contains unmerged diff --git a/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt b/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt index 2abc3a0a0e..d7de5a3e9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ your language, document it in the INSTALL file. 6. There is a file command-list.txt in the distribution main directory that categorizes commands by type, so they can be listed in appropriate subsections in the documentation's summary command list. Add an entry -for yours. To understand the categories, look at git-cmmands.txt +for yours. To understand the categories, look at git-commands.txt in the main directory. 7. Give the maintainer one paragraph to include in the RelNotes file diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt index 84dd839db4..85f69dbac9 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ How to revert an existing commit ================================ One of the changes I pulled into the 'master' branch turns out to -break building Git with GCC 2.95. While they were well intentioned +break building Git with GCC 2.95. While they were well-intentioned portability fixes, keeping things working with gcc-2.95 was also important. Here is what I did to revert the change in the 'master' branch and to adjust the 'pu' branch, using core Git tools and @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ $ git pull . master Packing 0 objects Unpacking 0 objects -* committish: e3a693c... refs/heads/master from . +* commit-ish: e3a693c... refs/heads/master from . Trying to merge e3a693c... into 8c1f5f0... using 10d781b... Committed merge 7fb9b7262a1d1e0a47bbfdcbbcf50ce0635d3f8f cache.h | 8 ++++---- diff --git a/Documentation/line-range-format.txt b/Documentation/line-range-format.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d7f26039ca --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/line-range-format.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +<start> and <end> can take one of these forms: + +- number ++ +If <start> or <end> is a number, it specifies an +absolute line number (lines count from 1). ++ + +- /regex/ ++ +This form will use the first line matching the given +POSIX regex. If <start> is a regex, it will search from the end of +the previous `-L` range, if any, otherwise from the start of file. +If <start> is ``^/regex/'', it will search from the start of file. +If <end> is a regex, it will search +starting at the line given by <start>. ++ + +- +offset or -offset ++ +This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number +of lines before or after the line given by <start>. + ++ +If ``:<regex>'' is given in place of <start> and <end>, it denotes the range +from the first funcname line that matches <regex>, up to the next +funcname line. ``:<regex>'' searches from the end of the previous `-L` range, +if any, otherwise from the start of file. +``^:<regex>'' searches from the start of file. diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt index 2adccf8fec..afba8d4f3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt @@ -8,12 +8,13 @@ failed and do not autocommit, to give the user a chance to inspect and further tweak the merge result before committing. --edit:: +-e:: --no-edit:: Invoke an editor before committing successful mechanical merge to further edit the auto-generated merge message, so that the user can explain and justify the merge. The `--no-edit` option can be used to accept the auto-generated message (this is generally - discouraged). The `--edit` option is still useful if you are + discouraged). The `--edit` (or `-e`) option is still useful if you are giving a draft message with the `-m` option from the command line and want to edit it in the editor. + diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt index 5e499421a4..eea0e306a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ people using 80-column terminals. This is a shorthand for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit" used together. ---encoding[=<encoding>]:: +--encoding=<encoding>:: The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt index 94a9d32f1d..18cffc25b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt +++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt @@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ Some short-cut notations are also supported. + * `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`; it requests fetching everything up to the given tag. -* A parameter <ref> without a colon is equivalent to - <ref>: when pulling/fetching, so it merges <ref> into the current - branch without storing the remote branch anywhere locally +ifndef::git-pull[] +* A parameter <ref> without a colon fetches that ref into FETCH_HEAD, +endif::git-pull[] +ifdef::git-pull[] +* A parameter <ref> without a colon merges <ref> into the current + branch, +endif::git-pull[] + and updates the remote-tracking branches (if any). diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index 3bdbf5e856..5bdfb42852 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ if it is part of the log message. --no-min-parents:: --no-max-parents:: - Show only commits which have at least (or at most) that many + Show only commits which have at least (or at most) that many parent commits. In particular, `--max-parents=1` is the same as `--no-merges`, `--min-parents=2` is the same as `--merges`. `--max-parents=0` gives all root commits and `--min-parents=3` all octopus merges. @@ -271,8 +271,8 @@ See also linkgit:git-reflog[1]. --boundary:: - Output uninteresting commits at the boundary, which are usually - not shown. + Output excluded boundary commits. Boundary commits are + prefixed with `-`. -- @@ -342,13 +342,13 @@ In the following, we will always refer to the same example history to illustrate the differences between simplification settings. We assume that you are filtering for a file `foo` in this commit graph: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - .-A---M---N---O---P - / / / / / - I B C D E - \ / / / / - `-------------' + .-A---M---N---O---P---Q + / / / / / / + I B C D E Y + \ / / / / / + `-------------' X ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -The horizontal line of history A---P is taken to be the first parent of +The horizontal line of history A---Q is taken to be the first parent of each merge. The commits are: * `I` is the initial commit, in which `foo` exists with contents @@ -367,8 +367,11 @@ each merge. The commits are: `N` and `D` to "foobarbaz"; i.e., it is not TREESAME to any parent. * `E` changes `quux` to "xyzzy", and its merge `P` combines the - strings to "quux xyzzy". Despite appearing interesting, `P` is - TREESAME to all parents. + strings to "quux xyzzy". `P` is TREESAME to `O`, but not to `E`. + +* `X` is an independent root commit that added a new file `side`, and `Y` + modified it. `Y` is TREESAME to `X`. Its merge `Q` added `side` to `P`, and + `Q` is TREESAME to `P`, but not to `Y`. 'rev-list' walks backwards through history, including or excluding commits based on whether '\--full-history' and/or parent rewriting @@ -410,10 +413,10 @@ parent lines. the example, we get + ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - I A B N D O + I A B N D O P Q ----------------------------------------------------------------------- + -`P` and `M` were excluded because they are TREESAME to a parent. `E`, +`M` was excluded because it is TREESAME to both parents. `E`, `C` and `B` were all walked, but only `B` was !TREESAME, so the others do not appear. + @@ -431,7 +434,7 @@ Along each parent, prune away commits that are not included themselves. This results in + ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - .-A---M---N---O---P + .-A---M---N---O---P---Q / / / / / I B / D / \ / / / / @@ -441,7 +444,7 @@ themselves. This results in Compare to '\--full-history' without rewriting above. Note that `E` was pruned away because it is TREESAME, but the parent list of P was rewritten to contain `E`'s parent `I`. The same happened for `C` and -`N`. Note also that `P` was included despite being TREESAME. +`N`, and `X`, `Y` and `Q`. In addition to the above settings, you can change whether TREESAME affects inclusion: @@ -471,8 +474,9 @@ history according to the following rules: * Set `C'` to `C`. + * Replace each parent `P` of `C'` with its simplification `P'`. In - the process, drop parents that are ancestors of other parents, and - remove duplicates. + the process, drop parents that are ancestors of other parents or that are + root commits TREESAME to an empty tree, and remove duplicates, but take care + to never drop all parents that we are TREESAME to. + * If after this parent rewriting, `C'` is a root or merge commit (has zero or >1 parents), a boundary commit, or !TREESAME, it remains. @@ -490,7 +494,7 @@ The effect of this is best shown by way of comparing to `---------' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- + -Note the major differences in `N` and `P` over '--full-history': +Note the major differences in `N`, `P` and `Q` over '--full-history': + -- * `N`'s parent list had `I` removed, because it is an ancestor of the @@ -498,6 +502,10 @@ Note the major differences in `N` and `P` over '--full-history': + * `P`'s parent list similarly had `I` removed. `P` was then removed completely, because it had one parent and is TREESAME. ++ +* `Q`'s parent list had `Y` simplified to `X`. `X` was then removed, because it + was a TREESAME root. `Q` was then removed completely, because it had one + parent and is TREESAME. -- Finally, there is a fifth simplification mode available: @@ -617,6 +625,10 @@ By default, the commits are shown in reverse chronological order. Show no parents before all of its children are shown, but otherwise show commits in the commit timestamp order. +--author-date-order:: + Show no parents before all of its children are shown, but + otherwise show commits in the author timestamp order. + --topo-order:: Show no parents before all of its children are shown, and avoid showing commits on multiple lines of history @@ -837,7 +849,4 @@ options may be given. See linkgit:git-diff-files[1] for more options. -t:: Show the tree objects in the diff output. This implies '-r'. - --s:: - Suppress diff output. endif::git-rev-list[] diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index d477b3f6bc..2c06ed34ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ the '$GIT_DIR/refs' directory or from the '$GIT_DIR/packed-refs' file. While the ref name encoding is unspecified, UTF-8 is preferred as some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8. +'@':: + '@' alone is a shortcut for 'HEAD'. + '<refname>@\{<date>\}', e.g. 'master@\{yesterday\}', 'HEAD@\{5 minutes ago\}':: A ref followed by the suffix '@' with a date specification enclosed in a brace @@ -111,16 +114,23 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8. '<rev>{caret}\{<type>\}', e.g. 'v0.99.8{caret}\{commit\}':: A suffix '{caret}' followed by an object type name enclosed in - brace pair means the object - could be a tag, and dereference the tag recursively until an - object of that type is found or the object cannot be - dereferenced anymore (in which case, barf). '<rev>{caret}0' + brace pair means dereference the object at '<rev>' recursively until + an object of type '<type>' is found or the object cannot be + dereferenced anymore (in which case, barf). + For example, if '<rev>' is a commit-ish, '<rev>{caret}\{commit\}' + describes the corresponding commit object. + Similarly, if '<rev>' is a tree-ish, '<rev>{caret}\{tree\}' + describes the corresponding tree object. + '<rev>{caret}0' is a short-hand for '<rev>{caret}\{commit\}'. + 'rev{caret}\{object\}' can be used to make sure 'rev' names an object that exists, without requiring 'rev' to be a tag, and without dereferencing 'rev'; because a tag is already an object, it does not have to be dereferenced even once to get to an object. ++ +'rev{caret}\{tag\}' can be used to ensure that 'rev' identifies an +existing tag object. '<rev>{caret}\{\}', e.g. 'v0.99.8{caret}\{\}':: A suffix '{caret}' followed by an empty brace pair diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt index 4a4228b896..f3c1357b7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ where options is the bitwise-or of: on bare repositories. This only makes sense when `RUN_SETUP` is also set. -. Add `builtin-foo.o` to `BUILTIN_OBJS` in `Makefile`. +. Add `builtin/foo.o` to `BUILTIN_OBJS` in `Makefile`. Additionally, if `foo` is a new command, there are 3 more things to do: diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt index 32ddc1cf13..0be2b5159f 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ The parse-options API allows: * Boolean long options can be 'negated' (or 'unset') by prepending `no-`, e.g. `--no-abbrev` instead of `--abbrev`. Conversely, options that begin with `no-` can be 'negated' by removing it. + Other long options can be unset (e.g., set string to NULL, set + integer to 0) by prepending `no-`. * Options and non-option arguments can clearly be separated using the `--` option, e.g. `-a -b --option -- --this-is-a-file` indicates that @@ -174,6 +176,10 @@ There are some macros to easily define options: Introduce an option with date argument, see `approxidate()`. The timestamp is put into `int_var`. +`OPT_EXPIRY_DATE(short, long, &int_var, description)`:: + Introduce an option with expiry date argument, see `parse_expiry_date()`. + The timestamp is put into `int_var`. + `OPT_CALLBACK(short, long, &var, arg_str, description, func_ptr)`:: Introduce an option with argument. The argument will be fed into the function given by `func_ptr` @@ -269,10 +275,10 @@ Examples -------- See `test-parse-options.c` and -`builtin-add.c`, -`builtin-clone.c`, -`builtin-commit.c`, -`builtin-fetch.c`, -`builtin-fsck.c`, -`builtin-rm.c` +`builtin/add.c`, +`builtin/clone.c`, +`builtin/commit.c`, +`builtin/fetch.c`, +`builtin/fsck.c`, +`builtin/rm.c` for real-world examples. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt index b7d0d9a8a7..55b878ade8 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ function. `reset_revision_walk`:: Reset the flags used by the revision walking api. You can use - this to do multiple sequencial revision walks. + this to do multiple sequential revision walks. Data structures --------------- diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt index 4f63a04d7d..540e455689 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt @@ -8,6 +8,42 @@ Talk about * is_inside_git_dir() * is_inside_work_tree() * setup_work_tree() -* get_pathspec() (Dscho) + +Pathspec +-------- + +See glossary-context.txt for the syntax of pathspec. In memory, a +pathspec set is represented by "struct pathspec" and is prepared by +parse_pathspec(). This function takes several arguments: + +- magic_mask specifies what features that are NOT supported by the + following code. If a user attempts to use such a feature, + parse_pathspec() can reject it early. + +- flags specifies other things that the caller wants parse_pathspec to + perform. + +- prefix and args come from cmd_* functions + +get_pathspec() is obsolete and should never be used in new code. + +parse_pathspec() helps catch unsupported features and reject them +politely. At a lower level, different pathspec-related functions may +not support the same set of features. Such pathspec-sensitive +functions are guarded with GUARD_PATHSPEC(), which will die in an +unfriendly way when an unsupported feature is requested. + +The command designers are supposed to make sure that GUARD_PATHSPEC() +never dies. They have to make sure all unsupported features are caught +by parse_pathspec(), not by GUARD_PATHSPEC. grepping GUARD_PATHSPEC() +should give the designers all pathspec-sensitive codepaths and what +features they support. + +A similar process is applied when a new pathspec magic is added. The +designer lifts the GUARD_PATHSPEC restriction in the functions that +support the new magic. At the same time (s)he has to make sure this +new feature will be caught at parse_pathspec() in commands that cannot +handle the new magic in some cases. grepping parse_pathspec() should +help. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..caf941a1c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt @@ -0,0 +1,503 @@ +HTTP transfer protocols +======================= + +Git supports two HTTP based transfer protocols. A "dumb" protocol +which requires only a standard HTTP server on the server end of the +connection, and a "smart" protocol which requires a Git aware CGI +(or server module). This document describes both protocols. + +As a design feature smart clients can automatically upgrade "dumb" +protocol URLs to smart URLs. This permits all users to have the +same published URL, and the peers automatically select the most +efficient transport available to them. + + +URL Format +---------- + +URLs for Git repositories accessed by HTTP use the standard HTTP +URL syntax documented by RFC 1738, so they are of the form: + + http://<host>:<port>/<path>?<searchpart> + +Within this documentation the placeholder $GIT_URL will stand for +the http:// repository URL entered by the end-user. + +Servers SHOULD handle all requests to locations matching $GIT_URL, as +both the "smart" and "dumb" HTTP protocols used by Git operate +by appending additional path components onto the end of the user +supplied $GIT_URL string. + +An example of a dumb client requesting for a loose object: + + $GIT_URL: http://example.com:8080/git/repo.git + URL request: http://example.com:8080/git/repo.git/objects/d0/49f6c27a2244e12041955e262a404c7faba355 + +An example of a smart request to a catch-all gateway: + + $GIT_URL: http://example.com/daemon.cgi?svc=git&q= + URL request: http://example.com/daemon.cgi?svc=git&q=/info/refs&service=git-receive-pack + +An example of a request to a submodule: + + $GIT_URL: http://example.com/git/repo.git/path/submodule.git + URL request: http://example.com/git/repo.git/path/submodule.git/info/refs + +Clients MUST strip a trailing '/', if present, from the user supplied +$GIT_URL string to prevent empty path tokens ('//') from appearing +in any URL sent to a server. Compatible clients MUST expand +'$GIT_URL/info/refs' as 'foo/info/refs' and not 'foo//info/refs'. + + +Authentication +-------------- + +Standard HTTP authentication is used if authentication is required +to access a repository, and MAY be configured and enforced by the +HTTP server software. + +Because Git repositories are accessed by standard path components +server administrators MAY use directory based permissions within +their HTTP server to control repository access. + +Clients SHOULD support Basic authentication as described by RFC 2616. +Servers SHOULD support Basic authentication by relying upon the +HTTP server placed in front of the Git server software. + +Servers SHOULD NOT require HTTP cookies for the purposes of +authentication or access control. + +Clients and servers MAY support other common forms of HTTP based +authentication, such as Digest authentication. + + +SSL +--- + +Clients and servers SHOULD support SSL, particularly to protect +passwords when relying on Basic HTTP authentication. + + +Session State +------------- + +The Git over HTTP protocol (much like HTTP itself) is stateless +from the perspective of the HTTP server side. All state MUST be +retained and managed by the client process. This permits simple +round-robin load-balancing on the server side, without needing to +worry about state management. + +Clients MUST NOT require state management on the server side in +order to function correctly. + +Servers MUST NOT require HTTP cookies in order to function correctly. +Clients MAY store and forward HTTP cookies during request processing +as described by RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1). Servers SHOULD ignore any +cookies sent by a client. + + +General Request Processing +-------------------------- + +Except where noted, all standard HTTP behavior SHOULD be assumed +by both client and server. This includes (but is not necessarily +limited to): + +If there is no repository at $GIT_URL, or the resource pointed to by a +location matching $GIT_URL does not exist, the server MUST NOT respond +with '200 OK' response. A server SHOULD respond with +'404 Not Found', '410 Gone', or any other suitable HTTP status code +which does not imply the resource exists as requested. + +If there is a repository at $GIT_URL, but access is not currently +permitted, the server MUST respond with the '403 Forbidden' HTTP +status code. + +Servers SHOULD support both HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1. +Servers SHOULD support chunked encoding for both request and response +bodies. + +Clients SHOULD support both HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1. +Clients SHOULD support chunked encoding for both request and response +bodies. + +Servers MAY return ETag and/or Last-Modified headers. + +Clients MAY revalidate cached entities by including If-Modified-Since +and/or If-None-Match request headers. + +Servers MAY return '304 Not Modified' if the relevant headers appear +in the request and the entity has not changed. Clients MUST treat +'304 Not Modified' identical to '200 OK' by reusing the cached entity. + +Clients MAY reuse a cached entity without revalidation if the +Cache-Control and/or Expires header permits caching. Clients and +servers MUST follow RFC 2616 for cache controls. + + +Discovering References +---------------------- + +All HTTP clients MUST begin either a fetch or a push exchange by +discovering the references available on the remote repository. + +Dumb Clients +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +HTTP clients that only support the "dumb" protocol MUST discover +references by making a request for the special info/refs file of +the repository. + +Dumb HTTP clients MUST make a GET request to $GIT_URL/info/refs, +without any search/query parameters. + + C: GET $GIT_URL/info/refs HTTP/1.0 + + S: 200 OK + S: + S: 95dcfa3633004da0049d3d0fa03f80589cbcaf31 refs/heads/maint + S: d049f6c27a2244e12041955e262a404c7faba355 refs/heads/master + S: 2cb58b79488a98d2721cea644875a8dd0026b115 refs/tags/v1.0 + S: a3c2e2402b99163d1d59756e5f207ae21cccba4c refs/tags/v1.0^{} + +The Content-Type of the returned info/refs entity SHOULD be +"text/plain; charset=utf-8", but MAY be any content type. +Clients MUST NOT attempt to validate the returned Content-Type. +Dumb servers MUST NOT return a return type starting with +"application/x-git-". + +Cache-Control headers MAY be returned to disable caching of the +returned entity. + +When examining the response clients SHOULD only examine the HTTP +status code. Valid responses are '200 OK', or '304 Not Modified'. + +The returned content is a UNIX formatted text file describing +each ref and its known value. The file SHOULD be sorted by name +according to the C locale ordering. The file SHOULD NOT include +the default ref named 'HEAD'. + + info_refs = *( ref_record ) + ref_record = any_ref / peeled_ref + + any_ref = obj-id HTAB refname LF + peeled_ref = obj-id HTAB refname LF + obj-id HTAB refname "^{}" LF + +Smart Clients +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +HTTP clients that support the "smart" protocol (or both the +"smart" and "dumb" protocols) MUST discover references by making +a parameterized request for the info/refs file of the repository. + +The request MUST contain exactly one query parameter, +'service=$servicename', where $servicename MUST be the service +name the client wishes to contact to complete the operation. +The request MUST NOT contain additional query parameters. + + C: GET $GIT_URL/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.0 + + dumb server reply: + S: 200 OK + S: + S: 95dcfa3633004da0049d3d0fa03f80589cbcaf31 refs/heads/maint + S: d049f6c27a2244e12041955e262a404c7faba355 refs/heads/master + S: 2cb58b79488a98d2721cea644875a8dd0026b115 refs/tags/v1.0 + S: a3c2e2402b99163d1d59756e5f207ae21cccba4c refs/tags/v1.0^{} + + smart server reply: + S: 200 OK + S: Content-Type: application/x-git-upload-pack-advertisement + S: Cache-Control: no-cache + S: + S: 001e# service=git-upload-pack\n + S: 004895dcfa3633004da0049d3d0fa03f80589cbcaf31 refs/heads/maint\0multi_ack\n + S: 0042d049f6c27a2244e12041955e262a404c7faba355 refs/heads/master\n + S: 003c2cb58b79488a98d2721cea644875a8dd0026b115 refs/tags/v1.0\n + S: 003fa3c2e2402b99163d1d59756e5f207ae21cccba4c refs/tags/v1.0^{}\n + +Dumb Server Response +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +Dumb servers MUST respond with the dumb server reply format. + +See the prior section under dumb clients for a more detailed +description of the dumb server response. + +Smart Server Response +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +If the server does not recognize the requested service name, or the +requested service name has been disabled by the server administrator, +the server MUST respond with the '403 Forbidden' HTTP status code. + +Otherwise, smart servers MUST respond with the smart server reply +format for the requested service name. + +Cache-Control headers SHOULD be used to disable caching of the +returned entity. + +The Content-Type MUST be 'application/x-$servicename-advertisement'. +Clients SHOULD fall back to the dumb protocol if another content +type is returned. When falling back to the dumb protocol clients +SHOULD NOT make an additional request to $GIT_URL/info/refs, but +instead SHOULD use the response already in hand. Clients MUST NOT +continue if they do not support the dumb protocol. + +Clients MUST validate the status code is either '200 OK' or +'304 Not Modified'. + +Clients MUST validate the first five bytes of the response entity +matches the regex "^[0-9a-f]{4}#". If this test fails, clients +MUST NOT continue. + +Clients MUST parse the entire response as a sequence of pkt-line +records. + +Clients MUST verify the first pkt-line is "# service=$servicename". +Servers MUST set $servicename to be the request parameter value. +Servers SHOULD include an LF at the end of this line. +Clients MUST ignore an LF at the end of the line. + +Servers MUST terminate the response with the magic "0000" end +pkt-line marker. + +The returned response is a pkt-line stream describing each ref and +its known value. The stream SHOULD be sorted by name according to +the C locale ordering. The stream SHOULD include the default ref +named 'HEAD' as the first ref. The stream MUST include capability +declarations behind a NUL on the first ref. + + smart_reply = PKT-LINE("# service=$servicename" LF) + ref_list + "0000" + ref_list = empty_list / non_empty_list + + empty_list = PKT-LINE(zero-id SP "capabilities^{}" NUL cap-list LF) + + non_empty_list = PKT-LINE(obj-id SP name NUL cap_list LF) + *ref_record + + cap-list = capability *(SP capability) + capability = 1*(LC_ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "_") + LC_ALPHA = %x61-7A + + ref_record = any_ref / peeled_ref + any_ref = PKT-LINE(obj-id SP name LF) + peeled_ref = PKT-LINE(obj-id SP name LF) + PKT-LINE(obj-id SP name "^{}" LF + +Smart Service git-upload-pack +------------------------------ +This service reads from the repository pointed to by $GIT_URL. + +Clients MUST first perform ref discovery with +'$GIT_URL/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack'. + + C: POST $GIT_URL/git-upload-pack HTTP/1.0 + C: Content-Type: application/x-git-upload-pack-request + C: + C: 0032want 0a53e9ddeaddad63ad106860237bbf53411d11a7\n + C: 0032have 441b40d833fdfa93eb2908e52742248faf0ee993\n + C: 0000 + + S: 200 OK + S: Content-Type: application/x-git-upload-pack-result + S: Cache-Control: no-cache + S: + S: ....ACK %s, continue + S: ....NAK + +Clients MUST NOT reuse or revalidate a cached reponse. +Servers MUST include sufficient Cache-Control headers +to prevent caching of the response. + +Servers SHOULD support all capabilities defined here. + +Clients MUST send at least one 'want' command in the request body. +Clients MUST NOT reference an id in a 'want' command which did not +appear in the response obtained through ref discovery unless the +server advertises capability "allow-tip-sha1-in-want". + + compute_request = want_list + have_list + request_end + request_end = "0000" / "done" + + want_list = PKT-LINE(want NUL cap_list LF) + *(want_pkt) + want_pkt = PKT-LINE(want LF) + want = "want" SP id + cap_list = *(SP capability) SP + + have_list = *PKT-LINE("have" SP id LF) + +TODO: Document this further. +TODO: Don't use uppercase for variable names below. + +The Negotiation Algorithm +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The computation to select the minimal pack proceeds as follows +(c = client, s = server): + + init step: + (c) Use ref discovery to obtain the advertised refs. + (c) Place any object seen into set ADVERTISED. + + (c) Build an empty set, COMMON, to hold the objects that are later + determined to be on both ends. + (c) Build a set, WANT, of the objects from ADVERTISED the client + wants to fetch, based on what it saw during ref discovery. + + (c) Start a queue, C_PENDING, ordered by commit time (popping newest + first). Add all client refs. When a commit is popped from + the queue its parents SHOULD be automatically inserted back. + Commits MUST only enter the queue once. + + one compute step: + (c) Send one $GIT_URL/git-upload-pack request: + + C: 0032want <WANT #1>............................... + C: 0032want <WANT #2>............................... + .... + C: 0032have <COMMON #1>............................. + C: 0032have <COMMON #2>............................. + .... + C: 0032have <HAVE #1>............................... + C: 0032have <HAVE #2>............................... + .... + C: 0000 + + The stream is organized into "commands", with each command + appearing by itself in a pkt-line. Within a command line + the text leading up to the first space is the command name, + and the remainder of the line to the first LF is the value. + Command lines are terminated with an LF as the last byte of + the pkt-line value. + + Commands MUST appear in the following order, if they appear + at all in the request stream: + + * want + * have + + The stream is terminated by a pkt-line flush ("0000"). + + A single "want" or "have" command MUST have one hex formatted + SHA-1 as its value. Multiple SHA-1s MUST be sent by sending + multiple commands. + + The HAVE list is created by popping the first 32 commits + from C_PENDING. Less can be supplied if C_PENDING empties. + + If the client has sent 256 HAVE commits and has not yet + received one of those back from S_COMMON, or the client has + emptied C_PENDING it SHOULD include a "done" command to let + the server know it won't proceed: + + C: 0009done + + (s) Parse the git-upload-pack request: + + Verify all objects in WANT are directly reachable from refs. + + The server MAY walk backwards through history or through + the reflog to permit slightly stale requests. + + If no WANT objects are received, send an error: + +TODO: Define error if no want lines are requested. + + If any WANT object is not reachable, send an error: + +TODO: Define error if an invalid want is requested. + + Create an empty list, S_COMMON. + + If 'have' was sent: + + Loop through the objects in the order supplied by the client. + For each object, if the server has the object reachable from + a ref, add it to S_COMMON. If a commit is added to S_COMMON, + do not add any ancestors, even if they also appear in HAVE. + + (s) Send the git-upload-pack response: + + If the server has found a closed set of objects to pack or the + request ends with "done", it replies with the pack. + +TODO: Document the pack based response + S: PACK... + + The returned stream is the side-band-64k protocol supported + by the git-upload-pack service, and the pack is embedded into + stream 1. Progress messages from the server side MAY appear + in stream 2. + + Here a "closed set of objects" is defined to have at least + one path from every WANT to at least one COMMON object. + + If the server needs more information, it replies with a + status continue response: + +TODO: Document the non-pack response + + (c) Parse the upload-pack response: + +TODO: Document parsing response + + Do another compute step. + + +Smart Service git-receive-pack +------------------------------ +This service reads from the repository pointed to by $GIT_URL. + +Clients MUST first perform ref discovery with +'$GIT_URL/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack'. + + C: POST $GIT_URL/git-receive-pack HTTP/1.0 + C: Content-Type: application/x-git-receive-pack-request + C: + C: ....0a53e9ddeaddad63ad106860237bbf53411d11a7 441b40d833fdfa93eb2908e52742248faf0ee993 refs/heads/maint\0 report-status + C: 0000 + C: PACK.... + + S: 200 OK + S: Content-Type: application/x-git-receive-pack-result + S: Cache-Control: no-cache + S: + S: .... + +Clients MUST NOT reuse or revalidate a cached reponse. +Servers MUST include sufficient Cache-Control headers +to prevent caching of the response. + +Servers SHOULD support all capabilities defined here. + +Clients MUST send at least one command in the request body. +Within the command portion of the request body clients SHOULD send +the id obtained through ref discovery as old_id. + + update_request = command_list + "PACK" <binary data> + + command_list = PKT-LINE(command NUL cap_list LF) + *(command_pkt) + command_pkt = PKT-LINE(command LF) + cap_list = *(SP capability) SP + + command = create / delete / update + create = zero-id SP new_id SP name + delete = old_id SP zero-id SP name + update = old_id SP new_id SP name + +TODO: Document this further. + + +References +---------- + +link:http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt[RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL)] +link:http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt[RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1] +link:technical/pack-protocol.html +link:technical/protocol-capabilities.html diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt index 0810251f5a..f352a9b22e 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Git index format A conflict is represented in the index as a set of higher stage entries. When a conflict is resolved (e.g. with "git add path"), these higher - stage entries will be removed and a stage-0 entry with proper resoluton + stage entries will be removed and a stage-0 entry with proper resolution is added. When these higher stage entries are removed, they are saved in the diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt index 8b7ae1c140..b7bd95152e 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt @@ -366,12 +366,6 @@ been detailed! <linus> Yes, we always write out most recent first -For the other record: - - <pasky> njs`: http://pastebin.com/547965 - -The 'net never forgets, so that should be good until the end of time. - <njs`> And, yeah, I got the part about deeper-in-history stuff having worse IO characteristics, one sort of doesn't care. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index f1a51edf47..b898e97988 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -228,8 +228,7 @@ obtained through ref discovery. The client MUST write all obj-ids which it only has shallow copies of (meaning that it does not have the parents of a commit) as 'shallow' lines so that the server is aware of the limitations of -the client's history. Clients MUST NOT mention an obj-id which -it does not know exists on the server. +the client's history. The client now sends the maximum commit history depth it wants for this transaction, which is the number of commits it wants from the diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt index b15517fa06..fd8ffa5df3 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt @@ -18,11 +18,12 @@ was sent. Server MUST NOT ignore capabilities that client requested and server advertised. As a consequence of these rules, server MUST NOT advertise capabilities it does not understand. -The 'report-status' and 'delete-refs' capabilities are sent and +The 'report-status', 'delete-refs', and 'quiet' capabilities are sent and recognized by the receive-pack (push to server) process. -The 'ofs-delta' capability is sent and recognized by both upload-pack -and receive-pack protocols. +The 'ofs-delta' and 'side-band-64k' capabilities are sent and recognized +by both upload-pack and receive-pack protocols. The 'agent' capability +may optionally be sent in both protocols. All other capabilities are only recognized by the upload-pack (fetch from server) process. @@ -123,6 +124,20 @@ Server can send, and client understand PACKv2 with delta referring to its base by position in pack rather than by an obj-id. That is, they can send/read OBJ_OFS_DELTA (aka type 6) in a packfile. +agent +----- + +The server may optionally send a capability of the form `agent=X` to +notify the client that the server is running version `X`. The client may +optionally return its own agent string by responding with an `agent=Y` +capability (but it MUST NOT do so if the server did not mention the +agent capability). The `X` and `Y` strings may contain any printable +ASCII characters except space (i.e., the byte range 32 < x < 127), and +are typically of the form "package/version" (e.g., "git/1.8.3.1"). The +agent strings are purely informative for statistics and debugging +purposes, and MUST NOT be used to programatically assume the presence +or absence of particular features. + shallow ------- @@ -168,7 +183,7 @@ of whether or not there are tags available. report-status ------------- -The upload-pack process can receive a 'report-status' capability, +The receive-pack process can receive a 'report-status' capability, which tells it that the client wants a report of what happened after a packfile upload and reference update. If the pushing client requests this capability, after unpacking and updating references the server @@ -185,3 +200,20 @@ it is capable of accepting a zero-id value as the target value of a reference update. It is not sent back by the client, it simply informs the client that it can be sent zero-id values to delete references. + +quiet +----- + +If the receive-pack server advertises the 'quiet' capability, it is +capable of silencing human-readable progress output which otherwise may +be shown when processing the received pack. A send-pack client should +respond with the 'quiet' capability to suppress server-side progress +reporting if the local progress reporting is also being suppressed +(e.g., via `push -q`, or if stderr does not go to a tty). + +allow-tip-sha1-in-want +---------------------- + +If the upload-pack server advertises this capability, fetch-pack may +send "want" lines with SHA-1s that exist at the server but are not +advertised by upload-pack. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt index 6dc82ca5a8..242a044db9 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ because in-core timestamps can have finer granularity than on-disk timestamps, resulting in meaningless changes when an inode is evicted from the inode cache. See commit 8ce13b0 of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git -([PATCH] Sync in core time granuality with filesystems, +([PATCH] Sync in core time granularity with filesystems, 2005-01-04). Racy Git @@ -135,9 +135,9 @@ them, and give the same timestamp to the index file: $ git ls-files | git update-index --stdin $ touch -r .datestamp .git/index -This will make all index entries racily clean. The linux-2.6 -project, for example, there are over 20,000 files in the working -tree. On my Athlon 64 X2 3800+, after the above: +This will make all index entries racily clean. The linux project, for +example, there are over 20,000 files in the working tree. On my +Athlon 64 X2 3800+, after the above: $ /usr/bin/time git diff-files 1.68user 0.54system 0:02.22elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt index 3ca122faed..9ccb24677e 100644 --- a/Documentation/urls.txt +++ b/Documentation/urls.txt @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ and ftps can be used for fetching and rsync can be used for fetching and pushing, but these are inefficient and deprecated; do not use them). +The native transport (i.e. git:// URL) does no authentication and +should be used with caution on unsecured networks. + The following syntaxes may be used with them: - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ @@ -23,6 +26,12 @@ An alternative scp-like syntax may also be used with the ssh protocol: - {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:path/to/repo.git/ +This syntax is only recognized if there are no slashes before the +first colon. This helps differentiate a local path that contains a +colon. For example the local path `foo:bar` could be specified as an +absolute path or `./foo:bar` to avoid being misinterpreted as an ssh +url. + The ssh and git protocols additionally support ~username expansion: - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ @@ -33,7 +42,7 @@ For local repositories, also supported by Git natively, the following syntaxes may be used: - /path/to/repo.git/ -- file:///path/to/repo.git/ +- \file:///path/to/repo.git/ ifndef::git-clone[] These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except when cloning, when diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index e831cc2020..cbb01a1ea2 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ -Git User's Manual (for version 1.5.3 or newer) -______________________________________________ - +Git User Manual +_______________ Git is a fast distributed revision control system. @@ -57,17 +56,17 @@ download a copy of an existing repository. If you don't already have a project in mind, here are some interesting examples: ------------------------------------------------ - # Git itself (approx. 10MB download): + # Git itself (approx. 40MB download): $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git - # the Linux kernel (approx. 150MB download): -$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git + # the Linux kernel (approx. 640MB download): +$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git ------------------------------------------------ The initial clone may be time-consuming for a large project, but you will only need to clone once. -The clone command creates a new directory named after the project (`git` -or `linux-2.6` in the examples above). After you cd into this +The clone command creates a new directory named after the project +(`git` or `linux` in the examples above). After you cd into this directory, you will see that it contains a copy of the project files, called the <<def_working_tree,working tree>>, together with a special top-level directory named `.git`, which contains all the information @@ -220,7 +219,7 @@ of development leading to that point. The best way to see how this works is using the linkgit:gitk[1] command; running gitk now on a Git repository and looking for merge -commits will help understand how the Git organizes history. +commits will help understand how Git organizes history. In the following, we say that commit X is "reachable" from commit Y if commit X is an ancestor of commit Y. Equivalently, you could say @@ -269,27 +268,23 @@ Creating, deleting, and modifying branches is quick and easy; here's a summary of the commands: `git branch`:: - list all branches + list all branches. `git branch <branch>`:: create a new branch named `<branch>`, referencing the same - point in history as the current branch + point in history as the current branch. `git branch <branch> <start-point>`:: create a new branch named `<branch>`, referencing `<start-point>`, which may be specified any way you like, - including using a branch name or a tag name + including using a branch name or a tag name. `git branch -d <branch>`:: - delete the branch `<branch>`; if the branch you are deleting - points to a commit which is not reachable from the current - branch, this command will fail with a warning. + delete the branch `<branch>`; if the branch is not fully + merged in its upstream branch or contained in the current branch, + this command will fail with a warning. `git branch -D <branch>`:: - even if the branch points to a commit not reachable - from the current branch, you may know that that commit - is still reachable from some other branch or tag. In that - case it is safe to use this command to force Git to delete - the branch. + delete the branch `<branch>` irrespective of its merged status. `git checkout <branch>`:: make the current branch `<branch>`, updating the working - directory to reflect the version referenced by `<branch>` + directory to reflect the version referenced by `<branch>`. `git checkout -b <new> <start-point>`:: create a new branch `<new>` referencing `<start-point>`, and check it out. @@ -313,10 +308,17 @@ referenced by a tag: ------------------------------------------------ $ git checkout v2.6.17 -Note: moving to "v2.6.17" which isn't a local branch -If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so -(now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example: - git checkout -b <new_branch_name> +Note: checking out 'v2.6.17'. + +You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental +changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this +state without impacting any branches by performing another checkout. + +If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may +do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example: + + git checkout -b new_branch_name + HEAD is now at 427abfa... Linux v2.6.17 ------------------------------------------------ @@ -327,7 +329,7 @@ and git branch shows that you are no longer on a branch: $ cat .git/HEAD 427abfa28afedffadfca9dd8b067eb6d36bac53f $ git branch -* (no branch) +* (detached from v2.6.17) master ------------------------------------------------ @@ -431,19 +433,25 @@ You can also track branches from repositories other than the one you cloned from, using linkgit:git-remote[1]: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git remote add linux-nfs git://linux-nfs.org/pub/nfs-2.6.git -$ git fetch linux-nfs -* refs/remotes/linux-nfs/master: storing branch 'master' ... - commit: bf81b46 +$ git remote add staging git://git.kernel.org/.../gregkh/staging.git +$ git fetch staging +... +From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging + * [new branch] master -> staging/master + * [new branch] staging-linus -> staging/staging-linus + * [new branch] staging-next -> staging/staging-next ------------------------------------------------- New remote-tracking branches will be stored under the shorthand name -that you gave `git remote add`, in this case `linux-nfs`: +that you gave `git remote add`, in this case `staging`: ------------------------------------------------- $ git branch -r -linux-nfs/master -origin/master + origin/HEAD -> origin/master + origin/master + staging/master + staging/staging-linus + staging/staging-next ------------------------------------------------- If you run `git fetch <remote>` later, the remote-tracking branches @@ -455,9 +463,9 @@ a new stanza: ------------------------------------------------- $ cat .git/config ... -[remote "linux-nfs"] - url = git://linux-nfs.org/pub/nfs-2.6.git - fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-nfs/* +[remote "staging"] + url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git + fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/staging/* ... ------------------------------------------------- @@ -781,7 +789,7 @@ e05db0fd4f31dde7005f075a84f96b360d05984b ------------------------------------------------- Or you could recall that the `...` operator selects all commits -contained reachable from either one reference or the other but not +reachable from either one reference or the other but not both; so ------------------------------------------------- @@ -808,7 +816,7 @@ You could just visually inspect the commits since e05db0fd: $ gitk e05db0fd.. ------------------------------------------------- -Or you can use linkgit:git-name-rev[1], which will give the commit a +or you can use linkgit:git-name-rev[1], which will give the commit a name based on any tag it finds pointing to one of the commit's descendants: @@ -852,8 +860,8 @@ because it outputs only commits that are not reachable from v1.5.0-rc1. As yet another alternative, the linkgit:git-show-branch[1] command lists the commits reachable from its arguments with a display on the left-hand -side that indicates which arguments that commit is reachable from. So, -you can run something like +side that indicates which arguments that commit is reachable from. +So, if you run something like ------------------------------------------------- $ git show-branch e05db0fd v1.5.0-rc0 v1.5.0-rc1 v1.5.0-rc2 @@ -865,15 +873,15 @@ available ... ------------------------------------------------- -then search for a line that looks like +then a line like ------------------------------------------------- + ++ [e05db0fd] Fix warnings in sha1_file.c - use C99 printf format if available ------------------------------------------------- -Which shows that e05db0fd is reachable from itself, from v1.5.0-rc1, and -from v1.5.0-rc2, but not from v1.5.0-rc0. +shows that e05db0fd is reachable from itself, from v1.5.0-rc1, +and from v1.5.0-rc2, and not from v1.5.0-rc0. [[showing-commits-unique-to-a-branch]] Showing commits unique to a given branch @@ -1068,19 +1076,13 @@ produce no output at that point. Modifying the index is easy: -To update the index with the new contents of a modified file, use +To update the index with the contents of a new or modified file, use ------------------------------------------------- $ git add path/to/file ------------------------------------------------- -To add the contents of a new file to the index, use - -------------------------------------------------- -$ git add path/to/file -------------------------------------------------- - -To remove a file from the index and from the working tree, +To remove a file from the index and from the working tree, use ------------------------------------------------- $ git rm path/to/file @@ -1781,7 +1783,7 @@ $ git pull . branch $ git merge branch ------------------------------------------------- -are roughly equivalent. The former is actually very commonly used. +are roughly equivalent. [[submitting-patches]] Submitting patches to a project @@ -1835,7 +1837,7 @@ Once the index is updated with the results of the conflict resolution, instead of creating a new commit, just run ------------------------------------------------- -$ git am --resolved +$ git am --continue ------------------------------------------------- and Git will create the commit for you and continue applying the @@ -1971,7 +1973,7 @@ $ git clone http://yourserver.com/~you/proj.git ------------------------------------------------- (See also -link:howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt[setup-git-server-over-http] +link:howto/setup-git-server-over-http.html[setup-git-server-over-http] for a slightly more sophisticated setup using WebDAV which also allows pushing over HTTP.) @@ -2156,7 +2158,7 @@ To set this up, first create your work tree by cloning Linus's public tree: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git work +$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git work $ cd work ------------------------------------------------- @@ -2198,7 +2200,7 @@ make it easy to push both branches to your public tree. (See ------------------------------------------------- $ cat >> .git/config <<EOF [remote "mytree"] - url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git + url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux.git push = release push = test EOF @@ -2243,11 +2245,11 @@ commit to this branch. $ ... patch ... test ... commit [ ... patch ... test ... commit ]* ------------------------------------------------- -When you are happy with the state of this change, you can pull it into the +When you are happy with the state of this change, you can merge it into the "test" branch in preparation to make it public: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git checkout test && git pull . speed-up-spinlocks +$ git checkout test && git merge speed-up-spinlocks ------------------------------------------------- It is unlikely that you would have any conflicts here ... but you might if you @@ -2259,7 +2261,7 @@ see the value of keeping each patch (or patch series) in its own branch. It means that the patches can be moved into the `release` tree in any order. ------------------------------------------------- -$ git checkout release && git pull . speed-up-spinlocks +$ git checkout release && git merge speed-up-spinlocks ------------------------------------------------- After a while, you will have a number of branches, and despite the @@ -3185,23 +3187,21 @@ those "loose" objects. You can save space and make Git faster by moving these loose objects in to a "pack file", which stores a group of objects in an efficient compressed format; the details of how pack files are formatted can be -found in link:technical/pack-format.txt[technical/pack-format.txt]. +found in link:technical/pack-format.html[pack format]. To put the loose objects into a pack, just run git repack: ------------------------------------------------ $ git repack -Generating pack... -Done counting 6020 objects. -Deltifying 6020 objects. - 100% (6020/6020) done -Writing 6020 objects. - 100% (6020/6020) done -Total 6020, written 6020 (delta 4070), reused 0 (delta 0) -Pack pack-3e54ad29d5b2e05838c75df582c65257b8d08e1c created. +Counting objects: 6020, done. +Delta compression using up to 4 threads. +Compressing objects: 100% (6020/6020), done. +Writing objects: 100% (6020/6020), done. +Total 6020 (delta 4070), reused 0 (delta 0) ------------------------------------------------ -You can then run +This creates a single "pack file" in .git/objects/pack/ +containing all currently unpacked objects. You can then run ------------------------------------------------ $ git prune @@ -3299,17 +3299,11 @@ state, you can just prune all unreachable objects: $ git prune ------------------------------------------------ -and they'll be gone. But you should only run `git prune` on a quiescent +and they'll be gone. (You should only run `git prune` on a quiescent repository--it's kind of like doing a filesystem fsck recovery: you don't want to do that while the filesystem is mounted. - -(The same is true of `git fsck` itself, btw, but since -`git fsck` never actually *changes* the repository, it just reports -on what it found, `git fsck` itself is never 'dangerous' to run. -Running it while somebody is actually changing the repository can cause -confusing and scary messages, but it won't actually do anything bad. In -contrast, running `git prune` while somebody is actively changing the -repository is a *BAD* idea). +`git prune` is designed not to cause any harm in such cases of concurrent +accesses to a repository but you might receive confusing or scary messages.) [[recovering-from-repository-corruption]] Recovering from repository corruption @@ -3532,7 +3526,7 @@ with Git 1.5.2 can look up the submodule commits in the repository and manually check them out; earlier versions won't recognize the submodules at all. -To see how submodule support works, create (for example) four example +To see how submodule support works, create four example repositories that can be used later as a submodule: ------------------------------------------------- @@ -3634,7 +3628,7 @@ working on a branch. ------------------------------------------------- $ git branch -* (no branch) +* (detached from d266b98) master ------------------------------------------------- @@ -3904,7 +3898,7 @@ fact that such a commit brings together ("merges") two or more previous states represented by other commits. In other words, while a "tree" represents a particular directory state -of a working directory, a "commit" represents that state in "time", +of a working directory, a "commit" represents that state in time, and explains how we got there. You create a commit object by giving it the tree that describes the @@ -3924,8 +3918,7 @@ save the note about that state, in practice we tend to just write the result to the file pointed at by `.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see what the last committed state was. -Here is an ASCII art by Jon Loeliger that illustrates how -various pieces fit together. +Here is a picture that illustrates how various pieces fit together: ------------ @@ -4004,27 +3997,26 @@ to see what the top commit was. Merging multiple trees ---------------------- -Git helps you do a three-way merge, which you can expand to n-way by -repeating the merge procedure arbitrary times until you finally -"commit" the state. The normal situation is that you'd only do one -three-way merge (two parents), and commit it, but if you like to, you -can do multiple parents in one go. +Git can help you perform a three-way merge, which can in turn be +used for a many-way merge by repeating the merge procedure several +times. The usual situation is that you only do one three-way merge +(reconciling two lines of history) and commit the result, but if +you like to, you can merge several branches in one go. -To do a three-way merge, you need the two sets of "commit" objects -that you want to merge, use those to find the closest common parent (a -third "commit" object), and then use those commit objects to find the -state of the directory ("tree" object) at these points. +To perform a three-way merge, you start with the two commits you +want to merge, find their closest common parent (a third commit), +and compare the trees corresponding to these three commits. -To get the "base" for the merge, you first look up the common parent -of two commits with +To get the "base" for the merge, look up the common parent of two +commits: ------------------------------------------------- $ git merge-base <commit1> <commit2> ------------------------------------------------- -which will return you the commit they are both based on. You should -now look up the "tree" objects of those commits, which you can easily -do with (for example) +This prints the name of a commit they are both based on. You should +now look up the tree objects of those commits, which you can easily +do with ------------------------------------------------- $ git cat-file commit <commitname> | head -1 @@ -4146,8 +4138,6 @@ about the data in the object. It's worth noting that the SHA-1 hash that is used to name the object is the hash of the original data plus this header, so `sha1sum` 'file' does not match the object name for 'file'. -(Historical note: in the dawn of the age of Git the hash -was the SHA-1 of the 'compressed' object.) As a result, the general consistency of an object can always be tested independently of the contents or the type of the object: all objects can @@ -4256,15 +4246,16 @@ no longer need to call `setup_pager()` directly). Nowadays, `git log` is a builtin, which means that it is _contained_ in the command `git`. The source side of a builtin is -- a function called `cmd_<bla>`, typically defined in `builtin-<bla>.c`, - and declared in `builtin.h`, +- a function called `cmd_<bla>`, typically defined in `builtin/<bla.c>` + (note that older versions of Git used to have it in `builtin-<bla>.c` + instead), and declared in `builtin.h`. - an entry in the `commands[]` array in `git.c`, and - an entry in `BUILTIN_OBJECTS` in the `Makefile`. Sometimes, more than one builtin is contained in one source file. For -example, `cmd_whatchanged()` and `cmd_log()` both reside in `builtin-log.c`, +example, `cmd_whatchanged()` and `cmd_log()` both reside in `builtin/log.c`, since they share quite a bit of code. In that case, the commands which are _not_ named like the `.c` file in which they live have to be listed in `BUILT_INS` in the `Makefile`. @@ -4287,10 +4278,10 @@ For the sake of clarity, let's stay with `git cat-file`, because it - is plumbing, and - was around even in the initial commit (it literally went only through - some 20 revisions as `cat-file.c`, was renamed to `builtin-cat-file.c` + some 20 revisions as `cat-file.c`, was renamed to `builtin/cat-file.c` when made a builtin, and then saw less than 10 versions). -So, look into `builtin-cat-file.c`, search for `cmd_cat_file()` and look what +So, look into `builtin/cat-file.c`, search for `cmd_cat_file()` and look what it does. ------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -4366,7 +4357,7 @@ Another example: Find out what to do in order to make some script a builtin: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git log --no-merges --diff-filter=A builtin-*.c +$ git log --no-merges --diff-filter=A builtin/*.c ------------------------------------------------- You see, Git is actually the best tool to find out about the source of Git @@ -4668,5 +4659,5 @@ Write a chapter on using plumbing and writing scripts. Alternates, clone -reference, etc. More on recovery from repository corruption. See: - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=117263864820799&w=2 - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=117147855503798&w=2 + http://marc.info/?l=git&m=117263864820799&w=2 + http://marc.info/?l=git&m=117147855503798&w=2 |