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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.1.txt46
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt89
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt28
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-options.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-add.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-checkout.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt37
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-instaweb.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-log.txt42
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-merge.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-notes.txt186
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rebase.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-remote.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-status.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-update-index.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitignore.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-formats.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-options.txt5
21 files changed, 457 insertions, 79 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2eef0380ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+Git v1.7.1.1 Release Notes (draft)
+==================================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.1
+------------------
+
+ * Authentication over http transport can now be made lazily, in that the
+ request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and
+ then the client will ask for the username to use.
+
+ * We used to mistakenly think "../work" is a subdirectory of the current
+ directory when we are in "../work-xyz".
+
+ * The attribute mechanism now allows an entry that uses an attribute
+ macro that set/unset one attribute, immediately followed by an
+ overriding setting; this makes attribute macros much easier to use.
+
+ * "git am -3" did not show diagnosis when the patch in the message was corrupt.
+
+ * "git bundle --stdin" segfaulted.
+
+ * "git describe" did not tie-break tags that point at the same commit
+ correctly; newer ones are preferred by paying attention to the
+ tagger date now.
+
+ * "git fetch" over HTTP verifies the downloaded packfiles more robustly.
+
+ * The memory usage by "git index-pack" (run during "git fetch" and "git
+ push") got leaner.
+
+ * "GIT_DIR=foo.git git init --bare bar.git" created foo.git instead of bar.git.
+
+ * "git log --abbrev=$num --format='%h' ignored --abbrev=$num.
+
+ * "git send-email" lacked a way to specify the domainname used in the
+ EHLO/HELO exchange, causing rejected connection from picky servers.
+ It learned --smtp-domain option to solve this issue.
+
+ * "git stash" incorrectly lost paths in the working tree that were
+ previously removed from the index.
+
+ * "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake in 1.7.1.
+
+ * "git status" showed excess "hints" even when advice.statusHints is set to false.
+
+And other minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
index 37781b4f14..1df22be126 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
@@ -4,37 +4,104 @@ Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
Updates since v1.7.1
--------------------
+ * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
+ gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
+ policy to indent only with spaces.
+
+ * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
+ metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
+ have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
+ of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
+ directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
+ environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
+ filesystem boundary.
+
+ * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
+ variable from the command line.
+
* After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an
patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
on the presense of such blank lines.
+ * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
+ prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
+ commit.
+
+ * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that
+ lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4).
+
+ * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
+ stored outside the repository.
+
* The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
speed up their reuse.
- * "git send-email" learned --smtp-domain option to specify the domainname
- used in the EHLO/HELO exchange.
+ * "git diff --color" did not paint extended diff headers per line
+ (i.e. the coloring escape sequence didn't end at the end of line),
+ which confused "less -R".
+
+ * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
+ option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
+
+ * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
+ been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
+ better support PHP5.
+
+ * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
+ name abbreviated.
+
+ * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
+ with binary files.
+
+ * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
+ renames). This may make the processing more expensive.
+
+ * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
+ what "git prune" has.
+
+ * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
+ signature line in the format-patch output.
* "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
- * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
- gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
- policy to indent only with spaces.
+ * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
- * Authentication over http transport can now be made lazily, in that the
- request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and
- then the client will ask for the username to use.
+ * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
+ highlighting.
Fixes since v1.7.1
------------------
- * In 1.7.1, "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake.
-
All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.
+ * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).
+
+ * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
+ unchanged" (aecda37c).
+
+ * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and
+ a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time. This
+ obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in
+ an error condition (7223dcaf).
+
+ * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
+ clones (df61c889).
+
+ * "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to
+ minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
+ for very little gain (582aa00).
+
+ * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
+ ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
+ unrelated commit (29609e68).
+
+ * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
+ a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
+
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.1-77-gb751157
+O=v1.7.1-336-g0925c02
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges master ^maint ^$O
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 85f763c4d0..7afd0a333f 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -520,18 +520,12 @@ check that makes sure that existing object files will not get overwritten.
core.notesRef::
When showing commit messages, also show notes which are stored in
- the given ref. This ref is expected to contain files named
- after the full SHA-1 of the commit they annotate. The ref
- must be fully qualified.
+ the given ref. The ref must be fully qualified. If the given
+ ref does not exist, it is not an error but means that no
+ notes should be printed.
+
-If such a file exists in the given ref, the referenced blob is read, and
-appended to the commit message, separated by a "Notes (<refname>):"
-line (shortened to "Notes:" in the case of "refs/notes/commits"). If the
-given ref itself does not exist, it is not an error, but means that no
-notes should be printed.
-+
-This setting defaults to "refs/notes/commits", and can be overridden by
-the `GIT_NOTES_REF` environment variable.
+This setting defaults to "refs/notes/commits", and it can be overridden by
+the 'GIT_NOTES_REF' environment variable. See linkgit:git-notes[1].
core.sparseCheckout::
Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in
@@ -798,6 +792,8 @@ diff.mnemonicprefix::
standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is being compared. When
this configuration is in effect, reverse diff output also swaps
the order of the prefixes:
+diff.noprefix::
+ If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix.
`git diff`;;
compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
`git diff HEAD`;;
@@ -1481,6 +1477,16 @@ pager.<cmd>::
it takes precedence over this option. To disable pagination for
all commands, set `core.pager` or `GIT_PAGER` to `cat`.
+pretty.<name>::
+ Alias for a --pretty= format string, as specified in
+ linkgit:git-log[1]. Any aliases defined here can be used just
+ as the built-in pretty formats could. For example,
+ running `git config pretty.changelog "format:{asterisk} %H %s"`
+ would cause the invocation `git log --pretty=changelog`
+ to be equivalent to running `git log "--pretty=format:{asterisk} %H %s"`.
+ Note that an alias with the same name as a built-in format
+ will be silently ignored.
+
pull.octopus::
The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches
at once.
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 0d89aaaf2a..e745a3ccdc 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -210,7 +210,14 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
-M::
+ifndef::git-log[]
Detect renames.
+endif::git-log[]
+ifdef::git-log[]
+ If generating diffs, detect and report renames for each commit.
+ For following files across renames while traversing history, see
+ `--follow`.
+endif::git-log[]
-C::
Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 51cbeb7032..74741a42f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -266,9 +266,9 @@ patch::
y - stage this hunk
n - do not stage this hunk
- q - quit, do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining ones
- a - stage this and all the remaining hunks in the file
- d - do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining hunks in the file
+ q - quit; do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining ones
+ a - stage this hunk and all later hunks in the file
+ d - do not stage this hunk nor any of the later hunks in the file
g - select a hunk to go to
/ - search for a hunk matching the given regex
j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 4505eb6d84..afda5c36b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -154,6 +154,10 @@ edits from your current working tree.
As a special case, the `"@\{-N\}"` syntax for the N-th last branch
checks out the branch (instead of detaching). You may also specify
`-` which is synonymous with `"@\{-1\}"`.
++
+As a further special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the
+merge base of `A` and `B` if there is exactly one merge base. You can
+leave out at most one of `A` and `B`, in which case it defaults to `HEAD`.
<new_branch>::
Name for the new branch.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 32c482f33f..c28603ecf5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -95,10 +95,11 @@ OPTIONS
read the message from the standard input.
--author=<author>::
- Override the author name used in the commit. You can use the
- standard `A U Thor <author@example.com>` format. Otherwise,
- an existing commit that matches the given string and its author
- name is used.
+ Override the commit author. Specify an explicit author using the
+ standard `A U Thor <author@example.com>` format. Otherwise <author>
+ is assumed to be a pattern and is used to search for an existing
+ commit by that author (i.e. rev-list --all -i --author=<author>);
+ the commit author is then copied from the first such commit found.
--date=<date>::
Override the author date used in the commit.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index dbb053ee17..c27ca4350e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -72,9 +72,6 @@ plugin. Most functionality works fine with both of these clients.
LIMITATIONS
-----------
-Currently cvsserver works over SSH connections for read/write clients, and
-over pserver for anonymous CVS access.
-
CVS clients cannot tag, branch or perform GIT merges.
'git-cvsserver' maps GIT branches to CVS modules. This is very different
@@ -84,7 +81,7 @@ one or more directories.
INSTALLATION
------------
-1. If you are going to offer anonymous CVS access via pserver, add a line in
+1. If you are going to offer CVS access via pserver, add a line in
/etc/inetd.conf like
+
--
@@ -101,6 +98,38 @@ looks like
cvspserver stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-cvsserver git-cvsserver pserver
------
+
+Only anonymous access is provided by pserve by default. To commit you
+will have to create pserver accounts, simply add a gitcvs.authdb
+setting in the config file of the repositories you want the cvsserver
+to allow writes to, for example:
+
+------
+
+ [gitcvs]
+ authdb = /etc/cvsserver/passwd
+
+------
+The format of these files is username followed by the crypted password,
+for example:
+
+------
+ myuser:$1Oyx5r9mdGZ2
+ myuser:$1$BA)@$vbnMJMDym7tA32AamXrm./
+------
+You can use the 'htpasswd' facility that comes with Apache to make these
+files, but Apache's MD5 crypt method differs from the one used by most C
+library's crypt() function, so don't use the -m option.
+
+Alternatively you can produce the password with perl's crypt() operator:
+-----
+ perl -e 'my ($user, $pass) = @ARGV; printf "%s:%s\n", $user, crypt($user, $pass)' $USER password
+-----
+
+Then provide your password via the pserver method, for example:
+------
+ cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword <at> server/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name>
+------
No special setup is needed for SSH access, other than having GIT tools
in the PATH. If you have clients that do not accept the CVS_SERVER
environment variable, you can rename 'git-cvsserver' to `cvs`.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt b/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt
index a1f17df074..2c3c4d2994 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ OPTIONS
The HTTP daemon command-line that will be executed.
Command-line options may be specified here, and the
configuration file will be added at the end of the command-line.
- Currently apache2, lighttpd, mongoose and webrick are supported.
+ Currently apache2, lighttpd, mongoose, plackup and webrick are supported.
(Default: lighttpd)
-m::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index a2d55f9745..0e6ff31823 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -133,6 +133,48 @@ Discussion
include::i18n.txt[]
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+See linkgit:git-config[1] for core variables and linkgit:git-diff[1]
+for settings related to diff generation.
+
+format.pretty::
+ Default for the `--format` option. (See "PRETTY FORMATS" above.)
+ Defaults to "medium".
+
+i18n.logOutputEncoding::
+ Encoding to use when displaying logs. (See "Discussion", above.)
+ Defaults to the value of `i18n.commitEncoding` if set, UTF-8
+ otherwise.
+
+log.date::
+ Default format for human-readable dates. (Compare the
+ `--date` option.) Defaults to "default", which means to write
+ dates like `Sat May 8 19:35:34 2010 -0500`.
+
+log.showroot::
+ If `false`, 'git log' and related commands will not treat the
+ initial commit as a big creation event. Any root commits in
+ `git log -p` output would be shown without a diff attached.
+ The default is `true`.
+
+mailmap.file::
+ See linkgit:git-shortlog[1].
+
+notes.displayRef::
+ Which refs, in addition to the default set by `core.notesRef`
+ or 'GIT_NOTES_REF', to read notes from when showing commit
+ messages with the 'log' family of commands. See
+ linkgit:git-notes[1].
++
+May be an unabbreviated ref name or a glob and may be specified
+multiple times. A warning will be issued for refs that do not exist,
+but a glob that does not match any refs is silently ignored.
++
+This setting can be disabled by the `--no-standard-notes` option,
+overridden by the 'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF' environment variable,
+and supplemented by the `--show-notes` option.
Author
------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index e3d58cbac3..3ea5aad56c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -40,16 +40,16 @@ OPTIONS
-u::
The commit log message, author name and author email are
taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
- transfer encoding, re-coded in UTF-8 by transliterating
+ transfer encoding, re-coded in the charset specified by
+ i18n.commitencoding (defaulting to UTF-8) by transliterating
them. This used to be optional but now it is the default.
+
Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
conversion, even with this flag.
--encoding=<encoding>::
- Similar to -u but if the local convention is different
- from what is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag
- can be used to override it.
+ Similar to -u. But when re-coding, the charset specified here is
+ used instead of the one specified by i18n.commitencoding or UTF-8.
-n::
Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index c2325ef90e..84043cc5b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -58,7 +58,12 @@ include::merge-options.txt[]
-m <msg>::
Set the commit message to be used for the merge commit (in
- case one is created). The 'git fmt-merge-msg' command can be
+ case one is created).
+
+ If `--log` is specified, a shortlog of the commits being merged
+ will be appended to the specified message.
+
+ The 'git fmt-merge-msg' command can be
used to give a good default for automated 'git merge'
invocations.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
index 4e5113b837..5540af5d16 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-notes(1)
NAME
----
-git-notes - Add/inspect object notes
+git-notes - Add or inspect object notes
SYNOPSIS
--------
@@ -15,29 +15,31 @@ SYNOPSIS
'git notes' edit [<object>]
'git notes' show [<object>]
'git notes' remove [<object>]
-'git notes' prune
+'git notes' prune [-n | -v]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-This command allows you to add/remove notes to/from objects, without
-changing the objects themselves.
+Adds, removes, or reads notes attached to objects, without touching
+the objects themselves.
-A typical use of notes is to extend a commit message without having
-to change the commit itself. Such commit notes can be shown by `git log`
-along with the original commit message. To discern these notes from the
+By default, notes are saved to and read from `refs/notes/commits`, but
+this default can be overridden. See the OPTIONS, CONFIGURATION, and
+ENVIRONMENT sections below. If this ref does not exist, it will be
+quietly created when it is first needed to store a note.
+
+A typical use of notes is to supplement a commit message without
+changing the commit itself. Notes can be shown by 'git log' along with
+the original commit message. To distinguish these notes from the
message stored in the commit object, the notes are indented like the
message, after an unindented line saying "Notes (<refname>):" (or
-"Notes:" for the default setting).
+"Notes:" for `refs/notes/commits`).
-This command always manipulates the notes specified in "core.notesRef"
-(see linkgit:git-config[1]), which can be overridden by GIT_NOTES_REF.
-To change which notes are shown by 'git-log', see the
-"notes.displayRef" configuration.
+To change which notes are shown by 'git log', see the
+"notes.displayRef" configuration in linkgit:git-log[1].
-See the description of "notes.rewrite.<command>" in
-linkgit:git-config[1] for a way of carrying your notes across commands
-that rewrite commits.
+See the "notes.rewrite.<command>" configuration for a way to carry
+notes across commands that rewrite commits.
SUBCOMMANDS
@@ -101,15 +103,20 @@ OPTIONS
Use the given note message (instead of prompting).
If multiple `-m` options are given, their values
are concatenated as separate paragraphs.
+ Lines starting with `#` and empty lines other than a
+ single line between paragraphs will be stripped out.
-F <file>::
--file=<file>::
Take the note message from the given file. Use '-' to
read the note message from the standard input.
+ Lines starting with `#` and empty lines other than a
+ single line between paragraphs will be stripped out.
-C <object>::
--reuse-message=<object>::
- Reuse the note message from the given note object.
+ Take the note message from the given blob object (for
+ example, another note).
-c <object>::
--reedit-message=<object>::
@@ -117,22 +124,151 @@ OPTIONS
the user can further edit the note message.
--ref <ref>::
- Manipulate the notes tree in <ref>. This overrides both
- GIT_NOTES_REF and the "core.notesRef" configuration. The ref
+ Manipulate the notes tree in <ref>. This overrides
+ 'GIT_NOTES_REF' and the "core.notesRef" configuration. The ref
is taken to be in `refs/notes/` if it is not qualified.
+-n::
+ Do not remove anything; just report the object names whose notes
+ would be removed.
+
+-v::
+ Report all object names whose notes are removed.
+
+
+DISCUSSION
+----------
-NOTES
------
+Commit notes are blobs containing extra information about an object
+(usually information to supplement a commit's message). These blobs
+are taken from notes refs. A notes ref is usually a branch which
+contains "files" whose paths are the object names for the objects
+they describe, with some directory separators included for performance
+reasons footnote:[Permitted pathnames have the form
+'ab'`/`'cd'`/`'ef'`/`'...'`/`'abcdef...': a sequence of directory
+names of two hexadecimal digits each followed by a filename with the
+rest of the object ID.].
Every notes change creates a new commit at the specified notes ref.
You can therefore inspect the history of the notes by invoking, e.g.,
-`git log -p notes/commits`.
+`git log -p notes/commits`. Currently the commit message only records
+which operation triggered the update, and the commit authorship is
+determined according to the usual rules (see linkgit:git-commit[1]).
+These details may change in the future.
+
+It is also permitted for a notes ref to point directly to a tree
+object, in which case the history of the notes can be read with
+`git log -p -g <refname>`.
+
+
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+
+You can use notes to add annotations with information that was not
+available at the time a commit was written.
+
+------------
+$ git notes add -m 'Tested-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>' 72a144e2
+$ git show -s 72a144e
+[...]
+ Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
+
+Notes:
+ Tested-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
+------------
+
+In principle, a note is a regular Git blob, and any kind of
+(non-)format is accepted. You can binary-safely create notes from
+arbitrary files using 'git hash-object':
+
+------------
+$ cc *.c
+$ blob=$(git hash-object -w a.out)
+$ git notes --ref=built add -C "$blob" HEAD
+------------
+
+Of course, it doesn't make much sense to display non-text-format notes
+with 'git log', so if you use such notes, you'll probably need to write
+some special-purpose tools to do something useful with them.
+
+
+CONFIGURATION
+-------------
-Currently the commit message only records which operation triggered
-the update, and the commit authorship is determined according to the
-usual rules (see linkgit:git-commit[1]). These details may change in
-the future.
+core.notesRef::
+ Notes ref to read and manipulate instead of
+ `refs/notes/commits`. Must be an unabbreviated ref name.
+ This setting can be overridden through the environment and
+ command line.
+
+notes.displayRef::
+ Which ref (or refs, if a glob or specified more than once), in
+ addition to the default set by `core.notesRef` or
+ 'GIT_NOTES_REF', to read notes from when showing commit
+ messages with the 'git log' family of commands.
+ This setting can be overridden on the command line or by the
+ 'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF' environment variable.
+ See linkgit:git-log[1].
+
+notes.rewrite.<command>::
+ When rewriting commits with <command> (currently `amend` or
+ `rebase`), if this variable is `false`, git will not copy
+ notes from the original to the rewritten commit. Defaults to
+ `true`. See also "`notes.rewriteRef`" below.
++
+This setting can be overridden by the 'GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF'
+environment variable.
+
+notes.rewriteMode::
+ When copying notes during a rewrite, what to do if the target
+ commit already has a note. Must be one of `overwrite`,
+ `concatenate`, and `ignore`. Defaults to `concatenate`.
++
+This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE`
+environment variable.
+
+notes.rewriteRef::
+ When copying notes during a rewrite, specifies the (fully
+ qualified) ref whose notes should be copied. May be a glob,
+ in which case notes in all matching refs will be copied. You
+ may also specify this configuration several times.
++
+Does not have a default value; you must configure this variable to
+enable note rewriting.
++
+Can be overridden with the 'GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF' environment variable.
+
+
+ENVIRONMENT
+-----------
+
+'GIT_NOTES_REF'::
+ Which ref to manipulate notes from, instead of `refs/notes/commits`.
+ This overrides the `core.notesRef` setting.
+
+'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF'::
+ Colon-delimited list of refs or globs indicating which refs,
+ in addition to the default from `core.notesRef` or
+ 'GIT_NOTES_REF', to read notes from when showing commit
+ messages.
+ This overrides the `notes.displayRef` setting.
++
+A warning will be issued for refs that do not exist, but a glob that
+does not match any refs is silently ignored.
+
+'GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE'::
+ When copying notes during a rewrite, what to do if the target
+ commit already has a note.
+ Must be one of `overwrite`, `concatenate`, and `ignore`.
+ This overrides the `core.rewriteMode` setting.
+
+'GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF'::
+ When rewriting commits, which notes to copy from the original
+ to the rewritten commit. Must be a colon-delimited list of
+ refs or globs.
++
+If not set in the environment, the list of notes to copy depends
+on the `notes.rewrite.<command>` and `notes.rewriteRef` settings.
Author
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 5863decdc9..50ba2e469f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -206,6 +206,10 @@ OPTIONS
--onto option is not specified, the starting point is
<upstream>. May be any valid commit, and not just an
existing branch name.
++
+As a special case, you may use "A...B" as a shortcut for the
+merge base of A and B if there is exactly one merge base. You can
+leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD.
<upstream>::
Upstream branch to compare against. May be any valid commit,
diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
index ebaaadc178..aa021b0cb8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
'git remote rename' <old> <new>
'git remote rm' <name>
'git remote set-head' <name> (-a | -d | <branch>)
+'git remote set-branches' <name> [--add] <branch>...
'git remote set-url' [--push] <name> <newurl> [<oldurl>]
'git remote set-url --add' [--push] <name> <newurl>
'git remote set-url --delete' [--push] <name> <url>
@@ -110,6 +111,18 @@ remote set-head origin master" will set `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD` to
`refs/remotes/origin/master` already exists; if not it must be fetched first.
+
+'set-branches'::
+
+Changes the list of branches tracked by the named remote.
+This can be used to track a subset of the available remote branches
+after the initial setup for a remote.
++
+The named branches will be interpreted as if specified with the
+`-t` option on the 'git remote add' command line.
++
+With `--add`, instead of replacing the list of currently tracked
+branches, adds to that list.
+
'set-url'::
Changes URL remote points to. Sets first URL remote points to matching
diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index 2d4bbfcaf4..fd0fe7cb56 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ OPTIONS
--short::
Give the output in the short-format.
+-b::
+--branch::
+ Show the branch and tracking info even in short-format.
+
--porcelain::
Give the output in a stable, easy-to-parse format for scripts.
Currently this is identical to --short output, but is guaranteed
@@ -120,6 +124,10 @@ Ignored files are not listed.
? ? untracked
-------------------------------------------------
+If -b is used the short-format status is preceded by a line
+
+## branchname tracking info
+
There is an alternate -z format recommended for machine parsing. In
that format, the status field is the same, but some other things
change. First, the '->' is omitted from rename entries and the field
@@ -128,7 +136,7 @@ order is reversed (e.g 'from -> to' becomes 'to from'). Second, a NUL
and the terminating newline (but a space still separates the status
field from the first filename). Third, filenames containing special
characters are not specially formatted; no quoting or
-backslash-escaping is performed.
+backslash-escaping is performed. Fourth, there is no branch line.
CONFIGURATION
-------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 2502531a3d..cdabfd29ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -145,10 +145,12 @@ summary::
foreach::
Evaluates an arbitrary shell command in each checked out submodule.
- The command has access to the variables $name, $path and $sha1:
+ The command has access to the variables $name, $path, $sha1 and
+ $toplevel:
$name is the name of the relevant submodule section in .gitmodules,
$path is the name of the submodule directory relative to the
- superproject, and $sha1 is the commit as recorded in the superproject.
+ superproject, $sha1 is the commit as recorded in the superproject,
+ and $toplevel is the absolute path to the top-level of the superproject.
Any submodules defined in the superproject but not checked out are
ignored by this command. Unless given --quiet, foreach prints the name
of each submodule before evaluating the command.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
index 68dc1879fe..765d4b312e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
@@ -93,8 +93,6 @@ OPTIONS
This option can be also used as a coarse file-level mechanism
to ignore uncommitted changes in tracked files (akin to what
`.gitignore` does for untracked files).
-You should remember that an explicit 'git add' operation will
-still cause the file to be refreshed from the working tree.
Git will fail (gracefully) in case it needs to modify this file
in the index e.g. when merging in a commit;
thus, in case the assumed-untracked file is changed upstream,
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 98c459dc82..e10fa88b8c 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -83,16 +83,20 @@ Patterns have the following format:
- If the pattern does not contain a slash '/', git treats it as
a shell glob pattern and checks for a match against the
- pathname without leading directories.
+ pathname relative to the location of the `.gitignore` file
+ (relative to the toplevel of the work tree if not from a
+ `.gitignore` file).
- Otherwise, git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable
for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag:
wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname.
For example, "Documentation/\*.html" matches
- "Documentation/git.html" but not
- "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html". A leading slash matches the
- beginning of the pathname; for example, "/*.c" matches
- "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
+ "Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html"
+ or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html".
+
+ - A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname.
+ For example, "/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not
+ "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
An example:
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index bd760d3bd1..8c68ce94f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@ have limited your view of history: for example, if you are
only interested in changes related to a certain directory or
file.
-Here are some additional details for each format:
+There are several built-in formats, and you can define
+additional formats by setting a pretty.<name>
+config option to either another format name, or a
+'format:' string, as described below (see
+linkgit:git-config[1]). Here are the details of the
+built-in formats:
* 'oneline'
@@ -76,9 +81,9 @@ displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or
true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history
simplification into account.
-* 'format:'
+* 'format:<string>'
+
-The 'format:' format allows you to specify which information
+The 'format:<string>' format allows you to specify which information
you want to show. It works a little bit like printf format,
with the notable exception that you get a newline with '%n'
instead of '\n'.
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index af6d2b995a..d78e121c76 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@
Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given format,
where '<format>' can be one of 'oneline', 'short', 'medium',
- 'full', 'fuller', 'email', 'raw' and 'format:<string>'.
- When omitted, the format defaults to 'medium'.
+ 'full', 'fuller', 'email', 'raw' and 'format:<string>'. See
+ the "PRETTY FORMATS" section for some additional details for each
+ format. When omitted, the format defaults to 'medium'.
+
Note: you can specify the default pretty format in the repository
configuration (see linkgit:git-config[1]).