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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.4.txt | 32 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pull.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitignore.txt | 30 |
4 files changed, 61 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..925178f608 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Git v1.7.3.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.3.3 +-------------------- + + * Smart HTTP transport used to incorrectly retry redirected POST + request with GET request. + + * "git apply" did not correctly handle patches that only change modes + if told to apply while stripping leading paths with -p option. + + * "git apply" can deal with patches with timezone formatted with a + colon between the hours and minutes part (e.g. "-08:00" instead of + "-0800"). + + * "git cherry-pick" or "git revert" refused to work when a path that + would be modified by the operation was stat-dirty without a real + difference in the contents of the file. + + * "git diff --check" reported an incorrect line number for added + blank lines at the end of file. + + * Setting log.decorate configuration variable to "0" or "1" to mean + "false" or "true" did not work. + + * "git tag -v" did not work with GPG signatures in rfc1991 mode. + + * The post-receive-email sample hook was accidentally broken in 1.7.3.3 + update. + +Other minor fixes and documentation updates are also included. diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index abbc3eb3e0..64009dee31 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -98,8 +98,9 @@ include::merge-options.txt[] fetched, the rebase uses that information to avoid rebasing non-local changes. + -See `branch.<name>.rebase` in linkgit:git-config[1] if you want to make -`git pull` always use `{litdd}rebase` instead of merging. +See `branch.<name>.rebase` and `branch.autosetuprebase` in +linkgit:git-config[1] if you want to make `git pull` always use +`{litdd}rebase` instead of merging. + [NOTE] This is a potentially _dangerous_ mode of operation. diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index c283084272..adbca12b1e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -292,6 +292,9 @@ have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'. Default is the value of 'sendemail.validate'; if this is not set, default to '--validate'. +--force:: + Send emails even if safety checks would prevent it. + CONFIGURATION ------------- diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 7dc2e8b0bc..8416f3445a 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -14,11 +14,8 @@ DESCRIPTION A `gitignore` file specifies intentionally untracked files that git should ignore. -Note that all the `gitignore` files really concern only files -that are not already tracked by git; -in order to ignore uncommitted changes in already tracked files, -please refer to the 'git update-index --assume-unchanged' -documentation. +Files already tracked by git are not affected; see the NOTES +below for details. Each line in a `gitignore` file specifies a pattern. When deciding whether to ignore a path, git normally checks @@ -62,7 +59,8 @@ files specified by command-line options. Higher-level git tools, such as 'git status' and 'git add', use patterns from the sources specified above. -Patterns have the following format: +PATTERN FORMAT +-------------- - A blank line matches no files, so it can serve as a separator for readability. @@ -98,7 +96,20 @@ Patterns have the following format: For example, "/{asterisk}.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c". -An example: +NOTES +----- + +The purpose of gitignore files is to ensure that certain files +not tracked by git remain untracked. + +To ignore uncommitted changes in a file that is already tracked, +use 'git update-index {litdd}assume-unchanged'. + +To stop tracking a file that is currently tracked, use +'git rm --cached'. + +EXAMPLES +-------- -------------------------------------------------------------- $ git status @@ -140,6 +151,11 @@ Another example: The second .gitignore prevents git from ignoring `arch/foo/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S`. +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-rm[1], linkgit:git-update-index[1], +linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] + Documentation ------------- Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano, Josh Triplett, |