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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.1.txt | 47 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.2.txt | 42 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-add.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fsck.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-svn.txt | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 3 |
10 files changed, 117 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c6ebd76d19 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Git v1.7.5.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.5 +------------------ + + * When an object "$tree:$path" does not exist, if $path does exist in the + subtree of $tree that corresponds to the subdirectory the user is in, + git now suggests using "$tree:./$path" in addition to the advice to use + the full path from the root of the working tree. + + * The "--date=relative" output format used to say "X years, 12 months" + when it should have said "X+1 years". + + * The smart-HTTP transfer was broken in 1.7.5 when the client needs + to issue a small POST (which uses content-length) and then a large + POST (which uses chunked) back to back. + + * "git clean" used to fail on an empty directory that is not readable, + even though rmdir(2) could remove such a directory. Now we attempt it + as the last resort. + + * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to totally + ignore a change that only rearranged lines within a file. Such a + change now counts as at least a minimum but non zero change. + + * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to use the + pathname in the original, instead of the pathname in the result, + when renames are involved. + + * "git pack-object" did not take core.bigfilethreashold into account + (unlike fast-import); now it does. + + * "git reflog" ignored options like "--format=.." on the command line. + + * "git stash apply" used to refuse to work if there was any change in + the working tree, even when the change did not overlap with the change + the stash recorded. + + * "git stash apply @{99999}" was not diagnosed as an error, even when you + did not have that many stash entries. + + * An error message from "git send-email" to diagnose a broken SMTP + connection configuration lacked a space between "hello=<smtp-domain>" + and "port=<smtp-server-port>". + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b985b07da5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Git v1.7.5.2 Release Notes +========================== + +The release notes to 1.7.5.1 forgot to mention: + + * "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now + mean the same thing. + + * "git upload-pack" (hence "git push" over git native protocol) had a + subtle race condition that could lead to a deadlock. + +Fixes since v1.7.5.1 +-------------------- + + * "git cvsimport" did not know that CVSNT stores its password file in a + location different from the traditional CVS. + + * "git diff-files" did not show the mode information from the working + tree side of an unmerged path correctly. + + * "git diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename + source candidate, which made no sense. + + * "git format-patch" did not quote RFC822 special characters in the + email address (e.g From: Junio C. Hamano <jch@example.com>, not + From: "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@example.com>). + + * "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a + nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output. + + * "git merge-one-file" did not honor GIT_WORK_TREE settings when + handling a "both sides added, differently" conflict. + + * "git mergetool" did not handle conflicted submoudules gracefully. + + * "git-p4" (in contrib) used a wrong base image while merge a file that + was added on both branches differently. + + * "git rebase -i -p" failed to preserve the history when there is a + redundant merge created with the --no-ff option. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 750c86d4f5..0906499e7d 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -442,8 +442,6 @@ for most projects as source code and other text files can still be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't be. + Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. -+ -Currently only linkgit:git-fast-import[1] honors this setting. core.excludesfile:: In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index c93124be79..c32105f1ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] a cut-off percent (3% by default) are not shown. The cut-off percent can be set with `--dirstat=<limit>`. Changes in a child directory are not counted for the parent directory, unless `--cumulative` is used. ++ +Note that the `--dirstat` option computes the changes while ignoring +the amount of pure code movements within a file. In other words, +rearranging lines in a file is not counted as much as other changes. --dirstat-by-file[=<limit>]:: Same as `--dirstat`, but counts changed files instead of lines. @@ -239,7 +243,7 @@ ifdef::git-log[] For following files across renames while traversing history, see `--follow`. endif::git-log[] - If `n` is specified, it is a is a threshold on the similarity + If `n` is specified, it is a threshold on the similarity index (i.e. amount of addition/deletions compared to the file's size). For example, `-M90%` means git should consider a delete/add pair to be a rename if more than 90% of the file diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index 7eebbefe7b..35cb5d3f64 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ subdirectories. If some files could not be added because of errors indexing them, do not abort the operation, but continue adding the others. The command shall still exit with non-zero status. + The configuration variable `add.ignoreErrors` can be set to + true to make this the default behaviour. --ignore-missing:: This option can only be used together with --dry-run. By using diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 2c2ea12c5c..249249aac7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ OPTIONS skips the file if it does not exist. --relative-marks:: - After specifying --relative-marks= the paths specified + After specifying --relative-marks the paths specified with --import-marks= and --export-marks= are relative to an internal directory in the current repository. In git-fast-import this means that the paths are relative @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ OPTIONS --no-relative-marks:: Negates a previous --relative-marks. Allows for combining relative and non-relative marks by interweaving - --(no-)-relative-marks= with the --(import|export)-marks= + --(no-)-relative-marks with the --(import|export)-marks= options. --cat-blob-fd=<fd>:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index a5525e9aa8..f4e959d662 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--ignore-if-in-upstream] [--subject-prefix=Subject-Prefix] [--to=<email>] [--cc=<email>] - [--cover-letter] + [--cover-letter] [--quiet] [<common diff options>] [ <since> | <revision range> ] @@ -196,6 +196,9 @@ will want to ensure that threading is disabled for `git send-email`. Note that the leading character does not have to be a dot; for example, you can use `--suffix=-patch` to get `0001-description-of-my-change-patch`. +--quiet:: + Do not print the names of the generated files to standard output. + --no-binary:: Do not output contents of changes in binary files, instead display a notice that those files changed. Patches generated diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt index c9ede794b0..a2a508dc28 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ index file, all SHA1 references in .git/refs/*, and all reflogs (unless --no-reflogs is given) as heads. --unreachable:: - Print out objects that exist but that aren't readable from any + Print out objects that exist but that aren't reachable from any of the reference nodes. --root:: @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ It tests SHA1 and general object sanity, and it does full tracking of the resulting reachability and everything else. It prints out any corruption it finds (missing or bad objects), and if you use the '--unreachable' flag it will also print out objects that exist but -that aren't readable from any of the specified head nodes. +that aren't reachable from any of the specified head nodes. So for example diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 30a67486d2..509dc03376 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -145,17 +145,6 @@ Skip "branches" and "tags" of first level directories;; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ---use-log-author;; - When retrieving svn commits into git (as part of fetch, rebase, or - dcommit operations), look for the first From: or Signed-off-by: line - in the log message and use that as the author string. ---add-author-from;; - When committing to svn from git (as part of commit or dcommit - operations), if the existing log message doesn't already have a - From: or Signed-off-by: line, append a From: line based on the - git commit's author string. If you use this, then --use-log-author - will retrieve a valid author string for all commits. - 'clone':: Runs 'init' and 'fetch'. It will automatically create a directory based on the basename of the URL passed to it; @@ -572,6 +561,17 @@ repository that will be fetched from. For 'branch' and 'tag', display the urls that will be used for copying when creating the branch or tag. +--use-log-author:: + When retrieving svn commits into git (as part of 'fetch', 'rebase', or + 'dcommit' operations), look for the first `From:` or `Signed-off-by:` line + in the log message and use that as the author string. +--add-author-from:: + When committing to svn from git (as part of 'commit-diff', 'set-tree' or 'dcommit' + operations), if the existing log message doesn't already have a + `From:` or `Signed-off-by:` line, append a `From:` line based on the + git commit's author string. If you use this, then `--use-log-author` + will retrieve a valid author string for all commits. + ADVANCED OPTIONS ---------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 9d5949229a..78420b133a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -44,9 +44,10 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v1.7.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.5] +* link:v1.7.5.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.5.1] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.7.5.1.txt[1.7.5.1], link:RelNotes/1.7.5.txt[1.7.5]. * link:v1.7.4.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.4.5] |