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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.3.txt | 45 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-read-tree.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-repack.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt | 55 |
6 files changed, 98 insertions, 46 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..46e13a450a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +GIT v1.6.0.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.0.2 +-------------------- + +* "git archive --format=zip" did not honor core.autocrlf while + --format=tar did. + +* Continuing "git rebase -i" was very confused when the user left modified + files in the working tree while resolving conflicts. + +* Continuing "git rebase -i" was also very confused when the user left + some staged changes in the index after "edit". + +* Behaviour of "git diff --quiet" was inconsistent with "diff --exit-code" + with the output redirected to /dev/null. + +* "git stash apply sash@{1}" was fixed to error out. Prior versions + would have applied stash@{0} incorrectly. + +* "git for-each-ref --format=%(subject)" fixed for commits with no + no newline in the message body. + +* "git remote" fixed to protect printf from user input. + +* "git checkout -q" once again suppresses the locally modified file list. + +* Cross-directory renames are no longer used when creating packs. This + allows more graceful behavior on filesystems like sshfs. + +* Stale temporary files under $GIT_DIR/objects/pack are now cleaned up + automatically by "git prune". + +* "Git.pm" tests relied on unnecessarily more recent version of Perl. + +* "gitweb" triggered undef warning on commits without log messages. + +Many other documentation updates. + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.6.0.2-41-g7fe4a72 +echo O=$(git describe maint) +git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index ed3285f899..5dda70de96 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -363,8 +363,17 @@ core.pager:: variable. Note that git sets the `LESS` environment variable to `FRSX` if it is unset when it runs the pager. One can change these settings by setting the - `LESS` variable to some other value or by giving the - `core.pager` option a value such as "`less -+FRSX`". + `LESS` variable to some other value. Alternately, + these settings can be overridden on a project or + global basis by setting the `core.pager` option. + Setting `core.pager` has no affect on the `LESS` + environment variable behaviour above, so if you want + to override git's default settings this way, you need + to be explicit. For example, to disable the S option + in a backward compatible manner, set `core.pager` + to "`less -+$LESS -FRX`". This will be passed to the + shell by git, which will translate the final command to + "`LESS=FRSX less -+FRSX -FRX`". core.whitespace:: A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt index 6f4b9b017f..309deac23b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt @@ -160,7 +160,10 @@ Here are the "carry forward" rules: 0 nothing nothing nothing (does not happen) 1 nothing nothing exists use M 2 nothing exists nothing remove path from index - 3 nothing exists exists use M + 3 nothing exists exists, use M if "initial checkout" + H == M keep index otherwise + exists fail + H != M clean I==H I==M ------------------ @@ -207,6 +210,12 @@ you picked it up via e-mail in a patch form), `git diff-index merge, but it would not show in `git diff-index --cached $M` output after two-tree merge. +Case #3 is slightly tricky and needs explanation. The result from this +rule logically should be to remove the path if the user staged the removal +of the path and then swiching to a new branch. That however will prevent +the initial checkout from happening, so the rule is modified to use M (new +tree) only when the contents of the index is empty. Otherwise the removal +of the path is kept as long as $H and $M are the same. 3-Way Merge ~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt index 38ac60947b..bbe1485a97 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ OPTIONS linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. -f:: - Pass the `--no-reuse-delta` option to 'git-pack-objects'. See + Pass the `--no-reuse-object` option to `git-pack-objects`, see linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. -q:: diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 9a752570f3..2ae771f2fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -270,27 +270,27 @@ See linkgit:git[1] for details. Defining a custom hunk-header ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -Each group of changes (called "hunk") in the textual diff output +Each group of changes (called a "hunk") in the textual diff output is prefixed with a line of the form: @@ -k,l +n,m @@ TEXT -The text is called 'hunk header', and by default a line that -begins with an alphabet, an underscore or a dollar sign is used, -which matches what GNU 'diff -p' output uses. This default -selection however is not suited for some contents, and you can -use customized pattern to make a selection. +This is called a 'hunk header'. The "TEXT" portion is by default a line +that begins with an alphabet, an underscore or a dollar sign; this +matches what GNU 'diff -p' output uses. This default selection however +is not suited for some contents, and you can use a customized pattern +to make a selection. -First in .gitattributes, you would assign the `diff` attribute +First, in .gitattributes, you would assign the `diff` attribute for paths. ------------------------ *.tex diff=tex ------------------------ -Then, you would define "diff.tex.xfuncname" configuration to +Then, you would define a "diff.tex.xfuncname" configuration to specify a regular expression that matches a line that you would -want to appear as the hunk header, like this: +want to appear as the hunk header "TEXT", like this: ------------------------ [diff "tex"] diff --git a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt index 2bdbc3d4f6..e8041bc08f 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt @@ -36,11 +36,25 @@ files: - 'git-diff-tree' compares contents of two "tree" objects; -In all of these cases, the commands themselves compare -corresponding paths in the two sets of files. The result of -comparison is passed from these commands to what is internally -called "diffcore", in a format similar to what is output when -the -p option is not used. E.g. +In all of these cases, the commands themselves first optionally limit +the two sets of files by any pathspecs given on their command-lines, +and compare corresponding paths in the two resulting sets of files. + +The pathspecs are used to limit the world diff operates in. They remove +the filepairs outside the specified sets of pathnames. E.g. If the +input set of filepairs included: + +------------------------------------------------ +:100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M junkfile +------------------------------------------------ + +but the command invocation was `git diff-files myfile`, then the +junkfile entry would be removed from the list because only "myfile" +is under consideration. + +The result of comparison is passed from these commands to what is +internally called "diffcore", in a format similar to what is output +when the -p option is not used. E.g. ------------------------------------------------ in-place edit :100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M file0 @@ -52,9 +66,8 @@ unmerged :000000 000000 0000000... 0000000... U file6 The diffcore mechanism is fed a list of such comparison results (each of which is called "filepair", although at this point each of them talks about a single file), and transforms such a list -into another list. There are currently 6 such transformations: +into another list. There are currently 5 such transformations: -- diffcore-pathspec - diffcore-break - diffcore-rename - diffcore-merge-broken @@ -62,38 +75,14 @@ into another list. There are currently 6 such transformations: - diffcore-order These are applied in sequence. The set of filepairs 'git-diff-{asterisk}' -commands find are used as the input to diffcore-pathspec, and -the output from diffcore-pathspec is used as the input to the +commands find are used as the input to diffcore-break, and +the output from diffcore-break is used as the input to the next transformation. The final result is then passed to the output routine and generates either diff-raw format (see Output format sections of the manual for 'git-diff-{asterisk}' commands) or diff-patch format. -diffcore-pathspec: For Ignoring Files Outside Our Consideration ---------------------------------------------------------------- - -The first transformation in the chain is diffcore-pathspec, and -is controlled by giving the pathname parameters to the -'git-diff-{asterisk}' commands on the command line. The pathspec is used -to limit the world diff operates in. It removes the filepairs -outside the specified set of pathnames. E.g. If the input set -of filepairs included: - ------------------------------------------------- -:100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M junkfile ------------------------------------------------- - -but the command invocation was `git diff-files myfile`, then the -junkfile entry would be removed from the list because only "myfile" -is under consideration. - -Implementation note. For performance reasons, 'git-diff-tree' -uses the pathname parameters on the command line to cull set of -filepairs it feeds the diffcore mechanism itself, and does not -use diffcore-pathspec, but the end result is the same. - - diffcore-break: For Splitting Up "Complete Rewrites" ---------------------------------------------------- |