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-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt46
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt127
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt40
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt127
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/fetch-options.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-add.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-blame.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-branch.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-clean.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-clone.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fast-import.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-format-patch.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-p4.txt24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rebase.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-shortlog.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitattributes.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitignore.txt30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gittutorial.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/merge-strategies.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-formats.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-options.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt75
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt9
34 files changed, 494 insertions, 158 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index cf5916fe8b..267dfe135d 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -44,9 +44,10 @@ man5dir=$(mandir)/man5
man7dir=$(mandir)/man7
# DESTDIR=
-ASCIIDOC=asciidoc
+ASCIIDOC = asciidoc
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA =
MANPAGE_XSL = manpage-normal.xsl
+XMLTO = xmlto
XMLTO_EXTRA =
INSTALL?=install
RM ?= rm -f
@@ -245,7 +246,7 @@ manpage-base-url.xsl: manpage-base-url.xsl.in
%.1 %.5 %.7 : %.xml manpage-base-url.xsl
$(QUIET_XMLTO)$(RM) $@ && \
- xmlto -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $<
+ $(XMLTO) -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $<
%.xml : %.txt
$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e7e79d999b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+Git v1.7.11.7 Release Notes
+===========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.11.6
+---------------------
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * Git ships with a fall-back regexp implementation for platforms with
+ buggy regexp library, but it was easy for people to keep using their
+ platform regexp. A new test has been added to check this.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread
+ references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
+ contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for
+ commits created without human readable name on "committer" line.
+ (merge e27ddb6 jc/maint-ident-missing-human-name later to maint).
+
+ * "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but
+ wasn't.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt
index 4088a166f5..b8f04af19f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt
@@ -4,43 +4,6 @@ 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
@@ -49,6 +12,11 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12
in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from
this problem.
+ * "git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and
+ then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that
+ order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally
+ expects.
+
* "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).
@@ -57,7 +25,11 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12
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
+ * "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 for-each-ref" did not correctly support more than one --sort
option.
* "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path
@@ -65,6 +37,10 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12
Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such
a case.
+ * 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 prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary
files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation).
@@ -76,26 +52,83 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12
* 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 show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but
+ wasn't.
+
+ * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for
+ commits created without human readable name on "committer" line.
* "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the
header correctly, and lost "_" from strings.
+ * The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It
+ asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it
+ guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt,
+ tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No,
+ please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most
+ certainly not what the user meant.
+
+ * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with
+ SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them.
+
* 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.
+ * 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.
+
+ * The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its
+ leading directories no longer exists in the working tree, and it is
+ fine if we cannot open .gitattribute file in such a case. Failure
+ to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than
+ ENOENT and ENOTDIR should be diagnosed, but it wasn't.
+
+ * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread
+ references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
+ contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
+
+ * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive
+ documentation.
+
+ * "git-jump" script (in contrib/) did not work well when
+ diff.noprefix or diff.mnemonicprefix is in effect.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+Also contains numerous documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..69255745e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+Git 1.7.12.2 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.12.1
+---------------------
+
+ * When "git am" is fed an input that has multiple "Content-type: ..."
+ header, it did not grok charset= attribute correctly.
+
+ * Even during a conflicted merge, "git blame $path" always meant to
+ blame uncommitted changes to the "working tree" version; make it
+ more useful by showing cleanly merged parts as coming from the other
+ branch that is being merged.
+
+ * "git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not
+ "MAKEFILE" should say "No such file MAKEFILE in HEAD", but got
+ confused on a case insensitive filesystem and failed to do so.
+
+ * "git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the
+ "--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same
+ issue existed with "--tags", but combination "--all --tags" makes
+ much less sense than "--all --no-tags").
+
+ * "git log/diff/format-patch --stat" showed the "N line(s) added"
+ comment in user's locale and caused careless submitters to send
+ patches with such a line in them to projects whose project language
+ is not their language, mildly irritating others. Localization to
+ the line has been disabled for now.
+
+ * "git log --all-match --grep=A --grep=B" ought to show commits that
+ mention both A and B, but when these three options are used with
+ --author or --committer, it showed commits that mention either A or
+ B (or both) instead.
+
+ * The subcommand to remove the definition of a remote in "git remote"
+ was named "rm" even though all other subcommands were spelled out.
+ Introduce "git remote remove" to remove confusion, and keep "rm" as
+ a backward compatible synonym.
+
+Also contains a handful of documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
index 9714422dee..e183df6410 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
@@ -28,9 +28,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of
the logged-in user has been added.
+ * An initial port to HP NonStop.
+
* A credential helper to allow access to the Gnome keyring has been
added.
+ * When "git am" sanitizes the Subject: line, we strip the prefix from
+ "Re: subject" and also from a less common "re: subject", but left
+ even less common "RE: subject" intact.
+
* It was tempting to say "git branch --set-upstream origin/master",
but that tells Git to arrange the local branch "origin/master" to
integrate with the currently checked out branch, which is highly
@@ -41,6 +47,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git cherry-pick" learned the "--allow-empty-message" option to
allow it to replay a commit without any log message.
+ * After "git cherry-pick -s" gave control back to the user asking
+ help to resolve conflicts, concluding "git commit" used to need to
+ be run with "-s" if the user wants to sign it off; now the command
+ leaves the sign-off line in the log template.
+
* "git daemon" learned the "--access-hook" option to allow an
external command to decline service based on the client address,
repository path, etc.
@@ -54,11 +65,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git merge-base" learned "--is-ancestor A B" option to tell if A is
an ancestor of B. The result is indicated by its exit status code.
+ * The "-Xours" backend option to "git merge -s recursive" now takes
+ effect even on binary files.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" learned the "--edit-todo" option to open an editor
+ to edit the insn sheet.
+
Foreign Interface
* "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7.
+ * "git p4" learned "--conflicts" option to specify what to do when
+ encountering a conflict during "p4 submit".
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
@@ -69,6 +89,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
* The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly
simplified.
+ * The test suite is run under MALLOC_CHECK_ when running with glibc
+ that supports the feature.
+
* The documentation in the TeXinfo format was using indented output
for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in
monospace.
@@ -109,50 +132,84 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the
maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes
to them for details).
- * "git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the
- "--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same
- issue existed with "--tags", but combination "--all --tags" makes
- much less sense than "--all --no-tags").
- (merge 8556646 dj/fetch-all-tags later to maint).
+ * The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its
+ leading directories no longer exists in the working tree, and it is
+ fine if we cannot open .gitattribute file in such a case. Failure
+ to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than
+ ENOENT and ENOTDIR should be diagnosed, but it wasn't.
- * The subcommand in "git remote" to remove a defined remote was
- "rm" and the command did not take a fully-spelled "remove".
- (merge e17dba8 nd/maint-remote-remove later to maint).
+ * When looking for $HOME/.gitconfig etc., it is OK if we cannot read
+ them because they do not exist, but we did not diagnose existing
+ files that we cannot read.
- * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread
- references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
- contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
+ * When "git am" is fed an input that has multiple "Content-type: ..."
+ header, it did not grok charset= attribute correctly.
- * "git cvsimport" did not thoroughly cleanse tag names that it
- inferred from the names of the tags it obtained from CVS, which
- caused "git tag" to barf and stop the import in the middle.
+ * "git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not
+ "MAKEFILE" should say "No such file MAKEFILE in HEAD", but got
+ confused on a case insensitive filesystem and failed to do so.
- * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for
- commits created without human readable name on "committer" line.
- (merge e27ddb6 jc/maint-ident-missing-human-name later to maint).
+ * Even during a conflicted merge, "git blame $path" always meant to
+ blame uncommitted changes to the "working tree" version; make it
+ more useful by showing cleanly merged parts as coming from the other
+ branch that is being merged.
+
+ * Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be
+ localized, but the code to align it along with the names of
+ branches were counting in bytes, not in display columns.
* "git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and
then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that
order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally
expects.
- (merge a73e22e mz/cherry-pick-cmdline-order later to maint).
- * "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but
- wasn't.
- (merge f9c75d8 jk/maint-quiet-is-synonym-to-s-in-log later to maint).
+ * Documentation talked about "first line of commit log" when it meant
+ the title of the commit. The description was clarified by defining
+ how the title is decided and rewording the casual mention of "first
+ line" to "title".
+
+ * "git cvsimport" did not thoroughly cleanse tag names that it
+ inferred from the names of the tags it obtained from CVS, which
+ caused "git tag" to barf and stop the import in the middle.
+
+ * Earlier we made the diffstat summary line that shows the number of
+ lines added/deleted localizable, but it was found irritating having
+ to see them in various languages on a list whose discussion language
+ is English.
+
+ * "git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the
+ "--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same
+ issue existed with "--tags", but combination "--all --tags" makes
+ much less sense than "--all --no-tags").
+
+ * "git fetch" over http had an old workaround for an unlikely server
+ misconfiguration; it turns out that this hurts debuggability of the
+ configuration in general, and has been reverted.
+ (merge 6ac964a sp/maint-http-info-refs-no-retry later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch" over http advertised that it supports "deflate", which
+ is much less common, and did not advertise more common "gzip" on
+ its Accept-Encoding header.
+ (merge aa90b96 sp/maint-http-enable-gzip later to maint).
+
+ * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread
+ references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
+ contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
+
+ * "git log --all-match --grep=A --grep=B" ought to show commits that
+ mention both A and B, but when these three options are used with
+ --author or --committer, it showed commits that mention either A or
+ B (or both) instead.
* "git p4", when "--use-client-spec" and "--detect-branches" are used
together, misdetected branches.
- (merge 21ef5df pw/p4-use-client-spec-branch-detection later to maint).
- * Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be
- localized, but the code to align it along with the names of
- branches were counting in bytes, not in display columns.
- (merge 1452bd6 nd/branch-v-alignment later to maint).
+ * When you misspell the command name you give to the "exec" action in
+ the "git rebase -i" insn sheet, you are told that 'rebase' is not a
+ git subcommand from "git rebase --continue".
- * When looking for $HOME/.gitconfig etc., it is OK if we cannot read
- them because they do not exist, but we did not diagnose existing
- files that we cannot read.
+ * The subcommand in "git remote" to remove a defined remote was
+ "rm" and the command did not take a fully-spelled "remove".
* The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It
asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it
@@ -160,4 +217,14 @@ to them for details).
tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No,
please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most
certainly not what the user meant.
- (merge 6183749 sb/send-email-reconfirm-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for
+ commits created without human readable name on "committer" line.
+
+ * "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but
+ wasn't.
+
+ * "git submodule frotz" was not diagnosed as "frotz" being an unknown
+ subcommand to "git submodule"; the user instead got a complaint
+ that "git submodule status" was run with an unknown path "frotz".
+ (merge af9c9f9 rr/maint-submodule-unknown-cmd later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 6416cae511..11f320b962 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -559,8 +559,9 @@ core.whitespace::
* `space-before-tab` treats a space character that appears immediately
before a tab character in the initial indent part of the line as an
error (enabled by default).
-* `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with 8 or more
- space characters as an error (not enabled by default).
+* `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with space
+ characters instead of the equivalent tabs as an error (not enabled by
+ default).
* `tab-in-indent` treats a tab character in the initial indent part of
the line as an error (not enabled by default).
* `blank-at-eof` treats blank lines added at the end of file as an error
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index 39d326abc6..b4d6476ac8 100644
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
--depth=<depth>::
Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by
`git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see linkgit:git-clone[1])
- by the specified number of commits.
+ to the specified number of commits from the tip of each remote
+ branch history. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched.
ifndef::git-pull[]
--dry-run::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 9c1d395722..fd9e36b99f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Configuration
The optional configuration variable `core.excludesfile` indicates a path to a
file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
$GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
-those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].
+those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
EXAMPLES
diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
index 7ee923629e..e44173f66a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ last modified the line. Optionally, start annotating from the given revision.
The command can also limit the range of lines annotated.
+The origin of lines is automatically followed across whole-file
+renames (currently there is no option to turn the rename-following
+off). To follow lines moved from one file to another, or to follow
+lines that were copied and pasted from another file, etc., see the
+`-C` and `-M` options.
+
The report does not tell you anything about lines which have been deleted or
replaced; you need to use a tool such as 'git diff' or the "pickaxe"
interface briefly mentioned in the following paragraph.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 9c1d2f1781..45a225e0aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -131,11 +131,13 @@ This option is only applicable in non-verbose mode.
use `git branch --list <pattern>` to list matching branches.
-v::
+-vv::
--verbose::
When in list mode,
show sha1 and commit subject line for each head, along with
relationship to upstream branch (if any). If given twice, print
- the name of the upstream branch, as well.
+ the name of the upstream branch, as well (see also `git remote
+ show <remote>`).
-q::
--quiet::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
index 79fb984144..9f42c0d0e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ OPTIONS
Remove only files ignored by git. This may be useful to rebuild
everything from scratch, but keep manually created files.
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:gitignore[5]
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index c1ddd4c2cc..6d98ef3d2a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ currently active branch.
After the clone, a plain `git fetch` without arguments will update
all the remote-tracking branches, and a `git pull` without
arguments will in addition merge the remote master branch into the
-current master branch, if any.
+current master branch, if any (this is untrue when "--single-branch"
+is given; see below).
This default configuration is achieved by creating references to
the remote branch heads under `refs/remotes/origin` and
@@ -152,9 +153,10 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
-b <name>::
Instead of pointing the newly created HEAD to the branch pointed
to by the cloned repository's HEAD, point to `<name>` branch
- instead. `--branch` can also take tags and treat them like
- detached HEAD. In a non-bare repository, this is the branch
- that will be checked out.
+ instead. In a non-bare repository, this is the branch that will
+ be checked out.
+ `--branch` can also take tags and detaches the HEAD at that commit
+ in the resulting repository.
--upload-pack <upload-pack>::
-u <upload-pack>::
@@ -193,6 +195,11 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
clone with the `--depth` option, this is the default, unless
`--no-single-branch` is given to fetch the histories near the
tips of all branches.
+ Further fetches into the resulting repository will only update the
+ remote tracking branch for the branch this option was used for the
+ initial cloning. If the HEAD at the remote did not point at any
+ branch when `--single-branch` clone was made, no remote tracking
+ branch is created.
--recursive::
--recurse-submodules::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 4622297ec9..9594ac8e9d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -389,8 +389,10 @@ DISCUSSION
Though not required, it's a good idea to begin the commit message
with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the
change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough description.
-Tools that turn commits into email, for example, use the first line
-on the Subject: line and the rest of the commit in the body.
+The text up to the first blank line in a commit message is treated
+as the commit title, and that title is used throughout git.
+For example, linkgit:git-format-patch[1] turns a commit into email, and it uses
+the title on the Subject line and the rest of the commit in the body.
include::i18n.txt[]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index 2620d28b4b..6603a7ab73 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ OPTIONS
See ``Date Formats'' below for details about which formats
are supported, and their syntax.
+-- done::
+ Terminate with error if there is no 'done' command at the
+ end of the stream.
+
--force::
Force updating modified existing branches, even if doing
so would cause commits to be lost (as the new commit does
@@ -1047,7 +1051,9 @@ done::
Error out if the stream ends without a 'done' command.
Without this feature, errors causing the frontend to end
abruptly at a convenient point in the stream can go
- undetected.
+ undetected. This may occur, for example, if an import
+ front end dies in mid-operation without emitting SIGTERM
+ or SIGKILL at its subordinate git fast-import instance.
`option`
~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 15e7ac80c0..e2301f5c01 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -304,6 +304,11 @@ committed a merge between P1 and P2, it will be propagated properly
and all children of the merge will become merge commits with P1,P2
as their parents instead of the merge commit.
+*NOTE* the changes introduced by the commits, and which are not reverted
+by subsequent commits, will still be in the rewritten branch. If you want
+to throw out _changes_ together with the commits, you should use the
+interactive mode of 'git rebase'.
+
You can rewrite the commit log messages using `--msg-filter`. For
example, 'git svn-id' strings in a repository created by 'git svn' can
be removed this way:
@@ -314,11 +319,6 @@ git filter-branch --msg-filter '
'
-------------------------------------------------------
-To restrict rewriting to only part of the history, specify a revision
-range in addition to the new branch name. The new branch name will
-point to the top-most revision that a 'git rev-list' of this range
-will print.
-
If you need to add 'Acked-by' lines to, say, the last 10 commits (none
of which is a merge), use this command:
@@ -329,11 +329,10 @@ git filter-branch --msg-filter '
' HEAD~10..HEAD
--------------------------------------------------------
-*NOTE* the changes introduced by the commits, and which are not reverted
-by subsequent commits, will still be in the rewritten branch. If you want
-to throw out _changes_ together with the commits, you should use the
-interactive mode of 'git rebase'.
-
+To restrict rewriting to only part of the history, specify a revision
+range in addition to the new branch name. The new branch name will
+point to the top-most revision that a 'git rev-list' of this range
+will print.
Consider this history:
diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index c872b883ba..db55a4e0bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -102,9 +102,10 @@ Fields that have name-email-date tuple as its value (`author`,
and `date` to extract the named component.
The complete message in a commit and tag object is `contents`.
-Its first line is `contents:subject`, the remaining lines
-are `contents:body` and the optional GPG signature
-is `contents:signature`.
+Its first line is `contents:subject`, where subject is the concatenation
+of all lines of the commit message up to the first blank line. The next
+line is 'contents:body', where body is all of the lines after the first
+blank line. Finally, the optional GPG signature is `contents:signature`.
For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric
order (`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `taggerdate`).
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 04c7346e3e..6d43f56279 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -58,10 +58,13 @@ output, unless the `--stdout` option is specified.
If `-o` is specified, output files are created in <dir>. Otherwise
they are created in the current working directory.
-By default, the subject of a single patch is "[PATCH] First Line" and
-the subject when multiple patches are output is "[PATCH n/m] First
-Line". To force 1/1 to be added for a single patch, use `-n`. To omit
-patch numbers from the subject, use `-N`.
+By default, the subject of a single patch is "[PATCH] " followed by
+the concatenation of lines from the commit message up to the first blank
+line (see the DISCUSSION section of linkgit:git-commit[1]).
+
+When multiple patches are output, the subject prefix will instead be
+"[PATCH n/m] ". To force 1/1 to be added for a single patch, use `-n`.
+To omit patch numbers from the subject, use `-N`.
If given `--thread`, `git-format-patch` will generate `In-Reply-To` and
`References` headers to make the second and subsequent patch mails appear
diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
index 8228f33e3f..beff6229c8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ All commands except clone accept these options.
--git-dir <dir>::
Set the 'GIT_DIR' environment variable. See linkgit:git[1].
---verbose::
+--verbose, -v::
Provide more progress information.
Sync options
@@ -269,6 +269,24 @@ These options can be used to modify 'git p4 submit' behavior.
Export tags from git as p4 labels. Tags found in git are applied
to the perforce working directory.
+--dry-run, -n::
+ Show just what commits would be submitted to p4; do not change
+ state in git or p4.
+
+--prepare-p4-only::
+ Apply a commit to the p4 workspace, opening, adding and deleting
+ files in p4 as for a normal submit operation. Do not issue the
+ final "p4 submit", but instead print a message about how to
+ submit manually or revert. This option always stops after the
+ first (oldest) commit. Git tags are not exported to p4.
+
+--conflict=(ask|skip|quit)::
+ Conflicts can occur when applying a commit to p4. When this
+ happens, the default behavior ("ask") is to prompt whether to
+ skip this commit and continue, or quit. This option can be used
+ to bypass the prompt, causing conflicting commits to be automatically
+ skipped, or to quit trying to apply commits, without prompting.
+
Rebase options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
These options can be used to modify 'git p4 rebase' behavior.
@@ -519,6 +537,10 @@ git-p4.labelExportRegexp::
Only p4 labels matching this regular expression will be exported. The
default value is '[a-zA-Z0-9_\-.]+$'.
+git-p4.conflict::
+ Specify submit behavior when a conflict with p4 is found, as per
+ --conflict. The default behavior is 'ask'.
+
IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
----------------------
* Changesets from p4 are imported using git fast-import.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index fd535b06ab..da067ecafa 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[<upstream>] [<branch>]
'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>]
--root [<branch>]
-'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort
+'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort | --edit-todo
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -245,6 +245,9 @@ leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD.
--skip::
Restart the rebasing process by skipping the current patch.
+--edit-todo::
+ Edit the todo list during an interactive rebase.
+
-m::
--merge::
Use merging strategies to rebase. When the recursive (default) merge
diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
index 01d8417316..afeb4cdf16 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@ git log --pretty=short | 'git shortlog' [-h] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-w]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Summarizes 'git log' output in a format suitable for inclusion
-in release announcements. Each commit will be grouped by author and
-the first line of the commit message will be shown.
+in release announcements. Each commit will be grouped by author and title.
Additionally, "[PATCH]" will be stripped from the commit description.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 2de7bf0900..b4683bba1b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ status::
initialized, `+` if the currently checked out submodule commit
does not match the SHA-1 found in the index of the containing
repository and `U` if the submodule has merge conflicts.
- This command is the default command for 'git submodule'.
+
If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into nested
submodules, and show their status as well.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index fab6e77e02..48bd04e22d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,14 +43,17 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master'
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
-* link:v1.7.12/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.12]
+* link:v1.7.12.2/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.12.2]
* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt[1.7.12.2],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt[1.7.12.1],
link:RelNotes/1.7.12.txt[1.7.12].
-* link:v1.7.11.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.6]
+* link:v1.7.11.7/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.7]
* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt[1.7.11.7],
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],
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index e16f3e175b..99ed04d7ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -511,6 +511,8 @@ configuration file (you still need to enable this with the
attribute mechanism, via `.gitattributes`). The following built in
patterns are available:
+- `ada` suitable for source code in the Ada language.
+
- `bibtex` suitable for files with BibTeX coded references.
- `cpp` suitable for source code in the C and C++ languages.
@@ -927,7 +929,7 @@ file at the toplevel (i.e. not in any subdirectory). The built-in
macro attribute "binary" is equivalent to:
------------
-[attr]binary -diff -text
+[attr]binary -diff -merge -text
------------
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index 9d893369a0..5325c5a7d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -956,12 +956,11 @@ $ git show-branch --topo-order --more=1 master mybranch
------------------------------------------------
The first two lines indicate that it is showing the two branches
-and the first line of the commit log message from their
-top-of-the-tree commits, you are currently on `master` branch
-(notice the asterisk `*` character), and the first column for
-the later output lines is used to show commits contained in the
+with the titles of their top-of-the-tree commits, you are currently on
+`master` branch (notice the asterisk `*` character), and the first
+column for the later output lines is used to show commits contained in the
`master` branch, and the second column for the `mybranch`
-branch. Three commits are shown along with their log messages.
+branch. Three commits are shown along with their titles.
All of them have non blank characters in the first column (`*`
shows an ordinary commit on the current branch, `-` is a merge commit), which
means they are now part of the `master` branch. Only the "Some
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index c1f692a71e..96639e02bd 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -41,18 +41,24 @@ precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome):
variable 'core.excludesfile'.
Which file to place a pattern in depends on how the pattern is meant to
-be used. Patterns which should be version-controlled and distributed to
-other repositories via clone (i.e., files that all developers will want
-to ignore) should go into a `.gitignore` file. Patterns which are
-specific to a particular repository but which do not need to be shared
-with other related repositories (e.g., auxiliary files that live inside
-the repository but are specific to one user's workflow) should go into
-the `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file. Patterns which a user wants git to
-ignore in all situations (e.g., backup or temporary files generated by
-the user's editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by
-`core.excludesfile` in the user's `~/.gitconfig`. Its default value is
-$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty,
-$HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead.
+be used.
+
+ * Patterns which should be version-controlled and distributed to
+ other repositories via clone (i.e., files that all developers will want
+ to ignore) should go into a `.gitignore` file.
+
+ * Patterns which are
+ specific to a particular repository but which do not need to be shared
+ with other related repositories (e.g., auxiliary files that live inside
+ the repository but are specific to one user's workflow) should go into
+ the `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file.
+
+ * Patterns which a user wants git to
+ ignore in all situations (e.g., backup or temporary files generated by
+ the user's editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by
+ `core.excludesfile` in the user's `~/.gitconfig`. Its default value is
+ $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or
+ empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead.
The underlying git plumbing tools, such as
'git ls-files' and 'git read-tree', read
diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
index dee050567e..f1cb6f3be6 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
@@ -139,9 +139,11 @@ them to the index, and commit, all in one step.
A note on commit messages: Though not required, it's a good idea to
begin the commit message with a single short (less than 50 character)
line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more
-thorough description. Tools that turn commits into email, for
-example, use the first line on the Subject: line and the rest of the
-commit in the body.
+thorough description. The text up to the first blank line in a commit
+message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used
+throughout git. For example, linkgit:git-format-patch[1] turns a
+commit into email, and it uses the title on the Subject line and the
+rest of the commit in the body.
Git tracks content not files
----------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
index 595a3cf1a7..66db80296f 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
@@ -32,13 +32,14 @@ ours;;
This option forces conflicting hunks to be auto-resolved cleanly by
favoring 'our' version. Changes from the other tree that do not
conflict with our side are reflected to the merge result.
+ For a binary file, the entire contents are taken from our side.
+
This should not be confused with the 'ours' merge strategy, which does not
even look at what the other tree contains at all. It discards everything
the other tree did, declaring 'our' history contains all that happened in it.
theirs;;
- This is opposite of 'ours'.
+ This is the opposite of 'ours'.
patience;;
With this option, 'merge-recursive' spends a little extra time
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index e3d8a83b23..d9eddedc72 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -130,6 +130,9 @@ The placeholders are:
- '%b': body
- '%B': raw body (unwrapped subject and body)
- '%N': commit notes
+- '%GG': raw verification message from GPG for a signed commit
+- '%G?': show either "G" for Good or "B" for Bad for a signed commit
+- '%GS': show the name of the signer for a signed commit
- '%gD': reflog selector, e.g., `refs/stash@{1}`
- '%gd': shortened reflog selector, e.g., `stash@{1}`
- '%gn': reflog identity name
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index 2a3dc8664f..5e499421a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -66,3 +66,7 @@ being displayed. Examples: "--notes=foo" will show only notes from
--[no-]standard-notes::
These options are deprecated. Use the above --notes/--no-notes
options instead.
+
+--show-signature::
+ Check the validity of a signed commit object by passing the signature
+ to `gpg --verify` and show the output.
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 918c1109f2..1fc2a18404 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -3,8 +3,15 @@ Commit Limiting
Besides specifying a range of commits that should be listed using the
special notations explained in the description, additional commit
-limiting may be applied. Note that they are applied before commit
-ordering and formatting options, such as '--reverse'.
+limiting may be applied.
+
+Using more options generally further limits the output (e.g.
+`--since=<date1>` limits to commits newer than `<date1>`, and using it
+with `--grep=<pattern>` further limits to commits whose log message
+has a line that matches `<pattern>`), unless otherwise noted.
+
+Note that these are applied before commit
+ordering and formatting options, such as `--reverse`.
--
@@ -39,16 +46,22 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
--committer=<pattern>::
Limit the commits output to ones with author/committer
- header lines that match the specified pattern (regular expression).
+ header lines that match the specified pattern (regular
+ expression). With more than one `--author=<pattern>`,
+ commits whose author matches any of the given patterns are
+ chosen (similarly for multiple `--committer=<pattern>`).
--grep=<pattern>::
Limit the commits output to ones with log message that
- matches the specified pattern (regular expression).
+ matches the specified pattern (regular expression). With
+ more than one `--grep=<pattern>`, commits whose message
+ matches any of the given patterns are chosen (but see
+ `--all-match`).
--all-match::
Limit the commits output to ones that match all given --grep,
- --author and --committer instead of ones that match at least one.
+ instead of ones that match at least one.
-i::
--regexp-ignore-case::
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt
index 4a4bae8109..45d1c517cd 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt
@@ -25,9 +25,6 @@ Functions
the array (but note that some operations below may lose this
ordering).
-`sha1_array_sort`::
- Sort the elements in the array.
-
`sha1_array_lookup`::
Perform a binary search of the array for a specific sha1.
If found, returns the offset (in number of elements) of the
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
index 5a0c14fceb..94d7a2bd99 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
string-list API
===============
-The string_list API offers a data structure and functions to handle sorted
-and unsorted string lists.
+The string_list API offers a data structure and functions to handle
+sorted and unsorted string lists. A "sorted" list is one whose
+entries are sorted by string value in `strcmp()` order.
The 'string_list' struct used to be called 'path_list', but was renamed
because it is not specific to paths.
@@ -20,8 +21,9 @@ If you need something advanced, you can manually malloc() the `items`
member (you need this if you add things later) and you should set the
`nr` and `alloc` members in that case, too.
-. Adds new items to the list, using `string_list_append` or
- `string_list_insert`.
+. Adds new items to the list, using `string_list_append`,
+ `string_list_append_nodup`, `string_list_insert`,
+ `string_list_split`, and/or `string_list_split_in_place`.
. Can check if a string is in the list using `string_list_has_string` or
`unsorted_string_list_has_string` and get it from the list using
@@ -29,18 +31,23 @@ member (you need this if you add things later) and you should set the
. Can sort an unsorted list using `sort_string_list`.
+. Can remove duplicate items from a sorted list using
+ `string_list_remove_duplicates`.
+
. Can remove individual items of an unsorted list using
`unsorted_string_list_delete_item`.
+. Can remove items not matching a criterion from a sorted or unsorted
+ list using `filter_string_list`.
+
. Finally it should free the list using `string_list_clear`.
Example:
----
-struct string_list list;
+struct string_list list = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
int i;
-memset(&list, 0, sizeof(struct string_list));
string_list_append(&list, "foo");
string_list_append(&list, "bar");
for (i = 0; i < list.nr; i++)
@@ -60,6 +67,22 @@ Functions
* General ones (works with sorted and unsorted lists as well)
+`filter_string_list`::
+
+ Apply a function to each item in a list, retaining only the
+ items for which the function returns true. If free_util is
+ true, call free() on the util members of any items that have
+ to be deleted. Preserve the order of the items that are
+ retained.
+
+`string_list_longest_prefix`::
+
+ Return the longest string within a string_list that is a
+ prefix (in the sense of prefixcmp()) of the specified string,
+ or NULL if no such prefix exists. This function does not
+ require the string_list to be sorted (it does a linear
+ search).
+
`print_string_list`::
Dump a string_list to stdout, useful mainly for debugging purposes. It
@@ -96,15 +119,32 @@ write `string_list_insert(...)->util = ...;`.
Look up a given string in the string_list, returning the containing
string_list_item. If the string is not found, NULL is returned.
+`string_list_remove_duplicates`::
+
+ Remove all but the first of consecutive entries that have the
+ same string value. If free_util is true, call free() on the
+ util members of any items that have to be deleted.
+
* Functions for unsorted lists only
`string_list_append`::
- Append a new string to the end of the string_list.
+ Append a new string to the end of the string_list. If
+ `strdup_string` is set, then the string argument is copied;
+ otherwise the new `string_list_entry` refers to the input
+ string.
+
+`string_list_append_nodup`::
+
+ Append a new string to the end of the string_list. The new
+ `string_list_entry` always refers to the input string, even if
+ `strdup_string` is set. This function can be used to hand
+ ownership of a malloc()ed string to a `string_list` that has
+ `strdup_string` set.
`sort_string_list`::
- Make an unsorted list sorted.
+ Sort the list's entries by string value in `strcmp()` order.
`unsorted_string_list_has_string`::
@@ -124,6 +164,25 @@ counterpart for sorted lists, which performs a binary search.
is set. The third parameter controls if the `util` pointer of the
items should be freed or not.
+`string_list_split`::
+`string_list_split_in_place`::
+
+ Split a string into substrings on a delimiter character and
+ append the substrings to a `string_list`. If `maxsplit` is
+ non-negative, then split at most `maxsplit` times. Return the
+ number of substrings appended to the list.
++
+`string_list_split` requires a `string_list` that has `strdup_strings`
+set to true; it leaves the input string untouched and makes copies of
+the substrings in newly-allocated memory.
+`string_list_split_in_place` requires a `string_list` that has
+`strdup_strings` set to false; it splits the input string in place,
+overwriting the delimiter characters with NULs and creating new
+string_list_items that point into the original string (the original
+string must therefore not be modified or freed while the `string_list`
+is in use).
+
+
Data structures
---------------
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
index 49cdc571cd..d51e20f352 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
@@ -259,8 +259,10 @@ a positive depth, this step is skipped.
----
If the client has requested a positive depth, the server will compute
-the set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth, starting
-at the client's wants. The server writes 'shallow' lines for each
+the set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth. The set
+of commits start at the client's wants.
+
+The server writes 'shallow' lines for each
commit whose parents will not be sent as a result. The server writes
an 'unshallow' line for each commit which the client has indicated is
shallow, but is no longer shallow at the currently requested depth
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 03d95dc290..85651b57ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1136,9 +1136,12 @@ Creating good commit messages
Though not required, it's a good idea to begin the commit message
with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the
change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough
-description. Tools that turn commits into email, for example, use
-the first line on the Subject line and the rest of the commit in the
-body.
+description. The text up to the first blank line in a commit
+message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used
+throughout git. For example, linkgit:git-format-patch[1] turns a
+commit into email, and it uses the title on the Subject line and the
+rest of the commit in the body.
+
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