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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-credential.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-svn.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-tools.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/merge-strategies.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/revisions.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt | 4 |
12 files changed, 59 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt index bcbcf15696..516d929056 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the server side supports this feature. + * Output from "git log --graph" works better with submodule log + output now. + * "git count-objects -v" learned to report leftover temporary packfiles and other garbage in the object store. @@ -160,6 +163,28 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * Perl scripts like "git-svn" closed (not redirecting to /dev/null) + the standard error stream, which is not a very smart thing to do. + Later open may return file descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and + error reporting code may write into them. + (merge a749c0b tr/perl-keep-stderr-open later to maint). + + * "git show-branch" was not prepared to show a very long run of + ancestor operators e.g. foobar^2~2^2^2^2...^2~4 correctly. + (merge aaa07e3 jk/show-branch-strbuf later to maint). + + * "git diff --diff-algorithm algo" is also understood as "git diff + --diff-algorithm=algo". + (merge 0895c6d jk/diff-algo-finishing-touches later to maint). + + * The new core.commentchar configuration was not applied to a few + places. + (merge 89c3bbd rt/commentchar-fmt-merge-msg later to maint). + + * "git bundle" did not like a bundle created using a commit without + any message as its one of the prerequistes. + (merge 5446e33 lf/bundle-with-tip-wo-message later to maint). + * "git log -S/-G" started paying attention to textconv filter, but there was no way to disable this. Make it honor --no-textconv option. diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential.txt b/Documentation/git-credential.txt index 472f00f607..7da0f13a5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential.txt @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ For example, if we want a password for `https://example.com/foo.git`, we might generate the following credential description (don't forget the blank line at the end; it tells `git credential` that the application finished feeding all the -infomation it has): +information it has): protocol=https host=example.com diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt index 58b7facb09..8cfc748ae2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ begins with `ext::`. Examples: edit .ssh/config. "ext::socat -t3600 - ABSTRACT-CONNECT:/git-server %G/somerepo":: - Represents repository with path /somerepo accessable over + Represents repository with path /somerepo accessible over git protocol at abstract namespace address /git-server. "ext::git-server-alias foo %G/repo":: diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 1b8b6498cd..7706d41c87 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ first have already been pushed into SVN. patch), "all" (accept all patches), or "quit". + 'git svn dcommit' returns immediately if answer if "no" or "quit", without - commiting anything to SVN. + committing anything to SVN. 'branch':: Create a branch in the SVN repository. @@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ HANDLING OF SVN BRANCHES ------------------------ If 'git svn' is configured to fetch branches (and --follow-branches is in effect), it sometimes creates multiple Git branches for one -SVN branch, where the addtional branches have names of the form +SVN branch, where the additional branches have names of the form 'branchname@nnn' (with nnn an SVN revision number). These additional branches are created if 'git svn' cannot find a parent commit for the first commit in an SVN branch, to connect the branch to the history of diff --git a/Documentation/git-tools.txt b/Documentation/git-tools.txt index ad8b823f77..78a0d955ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tools.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tools.txt @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Others - *git.el* (contrib/) - This is an Emacs interface for Git. The user interface is modeled on + This is an Emacs interface for Git. The user interface is modelled on pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some tweaking to work on XEmacs. diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index eb7ba84f1f..2478a3963c 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -100,9 +100,22 @@ to point at the new commit. [[def_detached_HEAD]]detached HEAD:: Normally the <<def_HEAD,HEAD>> stores the name of a - <<def_branch,branch>>. However, Git also allows you to <<def_checkout,check out>> - an arbitrary <<def_commit,commit>> that isn't necessarily the tip of any - particular branch. In this case HEAD is said to be "detached". + <<def_branch,branch>>, and commands that operate on the + history HEAD represents operate on the history leading to the + tip of the branch the HEAD points at. However, Git also + allows you to <<def_checkout,check out>> an arbitrary + <<def_commit,commit>> that isn't necessarily the tip of any + particular branch. The HEAD in such a state is called + "detached". ++ +Note that commands that operate on the history of the current branch +(e.g. `git commit` to build a new history on top of it) still work +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 +current branch integrates with) obviously do not work, as there is no +(real) current branch to ask about in this state. [[def_dircache]]dircache:: You are *waaaaay* behind. See <<def_index,index>>. diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt index 66db80296f..49a9a7d53f 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt @@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ patience;; this when the branches to be merged have diverged wildly. See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--patience`. +diff-algorithm=[patience|minimal|histogram|myers];; + Tells 'merge-recursive' to use a different diff algorithm, which + can help avoid mismerges that occur due to unimportant matching + lines (such as braces from distinct functions). See also + linkgit:git-diff[1] `--diff-algorithm`. + ignore-space-change;; ignore-all-space;; ignore-space-at-eol;; diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 1707d451b6..8855b1a0ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ when you run `git cherry-pick`. + Note that any of the 'refs/*' cases above may come either from the '$GIT_DIR/refs' directory or from the '$GIT_DIR/packed-refs' file. -While the ref name encoding is unspecified, UTF-8 is prefered as +While the ref name encoding is unspecified, UTF-8 is preferred as some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8. '<refname>@\{<date>\}', e.g. 'master@\{yesterday\}', 'HEAD@\{5 minutes ago\}':: diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt index a959517b23..a6b7d83a8e 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Functions initial, empty state. `argv_array_detach`:: - Detach the argv array from the `struct argv_array`, transfering + Detach the argv array from the `struct argv_array`, transferring ownership of the allocated array and strings. `argv_array_free_detached`:: diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt index 516fda7412..c1b42a40d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ int foo_login(struct foo_connection *f) break; default: /* - * Some other error occured. We don't know if the + * Some other error occurred. We don't know if the * credential is good or bad, so report nothing to the * credential subsystem. */ diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt index dbbea95db7..aa1c50f181 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Iteration functions * `head_ref_submodule()`, `for_each_ref_submodule()`, `for_each_ref_in_submodule()`, `for_each_tag_ref_submodule()`, `for_each_branch_ref_submodule()`, `for_each_remote_ref_submodule()` - do the same as the functions descibed above but for a specified + do the same as the functions described above but for a specified submodule. * `for_each_rawref()` can be used to learn about broken ref and symref. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt index 0e37ec9de5..a37f1378d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt @@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ Git pack format (deltified representation) n-byte type and length (3-bit type, (n-1)*7+4-bit length) - 20-byte base object name + 20-byte base object name if OBJ_REF_DELTA or a negative relative + offset from the delta object's position in the pack if this + is an OBJ_OFS_DELTA object compressed delta data Observation: length of each object is encoded in a variable |