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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fea3f9935b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +GIT v1.5.0.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.0 +------------------ + +* Documentation updates + + - Clarifications and corrections to 1.5.0 release notes. + + - The main documentation did not link to git-remote documentation. + + - Clarified introductory text of git-rebase documentation. + + - Converted remaining mentions of update-index on Porcelain + documents to git-add/git-rm. + + - Some i18n.* configuration variables were incorrectly + described as core.*; fixed. + +* Bugfixes + + - git-add and git-update-index on a filesystem on which + executable bits are unreliable incorrectly reused st_mode + bits even when the path changed between symlink and regular + file. + + - git-daemon marks the listening sockets with FD_CLOEXEC so + that it won't be leaked into the children. + + - segfault from git-blame when the mandatory pathname + parameter was missing was fixed; usage() message is given + instead. + + - git-rev-list did not read $GIT_DIR/config file, which means + that did not honor i18n.logoutputencoding correctly. + +* Tweaks + + - sliding mmap() inefficiently mmaped the same region of a + packfile with an access pattern that used objects in the + reverse order. This has been made more efficient. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt index 84e7eaf3c8..daf4bdb0d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt @@ -25,12 +25,18 @@ Specifically, the available options are: older clients over dumb transports (e.g. http) using older versions of git will also be affected. + To let git use the new loose object format, you have to + set core.legacyheaders to false. + - Since v1.4.3, configuration repack.usedeltabaseoffset allows packfile to be created in more space efficient format, which cannot be read by git older than that version. -The above two are not enabled by default and you explicitly have -to ask for them, because these two features make repositories + To let git use the new format for packfiles, you have to + set repack.usedeltabaseoffset to true. + +The above two new features are not enabled by default and you +have to explicitly ask for them, because they make repositories unreadable by older versions of git, and in v1.5.0 we still do not enable them by default for the same reason. We will change this default probably 1 year after 1.4.2's release, when it is @@ -94,8 +100,8 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series entries for selected paths. - git-update-index is much less visible. Many suggestions to - use the command in git output and documentation have now been - replaced by simpler commands such as "git add" or "git rm". + use the command in git output and documentation have now been + replaced by simpler commands such as "git add" or "git rm". * Repository layout and objects transfer @@ -217,7 +223,7 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series "branch@{Nth}" notation. - "git show-branch" learned showing the reflog data with the - new -g option. "git log" has -s option to view reflog + new -g option. "git log" has -g option to view reflog entries in a more verbose manner. - git-branch knows how to rename branches and moves existing @@ -253,9 +259,6 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series above sentence, as git-prune does not remove things reachable from reflog entries. - - 'git-prune' by default does not remove _everything_ - unreachable, as there is a one-day grace period built-in. - - There is a toplevel garbage collector script, 'git-gc', that runs periodic cleanup functions, including 'git-repack -a -d', 'git-reflog expire', 'git-pack-refs --prune', and 'git-rerere @@ -291,12 +294,10 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series reset" to jump to arbitrary commit, while still keeping your HEAD detached. - Going back to attached state (i.e. on a particular branch) by - "git checkout $branch" can lose the current stat you arrived - in these ways, and "git checkout" refuses when the detached - HEAD is not pointed by any existing ref (an existing branch, - a remote tracking branch or a tag). This safety can be - overridden with "git checkout -f $branch". + Remember that a detached state is volatile, i.e. it will be forgotten + as soon as you move away from it with the checkout or reset command, + unless a branch is created from it as mentioned above. It is also + possible to rescue a lost detached state from the HEAD reflog. * Packed refs @@ -411,14 +412,14 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series * Foreign SCM interfaces - - git-svn now requires the Perl SVN:: libraries, the - command-line backend was too slow and limited. + - git-svn now requires the Perl SVN:: libraries, the + command-line backend was too slow and limited. - - the 'commit' subcommand of git-svn has been renamed to - 'set-tree', and 'dcommit' is the recommended replacement for - day-to-day work. + - the 'commit' subcommand of git-svn has been renamed to + 'set-tree', and 'dcommit' is the recommended replacement for + day-to-day work. - - git fast-import backend. + - git fast-import backend. * User support @@ -447,7 +448,7 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series - There is a partial support for 'shallow' repositories that keeps only recent history. A 'shallow clone' is created by specifying how deep that truncated history should be - (e.g. "git clone --depth=5 git://some.where/repo.git"). + (e.g. "git clone --depth 5 git://some.where/repo.git"). Currently a shallow repository has number of limitations: diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4d371866c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +GIT v1.5.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.5.0 +-------------------- + +* Deprecated commands and options. + + - git-diff-stages and git-resolve have been removed. + +* New commands and options. + + - "git log" and friends take --reverse. This makes output + that typically goes reverse order in chronological order. + "git shortlog" usually lists commits in chronological order, + but with "--reverse", they are shown in reverse + chronological order. + + - "git diff" learned --ignore-space-at-eol. This is a weaker + form of --ignore-space-change. + + - "git name-rev" learned --refs=<pattern>, to limit the tags + used for naming the given revisions only to the ones + matching the given pattern. + +* Updated behaviour of existing commands. + + - "git diff" outputs a trailing HT when pathnames have embedded + SP on +++/--- header lines, in order to help "GNU patch" to + parse its output. "git apply" was already updated to accept + this modified output format since ce74618d (Sep 22, 2006). + +* Hooks + + - The sample update hook to show how to send out notification + e-mail was updated to show only new commits that appeared in + the repository. Earlier, it showed new commits that appeared + on the branch. + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.5.0-49-g69bc0e2 +echo O=`git describe master` +git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint diff --git a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl b/Documentation/cmd-list.perl index 69003e90af..a2d6268e2b 100755 --- a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl +++ b/Documentation/cmd-list.perl @@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ git-describe mainporcelain git-diff-files plumbinginterrogators git-diff-index plumbinginterrogators git-diff mainporcelain -git-diff-stages plumbinginterrogators git-diff-tree plumbinginterrogators git-fast-import ancillarymanipulators git-fetch mainporcelain @@ -146,10 +145,10 @@ git-reflog ancillarymanipulators git-relink ancillarymanipulators git-repack ancillarymanipulators git-config ancillarymanipulators +git-remote ancillarymanipulators git-request-pull foreignscminterface git-rerere ancillaryinterrogators git-reset mainporcelain -git-resolve mainporcelain git-revert mainporcelain git-rev-list plumbinginterrogators git-rev-parse ancillaryinterrogators diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 38655350f2..6309d89b4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ The git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect the git command's behavior. `.git/config` file for each repository is used to store the information for that repository, and `$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store per user information to give -fallback values for `.git/config` file. +fallback values for `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig` +can be used to store system-wide defaults. They can be used by both the git plumbing and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, where @@ -142,6 +143,18 @@ core.preferSymlinkRefs:: This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that expect HEAD to be a symbolic link. +core.bare:: + If true this repository is assumed to be 'bare' and has no + working directory associated with it. If this is the case a + number of commands that require a working directory will be + disabled, such as gitlink:git-add[1] or gitlink:git-merge[1]. ++ +This setting is automatically guessed by gitlink:git-clone[1] or +gitlink:git-init[1] when the repository was created. By default a +repository that ends in "/.git" is assumed to be not bare (bare = +false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare += true). + core.logAllRefUpdates:: Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>", by appending the new and old @@ -180,10 +193,17 @@ core.compression:: slowest. core.legacyheaders:: - A boolean which enables the legacy object header format in case - you want to interoperate with old clients accessing the object - database directly (where the "http://" and "rsync://" protocols - count as direct access). + A boolean which + changes the format of loose objects so that they are more + efficient to pack and to send out of the repository over git + native protocol, since v1.4.2. However, loose objects + written in the new format cannot be read by git older than + that version; people fetching from your repository using + older versions of git over dumb transports (e.g. http) + will also be affected. ++ +To let git use the new loose object format, you have to +set core.legacyheaders to false. core.packedGitWindowSize:: Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a @@ -451,6 +471,10 @@ remote.<name>.push:: The default set of "refspec" for gitlink:git-push[1]. See gitlink:git-push[1]. +remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate:: + If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating + using the remote subcommand of gitlink:git-remote[1]. + remote.<name>.receivepack:: The default program to execute on the remote side when pushing. See option \--exec of gitlink:git-push[1]. @@ -459,6 +483,10 @@ remote.<name>.uploadpack:: The default program to execute on the remote side when fetching. See option \--exec of gitlink:git-fetch-pack[1]. +remotes.<group>:: + The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update + <group>". See gitlink:git-remote[1]. + repack.usedeltabaseoffset:: Allow gitlink:git-repack[1] to create packs that uses delta-base offset. Defaults to false. diff --git a/Documentation/core-intro.txt b/Documentation/core-intro.txt index abafefc71c..eea44d9d56 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-intro.txt +++ b/Documentation/core-intro.txt @@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ directory tree, and renaming a file does not change the object that file is associated with in any way. A blob is typically created when gitlink:git-update-index[1] -is run, and its data can be accessed by gitlink:git-cat-file[1]. +(or gitlink:git-add[1]) is run, and its data can be accessed by +gitlink:git-cat-file[1]. Tree Object ~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -587,4 +588,5 @@ stages to temporary files and calls a "merge" script on it: git-merge-index git-merge-one-file hello.c -and that is what higher level `git resolve` is implemented with. +and that is what higher level `git merge -s resolve` is implemented +with. diff --git a/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt index 9c28bea62e..97cdb90cb4 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt @@ -977,7 +977,7 @@ see more complex cases. Now, let's pretend you are the one who did all the work in `mybranch`, and the fruit of your hard work has finally been merged to the `master` branch. Let's go back to `mybranch`, and run -resolve to get the "upstream changes" back to your branch. +`git merge` to get the "upstream changes" back to your branch. ------------ $ git checkout mybranch @@ -996,7 +996,7 @@ Fast forward ---------------- Because your branch did not contain anything more than what are -already merged into the `master` branch, the resolve operation did +already merged into the `master` branch, the merge operation did not actually do a merge. Instead, it just updated the top of the tree of your branch to that of the `master` branch. This is often called 'fast forward' merge. @@ -1099,11 +1099,11 @@ programs, which are 'commit walkers'; they outlived their usefulness when git Native and SSH transports were introduced, and not used by `git pull` or `git push` scripts. -Once you fetch from the remote repository, you `resolve` that +Once you fetch from the remote repository, you `merge` that with your current branch. However -- it's such a common thing to `fetch` and then -immediately `resolve`, that it's called `git pull`, and you can +immediately `merge`, that it's called `git pull`, and you can simply do ---------------- diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 019a39f2bf..d8696b7b36 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -140,6 +140,9 @@ -a:: Shorthand for "--text". +--ignore-space-at-eol:: + Ignore changes in white spaces at EOL. + --ignore-space-change:: Ignore changes in amount of white space. This ignores white space at line end, and consider all other sequences of one or diff --git a/Documentation/diffcore.txt b/Documentation/diffcore.txt index cb4e562004..34cd306bb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/diffcore.txt +++ b/Documentation/diffcore.txt @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ June 2005 Introduction ------------ -The diff commands git-diff-index, git-diff-files, git-diff-tree, and -git-diff-stages can be told to manipulate differences they find in +The diff commands git-diff-index, git-diff-files, and git-diff-tree +can be told to manipulate differences they find in unconventional ways before showing diff(1) output. The manipulation is collectively called "diffcore transformation". This short note describes what they are and how to use them to produce diff outputs @@ -30,9 +30,6 @@ files: - git-diff-tree compares contents of two "tree" objects; - - git-diff-stages compares contents of blobs at two stages in an - unmerged index file. - In all of these cases, the commands themselves compare corresponding paths in the two sets of files. The result of comparison is passed from these commands to what is internally diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index e4ffde4fdd..1ae77be450 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ OPTIONS + When a merge conflict happens, the index entries for conflicting paths are left unmerged, and you need to resolve the conflicts -and mark the resolved paths with `git update-index`. +and mark the resolved paths with `git add` (or `git rm` if the merge +should result in deletion of the path). <new_branch>:: Name for the new branch. @@ -179,11 +180,11 @@ fatal: merge program failed At this point, `git diff` shows the changes cleanly merged as in the previous example, as well as the changes in the conflicted files. Edit and resolve the conflict and mark it resolved with -`git update-index` as usual: +`git add` as usual: + ------------ $ edit frotz -$ git update-index frotz +$ git add frotz ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index 707376f22c..6d32c491a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git-clone' [--template=<template_directory>] [-l [-s]] [-q] [-n] [--bare] [-o <name>] [-u <upload-pack>] [--reference <repository>] - [--depth=<depth>] <repository> [<directory>] + [--depth <depth>] <repository> [<directory>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ OPTIONS if unset the templates are taken from the installation defined default, typically `/usr/share/git-core/templates`. ---depth=<depth>:: +--depth <depth>:: Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revs. A shallow repository has number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt index 27d531b888..555b8234f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-cvsexportcommit - Export a single commit to a CVS checkout SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-cvsexportcommit' [-h] [-v] [-c] [-P] [-p] [-a] [-f] [-m msgprefix] [PARENTCOMMIT] COMMITID +'git-cvsexportcommit' [-h] [-v] [-c] [-P] [-p] [-a] [-d cvsroot] [-f] [-m msgprefix] [PARENTCOMMIT] COMMITID DESCRIPTION @@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ OPTIONS Add authorship information. Adds Author line, and Committer (if different from Author) to the message. +-d:: + Set an alternative CVSROOT to use. This corresponds to the CVS + -d parameter. Usually users will not want to set this, except + if using CVS in an asymmetric fashion. + -f:: Force the merge even if the files are not up to date. diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-stages.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-stages.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b8f45b8cdc..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-stages.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ -git-diff-stages(1) -================== - -NAME ----- -git-diff-stages - Compares two merge stages in the index - - -SYNOPSIS --------- -'git-diff-stages' [<common diff options>] <stage1> <stage2> [<path>...] - -DESCRIPTION ------------ -DEPRECATED and will be removed in 1.5.1. - -Compares the content and mode of the blobs in two stages in an -unmerged index file. - -OPTIONS -------- -include::diff-options.txt[] - -<stage1>,<stage2>:: - The stage number to be compared. - -Output format -------------- -include::diff-format.txt[] - - -Author ------- -Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano. - -GIT ---- -Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 445f6b8544..77a14bb076 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-fast-import(1) NAME ---- -git-fast-import - Backend for fast Git data importers. +git-fast-import - Backend for fast Git data importers SYNOPSIS diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index e53ff4b4e7..9c08efa53a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ After seeing a conflict, you can do two things: * Resolve the conflicts. `git-diff` would report only the conflicting paths because of the above 2. and 3.. Edit the - working tree files into a desirable shape, `git-update-index` + working tree files into a desirable shape, `git-add` or `git-rm` them, to make the index file contain what the merge result should be, and run `git-commit` to commit the result. diff --git a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt index 37fbf66efb..5b5c4c865f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ git-name-rev - Find symbolic names for given revs SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-name-rev' [--tags] ( --all | --stdin | <committish>... ) +'git-name-rev' [--tags] [--refs=<pattern>] + ( --all | --stdin | <committish>... ) DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -22,6 +23,9 @@ OPTIONS --tags:: Do not use branch names, but only tags to name the commits +--refs=<pattern>:: + Only use refs whose names match a given shell pattern. + --all:: List all commits reachable from all refs diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index f2ef1f7dc0..2f417a8f85 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -13,11 +13,20 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -git-rebase replaces <branch> with a new branch of the same name. When -the --onto option is provided the new branch starts out with a HEAD equal -to <newbase>, otherwise it is equal to <upstream>. It then attempts to -create a new commit for each commit from the original <branch> that does -not exist in the <upstream> branch. +If <branch> is specified, git-rebase will perform an automatic +`git checkout <branch>` before doing anything else. Otherwise +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`. + +The current branch is reset to <upstream>, or <newbase> if the +--onto option was supplied. This has the exact same effect as +`git reset --hard <upstream>` (or <newbase>). + +The commits that were previously saved into the temporary area are +then reapplied to the current branch, one by one, in order. It is possible that a merge failure will prevent this process from being completely automatic. You will have to resolve any such merge failure @@ -26,9 +35,6 @@ that caused the merge failure with `git rebase --skip`. To restore the original <branch> and remove the .dotest working files, use the command `git rebase --abort` instead. -Note that if <branch> is not specified on the command line, the currently -checked out branch is used. - Assume the following history exists and the current branch is "topic": ------------ @@ -142,7 +148,7 @@ file you edit, you need to tell git that the conflict has been resolved, typically this would be done with - git update-index <filename> + git add <filename> After resolving the conflict manually and updating the index with the diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt index a60c31a315..250761f97e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git-remote' add <name> <url> 'git-remote' show <name> 'git-remote' prune <name> +'git-remote' update [group] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -40,7 +41,17 @@ Gives some information about the remote <name>. Deletes all stale tracking branches under <name>. These stale branches have already been removed from the remote repository -referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in "remotes/<name>". +referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in +"remotes/<name>". + +'update':: + +Fetch updates for a named set of remotes in the repository as defined by +remotes.<group>. If a named group is not specified on the command line, +the configuration parameter remotes.default will get used; if +remotes.default is not defined, all remotes which do not the +configuration parameter remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate set to true will +be updated. (See gitlink:git-config[1]). DISCUSSION diff --git a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt index 139b6eb773..7ff9b05e68 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt @@ -163,8 +163,7 @@ If this three-way merge resolves cleanly, the result is written out to your working tree file, so you would not have to manually resolve it. Note that `git-rerere` leaves the index file alone, so you still need to do the final sanity checks with `git diff` -(or `git diff -c`) and `git update-index` when you are -satisfied. +(or `git diff -c`) and `git add` when you are satisfied. As a convenience measure, `git-merge` automatically invokes `git-rerere` when it exits with a failed automerge, which diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt index 04475a9216..5b55cda512 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt @@ -94,11 +94,11 @@ current HEAD. <2> Rewind the master branch to get rid of those three commits. <3> Switch to "topic/wip" branch and keep working. -Undo update-index:: +Undo add:: + ------------ $ edit <1> -$ git-update-index frotz.c filfre.c +$ git add frotz.c filfre.c $ mailx <2> $ git reset <3> $ git pull git://info.example.com/ nitfol <4> diff --git a/Documentation/git-resolve.txt b/Documentation/git-resolve.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 7fde665fb5..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/git-resolve.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,38 +0,0 @@ -git-resolve(1) -============== - -NAME ----- -git-resolve - Merge two commits - - -SYNOPSIS --------- -'git-resolve' <current> <merged> <message> - -DESCRIPTION ------------ -DEPRECATED and will be removed in 1.5.1. Use `git-merge` instead. - -Given two commits and a merge message, merge the <merged> commit -into <current> commit, with the commit log message <message>. - -When <current> is a descendant of <merged>, or <current> is an -ancestor of <merged>, no new commit is created and the <message> -is ignored. The former is informally called "already up to -date", and the latter is often called "fast forward". - - -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and -Dan Holmsand <holmsand@gmail.com>. - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. - -GIT ---- -Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite - diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt index c742117595..4f145eaba4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [ \--pretty | \--header ] [ \--bisect ] [ \--merge ] + [ \--reverse ] [ \--walk-reflogs ] <commit>... [ \-- <paths>... ] @@ -266,6 +267,10 @@ By default, the commits are shown in reverse chronological order. parent comes before all of its children, but otherwise things are still ordered in the commit timestamp order. +--reverse:: + + Output the commits in reverse order. + Object Traversal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/Documentation/git-runstatus.txt b/Documentation/git-runstatus.txt index 89d7b92731..8bb52f4687 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-runstatus.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-runstatus.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ DESCRIPTION Examines paths in the working tree that has changes unrecorded to the index file, and changes between the index file and the current HEAD commit. The former paths are what you _could_ -commit by running 'git-update-index' before running 'git +commit by running 'git add' (or 'git rm' if you are deleting) before running 'git commit', and the latter paths are what you _would_ commit by running 'git commit'. diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index 03871e5d73..e9e193f008 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION Examines paths in the working tree that has changes unrecorded to the index file, and changes between the index file and the current HEAD commit. The former paths are what you _could_ -commit by running 'git-update-index' before running 'git +commit by running 'git add' before running 'git commit', and the latter paths are what you _would_ commit by running 'git commit'. diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 6ce6a3944d..cf094ca357 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -13,14 +13,13 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between Subversion and git. It is not to be confused with gitlink:git-svnimport[1], which is -read-only and geared towards tracking multiple branches. +read-only. git-svn was originally designed for an individual developer who wants a bidirectional flow of changesets between a single branch in Subversion and an arbitrary number of branches in git. Since its inception, git-svn has gained the ability to track multiple branches in a manner -similar to git-svnimport; but it cannot (yet) automatically detect new -branches and tags like git-svnimport does. +similar to git-svnimport. git-svn is especially useful when it comes to tracking repositories not organized in the way Subversion developers recommend (trunk, @@ -31,26 +30,80 @@ COMMANDS -- 'init':: - Creates an empty git repository with additional metadata - directories for git-svn. The Subversion URL must be specified - as a command-line argument. Optionally, the target directory - to operate on can be specified as a second argument. Normally - this command initializes the current directory. + Initializes an empty git repository with additional + metadata directories for git-svn. The Subversion URL + may be specified as a command-line argument, or as full + URL arguments to -T/-t/-b. Optionally, the target + directory to operate on can be specified as a second + argument. Normally this command initializes the current + directory. -'fetch':: +-T<trunk_subdir>:: +--trunk=<trunk_subdir>:: +-t<tags_subdir>:: +--tags=<tags_subdir>:: +-b<branches_subdir>:: +--branches=<branches_subdir>:: + These are optional command-line options for init. Each of + these flags can point to a relative repository path + (--tags=project/tags') or a full url + (--tags=https://foo.org/project/tags) -Fetch unfetched revisions from the Subversion URL we are -tracking. refs/remotes/git-svn will be updated to the -latest revision. +--no-metadata:: + Set the 'noMetadata' option in the [svn-remote] config. +--use-svm-props:: + Set the 'useSvmProps' option in the [svn-remote] config. +--use-svnsync-props:: + Set the 'useSvnsyncProps' option in the [svn-remote] config. +--rewrite-root=<URL>:: + Set the 'rewriteRoot' option in the [svn-remote] config. +--username=<USER>:: + For transports that SVN handles authentication for (http, + https, and plain svn), specify the username. For other + transports (eg svn+ssh://), you must include the username in + the URL, eg svn+ssh://foo@svn.bar.com/project -Note: You should never attempt to modify the remotes/git-svn -branch outside of git-svn. Instead, create a branch from -remotes/git-svn and work on that branch. Use the 'dcommit' -command (see below) to write git commits back to -remotes/git-svn. +--prefix=<prefix> + This allows one to specify a prefix which is prepended + to the names of remotes if trunk/branches/tags are + specified. The prefix does not automatically include a + trailing slash, so be sure you include one in the + argument if that is what you want. This is useful if + you wish to track multiple projects that share a common + repository. + +'fetch':: -See '<<fetch-args,Additional Fetch Arguments>>' if you are interested in -manually joining branches on commit. + Fetch unfetched revisions from the Subversion remote we are + tracking. The name of the [svn-remote "..."] section in the + .git/config file may be specified as an optional command-line + argument. + +'clone':: + Runs 'init' and 'fetch'. It will automatically create a + directory based on the basename of the URL passed to it; + or if a second argument is passed; it will create a directory + and work within that. It accepts all arguments that the + 'init' and 'fetch' commands accept; with the exception of + '--fetch-all'. After a repository is cloned, the 'fetch' + command will be able to update revisions without affecting + the working tree; and the 'rebase' command will be able + to update the working tree with the latest changes. + +'rebase':: + This fetches revisions from the SVN parent of the current HEAD + and rebases the current (uncommitted to SVN) work against it. + + This works similarly to 'svn update' or 'git-pull' except that + it preserves linear history with 'git-rebase' instead of + 'git-merge' for ease of dcommit-ing with git-svn. + + This accepts all options that 'git-svn fetch' and 'git-rebase' + accepts. However '--fetch-all' only fetches from the current + [svn-remote], and not all [svn-remote] definitions. + + Like 'git-rebase'; this requires that the working tree be clean + and have no uncommitted changes. 'dcommit':: Commit each diff from a specified head directly to the SVN @@ -96,16 +149,6 @@ manually joining branches on commit. commit. All merging is assumed to have taken place independently of git-svn functions. -'rebuild':: - Not a part of daily usage, but this is a useful command if - you've just cloned a repository (using gitlink:git-clone[1]) that was - tracked with git-svn. Unfortunately, git-clone does not clone - git-svn metadata and the svn working tree that git-svn uses for - its operations. This rebuilds the metadata so git-svn can - resume fetch operations. A Subversion URL may be optionally - specified at the command-line if the directory/repository you're - tracking has moved or changed protocols. - 'show-ignore':: Recursively finds and lists the svn:ignore property on directories. The output is suitable for appending to @@ -122,53 +165,13 @@ manually joining branches on commit. repository (that has been init-ed with git-svn). The -r<revision> option is required for this. -'graft-branches':: - This command attempts to detect merges/branches from already - imported history. Techniques used currently include regexes, - file copies, and tree-matches). This command generates (or - modifies) the $GIT_DIR/info/grafts file. This command is - considered experimental, and inherently flawed because - merge-tracking in SVN is inherently flawed and inconsistent - across different repositories. - -'multi-init':: - This command supports git-svnimport-like command-line syntax for - importing repositories that are laid out as recommended by the - SVN folks. This is a bit more tolerant than the git-svnimport - command-line syntax and doesn't require the user to figure out - where the repository URL ends and where the repository path - begins. - --T<trunk_subdir>:: ---trunk=<trunk_subdir>:: --t<tags_subdir>:: ---tags=<tags_subdir>:: --b<branches_subdir>:: ---branches=<branches_subdir>:: - These are the command-line options for multi-init. Each of - these flags can point to a relative repository path - (--tags=project/tags') or a full url - (--tags=https://foo.org/project/tags) - ---prefix=<prefix> - This allows one to specify a prefix which is prepended to the - names of remotes. The prefix does not automatically include a - trailing slash, so be sure you include one in the argument if - that is what you want. This is useful if you wish to track - multiple projects that share a common repository. - -'multi-fetch':: - This runs fetch on all known SVN branches we're tracking. This - will NOT discover new branches (unlike git-svnimport), so - multi-init will need to be re-run (it's idempotent). - -- OPTIONS ------- -- ---shared:: +--shared[={false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody}]:: --template=<template_directory>:: Only used with the 'init' command. These are passed directly to gitlink:git-init[1]. @@ -176,14 +179,15 @@ OPTIONS -r <ARG>:: --revision <ARG>:: -Only used with the 'fetch' command. +Used with the 'fetch' command. -Takes any valid -r<argument> svn would accept and passes it -directly to svn. -r<ARG1>:<ARG2> ranges and "{" DATE "}" syntax -is also supported. This is passed directly to svn, see svn -documentation for more details. +This allows revision ranges for partial/cauterized history +to be supported. $NUMBER, $NUMBER1:$NUMBER2 (numeric ranges), +$NUMBER:HEAD, and BASE:$NUMBER are all supported. -This can allow you to make partial mirrors when running fetch. +This can allow you to make partial mirrors when running fetch; +but is generally not recommended because history will be skipped +and lost. -:: --stdin:: @@ -270,7 +274,7 @@ config key: svn.repackflags -s<strategy>:: --strategy=<strategy>:: -These are only used with the 'dcommit' command. +These are only used with the 'dcommit' and 'rebase' commands. Passed directly to git-rebase when using 'dcommit' if a 'git-reset' cannot be used (see dcommit). @@ -289,75 +293,79 @@ ADVANCED OPTIONS ---------------- -- --b<refname>:: ---branch <refname>:: -Used with 'fetch', 'dcommit' or 'set-tree'. - -This can be used to join arbitrary git branches to remotes/git-svn -on new commits where the tree object is equivalent. - -When used with different GIT_SVN_ID values, tags and branches in -SVN can be tracked this way, as can some merges where the heads -end up having completely equivalent content. This can even be -used to track branches across multiple SVN _repositories_. - -This option may be specified multiple times, once for each -branch. - -config key: svn.branch - -i<GIT_SVN_ID>:: --id <GIT_SVN_ID>:: -This sets GIT_SVN_ID (instead of using the environment). See the -section on -'<<tracking-multiple-repos,Tracking Multiple Repositories or Branches>>' -for more information on using GIT_SVN_ID. +This sets GIT_SVN_ID (instead of using the environment). This +allows the user to override the default refname to fetch from +when tracking a single URL. The 'log' and 'dcommit' commands +no longer require this switch as an argument. + +-R<remote name>:: +--svn-remote <remote name>:: + Specify the [svn-remote "<remote name>"] section to use, + this allows SVN multiple repositories to be tracked. + Default: "svn" --follow-parent:: This is especially helpful when we're tracking a directory that has been moved around within the repository, or if we started tracking a branch and never tracked the trunk it was - descended from. + descended from. This feature is enabled by default, use + --no-follow-parent to disable it. config key: svn.followparent ---no-metadata:: - This gets rid of the git-svn-id: lines at the end of every commit. - - With this, you lose the ability to use the rebuild command. If - you ever lose your .git/svn/git-svn/.rev_db file, you won't be - able to fetch again, either. This is fine for one-shot imports. - - The 'git-svn log' command will not work on repositories using this, - either. - -config key: svn.nometadata - -- - -COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS ---------------------- +CONFIG FILE-ONLY OPTIONS +------------------------ -- ---upgrade:: -Only used with the 'rebuild' command. - -Run this if you used an old version of git-svn that used -"git-svn-HEAD" instead of "remotes/git-svn" as the branch -for tracking the remote. - ---ignore-nodate:: -Only used with the 'fetch' command. - -By default git-svn will crash if it tries to import a revision -from SVN which has '(no date)' listed as the date of the revision. -This is repository corruption on SVN's part, plain and simple. -But sometimes you really need those revisions anyway. +svn.noMetadata:: +svn-remote.<name>.noMetadata:: + This gets rid of the git-svn-id: lines at the end of every commit. -If supplied git-svn will convert '(no date)' entries to the UNIX -epoch (midnight on Jan. 1, 1970). Yes, that's probably very wrong. -SVN was very wrong. + If you lose your .git/svn/git-svn/.rev_db file, git-svn will not + be able to rebuild it and you won't be able to fetch again, + either. This is fine for one-shot imports. + + The 'git-svn log' command will not work on repositories using + this, either. Using this conflicts with the 'useSvmProps' + option for (hopefully) obvious reasons. + +svn.useSvmProps:: +svn-remote.<name>.useSvmProps:: + This allows git-svn to re-map repository URLs and UUIDs from + mirrors created using SVN::Mirror (or svk) for metadata. + + If an SVN revision has a property, "svm:headrev", it is likely + that the revision was created by SVN::Mirror (also used by SVK). + The property contains a repository UUID and a revision. We want + to make it look like we are mirroring the original URL, so + introduce a helper function that returns the original identity + URL and UUID, and use it when generating metadata in commit + messages. + +svn.useSvnsyncProps:: +svn-remote.<name>.useSvnsyncprops:: + Similar to the useSvmProps option; this is for users + of the svnsync(1) command distributed with SVN 1.4.x and + later. + +svn-remote.<name>.rewriteRoot:: + This allows users to create repositories from alternate + URLs. For example, an administrator could run git-svn on the + server locally (accessing via file://) but wish to distribute + the repository with a public http:// or svn:// URL in the + metadata so users of it will see the public URL. + +Since the noMetadata, rewriteRoot, useSvnsyncProps and useSvmProps +options all affect the metadata generated and used by git-svn; they +*must* be set in the configuration file before any history is imported +and these settings should never be changed once they are set. + +Additionally, only one of these four options can be used per-svn-remote +section because they affect the 'git-svn-id:' metadata line. -- @@ -367,43 +375,37 @@ Basic Examples Tracking and contributing to a the trunk of a Subversion-managed project: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -# Initialize a repo (like git init): - git-svn init http://svn.foo.org/project/trunk -# Fetch remote revisions: - git-svn fetch -# Create your own branch to hack on: - git checkout -b my-branch remotes/git-svn -# Do some work, and then commit your new changes to SVN, as well as -# automatically updating your working HEAD: +# Clone a repo (like git clone): + git-svn clone http://svn.foo.org/project/trunk +# Enter the newly cloned directory: + cd trunk +# You should be on master branch, double-check with git-branch + git branch +# Do some work and commit locally to git: + git commit ... +# Something is committed to SVN, rebase your local changes against the +# latest changes in SVN: + git-svn rebase +# Now commit your changes (that were committed previously using git) to SVN, +# as well as automatically updating your working HEAD: git-svn dcommit -# Something is committed to SVN, rebase the latest into your branch: - git-svn fetch && git rebase remotes/git-svn # Append svn:ignore settings to the default git exclude file: git-svn show-ignore >> .git/info/exclude ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tracking and contributing to an entire Subversion-managed project (complete with a trunk, tags and branches): -See also: -'<<tracking-multiple-repos,Tracking Multiple Repositories or Branches>>' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -# Initialize a repo (like git init): - git-svn multi-init http://svn.foo.org/project \ - -T trunk -b branches -t tags -# Fetch remote revisions: - git-svn multi-fetch -# Create your own branch of trunk to hack on: - git checkout -b my-trunk remotes/trunk -# Do some work, and then commit your new changes to SVN, as well as -# automatically updating your working HEAD: - git-svn dcommit -i trunk -# Something has been committed to trunk, rebase the latest into your branch: - git-svn multi-fetch && git rebase remotes/trunk -# Append svn:ignore settings of trunk to the default git exclude file: - git-svn show-ignore -i trunk >> .git/info/exclude -# Check for new branches and tags (no arguments are needed): - git-svn multi-init +# Clone a repo (like git clone): + git-svn clone http://svn.foo.org/project -T trunk -b branches -t tags +# View all branches and tags you have cloned: + git branch -r +# Reset your master to trunk (or any other branch, replacing 'trunk' +# with the appropriate name): + git reset --hard remotes/trunk +# You may only dcommit to one branch/tag/trunk at a time. The usage +# of dcommit/rebase/show-ignore should be teh same as above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ REBASE VS. PULL/MERGE @@ -416,7 +418,7 @@ pulled or merged from. This is because the author favored If you use 'git-svn set-tree A..B' to commit several diffs and you do not have the latest remotes/git-svn merged into my-branch, you should -use 'git rebase' to update your work branch instead of 'git pull' or +use 'git-svn rebase' to update your work branch instead of 'git pull' or 'git merge'. 'pull/merge' can cause non-linear history to be flattened when committing into SVN, which can lead to merge commits reversing previous commits in SVN. @@ -426,67 +428,49 @@ DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Merge tracking in Subversion is lacking and doing branched development with Subversion is cumbersome as a result. git-svn does not do automated merge/branch tracking by default and leaves it entirely up to -the user on the git side. - -[[tracking-multiple-repos]] -TRACKING MULTIPLE REPOSITORIES OR BRANCHES ------------------------------------------- -Because git-svn does not care about relationships between different -branches or directories in a Subversion repository, git-svn has a simple -hack to allow it to track an arbitrary number of related _or_ unrelated -SVN repositories via one git repository. Simply use the --id/-i flag or -set the GIT_SVN_ID environment variable to a name other other than -"git-svn" (the default) and git-svn will ignore the contents of the -$GIT_DIR/svn/git-svn directory and instead do all of its work in -$GIT_DIR/svn/$GIT_SVN_ID for that invocation. The interface branch will -be remotes/$GIT_SVN_ID, instead of remotes/git-svn. Any -remotes/$GIT_SVN_ID branch should never be modified by the user outside -of git-svn commands. - -[[fetch-args]] -ADDITIONAL FETCH ARGUMENTS --------------------------- -This is for advanced users, most users should ignore this section. - -Unfetched SVN revisions may be imported as children of existing commits -by specifying additional arguments to 'fetch'. Additional parents may -optionally be specified in the form of sha1 hex sums at the -command-line. Unfetched SVN revisions may also be tied to particular -git commits with the following syntax: - ------------------------------------------------- - svn_revision_number=git_commit_sha1 ------------------------------------------------- - -This allows you to tie unfetched SVN revision 375 to your current HEAD: - ------------------------------------------------- - git-svn fetch 375=$(git-rev-parse HEAD) ------------------------------------------------- - -If you're tracking a directory that has moved, or otherwise been -branched or tagged off of another directory in the repository and you -care about the full history of the project, then you can use -the --follow-parent option. - ------------------------------------------------- - git-svn fetch --follow-parent ------------------------------------------------- +the user on the git side. git-svn does however follow copy +history of the directory that it is tracking, however (much like +how 'svn log' works). BUGS ---- -We ignore all SVN properties except svn:executable. Too difficult to -map them since we rely heavily on git write-tree being _exactly_ the -same on both the SVN and git working trees and I prefer not to clutter -working trees with metadata files. +We ignore all SVN properties except svn:executable. Any unhandled +properties are logged to $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/unhandled.log Renamed and copied directories are not detected by git and hence not tracked when committing to SVN. I do not plan on adding support for this as it's quite difficult and time-consuming to get working for all -the possible corner cases (git doesn't do it, either). Renamed and -copied files are fully supported if they're similar enough for git to -detect them. +the possible corner cases (git doesn't do it, either). Committing +renamed and copied files are fully supported if they're similar enough +for git to detect them. + +CONFIGURATION +------------- + +git-svn stores [svn-remote] configuration information in the +repository .git/config file. It is similar the core git +[remote] sections except 'fetch' keys do not accept glob +arguments; but they are instead handled by the 'branches' +and 'tags' keys. Since some SVN repositories are oddly +configured with multiple projects glob expansions such those +listed below are allowed: + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +[svn-remote "project-a"] + url = http://server.org/svn + branches = branches/*/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/* + tags = tags/*/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/* + trunk = trunk/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/trunk +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +Keep in mind that the '*' (asterisk) wildcard of the local ref +(left of the ':') *must* be the farthest right path component; +however the remote wildcard may be anywhere as long as it's own +independent path componet (surrounded by '/' or EOL). This +type of configuration is not automatically created by 'init' and +should be manually entered with a text-editor or using +gitlink:git-config[1] SEE ALSO -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index c0fa0d4b17..aa3acc0466 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ ifdef::stalenotes[] You are reading the documentation for the latest version of git. Documentation for older releases are available here: +* link:v1.5.0.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.5.0.1] + +* link:v1.5.0.1/RelNotes-1.5.0.1.txt[release notes for 1.5.0.1] + +* link:v1.5.0/git.html[documentation for release 1.5.0] + +* link:v1.5.0/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt[release notes for 1.5.0] + * link:v1.4.4.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.4.4.4] * link:v1.3.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.3.3] diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt index d10476b56e..d88ec23a97 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Fortunately I did not have to; what I have in the current branch ------------------------------------------------ $ git checkout master -$ git resolve master revert-c99 fast ;# this should be a fast forward +$ git merge revert-c99 ;# this should be a fast forward Updating from 10d781b9caa4f71495c7b34963bef137216f86a8 to e3a693c... cache.h | 8 ++++---- commit.c | 2 +- @@ -95,13 +95,6 @@ Updating from 10d781b9caa4f71495c7b34963bef137216f86a8 to e3a693c... 5 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) ------------------------------------------------ -The 'fast' in the above 'git resolve' is not a magic. I knew this -'resolve' would result in a fast forward merge, and if not, there is -something very wrong (so I would do 'git reset' on the 'master' branch -and examine the situation). When a fast forward merge is done, the -message parameter to 'git resolve' is discarded, because no new commit -is created. You could have said 'junk' or 'nothing' there as well. - There is no need to redo the test at this point. We fast forwarded and we know 'master' matches 'revert-c99' exactly. In fact: diff --git a/Documentation/i18n.txt b/Documentation/i18n.txt index b4cbb3830e..b95f99be6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/i18n.txt +++ b/Documentation/i18n.txt @@ -25,15 +25,15 @@ mind. an warning if the commit log message given to it does not look like a valid UTF-8 string, unless you explicitly say your project uses a legacy encoding. The way to say this is to - have core.commitencoding in `.git/config` file, like this: + have i18n.commitencoding in `.git/config` file, like this: + ------------ -[core] +[i18n] commitencoding = ISO-8859-1 ------------ + Commit objects created with the above setting record the value -of `core.commitencoding` in its `encoding` header. This is to +of `i18n.commitencoding` in its `encoding` header. This is to help other people who look at them later. Lack of this header implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8. @@ -41,15 +41,15 @@ implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8. header of a commit object, and tries to re-code the log message into UTF-8 unless otherwise specified. You can specify the desired output encoding with - `core.logoutputencoding` in `.git/config` file, like this: + `i18n.logoutputencoding` in `.git/config` file, like this: + ------------ -[core] +[i18n] logoutputencoding = ISO-8859-1 ------------ + If you do not have this configuration variable, the value of -`core.commitencoding` is used instead. +`i18n.commitencoding` is used instead. Note that we deliberately chose not to re-code the commit log message when a commit is made to force UTF-8 at the commit diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt b/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt index 8d89992712..af8d43bd12 100644 --- a/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt +++ b/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ $ git diff @@ -1 +1,2 @@ hello world! +hello world, again -$ git update-index file.txt +$ git add file.txt $ git diff ------------------------------------------------ @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ hello world! hello world, again ------------------------------------------------ -So what our "git update-index" did was store a new blob and then put +So what our "git add" did was store a new blob and then put a reference to it in the index file. If we modify the file again, we'll see that the new modifications are reflected in the "git-diff" output: diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index c5e9ea8a42..03736bbcd3 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -2755,7 +2755,7 @@ stages to temporary files and calls a "merge" script on it: $ git-merge-index git-merge-one-file hello.c ------------------------------------------------- -and that is what higher level `git resolve` is implemented with. +and that is what higher level `git merge -s resolve` is implemented with. How git stores objects efficiently: pack files ---------------------------------------------- |