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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fc3ea185a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Git v1.8.3.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v1.8.3 +------------------ + + * When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we + used to complain and die. The check has been loosened. + + * Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories "!dir" was + broken in the update to v1.8.3. + +Also contains a handful of trivial code clean-ups, documentation +updates, updates to the test suite, etc. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..63c04823c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,243 @@ +Git v1.8.4 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.8.3 +-------------------- + +Foreign interfaces and ports. + + * MediaWiki remote helper (in contrib/) has been updated to use the + credential helper interface from Git.pm. + + * Update build for Cygwin 1.[57]. Torsten Bögershausen reports that + this is fine with Cygwin 1.7 ($gmane/225824) so let's try moving it + ahead. + + * The credential helper to talk to keychain on OS X (in contrib/) has + been updated to kick in not just when talking http/https but also + imap(s) and smtp. + + * Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and + maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better. + + * With "export" remote-helper protocol, (1) a push that tries to + update a remote ref whose name is different from the pushing side + does not work yet, and (2) the helper may not know how to do + --dry-run; these problematic cases are disabled for now. + + * git-remote-hg/bzr (in contrib/) updates. + + * git-remote-mw (in contrib/) hints users to check the certificate, + when https:// connection failed. + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string, + directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref + "refs/<some hierarchy>/<name>" exists. This disambiguation order + is unlikely to change, but we should warn about the ambiguity just + like we warn when more than one refs/ hierachies share the same + name. + + * "git rebase" learned "--[no-]autostash" option to save local + changes instead of refusing to run (to which people's normal + response was to stash them and re-run). + + * Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now, + e.g. "git log @". + + * "check-ignore" (new feature since 1.8.2) has been updated to work + more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes. + + * "git describe" learned "--first-parent" option to limit its closest + tagged commit search to the first-parent chain. + + * "git merge foo" that might have meant "git merge origin/foo" is + diagnosed with a more informative error message. + + * "git log -L<line>,<range>:<filename>" has been added. This may + still have leaks and rough edges, though. + + * We used the approxidate() parser for "--expire=<timestamp>" options + of various commands, but it is better to treat --expire=all and + --expire=now a bit more specially than using the current timestamp. + "git gc" and "git reflog" have been updated with a new parsing + function for expiry dates. + + * Updates to completion (both bash and zsh) helpers. + + * The behaviour of the "--chain-reply-to" option of "git send-email" + have changed at 1.7.0, and we added a warning/advice message to + help users adjust to the new behaviour back then, but we kept it + around for too long. The message has finally been removed. + + * "git fetch origin master" unlike "git fetch origin" or "git fetch" + did not update "refs/remotes/origin/master"; this was an early + design decision to keep the update of remote tracking branches + predictable, but in practice it turns out that people find it more + convenient to opportunistically update them whenever we have a + chance, and we have been updating them when we run "git push" which + already breaks the original "predictability" anyway. + + * The configuration variable core.checkstat was advertised in the + documentation but the code expected core.statinfo instead. + For now, we accept both core.checkstat and core.statinfo, but the + latter will be removed in the longer term. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + + * Memory ownership and lifetime rules for what for-each-ref feeds to + its callbacks have been clarified (in short, "you do not own it, so + make a copy if you want to keep it"). + + * The revision traversal logic to improve culling of irrelevant + parents while traversing a mergy history has been updated. + + * Some leaks in unpack-trees (used in merge, cherry-pick and other + codepaths) have been plugged. + + * The codepath to read from marks files in fast-import/export did not + have to accept anything but 40-hex representation of the object + name. Further, fast-export did not need full in-core object + representation to have parsed wen reading from them. These + codepaths have been optimized by taking advantage of these access + patterns. + + * Object lookup logic, when the object hashtable starts to become + crowded, has been optimized. + + * When TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY setting is used, it was handled somewhat + inconsistently between the test framework and t/Makefile, and logic + to summarize the results looked at a wrong place. + + * "git clone" uses a lighter-weight implementation when making sure + that the history behind refs are complete. + + * Many warnings from sparse source checker in compat/ area has been + squelched. + + * The code to reading and updating packed-refs file has been updated, + correcting corner case bugs. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.8.3 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for +details). + + * Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like + "A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part + needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes + around the name, and comparison was done between quoted and + unquoted strings). + (merge 1495266 mt/send-email-cc-match-fix later to maint). + + * "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each + request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one + when used as a persistent CGI. + (merge ca7a5dc cm/gitweb-project-list-persistent-cgi-fix later to maint). + + * The wildmatch engine did not honor WM_CASEFOLD option correctly. + (merge b79c0c3 ar/wildmatch-foldcase later to maint). + + * "git log -c --follow $path" segfaulted upon hitting the commit that + renamed the $path being followed. + (merge 46ec510 cb/log-follow-with-combined later to maint). + + * When a reflog notation is used for implicit "current branch", we + did not say which branch and worse said "branch ''". + (merge 305ebea rr/die-on-missing-upstream later to maint). + + * "difftool --dir-diff" did not copy back changes made by the + end-user in the diff tool backend to the working tree in some + cases. + (merge 32eaf1d ks/difftool-dir-diff-copy-fix later to maint). + + * "git push $there HEAD:branch" did not resolve HEAD early enough, so + it was easy to flip it around while push is still going on and push + out a branch that the user did not originally intended when the + command was started. + (merge 0f075b2 rr/push-head later to maint). + + * The bash prompt code (in contrib/) displayed the name of the branch + being rebased when "rebase -i/-m/-p" modes are in use, but not the + plain vanilla "rebase". + (merge 1306321 fc/show-branch-in-rebase-am later to maint). + + * Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories "!dir" was + broken in the update to v1.8.3. + (merge c3c327d kb/status-ignored-optim-2 later to maint). + + * zsh prompt script that borrowed from bash prompt script did not + work due to slight differences in array variable notation between + these two shells. + (merge d0583da tg/maint-zsh-svn-remote-prompt later to maint). + + * An entry for "file://" scheme in the enumeration of URL types Git + can take in the HTML documentation was made into a clickable link + by mistake. + (merge 4c32e36 nd/urls-doc-no-file-hyperlink-fix later to maint). + + * "git push --[no-]verify" was not documented. + (merge 90d32d1 tr/push-no-verify-doc later to maint). + + * Stop installing the git-remote-testpy script that is only used for + testing. + (merge 416fda6 fc/makefile later to maint). + + * "git commit --allow-empty-message -m ''" should not start an + editor. + (merge 2520677 rs/commit-m-no-edit later to maint). + + * "git merge @{-1}~22" was rewritten to "git merge frotz@{1}~22" + incorrectly when your previous branch was "frotz" (it should be + rewritten to "git merge frotz~22" instead). + (merge 84cf246 jc/strbuf-branchname-fix later to maint). + + * "git diff -c -p" was not showing a deleted line from a hunk when + another hunk immediately begins where the earlier one ends. + (merge aac3857 mk/combine-diff-context-horizon-fix later to maint). + + * "git log --ancestry-path A...B" did not work as expected, as it did + not pay attention to the fact that the merge base between A and B + was the bottom of the range being specified. + (merge a765499 kb/ancestry-path-threedots later to maint). + + * Mac OS X does not like to write(2) more than INT_MAX number of + bytes; work it around by chopping write(2) into smaller pieces. + (merge 6c642a8 fc/macos-x-clipped-write later to maint). + + * Newer MacOS X encourages the programs to compile and link with + their CommonCrypto, not with OpenSSL. + (merge be4c828 da/darwin later to maint). + + * "git clone foo/bar:baz" cannot be a request to clone from a remote + over git-over-ssh specified in the scp style. This case is now + detected and clones from a local repository at "foo/bar:baz". + (merge 6000334 nd/clone-local-with-colon later to maint). + + * When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we + used to complain and die. Loosen the check. + (merge 4698c8f jn/config-ignore-inaccessible later to maint). + + * "git subtree" (in contrib/) had one codepath with loose error + checks to lose data at the remote side. + (merge 3212d56 jk/subtree-do-not-push-if-split-fails later to maint). + + * "git fetch" into a shallow repository from a repository that does + not know about the shallow boundary commits (e.g. a different fork + from the repository the current shallow repository was cloned from) + did not work correctly. + (merge 71d5f93 mh/fetch-into-shallow later to maint). + + * "git checkout foo" DWIMs the intended "upstream" and turns it into + "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo". This codepath has been + updated to correctly take existing remote definitions into account. + (merge 229177a jh/checkout-auto-tracking later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt index b0d31df0e7..e9f984ba01 100644 --- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt @@ -9,28 +9,11 @@ --show-stats:: Include additional statistics at the end of blame output. --L <start>,<end>:: +-L <start>,<end>, -L :<regex>:: Annotate only the given line range. <start> and <end> can take one of these forms: - - number -+ -If <start> or <end> is a number, it specifies an -absolute line number (lines count from 1). -+ - -- /regex/ -+ -This form will use the first line matching the given -POSIX regex. If <end> is a regex, it will search -starting at the line given by <start>. -+ - -- +offset or -offset -+ -This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number -of lines before or after the line given by <start>. -+ +include::line-range-format.txt[] -l:: Show long rev (Default: off). diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 6e53fc5074..7fd4035cb5 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1867,6 +1867,14 @@ rebase.stat:: rebase.autosquash:: If set to true enable '--autosquash' option by default. +rebase.autostash:: + When set to true, automatically create a temporary stash + before the operation begins, and apply it after the operation + ends. This means that you can run rebase on a dirty worktree. + However, use with care: the final stash application after a + successful rebase might result in non-trivial conflicts. + Defaults to false. + receive.autogc:: By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after receiving data from git-push and updating refs. You can stop diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 104579dc75..a85288f23e 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -383,14 +383,36 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[] that matches other criteria, nothing is selected. -S<string>:: - Look for differences that introduce or remove an instance of - <string>. Note that this is different than the string simply - appearing in diff output; see the 'pickaxe' entry in - linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more details. + Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of + the specified string (i.e. addition/deletion) in a file. + Intended for the scripter's use. ++ +It is useful when you're looking for an exact block of code (like a +struct), and want to know the history of that block since it first +came into being: use the feature iteratively to feed the interesting +block in the preimage back into `-S`, and keep going until you get the +very first version of the block. -G<regex>:: - Look for differences whose added or removed line matches - the given <regex>. + Look for differences whose patch text contains added/removed + lines that match <regex>. ++ +To illustrate the difference between `-S<regex> --pickaxe-regex` and +`-G<regex>`, consider a commit with the following diff in the same +file: ++ +---- ++ return !regexec(regexp, two->ptr, 1, ®match, 0); +... +- hit = !regexec(regexp, mf2.ptr, 1, ®match, 0); +---- ++ +While `git log -G"regexec\(regexp"` will show this commit, `git log +-S"regexec\(regexp" --pickaxe-regex` will not (because the number of +occurrences of that string did not change). ++ +See the 'pickaxe' entry in linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more +information. --pickaxe-all:: When `-S` or `-G` finds a change, show all the changes in that @@ -398,8 +420,8 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[] in <string>. --pickaxe-regex:: - Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX - regex to match. + Treat the <string> given to `-S` as an extended POSIX regular + expression to match. endif::git-format-patch[] -O<orderfile>:: @@ -480,7 +502,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --ignore-submodules[=<when>]:: Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when> can be - either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default + either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default. Using "none" will consider the submodule modified when it either contains untracked or modified files or its HEAD differs from the commit recorded in the superproject and can be used to override any settings of the diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index 9cb649673d..ba1fe49582 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ endif::git-pull[] ifndef::git-pull[] -t:: --tags:: - This is a short-hand for giving "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" + This is a short-hand for giving `refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*` refspec from the command line, to ask all tags to be fetched and stored locally. Because this acts as an explicit refspec, the default refspecs (configured with the diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt index 9a05c2b3d2..6cea7f1ce1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt @@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ git-blame - Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L n,m] - [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>] [--abbrev=<n>] - [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file> +'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] + [-L n,m | -L :fn] [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>] + [--abbrev=<n>] [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file> DESCRIPTION ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt index 5abdbaa51c..a7be80d48b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt @@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ being queried and <info> can be either: 'set';; when the attribute is defined as true. <value>;; when a value has been assigned to the attribute. +Buffering happens as documented under the `GIT_FLUSH` option in +linkgit:git[1]. The caller is responsible for avoiding deadlocks +caused by overfilling an input buffer or reading from an empty output +buffer. + EXAMPLES -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index 854e4d0c42..8e1f7ab7ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ OPTIONS below). If `--stdin` is also given, input paths are separated with a NUL character instead of a linefeed character. +-n, --non-matching:: + Show given paths which don't match any pattern. This only + makes sense when `--verbose` is enabled, otherwise it would + not be possible to distinguish between paths which match a + pattern and those which don't. + OUTPUT ------ @@ -65,6 +71,20 @@ are also used instead of colons and hard tabs: <source> <NULL> <linenum> <NULL> <pattern> <NULL> <pathname> <NULL> +If `-n` or `--non-matching` are specified, non-matching pathnames will +also be output, in which case all fields in each output record except +for <pathname> will be empty. This can be useful when running +non-interactively, so that files can be incrementally streamed to +STDIN of a long-running check-ignore process, and for each of these +files, STDOUT will indicate whether that file matched a pattern or +not. (Without this option, it would be impossible to tell whether the +absence of output for a given file meant that it didn't match any +pattern, or that the output hadn't been generated yet.) + +Buffering happens as documented under the `GIT_FLUSH` option in +linkgit:git[1]. The caller is responsible for avoiding deadlocks +caused by overfilling an input buffer or reading from an empty output +buffer. EXIT STATUS ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index a49be1bab4..fc02959ba4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ Git imposes the following rules on how references are named: . They cannot contain a sequence `@{`. +. They cannot be the single character `@`. + . They cannot contain a `\`. These rules make it easy for shell script based tools to parse diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 23a9413525..ca118ac6bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -131,9 +131,9 @@ entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored. "--track" in linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. + If no '-b' option is given, the name of the new branch will be -derived from the remote-tracking branch. If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/" -is prefixed it is stripped away, and then the part up to the -next slash (which would be the nickname of the remote) is removed. +derived from the remote-tracking branch, by looking at the local part of +the refspec configured for the corresponding remote, and then stripping +the initial part up to the "*". This would tell us to use "hack" as the local branch when branching off of "origin/hack" (or "remotes/origin/hack", or even "refs/remotes/origin/hack"). If the given name has no slash, or the above diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 28e5ec0e2c..9439cd6d56 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -88,6 +88,11 @@ OPTIONS --always:: Show uniquely abbreviated commit object as fallback. +--first-parent:: + Follow only the first parent commit upon seeing a merge commit. + This is useful when you wish to not match tags on branches merged + in the history of the target commit. + EXAMPLES -------- @@ -149,7 +154,9 @@ is found, its name will be output and searching will stop. If an exact match was not found, 'git describe' will walk back through the commit history to locate an ancestor commit which has been tagged. The ancestor's tag will be output along with an -abbreviation of the input committish's SHA-1. +abbreviation of the input committish's SHA-1. If '--first-parent' was +specified then the walk will only consider the first parent of each +commit. If multiple tags were found during the walk then the tag which has the fewest commits different from the input committish will be diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt index c0b7c581ad..a86cf62e68 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-diff-index(1) NAME ---- -git-diff-index - Compares content and mode of blobs between the index and repository +git-diff-index - Compare a tree to the working tree or index SYNOPSIS @@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via a tree -object with the content of the current index and, optionally -ignoring the stat state of the file on disk. When paths are -specified, compares only those named paths. Otherwise all -entries in the index are compared. +Compares the content and mode of the blobs found in a tree object +with the corresponding tracked files in the working tree, or with the +corresponding paths in the index. When <path> arguments are present, +compares only paths matching those patterns. Otherwise all tracked +files are compared. OPTIONS ------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index b370b025b8..2402ed6828 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -62,8 +62,9 @@ automatic consolidation of packs. --prune=<date>:: Prune loose objects older than date (default is 2 weeks ago, - overridable by the config variable `gc.pruneExpire`). This - option is on by default. + overridable by the config variable `gc.pruneExpire`). + --prune=all prunes loose objects regardless of their age. + --prune is on by default. --no-prune:: Do not prune any loose objects. diff --git a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt index bde8eec30d..7a4e055520 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt @@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ OPTIONS --strict:: Die, if the pack contains broken objects or links. +--check-self-contained-and-connected:: + Die if the pack contains broken links. For internal use only. + --threads=<n>:: Specifies the number of threads to spawn when resolving deltas. This requires that index-pack be compiled with diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index a976534ab8..4687fe8192 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -62,6 +62,19 @@ produced by --stat etc. Note that only message is considered, if also a diff is shown its size is not included. +-L <start>,<end>:<file>, -L :<regex>:<file>:: + + Trace the evolution of the line range given by "<start>,<end>" + (or the funcname regex <regex>) within the <file>. You may + not give any pathspec limiters. This is currently limited to + a walk starting from a single revision, i.e., you may only + give zero or one positive revision arguments. + You can specify this option more than once. ++ +<start> and <end> can take one of these forms: + +include::line-range-format.txt[] + <revision range>:: Show only commits in the specified revision range. When no <revision range> is specified, it defaults to `HEAD` (i.e. the @@ -140,6 +153,11 @@ Examples This makes sense only when following a strict policy of merging all topic branches when staying on a single integration branch. +git log -L '/int main/',/^}/:main.c:: + + Shows how the function `main()` in the file 'main.c' evolved + over time. + `git log -3`:: Limits the number of commits to show to 3. diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index d51481394c..df5be268ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git push' [--all | --mirror | --tags] [--follow-tags] [-n | --dry-run] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--repo=<repository>] [-f | --force] [--prune] [-v | --verbose] [-u | --set-upstream] - [<repository> [<refspec>...]] + [--no-verify] [<repository> [<refspec>...]] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -195,6 +195,11 @@ useful if you write an alias or script around 'git push'. be pushed. If on-demand was not able to push all necessary revisions it will also be aborted and exit with non-zero status. +--[no-]verify:: + Toggle the pre-push hook (see linkgit:githooks[5]). The + default is \--verify, giving the hook a chance to prevent the + push. With \--no-verify, the hook is bypassed completely. + include::urls-remotes.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index aca840525e..c84854ae87 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ rebase.stat:: rebase.autosquash:: If set to true enable '--autosquash' option by default. +rebase.autostash:: + If set to true enable '--autostash' option by default. + OPTIONS ------- --onto <newbase>:: @@ -394,6 +397,13 @@ If the '--autosquash' option is enabled by default using the configuration variable `rebase.autosquash`, this option can be used to override and disable this setting. +--[no-]autostash:: + Automatically create a temporary stash before the operation + begins, and apply it after the operation ends. This means + that you can run rebase on a dirty worktree. However, use + with care: the final stash application after a successful + rebase might result in non-trivial conflicts. + --no-ff:: With --interactive, cherry-pick all rebased commits instead of fast-forwarding over the unchanged ones. This ensures that the diff --git a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt index fb8697ea4c..70791b9fd8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt @@ -67,14 +67,19 @@ them. --expire=<time>:: Entries older than this time are pruned. Without the option it is taken from configuration `gc.reflogExpire`, - which in turn defaults to 90 days. + which in turn defaults to 90 days. --expire=all prunes + entries regardless of their age; --expire=never turns off + pruning of reachable entries (but see --expire-unreachable). --expire-unreachable=<time>:: Entries older than this time and not reachable from the current tip of the branch are pruned. Without the option it is taken from configuration `gc.reflogExpireUnreachable`, which in turn defaults to - 30 days. + 30 days. --expire-unreachable=all prunes unreachable + entries regardless of their age; --expire-unreachable=never + turns off early pruning of unreachable entries (but see + --expire). --all:: Instead of listing <refs> explicitly, prune all refs. diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 9e302b0a60..2e23cbb224 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,12 +43,18 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: +* link:v1.8.3.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.3.1] + +* release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt[1.8.3.1], + link:RelNotes/1.8.3.txt[1.8.3]. + * link:v1.8.2.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.2.3] * release notes for - link:RelNotes/1.8.2.3.txt[1.8.2.3]. - link:RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt[1.8.2.2]. - link:RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt[1.8.2.1]. + link:RelNotes/1.8.2.3.txt[1.8.2.3], + link:RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt[1.8.2.2], + link:RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt[1.8.2.1], link:RelNotes/1.8.2.txt[1.8.2]. * link:v1.8.1.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.1.6] @@ -677,9 +683,7 @@ Git so take care if using Cogito etc. The '--git-dir' command-line option also sets this value. 'GIT_WORK_TREE':: - Set the path to the working tree. The value will not be - used in combination with repositories found automatically in - a .git directory (i.e. $GIT_DIR is not set). + Set the path to the root of the working tree. This can also be controlled by the '--work-tree' command line option and the core.worktree configuration variable. @@ -811,8 +815,9 @@ for further details. 'GIT_FLUSH':: If this environment variable is set to "1", then commands such as 'git blame' (in incremental mode), 'git rev-list', 'git log', - and 'git whatchanged' will force a flush of the output stream - after each commit-oriented record have been flushed. If this + 'git check-attr', 'git check-ignore', and 'git whatchanged' will + force a flush of the output stream after each record have been + flushed. If this variable is set to "0", the output of these commands will be done using completely buffered I/O. If this environment variable is not set, Git will choose buffered or record-oriented flushing diff --git a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt index 568d75783a..c8b3e51c84 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt @@ -222,26 +222,35 @@ version prefixed with '+'. diffcore-pickaxe: For Detecting Addition/Deletion of Specified String --------------------------------------------------------------------- -This transformation is used to find filepairs that represent -changes that touch a specified string, and is controlled by the --S option and the `--pickaxe-all` option to the 'git diff-*' -commands. - -When diffcore-pickaxe is in use, it checks if there are -filepairs whose "result" side and whose "origin" side have -different number of specified string. Such a filepair represents -"the string appeared in this changeset". It also checks for the -opposite case that loses the specified string. - -When `--pickaxe-all` is not in effect, diffcore-pickaxe leaves -only such filepairs that touch the specified string in its -output. When `--pickaxe-all` is used, diffcore-pickaxe leaves all -filepairs intact if there is such a filepair, or makes the -output empty otherwise. The latter behaviour is designed to -make reviewing of the changes in the context of the whole +This transformation limits the set of filepairs to those that change +specified strings between the preimage and the postimage in a certain +way. -S<block of text> and -G<regular expression> options are used to +specify different ways these strings are sought. + +"-S<block of text>" detects filepairs whose preimage and postimage +have different number of occurrences of the specified block of text. +By definition, it will not detect in-file moves. Also, when a +changeset moves a file wholesale without affecting the interesting +string, diffcore-rename kicks in as usual, and `-S` omits the filepair +(since the number of occurrences of that string didn't change in that +rename-detected filepair). When used with `--pickaxe-regex`, treat +the <block of text> as an extended POSIX regular expression to match, +instead of a literal string. + +"-G<regular expression>" (mnemonic: grep) detects filepairs whose +textual diff has an added or a deleted line that matches the given +regular expression. This means that it will detect in-file (or what +rename-detection considers the same file) moves, which is noise. The +implementation runs diff twice and greps, and this can be quite +expensive. + +When `-S` or `-G` are used without `--pickaxe-all`, only filepairs +that match their respective criterion are kept in the output. When +`--pickaxe-all` is used, if even one filepair matches their respective +criterion in a changeset, the entire changeset is kept. This behavior +is designed to make reviewing changes in the context of the whole changeset easier. - diffcore-order: For Sorting the Output Based on Filenames --------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt index da746419b3..0827f69139 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt @@ -159,11 +159,11 @@ Miscellaneous capabilities carried out. 'refspec' <refspec>:: - This modifies the 'import' capability, allowing the produced - fast-import stream to modify refs in a private namespace - instead of writing to refs/heads or refs/remotes directly. + For remote helpers that implement 'import' or 'export', this capability + allows the refs to be constrained to a private namespace, instead of + writing to refs/heads or refs/remotes directly. It is recommended that all importers providing the 'import' - capability use this. + capability use this. It's mandatory for 'export'. + A helper advertising the capability `refspec refs/heads/*:refs/svn/origin/branches/*` @@ -174,8 +174,8 @@ ref. This capability can be advertised multiple times. The first applicable refspec takes precedence. The left-hand of refspecs advertised with this capability must cover all refs reported by -the list command. If a helper does not need a specific 'refspec' -capability then it should advertise `refspec *:*`. +the list command. If no 'refspec' capability is advertised, +there is an implied `refspec *:*`. 'bidi-import':: This modifies the 'import' capability. diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt index d6f3393c5f..aa03882ddb 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt @@ -211,6 +211,9 @@ shallow:: and maintained by shallow clone mechanism. See `--depth` option to linkgit:git-clone[1] and linkgit:git-fetch[1]. +modules:: + Contains the git-repositories of the submodules. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-init[1], diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index 68a18e1497..db2a74df93 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -400,12 +400,13 @@ should not be combined with other pathspec. <<def_ref,ref>> and local ref. [[def_remote_tracking_branch]]remote-tracking branch:: - A regular Git <<def_branch,branch>> that is used to follow changes from - another <<def_repository,repository>>. A remote-tracking - branch should not contain direct modifications or have local commits - made to it. A remote-tracking branch can usually be - identified as the right-hand-side <<def_ref,ref>> in a Pull: - <<def_refspec,refspec>>. + A <<def_ref,ref>> that is used to follow changes from another + <<def_repository,repository>>. It typically looks like + 'refs/remotes/foo/bar' (indicating that it tracks a branch named + 'bar' in a remote named 'foo'), and matches the right-hand-side of + a configured fetch <<def_refspec,refspec>>. A remote-tracking + branch should not contain direct modifications or have local + commits made to it. [[def_repository]]repository:: A collection of <<def_ref,refs>> together with an diff --git a/Documentation/line-range-format.txt b/Documentation/line-range-format.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3e7ce72daa --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/line-range-format.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +- number ++ +If <start> or <end> is a number, it specifies an +absolute line number (lines count from 1). ++ + +- /regex/ ++ +This form will use the first line matching the given +POSIX regex. If <end> is a regex, it will search +starting at the line given by <start>. ++ + +- +offset or -offset ++ +This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number +of lines before or after the line given by <start>. ++ + +- :regex ++ +If the option's argument is of the form :regex, it denotes the range +from the first funcname line that matches <regex>, up to the next +funcname line. ++ diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt index 2adccf8fec..afba8d4f3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt @@ -8,12 +8,13 @@ failed and do not autocommit, to give the user a chance to inspect and further tweak the merge result before committing. --edit:: +-e:: --no-edit:: Invoke an editor before committing successful mechanical merge to further edit the auto-generated merge message, so that the user can explain and justify the merge. The `--no-edit` option can be used to accept the auto-generated message (this is generally - discouraged). The `--edit` option is still useful if you are + discouraged). The `--edit` (or `-e`) option is still useful if you are giving a draft message with the `-m` option from the command line and want to edit it in the editor. + diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt index 94a9d32f1d..18cffc25b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt +++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt @@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ Some short-cut notations are also supported. + * `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`; it requests fetching everything up to the given tag. -* A parameter <ref> without a colon is equivalent to - <ref>: when pulling/fetching, so it merges <ref> into the current - branch without storing the remote branch anywhere locally +ifndef::git-pull[] +* A parameter <ref> without a colon fetches that ref into FETCH_HEAD, +endif::git-pull[] +ifdef::git-pull[] +* A parameter <ref> without a colon merges <ref> into the current + branch, +endif::git-pull[] + and updates the remote-tracking branches (if any). diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index 3bdbf5e856..b462f17f62 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -271,8 +271,8 @@ See also linkgit:git-reflog[1]. --boundary:: - Output uninteresting commits at the boundary, which are usually - not shown. + Output excluded boundary commits. Boundary commits are + prefixed with `-`. -- @@ -342,13 +342,13 @@ In the following, we will always refer to the same example history to illustrate the differences between simplification settings. We assume that you are filtering for a file `foo` in this commit graph: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - .-A---M---N---O---P - / / / / / - I B C D E - \ / / / / - `-------------' + .-A---M---N---O---P---Q + / / / / / / + I B C D E Y + \ / / / / / + `-------------' X ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -The horizontal line of history A---P is taken to be the first parent of +The horizontal line of history A---Q is taken to be the first parent of each merge. The commits are: * `I` is the initial commit, in which `foo` exists with contents @@ -367,8 +367,11 @@ each merge. The commits are: `N` and `D` to "foobarbaz"; i.e., it is not TREESAME to any parent. * `E` changes `quux` to "xyzzy", and its merge `P` combines the - strings to "quux xyzzy". Despite appearing interesting, `P` is - TREESAME to all parents. + strings to "quux xyzzy". `P` is TREESAME to `O`, but not to `E`. + +* `X` is an indpendent root commit that added a new file `side`, and `Y` + modified it. `Y` is TREESAME to `X`. Its merge `Q` added `side` to `P`, and + `Q` is TREESAME to `P`, but not to `Y`. 'rev-list' walks backwards through history, including or excluding commits based on whether '\--full-history' and/or parent rewriting @@ -410,10 +413,10 @@ parent lines. the example, we get + ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - I A B N D O + I A B N D O P Q ----------------------------------------------------------------------- + -`P` and `M` were excluded because they are TREESAME to a parent. `E`, +`M` was excluded because it is TREESAME to both parents. `E`, `C` and `B` were all walked, but only `B` was !TREESAME, so the others do not appear. + @@ -431,7 +434,7 @@ Along each parent, prune away commits that are not included themselves. This results in + ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - .-A---M---N---O---P + .-A---M---N---O---P---Q / / / / / I B / D / \ / / / / @@ -441,7 +444,7 @@ themselves. This results in Compare to '\--full-history' without rewriting above. Note that `E` was pruned away because it is TREESAME, but the parent list of P was rewritten to contain `E`'s parent `I`. The same happened for `C` and -`N`. Note also that `P` was included despite being TREESAME. +`N`, and `X`, `Y` and `Q`. In addition to the above settings, you can change whether TREESAME affects inclusion: @@ -471,8 +474,9 @@ history according to the following rules: * Set `C'` to `C`. + * Replace each parent `P` of `C'` with its simplification `P'`. In - the process, drop parents that are ancestors of other parents, and - remove duplicates. + the process, drop parents that are ancestors of other parents or that are + root commits TREESAME to an empty tree, and remove duplicates, but take care + to never drop all parents that we are TREESAME to. + * If after this parent rewriting, `C'` is a root or merge commit (has zero or >1 parents), a boundary commit, or !TREESAME, it remains. @@ -490,7 +494,7 @@ The effect of this is best shown by way of comparing to `---------' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- + -Note the major differences in `N` and `P` over '--full-history': +Note the major differences in `N`, `P` and `Q` over '--full-history': + -- * `N`'s parent list had `I` removed, because it is an ancestor of the @@ -498,6 +502,10 @@ Note the major differences in `N` and `P` over '--full-history': + * `P`'s parent list similarly had `I` removed. `P` was then removed completely, because it had one parent and is TREESAME. ++ +* `Q`'s parent list had `Y` simplified to `X`. `X` was then removed, because it + was a TREESAME root. `Q` was then removed completely, because it had one + parent and is TREESAME. -- Finally, there is a fifth simplification mode available: diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index d477b3f6bc..09896a37b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ the '$GIT_DIR/refs' directory or from the '$GIT_DIR/packed-refs' file. While the ref name encoding is unspecified, UTF-8 is preferred as some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8. +'@':: + '@' alone is a shortcut for 'HEAD'. + '<refname>@\{<date>\}', e.g. 'master@\{yesterday\}', 'HEAD@\{5 minutes ago\}':: A ref followed by the suffix '@' with a date specification enclosed in a brace diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt index 32ddc1cf13..1317db4d6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ The parse-options API allows: * Boolean long options can be 'negated' (or 'unset') by prepending `no-`, e.g. `--no-abbrev` instead of `--abbrev`. Conversely, options that begin with `no-` can be 'negated' by removing it. + Other long options can be unset (e.g., set string to NULL, set + integer to 0) by prepending `no-`. * Options and non-option arguments can clearly be separated using the `--` option, e.g. `-a -b --option -- --this-is-a-file` indicates that @@ -174,6 +176,10 @@ There are some macros to easily define options: Introduce an option with date argument, see `approxidate()`. The timestamp is put into `int_var`. +`OPT_EXPIRY_DATE(short, long, &int_var, description)`:: + Introduce an option with expiry date argument, see `parse_expiry_date()`. + The timestamp is put into `int_var`. + `OPT_CALLBACK(short, long, &var, arg_str, description, func_ptr)`:: Introduce an option with argument. The argument will be fed into the function given by `func_ptr` diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index f1a51edf47..b898e97988 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -228,8 +228,7 @@ obtained through ref discovery. The client MUST write all obj-ids which it only has shallow copies of (meaning that it does not have the parents of a commit) as 'shallow' lines so that the server is aware of the limitations of -the client's history. Clients MUST NOT mention an obj-id which -it does not know exists on the server. +the client's history. The client now sends the maximum commit history depth it wants for this transaction, which is the number of commits it wants from the diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt index 3ca122faed..5e185f87c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/urls.txt +++ b/Documentation/urls.txt @@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ An alternative scp-like syntax may also be used with the ssh protocol: - {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:path/to/repo.git/ +This syntax is only recognized if there are no slashes before the +first colon. This helps differentiate a local path that contains a +colon. For example the local path `foo:bar` could be specified as an +absolute path or `./foo:bar` to avoid being misinterpreted as an ssh +url. + The ssh and git protocols additionally support ~username expansion: - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ @@ -33,7 +39,7 @@ For local repositories, also supported by Git natively, the following syntaxes may be used: - /path/to/repo.git/ -- file:///path/to/repo.git/ +- \file:///path/to/repo.git/ ifndef::git-clone[] These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except when cloning, when |