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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt index 7655cccfaa..6eff128c80 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. * Invoking the low-level "git http-fetch" without "-a" option (which - git itself never did---normal users should not have to worry about + git itself never did--normal users should not have to worry about this) is now deprecated. * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt index fc3ea185a5..986637b755 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Git v1.8.3.1 Release Notes -======================== +========================== Fixes since v1.8.3 ------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt index 3aa25a2743..96090ef599 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Git v1.8.4.1 Release Notes -======================== +========================== Fixes since v1.8.4 ------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.2.txt index 9adccb1efb..bf6fb1a023 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.2.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Git v1.8.4.2 Release Notes -======================== +========================== Fixes since v1.8.4.1 -------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.3.txt index 03f3d17751..267a1b34b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.3.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Git v1.8.4.3 Release Notes -======================== +========================== Fixes since v1.8.4.2 -------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.4.txt index 7bc4c5dcc0..a7c1ce15c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.4.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Git v1.8.4.4 Release Notes -======================== +========================== Fixes since v1.8.4.3 -------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt index 752d79127a..4e4b88aa5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * The naming convention of the packfiles has been updated; it used to be based on the enumeration of names of the objects that are contained in the pack, but now it also depends on how the packed - result is represented---packing the same set of objects using + result is represented--packing the same set of objects using different settings (or delta order) would produce a pack with different name. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5bfffa4106 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Git v2.2.3 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.2.2 +------------------ + + * A handful of codepaths that used to use fixed-sized arrays to hold + pathnames have been corrected to use strbuf and other mechanisms to + allow longer pathnames without fearing overflows. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9d425d814d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Git v2.3.10 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.3.9 +------------------ + + * xdiff code we use to generate diffs is not prepared to handle + extremely large files. It uses "int" in many places, which can + overflow if we have a very large number of lines or even bytes in + our input files, for example. Cap the input size to soemwhere + around 1GB for now. + + * Some protocols (like git-remote-ext) can execute arbitrary code + found in the URL. The URLs that submodules use may come from + arbitrary sources (e.g., .gitmodules files in a remote + repository), and can hurt those who blindly enable recursive + fetch. Restrict the allowed protocols to well known and safe + ones. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.9.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1a2ad3235a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.9.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Git v2.3.9 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.3.8 +------------------ + + * A handful of codepaths that used to use fixed-sized arrays to hold + pathnames have been corrected to use strbuf and other mechanisms to + allow longer pathnames without fearing overflows. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8621199bc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Git v2.4.10 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.4.9 +------------------ + + * xdiff code we use to generate diffs is not prepared to handle + extremely large files. It uses "int" in many places, which can + overflow if we have a very large number of lines or even bytes in + our input files, for example. Cap the input size to soemwhere + around 1GB for now. + + * Some protocols (like git-remote-ext) can execute arbitrary code + found in the URL. The URLs that submodules use may come from + arbitrary sources (e.g., .gitmodules files in a remote + repository), and can hurt those who blindly enable recursive + fetch. Restrict the allowed protocols to well known and safe + ones. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.9.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..09af9ddbc7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.9.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Git v2.4.9 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.4.9 +------------------ + + * A handful of codepaths that used to use fixed-sized arrays to hold + pathnames have been corrected to use strbuf and other mechanisms to + allow longer pathnames without fearing overflows. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3f749398bb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +Git v2.5.2 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.5.1 +------------------ + + * "git init empty && git -C empty log" said "bad default revision 'HEAD'", + which was found to be a bit confusing to new users. + + * The "interpret-trailers" helper mistook a multi-paragraph title of + a commit log message with a colon in it as the end of the trailer + block. + + * When re-priming the cache-tree opportunistically while committing + the in-core index as-is, we mistakenly invalidated the in-core + index too aggressively, causing the experimental split-index code + to unnecessarily rewrite the on-disk index file(s). + + * "git archive" did not use zip64 extension when creating an archive + with more than 64k entries, which nobody should need, right ;-)? + + * The code in "multiple-worktree" support that attempted to recover + from an inconsistent state updated an incorrect file. + + * "git rev-list" does not take "--notes" option, but did not complain + when one is given. + + * Because the configuration system does not allow "alias.0foo" and + "pager.0foo" as the configuration key, the user cannot use '0foo' + as a custom command name anyway, but "git 0foo" tried to look these + keys up and emitted useless warnings before saying '0foo is not a + git command'. These warning messages have been squelched. + + * We recently rewrote one of the build scripts in Perl, which made it + necessary to have Perl to build Git. Reduced Perl dependency by + rewriting it again using sed. + + * t1509 test that requires a dedicated VM environment had some + bitrot, which has been corrected. + + * strbuf_read() used to have one extra iteration (and an unnecessary + strbuf_grow() of 8kB), which was eliminated. + + * The codepath to produce error messages had a hard-coded limit to + the size of the message, primarily to avoid memory allocation while + calling die(). + + * When trying to see that an object does not exist, a state errno + leaked from our "first try to open a packfile with O_NOATIME and + then if it fails retry without it" logic on a system that refuses + O_NOATIME. This confused us and caused us to die, saying that the + packfile is unreadable, when we should have just reported that the + object does not exist in that packfile to the caller. + + * An off-by-one error made "git remote" to mishandle a remote with a + single letter nickname. + + * A handful of codepaths that used to use fixed-sized arrays to hold + pathnames have been corrected to use strbuf and other mechanisms to + allow longer pathnames without fearing overflows. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d1436857cb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Git v2.5.3 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.5.2 +------------------ + + * The experimental untracked-cache feature were buggy when paths with + a few levels of subdirectories are involved. + + * Recent versions of scripted "git am" has a performance regression + in "git am --skip" codepath, which no longer exists in the + built-in version on the 'master' front. Fix the regression in + the last scripted version that appear in 2.5.x maintenance track + and older. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a5e8477a4a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Git v2.5.4 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.5.4 +------------------ + + * xdiff code we use to generate diffs is not prepared to handle + extremely large files. It uses "int" in many places, which can + overflow if we have a very large number of lines or even bytes in + our input files, for example. Cap the input size to soemwhere + around 1GB for now. + + * Some protocols (like git-remote-ext) can execute arbitrary code + found in the URL. The URLs that submodules use may come from + arbitrary sources (e.g., .gitmodules files in a remote + repository), and can hurt those who blindly enable recursive + fetch. Restrict the allowed protocols to well known and safe + ones. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt index eb79a1815d..7288aaf716 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * A negative !ref entry in multi-value transfer.hideRefs configuration can be used to say "don't hide this one". - * After "git am" without "-3" stops, running "git am -" pays attention + * After "git am" without "-3" stops, running "git am -3" pays attention to "-3" only for the patch that caused the original invocation to stop. @@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git config --list" output was hard to parse when values consist of multiple lines. "--name-only" option is added to help this. + * A handful of usability & cosmetic fixes to gitk and l10n updates. + + * A completely empty e-mail address <> is now allowed in the authors + file used by git-svn, to match the way it accepts the output from + authors-prog. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -269,7 +275,7 @@ notes for details). * We rewrote one of the build scripts in Perl but this reimplements in Bourne shell. - (merge 82aec45 sg/help-group later to maint). + (merge 57cee8a sg/help-group later to maint). * The experimental untracked-cache feature were buggy when paths with a few levels of subdirectories are involved. @@ -327,6 +333,16 @@ notes for details). which was found to be a bit confusing to new users. (merge ce11360 jk/log-missing-default-HEAD later to maint). + * Recent versions of scripted "git am" has a performance regression in + "git am --skip" codepath, which no longer exists in the built-in + version on the 'master' front. Fix the regression in the last + scripted version that appear in 2.5.x maintenance track and older. + (merge b9d6689 js/maint-am-skip-performance-regression later to maint). + + * The branch descriptions that are set with "git branch --edit-description" + option were used in many places but they weren't clearly documented. + (merge 561d2b7 po/doc-branch-desc later to maint). + * Code cleanups and documentation updates. (merge 1c601af es/doc-clean-outdated-tools later to maint). (merge 3581304 kn/tag-doc-fix later to maint). @@ -349,3 +365,6 @@ notes for details). (merge b8c1d27 ah/pack-objects-usage-strings later to maint). (merge 486e1e1 br/svn-doc-include-paths-config later to maint). (merge 1733ed3 ee/clean-test-fixes later to maint). + (merge 5fcadc3 gb/apply-comment-typofix later to maint). + (merge b894d3e mp/t7060-diff-index-test later to maint). + (merge d238710 as/config-doc-markup-fix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1e51363e3c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Git v2.6.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.6 +---------------- + + * xdiff code we use to generate diffs is not prepared to handle + extremely large files. It uses "int" in many places, which can + overflow if we have a very large number of lines or even bytes in + our input files, for example. Cap the input size to soemwhere + around 1GB for now. + + * Some protocols (like git-remote-ext) can execute arbitrary code + found in the URL. The URLs that submodules use may come from + arbitrary sources (e.g., .gitmodules files in a remote + repository), and can hurt those who blindly enable recursive + fetch. Restrict the allowed protocols to well known and safe + ones. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5b65e35245 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +Git v2.6.2 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.6.1 +------------------ + + * There were some classes of errors that "git fsck" diagnosed to its + standard error that did not cause it to exit with non-zero status. + + * A test script for the HTTP service had a timing dependent bug, + which was fixed. + + * Performance-measurement tests did not work without an installed Git. + + * On a case insensitive filesystems, setting GIT_WORK_TREE variable + using a random cases that does not agree with what the filesystem + thinks confused Git that it wasn't inside the working tree. + + * When "git am" was rewritten as a built-in, it stopped paying + attention to user.signingkey, which was fixed. + + * After "git checkout --detach", "git status" reported a fairly + useless "HEAD detached at HEAD", instead of saying at which exact + commit. + + * "git rebase -i" had a minor regression recently, which stopped + considering a line that begins with an indented '#' in its insn + sheet not a comment, which is now fixed. + + * Description of the "log.follow" configuration variable in "git log" + documentation is now also copied to "git config" documentation. + + * Allocation related functions and stdio are unsafe things to call + inside a signal handler, and indeed killing the pager can cause + glibc to deadlock waiting on allocation mutex as our signal handler + tries to free() some data structures in wait_for_pager(). Reduce + these unsafe calls. + + * The way how --ref/--notes to specify the notes tree reference are + DWIMmed was not clearly documented. + + * Customization to change the behaviour with "make -w" and "make -s" + in our Makefile was broken when they were used together. + + * The Makefile always runs the library archiver with hardcoded "crs" + options, which was inconvenient for exotic platforms on which + people want to use programs with totally different set of command + line options. + + * The ssh transport, just like any other transport over the network, + did not clear GIT_* environment variables, but it is possible to + use SendEnv and AcceptEnv to leak them to the remote invocation of + Git, which is not a good idea at all. Explicitly clear them just + like we do for the local transport. + + * "git blame --first-parent v1.0..v2.0" was not rejected but did not + limit the blame to commits on the first parent chain. + + * Very small number of options take a parameter that is optional + (which is not a great UI element as they can only appear at the end + of the command line). Add notice to documentation of each and + every one of them. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fc6fe1711f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +Git v2.6.3 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.6.2 +------------------ + + * The error message from "git blame --contents --reverse" incorrectly + talked about "--contents --children". + + * "git merge-file" tried to signal how many conflicts it found, which + obviously would not work well when there are too many of them. + + * The name-hash subsystem that is used to cope with case insensitive + filesystems keeps track of directories and their on-filesystem + cases for all the paths in the index by holding a pointer to a + randomly chosen cache entry that is inside the directory (for its + ce->ce_name component). This pointer was not updated even when the + cache entry was removed from the index, leading to use after free. + This was fixed by recording the path for each directory instead of + borrowing cache entries and restructuring the API somewhat. + + * When the "git am" command was reimplemented in C, "git am -3" had a + small regression where it is aborted in its error handling codepath + when underlying merge-recursive failed in some ways. + + * The synopsis text and the usage string of subcommands that read + list of things from the standard input are often shown as if they + only take input from a file on a filesystem, which was misleading. + + * A couple of commands still showed "[options]" in their usage string + to note where options should come on their command line, but we + spell that "[<options>]" in most places these days. + + * The submodule code has been taught to work better with separate + work trees created via "git worktree add". + + * When "git gc --auto" is backgrounded, its diagnosis message is + lost. It now is saved to a file in $GIT_DIR and is shown next time + the "gc --auto" is run. + + * Work around "git p4" failing when the P4 depot records the contents + in UTF-16 without UTF-16 BOM. + + * Recent update to "rebase -i" that tries to sanity check the edited + insn sheet before it uses it has become too picky on Windows where + CRLF left by the editor is turned into a trailing CR on the line + read via the "read" built-in command. + + * "git clone --dissociate" runs a big "git repack" process at the + end, and it helps to close file descriptors that are open on the + packs and their idx files before doing so on filesystems that + cannot remove a file that is still open. + + * Correct "git p4 --detect-labels" so that it does not fail to create + a tag that points at a commit that is also being imported. + + * The internal stripspace() function has been moved to where it + logically belongs to, i.e. strbuf API, and the command line parser + of "git stripspace" has been updated to use the parse_options API. + + * Prepare for Git on-disk repository representation to undergo + backward incompatible changes by introducing a new repository + format version "1", with an extension mechanism. + + * "git gc" used to barf when a symbolic ref has gone dangling + (e.g. the branch that used to be your upstream's default when you + cloned from it is now gone, and you did "fetch --prune"). + + * The normalize_ceiling_entry() function does not muck with the end + of the path it accepts, and the real world callers do rely on that, + but a test insisted that the function drops a trailing slash. + + * "git gc" is safe to run anytime only because it has the built-in + grace period to protect young objects. In order to run with no + grace period, the user must make sure that the repository is + quiescent. + + * A recent "filter-branch --msg-filter" broke skipping of the commit + object header, which is fixed. + + * "git --literal-pathspecs add -u/-A" without any command line + argument misbehaved ever since Git 2.0. + + * Merging a branch that removes a path and another that changes the + mode bits on the same path should have conflicted at the path, but + it didn't and silently favoured the removal. + + * "git imap-send" did not compile well with older version of cURL library. + + * The linkage order of libraries was wrong in places around libcurl. + + * It was not possible to use a repository-lookalike created by "git + worktree add" as a local source of "git clone". + + * When "git send-email" wanted to talk over Net::SMTP::SSL, + Net::Cmd::datasend() did not like to be fed too many bytes at the + same time and failed to send messages. Send the payload one line + at a time to work around the problem. + + * We peek objects from submodule's object store by linking it to the + list of alternate object databases, but the code to do so forgot to + correctly initialize the list. + + * "git status --branch --short" accessed beyond the constant string + "HEAD", which has been corrected. + + * "git daemon" uses "run_command()" without "finish_command()", so it + needs to release resources itself, which it forgot to do. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b0256a2dc9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +Git v2.6.4 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.6.3 +------------------ + + * The "configure" script did not test for -lpthread correctly, which + upset some linkers. + + * Add support for talking http/https over socks proxy. + + * Portability fix for Windows, which may rewrite $SHELL variable using + non-POSIX paths. + + * We now consistently allow all hooks to ignore their standard input, + rather than having git complain of SIGPIPE. + + * Fix shell quoting in contrib script. + + * Test portability fix for a topic in v2.6.1. + + * Allow tilde-expansion in some http config variables. + + * Give a useful special case "diff/show --word-diff-regex=." as an + example in the documentation. + + * Fix for a corner case in filter-branch. + + * Make git-p4 work on a detached head. + + * Documentation clarification for "check-ignore" without "--verbose". + + * Just like the working tree is cleaned up when the user cancelled + submission in P4Submit.applyCommit(), clean up the mess if "p4 + submit" fails. + + * Having a leftover .idx file without corresponding .pack file in + the repository hurts performance; "git gc" learned to prune them. + + * The code to prepare the working tree side of temporary directory + for the "dir-diff" feature forgot that symbolic links need not be + copied (or symlinked) to the temporary area, as the code already + special cases and overwrites them. Besides, it was wrong to try + computing the object name of the target of symbolic link, which may + not even exist or may be a directory. + + * There was no way to defeat a configured rebase.autostash variable + from the command line, as "git rebase --no-autostash" was missing. + + * Allow "git interpret-trailers" to run outside of a Git repository. + + * Produce correct "dirty" marker for shell prompts, even when we + are on an orphan or an unborn branch. + + * Some corner cases have been fixed in string-matching done in "git + status". + + * Apple's common crypto implementation of SHA1_Update() does not take + more than 4GB at a time, and we now have a compile-time workaround + for it. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 0c351b9bcf..fec0dea5d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -866,9 +866,9 @@ branch.<name>.rebase:: "git pull" is run. See "pull.rebase" for doing this in a non branch-specific manner. + - When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase' - so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened - by running 'git pull'. +When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase' +so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened +by running 'git pull'. + *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1] @@ -1840,6 +1840,12 @@ log.decorate:: specified, the full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. This is the same as the log commands '--decorate' option. +log.follow:: + If `true`, `git log` will act as if the `--follow` option was used when + a single <path> is given. This has the same limitations as `--follow`, + i.e. it cannot be used to follow multiple files and does not work well + on non-linear history. + log.showRoot:: If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event. This is equivalent to a diff against an empty tree. @@ -2138,9 +2144,9 @@ pull.rebase:: pull" is run. See "branch.<name>.rebase" for setting this on a per-branch basis. + - When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase' - so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened - by running 'git pull'. +When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase' +so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened +by running 'git pull'. + *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1] diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index d56ca90998..306b7e3604 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -267,6 +267,9 @@ expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters. A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the newline. + +For example, `--word-diff-regex=.` will treat each character as a word +and, correspondingly, show differences character by character. ++ The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index dbea6e7ae9..452c1feb23 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -141,7 +141,9 @@ default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this. -S[<keyid>]:: --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: - GPG-sign commits. + GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and + defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be + stuck to the option without a space. --continue:: -r:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt index 0f0c6ff082..c06efbd42a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt @@ -1321,7 +1321,7 @@ So git bisect is unconditional goodness - and feel free to quote that _____________ Acknowledgments ----------------- +--------------- Many thanks to Junio Hamano for his help in reviewing this paper, for reviewing the patches I sent to the Git mailing list, for discussing diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index e97f2de21b..1b7a97b1db 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Then compile and test the chosen revision, and afterwards mark the revision as good or bad in the usual manner. Bisect skip -~~~~~~~~~~~~ +~~~~~~~~~~~ Instead of choosing a nearby commit by yourself, you can ask Git to do it for you by issuing the command: @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ cannot be tested. If the script exits with this code, the current revision will be skipped (see `git bisect skip` above). 125 was chosen as the highest sensible value to use for this purpose, because 126 and 127 are used by POSIX shells to signal specific error status (127 is for -command not found, 126 is for command found but not executable---these +command not found, 126 is for command found but not executable--these details do not matter, as they are normal errors in the script, as far as `bisect run` is concerned). diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index a67138a022..bbbade4f51 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -197,7 +197,9 @@ start-point is either a local or remote-tracking branch. --edit-description:: Open an editor and edit the text to explain what the branch is - for, to be used by various other commands (e.g. `request-pull`). + for, to be used by various other commands (e.g. `format-patch`, + `request-pull`, and `merge` (if enabled)). Multi-line explanations + may be used. --contains [<commit>]:: Only list branches which contain the specified commit (HEAD diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt index 3105fc0720..eb3d6945a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git cat-file' (-t [--allow-unknown-type]| -s [--allow-unknown-type]| -e | -p | <type> | --textconv ) <object> -'git cat-file' (--batch | --batch-check) [--follow-symlinks] < <list-of-objects> +'git cat-file' (--batch | --batch-check) [--follow-symlinks] DESCRIPTION ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt index 00e2aa2df2..aa3b2bf2fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git check-attr' [-a | --all | attr...] [--] pathname... -'git check-attr' --stdin [-z] [-a | --all | attr...] < <list-of-paths> +'git check-attr' --stdin [-z] [-a | --all | attr...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ OPTIONS Consider `.gitattributes` in the index only, ignoring the working tree. --stdin:: - Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line. + Read pathnames from the standard input, one per line, + instead of from the command-line. -z:: The output format is modified to be machine-parseable. diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index e35cd0489b..e94367a5ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -10,16 +10,15 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git check-ignore' [options] pathname... -'git check-ignore' [options] --stdin < <list-of-paths> +'git check-ignore' [options] --stdin DESCRIPTION ----------- For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via -`--stdin`, show the pattern from .gitignore (or other input files to -the exclude mechanism) that decides if the pathname is excluded or -included. Later patterns within a file take precedence over earlier -ones. +`--stdin`, check whether the file is excluded by .gitignore (or other +input files to the exclude mechanism) and output the path if it is +excluded. By default, tracked files are not shown at all since they are not subject to exclude rules; but see `--no-index'. @@ -32,10 +31,12 @@ OPTIONS -v, --verbose:: Also output details about the matching pattern (if any) - for each given pathname. + for each given pathname. For precedence rules within and + between exclude sources, see linkgit:gitignore[5]. --stdin:: - Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line. + Read pathnames from the standard input, one per line, + instead of from the command-line. -z:: The output format is modified to be machine-parseable (see diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt index 1147c71da6..77da29a474 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git cherry-pick' [--edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-x] [--ff] - [-S[<key-id>]] <commit>... + [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>... 'git cherry-pick' --continue 'git cherry-pick' --quit 'git cherry-pick' --abort @@ -101,9 +101,11 @@ effect to your index in a row. --signoff:: Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message. --S[<key-id>]:: ---gpg-sign[=<key-id>]:: - GPG-sign commits. +-S[<keyid>]:: +--gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: + GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and + defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be + stuck to the option without a space. --ff:: If the current HEAD is the same as the parent of the diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index f5f2a8d326..48c33d7ed7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-commit-tree - Create a new commit object SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent>)...] < changelog +'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent>)...] 'git commit-tree' [(-p <parent>)...] [-S[<keyid>]] [(-m <message>)...] [(-F <file>)...] <tree> @@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ OPTIONS -S[<keyid>]:: --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: - GPG-sign commit. + GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and + defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be + stuck to the option without a space. --no-gpg-sign:: Countermand `commit.gpgSign` configuration variable that is diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 904dafa0f7..7f34a5b331 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [-F <file> | -m <msg>] [--reset-author] [--allow-empty] [--allow-empty-message] [--no-verify] [-e] [--author=<author>] [--date=<date>] [--cleanup=<mode>] [--[no-]status] - [-i | -o] [-S[<key-id>]] [--] [<file>...] + [-i | -o] [-S[<keyid>]] [--] [<file>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -314,7 +314,9 @@ changes to tracked files. -S[<keyid>]:: --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: - GPG-sign commit. + GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and + defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be + stuck to the option without a space. --no-gpg-sign:: Countermand `commit.gpgSign` configuration variable that is diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index e62d9a0717..efe56e0808 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ This configuration is used in two ways: * When `git fetch` is run without specifying what branches and/or tags to fetch on the command line, e.g. `git fetch origin` or `git fetch`, `remote.<repository>.fetch` values are used as - the refspecs---they specify which refs to fetch and which local refs + the refspecs--they specify which refs to fetch and which local refs to update. The example above will fetch all branches that exist in the `origin` (i.e. any ref that matches the left-hand side of the value, `refs/heads/*`) and update the diff --git a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt index 55a9a4b93a..6526b178e8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-fmt-merge-msg - Produce a merge commit message SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log[=<n>] | --no-log] <$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD +'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log[=<n>] | --no-log] 'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log[=<n>] | --no-log] -F <file> DESCRIPTION @@ -57,6 +57,18 @@ merge.summary:: Synonym to `merge.log`; this is deprecated and will be removed in the future. +EXAMPLE +------- + +-- +$ git fetch origin master +$ git fmt-merge-msg --log <$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD +-- + +Print a log message describing a merge of the "master" branch from +the "origin" remote. + + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-merge[1] diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 0dac4e9b86..4035649117 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ feeding the result to `git send-email`. --[no-]cover-letter:: In addition to the patches, generate a cover letter file - containing the shortlog and the overall diffstat. You can + containing the branch description, shortlog and the overall diffstat. You can fill in a description in the file before sending it out. --notes[=<ref>]:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index 52234987f9..fa1510480a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -63,8 +63,11 @@ automatic consolidation of packs. --prune=<date>:: Prune loose objects older than date (default is 2 weeks ago, overridable by the config variable `gc.pruneExpire`). - --prune=all prunes loose objects regardless of their age. - --prune is on by default. + --prune=all prunes loose objects regardless of their age (do + not use --prune=all unless you know exactly what you are doing. + Unless the repository is quiescent, you will lose newly created + objects that haven't been anchored with the refs and end up + corrupting your repository). --prune is on by default. --no-prune:: Do not prune any loose objects. diff --git a/Documentation/git-get-tar-commit-id.txt b/Documentation/git-get-tar-commit-id.txt index 1e2a20dd26..ac44d85b0b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-get-tar-commit-id.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-get-tar-commit-id.txt @@ -9,17 +9,19 @@ git-get-tar-commit-id - Extract commit ID from an archive created using git-arch SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git get-tar-commit-id' < <tarfile> +'git get-tar-commit-id' DESCRIPTION ----------- -Acts as a filter, extracting the commit ID stored in archives created by -'git archive'. It reads only the first 1024 bytes of input, thus its -runtime is not influenced by the size of <tarfile> very much. + +Read a tar archive created by 'git archive' from the standard input +and extract the commit ID stored in it. It reads only the first +1024 bytes of input, thus its runtime is not influenced by the size +of the tar archive very much. If no commit ID is found, 'git get-tar-commit-id' quietly exists with a -return code of 1. This can happen if <tarfile> had not been created +return code of 1. This can happen if the archive had not been created using 'git archive' or if the first parameter of 'git archive' had been a tree ID instead of a commit ID or tag. diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 31811f16bd..4a44d6da13 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -160,12 +160,15 @@ OPTIONS For better compatibility with 'git diff', `--name-only` is a synonym for `--files-with-matches`. --O [<pager>]:: ---open-files-in-pager [<pager>]:: +-O[<pager>]:: +--open-files-in-pager[=<pager>]:: Open the matching files in the pager (not the output of 'grep'). If the pager happens to be "less" or "vi", and the user specified only one pattern, the first file is positioned at - the first match automatically. + the first match automatically. The `pager` argument is + optional; if specified, it must be stuck to the option + without a space. If `pager` is unspecified, the default pager + will be used (see `core.pager` in linkgit:git-config[1]). -z:: --null:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt index 0c75f3b610..814e74406a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--path=<file>|--no-filters] [--stdin [--literally]] [--] <file>... -'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] --stdin-paths [--no-filters] < <list-of-paths> +'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] --stdin-paths [--no-filters] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ OPTIONS Read the object from standard input instead of from a file. --stdin-paths:: - Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line. + Read file names from the standard input, one per line, instead + of from the command-line. --path:: Hash object as it were located at the given path. The location of diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt index d6d9231b50..0ecd497c4d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ OPTIONS --trim-empty:: If the <value> part of any trailer contains only whitespace, the whole trailer will be removed from the resulting message. - This apply to existing trailers as well as new trailers. + This applies to existing trailers as well as new trailers. --trailer <token>[(=|:)<value>]:: Specify a (<token>, <value>) pair that should be applied as a diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index 97b9993ee8..03f958029a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -185,10 +185,10 @@ log.date:: dates like `Sat May 8 19:35:34 2010 -0500`. log.follow:: - If a single <path> is given to git log, it will act as - if the `--follow` option was also used. This has the same - limitations as `--follow`, i.e. it cannot be used to follow - multiple files and does not work well on non-linear history. + If `true`, `git log` will act as if the `--follow` option was used when + a single <path> is given. This has the same limitations as `--follow`, + i.e. it cannot be used to follow multiple files and does not work well + on non-linear history. log.showRoot:: If `false`, `git log` and related commands will not treat the diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt index 2e22915eb8..d510c05e11 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-ls-remote - List references in a remote repository SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git ls-remote' [--heads] [--tags] [-u <exec> | --upload-pack <exec>] +'git ls-remote' [--heads] [--tags] [--upload-pack=<exec>] [--exit-code] <repository> [<refs>...] DESCRIPTION @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ OPTIONS both, references stored in refs/heads and refs/tags are displayed. --u <exec>:: --upload-pack=<exec>:: Specify the full path of 'git-upload-pack' on the remote host. This allows listing references from repositories accessed via diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt index d2fc12ec77..f856032613 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt @@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ lines from `<other-file>`, or lines from both respectively. The length of the conflict markers can be given with the `--marker-size` option. The exit value of this program is negative on error, and the number of -conflicts otherwise. If the merge was clean, the exit value is 0. +conflicts otherwise (truncated to 127 if there are more than that many +conflicts). If the merge was clean, the exit value is 0. 'git merge-file' is designed to be a minimal clone of RCS 'merge'; that is, it implements all of RCS 'merge''s functionality which is needed by diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index 273a1009be..07f7295ec8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git merge' [-n] [--stat] [--no-commit] [--squash] [--[no-]edit] - [-s <strategy>] [-X <strategy-option>] [-S[<key-id>]] + [-s <strategy>] [-X <strategy-option>] [-S[<keyid>]] [--[no-]rerere-autoupdate] [-m <msg>] [<commit>...] 'git merge' <msg> HEAD <commit>... 'git merge' --abort @@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ include::merge-options.txt[] -S[<keyid>]:: --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: - GPG-sign the resulting merge commit. + GPG-sign the resulting merge commit. The `keyid` argument is + optional and defaults to the committer identity; if specified, + it must be stuck to the option without a space. -m <msg>:: Set the commit message to be used for the merge commit (in @@ -78,7 +80,7 @@ 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. +invocations. The automated message can include the branch description. --[no-]rerere-autoupdate:: Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt index 3ca158b05e..fa6a756123 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-mktag - Creates a tag object SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git mktag' < signature_file +'git mktag' DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ The output is the new tag's <object> identifier. Tag Format ---------- -A tag signature file has a very simple fixed format: four lines of +A tag signature file, to be fed to this command's standard input, +has a very simple fixed format: four lines of object <sha1> type <typename> diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt index a9a916f360..8de349968a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt @@ -162,7 +162,9 @@ OPTIONS --ref <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. + specifies the full refname when it begins with `refs/notes/`; when it + begins with `notes/`, `refs/` and otherwise `refs/notes/` is prefixed + to form a full name of the ref. --ignore-missing:: Do not consider it an error to request removing notes from an diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt index 31efc587ee..cf71fba1c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt @@ -8,10 +8,12 @@ git-patch-id - Compute unique ID for a patch SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git patch-id' [--stable | --unstable] < <patch> +'git patch-id' [--stable | --unstable] DESCRIPTION ----------- +Read a patch from the standard input and compute the patch ID for it. + A "patch ID" is nothing but a sum of SHA-1 of the file diffs associated with a patch, with whitespace and line numbers ignored. As such, it's "reasonably stable", but at the same time also reasonably unique, i.e., two patches that diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 1495e3416c..85a4d7d6d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ be named. If `git push [<repository>]` without any `<refspec>` argument is set to update some ref at the destination with `<src>` with `remote.<repository>.push` configuration variable, `:<dst>` part can -be omitted---such a push will update a ref that `<src>` normally updates +be omitted--such a push will update a ref that `<src>` normally updates without any `<refspec>` on the command line. Otherwise, missing `:<dst>` means to update the same ref as the `<src>`. + diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index ca039546a4..6cca8bb51d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -294,7 +294,9 @@ which makes little sense. -S[<keyid>]:: --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: - GPG-sign commits. + GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and + defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be + stuck to the option without a space. -q:: --quiet:: @@ -432,7 +434,8 @@ If the '--autosquash' option is enabled by default using the configuration variable `rebase.autoSquash`, this option can be used to override and disable this setting. ---[no-]autostash:: +--autostash:: +--no-autostash:: Automatically create a temporary stash before the operation begins, and apply it after the operation ends. This means that you can run rebase on a dirty worktree. However, use diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt index 4c6d6de7b7..8bd22aff87 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ git-remote(1) -============ +============= NAME ---- diff --git a/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt index 283577b0b6..c32cb0bea1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt @@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- Generate a request asking your upstream project to pull changes into -their tree. The request, printed to the standard output, summarizes +their tree. The request, printed to the standard output, +begins with the branch description, summarizes the changes and indicates from where they can be pulled. The upstream project is expected to have the commit named by diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt index cceb5f2f7f..b15139ffdc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-revert - Revert some existing commits SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git revert' [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-S[<key-id>]] <commit>... +'git revert' [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>... 'git revert' --continue 'git revert' --quit 'git revert' --abort @@ -80,9 +80,11 @@ more details. This is useful when reverting more than one commits' effect to your index in a row. --S[<key-id>]:: ---gpg-sign[=<key-id>]:: - GPG-sign commits. +-S[<keyid>]:: +--gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: + GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and + defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be + stuck to the option without a space. -s:: --signoff:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-index.txt b/Documentation/git-show-index.txt index fbdc8adae5..a8a9509e0e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-index.txt @@ -9,13 +9,14 @@ git-show-index - Show packed archive index SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git show-index' < idx-file +'git show-index' DESCRIPTION ----------- -Reads given idx file for packed Git archive created with -'git pack-objects' command, and dumps its contents. +Read the idx file for a Git packfile created with +'git pack-objects' command from the standard input, and +dump its contents. The information it outputs is subset of what you can get from 'git verify-pack -v'; this command only shows the packfile diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt index 2a6f89b235..3a32451984 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git show-ref' [-q|--quiet] [--verify] [--head] [-d|--dereference] [-s|--hash[=<n>]] [--abbrev[=<n>]] [--tags] [--heads] [--] [<pattern>...] -'git show-ref' --exclude-existing[=<pattern>] < ref-list +'git show-ref' --exclude-existing[=<pattern>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ particular ref exists. By default, shows the tags, heads, and remote refs. -The --exclude-existing form is a filter that does the inverse, it shows the -refs from stdin that don't exist in the local repository. +The --exclude-existing form is a filter that does the inverse. It reads +refs from stdin, one ref per line, and shows those that don't exist in +the local repository. Use of this utility is encouraged in favor of directly accessing files under the `.git` directory. diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index 335f312335..e1e8f57cdd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -53,8 +53,9 @@ OPTIONS --untracked-files[=<mode>]:: Show untracked files. + -The mode parameter is optional (defaults to 'all'), and is used to -specify the handling of untracked files. +The mode parameter is used to specify the handling of untracked files. +It is optional: it defaults to 'all', and if specified, it must be +stuck to the option (e.g. `-uno`, but not `-u no`). + The possible options are: + diff --git a/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt b/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt index 60328d5d08..2438f76da0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt @@ -9,14 +9,15 @@ git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git stripspace' [-s | --strip-comments] < input -'git stripspace' [-c | --comment-lines] < input +'git stripspace' [-s | --strip-comments] +'git stripspace' [-c | --comment-lines] DESCRIPTION ----------- -Clean the input in the manner used by Git for text such as commit -messages, notes, tags and branch descriptions. +Read text, such as commit messages, notes, tags and branch +descriptions, from the standard input and clean it in the manner +used by Git. With no arguments, this will: diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 84f6496bf2..08b4dfbf1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-tag - Create, list, delete or verify a tag object signed with GPG SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git tag' [-a | -s | -u <key-id>] [-f] [-m <msg> | -F <file>] +'git tag' [-a | -s | -u <keyid>] [-f] [-m <msg> | -F <file>] <tagname> [<commit> | <object>] 'git tag' -d <tagname>... 'git tag' [-n[<num>]] -l [--contains <commit>] [--points-at <object>] @@ -24,19 +24,19 @@ to delete, list or verify tags. Unless `-f` is given, the named tag must not yet exist. -If one of `-a`, `-s`, or `-u <key-id>` is passed, the command +If one of `-a`, `-s`, or `-u <keyid>` is passed, the command creates a 'tag' object, and requires a tag message. Unless `-m <msg>` or `-F <file>` is given, an editor is started for the user to type in the tag message. -If `-m <msg>` or `-F <file>` is given and `-a`, `-s`, and `-u <key-id>` +If `-m <msg>` or `-F <file>` is given and `-a`, `-s`, and `-u <keyid>` are absent, `-a` is implied. Otherwise just a tag reference for the SHA-1 object name of the commit object is created (i.e. a lightweight tag). A GnuPG signed tag object will be created when `-s` or `-u -<key-id>` is used. When `-u <key-id>` is not used, the +<keyid>` is used. When `-u <keyid>` is not used, the committer identity for the current user is used to find the GnuPG key for signing. The configuration variable `gpg.program` is used to specify custom GnuPG binary. @@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ OPTIONS --sign:: Make a GPG-signed tag, using the default e-mail address's key. --u <key-id>:: ---local-user=<key-id>:: +-u <keyid>:: +--local-user=<keyid>:: Make a GPG-signed tag, using the given key. -f:: @@ -125,14 +125,14 @@ This option is only applicable when listing tags without annotation lines. Use the given tag message (instead of prompting). If multiple `-m` options are given, their values are concatenated as separate paragraphs. - Implies `-a` if none of `-a`, `-s`, or `-u <key-id>` + Implies `-a` if none of `-a`, `-s`, or `-u <keyid>` is given. -F <file>:: --file=<file>:: Take the tag message from the given file. Use '-' to read the message from the standard input. - Implies `-a` if none of `-a`, `-s`, or `-u <key-id>` + Implies `-a` if none of `-a`, `-s`, or `-u <keyid>` is given. --cleanup=<mode>:: @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ it in the repository configuration as follows: ------------------------------------- [user] - signingKey = <gpg-key-id> + signingKey = <gpg-keyid> ------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt index 07d432988f..3e887d1610 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-unpack-objects - Unpack objects from a packed archive SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git unpack-objects' [-n] [-q] [-r] [--strict] < <packfile> +'git unpack-objects' [-n] [-q] [-r] [--strict] DESCRIPTION diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index 1a296bc29a..f4e5a85351 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ SYNOPSIS [--[no-]assume-unchanged] [--[no-]skip-worktree] [--ignore-submodules] + [--[no-]split-index] + [--[no-|force-]untracked-cache] [--really-refresh] [--unresolve] [--again | -g] [--info-only] [--index-info] [-z] [--stdin] [--index-version <n>] diff --git a/Documentation/git-upload-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-upload-archive.txt index cbef61ba88..fba0f1c1b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-upload-archive.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-upload-archive.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ git-upload-archive(1) -==================== +===================== NAME ---- diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 4e5d55be6a..cbf157be43 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,15 +43,29 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from the 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v2.5.1/git.html[documentation for release 2.5.1] +* link:v2.6.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.6.4] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.6.4.txt[2.6.4], + link:RelNotes/2.6.3.txt[2.6.3], + link:RelNotes/2.6.2.txt[2.6.2], + link:RelNotes/2.6.1.txt[2.6.1], + link:RelNotes/2.6.0.txt[2.6]. + +* link:v2.5.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.5.4] + +* release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.5.4.txt[2.5.4], + link:RelNotes/2.5.3.txt[2.5.3], + link:RelNotes/2.5.2.txt[2.5.2], link:RelNotes/2.5.1.txt[2.5.1], link:RelNotes/2.5.0.txt[2.5]. -* link:v2.4.8/git.html[documentation for release 2.4.8] +* link:v2.4.10/git.html[documentation for release 2.4.10] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.4.10.txt[2.4.10], + link:RelNotes/2.4.9.txt[2.4.9], link:RelNotes/2.4.8.txt[2.4.8], link:RelNotes/2.4.7.txt[2.4.7], link:RelNotes/2.4.6.txt[2.4.6], @@ -62,9 +76,11 @@ Documentation for older releases are available here: link:RelNotes/2.4.1.txt[2.4.1], link:RelNotes/2.4.0.txt[2.4]. -* link:v2.3.8/git.html[documentation for release 2.3.8] +* link:v2.3.10/git.html[documentation for release 2.3.10] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.3.10.txt[2.3.10], + link:RelNotes/2.3.9.txt[2.3.9], link:RelNotes/2.3.8.txt[2.3.8], link:RelNotes/2.3.7.txt[2.3.7], link:RelNotes/2.3.6.txt[2.3.6], @@ -75,9 +91,10 @@ Documentation for older releases are available here: link:RelNotes/2.3.1.txt[2.3.1], link:RelNotes/2.3.0.txt[2.3]. -* link:v2.2.2/git.html[documentation for release 2.2.2] +* link:v2.2.3/git.html[documentation for release 2.2.3] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.2.3.txt[2.2.3], link:RelNotes/2.2.2.txt[2.2.2], link:RelNotes/2.2.1.txt[2.2.1], link:RelNotes/2.2.0.txt[2.2]. @@ -1040,7 +1057,7 @@ of clones and fetches. cloning of shallow repositories. See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output options. -GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS:: +'GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS':: Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all pathspecs literally, rather than as glob patterns. For example, running `GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS=1 git log -- '*.c'` will search @@ -1049,15 +1066,15 @@ GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS:: literal paths to Git (e.g., paths previously given to you by `git ls-tree`, `--raw` diff output, etc). -GIT_GLOB_PATHSPECS:: +'GIT_GLOB_PATHSPECS':: Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all pathspecs as glob patterns (aka "glob" magic). -GIT_NOGLOB_PATHSPECS:: +'GIT_NOGLOB_PATHSPECS':: Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all pathspecs as literal (aka "literal" magic). -GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS:: +'GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS':: Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all pathspecs as case-insensitive. @@ -1071,7 +1088,7 @@ GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS:: variable when it is invoked as the top level command by the end user, to be recorded in the body of the reflog. -`GIT_REF_PARANOIA`:: +'GIT_REF_PARANOIA':: If set to `1`, include broken or badly named refs when iterating over lists of refs. In a normal, non-corrupted repository, this does nothing. However, enabling it may help git to detect and @@ -1082,6 +1099,33 @@ GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS:: an operation has touched every ref (e.g., because you are cloning a repository to make a backup). +'GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL':: + If set, provide a colon-separated list of protocols which are + allowed to be used with fetch/push/clone. This is useful to + restrict recursive submodule initialization from an untrusted + repository. Any protocol not mentioned will be disallowed (i.e., + this is a whitelist, not a blacklist). If the variable is not + set at all, all protocols are enabled. The protocol names + currently used by git are: + + - `file`: any local file-based path (including `file://` URLs, + or local paths) + + - `git`: the anonymous git protocol over a direct TCP + connection (or proxy, if configured) + + - `ssh`: git over ssh (including `host:path` syntax, + `git+ssh://`, etc). + + - `rsync`: git over rsync + + - `http`: git over http, both "smart http" and "dumb http". + Note that this does _not_ include `https`; if you want both, + you should specify both as `http:https`. + + - any external helpers are named by their protocol (e.g., use + `hg` to allow the `git-remote-hg` helper) + Discussion[[Discussion]] ------------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/giteveryday.txt b/Documentation/giteveryday.txt index 7be6e64846..35473ad02f 100644 --- a/Documentation/giteveryday.txt +++ b/Documentation/giteveryday.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ giteveryday(7) -=============== +============== NAME ---- diff --git a/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt b/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt index c0ed6d1925..e903eb7860 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ gitrevisions(7) -================ +=============== NAME ---- diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt index 8d6c5cec4c..4b659ac1a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt @@ -55,8 +55,9 @@ By default, the notes shown are from the notes refs listed in the environment overrides). See linkgit:git-config[1] for more details. + With an optional '<ref>' argument, show this notes ref instead of the -default notes ref(s). The ref is taken to be in `refs/notes/` if it -is not qualified. +default notes ref(s). The ref specifies the full refname when it begins +with `refs/notes/`; when it begins with `notes/`, `refs/` and otherwise +`refs/notes/` is prefixed to form a full name of the ref. + Multiple --notes options can be combined to control which notes are being displayed. Examples: "--notes=foo" will show only notes from diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt index a9fdb45b93..8bf3e37f53 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt @@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ Functions The argument dir corresponds the member .dir. The argument env corresponds to the member .env. +`child_process_clear`:: + + Release the memory associated with the struct child_process. + Most users of the run-command API don't need to call this + function explicitly because `start_command` invokes it on + failure and `finish_command` calls it automatically already. + The functions above do the following: . If a system call failed, errno is set and -1 is returned. A diagnostic diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt index 7392ff636c..ade0b0c445 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ Git index format The entries are written out in the top-down, depth-first order. The first entry represents the root level of the repository, followed by the - first subtree---let's call this A---of the root level (with its name + first subtree--let's call this A--of the root level (with its name relative to the root level), followed by the first subtree of A (with its name relative to A), ... diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index 4064fc796f..c6977bbc5a 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ data. The protocol functions to have a server tell a client what is currently on the server, then for the two to negotiate the smallest amount of data to send in order to fully update one or the other. +pkt-line Format +--------------- + +The descriptions below build on the pkt-line format described in +protocol-common.txt. When the grammar indicate `PKT-LINE(...)`, unless +otherwise noted the usual pkt-line LF rules apply: the sender SHOULD +include a LF, but the receiver MUST NOT complain if it is not present. + Transports ---------- There are three transports over which the packfile protocol is @@ -143,9 +151,6 @@ with the object name that each reference currently points to. 003fe92df48743b7bc7d26bcaabfddde0a1e20cae47c refs/tags/v1.0^{} 0000 -Server SHOULD terminate each non-flush line using LF ("\n") terminator; -client MUST NOT complain if there is no terminator. - The returned response is a pkt-line stream describing each ref and its current value. The stream MUST be sorted by name according to the C locale ordering. @@ -165,15 +170,15 @@ MUST peel the ref if it's an annotated tag. flush-pkt no-refs = PKT-LINE(zero-id SP "capabilities^{}" - NUL capability-list LF) + NUL capability-list) list-of-refs = first-ref *other-ref first-ref = PKT-LINE(obj-id SP refname - NUL capability-list LF) + NUL capability-list) other-ref = PKT-LINE(other-tip / other-peeled) - other-tip = obj-id SP refname LF - other-peeled = obj-id SP refname "^{}" LF + other-tip = obj-id SP refname + other-peeled = obj-id SP refname "^{}" shallow = PKT-LINE("shallow" SP obj-id) @@ -216,8 +221,8 @@ out of what the server said it could do with the first 'want' line. depth-request = PKT-LINE("deepen" SP depth) - first-want = PKT-LINE("want" SP obj-id SP capability-list LF) - additional-want = PKT-LINE("want" SP obj-id LF) + first-want = PKT-LINE("want" SP obj-id SP capability-list) + additional-want = PKT-LINE("want" SP obj-id) depth = 1*DIGIT ---- @@ -284,7 +289,7 @@ so that there is always a block of 32 "in-flight on the wire" at a time. compute-end have-list = *have-line - have-line = PKT-LINE("have" SP obj-id LF) + have-line = PKT-LINE("have" SP obj-id) compute-end = flush-pkt / PKT-LINE("done") ---- @@ -348,10 +353,10 @@ Then the server will start sending its packfile data. ---- server-response = *ack_multi ack / nak - ack_multi = PKT-LINE("ACK" SP obj-id ack_status LF) + ack_multi = PKT-LINE("ACK" SP obj-id ack_status) ack_status = "continue" / "common" / "ready" - ack = PKT-LINE("ACK SP obj-id LF) - nak = PKT-LINE("NAK" LF) + ack = PKT-LINE("ACK" SP obj-id) + nak = PKT-LINE("NAK") ---- A simple clone may look like this (with no 'have' lines): @@ -467,10 +472,10 @@ references. ---- update-request = *shallow ( command-list | push-cert ) [packfile] - shallow = PKT-LINE("shallow" SP obj-id LF) + shallow = PKT-LINE("shallow" SP obj-id) - command-list = PKT-LINE(command NUL capability-list LF) - *PKT-LINE(command LF) + command-list = PKT-LINE(command NUL capability-list) + *PKT-LINE(command) flush-pkt command = create / delete / update @@ -521,7 +526,8 @@ Push Certificate A push certificate begins with a set of header lines. After the header and an empty line, the protocol commands follow, one per -line. +line. Note that the the trailing LF in push-cert PKT-LINEs is _not_ +optional; it must be present. Currently, the following header fields are defined: @@ -560,12 +566,12 @@ update was successful, or 'ng [refname] [error]' if the update was not. 1*(command-status) flush-pkt - unpack-status = PKT-LINE("unpack" SP unpack-result LF) + unpack-status = PKT-LINE("unpack" SP unpack-result) unpack-result = "ok" / error-msg command-status = command-ok / command-fail - command-ok = PKT-LINE("ok" SP refname LF) - command-fail = PKT-LINE("ng" SP refname SP error-msg LF) + command-ok = PKT-LINE("ok" SP refname) + command-fail = PKT-LINE("ng" SP refname SP error-msg) error-msg = 1*(OCTECT) ; where not "ok" ---- diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt index 889985f707..bf30167ae3 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt @@ -62,7 +62,10 @@ A pkt-line MAY contain binary data, so implementors MUST ensure pkt-line parsing/formatting routines are 8-bit clean. A non-binary line SHOULD BE terminated by an LF, which if present -MUST be included in the total length. +MUST be included in the total length. Receivers MUST treat pkt-lines +with non-binary data the same whether or not they contain the trailing +LF (stripping the LF if present, and not complaining when it is +missing). The maximum length of a pkt-line's data component is 65520 bytes. Implementations MUST NOT send pkt-line whose length exceeds 65524 diff --git a/Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt b/Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..00ad37986e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +Git Repository Format Versions +============================== + +Every git repository is marked with a numeric version in the +`core.repositoryformatversion` key of its `config` file. This version +specifies the rules for operating on the on-disk repository data. An +implementation of git which does not understand a particular version +advertised by an on-disk repository MUST NOT operate on that repository; +doing so risks not only producing wrong results, but actually losing +data. + +Because of this rule, version bumps should be kept to an absolute +minimum. Instead, we generally prefer these strategies: + + - bumping format version numbers of individual data files (e.g., + index, packfiles, etc). This restricts the incompatibilities only to + those files. + + - introducing new data that gracefully degrades when used by older + clients (e.g., pack bitmap files are ignored by older clients, which + simply do not take advantage of the optimization they provide). + +A whole-repository format version bump should only be part of a change +that cannot be independently versioned. For instance, if one were to +change the reachability rules for objects, or the rules for locking +refs, that would require a bump of the repository format version. + +Note that this applies only to accessing the repository's disk contents +directly. An older client which understands only format `0` may still +connect via `git://` to a repository using format `1`, as long as the +server process understands format `1`. + +The preferred strategy for rolling out a version bump (whether whole +repository or for a single file) is to teach git to read the new format, +and allow writing the new format with a config switch or command line +option (for experimentation or for those who do not care about backwards +compatibility with older gits). Then after a long period to allow the +reading capability to become common, we may switch to writing the new +format by default. + +The currently defined format versions are: + +Version `0` +----------- + +This is the format defined by the initial version of git, including but +not limited to the format of the repository directory, the repository +configuration file, and the object and ref storage. Specifying the +complete behavior of git is beyond the scope of this document. + +Version `1` +----------- + +This format is identical to version `0`, with the following exceptions: + + 1. When reading the `core.repositoryformatversion` variable, a git + implementation which supports version 1 MUST also read any + configuration keys found in the `extensions` section of the + configuration file. + + 2. If a version-1 repository specifies any `extensions.*` keys that + the running git has not implemented, the operation MUST NOT + proceed. Similarly, if the value of any known key is not understood + by the implementation, the operation MUST NOT proceed. + +Note that if no extensions are specified in the config file, then +`core.repositoryformatversion` SHOULD be set to `0` (setting it to `1` +provides no benefit, and makes the repository incompatible with older +implementations of git). + +This document will serve as the master list for extensions. Any +implementation wishing to define a new extension should make a note of +it here, in order to claim the name. + +The defined extensions are: + +`noop` +~~~~~~ + +This extension does not change git's behavior at all. It is useful only +for testing format-1 compatibility. + +`preciousObjects` +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +When the config key `extensions.preciousObjects` is set to `true`, +objects in the repository MUST NOT be deleted (e.g., by `git-prune` or +`git repack -d`). diff --git a/Documentation/urls-remotes.txt b/Documentation/urls-remotes.txt index 282758e768..bd184cd653 100644 --- a/Documentation/urls-remotes.txt +++ b/Documentation/urls-remotes.txt @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ The `<pushurl>` is used for pushes only. It is optional and defaults to `<url>`. Named file in `$GIT_DIR/remotes` -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can choose to provide the name of a file in `$GIT_DIR/remotes`. The URL diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 68978f5338..1c790ac74a 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1431,11 +1431,11 @@ differently. Normally, a merge results in a merge commit, with two parents, one pointing at each of the two lines of development that were merged. -However, if the current branch is a descendant of the other--so every -commit present in the one is already contained in the other--then Git -just performs a "fast-forward"; the head of the current branch is moved -forward to point at the head of the merged-in branch, without any new -commits being created. +However, if the current branch is an ancestor of the other--so every commit +present in the current branch is already contained in the other branch--then Git +just performs a "fast-forward"; the head of the current branch is moved forward +to point at the head of the merged-in branch, without any new commits being +created. [[fixing-mistakes]] Fixing mistakes @@ -1491,7 +1491,7 @@ resolving a merge>>. [[fixing-a-mistake-by-rewriting-history]] Fixing a mistake by rewriting history -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If the problematic commit is the most recent commit, and you have not yet made that commit public, then you may just @@ -3424,7 +3424,7 @@ just missing one particular blob version. [[the-index]] The index ------------ +--------- The index is a binary file (generally kept in `.git/index`) containing a sorted list of path names, each with permissions and the SHA-1 of a blob |