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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.3.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.4.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt132
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt91
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-imap-send.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-init.txt85
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-push.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rebase.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-replace.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-tag.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt75
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-formats.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-config.txt186
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt54
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-trace.txt97
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt2
20 files changed, 667 insertions, 135 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4047b46bbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Git v2.0.3 Release Notes
+========================
+
+ * An ancient rewrite passed a wrong pointer to a curl library
+ function in a rarely used code path.
+
+ * "filter-branch" left an empty single-parent commit that results when
+ all parents of a merge commit gets mapped to the same commit, even
+ under "--prune-empty".
+
+ * "log --show-signature" incorrectly decided the color to paint a
+ mergetag that was and was not correctly validated.
+
+ * "log --show-signature" did not pay attention to "--graph" option.
+
+Also a lot of fixes to the tests and some updates to the docs are
+included.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7e340921a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.0.4 Release Notes
+========================
+
+ * An earlier update to v2.0.2 broken output from "git diff-tree",
+ which is fixed in this release.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt
index eb6b3c3620..ae4753728e 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Backward compatibility notes
$ git config core.pager "less -S"
to restore the traditional behaviour. It is expected that people
- find output from the most subcommands easier to read with the new
+ find output from most subcommands easier to read with the new
default, except for "blame" which tends to produce really long
lines. To override the new default only for "git blame", you can
do this:
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
default value "FRSX" when we spawn "less" as the pager. "S" (chop
long lines instead of wrapping) has been removed from this default
set of options, because it is more or less a personal taste thing,
- as opposed to others that have good justifications (i.e. "R" is
+ as opposed to the others that have good justifications (i.e. "R" is
very much justified because many kinds of output we produce are
colored and "FX" is justified because output we produce is often
shorter than a page).
@@ -39,41 +39,47 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* The logic and data used to compute the display width needed for
UTF-8 strings have been updated to match Unicode 7.0 better.
- * HTTP-based transports learned to propagate the error messages from
- the webserver better to the client coming over the HTTP transport.
+ * HTTP-based transports learned to better propagate the error messages from
+ the webserver to the client coming over the HTTP transport.
* The completion script for bash (in contrib/) has been updated to
- handle aliases that define complex sequence of commands better.
+ better handle aliases that define a complex sequence of commands.
- * The "core.preloadindex" configuration variable is by default
- enabled, allowing modern platforms to take advantage of the
- multiple cores they have.
+ * The "core.preloadindex" configuration variable is enabled by default,
+ allowing modern platforms to take advantage of their
+ multiple cores.
- * "git commit --date=<date>" option learned to read from more
+ * "git clone" applies the "if cloning from a local disk, physically
+ copy the repository using hardlinks, unless otherwise told not to with
+ --no-local" optimization when the url.*.insteadOf mechanism rewrites a
+ remote-repository "git clone $URL" into a
+ clone from a local disk.
+
+ * "git commit --date=<date>" option learned more
timestamp formats, including "--date=now".
* The `core.commentChar` configuration variable is used to specify a
- custom comment character other than the default "#" to be used in
- the commit log editor. This can be set to `auto` to attempt to
- choose a different character that does not conflict with what
- already starts a line in the message being edited for cases like
+ custom comment character (other than the default "#") for
+ the commit message editor. This can be set to `auto` to attempt to
+ choose a different character that does not conflict with any that
+ already starts a line in the message being edited, for cases like
"git commit --amend".
- * "git format-patch" learned --signature-file=<file> to take the mail
- signature from.
+ * "git format-patch" learned --signature-file=<file> to add the contents
+ of a file as a signature to the mail message it produces.
- * "git grep" learned grep.fullname configuration variable to force
- "--full-name" to be default. This may cause regressions on
- scripted users that do not expect this new behaviour.
+ * "git grep" learned the grep.fullname configuration variable to force
+ "--full-name" to be the default. This may cause regressions for
+ scripted users who do not expect this new behaviour.
* "git imap-send" learned to ask the credential helper for auth
material.
- * "git log" and friends now understand the value "auto" set to the
+ * "git log" and friends now understand the value "auto" for the
"log.decorate" configuration variable to enable the "--decorate"
option automatically when the output is sent to tty.
- * "git merge" without argument, even when there is an upstream
+ * "git merge" without an argument, even when there is an upstream
defined for the current branch, refused to run until
merge.defaultToUpstream is set to true. Flip the default of that
configuration variable to true.
@@ -81,21 +87,22 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git mergetool" learned to drive the vimdiff3 backend.
* mergetool.prompt used to default to 'true', always asking "do you
- really want to run the tool on this path?". Among the two
- purposes this prompt serves, ignore the use case to confirm that
- the user wants to view particular path with the named tool, and
- redefine the meaning of the prompt only to confirm the choice of
- the tool made by the autodetection (for those who configured the
- tool explicitly, the prompt shown for the latter purpose is
- simply annoying).
-
- Strictly speaking, this is a backward incompatible change and the
+ really want to run the tool on this path?". The default has been
+ changed to 'false'. However, the prompt will still appear if
+ mergetool used its autodetection system to guess which tool to use.
+ Users who explicitly specify or configure a tool will no longer see
+ the prompt by default.
+
+ Strictly speaking, this is a backward incompatible change and
users need to explicitly set the variable to 'true' if they want
- to resurrect the now-ignored use case.
+ to be prompted to confirm running the tool on each path.
* "git replace" learned the "--edit" subcommand to create a
replacement by editing an existing object.
+ * "git replace" learned a "--graft" option to rewrite the parents of a
+ commit.
+
* "git send-email" learned "--to-cover" and "--cc-cover" options, to
tell it to copy To: and Cc: headers found in the first input file
when emitting later input files.
@@ -107,7 +114,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git tag" when editing the tag message shows the name of the tag
being edited as a comment in the editor.
- * "git verify-commit" command to check GPG signature in signed
+ * "git tag" learned to pay attention to "tag.sort" configuration, to
+ be used as the default sort order when no --sort=<value> option
+ is given.
+
+ * A new "git verify-commit" command, to check GPG signatures in signed
commits, in a way similar to "git verify-tag" is used to check
signed tags, was added.
@@ -116,22 +127,21 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* Build procedure for 'subtree' (in contrib/) has been cleaned up.
+ * Support for the profile-feedback build, which has
+ bit-rotted for quite a while, has been updated.
+
* An experimental format to use two files (the base file and
incremental changes relative to it) to represent the index has been
introduced; this may reduce I/O cost of rewriting a large index
when only small part of the working tree changes.
* Effort to shrink the size of patches Windows folks maintain on top
- by upstreaming them continues.
-
- * Patches maintained by msysgit folks for Windows port are being
- upstreamed here a bit by bit.
+ by upstreaming them continues. More tests that are not applicable
+ to the Windows environment are identified and either skipped or
+ made more portable.
- * The leaf function to check validity of a refname format has been
- micro-optimized, using SSE2 instructions when available. A few
- breakages during its development have been caught and fixed already
- but there might remain some more still; please test and report if
- you find any.
+ * Eradication of "test $condition -a $condition" from our scripts
+ continues.
* The `core.deltabasecachelimit` used to default to 16 MiB , but this
proved to be too small, and has been bumped to 96 MiB.
@@ -140,7 +150,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
structure that is used to keep track of the work to be done.
* "git diff" that compares 3-or-more trees (e.g. parents and the
- result of a merge) have been optimized.
+ result of a merge) has been optimized.
* The API to update/delete references are being converted to handle
updates to multiple references in a transactional way. As an
@@ -176,8 +186,8 @@ notes for details).
to a tty.
(merge 38de156 mn/sideband-no-ansi later to maint).
- * Mishandling of patterns in .gitignore that has trailing SPs quoted
- with backslashes (e.g. ones that end with "\ ") have been
+ * Mishandling of patterns in .gitignore that have trailing SPs quoted
+ with backslashes (e.g. ones that end with "\ ") has been
corrected.
(merge 97c1364be6b pb/trim-trailing-spaces later to maint).
@@ -194,6 +204,7 @@ notes for details).
* Code to avoid adding the same alternate object store twice was
subtly broken for a long time, but nobody seems to have noticed.
(merge 80b4785 rs/fix-alt-odb-path-comparison later to maint).
+ (merge 539e750 ek/alt-odb-entry-fix later to maint).
* The "%<(10,trunc)%s" pretty format specifier in the log family of
commands is used to truncate the string to a given length (e.g. 10
@@ -213,7 +224,7 @@ notes for details).
and to allow the caller find the length of the object.
(merge 218aa3a jk/commit-buffer-length later to maint).
- * The "mailmap.file" configuration option did not support the tilde
+ * The "mailmap.file" configuration option did not support tilde
expansion (i.e. ~user/path and ~/path).
(merge 9352fd5 ow/config-mailmap-pathname later to maint).
@@ -222,17 +233,23 @@ notes for details).
couple of options unique to "git merge".
(merge 8fee872 jk/complete-merge-pull later to maint).
+ * The unix-domain socket used by the sample credential cache daemon
+ tried to unlink an existing stale one at a wrong path, if the path
+ to the socket was given as an overlong path that does not fit in
+ the sun_path member of the sockaddr_un structure.
+ (merge 2869b3e rs/fix-unlink-unix-socket later to maint).
+
* An ancient rewrite passed a wrong pointer to a curl library
function in a rarely used code path.
(merge 479eaa8 ah/fix-http-push later to maint).
* "--ignore-space-change" option of "git apply" ignored the spaces
- at the beginning of line too aggressively, which is inconsistent
- with the option of the same name "diff" and "git diff" have.
+ at the beginning of lines too aggressively, which is inconsistent
+ with the option of the same name that "diff" and "git diff" have.
(merge 14d3bb4 jc/apply-ignore-whitespace later to maint).
- * "git blame" miscounted number of columns needed to show localized
- timestamps, resulting in jaggy left-side-edge of the source code
+ * "git blame" miscounted the number of columns needed to show localized
+ timestamps, resulting in a jaggy left-side-edge for the source code
lines in its output.
(merge dd75553 jx/blame-align-relative-time later to maint).
@@ -246,17 +263,17 @@ notes for details).
because it incorrectly used strstr().
(merge 60a5f5f jc/fix-clone-single-starting-at-a-tag later to maint).
- * "git commit --allow-empty-messag -C $commit" did not work when the
+ * "git commit --allow-empty-message -C $commit" did not work when the
commit did not have any log message.
(merge 076cbd6 jk/commit-C-pick-empty later to maint).
* "git diff --find-copies-harder" sometimes pretended as if the mode
- bits have changed for paths that are marked with assume-unchanged
+ bits have changed for paths that are marked with the assume-unchanged
bit.
(merge 5304810 jk/diff-files-assume-unchanged later to maint).
* "filter-branch" left an empty single-parent commit that results when
- all parents of a merge commit gets mapped to the same commit, even
+ all parents of a merge commit get mapped to the same commit, even
under "--prune-empty".
(merge 79bc4ef cb/filter-branch-prune-empty-degenerate-merges later to maint).
@@ -289,10 +306,10 @@ notes for details).
mergetag that was and was not correctly validated.
(merge 42c55ce mg/fix-log-mergetag-color later to maint).
- * "log --show-signature" did not pay attention to "--graph" option.
+ * "log --show-signature" did not pay attention to the "--graph" option.
(merge cf3983d zk/log-graph-showsig later to maint).
- * "git mailinfo" used to read beyond the end of header string while
+ * "git mailinfo" used to read beyond the ends of header strings while
parsing an incoming e-mail message to extract the patch.
(merge b1a013d rs/mailinfo-header-cmp later to maint).
@@ -312,7 +329,7 @@ notes for details).
(merge fb79947 rs/pack-objects-no-unnecessary-realloc later to maint).
* Recent updates to "git repack" started to duplicate objects that
- are in packfiles marked with .keep flag into the new packfile by
+ are in packfiles marked with the .keep flag into the new packfile by
mistake.
(merge d078d85 jk/repack-pack-keep-objects later to maint).
@@ -336,6 +353,9 @@ notes for details).
emptying the insn sheet.
(merge ddb5432 rr/rebase-autostash-fix later to maint).
+ * "git rebase --fork-point" did not filter out patch-identical
+ commits correctly.
+
* During "git rebase --merge", a conflicted patch could not be
skipped with "--skip" if the next one also conflicted.
(merge 95104c7 bc/fix-rebase-merge-skip later to maint).
@@ -347,14 +367,14 @@ notes for details).
* "git status", even though it is a read-only operation, tries to
update the index with refreshed lstat(2) info to optimize future
accesses to the working tree opportunistically, but this could
- race with a "read-write" operation that modify the index while it
+ race with a "read-write" operation that modifies the index while it
is running. Detect such a race and avoid overwriting the index.
(merge 426ddee ym/fix-opportunistic-index-update-race later to maint).
* "git status" (and "git commit") behaved as if changes in a modified
submodule are not there if submodule.*.ignore configuration is set,
which was misleading. The configuration is only to unclutter diff
- output during the course of development, and should not to hide
+ output during the course of development, and not to hide
changes in the "status" output to cause the users forget to commit
them.
(merge c215d3d jl/status-added-submodule-is-never-ignored later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f771854705
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+Git v2.2 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Updates since v2.1
+------------------
+
+Ports
+
+ * Building on older MacOS X systems automatically sets
+ the necessary NO_APPLE_COMMON_CRYPTO build-time option.
+
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * "git config --edit --global" starts from a skeletal per-user
+ configuration file contents, instead of a total blank, when the
+ user does not already have any. This immediately reduces the
+ need for a later "Have you forgotten setting core.user?" and we
+ can add more to the template as we gain more experience.
+
+ * "git stash list -p" used to be almost always a no-op because each
+ stash entry is represented as a merge commit. It learned to show
+ the difference between the base commit version and the working tree
+ version, which is in line with what "git show" gives.
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
+
+ * In tests, we have been using NOT_{MINGW,CYGWIN} test prerequisites
+ long before negated prerequisites e.g. !MINGW were invented.
+ The former has been converted to the latter to avoid confusion.
+
+ * Looking up remotes configuration in a repository with very many
+ remotes defined has been optimized.
+
+ * There are cases where you lock and open to write a file, close it
+ to show the updated contents to external processes, and then have
+ to update the file again while still holding the lock, but the
+ lockfile API lacked support for such an access pattern.
+
+ * An in-core caching layer to let us avoid reading the same
+ configuration files number of times has been added.
+
+ * Various code paths have been cleaned up and simplified by using
+ "strbuf", "starts_with()", and "skip_prefix()" APIs more.
+
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.1
+----------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.1 in the maintenance
+track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
+notes for details).
+
+ * "git log --pretty/format=" with an empty format string did not
+ mean the more obvious "No output whatsoever" but "Use default
+ format", which was counterintuitive.
+ (merge b9c7d6e jk/pretty-empty-format later to maint).
+
+ * Implementations of "tar" that do not understand an extended pax
+ header would extract the contents of it in a regular file; make
+ sure the permission bits of this file follows the same tar.umask
+ configuration setting.
+
+ * "git -c section.var command" and "git -c section.var= command"
+ should pass the configuration differently (the former should be a
+ boolean true, the latter should be an empty string).
+ (merge a789ca7 jk/command-line-config-empty-string later to maint).
+
+ * Applying a patch not generated by Git in a subdirectory used to
+ check the whitespace breakage using the attributes for incorrect
+ paths. Also whitespace checks were performed even for paths
+ excluded via "git apply --exclude=<path>" mechanism.
+ (merge 477a08a jc/apply-ws-prefix later to maint).
+
+ * "git bundle create" with date-range specification were meant to
+ exclude tags outside the range, but it didn't.
+ (merge 2c8544a lf/bundle-exclusion later to maint).
+
+ * "git add x" where x that used to be a directory has become a
+ symbolic link to a directory misbehaved.
+ (merge ccad42d rs/refresh-beyond-symlink later to maint).
+
+ * The prompt script checked $GIT_DIR/ref/stash file to see if there
+ is a stash, which was a no-no.
+ (merge 0fa7f01 jk/prompt-stash-could-be-packed later to maint).
+
+ * Pack-protocol documentation had a minor typo.
+ (merge 5d146f7 sp/pack-protocol-doc-on-shallow later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 1d718bdb96..c55c22ab7b 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -2354,6 +2354,11 @@ submodule.<name>.ignore::
"--ignore-submodules" option. The 'git submodule' commands are not
affected by this setting.
+tag.sort::
+ This variable controls the sort ordering of tags when displayed by
+ linkgit:git-tag[1]. Without the "--sort=<value>" option provided, the
+ value of this variable will be used as the default.
+
tar.umask::
This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
diff --git a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
index 875d2831a5..7d991d919c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
@@ -38,18 +38,17 @@ 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.
+ "[Gmail]/Drafts". Required.
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.
+ to the server. Required when imap.host is not set.
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.
+ Ignored when imap.tunnel is set, but required otherwise.
imap.user::
The username to use when logging in to the server.
@@ -76,7 +75,8 @@ imap.preformattedHTML::
imap.authMethod::
Specify authenticate method for authentication with IMAP server.
- Current supported method is 'CRAM-MD5' only.
+ Current supported method is 'CRAM-MD5' only. If this is not set
+ then 'git imap-send' uses the basic IMAP plaintext LOGIN command.
Examples
~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt
index afd721e3a9..369f889bb4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-init.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ OPTIONS
-q::
--quiet::
-Only print error and warning messages, all other output will be suppressed.
+Only print error and warning messages; all other output will be suppressed.
--bare::
@@ -57,12 +57,12 @@ DIRECTORY" section below.)
--separate-git-dir=<git dir>::
-Instead of initializing the repository where it is supposed to be,
-place a filesytem-agnostic Git symbolic link there, pointing to the
-specified path, and initialize a Git repository at the path. The
-result is Git repository can be separated from working tree. If this
-is reinitialization, the repository will be moved to the specified
-path.
+Instead of initializing the repository as a directory to either `$GIT_DIR` or
+`./.git/`, create a text file there containing the path to the actual
+repository. This file acts as filesystem-agnostic Git symbolic link to the
+repository.
++
+If this is reinitialization, the repository will be moved to the specified path.
--shared[=(false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody|0xxx)]::
@@ -72,60 +72,65 @@ repository. When specified, the config variable "core.sharedRepository" is
set so that files and directories under `$GIT_DIR` are created with the
requested permissions. When not specified, Git will use permissions reported
by umask(2).
-
++
The option can have the following values, defaulting to 'group' if no value
is given:
++
+--
+'umask' (or 'false')::
- - 'umask' (or 'false'): Use permissions reported by umask(2). The default,
- when `--shared` is not specified.
+Use permissions reported by umask(2). The default, when `--shared` is not
+specified.
- - 'group' (or 'true'): Make the repository group-writable, (and g+sx, since
- the git group may be not the primary group of all users).
- This is used to loosen the permissions of an otherwise safe umask(2) value.
- Note that the umask still applies to the other permission bits (e.g. if
- umask is '0022', using 'group' will not remove read privileges from other
- (non-group) users). See '0xxx' for how to exactly specify the repository
- permissions.
+'group' (or 'true')::
- - 'all' (or 'world' or 'everybody'): Same as 'group', but make the repository
- readable by all users.
+Make the repository group-writable, (and g+sx, since the git group may be not
+the primary group of all users). This is used to loosen the permissions of an
+otherwise safe umask(2) value. Note that the umask still applies to the other
+permission bits (e.g. if umask is '0022', using 'group' will not remove read
+privileges from other (non-group) users). See '0xxx' for how to exactly specify
+the repository permissions.
- - '0xxx': '0xxx' is an octal number and each file will have mode '0xxx'.
- '0xxx' will override users' umask(2) value (and not only loosen permissions
- as 'group' and 'all' does). '0640' will create a repository which is
- group-readable, but not group-writable or accessible to others. '0660' will
- create a repo that is readable and writable to the current user and group,
- but inaccessible to others.
+'all' (or 'world' or 'everybody')::
-By default, the configuration flag receive.denyNonFastForwards is enabled
+Same as 'group', but make the repository readable by all users.
+
+'0xxx'::
+
+'0xxx' is an octal number and each file will have mode '0xxx'. '0xxx' will
+override users' umask(2) value (and not only loosen permissions as 'group' and
+'all' does). '0640' will create a repository which is group-readable, but not
+group-writable or accessible to others. '0660' will create a repo that is
+readable and writable to the current user and group, but inaccessible to others.
+--
+
+By default, the configuration flag `receive.denyNonFastForwards` is enabled
in shared repositories, so that you cannot force a non fast-forwarding push
into it.
-If you name a (possibly non-existent) directory at the end of the command
-line, the command is run inside the directory (possibly after creating it).
+If you provide a 'directory', the command is run inside it. If this directory
+does not exist, it will be created.
--
-
TEMPLATE DIRECTORY
------------------
The template directory contains files and directories that will be copied to
the `$GIT_DIR` after it is created.
-The template directory used will (in order):
+The template directory will be one of the following (in order):
- - The argument given with the `--template` option.
+ - the argument given with the `--template` option;
- - The contents of the `$GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR` environment variable.
+ - the contents of the `$GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR` environment variable;
- - The `init.templatedir` configuration variable.
+ - the `init.templatedir` configuration variable; or
- - The default template directory: `/usr/share/git-core/templates`.
+ - the default template directory: `/usr/share/git-core/templates`.
-The default template directory includes some directory structure, some
-suggested "exclude patterns", and copies of sample "hook" files.
-The suggested patterns and hook files are all modifiable and extensible.
+The default template directory includes some directory structure, suggested
+"exclude patterns" (see linkgit:gitignore[5]), and sample hook files (see linkgit:githooks[5]).
EXAMPLES
--------
@@ -136,10 +141,12 @@ Start a new Git repository for an existing code base::
$ cd /path/to/my/codebase
$ git init <1>
$ git add . <2>
+$ git commit <3>
----------------
+
-<1> prepare /path/to/my/codebase/.git directory
-<2> add all existing file to the index
+<1> Create a /path/to/my/codebase/.git directory.
+<2> Add all existing files to the index.
+<3> Record the pristine state as the first commit in the history.
GIT
---
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 21cd455508..c0d7403b9a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ When the command line does not specify what to push with `<refspec>...`
arguments or `--all`, `--mirror`, `--tags` options, the command finds
the default `<refspec>` by consulting `remote.*.push` configuration,
and if it is not found, honors `push.default` configuration to decide
-what to push (See gitlink:git-config[1] for the meaning of `push.default`).
+what to push (See linkgit:git-config[1] for the meaning of `push.default`).
OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 2a93c645bd..f14100a160 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -316,11 +316,8 @@ which makes little sense.
-f::
--force-rebase::
- Force the rebase even if the current branch is a descendant
- of the commit you are rebasing onto. Normally non-interactive rebase will
- exit with the message "Current branch is up to date" in such a
- situation.
- Incompatible with the --interactive option.
+ Force a rebase even if the current branch is up-to-date and
+ the command without `--force` would return without doing anything.
+
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
diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
index 089dcac047..8fff598fd6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[verse]
'git replace' [-f] <object> <replacement>
'git replace' [-f] --edit <object>
+'git replace' [-f] --graft <commit> [<parent>...]
'git replace' -d <object>...
'git replace' [--format=<format>] [-l [<pattern>]]
@@ -81,6 +82,15 @@ OPTIONS
cannot be pretty-printed. Note that you may need to configure
your editor to cleanly read and write binary data.
+--graft <commit> [<parent>...]::
+ Create a graft commit. A new commit is created with the same
+ content as <commit> except that its parents will be
+ [<parent>...] instead of <commit>'s parents. A replacement ref
+ is then created to replace <commit> with the newly created
+ commit. See contrib/convert-grafts-to-replace-refs.sh for an
+ example script based on this option that can convert grafts to
+ replace refs.
+
-l <pattern>::
--list <pattern>::
List replace refs for objects that match the given pattern (or
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 9bd76a5a6b..0b84769bd9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")"
+
If you want to make sure that the output actually names an object in
your object database and/or can be used as a specific type of object
-you require, you can add "^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter.
+you require, you can add "\^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter.
For example, `git rev-parse "$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`
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index b424a1bc48..320908369f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -99,7 +99,9 @@ OPTIONS
Sort in a specific order. Supported type is "refname"
(lexicographic order), "version:refname" or "v:refname" (tag
names are treated as versions). Prepend "-" to reverse sort
- order.
+ order. When this option is not given, the sort order defaults to the
+ value configured for the 'tag.sort' variable if it exists, or
+ lexicographic order otherwise. See linkgit:git-config[1].
--column[=<options>]::
--no-column::
@@ -317,6 +319,7 @@ include::date-formats.txt[]
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-check-ref-format[1].
+linkgit:git-config[1].
GIT
---
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index d0ddfcb0aa..26de4dd548 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,9 +43,16 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from the 'master'
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
-* link:v2.0.2/git.html[documentation for release 2.0.2]
+* link:v2.1.0/git.html[documentation for release 2.1]
* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/2.1.0.txt[2.1].
+
+* link:v2.0.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.0.4]
+
+* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/2.0.4.txt[2.0.4],
+ link:RelNotes/2.0.3.txt[2.0.3],
link:RelNotes/2.0.2.txt[2.0.2],
link:RelNotes/2.0.1.txt[2.0.1],
link:RelNotes/2.0.0.txt[2.0.0].
@@ -445,6 +452,11 @@ example the following invocations are equivalent:
given will override values from configuration files.
The <name> is expected in the same format as listed by
'git config' (subkeys separated by dots).
++
+Note that omitting the `=` in `git -c foo.bar ...` is allowed and sets
+`foo.bar` to the boolean true value (just like `[foo]bar` would in a
+config file). Including the equals but with an empty value (like `git -c
+foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string.
--exec-path[=<path>]::
Path to wherever your core Git programs are installed.
@@ -906,31 +918,54 @@ for further details.
based on whether stdout appears to be redirected to a file or not.
'GIT_TRACE'::
- If this variable is set to "1", "2" or "true" (comparison
- is case insensitive), Git will print `trace:` messages on
- stderr telling about alias expansion, built-in command
- execution and external command execution.
- If this variable is set to an integer value greater than 1
- and lower than 10 (strictly) then Git will interpret this
- value as an open file descriptor and will try to write the
- trace messages into this file descriptor.
- Alternatively, if this variable is set to an absolute path
- (starting with a '/' character), Git will interpret this
- as a file path and will try to write the trace messages
- into it.
+ Enables general trace messages, e.g. alias expansion, built-in
+ command execution and external command execution.
++
+If this variable is set to "1", "2" or "true" (comparison
+is case insensitive), trace messages will be printed to
+stderr.
++
+If the variable is set to an integer value greater than 2
+and lower than 10 (strictly) then Git will interpret this
+value as an open file descriptor and will try to write the
+trace messages into this file descriptor.
++
+Alternatively, if the variable is set to an absolute path
+(starting with a '/' character), Git will interpret this
+as a file path and will try to write the trace messages
+into it.
++
+Unsetting the variable, or setting it to empty, "0" or
+"false" (case insensitive) disables trace messages.
'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
+ Enables trace messages for 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.
+ See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output options.
'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".
+ Enables trace messages for 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".
+ See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output options.
+
+'GIT_TRACE_PERFORMANCE'::
+ Enables performance related trace messages, e.g. total execution
+ time of each Git command.
+ See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output options.
+
+'GIT_TRACE_SETUP'::
+ Enables trace messages printing the .git, working tree and current
+ working directory after Git has completed its setup phase.
+ See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output options.
+
+'GIT_TRACE_SHALLOW'::
+ Enables trace messages that can help debugging fetching /
+ cloning of shallow repositories.
+ See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output options.
GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS::
Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all
@@ -1044,7 +1079,7 @@ Authors
-------
Git was started by Linus Torvalds, and is currently maintained by Junio
C Hamano. Numerous contributions have come from the Git mailing list
-<git@vger.kernel.org>. http://www.ohloh.net/p/git/contributors/summary
+<git@vger.kernel.org>. http://www.openhub.net/p/git/contributors/summary
gives you a more complete list of contributors.
If you have a clone of git.git itself, the
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 85d63532a3..eac79096d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ The placeholders are:
- '%ce': committer email
- '%cE': committer email (respecting .mailmap, see
linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
-- '%cd': committer date
+- '%cd': committer date (format respects --date= option)
- '%cD': committer date, RFC2822 style
- '%cr': committer date, relative
- '%ct': committer date, UNIX timestamp
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt
index 230b3a0f60..0d8b99b368 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt
@@ -77,6 +77,99 @@ To read a specific file in git-config format, use
`git_config_from_file`. This takes the same callback and data parameters
as `git_config`.
+Querying For Specific Variables
+-------------------------------
+
+For programs wanting to query for specific variables in a non-callback
+manner, the config API provides two functions `git_config_get_value`
+and `git_config_get_value_multi`. They both read values from an internal
+cache generated previously from reading the config files.
+
+`int git_config_get_value(const char *key, const char **value)`::
+
+ Finds the highest-priority value for the configuration variable `key`,
+ stores the pointer to it in `value` and returns 0. When the
+ configuration variable `key` is not found, returns 1 without touching
+ `value`. The caller should not free or modify `value`, as it is owned
+ by the cache.
+
+`const struct string_list *git_config_get_value_multi(const char *key)`::
+
+ Finds and returns the value list, sorted in order of increasing priority
+ for the configuration variable `key`. When the configuration variable
+ `key` is not found, returns NULL. The caller should not free or modify
+ the returned pointer, as it is owned by the cache.
+
+`void git_config_clear(void)`::
+
+ Resets and invalidates the config cache.
+
+The config API also provides type specific API functions which do conversion
+as well as retrieval for the queried variable, including:
+
+`int git_config_get_int(const char *key, int *dest)`::
+
+ Finds and parses the value to an integer for the configuration variable
+ `key`. Dies on error; otherwise, stores the value of the parsed integer in
+ `dest` and returns 0. When the configuration variable `key` is not found,
+ returns 1 without touching `dest`.
+
+`int git_config_get_ulong(const char *key, unsigned long *dest)`::
+
+ Similar to `git_config_get_int` but for unsigned longs.
+
+`int git_config_get_bool(const char *key, int *dest)`::
+
+ Finds and parses the value into a boolean value, for the configuration
+ variable `key` respecting keywords like "true" and "false". Integer
+ values are converted into true/false values (when they are non-zero or
+ zero, respectively). Other values cause a die(). If parsing is successful,
+ stores the value of the parsed result in `dest` and returns 0. When the
+ configuration variable `key` is not found, returns 1 without touching
+ `dest`.
+
+`int git_config_get_bool_or_int(const char *key, int *is_bool, int *dest)`::
+
+ Similar to `git_config_get_bool`, except that integers are copied as-is,
+ and `is_bool` flag is unset.
+
+`int git_config_get_maybe_bool(const char *key, int *dest)`::
+
+ Similar to `git_config_get_bool`, except that it returns -1 on error
+ rather than dying.
+
+`int git_config_get_string_const(const char *key, const char **dest)`::
+
+ Allocates and copies the retrieved string into the `dest` parameter for
+ the configuration variable `key`; if NULL string is given, prints an
+ error message and returns -1. When the configuration variable `key` is
+ not found, returns 1 without touching `dest`.
+
+`int git_config_get_string(const char *key, char **dest)`::
+
+ Similar to `git_config_get_string_const`, except that retrieved value
+ copied into the `dest` parameter is a mutable string.
+
+`int git_config_get_pathname(const char *key, const char **dest)`::
+
+ Similar to `git_config_get_string`, but expands `~` or `~user` into
+ the user's home directory when found at the beginning of the path.
+
+`git_die_config(const char *key, const char *err, ...)`::
+
+ First prints the error message specified by the caller in `err` and then
+ dies printing the line number and the file name of the highest priority
+ value for the configuration variable `key`.
+
+`void git_die_config_linenr(const char *key, const char *filename, int linenr)`::
+
+ Helper function which formats the die error message according to the
+ parameters entered. Used by `git_die_config()`. It can be used by callers
+ handling `git_config_get_value_multi()` to print the correct error message
+ for the desired value.
+
+See test-config.c for usage examples.
+
Value Parsing Helpers
---------------------
@@ -134,7 +227,98 @@ int read_file_with_include(const char *file, config_fn_t fn, void *data)
`git_config` respects includes automatically. The lower-level
`git_config_from_file` does not.
+Custom Configsets
+-----------------
+
+A `config_set` can be used to construct an in-memory cache for
+config-like files that the caller specifies (i.e., files like `.gitmodules`,
+`~/.gitconfig` etc.). For example,
+
+---------------------------------------
+struct config_set gm_config;
+git_configset_init(&gm_config);
+int b;
+/* we add config files to the config_set */
+git_configset_add_file(&gm_config, ".gitmodules");
+git_configset_add_file(&gm_config, ".gitmodules_alt");
+
+if (!git_configset_get_bool(gm_config, "submodule.frotz.ignore", &b)) {
+ /* hack hack hack */
+}
+
+/* when we are done with the configset */
+git_configset_clear(&gm_config);
+----------------------------------------
+
+Configset API provides functions for the above mentioned work flow, including:
+
+`void git_configset_init(struct config_set *cs)`::
+
+ Initializes the config_set `cs`.
+
+`int git_configset_add_file(struct config_set *cs, const char *filename)`::
+
+ Parses the file and adds the variable-value pairs to the `config_set`,
+ dies if there is an error in parsing the file. Returns 0 on success, or
+ -1 if the file does not exist or is inaccessible. The user has to decide
+ if he wants to free the incomplete configset or continue using it when
+ the function returns -1.
+
+`int git_configset_get_value(struct config_set *cs, const char *key, const char **value)`::
+
+ Finds the highest-priority value for the configuration variable `key`
+ and config set `cs`, stores the pointer to it in `value` and returns 0.
+ When the configuration variable `key` is not found, returns 1 without
+ touching `value`. The caller should not free or modify `value`, as it
+ is owned by the cache.
+
+`const struct string_list *git_configset_get_value_multi(struct config_set *cs, const char *key)`::
+
+ Finds and returns the value list, sorted in order of increasing priority
+ for the configuration variable `key` and config set `cs`. When the
+ configuration variable `key` is not found, returns NULL. The caller
+ should not free or modify the returned pointer, as it is owned by the cache.
+
+`void git_configset_clear(struct config_set *cs)`::
+
+ Clears `config_set` structure, removes all saved variable-value pairs.
+
+In addition to above functions, the `config_set` API provides type specific
+functions in the vein of `git_config_get_int` and family but with an extra
+parameter, pointer to struct `config_set`.
+They all behave similarly to the `git_config_get*()` family described in
+"Querying For Specific Variables" above.
+
Writing Config Files
--------------------
-TODO
+Git gives multiple entry points in the Config API to write config values to
+files namely `git_config_set_in_file` and `git_config_set`, which write to
+a specific config file or to `.git/config` respectively. They both take a
+key/value pair as parameter.
+In the end they both call `git_config_set_multivar_in_file` which takes four
+parameters:
+
+- the name of the file, as a string, to which key/value pairs will be written.
+
+- the name of key, as a string. This is in canonical "flat" form: the section,
+ subsection, and variable segments will be separated by dots, and the section
+ and variable segments will be all lowercase.
+ E.g., `core.ignorecase`, `diff.SomeType.textconv`.
+
+- the value of the variable, as a string. If value is equal to NULL, it will
+ remove the matching key from the config file.
+
+- the value regex, as a string. It will disregard key/value pairs where value
+ does not match.
+
+- a multi_replace value, as an int. If value is equal to zero, nothing or only
+ one matching key/value is replaced, else all matching key/values (regardless
+ how many) are removed, before the new pair is written.
+
+It returns 0 on success.
+
+Also, there are functions `git_config_rename_section` and
+`git_config_rename_section_in_file` with parameters `old_name` and `new_name`
+for renaming or removing sections in the config files. If NULL is passed
+through `new_name` parameter, the section will be removed from the config file.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt
index b977ae8bbb..ad7a5bddd2 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt
@@ -8,11 +8,19 @@ Data Structures
`struct hashmap`::
- The hash table structure.
+ The hash table structure. Members can be used as follows, but should
+ not be modified directly:
+
-The `size` member keeps track of the total number of entries. The `cmpfn`
-member is a function used to compare two entries for equality. The `table` and
-`tablesize` members store the hash table and its size, respectively.
+The `size` member keeps track of the total number of entries (0 means the
+hashmap is empty).
++
+`tablesize` is the allocated size of the hash table. A non-0 value indicates
+that the hashmap is initialized. It may also be useful for statistical purposes
+(i.e. `size / tablesize` is the current load factor).
++
+`cmpfn` stores the comparison function specified in `hashmap_init()`. In
+advanced scenarios, it may be useful to change this, e.g. to switch between
+case-sensitive and case-insensitive lookup.
`struct hashmap_entry`::
@@ -58,6 +66,15 @@ Functions
+
`strihash` and `memihash` are case insensitive versions.
+`unsigned int sha1hash(const unsigned char *sha1)`::
+
+ Converts a cryptographic hash (e.g. SHA-1) into an int-sized hash code
+ for use in hash tables. Cryptographic hashes are supposed to have
+ uniform distribution, so in contrast to `memhash()`, this just copies
+ the first `sizeof(int)` bytes without shuffling any bits. Note that
+ the results will be different on big-endian and little-endian
+ platforms, so they should not be stored or transferred over the net.
+
`void hashmap_init(struct hashmap *map, hashmap_cmp_fn equals_function, size_t initial_size)`::
Initializes a hashmap structure.
@@ -101,6 +118,20 @@ hashmap_entry) that has at least been initialized with the proper hash code
If an entry with matching hash code is found, `key` and `keydata` are passed
to `hashmap_cmp_fn` to decide whether the entry matches the key.
+`void *hashmap_get_from_hash(const struct hashmap *map, unsigned int hash, const void *keydata)`::
+
+ Returns the hashmap entry for the specified hash code and key data,
+ or NULL if not found.
++
+`map` is the hashmap structure.
++
+`hash` is the hash code of the entry to look up.
++
+If an entry with matching hash code is found, `keydata` is passed to
+`hashmap_cmp_fn` to decide whether the entry matches the key. The
+`entry_or_key` parameter points to a bogus hashmap_entry structure that
+should not be used in the comparison.
+
`void *hashmap_get_next(const struct hashmap *map, const void *entry)`::
Returns the next equal hashmap entry, or NULL if not found. This can be
@@ -162,6 +193,21 @@ more entries.
`hashmap_iter_first` is a combination of both (i.e. initializes the iterator
and returns the first entry, if any).
+`const char *strintern(const char *string)`::
+`const void *memintern(const void *data, size_t len)`::
+
+ Returns the unique, interned version of the specified string or data,
+ similar to the `String.intern` API in Java and .NET, respectively.
+ Interned strings remain valid for the entire lifetime of the process.
++
+Can be used as `[x]strdup()` or `xmemdupz` replacement, except that interned
+strings / data must not be modified or freed.
++
+Interned strings are best used for short strings with high probability of
+duplicates.
++
+Uses a hashmap to store the pool of interned strings.
+
Usage example
-------------
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
index f9c06a7573..430302c2f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
@@ -307,6 +307,16 @@ same behaviour as well.
use it unless you need the correct position in the file
descriptor.
+`strbuf_getcwd`::
+
+ Set the buffer to the path of the current working directory.
+
+`strbuf_add_absolute_path`
+
+ Add a path to a buffer, converting a relative path to an
+ absolute one in the process. Symbolic links are not
+ resolved.
+
`stripspace`::
Strip whitespace from a buffer. The second parameter controls if
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
index f1add51efe..d51a6579c8 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ Functions
* General ones (works with sorted and unsorted lists as well)
+`string_list_init`::
+
+ Initialize the members of the string_list, set `strdup_strings`
+ member according to the value of the second parameter.
+
`filter_string_list`::
Apply a function to each item in a list, retaining only the
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-trace.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-trace.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..097a651d96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-trace.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+trace API
+=========
+
+The trace API can be used to print debug messages to stderr or a file. Trace
+code is inactive unless explicitly enabled by setting `GIT_TRACE*` environment
+variables.
+
+The trace implementation automatically adds `timestamp file:line ... \n` to
+all trace messages. E.g.:
+
+------------
+23:59:59.123456 git.c:312 trace: built-in: git 'foo'
+00:00:00.000001 builtin/foo.c:99 foo: some message
+------------
+
+Data Structures
+---------------
+
+`struct trace_key`::
+
+ Defines a trace key (or category). The default (for API functions that
+ don't take a key) is `GIT_TRACE`.
++
+E.g. to define a trace key controlled by environment variable `GIT_TRACE_FOO`:
++
+------------
+static struct trace_key trace_foo = TRACE_KEY_INIT(FOO);
+
+static void trace_print_foo(const char *message)
+{
+ trace_print_key(&trace_foo, message);
+}
+------------
++
+Note: don't use `const` as the trace implementation stores internal state in
+the `trace_key` structure.
+
+Functions
+---------
+
+`int trace_want(struct trace_key *key)`::
+
+ Checks whether the trace key is enabled. Used to prevent expensive
+ string formatting before calling one of the printing APIs.
+
+`void trace_disable(struct trace_key *key)`::
+
+ Disables tracing for the specified key, even if the environment
+ variable was set.
+
+`void trace_printf(const char *format, ...)`::
+`void trace_printf_key(struct trace_key *key, const char *format, ...)`::
+
+ Prints a formatted message, similar to printf.
+
+`void trace_argv_printf(const char **argv, const char *format, ...)``::
+
+ Prints a formatted message, followed by a quoted list of arguments.
+
+`void trace_strbuf(struct trace_key *key, const struct strbuf *data)`::
+
+ Prints the strbuf, without additional formatting (i.e. doesn't
+ choke on `%` or even `\0`).
+
+`uint64_t getnanotime(void)`::
+
+ Returns nanoseconds since the epoch (01/01/1970), typically used
+ for performance measurements.
++
+Currently there are high precision timer implementations for Linux (using
+`clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC)`) and Windows (`QueryPerformanceCounter`).
+Other platforms use `gettimeofday` as time source.
+
+`void trace_performance(uint64_t nanos, const char *format, ...)`::
+`void trace_performance_since(uint64_t start, const char *format, ...)`::
+
+ Prints the elapsed time (in nanoseconds), or elapsed time since
+ `start`, followed by a formatted message. Enabled via environment
+ variable `GIT_TRACE_PERFORMANCE`. Used for manual profiling, e.g.:
++
+------------
+uint64_t start = getnanotime();
+/* code section to measure */
+trace_performance_since(start, "foobar");
+------------
++
+------------
+uint64_t t = 0;
+for (;;) {
+ /* ignore */
+ t -= getnanotime();
+ /* code section to measure */
+ t += getnanotime();
+ /* ignore */
+}
+trace_performance(t, "frotz");
+------------
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
index 18dea8d15f..569c48a352 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ references.
----
update-request = *shallow command-list [pack-file]
- shallow = PKT-LINE("shallow" SP obj-id)
+ shallow = PKT-LINE("shallow" SP obj-id LF)
command-list = PKT-LINE(command NUL capability-list LF)
*PKT-LINE(command LF)