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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.1.txt41
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt146
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt52
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-format.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-options.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-apply.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-ls-files.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-stash.txt25
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-status.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt38
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-update-index.txt43
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt10
17 files changed, 359 insertions, 80 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a74f7db747
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+Git v2.12.1 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+Fixes since v2.12
+-----------------
+
+ * Reduce authentication round-trip over HTTP when the server supports
+ just a single authentication method. This also improves the
+ behaviour when Git is misconfigured to enable http.emptyAuth
+ against a server that does not authenticate without a username
+ (i.e. not using Kerberos etc., which makes http.emptyAuth
+ pointless).
+
+ * Windows port wants to use OpenSSL's implementation of SHA-1
+ routines, so let them.
+
+ * Add 32-bit Linux variant to the set of platforms to be tested with
+ Travis CI.
+
+ * When a redirected http transport gets an error during the
+ redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server,
+ and ended up giving a not-so-useful error message.
+
+ * The patch subcommand of "git add -i" was meant to have paths
+ selection prompt just like other subcommand, unlike "git add -p"
+ directly jumps to hunk selection. Recently, this was broken and
+ "add -i" lost the paths selection dialog, but it now has been
+ fixed.
+
+ * Git v2.12 was shipped with an embarrassing breakage where various
+ operations that verify paths given from the user stopped dying when
+ seeing an issue, and instead later triggering segfault.
+
+ * The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there
+ are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer
+ has been fixed.
+
+ * The command-line parsing of "git log -L" copied internal data
+ structures using incorrect size on ILP32 systems.
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
index b0b4c36f97..5c2348db6c 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
@@ -73,6 +73,23 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
but caused renaming of the current branch to something else not to
be logged in a useful way.
+ * "Cc:" on the trailer part does not have to conform to RFC strictly,
+ unlike in the e-mail header. "git send-email" has been updated to
+ ignore anything after '>' when picking addresses, to allow non-address
+ cruft like " # stable 4.4" after the address.
+ (merge 9d3343961b jh/send-email-one-cc later to maint).
+
+ * When "git submodule init" decides that the submodule in the working
+ tree is its upstream, it now gives a warning as it is not a very
+ common setup.
+ (merge d1b3b81aab sb/submodule-init-url-selection later to maint).
+
+ * "git stash save" takes a pathspec so that the local changes can be
+ stashed away only partially.
+ (merge 9e140909f6 tg/stash-push later to maint).
+
+ * Documentation for "git ls-files" did not refer to core.quotePath.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -96,6 +113,47 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Some warning() messages from "git clean" were updated to show the
errno from failed system calls.
+ * The "parse_config_key()" API function has been cleaned up.
+ (merge ad8c7cdadd jk/parse-config-key-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * A test that creates a confusing branch whose name is HEAD has been
+ corrected not to do so.
+ (merge f0252ca23c jk/t6300-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * The code that parses header fields in the commit object has been
+ updated for (micro)performance and code hygiene.
+ (merge b072504ce1 rs/commit-parsing-optim later to maint).
+
+ * An helper function to make it easier to append the result from
+ real_path() to a strbuf has been added.
+ (merge 33ad9ddd0b rs/strbuf-add-real-path later to maint).
+
+ * Reduce authentication round-trip over HTTP when the server supports
+ just a single authentication method. This also improves the
+ behaviour when Git is misconfigured to enable http.emptyAuth
+ against a server that does not authenticate without a username
+ (i.e. not using Kerberos etc., which makes http.emptyAuth
+ pointless).
+ (merge 40a18fc77c jk/http-auth later to maint).
+
+ * Windows port wants to use OpenSSL's implementation of SHA-1
+ routines, so let them.
+ (merge 2cfc70f0de jh/mingw-openssl-sha1 later to maint).
+
+ * The t/perf performance test suite was not prepared to test not so
+ old versions of Git, but now it covers versions of Git that are not
+ so ancient.
+ (merge 28e1fb5466 jt/perf-updates later to maint).
+
+ * Add 32-bit Linux variant to the set of platforms to be tested with
+ Travis CI.
+ (merge 88dedd5e72 js/travis-32bit-linux later to maint).
+
+ * "git branch --list" takes the "--abbrev" and "--no-abbrev" options
+ to control the output of the object name in its "-v"(erbose)
+ output, but a recent update started ignoring them; fix it before
+ the breakage reaches to any released version.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -147,5 +205,93 @@ notes for details).
default) by ignoring a stale "gc.log" file that is too old.
(merge a831c06a2b dt/gc-ignore-old-gc-logs later to maint).
+ * The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration
+ variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have
+ been fixed.
+ (merge 1274a155af jc/config-case-cmdline-take-2 later to maint).
+
+ * user.email that consists of only cruft chars should consistently
+ error out, but didn't.
+ (merge 94425552f3 jk/ident-empty later to maint).
+
+ * "git upload-pack", which is a counter-part of "git fetch", did not
+ report a request for a ref that was not advertised as invalid.
+ This is generally not a problem (because "git fetch" will stop
+ before making such a request), but is the right thing to do.
+ (merge bdb31eada7 jt/upload-pack-error-report later to maint).
+
+ * A leak in a codepath to read from a packed object in (rare) cases
+ has been plugged.
+ (merge 886ddf4777 rs/sha1-file-plug-fallback-base-leak later to maint).
+
+ * When a redirected http transport gets an error during the
+ redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server,
+ and ended up giving a not-so-useful error message.
+ (merge 8e27391a5f jt/http-base-url-update-upon-redirect later to maint).
+
+ * The patch subcommand of "git add -i" was meant to have paths
+ selection prompt just like other subcommand, unlike "git add -p"
+ directly jumps to hunk selection. Recently, this was broken and
+ "add -i" lost the paths selection dialog, but it now has been
+ fixed.
+ (merge c852bd54bd jk/add-i-patch-do-prompt later to maint).
+
+ * Git v2.12 was shipped with an embarrassing breakage where various
+ operations that verify paths given from the user stopped dying when
+ seeing an issue, and instead later triggering segfault.
+ (merge ce83eadd9a js/realpath-pathdup-fix later to maint).
+
+ * There is no need for Python only to give a few messages to the
+ standard error stream, but we somehow did.
+ (merge b8686c661d ss/remote-bzr-hg-placeholder-wo-python later to maint).
+
+ * The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there
+ are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer
+ has been fixed.
+ (merge aaae0bf787 ax/line-log-range-merge-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The command-line parsing of "git log -L" copied internal data
+ structures using incorrect size on ILP32 systems.
+ (merge 07f546cda5 vn/line-log-memcpy-size-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --quiet" relies on the size field in diff_filespec to be
+ correctly populated, but diff_populate_filespec() helper function
+ made an incorrect short-cut when asked only to populate the size
+ field for paths that need to go through convert_to_git() (e.g. CRLF
+ conversion).
+ (merge 12426e114b jc/diff-populate-filespec-size-only-fix later to maint).
+
+ * A few tests were run conditionally under (rare) conditions where
+ they cannot be run (like running cvs tests under 'root' account).
+ (merge c6507484a2 ab/cond-skip-tests later to maint).
+
+ * "git branch @" created refs/heads/@ as a branch, and in general the
+ code that handled @{-1} and @{upstream} was a bit too loose in
+ disambiguating.
+ (merge fd4692ff70 jk/interpret-branch-name later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch" that requests a commit by object name, when the other
+ side does not allow such an request, failed without much
+ explanation.
+ (merge d56583ded6 mm/fetch-show-error-message-on-unadvertised-object later to maint).
+
+ * "git filter-branch --prune-empty" drops a single-parent commit that
+ becomes a no-op, but did not drop a root commit whose tree is empty.
+ (merge 32da7467eb dp/filter-branch-prune-empty later to maint).
+
+ * Recent versions of Git treats http alternates (used in dumb http
+ transport) just like HTTP redirects and requires the client to
+ enable following it, due to security concerns. But we forgot to
+ give a warning when we decide not to honor the alternates.
+ (merge 5cae73d5d2 ew/http-alternates-as-redirects-warning later to maint).
+
+ * "git push" had a handful of codepaths that could lead to a deadlock
+ when unexpected error happened, which has been fixed.
+ (merge d1a13d3fcb jk/push-deadlock-regression-fix later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 2cfa83574c mm/two-more-xstrfmt later to maint).
+ (merge b803ae4427 ps/docs-diffcore later to maint).
+ (merge bcd886d897 ew/markdown-url-in-readme later to maint).
+ (merge b2d593a779 rj/remove-unused-mktemp later to maint).
+ (merge 3255e512a8 jk/ewah-use-right-type-in-sizeof later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 47603f5484..eccc012672 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -334,6 +334,10 @@ core.trustctime::
crawlers and some backup systems).
See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
+core.splitIndex::
+ If true, the split-index feature of the index will be used.
+ See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. False by default.
+
core.untrackedCache::
Determines what to do about the untracked cache feature of the
index. It will be kept, if this variable is unset or set to
@@ -350,16 +354,19 @@ core.checkStat::
all fields, including the sub-second part of mtime and ctime.
core.quotePath::
- The commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files',
- 'diff'), when not given the `-z` option, will quote
- "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the
- pathname in a double-quote pair and with backslashes the
- same way strings in C source code are quoted. If this
- variable is set to false, the bytes higher than 0x80 are
- not quoted but output as verbatim. Note that double
- quote, backslash and control characters are always
- quoted without `-z` regardless of the setting of this
- variable.
+ Commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files', 'diff'), will
+ quote "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the
+ pathname in double-quotes and escaping those characters with
+ backslashes in the same way C escapes control characters (e.g.
+ `\t` for TAB, `\n` for LF, `\\` for backslash) or bytes with
+ values larger than 0x80 (e.g. octal `\302\265` for "micro" in
+ UTF-8). If this variable is set to false, bytes higher than
+ 0x80 are not considered "unusual" any more. Double-quotes,
+ backslash and control characters are always escaped regardless
+ of the setting of this variable. A simple space character is
+ not considered "unusual". Many commands can output pathnames
+ completely verbatim using the `-z` option. The default value
+ is true.
core.eol::
Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for
@@ -2847,6 +2854,31 @@ showbranch.default::
The default set of branches for linkgit:git-show-branch[1].
See linkgit:git-show-branch[1].
+splitIndex.maxPercentChange::
+ When the split index feature is used, this specifies the
+ percent of entries the split index can contain compared to the
+ total number of entries in both the split index and the shared
+ index before a new shared index is written.
+ The value should be between 0 and 100. If the value is 0 then
+ a new shared index is always written, if it is 100 a new
+ shared index is never written.
+ By default the value is 20, so a new shared index is written
+ if the number of entries in the split index would be greater
+ than 20 percent of the total number of entries.
+ See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
+
+splitIndex.sharedIndexExpire::
+ When the split index feature is used, shared index files that
+ were not modified since the time this variable specifies will
+ be removed when a new shared index file is created. The value
+ "now" expires all entries immediately, and "never" suppresses
+ expiration altogether.
+ The default value is "2.weeks.ago".
+ Note that a shared index file is considered modified (for the
+ purpose of expiration) each time a new split-index file is
+ either created based on it or read from it.
+ See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
+
status.relativePaths::
By default, linkgit:git-status[1] shows paths relative to the
current directory. Setting this variable to `false` shows paths
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt
index cf5262622f..706916c94c 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt
@@ -78,9 +78,10 @@ Example:
:100644 100644 5be4a4...... 000000...... M file.c
------------------------------------------------
-When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
-in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
-respectively.
+Without the `-z` option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are
+quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath`
+(see linkgit:git-config[1]). Using `-z` the filename is output
+verbatim and the line is terminated by a NUL byte.
diff format for merges
----------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
index d2a7ff56e8..231105cff4 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
@@ -53,10 +53,9 @@ The index line includes the SHA-1 checksum before and after the change.
The <mode> is included if the file mode does not change; otherwise,
separate lines indicate the old and the new mode.
-3. TAB, LF, double quote and backslash characters in pathnames
- are represented as `\t`, `\n`, `\"` and `\\`, respectively.
- If there is need for such substitution then the whole
- pathname is put in double quotes.
+3. Pathnames with "unusual" characters are quoted as explained for
+ the configuration variable `core.quotePath` (see
+ linkgit:git-config[1]).
4. All the `file1` files in the output refer to files before the
commit, and all the `file2` files refer to files after the commit.
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index d91ddbd5fe..89cc0f48de 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -192,10 +192,9 @@ ifndef::git-log[]
given, do not munge pathnames and use NULs as output field terminators.
endif::git-log[]
+
-Without this option, each pathname output will have TAB, LF, double quotes,
-and backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, `\"`, and `\\`,
-respectively, and the pathname will be enclosed in double quotes if
-any of those replacements occurred.
+Without this option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are quoted as
+explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath` (see
+linkgit:git-config[1]).
--name-only::
Show only names of changed files.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 8ddb207409..631cbd840a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -108,10 +108,9 @@ the information is read from the current index instead.
When `--numstat` has been given, do not munge pathnames,
but use a NUL-terminated machine-readable format.
+
-Without this option, each pathname output will have TAB, LF, double quotes,
-and backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, `\"`, and `\\`,
-respectively, and the pathname will be enclosed in double quotes if
-any of those replacements occurred.
+Without this option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are quoted as
+explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath` (see
+linkgit:git-config[1]).
-p<n>::
Remove <n> leading slashes from traditional diff paths. The
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 4f8f20a360..25dcdcc289 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -117,9 +117,12 @@ OPTIONS
-z::
--null::
- When showing `short` or `porcelain` status output, terminate
- entries in the status output with NUL, instead of LF. If no
- format is given, implies the `--porcelain` output format.
+ When showing `short` or `porcelain` status output, print the
+ filename verbatim and terminate the entries with NUL, instead of LF.
+ If no format is given, implies the `--porcelain` output format.
+ Without the `-z` option, filenames with "unusual" characters are
+ quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath`
+ (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
-F <file>::
--file=<file>::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 0a09698c03..6e4bb02204 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -167,14 +167,12 @@ to other tags will be rewritten to point to the underlying commit.
project root. Implies <<Remap_to_ancestor>>.
--prune-empty::
- Some kind of filters will generate empty commits, that left the tree
- untouched. This switch allow git-filter-branch to ignore such
- commits. Though, this switch only applies for commits that have one
- and only one parent, it will hence keep merges points. Also, this
- option is not compatible with the use of `--commit-filter`. Though you
- just need to use the function 'git_commit_non_empty_tree "$@"' instead
- of the `git commit-tree "$@"` idiom in your commit filter to make that
- happen.
+ Some filters will generate empty commits that leave the tree untouched.
+ This option instructs git-filter-branch to remove such commits if they
+ have exactly one or zero non-pruned parents; merge commits will
+ therefore remain intact. This option cannot be used together with
+ `--commit-filter`, though the same effect can be achieved by using the
+ provided `git_commit_non_empty_tree` function in a commit filter.
--original <namespace>::
Use this option to set the namespace where the original commits
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 446209e206..1cab703f73 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ OPTIONS
succeed.
-z::
- \0 line termination on output.
+ \0 line termination on output and do not quote filenames.
+ See OUTPUT below for more information.
-x <pattern>::
--exclude=<pattern>::
@@ -196,9 +197,10 @@ the index records up to three such pairs; one from tree O in stage
the user (or the porcelain) to see what should eventually be recorded at the
path. (see linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information on state)
-When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
-in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
-respectively.
+Without the `-z` option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are
+quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath`
+(see linkgit:git-config[1]). Using `-z` the filename is output
+verbatim and the line is terminated by a NUL byte.
Exclude Patterns
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
index dbc91f98ff..9dee7bef35 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ OPTIONS
Show object size of blob (file) entries.
-z::
- \0 line termination on output.
+ \0 line termination on output and do not quote filenames.
+ See OUTPUT FORMAT below for more information.
--name-only::
--name-status::
@@ -82,8 +83,6 @@ Output Format
-------------
<mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file>
-Unless the `-z` option is used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
-in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, respectively.
This output format is compatible with what `--index-info --stdin` of
'git update-index' expects.
@@ -95,6 +94,11 @@ Object size identified by <object> is given in bytes, and right-justified
with minimum width of 7 characters. Object size is given only for blobs
(file) entries; for other entries `-` character is used in place of size.
+Without the `-z` option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are
+quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath`
+(see linkgit:git-config[1]). Using `-z` the filename is output
+verbatim and the line is terminated by a NUL byte.
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 91c02b8c85..c40c470448 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -261,6 +261,12 @@ print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status.
--show-toplevel::
Show the absolute path of the top-level directory.
+--show-superproject-working-tree
+ Show the absolute path of the root of the superproject's
+ working tree (if exists) that uses the current repository as
+ its submodule. Outputs nothing if the current repository is
+ not used as a submodule by any project.
+
--shared-index-path::
Show the path to the shared index file in split index mode, or
empty if not in split-index mode.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-stash.txt b/Documentation/git-stash.txt
index 2e9e344cd7..70191d06b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-stash.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-stash.txt
@@ -13,8 +13,11 @@ SYNOPSIS
'git stash' drop [-q|--quiet] [<stash>]
'git stash' ( pop | apply ) [--index] [-q|--quiet] [<stash>]
'git stash' branch <branchname> [<stash>]
-'git stash' [save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-q|--quiet]
- [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [<message>]]
+'git stash' save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-q|--quiet]
+ [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [<message>]
+'git stash' [push [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-q|--quiet]
+ [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-m|--message <message>]]
+ [--] [<pathspec>...]]
'git stash' clear
'git stash' create [<message>]
'git stash' store [-m|--message <message>] [-q|--quiet] <commit>
@@ -46,14 +49,24 @@ OPTIONS
-------
save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-q|--quiet] [<message>]::
+push [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-q|--quiet] [-m|--message <message>] [--] [<pathspec>...]::
Save your local modifications to a new 'stash' and roll them
back to HEAD (in the working tree and in the index).
The <message> part is optional and gives
- the description along with the stashed state. For quickly making
- a snapshot, you can omit _both_ "save" and <message>, but giving
- only <message> does not trigger this action to prevent a misspelled
- subcommand from making an unwanted stash.
+ the description along with the stashed state.
++
+For quickly making a snapshot, you can omit "push". In this mode,
+non-option arguments are not allowed to prevent a misspelled
+subcommand from making an unwanted stash. The two exceptions to this
+are `stash -p` which acts as alias for `stash push -p` and pathspecs,
+which are allowed after a double hyphen `--` for disambiguation.
++
+When pathspec is given to 'git stash push', the new stash records the
+modified states only for the files that match the pathspec. The index
+entries and working tree files are then rolled back to the state in
+HEAD only for these files, too, leaving files that do not match the
+pathspec intact.
+
If the `--keep-index` option is used, all changes already added to the
index are left intact.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index 725065ef2d..ba873657cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -322,10 +322,9 @@ When the `-z` option is given, pathnames are printed as is and
without any quoting and lines are terminated with a NUL (ASCII 0x00)
byte.
-Otherwise, all pathnames will be "C-quoted" if they contain any tab,
-linefeed, double quote, or backslash characters. In C-quoting, these
-characters will be replaced with the corresponding C-style escape
-sequences and the resulting pathname will be double quoted.
+Without the `-z` option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are
+quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath`
+(see linkgit:git-config[1]).
CONFIGURATION
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 8acc72ebb8..e05d0cddef 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -73,13 +73,17 @@ configuration entries unless `--name` is used to specify a logical name.
+
<repository> is the URL of the new submodule's origin repository.
This may be either an absolute URL, or (if it begins with ./
-or ../), the location relative to the superproject's origin
+or ../), the location relative to the superproject's default remote
repository (Please note that to specify a repository 'foo.git'
which is located right next to a superproject 'bar.git', you'll
have to use '../foo.git' instead of './foo.git' - as one might expect
when following the rules for relative URLs - because the evaluation
of relative URLs in Git is identical to that of relative directories).
-If the superproject doesn't have an origin configured
++
+The default remote is the remote of the remote tracking branch
+of the current branch. If no such remote tracking branch exists or
+the HEAD is detached, "origin" is assumed to be the default remote.
+If the superproject doesn't have a default remote configured
the superproject is its own authoritative upstream and the current
working directory is used instead.
+
@@ -118,18 +122,24 @@ too (and can also report changes to a submodule's work tree).
init [--] [<path>...]::
Initialize the submodules recorded in the index (which were
- added and committed elsewhere) by copying submodule
- names and urls from .gitmodules to .git/config.
- Optional <path> arguments limit which submodules will be initialized.
- It will also copy the value of `submodule.$name.update` into
- .git/config.
- The key used in .git/config is `submodule.$name.url`.
- This command does not alter existing information in .git/config.
- You can then customize the submodule clone URLs in .git/config
- for your local setup and proceed to `git submodule update`;
- you can also just use `git submodule update --init` without
- the explicit 'init' step if you do not intend to customize
- any submodule locations.
+ added and committed elsewhere) by setting `submodule.$name.url`
+ in .git/config. It uses the same setting from .gitmodules as
+ a template. If the URL is relative, it will be resolved using
+ the default remote. If there is no default remote, the current
+ repository will be assumed to be upstream.
++
+Optional <path> arguments limit which submodules will be initialized.
+If no path is specified, all submodules are initialized.
++
+When present, it will also copy the value of `submodule.$name.update`.
+This command does not alter existing information in .git/config.
+You can then customize the submodule clone URLs in .git/config
+for your local setup and proceed to `git submodule update`;
+you can also just use `git submodule update --init` without
+the explicit 'init' step if you do not intend to customize
+any submodule locations.
++
+See the add subcommand for the defintion of default remote.
deinit [-f|--force] (--all|[--] <path>...)::
Unregister the given submodules, i.e. remove the whole
diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
index 7386c93162..1579abf3c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
@@ -163,14 +163,16 @@ may not support it yet.
--split-index::
--no-split-index::
- Enable or disable split index mode. If enabled, the index is
- split into two files, $GIT_DIR/index and $GIT_DIR/sharedindex.<SHA-1>.
- Changes are accumulated in $GIT_DIR/index while the shared
- index file contains all index entries stays unchanged. If
- split-index mode is already enabled and `--split-index` is
- given again, all changes in $GIT_DIR/index are pushed back to
- the shared index file. This mode is designed for very large
- indexes that take a significant amount of time to read or write.
+ Enable or disable split index mode. If split-index mode is
+ already enabled and `--split-index` is given again, all
+ changes in $GIT_DIR/index are pushed back to the shared index
+ file.
++
+These options take effect whatever the value of the `core.splitIndex`
+configuration variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). But a warning is
+emitted when the change goes against the configured value, as the
+configured value will take effect next time the index is read and this
+will remove the intended effect of the option.
--untracked-cache::
--no-untracked-cache::
@@ -388,6 +390,31 @@ Although this bit looks similar to assume-unchanged bit, its goal is
different from assume-unchanged bit's. Skip-worktree also takes
precedence over assume-unchanged bit when both are set.
+Split index
+-----------
+
+This mode is designed for repositories with very large indexes, and
+aims at reducing the time it takes to repeatedly write these indexes.
+
+In this mode, the index is split into two files, $GIT_DIR/index and
+$GIT_DIR/sharedindex.<SHA-1>. Changes are accumulated in
+$GIT_DIR/index, the split index, while the shared index file contains
+all index entries and stays unchanged.
+
+All changes in the split index are pushed back to the shared index
+file when the number of entries in the split index reaches a level
+specified by the splitIndex.maxPercentChange config variable (see
+linkgit:git-config[1]).
+
+Each time a new shared index file is created, the old shared index
+files are deleted if their modification time is older than what is
+specified by the splitIndex.sharedIndexExpire config variable (see
+linkgit:git-config[1]).
+
+To avoid deleting a shared index file that is still used, its
+modification time is updated to the current time everytime a new split
+index based on the shared index file is either created or read from.
+
Untracked cache
---------------
diff --git a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
index 46bc6d077c..c0a60f3158 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ format sections of the manual for 'git diff-{asterisk}' commands) or
diff-patch format.
-diffcore-break: For Splitting Up "Complete Rewrites"
-----------------------------------------------------
+diffcore-break: For Splitting Up Complete Rewrites
+--------------------------------------------------
The second transformation in the chain is diffcore-break, and is
controlled by the -B option to the 'git diff-{asterisk}' commands. This is
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ the original is used), and can be customized by giving a number
after "-B" option (e.g. "-B75" to tell it to use 75%).
-diffcore-rename: For Detection Renames and Copies
+diffcore-rename: For Detecting Renames and Copies
-------------------------------------------------
This transformation is used to detect renames and copies, and is
@@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ the expense of making it slower. Without `--find-copies-harder`,
copied happened to have been modified in the same changeset.
-diffcore-merge-broken: For Putting "Complete Rewrites" Back Together
---------------------------------------------------------------------
+diffcore-merge-broken: For Putting Complete Rewrites Back Together
+------------------------------------------------------------------
This transformation is used to merge filepairs broken by
diffcore-break, and not transformed into rename/copy by