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-rw-r--r--Documentation/CodingGuidelines9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile22
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.2.txt42
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt164
-rw-r--r--Documentation/SubmittingPatches27
-rw-r--r--Documentation/blame-options.txt6
-rwxr-xr-xDocumentation/cat-texi.perl8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt39
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-options.txt32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-add.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-am.txt62
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-annotate.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-apply.txt30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-archive.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-blame.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-bundle.txt132
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-checkout.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cherry.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-config.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-describe.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt60
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-format-patch.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-gc.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-imap-send.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-ls-files.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-mergetool.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-push.txt36
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rebase.txt24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-reset.txt29
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-send-email.txt27
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-shortlog.txt49
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-show-branch.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-svn.txt36
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-tag.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitattributes.txt34
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/githooks.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitk.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gittutorial.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/mailmap.txt75
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-formats.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-options.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt13
59 files changed, 950 insertions, 224 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index f628c1f3b7..0d7fa9cca9 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -21,8 +21,13 @@ code. For git in general, three rough rules are:
As for more concrete guidelines, just imitate the existing code
(this is a good guideline, no matter which project you are
-contributing to). But if you must have a list of rules,
-here they are.
+contributing to). It is always preferable to match the _local_
+convention. New code added to git suite is expected to match
+the overall style of existing code. Modifications to existing
+code is expected to match the style the surrounding code already
+uses (even if it doesn't match the overall style of existing code).
+
+But if you must have a list of rules, here they are.
For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive):
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index c34c1cae20..144ec32f12 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ DOC_MAN7=$(patsubst %.txt,%.7,$(MAN7_TXT))
prefix?=$(HOME)
bindir?=$(prefix)/bin
htmldir?=$(prefix)/share/doc/git-doc
+pdfdir?=$(prefix)/share/doc/git-doc
mandir?=$(prefix)/share/man
man1dir=$(mandir)/man1
man5dir=$(mandir)/man5
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ infodir?=$(prefix)/share/info
MAKEINFO=makeinfo
INSTALL_INFO=install-info
DOCBOOK2X_TEXI=docbook2x-texi
+DBLATEX=dblatex
ifndef PERL_PATH
PERL_PATH = /usr/bin/perl
endif
@@ -87,6 +89,8 @@ man7: $(DOC_MAN7)
info: git.info gitman.info
+pdf: user-manual.pdf
+
install: install-man
install-man: man
@@ -107,6 +111,10 @@ install-info: info
echo "No directory found in $(DESTDIR)$(infodir)" >&2 ; \
fi
+install-pdf: pdf
+ $(INSTALL) -d -m 755 $(DESTDIR)$(pdfdir)
+ $(INSTALL) -m 644 user-manual.pdf $(DESTDIR)$(pdfdir)
+
install-html: html
sh ./install-webdoc.sh $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)
@@ -187,17 +195,23 @@ git.info: user-manual.texi
user-manual.texi: user-manual.xml
$(RM) $@+ $@
- $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) user-manual.xml --to-stdout | $(PERL_PATH) fix-texi.perl >$@+
+ $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) user-manual.xml --encoding=UTF-8 --to-stdout | \
+ $(PERL_PATH) fix-texi.perl >$@+
+ mv $@+ $@
+
+user-manual.pdf: user-manual.xml
+ $(RM) $@+ $@
+ $(DBLATEX) -o $@+ -p /etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl -s /etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty $<
mv $@+ $@
gitman.texi: $(MAN_XML) cat-texi.perl
$(RM) $@+ $@
- ($(foreach xml,$(MAN_XML),$(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --to-stdout $(xml);)) | \
- $(PERL_PATH) cat-texi.perl $@ >$@+
+ ($(foreach xml,$(MAN_XML),$(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --encoding=UTF-8 \
+ --to-stdout $(xml);)) | $(PERL_PATH) cat-texi.perl $@ >$@+
mv $@+ $@
gitman.info: gitman.texi
- $(MAKEINFO) --no-split $*.texi
+ $(MAKEINFO) --no-split --no-validate $*.texi
$(patsubst %.txt,%.texi,$(MAN_TXT)): %.texi : %.xml
$(RM) $@+ $@
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt
index f6393f8a94..7bfa341750 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Fixes since v1.5.2.1
correctly when the branch name had slash in it.
- The email address of the user specified with user.email
- configuration was overriden by EMAIL environment variable.
+ configuration was overridden by EMAIL environment variable.
- The tree parser did not warn about tree entries with
nonsense file modes, and assumed they must be blobs.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt
index 7a9646fc4f..51b32f5d94 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0.1
* Installation on platforms that needs .exe suffix to git-* programs were
broken in 1.6.0.1.
-* Installation on filesystems without symbolic links support did nto
+* Installation on filesystems without symbolic links support did not
work well.
* In-tree documentations and test scripts now use "git foo" form to set a
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt
index 88454c1973..8c594ba02f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ Fixes since v1.6.1
work tree upon delete/modify conflict.
* "git merge -s recursive" didn't leave the index unmerged for entries with
- rename/delete conflictd.
+ rename/delete conflicts.
* "git merge -s recursive" clobbered untracked files in the work tree.
-* "git mv -k" with more than one errorneous paths misbehaved.
+* "git mv -k" with more than one erroneous paths misbehaved.
* "git read-tree -m -u" hence branch switching incorrectly lost a
subdirectory in rare cases.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt
index 230aa3d8e8..be37cbb858 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ GIT v1.6.1.2 Release Notes
Fixes since v1.6.1.1
--------------------
-* The logic for rename detectin in internal diff used by commands like
- "git diff" and "git blame" have been optimized to avoid loading the same
+* The logic for rename detection in internal diff used by commands like
+ "git diff" and "git blame" has been optimized to avoid loading the same
blob repeatedly.
* We did not allow writing out a blob that is larger than 2GB for no good
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dfa36416af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+GIT v1.6.2.1 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.6.2
+------------------
+
+* .gitignore learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for
+ comment introduction character "#".
+
+* timestamp output in --date=relative mode used to display timestamps that
+ are long time ago in the default mode; it now uses "N years M months
+ ago", and "N years ago".
+
+* git-add -i/-p now works with non-ASCII pathnames.
+
+* "git hash-object -w" did not read from the configuration file from the
+ correct .git directory.
+
+* git-send-email learned to correctly handle multiple Cc: addresses.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4f4c47341f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+GIT v1.6.2.2 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.6.2.1
+--------------------
+
+* A longstanding confusing description of what --pickaxe option of
+ git-diff does has been clarified in the documentation.
+
+* "git diff --pickaxe-regexp" did not count overlapping matches
+ correctly.
+
+* "git-fetch" in a repository that was not cloned from anywhere said
+ it cannot find 'origin', which was hard to understand for new people.
+
+* "git-format-patch --numbered-files --stdout" did not have to die of
+ incompatible options; it now simply ignores --numbered-files as no files
+ are produced anyway.
+
+* "git-ls-files --deleted" did not work well with GIT_DIR&GIT_WORK_TREE.
+
+* "git-read-tree A B C..." without -m option has been broken for a long
+ time.
+
+* git-send-email ignored --in-reply-to when --no-thread was given.
+
+* 'git-submodule add' did not tolerate extra slashes and ./ in the path it
+ accepted from the command line; it now is more lenient.
+
+* git-svn misbehaved when the project contained a path that began with
+ two dashes.
+
+* import-zips script (in contrib) did not compute the common directory
+ prefix correctly.
+
+Many small documentation updates are included as well.
+
+---
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+O=v1.6.2.1-46-gb19293d
+echo O=$(git describe maint)
+git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ad060f4f89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+GIT v1.6.2 Release Notes
+========================
+
+With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is
+currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose
+what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration
+variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository.
+
+To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a
+push running this release will issue a big warning when the
+configuration variable is missing. Please refer to:
+
+ http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
+ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
+
+for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
+transition plan.
+
+For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch
+$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current
+branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what
+should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
+receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.
+
+
+Updates since v1.6.1
+--------------------
+
+(subsystems)
+
+* git-svn updates.
+
+* gitweb updates, including a new patch view and RSS/Atom feed
+ improvements.
+
+* (contrib/emacs) git.el now has commands for checking out a branch,
+ creating a branch, cherry-picking and reverting commits; vc-git.el
+ is not shipped with git anymore (it is part of official Emacs).
+
+(performance)
+
+* pack-objects autodetects the number of CPUs available and uses threaded
+ version.
+
+(usability, bells and whistles)
+
+* automatic typo correction works on aliases as well
+
+* @{-1} is a way to refer to the last branch you were on. This is
+ accepted not only where an object name is expected, but anywhere
+ a branch name is expected and acts as if you typed the branch name.
+ E.g. "git branch --track mybranch @{-1}", "git merge @{-1}", and
+ "git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-1}" would work as expected.
+
+* When refs/remotes/origin/HEAD points at a remote tracking branch that
+ has been pruned away, many git operations issued warning when they
+ internally enumerated the refs. We now warn only when you say "origin"
+ to refer to that pruned branch.
+
+* The location of .mailmap file can be configured, and its file format was
+ enhanced to allow mapping an incorrect e-mail field as well.
+
+* "git add -p" learned 'g'oto action to jump directly to a hunk.
+
+* "git add -p" learned to find a hunk with given text with '/'.
+
+* "git add -p" optionally can be told to work with just the command letter
+ without Enter.
+
+* when "git am" stops upon a patch that does not apply, it shows the
+ title of the offending patch.
+
+* "git am --directory=<dir>" and "git am --reject" passes these options
+ to underlying "git apply".
+
+* "git am" learned --ignore-date option.
+
+* "git blame" aligns author names better when they are spelled in
+ non US-ASCII encoding.
+
+* "git clone" now makes its best effort when cloning from an empty
+ repository to set up configuration variables to refer to the remote
+ repository.
+
+* "git checkout -" is a shorthand for "git checkout @{-1}".
+
+* "git cherry" defaults to whatever the current branch is tracking (if
+ exists) when the <upstream> argument is not given.
+
+* "git cvsserver" can be told not to add extra "via git-CVS emulator" to
+ the commit log message it serves via gitcvs.commitmsgannotation
+ configuration.
+
+* "git cvsserver" learned to handle 'noop' command some CVS clients seem
+ to expect to work.
+
+* "git diff" learned a new option --inter-hunk-context to coalesce close
+ hunks together and show context between them.
+
+* The definition of what constitutes a word for "git diff --color-words"
+ can be customized via gitattributes, command line or a configuration.
+
+* "git diff" learned --patience to run "patience diff" algorithm.
+
+* "git filter-branch" learned --prune-empty option that discards commits
+ that do not change the contents.
+
+* "git fsck" now checks loose objects in alternate object stores, instead
+ of misreporting them as missing.
+
+* "git gc --prune" was resurrected to allow "git gc --no-prune" and
+ giving non-default expiration period e.g. "git gc --prune=now".
+
+* "git grep -w" and "git grep" for fixed strings have been optimized.
+
+* "git mergetool" learned -y(--no-prompt) option to disable prompting.
+
+* "git rebase -i" can transplant a history down to root to elsewhere
+ with --root option.
+
+* "git reset --merge" is a new mode that works similar to the way
+ "git checkout" switches branches, taking the local changes while
+ switching to another commit.
+
+* "git submodule update" learned --no-fetch option.
+
+* "git tag" learned --contains that works the same way as the same option
+ from "git branch".
+
+
+Fixes since v1.6.1
+------------------
+
+All of the fixes in v1.6.1.X maintenance series are included in this
+release, unless otherwise noted.
+
+Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
+v1.6.1.X series.
+
+* "git-add sub/file" when sub is a submodule incorrectly added the path to
+ the superproject.
+
+* "git bundle" did not exclude annotated tags even when a range given
+ from the command line wanted to.
+
+* "git filter-branch" unnecessarily refused to work when you had
+ checked out a different commit from what is recorded in the superproject
+ index in a submodule.
+
+* "git filter-branch" incorrectly tried to update a nonexistent work tree
+ at the end when it is run in a bare repository.
+
+* "git gc" did not work if your repository was created with an ancient git
+ and never had any pack files in it before.
+
+* "git mergetool" used to ignore autocrlf and other attributes
+ based content rewriting.
+
+* branch switching and merges had a silly bug that did not validate
+ the correct directory when making sure an existing subdirectory is
+ clean.
+
+* "git -p cmd" when cmd is not a built-in one left the display in funny state
+ when killed in the middle.
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index ba07c8c571..9b559adefc 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -376,9 +376,36 @@ Thunderbird
(A Large Angry SCM)
+By default, Thunderbird will both wrap emails as well as flag them as
+being 'format=flowed', both of which will make the resulting email unusable
+by git.
+
Here are some hints on how to successfully submit patches inline using
Thunderbird.
+There are two different approaches. One approach is to configure
+Thunderbird to not mangle patches. The second approach is to use
+an external editor to keep Thunderbird from mangling the patches.
+
+Approach #1 (configuration):
+
+This recipe is current as of Thunderbird 2.0.0.19. Three steps:
+ 1. Configure your mail server composition as plain text
+ Edit...Account Settings...Composition & Addressing,
+ uncheck 'Compose Messages in HTML'.
+ 2. Configure your general composition window to not wrap
+ Edit..Preferences..Composition, wrap plain text messages at 0
+ 3. Disable the use of format=flowed
+ Edit..Preferences..Advanced..Config Editor. Search for:
+ mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed
+ toggle it to make sure it is set to 'false'.
+
+After that is done, you should be able to compose email as you
+otherwise would (cut + paste, git-format-patch | git-imap-send, etc),
+and the patches should not be mangled.
+
+Approach #2 (external editor):
+
This recipe appears to work with the current [*1*] Thunderbird from Suse.
The following Thunderbird extensions are needed:
diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
index 7f28432254..df2a7c1641 100644
--- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ of lines before or after the line given by <start>.
Detect moving lines in the file as well. When a commit
moves a block of lines in a file (e.g. the original file
has A and then B, and the commit changes it to B and
- then A), traditional 'blame' algorithm typically blames
+ then A), the traditional 'blame' algorithm typically blames
the lines that were moved up (i.e. B) to the parent and
assigns blame to the lines that were moved down (i.e. A)
to the child commit. With this option, both groups of lines
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ commit.
files that were modified in the same commit. This is
useful when you reorganize your program and move code
around across files. When this option is given twice,
- the command looks for copies from all other files in the
- parent for the commit that creates the file in addition.
+ the command additionally looks for copies from all other
+ files in the parent for the commit that creates the file.
+
<num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of
alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving
diff --git a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl
index dbc133cd3c..828ec62554 100755
--- a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl
+++ b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl
@@ -18,8 +18,12 @@ close TMP;
printf '\input texinfo
@setfilename gitman.info
-@documentencoding us-ascii
-@node Top,,%s
+@documentencoding UTF-8
+@dircategory Development
+@direntry
+* Git Man Pages: (gitman). Manual pages for Git revision control system
+@end direntry
+@node Top,,, (dir)
@top Git Manual Pages
@documentlanguage en
@menu
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 2ed868c81a..f5152c5038 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -556,8 +556,8 @@ color.interactive::
color.interactive.<slot>::
Use customized color for 'git-add --interactive'
- output. `<slot>` may be `prompt`, `header`, or `help`, for
- three distinct types of normal output from interactive
+ output. `<slot>` may be `prompt`, `header`, `help` or `error`, for
+ four distinct types of normal output from interactive
programs. The values of these variables may be specified as
in color.branch.<slot>.
@@ -639,6 +639,12 @@ diff.suppressBlankEmpty::
A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space
before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
+diff.wordRegex::
+ A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is a "word"
+ when performing word-by-word difference calculations. Character
+ sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other
+ characters are *ignorable* whitespace.
+
fetch.unpackLimit::
If the number of objects fetched over the git native
transfer is below this
@@ -725,6 +731,10 @@ gc.rerereunresolved::
kept for this many days when 'git-rerere gc' is run.
The default is 15 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1].
+gitcvs.commitmsgannotation::
+ Append this string to each commit message. Set to empty string
+ to disable this feature. Defaults to "via git-CVS emulator".
+
gitcvs.enabled::
Whether the CVS server interface is enabled for this repository.
See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
@@ -990,6 +1000,13 @@ instaweb.port::
The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See
linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
+interactive.singlekey::
+ In interactive programs, allow the user to provide one-letter
+ input with a single key (i.e., without hitting enter).
+ Currently this is used only by the `\--patch` mode of
+ linkgit:git-add[1]. Note that this setting is silently
+ ignored if portable keystroke input is not available.
+
log.date::
Set default date-time mode for the log command. Setting log.date
value is similar to using 'git-log'\'s --date option. The value is one of the
@@ -1002,6 +1019,14 @@ log.showroot::
Tools like linkgit:git-log[1] or linkgit:git-whatchanged[1], which
normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by default.
+mailmap.file::
+ The location of an augmenting mailmap file. The default
+ mailmap, located in the root of the repository, is loaded
+ first, then the mailmap file pointed to by this variable.
+ The location of the mailmap file may be in a repository
+ subdirectory, or somewhere outside of the repository itself.
+ See linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1].
+
man.viewer::
Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the
'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
@@ -1046,6 +1071,16 @@ mergetool.keepBackup::
is set to `false` then this file is not preserved. Defaults to
`true` (i.e. keep the backup files).
+mergetool.keepTemporaries::
+ When invoking a custom merge tool, git uses a set of temporary
+ files to pass to the tool. If the tool returns an error and this
+ variable is set to `true`, then these temporary files will be
+ preserved, otherwise they will be removed after the tool has
+ exited. Defaults to `false`.
+
+mergetool.prompt::
+ Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program.
+
pack.window::
The size of the window used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no
window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10.
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index b432d2518a..9276faeb11 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
--patch-with-raw::
Synonym for "-p --raw".
+--patience::
+ Generate a diff using the "patience diff" algorithm.
+
--stat[=width[,name-width]]::
Generate a diffstat. You can override the default
output width for 80-column terminal by "--stat=width".
@@ -91,8 +94,22 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file
gives the default to color output.
---color-words::
- Show colored word diff, i.e. color words which have changed.
+--color-words[=<regex>]::
+ Show colored word diff, i.e., color words which have changed.
+ By default, words are separated by whitespace.
++
+When a <regex> is specified, every non-overlapping match of the
+<regex> is considered a word. Anything between these matches is
+considered whitespace and ignored(!) for the purposes of finding
+differences. You may want to append `|[^[:space:]]` to your regular
+expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters.
+A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the
+newline.
++
+The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see
+linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly
+overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers
+override configuration settings.
--no-renames::
Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration
@@ -116,7 +133,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
--abbrev[=<n>]::
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header
- lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is
+ lines, show only a partial prefix. This is
independent of --full-index option above, which controls
the diff-patch output format. Non default number of
digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
@@ -159,7 +176,10 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
number.
-S<string>::
- Look for differences that contain the change in <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.
--pickaxe-all::
When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
@@ -205,6 +225,10 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
differences even if one line has whitespace where the other
line has none.
+--inter-hunk-context=<lines>::
+ Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number
+ of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each other.
+
--exit-code::
Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1).
That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index e4c711bbd2..ce71838b9e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -263,13 +263,6 @@ diff::
This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between
HEAD and index).
-Bugs
-----
-The interactive mode does not work with files whose names contain
-characters that need C-quoting. `core.quotepath` configuration can be
-used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash,
-double-quote and control characters will still have problems.
-
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-status[1]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index b9c6fac748..1e71dd536b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
- [--3way] [--interactive]
- [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>]
+ [--3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date]
+ [--ignore-date]
+ [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>]
+ [--reject]
[<mbox> | <Maildir>...]
'git am' (--skip | --resolved | --abort)
@@ -25,8 +27,8 @@ OPTIONS
-------
<mbox>|<Maildir>...::
The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
- supply this argument, reads from the standard input. If you supply
- directories, they'll be treated as Maildirs.
+ supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input.
+ If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs.
-s::
--signoff::
@@ -46,7 +48,7 @@ OPTIONS
preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
+
This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
-default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this.
+default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
--no-utf8::
Pass `-n` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see
@@ -55,17 +57,15 @@ default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this.
-3::
--3way::
When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
- 3-way merge, if the patch records the identity of blobs
- it is supposed to apply to, and we have those blobs
+ 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
+ it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
available locally.
--whitespace=<option>::
- This flag is passed to the 'git-apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
- program that applies
- the patch.
-
-C<n>::
-p<n>::
+--directory=<dir>::
+--reject::
These flags are passed to the 'git-apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
program that applies
the patch.
@@ -74,6 +74,20 @@ default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this.
--interactive::
Run interactively.
+--committer-date-is-author-date::
+ By default the command records the date from the e-mail
+ message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
+ commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
+ user to lie about the committer date by using the same
+ timestamp as the author date.
+
+--ignore-date::
+ By default the command records the date from the e-mail
+ message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
+ commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
+ user to lie about author timestamp by using the same
+ timestamp as the committer date.
+
--skip::
Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
restarting an aborted patch.
@@ -107,18 +121,18 @@ the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as
a one line text.
-The body of the message (iow, after a blank line that terminates
-RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and "From: " lines
-that are different from those of the mail header, to override
-the values of these fields.
+The body of the message (the rest of the message after the blank line
+that terminates the RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and
+"From: " lines that are different from those of the mail header,
+to override the values of these fields.
The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
"Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
-where the patch begins. Excess whitespaces at the end of the
+where the patch begins. Excess whitespace characters at the end of the
lines are automatically stripped.
The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
-message. Any line that is of form:
+message. Any line that is of the form:
* three-dashes and end-of-line, or
* a line that begins with "diff -", or
@@ -127,18 +141,18 @@ message. Any line that is of form:
is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
-When initially invoking it, you give it names of the mailboxes
-to crunch. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
-aborts in the middle,. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
+When initially invoking it, you give it the names of the mailboxes
+to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
+aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
-. skip the current patch by re-running the command with '--skip'
+. skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip'
option.
. hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
- the index file to bring it in a state that the patch should
- have produced. Then run the command with '--resolved' option.
+ the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
+ have produced. Then run the command with the '--resolved' option.
-The command refuses to process new mailboxes while `.git/rebase-apply`
+The command refuses to process new mailboxes while the `.git/rebase-apply`
directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
run `rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply` before running the command with mailbox
names.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt
index 0aba022ba6..0590eec056 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-annotate(1)
NAME
----
-git-annotate - Annotate file lines with commit info
+git-annotate - Annotate file lines with commit information
SYNOPSIS
--------
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Annotates each line in the given file with information from the commit
-which introduced the line. Optionally annotate from a given revision.
+which introduced the line. Optionally annotates from a given revision.
The only difference between this command and linkgit:git-blame[1] is that
they use slightly different output formats, and this command exists only
-for backward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide more
+for backward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide a more
familiar command name for people coming from other SCM systems.
OPTIONS
diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 32f2b85a10..9e5baa2777 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index]
- [--apply] [--no-add] [--build-fake-ancestor <file>] [-R | --reverse]
+ [--apply] [--no-add] [--build-fake-ancestor=<file>] [-R | --reverse]
[--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z]
[-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof] [--recount] [--cached]
[--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|fix|error|error-all>]
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ and a work tree.
OPTIONS
-------
<patch>...::
- The files to read patch from. '-' can be used to read
+ The files to read the patch from. '-' can be used to read
from the standard input.
--stat::
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ OPTIONS
input. Turns off "apply".
--numstat::
- Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and
- deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without
+ Similar to \--stat, but shows the number of added and
+ deleted lines in decimal notation and the pathname without
abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For
binary files, outputs two `-` instead of saying
`0 0`. Turns off "apply".
@@ -60,15 +60,15 @@ OPTIONS
causes the index file to be updated.
--cached::
- Apply a patch without touching the working tree. Instead, take the
- cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index,
+ Apply a patch without touching the working tree. Instead take the
+ cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index
without using the working tree. This implies '--index'.
---build-fake-ancestor <file>::
+--build-fake-ancestor=<file>::
Newer 'git-diff' output has embedded 'index information'
for each blob to help identify the original version that
the patch applies to. When this flag is given, and if
- the original versions of the blobs is available locally,
+ the original versions of the blobs are available locally,
builds a temporary index containing those blobs.
+
When a pure mode change is encountered (which has no index information),
@@ -109,13 +109,13 @@ the information is read from the current index instead.
applying a diff generated with --unified=0. To bypass these
checks use '--unidiff-zero'.
+
-Note, for the reasons stated above usage of context-free patches are
+Note, for the reasons stated above usage of context-free patches is
discouraged.
--apply::
If you use any of the options marked "Turns off
'apply'" above, 'git-apply' reads and outputs the
- information you asked without actually applying the
+ requested information without actually applying the
patch. Give this flag after those flags to also apply
the patch.
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ discouraged.
patch. This can be used to extract the common part between
two files by first running 'diff' on them and applying
the result with this option, which would apply the
- deletion part but not addition part.
+ deletion part but not the addition part.
--allow-binary-replacement::
--binary::
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ By default, the command outputs warning messages but applies the patch.
When `git-apply` is used for statistics and not applying a
patch, it defaults to `nowarn`.
+
-You can use different `<action>` to control this
+You can use different `<action>` values to control this
behavior:
+
* `nowarn` turns off the trailing whitespace warning.
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ behavior:
patch as-is (default).
* `fix` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and applies the
patch after fixing them (`strip` is a synonym --- the tool
- used to consider only trailing whitespaces as errors, and the
+ used to consider only trailing whitespace characters as errors, and the
fix involved 'stripping' them, but modern gits do more).
* `error` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and refuses
to apply the patch.
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ behavior:
adjusting the hunk headers appropriately).
--directory=<root>::
- Prepend <root> to all filenames. If a "-p" argument was passed, too,
+ Prepend <root> to all filenames. If a "-p" argument was also passed,
it is applied before prepending the new root.
+
For example, a patch that talks about updating `a/git-gui.sh` to `b/git-gui.sh`
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ ignored, i.e., they are not required to be up-to-date or clean and they
are not updated.
If --index is not specified, then the submodule commits in the patch
-are ignored and only the absence of presence of the corresponding
+are ignored and only the absence or presence of the corresponding
subdirectory is checked and (if possible) updated.
Author
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 41cbf9c081..5b3eb12c8a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -88,6 +88,18 @@ tar.umask::
archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for
details.
+ATTRIBUTES
+----------
+
+export-ignore::
+ Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won't be
+ added to archive files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+
+export-subst::
+ If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then git will
+ expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
+ See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+
EXAMPLES
--------
git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
@@ -110,6 +122,11 @@ git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs
Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:gitattributes[5]
+
Author
------
Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
index cc934e55c3..4ef54d6602 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -184,6 +184,12 @@ there is ever added information (like the commit encoding or extended
commit commentary), a blame viewer won't ever care.
+MAPPING AUTHORS
+---------------
+
+include::mailmap.txt[]
+
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-annotate[1]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
index 1b66ab743c..57590b1480 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ defining the basis. More than one reference may be packaged, and more
than one basis can be specified. The objects packaged are those not
contained in the union of the given bases. Each basis can be
specified explicitly (e.g., ^master~10), or implicitly (e.g.,
-master~10..master, master --since=10.days.ago).
+master~10..master, --since=10.days.ago master).
It is very important that the basis used be held by the destination.
It is okay to err on the side of conservatism, causing the bundle file
@@ -94,75 +94,111 @@ when unpacking at the destination.
EXAMPLE
-------
-Assume two repositories exist as R1 on machine A, and R2 on machine B.
+Assume you want to transfer the history from a repository R1 on machine A
+to another repository R2 on machine B.
For whatever reason, direct connection between A and B is not allowed,
but we can move data from A to B via some mechanism (CD, email, etc).
We want to update R2 with developments made on branch master in R1.
-To create the bundle you have to specify the basis. You have some options:
+To bootstrap the process, you can first create a bundle that doesn't have
+any basis. You can use a tag to remember up to what commit you sent out
+in order to make it easy to later update the other repository with
+incremental bundle,
-- Without basis.
-+
-This is useful when sending the whole history.
+----------------
+machineA$ cd R1
+machineA$ git bundle create file.bundle master
+machineA$ git tag -f lastR2bundle master
+----------------
-------------
-$ git bundle create mybundle master
-------------
+Then you sneakernet file.bundle to the target machine B. Because you don't
+have to have any object to extract objects from such a bundle, not only
+you can fetch/pull from a bundle, you can clone from it as if it was a
+remote repository.
-- Using temporally tags.
-+
-We set a tag in R1 (lastR2bundle) after the previous such transport,
-and move it afterwards to help build the bundle.
+----------------
+machineB$ git clone /home/me/tmp/file.bundle R2
+----------------
-------------
-$ git bundle create mybundle master ^lastR2bundle
-$ git tag -f lastR2bundle master
-------------
+This will define a remote called "origin" in the resulting repository that
+lets you fetch and pull from the bundle. $GIT_DIR/config file in R2 may
+have an entry like this:
-- Using a tag present in both repositories
+------------------------
+[remote "origin"]
+ url = /home/me/tmp/file.bundle
+ fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
+------------------------
+
+You can fetch/pull to update the resulting mine.git repository after
+replacing the bundle you store at /home/me/tmp/file.bundle with incremental
+updates from here on.
+
+After working more in the original repository, you can create an
+incremental bundle to update the other:
+
+----------------
+machineA$ cd R1
+machineA$ git bundle create file.bundle lastR2bundle..master
+machineA$ git tag -f lastR2bundle master
+----------------
+
+and sneakernet it to the other machine to replace /home/me/tmp/file.bundle,
+and pull from it.
+
+----------------
+machineB$ cd R2
+machineB$ git pull
+----------------
-------------
-$ git bundle create mybundle master ^v1.0.0
-------------
+If you know up to what commit the intended recipient repository should
+have the necessary objects for, you can use that knowledge to specify the
+basis, giving a cut-off point to limit the revisions and objects that go
+in the resulting bundle. The previous example used lastR2bundle tag
+for this purpose, but you can use other options you would give to
+the linkgit:git-log[1] command. Here are more examples:
-- A basis based on time.
+You can use a tag that is present in both.
-------------
-$ git bundle create mybundle master --since=10.days.ago
-------------
+----------------
+$ git bundle create mybundle v1.0.0..master
+----------------
-- With a limit on the number of commits
+You can use a basis based on time.
-------------
-$ git bundle create mybundle master -n 10
-------------
+----------------
+$ git bundle create mybundle --since=10.days master
+----------------
-Then you move mybundle from A to B, and in R2 on B:
+Or you can use the number of commits.
-------------
+----------------
+$ git bundle create mybundle -10 master
+----------------
+
+You can run `git-bundle verify` to see if you can extract from a bundle
+that was created with a basis.
+
+----------------
$ git bundle verify mybundle
-$ git fetch mybundle master:localRef
-------------
+----------------
-With something like this in the config in R2:
+This will list what commits you must have in order to extract from the
+bundle and will error out if you don't have them.
-------------------------
-[remote "bundle"]
- url = /home/me/tmp/file.bdl
- fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
-------------------------
+A bundle from a recipient repository's point of view is just like a
+regular repository it fetches/pulls from. You can for example map
+refs, like this example, when fetching:
-You can first sneakernet the bundle file to ~/tmp/file.bdl and
-then these commands on machine B:
+----------------
+$ git fetch mybundle master:localRef
+----------------
-------------
-$ git ls-remote bundle
-$ git fetch bundle
-$ git pull bundle
-------------
+Or see what refs it offers.
-would treat it as if it is talking with a remote side over the
-network.
+----------------
+$ git ls-remote mybundle
+----------------
Author
------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 9cd51514db..3bccffae62 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -133,6 +133,10 @@ the conflicted merge in the specified paths.
+
When this parameter names a non-branch (but still a valid commit object),
your HEAD becomes 'detached'.
++
+As a special case, the "`@\{-N\}`" syntax for the N-th last branch
+checks out the branch (instead of detaching). You may also specify
+"`-`" which is synonymous with "`@\{-1\}`".
Detached HEAD
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry.txt
index 74d14c4e7f..7deefdae8f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cherry.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-cherry - Find commits not merged upstream
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git cherry' [-v] <upstream> [<head>] [<limit>]
+'git cherry' [-v] [<upstream> [<head> [<limit>]]]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ OPTIONS
<upstream>::
Upstream branch to compare against.
+ Defaults to the first tracked remote branch, if available.
<head>::
Working branch; defaults to HEAD.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 19a8917b83..6ab2af4b61 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -130,6 +130,10 @@ See also <<FILES>>.
in the config file will cause the value to be multiplied
by 1024, 1048576, or 1073741824 prior to output.
+--bool-or-int::
+ 'git-config' will ensure that the output matches the format of
+ either --bool or --int, as described above.
+
-z::
--null::
For all options that output values and/or keys, always
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
index b7a8c10b87..8f9ba74c8b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ OPTIONS
-r <remote>::
The git remote to import this CVS repository into.
Moves all CVS branches into remotes/<remote>/<branch>
- akin to the 'git-clone' "--use-separate-remote" option.
+ akin to the way 'git-clone' uses 'origin' by default.
-o <branch-for-HEAD>::
When no remote is specified (via -r) the 'HEAD' branch
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index a30c5ac966..b231dbb947 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ With something like git.git current tree, I get:
v1.0.4-14-g2414721
i.e. the current head of my "parent" branch is based on v1.0.4,
-but since it has a handful commits on top of that,
+but since it has a few commits on top of that,
describe has added the number of additional commits ("14") and
an abbreviated object name for the commit itself ("2414721")
at the end.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index fed6de6a7f..7ffe03f427 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ You can use the 'map' convenience function in this filter, and other
convenience functions, too. For example, calling 'skip_commit "$@"'
will leave out the current commit (but not its changes! If you want
that, use 'git-rebase' instead).
++
+You can also use the 'git_commit_non_empty_tree "$@"' instead of
+'git commit-tree "$@"' if you don't wish to keep commits with a single parent
+and that makes no change to the tree.
--tag-name-filter <command>::
This is the filter for rewriting tag names. When passed,
@@ -151,6 +155,16 @@ to other tags will be rewritten to point to the underlying commit.
The result will contain that directory (and only that) as its
project root.
+--prune-empty::
+ Some kind of filters will generate empty commits, that left the tree
+ untouched. This switch allow git-filter-branch to ignore such
+ commits. Though, this switch only applies for commits that have one
+ and only one parent, it will hence keep merges points. Also, this
+ option is not compatible with the use of '--commit-filter'. Though you
+ just need to use the function 'git_commit_non_empty_tree "$@"' instead
+ of the 'git commit-tree "$@"' idiom in your commit filter to make that
+ happen.
+
--original <namespace>::
Use this option to set the namespace where the original commits
will be stored. The default value is 'refs/original'.
@@ -198,6 +212,11 @@ git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached filename' HEAD
Now, you will get the rewritten history saved in HEAD.
+As with using `rm filename`, `git rm --cached filename` will fail
+if the file is absent from the tree of a commit. If it is not important
+whether the file is already absent from the tree, you can use
+`git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch filename` instead.
+
To rewrite the repository to look as if `foodir/` had been its project
root, and discard all other history:
@@ -320,6 +339,47 @@ git filter-branch --index-filter \
---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Checklist for Shrinking a Repository
+------------------------------------
+
+git-filter-branch is often used to get rid of a subset of files,
+usually with some combination of `\--index-filter` and
+`\--subdirectory-filter`. People expect the resulting repository to
+be smaller than the original, but you need a few more steps to
+actually make it smaller, because git tries hard not to lose your
+objects until you tell it to. First make sure that:
+
+* You really removed all variants of a filename, if a blob was moved
+ over its lifetime. `git log \--name-only \--follow \--all \--
+ filename` can help you find renames.
+
+* You really filtered all refs: use `\--tag-name-filter cat \--
+ \--all` when calling git-filter-branch.
+
+Then there are two ways to get a smaller repository. A safer way is
+to clone, that keeps your original intact.
+
+* Clone it with `git clone +++file:///path/to/repo+++`. The clone
+ will not have the removed objects. See linkgit:git-clone[1]. (Note
+ that cloning with a plain path just hardlinks everything!)
+
+If you really don't want to clone it, for whatever reasons, check the
+following points instead (in this order). This is a very destructive
+approach, so *make a backup* or go back to cloning it. You have been
+warned.
+
+* Remove the original refs backed up by git-filter-branch: say `git
+ for-each-ref \--format="%(refname)" refs/original/ | xargs -n 1 git
+ update-ref -d`.
+
+* Expire all reflogs with `git reflog expire \--expire=now \--all`.
+
+* Garbage collect all unreferenced objects with `git gc \--prune=now`
+ (or if your git-gc is not new enough to support arguments to
+ `\--prune`, use `git repack -ad; git prune` instead).
+
+
Author
------
Written by Petr "Pasky" Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 11a7d77261..dc40f47169 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -96,7 +96,6 @@ include::diff-options.txt[]
--numbered-files::
Output file names will be a simple number sequence
without the default first line of the commit appended.
- Mutually exclusive with the --stdout option.
-k::
--keep-subject::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
index 7086eea74a..b292e9843a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-gc - Cleanup unnecessary files and optimize the local repository
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git gc' [--aggressive] [--auto] [--quiet]
+'git gc' [--aggressive] [--auto] [--quiet] [--prune=<date> | --no-prune]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -59,6 +59,14 @@ are consolidated into a single pack by using the `-A` option of
'git-repack'. Setting `gc.autopacklimit` to 0 disables
automatic consolidation of packs.
+--prune=<date>::
+ Prune loose objects older than date (default is 2 weeks ago,
+ overrideable by the config variable `gc.pruneExpire`). This
+ option is on by default.
+
+--no-prune::
+ Do not prune any loose objects.
+
--quiet::
Suppress all progress reports.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
index bd49a0aee8..1685f04efe 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
@@ -98,6 +98,20 @@ Using direct mode with SSL:
..........................
+CAUTION
+-------
+It is still your responsibility to make sure that the email message
+sent by your email program meets the standards of your project.
+Many projects do not like patches to be attached. Some mail
+agents will transform patches (e.g. wrap lines, send them as
+format=flowed) in ways that make them fail. You will get angry
+flames ridiculing you if you don't check this.
+
+Thunderbird in particular is known to be problematic. Thunderbird
+users may wish to visit this web page for more information:
+ http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email
+
+
BUGS
----
Doesn't handle lines starting with "From " in the message body.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 9f85d60b5f..057a021eb5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ OPTIONS
--abbrev[=<n>]::
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
- lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix.
+ lines, show only a partial prefix.
Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
\--::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
index db6ebccd6d..f68e5c5c1a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ OPTIONS
--abbrev[=<n>]::
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
- lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix.
+ lines, show only a partial prefix.
Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
--full-name::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
index 602e7c6d3b..5d3c632872 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-mergetool - Run merge conflict resolution tools to resolve merge conflicts
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git mergetool' [--tool=<tool>] [<file>]...
+'git mergetool' [--tool=<tool>] [-y|--no-prompt|--prompt] [<file>]...
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ with merge conflicts.
OPTIONS
-------
--t or --tool=<tool>::
+-t <tool>::
+--tool=<tool>::
Use the merge resolution program specified by <tool>.
Valid merge tools are:
kdiff3, tkdiff, meld, xxdiff, emerge, vimdiff, gvimdiff, ecmerge, and opendiff
@@ -60,6 +61,16 @@ variable `mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode` can be set to `true`.
Otherwise, 'git-mergetool' will prompt the user to indicate the
success of the resolution after the custom tool has exited.
+-y::
+--no-prompt::
+ Don't prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution
+ program.
+
+--prompt::
+ Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program.
+ This is the default behaviour; the option is provided to
+ override any configuration settings.
+
Author
------
Written by Theodore Y Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index ac6421178c..4e7e5a719a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -48,17 +48,19 @@ push. Arbitrary expressions cannot be used here, an actual ref must
be named. If `:`<dst> is omitted, the same ref as <src> will be
updated.
+
-The object referenced by <src> is used to fast forward the ref <dst>
-on the remote side. If the optional leading plus `{plus}` is used, the
-remote ref is updated even if it does not result in a fast forward
-update.
+The object referenced by <src> is used to update the <dst> reference
+on the remote side, but by default this is only allowed if the
+update can fast forward <dst>. By having the optional leading `{plus}`,
+you can tell git to update the <dst> ref even when the update is not a
+fast forward. This does *not* attempt to merge <src> into <dst>. See
+EXAMPLES below for details.
+
`tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`.
+
Pushing an empty <src> allows you to delete the <dst> ref from
the remote repository.
+
-The special refspec `:` (or `+:` to allow non-fast forward updates)
+The special refspec `:` (or `{plus}:` to allow non-fast forward updates)
directs git to push "matching" branches: for every branch that exists on
the local side, the remote side is updated if a branch of the same name
already exists on the remote side. This is the default operation mode
@@ -218,6 +220,30 @@ git push origin :experimental::
Find a ref that matches `experimental` in the `origin` repository
(e.g. `refs/heads/experimental`), and delete it.
+git push origin {plus}dev:master::
+ Update the origin repository's master branch with the dev branch,
+ allowing non-fast forward updates. *This can leave unreferenced
+ commits dangling in the origin repository.* Consider the
+ following situation, where a fast forward is not possible:
++
+----
+ o---o---o---A---B origin/master
+ \
+ X---Y---Z dev
+----
++
+The above command would change the origin repository to
++
+----
+ A---B (unnamed branch)
+ /
+ o---o---o---X---Y---Z master
+----
++
+Commits A and B would no longer belong to a branch with a symbolic name,
+and so would be unreachable. As such, these commits would be removed by
+a `git gc` command on the origin repository.
+
Author
------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index c8ad86a56f..da3c38cd60 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [-v | --verbose] [-m | --merge]
- [-s <strategy> | --strategy=<strategy>] [--no-verify]
- [-C<n>] [ --whitespace=<option>] [-p | --preserve-merges]
- [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>]
+'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--onto <newbase>]
+ <upstream> [<branch>]
+'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] --onto <newbase>
+ --root [<branch>]
+
'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort
DESCRIPTION
@@ -22,7 +23,8 @@ it remains on the current branch.
All changes made by commits in the current branch but that are not
in <upstream> are saved to a temporary area. This is the same set
-of commits that would be shown by `git log <upstream>..HEAD`.
+of commits that would be shown by `git log <upstream>..HEAD` (or
+`git log HEAD`, if --root is specified).
The current branch is reset to <upstream>, or <newbase> if the
--onto option was supplied. This has the exact same effect as
@@ -241,9 +243,10 @@ OPTIONS
context exist they all must match. By default no context is
ever ignored.
---whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>::
+--whitespace=<option>::
This flag is passed to the 'git-apply' program
(see linkgit:git-apply[1]) that applies the patch.
+ Incompatible with the --interactive option.
-i::
--interactive::
@@ -255,6 +258,15 @@ OPTIONS
--preserve-merges::
Instead of ignoring merges, try to recreate them.
+--root::
+ Rebase all commits reachable from <branch>, instead of
+ limiting them with an <upstream>. This allows you to rebase
+ the root commit(s) on a branch. Must be used with --onto, and
+ will skip changes already contained in <newbase> (instead of
+ <upstream>). When used together with --preserve-merges, 'all'
+ root commits will be rewritten to have <newbase> as parent
+ instead.
+
include::merge-strategies.txt[]
NOTES
diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
index 2049f3d97b..abb25d1c00 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-reset - Reset current HEAD to the specified state
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git reset' [--mixed | --soft | --hard] [-q] [<commit>]
+'git reset' [--mixed | --soft | --hard | --merge] [-q] [<commit>]
'git reset' [-q] [<commit>] [--] <paths>...
DESCRIPTION
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ OPTIONS
switched to. Any changes to tracked files in the working tree
since <commit> are lost.
+--merge::
+ Resets the index to match the tree recorded by the named commit,
+ and updates the files that are different between the named commit
+ and the current commit in the working tree.
+
-q::
Be quiet, only report errors.
@@ -152,6 +157,28 @@ tip of the current branch in ORIG_HEAD, so resetting hard to it
brings your index file and the working tree back to that state,
and resets the tip of the branch to that commit.
+Undo a merge or pull inside a dirty work tree::
++
+------------
+$ git pull <1>
+Auto-merging nitfol
+Merge made by recursive.
+ nitfol | 20 +++++----
+ ...
+$ git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD <2>
+------------
++
+<1> Even if you may have local modifications in your
+working tree, you can safely say "git pull" when you know
+that the change in the other branch does not overlap with
+them.
+<2> After inspecting the result of the merge, you may find
+that the change in the other branch is unsatisfactory. Running
+"git reset --hard ORIG_HEAD" will let you go back to where you
+were, but it will discard your local changes, which you do not
+want. "git reset --merge" keeps your local changes.
+
+
Interrupted workflow::
+
Suppose you are interrupted by an urgent fix request while you
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 2921da320d..3ccef2f2b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -212,6 +212,9 @@ when you run 'git-merge'.
reflog of the current branch. For example, if you are on the
branch 'blabla', then '@\{1\}' means the same as 'blabla@\{1\}'.
+* The special construct '@\{-<n>\}' means the <n>th branch checked out
+ before the current one.
+
* A suffix '{caret}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of
that commit object. '{caret}<n>' means the <n>th parent (i.e.
'rev{caret}'
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 66bf3b2fcd..fc0a4ab441 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -177,14 +177,25 @@ Automating
--suppress-cc::
Specify an additional category of recipients to suppress the
- auto-cc of. 'self' will avoid including the sender, 'author' will
- avoid including the patch author, 'cc' will avoid including anyone
- mentioned in Cc lines in the patch, 'sob' will avoid including
- anyone mentioned in Signed-off-by lines, and 'cccmd' will avoid
- running the --cc-cmd. 'all' will suppress all auto cc values.
- Default is the value of 'sendemail.suppresscc' configuration value;
- if that is unspecified, default to 'self' if --suppress-from is
- specified, as well as 'sob' if --no-signed-off-cc is specified.
+ auto-cc of:
++
+--
+- 'author' will avoid including the patch author
+- 'self' will avoid including the sender
+- 'cc' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Cc lines in the patch header
+ except for self (use 'self' for that).
+- 'ccbody' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Cc lines in the
+ patch body (commit message) except for self (use 'self' for that).
+- 'sob' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Signed-off-by lines except
+ for self (use 'self' for that).
+- 'cccmd' will avoid running the --cc-cmd.
+- 'body' is equivalent to 'sob' + 'ccbody'
+- 'all' will suppress all auto cc values.
+--
++
+Default is the value of 'sendemail.suppresscc' configuration value; if
+that is unspecified, default to 'self' if --suppress-from is
+specified, as well as 'body' if --no-signed-off-cc is specified.
--[no-]suppress-from::
If this is set, do not add the From: address to the cc: list.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
index 8f7c0e226d..42463a955d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
@@ -45,45 +45,16 @@ OPTIONS
and subsequent lines are indented by `indent2` spaces. `width`,
`indent1`, and `indent2` default to 76, 6 and 9 respectively.
-FILES
------
-
-If a file `.mailmap` exists at the toplevel of the repository,
-it is used to map an author email address to a canonical real name. This
-can be used to coalesce together commits by the same person where their
-name was spelled differently (whether with the same email address or
-not).
-
-Each line in the file consists, in this order, of the canonical real name
-of an author, whitespace, and an email address (enclosed by '<' and '>')
-to map to the name. Use hash '#' for comments, either on their own line,
-or after the email address.
-
-A canonical name may appear in more than one line, associated with
-different email addresses, but it doesn't make sense for a given address
-to appear more than once (if that happens, a later line overrides the
-earlier ones).
-
-So, for example, if your history contains commits by two authors, Jane
-and Joe, whose names appear in the repository under several forms:
-
-------------
-Joe Developer <joe@example.com>
-Joe R. Developer <joe@example.com>
-Jane Doe <jane@example.com>
-Jane Doe <jane@laptop.(none)>
-Jane D. <jane@desktop.(none)>
-------------
-
-Then, supposing Joe wants his middle name initial used, and Jane prefers
-her family name fully spelled out, a proper `.mailmap` file would look like:
-
-------------
-# Note how we don't need an entry for <jane@laptop.(none)>, because the
-# real name of that author is correct already, and coalesced directly.
-Jane Doe <jane@desktop.(none)>
-Joe R. Developer <joe@random.com>
-------------
+
+MAPPING AUTHORS
+---------------
+
+The `.mailmap` feature is used to coalesce together commits by the same
+person in the shortlog, where their name and/or email address was
+spelled differently.
+
+include::mailmap.txt[]
+
Author
------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
index 8277577a6f..7e9ff3762b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
@@ -99,12 +99,12 @@ OPTIONS
will show the revisions given by "git rev-list {caret}master
topic1 topic2"
+-g::
--reflog[=<n>[,<base>]] [<ref>]::
Shows <n> most recent ref-log entries for the given
ref. If <base> is given, <n> entries going back from
that entry. <base> can be specified as count or date.
- `-g` can be used as a short-hand for this option. When
- no explicit <ref> parameter is given, it defaults to the
+ When no explicit <ref> parameter is given, it defaults to the
current branch (or `HEAD` if it is detached).
Note that --more, --list, --independent and --merge-base options
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 2f207fbbda..3b8df44673 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
'git submodule' [--quiet] add [-b branch] [--] <repository> <path>
'git submodule' [--quiet] status [--cached] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
-'git submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [--] [<path>...]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [-N|--no-fetch] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [--summary-limit <n>] [commit] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] foreach <command>
'git submodule' [--quiet] sync [--] [<path>...]
@@ -172,6 +172,11 @@ OPTIONS
(the default). This limit only applies to modified submodules. The
size is always limited to 1 for added/deleted/typechanged submodules.
+-N::
+--no-fetch::
+ This option is only valid for the update command.
+ Don't fetch new objects from the remote site.
+
<path>...::
Paths to submodule(s). When specified this will restrict the command
to only operate on the submodules found at the specified paths.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 8d0c421b80..cda3389331 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -92,6 +92,30 @@ COMMANDS
.git/config file may be specified as an optional command-line
argument.
+--localtime;;
+ Store Git commit times in the local timezone instead of UTC. This
+ makes 'git-log' (even without --date=local) show the same times
+ that `svn log` would in the local timezone.
+
+This doesn't interfere with interoperating with the Subversion
+repository you cloned from, but if you wish for your local Git
+repository to be able to interoperate with someone else's local Git
+repository, either don't use this option or you should both use it in
+the same local timezone.
+
+--ignore-paths=<regex>;;
+ This allows one to specify Perl regular expression that will
+ cause skipping of all matching paths from checkout from SVN.
+ Examples:
+
+ --ignore-paths="^doc" - skip "doc*" directory for every fetch.
+
+ --ignore-paths="^[^/]+/(?:branches|tags)" - skip "branches"
+ and "tags" of first level directories.
+
+ Regular expression is not persistent, you should specify
+ it every time when fetching.
+
'clone'::
Runs 'init' and 'fetch'. It will automatically create a
directory based on the basename of the URL passed to it;
@@ -145,6 +169,10 @@ and have no uncommitted changes.
reused if a user is later given access to an alternate transport
method (e.g. `svn+ssh://` or `https://`) for commit.
+config key: svn-remote.<name>.commiturl
+
+config key: svn.commiturl (overwrites all svn-remote.<name>.commiturl options)
+
Using this option for any other purpose (don't ask)
is very strongly discouraged.
--
@@ -475,6 +503,14 @@ svn-remote.<name>.rewriteRoot::
the repository with a public http:// or svn:// URL in the
metadata so users of it will see the public URL.
+svn.brokenSymlinkWorkaround::
+This disables potentially expensive checks to workaround broken symlinks
+checked into SVN by broken clients. Set this option to "false" if you
+track a SVN repository with many empty blobs that are not symlinks.
+This option may be changed while "git-svn" is running and take effect on
+the next revision fetched. If unset, git-svn assumes this option to be
+"true".
+
--
Since the noMetadata, rewriteRoot, useSvnsyncProps and useSvmProps
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index 3546acffb5..fa733214ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
'git tag' [-a | -s | -u <key-id>] [-f] [-m <msg> | -F <file>]
<name> [<commit> | <object>]
'git tag' -d <name>...
-'git tag' [-n[<num>]] -l [<pattern>]
+'git tag' [-n[<num>]] -l [--contains <commit>] [<pattern>]
'git tag' -v <name>...
DESCRIPTION
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ OPTIONS
List tags with names that match the given pattern (or all if no pattern is given).
Typing "git tag" without arguments, also lists all tags.
+--contains <commit>::
+ Only list tags which contain the specified commit.
+
-m <msg>::
Use the given tag message (instead of prompting).
If multiple `-m` options are given, their values are
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 17dc8b2019..9a26bde73e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,9 +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:v1.6.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.1]
+* link:v1.6.2/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.2]
* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes-1.6.2.txt[1.6.2].
+
+* link:v1.6.1.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.1.3]
+
+* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes-1.6.1.3.txt[1.6.1.3],
+ link:RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt[1.6.1.2],
+ link:RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt[1.6.1.1],
link:RelNotes-1.6.1.txt[1.6.1].
* link:v1.6.0.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.0.6]
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 8af22eccac..55668e345f 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ A `gitattributes` file is a simple text file that gives
Each line in `gitattributes` file is of form:
- glob attr1 attr2 ...
+ pattern attr1 attr2 ...
-That is, a glob pattern followed by an attributes list,
-separated by whitespaces. When the glob pattern matches the
+That is, a pattern followed by an attributes list,
+separated by whitespaces. When the pattern matches the
path in question, the attributes listed on the line are given to
the path.
@@ -48,13 +48,14 @@ Set to a value::
Unspecified::
- No glob pattern matches the path, and nothing says if
+ No pattern matches the path, and nothing says if
the path has or does not have the attribute, the
attribute for the path is said to be Unspecified.
-When more than one glob pattern matches the path, a later line
+When more than one pattern matches the path, a later line
overrides an earlier line. This overriding is done per
-attribute.
+attribute. The rules how the pattern matches paths are the
+same as in `.gitignore` files; see linkgit:gitignore[5].
When deciding what attributes are assigned to a path, git
consults `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file (which has the highest
@@ -317,6 +318,8 @@ patterns are available:
- `bibtex` suitable for files with BibTeX coded references.
+- `cpp` suitable for source code in the C and C++ languages.
+
- `html` suitable for HTML/XHTML documents.
- `java` suitable for source code in the Java language.
@@ -334,6 +337,25 @@ patterns are available:
- `tex` suitable for source code for LaTeX documents.
+Customizing word diff
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+You can customize the rules that `git diff --color-words` uses to
+split words in a line, by specifying an appropriate regular expression
+in the "diff.*.wordRegex" configuration variable. For example, in TeX
+a backslash followed by a sequence of letters forms a command, but
+several such commands can be run together without intervening
+whitespace. To separate them, use a regular expression such as
+
+------------------------
+[diff "tex"]
+ wordRegex = "\\\\[a-zA-Z]+|[{}]|\\\\.|[^\\{}[:space:]]+"
+------------------------
+
+A built-in pattern is provided for all languages listed in the
+previous section.
+
+
Performing text diffs of binary files
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index e4dd5518c8..7ba5e589d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -1243,10 +1243,10 @@ $ git ls-files --stage
------------
In our example of only two files, we did not have unchanged
-files so only 'example' resulted in collapsing, but in real-life
-large projects, only small number of files change in one commit,
-and this 'collapsing' tends to trivially merge most of the paths
-fairly quickly, leaving only a handful the real changes in non-zero
+files so only 'example' resulted in collapsing. But in real-life
+large projects, when only a small number of files change in one commit,
+this 'collapsing' tends to trivially merge most of the paths
+fairly quickly, leaving only a handful of real changes in non-zero
stages.
To look at only non-zero stages, use `\--unmerged` flag:
diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt
index 28a8abcf52..1fd512bca2 100644
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
Hooks are little scripts you can place in `$GIT_DIR/hooks`
directory to trigger action at certain points. When
-'git-init' is run, a handful example hooks are copied in the
+'git-init' is run, a handful of example hooks are copied into the
`hooks` directory of the new repository, but by default they are
all disabled. To enable a hook, rename it by removing its `.sample`
suffix.
diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.txt b/Documentation/gitk.txt
index 4673a75a98..cf465cb47e 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitk.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitk.txt
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ frequently used options.
After an attempt to merge stops with conflicts, show the commits on
the history between two branches (i.e. the HEAD and the MERGE_HEAD)
- that modify the conflicted files.
+ that modify the conflicted files and do not exist on all the heads
+ being merged.
--argscmd=<command>::
Command to be run each time gitk has to determine the list of
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ frequently used options.
<path>...::
Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note, to
- avoid ambiguity wrt. revision names use "--" to separate the paths
+ avoid ambiguity with respect to revision names use "--" to separate the paths
from any preceding options.
Examples
diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt
index a057b50b2b..dc8fc3a18a 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt
@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@ Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
$ echo 'hello world' > file.txt
$ git add .
$ git commit -a -m "initial commit"
-[master (root-commit)] created 54196cc: "initial commit"
+[master (root-commit) 54196cc] initial commit
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 file.txt
$ echo 'hello world!' >file.txt
$ git commit -a -m "add emphasis"
-[master] created c4d59f3: "add emphasis"
+[master c4d59f3] add emphasis
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
index 458fafdb2c..c5d5596d89 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
@@ -308,9 +308,7 @@ alice$ git pull /home/bob/myrepo master
This merges the changes from Bob's "master" branch into Alice's
current branch. If Alice has made her own changes in the meantime,
-then she may need to manually fix any conflicts. (Note that the
-"master" argument in the above command is actually unnecessary, as it
-is the default.)
+then she may need to manually fix any conflicts.
The "pull" command thus performs two operations: it fetches changes
from a remote branch, then merges them into the current branch.
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
index d214d4bf9d..74a1c0c4ba 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ the kind of task StGIT is designed to do.
I just have done a simpler one, this time using only the core
GIT tools.
-I had a handful commits that were ahead of master in pu, and I
+I had a handful of commits that were ahead of master in pu, and I
wanted to add some documentation bypassing my usual habit of
placing new things in pu first. At the beginning, the commit
ancestry graph looked like this:
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
index 39b1da440a..3b4a390005 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Such a "revert" of a merge can be made with:
$ git revert -m 1 M
-After the develpers of the side branch fixes their mistakes, the history
+After the developers of the side branch fix their mistakes, the history
may look like this:
---o---o---o---M---x---x---W---x
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ If you reverted the revert in such a case as in the previous example:
/ \ /
---A---B A'--B'--C'
-where Y is the revert of W, A' and B'are rerolled A and B, and there may
+where Y is the revert of W, A' and B' are rerolled A and B, and there may
also be a further fix-up C' on the side branch. "diff Y^..Y" is similar
to "diff -R W^..W" (which in turn means it is similar to "diff M^..M"),
and "diff A'^..C'" by definition would be similar but different from that,
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
index 4032748608..622ee5c8dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ Then, add something like this to your httpd.conf
Require valid-user
</Location>
- Debian automatically reads all files under /etc/apach2/conf.d.
+ Debian automatically reads all files under /etc/apache2/conf.d.
The password file can be somewhere else, but it has to be readable by
Apache and preferably not readable by the world.
diff --git a/Documentation/mailmap.txt b/Documentation/mailmap.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e25b154838
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/mailmap.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+If the file `.mailmap` exists at the toplevel of the repository, or at
+the location pointed to by the mailmap.file configuration option, it
+is used to map author and committer names and email addresses to
+canonical real names and email addresses.
+
+In the simple form, each line in the file consists of the canonical
+real name of an author, whitespace, and an email address used in the
+commit (enclosed by '<' and '>') to map to the name. Thus, looks like
+this
+--
+ Proper Name <commit@email.xx>
+--
+
+The more complex forms are
+--
+ <proper@email.xx> <commit@email.xx>
+--
+which allows mailmap to replace only the email part of a commit, and
+--
+ Proper Name <proper@email.xx> <commit@email.xx>
+--
+which allows mailmap to replace both the name and the email of a
+commit matching the specified commit email address, and
+--
+ Proper Name <proper@email.xx> Commit Name <commit@email.xx>
+--
+which allows mailmap to replace both the name and the email of a
+commit matching both the specified commit name and email address.
+
+Example 1: Your history contains commits by two authors, Jane
+and Joe, whose names appear in the repository under several forms:
+
+------------
+Joe Developer <joe@example.com>
+Joe R. Developer <joe@example.com>
+Jane Doe <jane@example.com>
+Jane Doe <jane@laptop.(none)>
+Jane D. <jane@desktop.(none)>
+------------
+
+Now suppose that Joe wants his middle name initial used, and Jane
+prefers her family name fully spelled out. A proper `.mailmap` file
+would look like:
+
+------------
+Jane Doe <jane@desktop.(none)>
+Joe R. Developer <joe@example.com>
+------------
+
+Note how we don't need an entry for <jane@laptop.(none)>, because the
+real name of that author is correct already.
+
+Example 2: Your repository contains commits from the following
+authors:
+
+------------
+nick1 <bugs@company.xx>
+nick2 <bugs@company.xx>
+nick2 <nick2@company.xx>
+santa <me@company.xx>
+claus <me@company.xx>
+CTO <cto@coompany.xx>
+------------
+
+Then, you might want a `.mailmap` file looking like:
+------------
+<cto@company.xx> <cto@coompany.xx>
+Some Dude <some@dude.xx> nick1 <bugs@company.xx>
+Other Author <other@author.xx> nick2 <bugs@company.xx>
+Other Author <other@author.xx> <nick2@company.xx>
+Santa Claus <santa.claus@northpole.xx> <me@company.xx>
+------------
+
+Use hash '#' for comments that are either on their own line, or after
+the email address. \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 0a8a948e6f..159390c35a 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -101,16 +101,18 @@ The placeholders are:
- '%P': parent hashes
- '%p': abbreviated parent hashes
- '%an': author name
-- '%aN': author name (respecting .mailmap)
+- '%aN': author name (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
- '%ae': author email
+- '%aE': author email (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
- '%ad': author date (format respects --date= option)
- '%aD': author date, RFC2822 style
- '%ar': author date, relative
- '%at': author date, UNIX timestamp
- '%ai': author date, ISO 8601 format
- '%cn': committer name
-- '%cN': committer name (respecting .mailmap)
+- '%cN': committer name (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
- '%ce': committer email
+- '%cE': committer email (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
- '%cd': committer date
- '%cD': committer date, RFC2822 style
- '%cr': committer date, relative
@@ -124,6 +126,7 @@ The placeholders are:
- '%Cgreen': switch color to green
- '%Cblue': switch color to blue
- '%Creset': reset color
+- '%C(...)': color specification, as described in color.branch.* config option
- '%m': left, right or boundary mark
- '%n': newline
- '%x00': print a byte from a hex code
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index 6d66c74cc1..5f21efe407 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ configuration (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
--abbrev-commit::
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object
- name, show only handful hexdigits prefix. Non default number of
+ name, show only a partial prefix. Non default number of
digits can be specified with "--abbrev=<n>" (which also modifies
diff output, if it is displayed).
+
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index b9f6e4d1b7..7dd237c2f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ include::pretty-options.txt[]
Synonym for `--date=relative`.
---date={relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short}::
+--date={relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short,raw}::
Only takes effect for dates shown in human-readable format, such
as when using "--pretty". `log.date` config variable sets a default
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ format, often found in E-mail messages.
+
`--date=short` shows only date but not time, in `YYYY-MM-DD` format.
+
+`--date=raw` shows the date in the internal raw git format `%s %z` format.
++
`--date=default` shows timestamps in the original timezone
(either committer's or author's).
@@ -566,11 +568,11 @@ This outputs all the commit objects between the included and excluded
commits, ordered by their distance to the included and excluded
commits. The farthest from them is displayed first. (This is the only
one displayed by `--bisect`.)
-
++
This is useful because it makes it easy to choose a good commit to
test when you want to avoid to test some of them for some reason (they
may not compile for example).
-
++
This option can be used along with `--bisect-vars`, in this case,
after all the sorted commit objects, there will be the same text as if
`--bisect-vars` had been used alone.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
index 82e9e831b6..2efe7a40be 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
@@ -52,6 +52,21 @@ Functions
Wait for the completion of an asynchronous function that was
started with start_async().
+`run_hook`::
+
+ Run a hook.
+ The first argument is a pathname to an index file, or NULL
+ if the hook uses the default index file or no index is needed.
+ The second argument is the name of the hook.
+ The further arguments correspond to the hook arguments.
+ The last argument has to be NULL to terminate the arguments list.
+ If the hook does not exist or is not executable, the return
+ value will be zero.
+ If it is executable, the hook will be executed and the exit
+ status of the hook is returned.
+ On execution, .stdout_to_stderr and .no_stdin will be set.
+ (See below.)
+
Data structures
---------------
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
index 985800e43a..7438149249 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
@@ -133,8 +133,10 @@ Functions
* Adding data to the buffer
-NOTE: All of these functions in this section will grow the buffer as
- necessary.
+NOTE: All of the functions in this section will grow the buffer as necessary.
+If they fail for some reason other than memory shortage and the buffer hadn't
+been allocated before (i.e. the `struct strbuf` was set to `STRBUF_INIT`),
+then they will free() it.
`strbuf_addch`::
@@ -220,7 +222,7 @@ which can be used by the programmer of the callback as she sees fit.
Read a given size of data from a FILE* pointer to the buffer.
+
-NOTE: The buffer is rewinded if the read fails. If -1 is returned,
+NOTE: The buffer is rewound if the read fails. If -1 is returned,
`errno` must be consulted, like you would do for `read(3)`.
`strbuf_read()`, `strbuf_read_file()` and `strbuf_getline()` has the
same behaviour as well.
@@ -235,6 +237,11 @@ same behaviour as well.
Read the contents of a file, specified by its path. The third argument
can be used to give a hint about the file size, to avoid reallocs.
+`strbuf_readlink`::
+
+ Read the target of a symbolic link, specified by its path. The third
+ argument can be used to give a hint about the size, to avoid reallocs.
+
`strbuf_getline`::
Read a line from a FILE* pointer. The second argument specifies the line