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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt | 58 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-count-objects.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-hash-object.txt | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-imap-send.txt | 78 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-merge-base.txt | 77 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-merge.txt | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 4 |
14 files changed, 291 insertions, 43 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d37da039f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +GIT v1.6.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.6.0 +-------------------- + +When some commands (e.g. "git log", "git diff") spawn pager internally, we +used to make the pager the parent process of the git command that produces +output. This meant that the exit status of the whole thing comes from the +pager, not the underlying git command. We swapped the order of the +processes around and you will see the exit code from the command from now +on. + +(subsystems) + +* ... + +(portability) + +* ... + +(documentation) + +* ... + +(performance) + +* The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been + optimized, which would result in faster "git blame" processing. + +(usability, bells and whistles) + +* "git checkout --track origin/hack" used to be a syntax error. It now + DWIMs to create a corresponding local branch "hack", i.e. acts as if you + said "git checkout --track -b hack origin/hack". + +* "git diff" learned to mimick --suppress-blank-empty from GNU diff via a + configuration option. + +* "git imap-send" can optionally talk SSL. + +(internal) + +* "git hash-object" learned to lie about the path being hashed, so that + correct gitattributes processing can be done while hashing contents + stored in a temporary file. + +Fixes since v1.6.0 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.6.0.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.6.0-48-ge28a867 +echo O=$(git describe master) +git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 841bead9db..a1e9100f9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ run git diff --check on your changes before you commit. (1a) Try to be nice to older C compilers -We try to support wide range of C compilers to compile +We try to support a wide range of C compilers to compile git with. That means that you should not use C99 initializers, even if a lot of compilers grok it. diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 81f981509a..af57d94304 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -572,6 +572,10 @@ diff.autorefreshindex:: affects only 'git-diff' Porcelain, and not lower level 'diff' commands, such as 'git-diff-files'. +diff.suppress-blank-empty:: + A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space + before each empty output line. Defaults to false. + diff.external:: If this config variable is set, diff generation is not performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index cba90fd27c..1759386404 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -107,9 +107,9 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --exit-code. --full-index:: - Instead of the first handful characters, show full - object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index" - line when generating a patch format output. + Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full + pre- and post-image blob object names on the "index" + line when generating patch format output. --binary:: In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 5aa69c0e12..be54a0299f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-checkout - Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [[--track | --no-track] -b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>] +'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [--track | --no-track] [-b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>] 'git checkout' [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>... DESCRIPTION @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ specified, <new_branch>. Using -b will cause <new_branch> to be created; in this case you can use the --track or --no-track options, which will be passed to `git branch`. +As a convenience, --track will default to create a branch whose +name is constructed from the specified branch name by stripping +the first namespace level. + When <paths> are given, this command does *not* switch branches. It updates the named paths in the working tree from the index file (i.e. it runs `git checkout-index -f -u`), or @@ -59,6 +63,17 @@ OPTIONS 'git-checkout' and 'git-branch' to always behave as if '--no-track' were given. Set it to `always` if you want this behavior when the start-point is either a local or remote branch. ++ +If no '-b' option was given, the name of the new branch will be +derived from the remote branch, by attempting to guess the name +of the branch on remote system. If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/" +are prefixed, it is stripped away, and then the part up to the +next slash (which would be the nickname of the remote) is removed. +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 +guessing results in an empty name, the guessing is aborted. You can +exlicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case. --no-track:: Ignore the branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable. diff --git a/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt index 75a8da1ca9..6bc1c21e62 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt @@ -21,8 +21,9 @@ OPTIONS --verbose:: In addition to the number of loose objects and disk space consumed, it reports the number of in-pack - objects, number of packs, and number of objects that can be - removed by running `git prune-packed`. + objects, number of packs, disk space consumed by those packs, + and number of objects that can be removed by running + `git prune-packed`. Author diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt index 1fdf20dcc9..5d48664e62 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt @@ -49,13 +49,22 @@ include::diff-options.txt[] --stdin:: When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take <tree-ish> arguments from the command line. Instead, it - reads either one <commit> or a list of <commit> - separated with a single space from its standard input. + reads lines containing either two <tree>, one <commit>, or a + list of <commit> from its standard input. (Use a single space + as separator.) + -When a single commit is given on one line of such input, it compares -the commit with its parents. The following flags further affects its -behavior. The remaining commits, when given, are used as if they are +When two trees are given, it compares the first tree with the second. +When a single commit is given, it compares the commit with its +parents. The remaining commits, when given, are used as if they are parents of the first commit. ++ +When comparing two trees, the ID of both trees (separated by a space +and terminated by a newline) is printed before the difference. When +comparing commits, the ID of the first (or only) commit, followed by a +newline, is printed. ++ +The following flags further affects the behavior when comparing +commits (but not trees). -m:: By default, 'git-diff-tree --stdin' does not show diff --git a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt index ac928e198e..0af40cfb85 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt @@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ git-hash-object - Compute object ID and optionally creates a blob from a file SYNOPSIS -------- -'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--stdin | --stdin-paths] [--] <file>... +[verse] +'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--path=<file>|--no-filters] [--stdin] [--] <file>... +'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] --stdin-paths < <list-of-paths> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -35,6 +37,22 @@ OPTIONS --stdin-paths:: Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line. +--path:: + Hash object as it were located at the given path. The location of + file does not directly influence on the hash value, but path is + used to determine what git filters should be applied to the object + before it can be placed to the object database, and, as result of + applying filters, the actual blob put into the object database may + differ from the given file. This option is mainly useful for hashing + temporary files located outside of the working directory or files + read from stdin. + +--no-filters:: + Hash the contents as is, ignoring any input filter that would + have been chosen by the attributes mechanism, including crlf + conversion. If the file is read from standard input then this + is always implied, unless the --path option is given. + Author ------ Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> diff --git a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt index b3d8da33ee..bd49a0aee8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-imap-send(1) NAME ---- -git-imap-send - Dump a mailbox from stdin into an imap folder +git-imap-send - Send a collection of patches from stdin to an IMAP folder SYNOPSIS @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -This command uploads a mailbox generated with git-format-patch -into an imap drafts folder. This allows patches to be sent as -other email is sent with mail clients that cannot read mailbox +This command uploads a mailbox generated with 'git-format-patch' +into an IMAP drafts folder. This allows patches to be sent as +other email is when using mail clients that cannot read mailbox files directly. Typical usage is something like: @@ -26,21 +26,75 @@ git format-patch --signoff --stdout --attach origin | git imap-send CONFIGURATION ------------- -'git-imap-send' requires the following values in the repository -configuration file (shown with examples): +To use the tool, imap.folder and either imap.tunnel or imap.host must be set +to appropriate values. + +Variables +~~~~~~~~~ + +imap.folder:: + The folder to drop the mails into, which is typically the Drafts + folder. For example: "INBOX.Drafts", "INBOX/Drafts" or + "[Gmail]/Drafts". Required to use imap-send. + +imap.tunnel:: + Command used to setup a tunnel to the IMAP server through which + commands will be piped instead of using a direct network connection + to the server. Required when imap.host is not set to use imap-send. + +imap.host:: + A URL identifying the server. Use a `imap://` prefix for non-secure + connections and a `imaps://` prefix for secure connections. + Ignored when imap.tunnel is set, but required to use imap-send + otherwise. + +imap.user:: + The username to use when logging in to the server. + +imap.password:: + The password to use when logging in to the server. + +imap.port:: + An integer port number to connect to on the server. + Defaults to 143 for imap:// hosts and 993 for imaps:// hosts. + Ignored when imap.tunnel is set. + +imap.sslverify:: + A boolean to enable/disable verification of the server certificate + used by the SSL/TLS connection. Default is `true`. Ignored when + imap.tunnel is set. + +Examples +~~~~~~~~ + +Using tunnel mode: .......................... [imap] - Folder = "INBOX.Drafts" + folder = "INBOX.Drafts" + tunnel = "ssh -q -C user@example.com /usr/bin/imapd ./Maildir 2> /dev/null" +.......................... +Using direct mode: + +......................... [imap] - Tunnel = "ssh -q user@server.com /usr/bin/imapd ./Maildir 2> /dev/null" + folder = "INBOX.Drafts" + host = imap://imap.example.com + user = bob + pass = p4ssw0rd +.......................... + +Using direct mode with SSL: +......................... [imap] - Host = imap.server.com - User = bob - Pass = pwd - Port = 143 + folder = "INBOX.Drafts" + host = imaps://imap.example.com + user = bob + pass = p4ssw0rd + port = 123 + sslverify = false .......................... diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt index 1a7ecbf8f3..2f0c5259e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt @@ -8,26 +8,81 @@ git-merge-base - Find as good common ancestors as possible for a merge SYNOPSIS -------- -'git merge-base' [--all] <commit> <commit> +'git merge-base' [--all] <commit> <commit>... DESCRIPTION ----------- -'git-merge-base' finds as good a common ancestor as possible between -the two commits. That is, given two commits A and B, `git merge-base A -B` will output a commit which is reachable from both A and B through -the parent relationship. +'git-merge-base' finds best common ancestor(s) between two commits to use +in a three-way merge. One common ancestor is 'better' than another common +ancestor if the latter is an ancestor of the former. A common ancestor +that does not have any better common ancestor than it is a 'best common +ancestor', i.e. a 'merge base'. Note that there can be more than one +merge bases between two commits. -Given a selection of equally good common ancestors it should not be -relied on to decide in any particular way. - -The 'git-merge-base' algorithm is still in flux - use the source... +Among the two commits to compute their merge bases, one is specified by +the first commit argument on the command line; the other commit is a +(possibly hypothetical) commit that is a merge across all the remaining +commits on the command line. As the most common special case, giving only +two commits from the command line means computing the merge base between +the given two commits. OPTIONS ------- --all:: - Output all common ancestors for the two commits instead of - just one. + Output all merge bases for the commits, instead of just one. + +DISCUSSION +---------- + +Given two commits 'A' and 'B', `git merge-base A B` will output a commit +which is reachable from both 'A' and 'B' through the parent relationship. + +For example, with this topology: + + o---o---o---B + / + ---o---1---o---o---o---A + +the merge base between 'A' and 'B' is '1'. + +Given three commits 'A', 'B' and 'C', `git merge-base A B C` will compute the +merge base between 'A' and an hypothetical commit 'M', which is a merge +between 'B' and 'C'. For example, with this topology: + + o---o---o---o---C + / + / o---o---o---B + / / + ---2---1---o---o---o---A + +the result of `git merge-base A B C` is '1'. This is because the +equivalent topology with a merge commit 'M' between 'B' and 'C' is: + + + o---o---o---o---o + / \ + / o---o---o---o---M + / / + ---2---1---o---o---o---A + +and the result of `git merge-base A M` is '1'. Commit '2' is also a +common ancestor between 'A' and 'M', but '1' is a better common ancestor, +because '2' is an ancestor of '1'. Hence, '2' is not a merge base. + +When the history involves criss-cross merges, there can be more than one +'best' common ancestors between two commits. For example, with this +topology: + + ---1---o---A + \ / + X + / \ + ---2---o---o---B + +both '1' and '2' are merge-base of A and B. Neither one is better than +the other (both are 'best' merge base). When `--all` option is not given, +it is unspecified which best one is output. Author ------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index 17a15acb07..685e1fed58 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -126,13 +126,25 @@ After seeing a conflict, you can do two things: up working tree changes made by 2. and 3.; 'git-reset --hard' can be used for this. - * Resolve the conflicts. `git diff` would report only the - conflicting paths because of the above 2. and 3. - Edit the working tree files into a desirable shape - ('git mergetool' can ease this task), 'git-add' or 'git-rm' - them, to make the index file contain what the merge result - should be, and run 'git-commit' to commit the result. + * Resolve the conflicts. Git will mark the conflicts in + the working tree. Edit the files into shape and + 'git-add' to the index. 'git-commit' to seal the deal. +You can work through the conflict with a number of tools: + + * Use a mergetool. 'git mergetool' to launch a graphical + mergetool which will work you through the merge. + + * Look at the diffs. 'git diff' will show a three-way diff, + highlighting changes from both the HEAD and remote versions. + + * Look at the diffs on their own. 'git log --merge -p <path>' + will show diffs first for the HEAD version and then the + remote version. + + * Look at the originals. 'git show :1:filename' shows the + common ancestor, 'git show :2:filename' shows the HEAD + version and 'git show :3:filename' shows the remote version. SEE ALSO -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index bf33b0cba0..abbd5b72de 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...] 'git submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [--] [<path>...] 'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [--summary-limit <n>] [commit] [--] [<path>...] +'git submodule' [--quiet] foreach <command> DESCRIPTION @@ -123,6 +124,22 @@ summary:: in the submodule between the given super project commit and the index or working tree (switched by --cached) are shown. +foreach:: + Evaluates an arbitrary shell command in each checked out submodule. + The command has access to the variables $path and $sha1: + $path is the name of the submodule directory relative to the + superproject, and $sha1 is the commit as recorded in the superproject. + Any submodules defined in the superproject but not checked out are + ignored by this command. Unless given --quiet, foreach prints the name + of each submodule before evaluating the command. + A non-zero return from the command in any submodule causes + the processing to terminate. This can be overridden by adding '|| :' + to the end of the command. ++ +As an example, "git submodule foreach 'echo $path `git rev-parse HEAD`' will +show the path and currently checked out commit for each submodule. + + OPTIONS ------- -q:: diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 363a785452..e178fb5813 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v1.6.0/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.0] +* link:v1.6.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.1] * release notes for + link:RelNotes-1.6.1.txt[1.6.1], link:RelNotes-1.6.0.txt[1.6.0]. * link:v1.5.6.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.5.6.5] diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index db16b0ca5b..5495d695c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -316,10 +316,14 @@ patterns are available: - `pascal` suitable for source code in the Pascal/Delphi language. +- `python` suitable for source code in the Python language. + - `ruby` suitable for source code in the Ruby language. - `tex` suitable for source code for LaTeX documents. +- `html` suitable for HTML/XHTML documents. + Performing a three-way merge ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |