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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt53
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.3.txt53
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt146
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt43
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-apply.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-config.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-credential.txt154
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-daemon.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-merge.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-mergetool.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-p4.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rebase.txt47
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitattributes.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitignore.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/glossary-content.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/revisions.txt43
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt39
-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt12
23 files changed, 565 insertions, 104 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a0d24d1270
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+Git v1.7.11.2 Release Notes
+===========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.11.1
+---------------------
+
+ * On Cygwin, the platform pread(2) is not thread safe, just like our
+ own compat/ emulation, and cannot be used in the index-pack
+ program. Makefile variable NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD can be defined to
+ avoid use of this function in a threaded program.
+
+ * "git add" allows adding a regular file to the path where a
+ submodule used to exist, but "git update-index" does not allow an
+ equivalent operation to Porcelain writers.
+
+ * "git archive" incorrectly computed the header checksum; the symptom
+ was observed only when using pathnames with hi-bit set.
+
+ * "git blame" did not try to make sure that the abbreviated commit
+ object names in its output are unique.
+
+ * Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete
+ history said "it requires these 0 commits".
+
+ * "git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit
+ the cloning to the specified branch.
+
+ * "git diff --no-index" did not correctly handle relative paths and
+ did not correctly give exit codes when run under "--quiet" option.
+
+ * "git diff --no-index" did not work with pagers correctly.
+
+ * "git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that
+ claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it.
+
+ * When "git log" gets "--simplify-merges/by-decoration" together with
+ "--first-parent", the combination of these options makes the
+ simplification logic to use in-core commit objects that haven't
+ been examined for relevance, either producing incorrect result or
+ taking too long to produce any output. Teach the simplification
+ logic to ignore commits that the first-parent traversal logic
+ ignored when both are in effect to work around the issue.
+
+ * "git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as
+ excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
+ while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also
+ updated.
+
+ * "git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged
+ with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output
+ but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag.
+
+Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..64494f89d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+Git v1.7.11.3 Release Notes
+===========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.11.3
+---------------------
+
+ * The error message from "git push $there :bogo" (and its equivalent
+ "git push $there --delete bogo") mentioned that we tried and failed
+ to guess what ref is being deleted based on the LHS of the refspec,
+ which we don't.
+
+ * A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than
+ necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group
+ writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002").
+
+ * "commit --amend" used to refuse amending a commit with an empty log
+ message, with or without "--allow-empty-message".
+
+ * "git commit --amend --only --" was meant to allow "Clever" people to
+ rewrite the commit message without making any change even when they
+ have already changes for the next commit added to their index, but
+ it never worked as advertised since it was introduced in 1.3.0 era.
+
+ * Even though the index can record pathnames longer than 1<<12 bytes,
+ in some places we were not comparing them in full, potentially
+ replacing index entries instead of adding.
+
+ * "git show"'s auto-walking behaviour was an unreliable and
+ unpredictable hack; it now behaves just like "git log" does when it
+ walks.
+
+ * "git diff", "git status" and anything that internally uses the
+ comparison machinery was utterly broken when the difference
+ involved a file with "-" as its name. This was due to the way "git
+ diff --no-index" was incorrectly bolted on to the system, making
+ any comparison that involves a file "-" at the root level
+ incorrectly read from the standard input.
+
+ * We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options
+ filters out an empty commit in the original history.
+
+ * "git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without
+ properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them.
+
+ * "git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch,
+ should be forbidden, but it wasn't.
+
+ * Some implementations of Perl terminates "lines" with CRLF even when
+ the script is operating on just a sequence of bytes. Make sure to
+ use "$PERL_PATH", the version of Perl the user told Git to use, in
+ our tests to avoid unnecessary breakages in tests.
+
+Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
index 79cbb564c3..904561de18 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,34 @@ Updates since v1.7.11
UI, Workflows & Features
+ * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and
+ all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8
+ (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work
+ around issues on Mac OS.
+
+ I think there still are other places that need conversion
+ (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
+ should be a good first step in the right direction.
+
+ * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in
+ $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
+
+ * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to
+ $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively
+ when these files exist.
+
+ * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to
+ take advantage of object types that are expected in the context,
+ e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a
+ commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong
+ the lifetime of abbreviated object names.
+
+ * "git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way
+ merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have.
+
+ * Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via
+ the "git credential" plumbing command.
+
* "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms
where "man" viewer is not widely available.
@@ -16,13 +44,54 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file://
URL.
+ * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up
+ unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the
+ other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected
+ response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be
+ read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
+ hints to the user.
+
* git native protocol agents learned to show software version over
the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
distribution of clients.
+ * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for
+ "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the
+ default location where the build procedure installs them locally;
+ the variable can even point at a http:// URL.
+
+ * "git rebase [-i] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the
+ history leading to "$tip" down to the root commit.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after
+ each commit in the resulting history.
+
+ * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths
+ in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output.
+
+ * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure
+ where a module is contained within a module whose origin is
+ specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin.
+
+ * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create
+ a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the
+ completion part while making prompting part always available.
+
+ * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are
+ similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and
+ highlights them accordingly.
+
Foreign Interface
+ * "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file
+ attachments.
+
+ * "git p4" now uses "Jobs:" and "p4 move" when appropriate.
+
+ * vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit
+ limitations, etc.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
@@ -31,6 +100,23 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
* We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a
more modern style.
+ * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log
+ message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This
+ will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in
+ their log messages.
+
+ * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read
+ from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object
+ in-core while they are doing their thing.
+
+ * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling
+ fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when
+ possible.
+
+ * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary
+ cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to
+ discard it.
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -42,24 +128,42 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
- * The documentation for "git cherry-pick A B..C" was misleading.
- (merge b98878e cn/cherry-pick-range-docs later to maint).
-
- * "git archive" incorrectly computed the header checksum; the symptom
- was observed only when using pathnames with hi-bit set.
- (merge a5a46eb jc/ustar-checksum-is-unsigned later to maint).
-
- * Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete
- history said "it requires these 0 commits".
- (merge 8c3710f jc/bundle-complete-notice later to maint).
-
- * "git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as
- excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
- while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also
- updated.
- (merge 0d316f0 jc/ls-files-i-dir later to maint).
-
- * "git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged
- with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output
- but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag.
- (merge 682853e jc/request-pull-match-tagname later to maint).
+ * "git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list
+ of supported backends, like "git difftool" does.
+ (merge 109859e jc/mergetool-tool-help later to maint).
+
+ * "$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG" file that is used to hold the commit log
+ message user edits was not documented.
+ (merge 41f597d jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died
+ when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by
+ getpwent(3).
+ (merge f20f387 jk/maint-commit-check-committer-early later to maint).
+
+ * The advise() function did not use varargs correctly to format
+ its message.
+ (merge 447b99c jk/maint-advise-vaddf later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p <parent> <tree>" order
+ of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake.
+ (merge 4b7518a kk/maint-commit-tree later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --no-ext-diff" did not output anything for a typechange
+ filepair when GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is in effect.
+ (merge c12f82a jv/maint-no-ext-diff later to maint).
+
+ * When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch
+ to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it.
+ (merge 14bf2d5 pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch later to maint).
+
+ * When "git submodule add" clones a submodule repository, it can get
+ confused where to store the resulting submodule repository in the
+ superproject's .git/ directory when there is a symbolic link in the
+ path to the current directory.
+ (merge 6eafa6d jl/maint-1.7.10-recurse-submodules-with-symlink later to maint).
+
+ * In 1.7.9 era, we taught "git rebase" about the raw timestamp format
+ but we did not teach the same trick to "filter-branch", which rolled
+ a similar logic on its own.
+ (merge 44b85e89 jc/maint-filter-branch-epoch-date later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 915cb5a547..a95e5a4ac9 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -159,9 +159,10 @@ advice.*::
specified a refspec that isn't your current branch) and
it resulted in a non-fast-forward error.
statusHints::
- Directions on how to stage/unstage/add shown in the
- output of linkgit:git-status[1] and the template shown
- when writing commit messages.
+ Show directions on how to proceed from the current
+ state in the output of linkgit:git-status[1] and in
+ the template shown when writing commit messages in
+ linkgit:git-commit[1].
commitBeforeMerge::
Advice shown when linkgit:git-merge[1] refuses to
merge to avoid overwriting local changes.
@@ -176,6 +177,9 @@ advice.*::
Advice shown when you used linkgit:git-checkout[1] to
move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to create
a local branch after the fact.
+ amWorkDir::
+ Advice that shows the location of the patch file when
+ linkgit:git-am[1] fails to apply it.
--
core.fileMode::
@@ -210,6 +214,15 @@ The default is false, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
will probe and set core.ignorecase true if appropriate when the repository
is created.
+core.precomposeunicode::
+ This option is only used by Mac OS implementation of git.
+ When core.precomposeunicode=true, git reverts the unicode decomposition
+ of filenames done by Mac OS. This is useful when sharing a repository
+ between Mac OS and Linux or Windows.
+ (Git for Windows 1.7.10 or higher is needed, or git under cygwin 1.7).
+ When false, file names are handled fully transparent by git,
+ which is backward compatible with older versions of git.
+
core.trustctime::
If false, the ctime differences between the index and the
working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time
@@ -483,7 +496,9 @@ core.excludesfile::
'.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns
of files which are not meant to be tracked. "`~/`" is expanded
to the value of `$HOME` and "`~user/`" to the specified user's
- home directory. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
+ home directory. 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. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
core.askpass::
Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively
@@ -498,7 +513,9 @@ core.attributesfile::
In addition to '.gitattributes' (per-directory) and
'.git/info/attributes', git looks into this file for attributes
(see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same
- way as for `core.excludesfile`.
+ way as for `core.excludesfile`. Its default value is
+ $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not
+ set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead.
core.editor::
Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
@@ -880,7 +897,7 @@ column.ui::
make equal size columns
--
+
- This option defaults to 'never'.
+This option defaults to 'never'.
column.branch::
Specify whether to output branch listing in `git branch` in columns.
@@ -1720,6 +1737,7 @@ push.default::
no refspec is implied by any of the options given on the command
line. Possible values are:
+
+--
* `nothing` - do not push anything.
* `matching` - push all branches having the same name in both ends.
This is for those who prepare all the branches into a publishable
@@ -1739,12 +1757,13 @@ push.default::
option and is well-suited for beginners. It will become the default
in Git 2.0.
* `current` - push the current branch to a branch of the same name.
- +
- The `simple`, `current` and `upstream` modes are for those who want to
- push out a single branch after finishing work, even when the other
- branches are not yet ready to be pushed out. If you are working with
- other people to push into the same shared repository, you would want
- to use one of these.
+--
++
+The `simple`, `current` and `upstream` modes are for those who want to
+push out a single branch after finishing work, even when the other
+branches are not yet ready to be pushed out. If you are working with
+other people to push into the same shared repository, you would want
+to use one of these.
rebase.stat::
Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last
diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index afd2c9ae59..634b84e4b9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-apply - Apply a patch to files and/or to the index
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index]
+'git apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--3way]
[--apply] [--no-add] [--build-fake-ancestor=<file>] [-R | --reverse]
[--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z]
[-p<n>] [-C<n>] [--inaccurate-eof] [--recount] [--cached]
@@ -72,6 +72,15 @@ OPTIONS
cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index
without using the working tree. This implies `--index`.
+-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 available locally, possibly leaving the
+ conflict markers in the files in the working tree for the user to
+ resolve. This option implies the `--index` option, and is incompatible
+ with the `--reject` and the `--cached` options.
+
--build-fake-ancestor=<file>::
Newer 'git diff' output has embedded 'index information'
for each blob to help identify the original version that
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index ff73286509..6d5a04c83b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent>)...] < changelog
-'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent>)...] [(-m <message>)...] [(-F <file>)...]
+'git commit-tree' [(-p <parent>)...] [(-m <message>)...] [(-F <file>)...] <tree>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index f400835921..4622297ec9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -407,6 +407,15 @@ This command can run `commit-msg`, `prepare-commit-msg`, `pre-commit`,
and `post-commit` hooks. See linkgit:githooks[5] for more
information.
+FILES
+-----
+
+`$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG`::
+ This file contains the commit message of a commit in progress.
+ If `git commit` exits due to an error before creating a commit,
+ any commit message that has been provided by the user (e.g., in
+ an editor session) will be available in this file, but will be
+ overwritten by the next invocation of `git commit`.
SEE ALSO
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index d9463cb387..2d6ef32a08 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -97,10 +97,11 @@ OPTIONS
--global::
For writing options: write to global ~/.gitconfig file rather than
- the repository .git/config.
+ the repository .git/config, write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file
+ if this file exists and the ~/.gitconfig file doesn't.
+
-For reading options: read only from global ~/.gitconfig rather than
-from all available files.
+For reading options: read only from global ~/.gitconfig and from
+$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config rather than from all available files.
+
See also <<FILES>>.
@@ -194,7 +195,7 @@ See also <<FILES>>.
FILES
-----
-If not set explicitly with '--file', there are three files where
+If not set explicitly with '--file', there are four files where
'git config' will search for configuration options:
$GIT_DIR/config::
@@ -204,6 +205,14 @@ $GIT_DIR/config::
User-specific configuration file. Also called "global"
configuration file.
+$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config::
+ Second user-specific configuration file. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set
+ or empty, $HOME/.config/git/config will be used. Any single-valued
+ variable set in this file will be overwritten by whatever is in
+ ~/.gitconfig. It is a good idea not to create this file if
+ you sometimes use older versions of Git, as support for this
+ file was added fairly recently.
+
$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig::
System-wide configuration file.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential.txt b/Documentation/git-credential.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..53adee3203
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/git-credential.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+git-credential(1)
+=================
+
+NAME
+----
+git-credential - retrieve and store user credentials
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+------------------
+git credential <fill|approve|reject>
+------------------
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+
+Git has an internal interface for storing and retrieving credentials
+from system-specific helpers, as well as prompting the user for
+usernames and passwords. The git-credential command exposes this
+interface to scripts which may want to retrieve, store, or prompt for
+credentials in the same manner as git. The design of this scriptable
+interface models the internal C API; see
+link:technical/api-credentials.txt[the git credential API] for more
+background on the concepts.
+
+git-credential takes an "action" option on the command-line (one of
+`fill`, `approve`, or `reject`) and reads a credential description
+on stdin (see <<IOFMT,INPUT/OUTPUT FORMAT>>).
+
+If the action is `fill`, git-credential will attempt to add "username"
+and "password" attributes to the description by reading config files,
+by contacting any configured credential helpers, or by prompting the
+user. The username and password attributes of the credential
+description are then printed to stdout together with the attributes
+already provided.
+
+If the action is `approve`, git-credential will send the description
+to any configured credential helpers, which may store the credential
+for later use.
+
+If the action is `reject`, git-credential will send the description to
+any configured credential helpers, which may erase any stored
+credential matching the description.
+
+If the action is `approve` or `reject`, no output should be emitted.
+
+TYPICAL USE OF GIT CREDENTIAL
+-----------------------------
+
+An application using git-credential will typically use `git
+credential` following these steps:
+
+ 1. Generate a credential description based on the context.
++
+For example, if we want a password for
+`https://example.com/foo.git`, we might generate the following
+credential description (don't forget the blank line at the end; it
+tells `git credential` that the application finished feeding all the
+infomation it has):
+
+ protocol=https
+ host=example.com
+ path=foo.git
+
+ 2. Ask git-credential to give us a username and password for this
+ description. This is done by running `git credential fill`,
+ feeding the description from step (1) to its standard input. The complete
+ credential description (including the credential per se, i.e. the
+ login and password) will be produced on standard output, like:
+
+ protocol=https
+ host=example.com
+ username=bob
+ password=secr3t
++
+In most cases, this means the attributes given in the input will be
+repeated in the output, but git may also modify the credential
+description, for example by removing the `path` attribute when the
+protocol is HTTP(s) and `credential.useHttpPath` is false.
++
+If the `git credential` knew about the password, this step may
+not have involved the user actually typing this password (the
+user may have typed a password to unlock the keychain instead,
+or no user interaction was done if the keychain was already
+unlocked) before it returned `password=secr3t`.
+
+ 3. Use the credential (e.g., access the URL with the username and
+ password from step (2)), and see if it's accepted.
+
+ 4. Report on the success or failure of the password. If the
+ credential allowed the operation to complete successfully, then
+ it can be marked with an "approve" action to tell `git
+ credential` to reuse it in its next invocation. If the credential
+ was rejected during the operation, use the "reject" action so
+ that `git credential` will ask for a new password in its next
+ invocation. In either case, `git credential` should be fed with
+ the credential description obtained from step (2) (which also
+ contain the ones provided in step (1)).
+
+[[IOFMT]]
+INPUT/OUTPUT FORMAT
+-------------------
+
+`git credential` reads and/or writes (depending on the action used)
+credential information in its standard input/output. This information
+can correspond either to keys for which `git credential` will obtain
+the login/password information (e.g. host, protocol, path), or to the
+actual credential data to be obtained (login/password).
+
+The credential is split into a set of named attributes, with one
+attribute per line. Each attribute is
+specified by a key-value pair, separated by an `=` (equals) sign,
+followed by a newline. The key may contain any bytes except `=`,
+newline, or NUL. The value may contain any bytes except newline or NUL.
+In both cases, all bytes are treated as-is (i.e., there is no quoting,
+and one cannot transmit a value with newline or NUL in it). The list of
+attributes is terminated by a blank line or end-of-file.
+Git understands the following attributes:
+
+`protocol`::
+
+ The protocol over which the credential will be used (e.g.,
+ `https`).
+
+`host`::
+
+ The remote hostname for a network credential.
+
+`path`::
+
+ The path with which the credential will be used. E.g., for
+ accessing a remote https repository, this will be the
+ repository's path on the server.
+
+`username`::
+
+ The credential's username, if we already have one (e.g., from a
+ URL, from the user, or from a previously run helper).
+
+`password`::
+
+ The credential's password, if we are asking it to be stored.
+
+`url`::
+
+ When this special attribute is read by `git credential`, the
+ value is parsed as a URL and treated as if its constituent parts
+ were read (e.g., `url=https://example.com` would behave as if
+ `protocol=https` and `host=example.com` had been provided). This
+ can help callers avoid parsing URLs themselves. Note that any
+ components which are missing from the URL (e.g., there is no
+ username in the example above) will be set to empty; if you want
+ to provide a URL and override some attributes, provide the URL
+ attribute first, followed by any overrides.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index 31b28fc29f..e8f757704c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ receive-pack::
can push anything into the repository, including removal
of refs). This is solely meant for a closed LAN setting
where everybody is friendly. This service can be
- enabled by `daemon.receivepack` configuration item to
+ enabled by setting `daemon.receivepack` configuration item to
`true`.
EXAMPLES
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index 3ceefb8a1f..20f9228511 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ final result verbatim. When both sides made changes to the same area,
however, git cannot randomly pick one side over the other, and asks you to
resolve it by leaving what both sides did to that area.
-By default, git uses the same style as that is used by "merge" program
+By default, git uses the same style as the one used by the "merge" program
from the RCS suite to present such a conflicted hunk, like this:
------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
index 2a49de7cfe..d7207bd9b9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ OPTIONS
-t <tool>::
--tool=<tool>::
Use the merge resolution program specified by <tool>.
- Valid merge tools are:
- araxis, bc3, diffuse, ecmerge, emerge, gvimdiff, kdiff3,
- meld, opendiff, p4merge, tkdiff, tortoisemerge, vimdiff and xxdiff.
+ Valid values include emerge, gvimdiff, kdiff3,
+ meld, vimdiff, and tortoisemerge. Run `git mergetool --tool-help`
+ for the list of valid <tool> settings.
+
If a merge resolution program is not specified, 'git mergetool'
will use the configuration variable `merge.tool`. If the
diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
index fe1f49bc6f..8228f33e3f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ These options can be used to modify 'git p4 submit' behavior.
p4. By default, this is the most recent p4 commit reachable
from 'HEAD'.
--M[<n>]::
+-M::
Detect renames. See linkgit:git-diff[1]. Renames will be
represented in p4 using explicit 'move' operations. There
is no corresponding option to detect copies, but there are
@@ -465,13 +465,15 @@ git-p4.useClientSpec::
Submit variables
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
git-p4.detectRenames::
- Detect renames. See linkgit:git-diff[1].
+ Detect renames. See linkgit:git-diff[1]. This can be true,
+ false, or a score as expected by 'git diff -M'.
git-p4.detectCopies::
- Detect copies. See linkgit:git-diff[1].
+ Detect copies. See linkgit:git-diff[1]. This can be true,
+ false, or a score as expected by 'git diff -C'.
git-p4.detectCopiesHarder::
- Detect copies harder. See linkgit:git-diff[1].
+ Detect copies harder. See linkgit:git-diff[1]. A boolean.
git-p4.preserveUser::
On submit, re-author changes to reflect the git author,
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 85b5e4425c..fd535b06ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--onto <newbase>]
+'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>]
[<upstream>] [<branch>]
-'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--onto <newbase>]
+'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>]
--root [<branch>]
'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ rebase.autosquash::
OPTIONS
-------
-<newbase>::
+--onto <newbase>::
Starting point at which to create the new commits. If the
--onto option is not specified, the starting point is
<upstream>. May be any valid commit, and not just an
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ which makes little sense.
Pass the <strategy-option> through to the merge strategy.
This implies `--merge` and, if no strategy has been
specified, `-s recursive`. Note the reversal of 'ours' and
- 'theirs' as noted in above for the `-m` option.
+ 'theirs' as noted above for the `-m` option.
-q::
--quiet::
@@ -344,6 +344,27 @@ This uses the `--interactive` machinery internally, but combining it
with the `--interactive` option explicitly is generally not a good
idea unless you know what you are doing (see BUGS below).
+-x <cmd>::
+--exec <cmd>::
+ Append "exec <cmd>" after each line creating a commit in the
+ final history. <cmd> will be interpreted as one or more shell
+ commands.
++
+This option can only be used with the `--interactive` option
+(see INTERACTIVE MODE below).
++
+You may execute several commands by either using one instance of `--exec`
+with several commands:
++
+ git rebase -i --exec "cmd1 && cmd2 && ..."
++
+or by giving more than one `--exec`:
++
+ git rebase -i --exec "cmd1" --exec "cmd2" --exec ...
++
+If `--autosquash` is used, "exec" lines will not be appended for
+the intermediate commits, and will only appear at the end of each
+squash/fixup series.
--root::
Rebase all commits reachable from <branch>, instead of
@@ -522,6 +543,24 @@ in `$SHELL`, or the default shell if `$SHELL` is not set), so you can
use shell features (like "cd", ">", ";" ...). The command is run from
the root of the working tree.
+----------------------------------
+$ git rebase -i --exec "make test"
+----------------------------------
+
+This command lets you check that intermediate commits are compilable.
+The todo list becomes like that:
+
+--------------------
+pick 5928aea one
+exec make test
+pick 04d0fda two
+exec make test
+pick ba46169 three
+exec make test
+pick f4593f9 four
+exec make test
+--------------------
+
SPLITTING COMMITS
-----------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 4cc3e9586f..3c63561f02 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -101,6 +101,12 @@ OPTIONS
The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict
abbreviation mode.
+--disambiguate=<prefix>::
+ Show every object whose name begins with the given prefix.
+ The <prefix> must be at least 4 hexadecimal digits long to
+ avoid listing each and every object in the repository by
+ mistake.
+
--all::
Show all refs found in `refs/`.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index d58fad71bd..bf22ad527c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -44,9 +44,11 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master'
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
-* link:v1.7.11.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.1]
+* link:v1.7.11.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.3]
* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.11.3.txt[1.7.11.3],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt[1.7.11.2],
link:RelNotes/1.7.11.1.txt[1.7.11.1],
link:RelNotes/1.7.11.txt[1.7.11].
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 80120ea14f..e16f3e175b 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ repositories (i.e., attributes of interest to all users) should go into
`.gitattributes` files. Attributes that should affect all repositories
for a single user should be placed in a file specified by the
`core.attributesfile` configuration option (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
+Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
+is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead.
Attributes for all users on a system should be placed in the
`$(prefix)/etc/gitattributes` file.
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 2e7328b830..c1f692a71e 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ the repository but are specific to one user's workflow) should go into
the `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file. Patterns which a user wants git to
ignore in all situations (e.g., backup or temporary files generated by
the user's editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by
-`core.excludesfile` in the user's `~/.gitconfig`.
+`core.excludesfile` in the user's `~/.gitconfig`. Its default value is
+$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/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index 3595b586bc..f928b57f90 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ to point at the new commit.
[[def_ent]]ent::
Favorite synonym to "<<def_tree-ish,tree-ish>>" by some total geeks. See
- `http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ent_(Middle-earth)` for an in-depth
+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ent_(Middle-earth) for an in-depth
explanation. Avoid this term, not to confuse people.
[[def_evil_merge]]evil merge::
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 84e34b1aba..d9b2b5b2e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ options may be given. See linkgit:git-diff-files[1] for more options.
--cc::
- This flag implies the '-c' options and further compresses the
+ This flag implies the '-c' option and further compresses the
patch output by omitting uninteresting hunks whose contents in
the parents have only two variants and the merge result picks
one of them without modification.
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index 1725661837..dc0070bcb7 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -24,22 +24,22 @@ blobs contained in a commit.
object referenced by 'refs/heads/master'. If you
happen to have both 'heads/master' and 'tags/master', you can
explicitly say 'heads/master' to tell git which one you mean.
- When ambiguous, a '<name>' is disambiguated by taking the
+ When ambiguous, a '<refname>' is disambiguated by taking the
first match in the following rules:
- . If '$GIT_DIR/<name>' exists, that is what you mean (this is usually
+ . If '$GIT_DIR/<refname>' exists, that is what you mean (this is usually
useful only for 'HEAD', 'FETCH_HEAD', 'ORIG_HEAD', 'MERGE_HEAD'
and 'CHERRY_PICK_HEAD');
- . otherwise, 'refs/<name>' if it exists;
+ . otherwise, 'refs/<refname>' if it exists;
. otherwise, 'refs/tags/<refname>' if it exists;
- . otherwise, 'refs/heads/<name>' if it exists;
+ . otherwise, 'refs/heads/<refname>' if it exists;
- . otherwise, 'refs/remotes/<name>' if it exists;
+ . otherwise, 'refs/remotes/<refname>' if it exists;
- . otherwise, 'refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD' if it exists.
+ . otherwise, 'refs/remotes/<refname>/HEAD' if it exists.
+
'HEAD' names the commit on which you based the changes in the working tree.
'FETCH_HEAD' records the branch which you fetched from a remote repository
@@ -218,13 +218,44 @@ and its parent commits exist. The 'r1{caret}@' notation means all
parents of 'r1'. 'r1{caret}!' includes commit 'r1' but excludes
all of its parents.
+To summarize:
+
+'<rev>'::
+ Include commits that are reachable from (i.e. ancestors of)
+ <rev>.
+
+'{caret}<rev>'::
+ Exclude commits that are reachable from (i.e. ancestors of)
+ <rev>.
+
+'<rev1>..<rev2>'::
+ Include commits that are reachable from <rev2> but exclude
+ those that are reachable from <rev1>.
+
+'<rev1>\...<rev2>'::
+ Include commits that are reachable from either <rev1> or
+ <rev2> but exclude those that are reachable from both.
+
+'<rev>{caret}@', e.g. 'HEAD{caret}@'::
+ A suffix '{caret}' followed by an at sign is the same as listing
+ all parents of '<rev>' (meaning, include anything reachable from
+ its parents, but not the commit itself).
+
+'<rev>{caret}!', e.g. 'HEAD{caret}!'::
+ A suffix '{caret}' followed by an exclamation mark is the same
+ as giving commit '<rev>' and then all its parents prefixed with
+ '{caret}' to exclude them (and their ancestors).
+
Here are a handful of examples:
D G H D
D F G H I J D F
^G D H D
^D B E I J F B
+ B..C C
B...C G H D E B C
^D B C E I J F B C
+ C I J F C
C^@ I J F
+ C^! C
F^! D G H D F
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
index adb6f0c896..5977b58e57 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
@@ -241,42 +241,9 @@ appended to its command line, which is one of:
Remove a matching credential, if any, from the helper's storage.
The details of the credential will be provided on the helper's stdin
-stream. The credential is split into a set of named attributes.
-Attributes are provided to the helper, one per line. Each attribute is
-specified by a key-value pair, separated by an `=` (equals) sign,
-followed by a newline. The key may contain any bytes except `=`,
-newline, or NUL. The value may contain any bytes except newline or NUL.
-In both cases, all bytes are treated as-is (i.e., there is no quoting,
-and one cannot transmit a value with newline or NUL in it). The list of
-attributes is terminated by a blank line or end-of-file.
-
-Git will send the following attributes (but may not send all of
-them for a given credential; for example, a `host` attribute makes no
-sense when dealing with a non-network protocol):
-
-`protocol`::
-
- The protocol over which the credential will be used (e.g.,
- `https`).
-
-`host`::
-
- The remote hostname for a network credential.
-
-`path`::
-
- The path with which the credential will be used. E.g., for
- accessing a remote https repository, this will be the
- repository's path on the server.
-
-`username`::
-
- The credential's username, if we already have one (e.g., from a
- URL, from the user, or from a previously run helper).
-
-`password`::
-
- The credential's password, if we are asking it to be stored.
+stream. The exact format is the same as the input/output format of the
+`git credential` plumbing command (see the section `INPUT/OUTPUT
+FORMAT` in linkgit:git-credential[7] for a detailed specification).
For a `get` operation, the helper should produce a list of attributes
on stdout in the same format. A helper is free to produce a subset, or
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 02ed5668e1..03d95dc290 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -2870,7 +2870,7 @@ $ git fetch example
You can also add a "+" to force the update each time:
-------------------------------------------------
-$ git config remote.example.fetch +master:ref/remotes/example/master
+$ git config remote.example.fetch +master:refs/remotes/example/master
-------------------------------------------------
Don't do this unless you're sure you won't mind "git fetch" possibly
@@ -2966,7 +2966,7 @@ As you can see, a commit is defined by:
- a tree: The SHA-1 name of a tree object (as defined below), representing
the contents of a directory at a certain point in time.
-- parent(s): The SHA-1 name of some number of commits which represent the
+- parent(s): The SHA-1 name(s) of some number of commits which represent the
immediately previous step(s) in the history of the project. The
example above has one parent; merge commits may have more than
one. A commit with no parents is called a "root" commit, and
@@ -3363,8 +3363,8 @@ Date:
:100644 100644 oldsha... 4b9458b... M somedirectory/myfile
------------------------------------------------
-This tells you that the immediately preceding version of the file was
-"newsha", and that the immediately following version was "oldsha".
+This tells you that the immediately following version of the file was
+"newsha", and that the immediately preceding version was "oldsha".
You also know the commit messages that went with the change from oldsha
to 4b9458b and with the change from 4b9458b to newsha.
@@ -4035,8 +4035,8 @@ $ git ls-files --unmerged
Each line of the `git ls-files --unmerged` output begins with
the blob mode bits, blob SHA-1, 'stage number', and the
filename. The 'stage number' is git's way to say which tree it
-came from: stage 1 corresponds to `$orig` tree, stage 2 `HEAD`
-tree, and stage3 `$target` tree.
+came from: stage 1 corresponds to the `$orig` tree, stage 2 to
+the `HEAD` tree, and stage 3 to the `$target` tree.
Earlier we said that trivial merges are done inside
`git read-tree -m`. For example, if the file did not change