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diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 45577117c2..57da6aadeb 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -76,11 +76,19 @@ For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive): - We do not use Process Substitution <(list) or >(list). + - Do not write control structures on a single line with semicolon. + "then" should be on the next line for if statements, and "do" + should be on the next line for "while" and "for". + - We prefer "test" over "[ ... ]". - We do not write the noiseword "function" in front of shell functions. + - We prefer a space between the function name and the parentheses. The + opening "{" should also be on the same line. + E.g.: my_function () { + - As to use of grep, stick to a subset of BRE (namely, no \{m,n\}, [::], [==], nor [..]) for portability. diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 063fa696c9..cf5916fe8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -344,4 +344,7 @@ require-htmlrepo:: quick-install-html: require-htmlrepo '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./install-doc-quick.sh $(HTML_REPO) $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir) +print-man1: + @for i in $(MAN1_TXT); do echo $$i; done + .PHONY: FORCE diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0a2ed855c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +Git v1.7.11.5 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.11.4 +--------------------- + + * The Makefile rule to create assembly output (primarily for + debugging purposes) did not create it next to the source. + + * The code to avoid mistaken attempt to add the object directory + itself as its own alternate could read beyond end of a string while + comparison. + + * On some architectures, "block-sha1" did not compile correctly + when compilers inferred alignment guarantees from our source we + did not intend to make. + + * When talking to a remote running ssh on IPv6 enabled host, whose + address is spelled as "[HOST]:PORT", we did not parse the address + correctly and failed to connect. + + * git-blame.el (in compat/) have been updated to use Elisp more + correctly. + + * "git checkout <branchname>" to come back from a detached HEAD state + incorrectly computed reachability of the detached HEAD, resulting + in unnecessary warnings. + + * "git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list + of supported backends, like "git difftool" does. + + * "git grep" stopped spawning an external "grep" long time ago, but a + duplicated test to check internal and external "grep" was left + behind. + +Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ba7d3c3966 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +Git v1.7.11.6 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.11.5 +--------------------- + + * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive + documentation. + + * "git foo" errored out with "Not a directory" when the user had a + non-directory on $PATH, and worse yet it masked an alias "foo" from + running. + + * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that + rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..." + started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration. + + * When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a + revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we + used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message + has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command + line. + + * Documentation for the configuration file format had a confusing + example. + + * Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular + file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and + tags, which is not true for quite some time. + + * It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our + subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not + easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set. + + * The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means + the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of + commands were poorly described in the documentation. + + * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then + died when the human-readable committer name was given + insufficiently by getpwent(3). + + * The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while + being incorrect. The implementation has been updated to give the + documented status for a case that was documented, and introduce a + new code for "all other errors". + + * The output from "git diff -B" for a file that ends with an + incomplete line did not put "\ No newline..." on a line of its own. + + * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the + working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have + name 0{40} recorded in a tree. + + * The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r", + but we didn't document it. + + * When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a + message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to + the standard output, breaking the communication protocol. + + * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were + inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name). + + * "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the + header correctly, and lost "_" from strings. + + * "git stash apply/pop" did not trigger "rerere" upon conflicts + unlike other mergy operations. + + * "git submodule <cmd> path" did not error out when the path to the + submodule was misspelt. + + * "git submodule update -f" did not update paths in the working tree + that has local changes. + (merge 01d4721 sz/submodule-force-update later to maint). + + * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with + SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them. + + * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API. + + * A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement + for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4088a166f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +Git 1.7.12.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.12 +------------------- + + * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive + documentation. + + * The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r", + but we didn't document it. + + * It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our + subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not + easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set. + + * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the + branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the + option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the + documentation misleading. + + * The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means + the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of + commands were poorly described in the documentation. + + * Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular + file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and + tags, which is not true for quite some time. + + * A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement + for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms. + + * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file + descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and + getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability. + + * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL, + breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0. + + * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up. + + * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API. + + * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line + correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other + places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that + does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or mode + changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places + in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from + this problem. + + * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then + died when the human-readable committer name was given + insufficiently by getpwent(3). + + * Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack + did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been + fixed not to do so. + + * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort + option. + + * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path + when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line. + Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such + a case. + + * "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary + files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation). + + * Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having + the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is + configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication + for POST. + + * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were + inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name). + + * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that + rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..." + started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration. + + * When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a + message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to + the standard output, breaking the communication protocol. + + * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the + working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have + name 0{40} recorded in a tree. + + * "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the + header correctly, and lost "_" from strings. + + * When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a + revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we + used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message + has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command + line. + + * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with + SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt index 786a702420..010d8c7de4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -51,10 +51,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features read. The error message in this case was updated to give better hints to the user. - * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over - the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage - distribution of clients. - * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the default location where the build procedure installs them locally; @@ -120,6 +116,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) * "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last minute before the code freeze. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -130,33 +127,10 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). - * "git grep" stopped spawning an external "grep" long time ago, but a - duplicated test to check internal and external "grep" was left - behind. - (merge 4ca9453 rj/maint-grep-remove-redundant-test later to maint). - - * The code to avoid mistaken attempt to add the object directory - itself as its own alternate could read beyond end of a string while - comparison. - (merge cb2912c hv/link-alt-odb-entry later to maint). - - * "git checkout <branchname>" to come back from a detached HEAD state - incorrectly computed reachability of the detached HEAD, resulting - in unnecessary warnings. - (merge add416a jk/maint-checkout-orphan-check-fix later to maint). - - * The documentation for revision range specifiers (e.g. A..B, A^@) - has been updated. - (merge ca5ee2d mh/maint-revisions-doc later to maint). - * "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it. - * "git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list - of supported backends, like "git difftool" does. - (merge 109859e jc/mergetool-tool-help later to maint). - * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by getpwent(3). diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf index a26d245ab4..1273a85c8a 100644 --- a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf +++ b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ ifndef::git-asciidoc-no-roff[] # v1.72 breaks with this because it replaces dots not in roff requests. [listingblock] <example><title>{title}</title> -<literallayout> +<literallayout class="monospaced"> ifdef::doctype-manpage[] .ft C endif::doctype-manpage[] @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ ifdef::doctype-manpage[] # The following two small workarounds insert a simple paragraph after screen [listingblock] <example><title>{title}</title> -<literallayout> +<literallayout class="monospaced"> | </literallayout><simpara></simpara> {title#}</example> diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 63a251612a..11cc7f0588 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -84,11 +84,11 @@ entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored. When checking out paths from the index, check out stage #2 ('ours') or #3 ('theirs') for unmerged paths. --b:: +-b <new_branch>:: Create a new branch named <new_branch> and start it at <start_point>; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. --B:: +-B <new_branch>:: Creates the branch <new_branch> and start it at <start_point>; if it already exists, then reset it to <start_point>. This is equivalent to running "git branch" with "-f"; see @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ explicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case. <commit> is not a branch name. See the "DETACHED HEAD" section below for details. ---orphan:: +--orphan <new_branch>:: Create a new 'orphan' branch, named <new_branch>, started from <start_point> and switch to it. The first commit made on this new branch will have no parents and it will be the root of a new diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index 2d6ef32a08..eaea079165 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -54,16 +54,16 @@ configuration file by default, and options '--system', '--global', '--file <filename>' can be used to tell the command to write to that location (you can say '--local' but that is the default). -This command will fail (with exit code ret) if: +This command will fail with non-zero status upon error. Some exit +codes are: . The config file is invalid (ret=3), . can not write to the config file (ret=4), . no section or name was provided (ret=2), . the section or key is invalid (ret=1), . you try to unset an option which does not exist (ret=5), -. you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match (ret=5), -. you try to use an invalid regexp (ret=6), or -. you use '--global' option without $HOME being properly set (ret=128). +. you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match (ret=5), or +. you try to use an invalid regexp (ret=6). On success, the command returns the exit code 0. @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ Given a .git/config like this: ; Proxy settings [core] - gitproxy="proxy-command" for kernel.org + gitproxy=proxy-command for kernel.org gitproxy=default-proxy ; for all the rest you can set the filemode to true with @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ To actually match only values with an exclamation mark, you have to To add a new proxy, without altering any of the existing ones, use ------------ -% git config core.gitproxy '"proxy-command" for example.com' +% git config --add core.gitproxy '"proxy-command" for example.com' ------------ An example to use customized color from the configuration in your diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-cache--daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-cache--daemon.txt index 11edc5a173..d15db42d43 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential-cache--daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential-cache--daemon.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-credential-cache--daemon(1) NAME ---- -git-credential-cache--daemon - temporarily store user credentials in memory +git-credential-cache--daemon - Temporarily store user credentials in memory SYNOPSIS -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt index f3d09c5d51..eeff5fa989 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-credential-cache(1) NAME ---- -git-credential-cache - helper to temporarily store passwords in memory +git-credential-cache - Helper to temporarily store passwords in memory SYNOPSIS -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt index 31093467d1..b27c03c361 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-credential-store(1) NAME ---- -git-credential-store - helper to store credentials on disk +git-credential-store - Helper to store credentials on disk SYNOPSIS -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential.txt b/Documentation/git-credential.txt index 53adee3203..810e957124 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-credential(1) NAME ---- -git-credential - retrieve and store user credentials +git-credential - Retrieve and store user credentials SYNOPSIS -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 039cce2e98..72d6bb612b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ OPTIONS --all:: Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any ref - found in `.git/refs/`. This option enables matching + found in `refs/` namespace. This option enables matching any known branch, remote-tracking branch, or lightweight tag. --tags:: Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any tag - found in `.git/refs/tags`. This option enables matching + found in `refs/tags` namespace. This option enables matching a lightweight (non-annotated) tag. --contains:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 81f58234a7..15e7ac80c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ changes, which would normally have no effect. Nevertheless, this may be useful in the future for compensating for some git bugs or such, therefore such a usage is permitted. -*NOTE*: This command honors `.git/info/grafts` and `.git/refs/replace/`. +*NOTE*: This command honors `.git/info/grafts` file and refs in +the `refs/replace/` namespace. If you have any grafts or replacement refs defined, running this command will make them permanent. diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt index bbb25da2dd..da348fc942 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ OPTIONS An object to treat as the head of an unreachability trace. + If no objects are given, 'git fsck' defaults to using the -index file, all SHA1 references in .git/refs/*, and all reflogs (unless ---no-reflogs is given) as heads. +index file, all SHA1 references in `refs` namespace, and all reflogs +(unless --no-reflogs is given) as heads. --unreachable:: Print out objects that exist but that aren't reachable from any diff --git a/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt b/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt index c406a11001..d54932889f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt @@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ $ gitk $(cd .git/lost-found/commit && echo ??*) ------------ After making sure you know which the object is the tag you are looking -for, you can reconnect it to your regular .git/refs hierarchy. +for, you can reconnect it to your regular `refs` hierarchy by using +the `update-ref` command. ------------ $ git cat-file -t 1ef2b196 diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt index 10afd4edfe..f131677478 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt @@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- Traditionally, tips of branches and tags (collectively known as -'refs') were stored one file per ref under `$GIT_DIR/refs` +'refs') were stored one file per ref in a (sub)directory +under `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory. While many branch tips tend to be updated often, most tags and some branch tips are never updated. When a repository has hundreds or thousands of tags, this @@ -22,13 +23,14 @@ one-file-per-ref format both wastes storage and hurts performance. This command is used to solve the storage and performance -problem by stashing the refs in a single file, +problem by storing the refs in a single file, `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs`. When a ref is missing from the -traditional `$GIT_DIR/refs` hierarchy, it is looked up in this +traditional `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory hierarchy, it is looked +up in this file and used if found. Subsequent updates to branches always create new files under -`$GIT_DIR/refs` hierarchy. +`$GIT_DIR/refs` directory hierarchy. A recommended practice to deal with a repository with too many refs is to pack its refs with `--all --prune` once, and @@ -57,6 +59,15 @@ a repository with many branches of historical interests. The command usually removes loose refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs` hierarchy after packing them. This option tells it not to. + +BUGS +---- + +Older documentation written before the packed-refs mechanism was +introduced may still say things like ".git/refs/heads/<branch> file +exists" when it means "branch <branch> exists". + + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index defb544ed0..67fa5ee195 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ include::merge-options.txt[] :git-pull: 1 +-r:: --rebase:: Rebase the current branch on top of the upstream branch after fetching. If there is a remote-tracking branch corresponding to diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt index 17df525275..51131d0858 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt @@ -14,14 +14,13 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Adds a 'replace' reference in `.git/refs/replace/` +Adds a 'replace' reference in `refs/replace/` namespace. The name of the 'replace' reference is the SHA1 of the object that is replaced. The content of the 'replace' reference is the SHA1 of the replacement object. -Unless `-f` is given, the 'replace' reference must not yet exist in -`.git/refs/replace/` directory. +Unless `-f` is given, the 'replace' reference must not yet exist. Replacement references will be used by default by all git commands except those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index fbbbcb282c..2de7bf0900 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -149,6 +149,11 @@ submodule with the `--init` option. + If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into the registered submodules, and update any nested submodules within. ++ +If `--force` is specified, the submodule will be checked out (using +`git checkout --force` if appropriate), even if the commit specified in the +index of the containing repository already matches the commit checked out in +the submodule. summary:: Show commit summary between the given commit (defaults to HEAD) and @@ -210,7 +215,9 @@ OPTIONS This option is only valid for add and update commands. When running add, allow adding an otherwise ignored submodule path. When running update, throw away local changes in submodules when - switching to a different commit. + switching to a different commit; and always run a checkout operation + in the submodule, even if the commit listed in the index of the + containing repository matches the commit checked out in the submodule. --cached:: This option is only valid for status and summary commands. These diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index e36a7c3d1e..247534e908 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -20,11 +20,10 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Add a tag reference in `.git/refs/tags/`, unless `-d/-l/-v` is given +Add a tag reference in `refs/tags/`, unless `-d/-l/-v` is given to delete, list or verify tags. -Unless `-f` is given, the tag to be created must not yet exist in the -`.git/refs/tags/` directory. +Unless `-f` is given, the named tag must not yet exist. If one of `-a`, `-s`, or `-u <key-id>` is passed, the command creates a 'tag' object, and requires a tag message. Unless diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 7af8aaa047..fab6e77e02 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -22,18 +22,17 @@ unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals. See linkgit:gittutorial[7] to get started, then see -link:everyday.html[Everyday Git] for a useful minimum set of commands, and -"man git-commandname" for documentation of each command. CVS users may -also want to read linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7]. See -the link:user-manual.html[Git User's Manual] for a more in-depth -introduction. +link:everyday.html[Everyday Git] for a useful minimum set of +commands. The link:user-manual.html[Git User's Manual] has a more +in-depth introduction. -The '<command>' is either a name of a Git command (see below) or an alias -as defined in the configuration file (see linkgit:git-config[1]). +After you mastered the basic concepts, you can come back to this +page to learn what commands git offers. You can learn more about +individual git commands with "git help command". linkgit:gitcli[7] +manual page gives you an overview of the command line command syntax. -Formatted and hyperlinked version of the latest git -documentation can be viewed at -`http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/`. +Formatted and hyperlinked version of the latest git documentation +can be viewed at `http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git.html`. ifdef::stalenotes[] [NOTE] @@ -44,9 +43,16 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v1.7.11.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.4] +* link:v1.7.12/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.12] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.7.12.txt[1.7.12]. + +* link:v1.7.11.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.6] + +* release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt[1.7.11.6], + link:RelNotes/1.7.11.5.txt[1.7.11.5], link:RelNotes/1.7.11.4.txt[1.7.11.4], link:RelNotes/1.7.11.3.txt[1.7.11.3], link:RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt[1.7.11.2], @@ -405,24 +411,6 @@ help ...`. linkgit:git-replace[1] for more information. -FURTHER DOCUMENTATION ---------------------- - -See the references above to get started using git. The following is -probably more detail than necessary for a first-time user. - -The link:user-manual.html#git-concepts[git concepts chapter of the -user-manual] and linkgit:gitcore-tutorial[7] both provide -introductions to the underlying git architecture. - -See linkgit:gitworkflows[7] for an overview of recommended workflows. - -See also the link:howto-index.html[howto] documents for some useful -examples. - -The internals are documented in the -link:technical/api-index.html[GIT API documentation]. - GIT COMMANDS ------------ @@ -842,6 +830,29 @@ The index is also capable of storing multiple entries (called "stages") for a given pathname. These stages are used to hold the various unmerged version of a file when a merge is in progress. +FURTHER DOCUMENTATION +--------------------- + +See the references in the "description" section to get started +using git. The following is probably more detail than necessary +for a first-time user. + +The link:user-manual.html#git-concepts[git concepts chapter of the +user-manual] and linkgit:gitcore-tutorial[7] both provide +introductions to the underlying git architecture. + +See linkgit:gitworkflows[7] for an overview of recommended workflows. + +See also the link:howto-index.html[howto] documents for some useful +examples. + +The internals are documented in the +link:technical/api-index.html[GIT API documentation]. + +Users migrating from CVS may also want to +read linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7]. + + Authors ------- Git was started by Linus Torvalds, and is currently maintained by Junio diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt index ea17f7a53b..3e72a5d68e 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt @@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ scripting git: `git log -1 HEAD` but write `git log -1 HEAD --`; the former will not work if you happen to have a file called `HEAD` in the work tree. + * many commands allow a long option "--option" to be abbreviated + only to their unique prefix (e.g. if there is no other option + whose name begins with "opt", you may be able to spell "--opt" to + invoke the "--option" flag), but you should fully spell them out + when writing your scripts; later versions of Git may introduce a + new option whose name shares the same prefix, e.g. "--optimize", + to make a short prefix that used to be unique no longer unique. + ENHANCED OPTION PARSER ---------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index d9b2b5b2e0..def1340ac7 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -578,16 +578,33 @@ Commit Ordering By default, the commits are shown in reverse chronological order. ---topo-order:: +--date-order:: + Show no parents before all of its children are shown, but + otherwise show commits in the commit timestamp order. - This option makes them appear in topological order (i.e. - descendant commits are shown before their parents). +--topo-order:: + Show no parents before all of its children are shown, and + avoid showing commits on multiple lines of history + intermixed. ++ +For example, in a commit history like this: ++ +---------------------------------------------------------------- ---date-order:: + ---1----2----4----7 + \ \ + 3----5----6----8--- - This option is similar to '--topo-order' in the sense that no - parent comes before all of its children, but otherwise things - are still ordered in the commit timestamp order. +---------------------------------------------------------------- ++ +where the numbers denote the order of commit timestamps, `git +rev-list` and friends with `--date-order` show the commits in the +timestamp order: 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. ++ +With `--topo-order`, they would show 8 6 5 3 7 4 2 1 (or 8 7 4 2 6 5 +3 1); some older commits are shown before newer ones in order to +avoid showing the commits from two parallel development track mixed +together. --reverse:: diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index dc0070bcb7..69d996bc38 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -213,6 +213,13 @@ of 'r1' and 'r2' and is defined as It is the set of commits that are reachable from either one of 'r1' or 'r2' but not from both. +In these two shorthands, you can omit one end and let it default to HEAD. +For example, 'origin..' is a shorthand for 'origin..HEAD' and asks "What +did I do since I forked from the origin branch?" Similarly, '..origin' +is a shorthand for 'HEAD..origin' and asks "What did the origin do since +I forked from them?" Note that '..' would mean 'HEAD..HEAD' which is an +empty range that is both reachable and unreachable from HEAD. + Two other shorthands for naming a set that is formed by a commit and its parent commits exist. The 'r1{caret}@' notation means all parents of 'r1'. 'r1{caret}!' includes commit 'r1' but excludes diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.conf b/Documentation/user-manual.conf index 339b30919e..d87294de2f 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.conf +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.conf @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ ifdef::backend-docbook[] # "unbreak" docbook-xsl v1.68 for manpages. v1.69 works with or without this. [listingblock] <example><title>{title}</title> -<literallayout> +<literallayout class="monospaced"> | </literallayout> {title#}</example> |