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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.2.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.3.txt24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.4.txt32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt84
-rw-r--r--Documentation/SubmittingPatches3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-branch.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-clean.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-daemon.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fast-import.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-format-patch.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-log.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-notes.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-push.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt183
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-remote-testgit.txt30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-send-pack.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-svn.txt24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitnamespaces.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt58
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt10
24 files changed, 426 insertions, 135 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..67ae414965
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Git v1.7.6.2 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.6.1
+--------------------
+
+ * v1.7.6.1 broke "git push --quiet"; it used to be a no-op against an old
+ version of Git running on the other end, but v1.7.6.1 made it abort.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..95971831b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Git v1.7.6.3 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.6.2
+--------------------
+
+ * "git -c var=value subcmd" misparsed the custom configuration when
+ value contained an equal sign.
+
+ * "git fetch" had a major performance regression, wasting many
+ needless cycles in a repository where there is no submodules
+ present. This was especially bad, when there were many refs.
+
+ * "git reflog $refname" did not default to the "show" subcommand as
+ the documentation advertised the command to do.
+
+ * "git reset" did not leave meaningful log message in the reflog.
+
+ * "git status --ignored" did not show ignored items when there is no
+ untracked items.
+
+ * "git tag --contains $commit" was unnecessarily inefficient.
+
+Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e19acac2da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+Git v1.7.6.4 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.6.3
+--------------------
+
+ * The error reporting logic of "git am" when the command is fed a file
+ whose mail-storage format is unknown was fixed.
+
+ * "git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly.
+
+ * "git check-ref-format --print" used to parrot a candidate string that
+ began with a slash (e.g. /refs/heads/master) without stripping it, to make
+ the result a suitably normalized string the caller can append to "$GIT_DIR/".
+
+ * "git clone" failed to clone locally from a ".git" file that itself
+ is not a directory but is a pointer to one.
+
+ * "git clone" from a local repository that borrows from another
+ object store using a relative path in its objects/info/alternates
+ file did not adjust the alternates in the resulting repository.
+
+ * "git describe --dirty" did not refresh the index before checking the
+ state of the working tree files.
+
+ * "git ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors
+ incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec.
+
+ * "git mergetool" could loop forever prompting when nothing can be read
+ from the standard input.
+
+Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
index dcbda84e86..7655cccfaa 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
* Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated.
- * A handful of patches to update git-p4 (in contrib/).
+ * Various updates to git-p4 (in contrib/), fast-import, and git-svn.
* Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists,
before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf
@@ -20,69 +20,96 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected.
* Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that
- uses non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on
+ use a non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on
Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not
deflated with 32kb window.
- * "git am" learned to pass "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
+ * Interaction between the use of pager and coloring of the output has
+ been improved, especially when a command that is not built-in was
+ involved.
+
+ * "git am" learned to pass the "--exclude=<path>" option through to underlying
"git apply".
- * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding a mbox file to
+ * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding an mbox file to
"git am".
* "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
produce "archive.tar.gz".
- * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided if the test
+ * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided that the test
you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of
course).
+ * The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output
+ now honors the core.abbrev configuration variable.
+
* "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line.
- * "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a
+ * "git check-attr" learned an "--all" option to list the attributes for a
given path.
* "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
- different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned
+ different branch and the code to checkout a specific set of files) learned
to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
- read the entire contents of a file in memory first. An earlier round
+ read the entire contents of a file into memory first. An earlier round
of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but
now it has been plugged.
- * "git clone" can now take "--config key=value" option to set the
+ * "git clone" can now take a "--config key=value" option to set the
repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout.
* "git commit <paths>..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that
- refer outside your current subdirectory.
+ refer to outside your current subdirectory.
- * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
- diffstat report.
+ * "git diff --stat" learned a --stat-count option to limit the output of
+ a diffstat report.
- * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff
+ * "git diff" learned a "--histogram" option to use a different diff
generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
performance.
+ * "git diff" had a weird worst case behaviour that can be triggered
+ when comparing files with potentially many places that could match.
+
* "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
- errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one
+ errors for addresses that couldn't be connected to when at least one
address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
one).
- * "git grep" learned --break and --heading options, to let users mimic
- output format of "ack".
+ * "git grep" learned "--break" and "--heading" options, to let users mimic
+ the output format of "ack".
- * "git grep" learned "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
+ * "git grep" learned a "-W" option that shows wider context using the same
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
+ this) is now deprecated.
+
+ * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to
+ highlight grafted and replaced commits.
+
* "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
- "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
+ the "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
+
+ * The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large
+ fix for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world
+ projects (it has been verified that none of the 16000+ merges in
+ the Linux kernel history back to v2.6.12 is affected with the
+ corner case bugs this update fixes).
- * "git stash" learned --include-untracked option.
+ * "git stash" learned an "--include-untracked option".
* "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a
submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
- * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a
+ * "git push" can be told with the "--recurse-submodules=check" option to
+ refuse pushing of the supermodule, if any of its submodules'
+ commits hasn't been pushed out to their remotes.
+
+ * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend that only a
subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to
put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be
useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic).
@@ -91,7 +118,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
* test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules
- are not installed; it now exits early when they are unavailable.
+ are not installed; they now exit early when the latter are unavailable.
Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
changes.
@@ -100,17 +127,8 @@ changes.
Fixes since v1.7.6
------------------
-Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
+Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
included in this release.
- * "ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors
- incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec.
- (merge 0f64bfa cb/maint-ls-files-error-report later to 'maint').
-
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-echo O=$(git describe master)
-O=v1.7.6-576-g6fcb384
-git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
-echo
-git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master
+ * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip
+ of the branch that is currently checked out updated.
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 938eccf2a5..0dbf2c9843 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -134,8 +134,7 @@ Another thing: NULL pointers shall be written as NULL, not as 0.
(2) Generate your patch using git tools out of your commits.
-git based diff tools (git, Cogito, and StGIT included) generate
-unidiff which is the preferred format.
+git based diff tools generate unidiff which is the preferred format.
You do not have to be afraid to use -M option to "git diff" or
"git format-patch", if your patch involves file renames. The
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index c50f189827..507b8d0ab2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ OPTIONS
--abbrev=<length>::
Alter the sha1's minimum display length in the output listing.
- The default value is 7.
+ The default value is 7 and can be overridden by the `core.abbrev`
+ config option.
--no-abbrev::
Display the full sha1s in the output listing rather than abbreviating them.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
index 974e04ef1a..79fb984144 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
@@ -47,12 +47,14 @@ OPTIONS
-e <pattern>::
--exclude=<pattern>::
- Specify special exceptions to not be cleaned. Each <pattern> is
- the same form as in $GIT_DIR/info/excludes and this option can be
- given multiple times.
+ In addition to those found in .gitignore (per directory) and
+ $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, also consider these patterns to be in the
+ set of the ignore rules in effect.
-x::
- Don't use the ignore rules. This allows removing all untracked
+ Don't use the standard ignore rules read from .gitignore (per
+ directory) and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, but do still use the ignore
+ rules given with `-e` options. This allows removing all untracked
files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in
conjunction with 'git reset') to create a pristine
working directory to test a clean build.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index ebd13be72e..69a1e4af9e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -93,14 +93,14 @@ OPTIONS
Listen on an alternative port. Incompatible with '--inetd' option.
--init-timeout=<n>::
- Timeout between the moment the connection is established and the
- client request is received (typically a rather low value, since
+ Timeout (in seconds) between the moment the connection is established
+ and the client request is received (typically a rather low value, since
that should be basically immediate).
--timeout=<n>::
- Timeout for specific client sub-requests. This includes the time
- it takes for the server to process the sub-request and the time spent
- waiting for the next client's request.
+ Timeout (in seconds) for specific client sub-requests. This includes
+ the time it takes for the server to process the sub-request and the
+ time spent waiting for the next client's request.
--max-connections=<n>::
Maximum number of concurrent clients, defaults to 32. Set it to
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index db0d75fdbc..ec6ef31197 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -425,8 +425,8 @@ Here `<name>` is the person's display name (for example
(``cm@example.com''). `LT` and `GT` are the literal less-than (\x3c)
and greater-than (\x3e) symbols. These are required to delimit
the email address from the other fields in the line. Note that
-`<name>` is free-form and may contain any sequence of bytes, except
-`LT` and `LF`. It is typically UTF-8 encoded.
+`<name>` and `<email>` are free-form and may contain any sequence
+of bytes, except `LT`, `GT` and `LF`. `<name>` is typically UTF-8 encoded.
The time of the change is specified by `<when>` using the date format
that was selected by the \--date-format=<fmt> command line option.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index d13c9b23f7..6ea9be775c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -166,15 +166,22 @@ will want to ensure that threading is disabled for `git send-email`.
--to=<email>::
Add a `To:` header to the email headers. This is in addition
to any configured headers, and may be used multiple times.
+ The negated form `--no-to` discards all `To:` headers added so
+ far (from config or command line).
--cc=<email>::
Add a `Cc:` header to the email headers. This is in addition
to any configured headers, and may be used multiple times.
+ The negated form `--no-cc` discards all `Cc:` headers added so
+ far (from config or command line).
--add-header=<header>::
Add an arbitrary header to the email headers. This is in addition
to any configured headers, and may be used multiple times.
- For example, `--add-header="Organization: git-foo"`
+ For example, `--add-header="Organization: git-foo"`.
+ The negated form `--no-add-header` discards *all* (`To:`,
+ `Cc:`, and custom) headers added so far from config or command
+ line.
--cover-letter::
In addition to the patches, generate a cover letter file
diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
index 4d42073867..070cd1e6ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
-----------
Downloads a remote git repository via HTTP.
+*NOTE*: use of this command without -a is deprecated. The -a
+behaviour will become the default in a future release.
+
OPTIONS
-------
commit-id::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index 6c934660d7..249fc878ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -69,10 +69,13 @@ produced by --stat etc.
its size is not included.
[\--] <path>...::
- Show only commits that affect any of the specified paths. To
- prevent confusion with options and branch names, paths may need
- to be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from options or
- refnames.
+ Show only commits that are enough to explain how the files
+ that match the specified paths came to be. See "History
+ Simplification" below for details and other simplification
+ modes.
++
+To prevent confusion with options and branch names, paths may need to
+be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from options or refnames.
include::rev-list-options.txt[]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
index 6a187f2e23..e8319eac69 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
@@ -142,8 +142,9 @@ OPTIONS
-C <object>::
--reuse-message=<object>::
- Take the note message from the given blob object (for
- example, another note).
+ Take the given blob object (for example, another note) as the
+ note message. (Use `git notes copy <object>` instead to
+ copy notes between objects.)
-c <object>::
--reedit-message=<object>::
@@ -285,6 +286,8 @@ $ blob=$(git hash-object -w a.out)
$ git notes --ref=built add -C "$blob" HEAD
------------
+(You cannot simply use `git notes --ref=built add -F a.out HEAD`
+because that is not binary-safe.)
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.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 49c6e9fa51..aede48877f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -162,6 +162,12 @@ useful if you write an alias or script around 'git push'.
is specified. This flag forces progress status even if the
standard error stream is not directed to a terminal.
+--recurse-submodules=check::
+ Check whether all submodule commits used by the revisions to be
+ pushed are available on a remote tracking branch. Otherwise the
+ push will be aborted and the command will exit with non-zero status.
+
+
include::urls-remotes.txt[]
OUTPUT
diff --git a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt
index a3a1d8eea3..b1f7dc643a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-receive-pack - Receive what is pushed into the repository
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-receive-pack' [--quiet] <directory>
+'git-receive-pack' <directory>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -35,9 +35,6 @@ are not fast-forwards.
OPTIONS
-------
---quiet::
- Print only error messages.
-
<directory>::
The repository to sync into.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
index 4f83dea5a3..674797cd83 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
@@ -24,22 +24,141 @@ output. Because a remote helper runs as an independent process from
git, there is no need to re-link git to add a new helper, nor any
need to link the helper with the implementation of git.
-Every helper must support the "capabilities" command, which git will
-use to determine what other commands the helper will accept. Other
-commands generally concern facilities like discovering and updating
-remote refs, transporting objects between the object database and
-the remote repository, and updating the local object store.
-
-Helpers supporting the 'fetch' capability can discover refs from the
-remote repository and transfer objects reachable from those refs to
-the local object store. Helpers supporting the 'push' capability can
-transfer local objects to the remote repository and update remote refs.
+Every helper must support the "capabilities" command, which git
+uses to determine what other commands the helper will accept. Those
+other commands can be used to discover and update remote refs,
+transport objects between the object database and the remote repository,
+and update the local object store.
Git comes with a "curl" family of remote helpers, that handle various
transport protocols, such as 'git-remote-http', 'git-remote-https',
'git-remote-ftp' and 'git-remote-ftps'. They implement the capabilities
'fetch', 'option', and 'push'.
+INPUT FORMAT
+------------
+
+Git sends the remote helper a list of commands on standard input, one
+per line. The first command is always the 'capabilities' command, in
+response to which the remote helper must print a list of the
+capabilities it supports (see below) followed by a blank line. The
+response to the capabilities command determines what commands Git uses
+in the remainder of the command stream.
+
+The command stream is terminated by a blank line. In some cases
+(indicated in the documentation of the relevant commands), this blank
+line is followed by a payload in some other protocol (e.g., the pack
+protocol), while in others it indicates the end of input.
+
+Capabilities
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Each remote helper is expected to support only a subset of commands.
+The operations a helper supports are declared to git in the response
+to the `capabilities` command (see COMMANDS, below).
+
+'option'::
+ For specifying settings like `verbosity` (how much output to
+ write to stderr) and `depth` (how much history is wanted in the
+ case of a shallow clone) that affect how other commands are
+ carried out.
+
+'connect'::
+ For fetching and pushing using git's native packfile protocol
+ that requires a bidirectional, full-duplex connection.
+
+'push'::
+ For listing remote refs and pushing specified objects from the
+ local object store to remote refs.
+
+'fetch'::
+ For listing remote refs and fetching the associated history to
+ the local object store.
+
+'import'::
+ For listing remote refs and fetching the associated history as
+ a fast-import stream.
+
+'refspec' <refspec>::
+ This modifies the 'import' capability, allowing the produced
+ fast-import stream to modify refs in a private namespace
+ instead of writing to refs/heads or refs/remotes directly.
+ It is recommended that all importers providing the 'import'
+ capability use this.
++
+A helper advertising the capability
+`refspec refs/heads/{asterisk}:refs/svn/origin/branches/{asterisk}`
+is saying that, when it is asked to `import refs/heads/topic`, the
+stream it outputs will update the `refs/svn/origin/branches/topic`
+ref.
++
+This capability can be advertised multiple times. The first
+applicable refspec takes precedence. The left-hand of refspecs
+advertised with this capability must cover all refs reported by
+the list command. If no 'refspec' capability is advertised,
+there is an implied `refspec {asterisk}:{asterisk}`.
+
+Capabilities for Pushing
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+'connect'::
+ Can attempt to connect to 'git receive-pack' (for pushing),
+ 'git upload-pack', etc for communication using the
+ packfile protocol.
++
+Supported commands: 'connect'.
+
+'push'::
+ Can discover remote refs and push local commits and the
+ history leading up to them to new or existing remote refs.
++
+Supported commands: 'list for-push', 'push'.
+
+If a helper advertises both 'connect' and 'push', git will use
+'connect' if possible and fall back to 'push' if the helper requests
+so when connecting (see the 'connect' command under COMMANDS).
+
+Capabilities for Fetching
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+'connect'::
+ Can try to connect to 'git upload-pack' (for fetching),
+ 'git receive-pack', etc for communication using the
+ packfile protocol.
++
+Supported commands: 'connect'.
+
+'fetch'::
+ Can discover remote refs and transfer objects reachable from
+ them to the local object store.
++
+Supported commands: 'list', 'fetch'.
+
+'import'::
+ Can discover remote refs and output objects reachable from
+ them as a stream in fast-import format.
++
+Supported commands: 'list', 'import'.
+
+If a helper advertises 'connect', git will use it if possible and
+fall back to another capability if the helper requests so when
+connecting (see the 'connect' command under COMMANDS).
+When choosing between 'fetch' and 'import', git prefers 'fetch'.
+Other frontends may have some other order of preference.
+
+'refspec' <refspec>::
+ This modifies the 'import' capability.
++
+A helper advertising
+`refspec refs/heads/{asterisk}:refs/svn/origin/branches/{asterisk}`
+in its capabilities is saying that, when it handles
+`import refs/heads/topic`, the stream it outputs will update the
+`refs/svn/origin/branches/topic` ref.
++
+This capability can be advertised multiple times. The first
+applicable refspec takes precedence. The left-hand of refspecs
+advertised with this capability must cover all refs reported by
+the list command. If no 'refspec' capability is advertised,
+there is an implied `refspec {asterisk}:{asterisk}`.
+
INVOCATION
----------
@@ -122,7 +241,22 @@ Supported if the helper has the "fetch" capability.
'push' +<src>:<dst>::
Pushes the given local <src> commit or branch to the
remote branch described by <dst>. A batch sequence of
- one or more push commands is terminated with a blank line.
+ one or more 'push' commands is terminated with a blank line
+ (if there is only one reference to push, a single 'push' command
+ is followed by a blank line). For example, the following would
+ be two batches of 'push', the first asking the remote-helper
+ to push the local ref 'master' to the remote ref 'master' and
+ the local 'HEAD' to the remote 'branch', and the second
+ asking to push ref 'foo' to ref 'bar' (forced update requested
+ by the '+').
++
+------------
+push refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master
+push HEAD:refs/heads/branch
+\n
+push +refs/heads/foo:refs/heads/bar
+\n
+------------
+
Zero or more protocol options may be entered after the last 'push'
command, before the batch's terminating blank line.
@@ -147,6 +281,11 @@ Supported if the helper has the "push" capability.
Especially useful for interoperability with a foreign versioning
system.
+
+Just like 'push', a batch sequence of one or more 'import' is
+terminated with a blank line. For each batch of 'import', the remote
+helper should produce a fast-import stream terminated by a 'done'
+command.
++
Supported if the helper has the "import" capability.
'connect' <service>::
@@ -171,26 +310,6 @@ completing a valid response for the current command.
Additional commands may be supported, as may be determined from
capabilities reported by the helper.
-CAPABILITIES
-------------
-
-'fetch'::
-'option'::
-'push'::
-'import'::
-'connect'::
- This helper supports the corresponding command with the same name.
-
-'refspec' 'spec'::
- When using the import command, expect the source ref to have
- been written to the destination ref. The earliest applicable
- refspec takes precedence. For example
- "refs/heads/{asterisk}:refs/svn/origin/branches/{asterisk}" means
- that, after an "import refs/heads/name", the script has written to
- refs/svn/origin/branches/name. If this capability is used at
- all, it must cover all refs reported by the list command; if
- it is not used, it is effectively "{asterisk}:{asterisk}"
-
REF LIST ATTRIBUTES
-------------------
@@ -243,6 +362,8 @@ SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-remote[1]
+linkgit:git-remote-testgit[1]
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-testgit.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-testgit.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2a67d456a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote-testgit.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+git-remote-testgit(1)
+=====================
+
+NAME
+----
+git-remote-testgit - Example remote-helper
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+git clone testgit::<source-repo> [<destination>]
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+
+This command is a simple remote-helper, that is used both as a
+testcase for the remote-helper functionality, and as an example to
+show remote-helper authors one possible implementation.
+
+The best way to learn more is to read the comments and source code in
+'git-remote-testgit.py'.
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:git-remote-helpers[1]
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
index bed9e1f097..bd3eaa69bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another repository
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--quiet] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
+'git send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -45,9 +45,6 @@ OPTIONS
the remote repository can lose commits; use it with
care.
---quiet::
- Print only error messages.
-
--verbose::
Run verbosely.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index ed5eca1fce..08cad6d2b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -157,6 +157,17 @@ Skip "branches" and "tags" of first level directories;;
affecting the working tree; and the 'rebase' command will be
able to update the working tree with the latest changes.
+--preserve-empty-dirs;;
+ Create a placeholder file in the local Git repository for each
+ empty directory fetched from Subversion. This includes directories
+ that become empty by removing all entries in the Subversion
+ repository (but not the directory itself). The placeholder files
+ are also tracked and removed when no longer necessary.
+
+--placeholder-filename=<filename>;;
+ Set the name of placeholder files created by --preserve-empty-dirs.
+ Default: ".gitignore"
+
'rebase'::
This fetches revisions from the SVN parent of the current HEAD
and rebases the current (uncommitted to SVN) work against it.
@@ -211,8 +222,17 @@ discouraged.
Add the given merge information during the dcommit
(e.g. `--mergeinfo="/branches/foo:1-10"`). All svn server versions can
store this information (as a property), and svn clients starting from
- version 1.5 can make use of it. 'git svn' currently does not use it
- and does not set it automatically.
+ version 1.5 can make use of it. To specify merge information from multiple
+ branches, use a single space character between the branches
+ (`--mergeinfo="/branches/foo:1-10 /branches/bar:3,5-6,8"`)
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn.pushmergeinfo
++
+This option will cause git-svn to attempt to automatically populate the
+svn:mergeinfo property in the SVN repository when possible. Currently, this can
+only be done when dcommitting non-fast-forward merges where all parents but the
+first have already been pushed into SVN.
'branch'::
Create a branch in the SVN repository.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index d08a8bb4f2..cbc51d5a94 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -44,10 +44,18 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master'
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
-* link:v1.7.6.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.6.1]
+* link:v1.7.7/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.7]
* release notes for
- link:RelNotes/1.7.6.1.txt[1.7.6.1].
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.7.txt[1.7.7].
+
+* link:v1.7.6.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.6.4]
+
+* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.6.4.txt[1.7.6.4],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.6.3.txt[1.7.6.3],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.6.2.txt[1.7.6.2],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.6.1.txt[1.7.6.1],
link:RelNotes/1.7.6.txt[1.7.6].
* link:v1.7.5.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.5.4]
diff --git a/Documentation/gitnamespaces.txt b/Documentation/gitnamespaces.txt
index ed8924e856..c6713cf5d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitnamespaces.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitnamespaces.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ NAME
----
gitnamespaces - Git namespaces
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+GIT_NAMESPACE=<namespace> 'git upload-pack'
+GIT_NAMESPACE=<namespace> 'git receive-pack'
+
+
DESCRIPTION
-----------
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
index eb3d040783..5c891f1169 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
@@ -23,32 +23,25 @@ objects::
Object store associated with this repository. Usually
an object store is self sufficient (i.e. all the objects
that are referred to by an object found in it are also
- found in it), but there are couple of ways to violate
- it.
+ found in it), but there are a few ways to violate it.
+
-. You could populate the repository by running a commit walker
-without `-a` option. Depending on which options are given, you
-could have only commit objects without associated blobs and
-trees this way, for example. A repository with this kind of
-incomplete object store is not suitable to be published to the
-outside world but sometimes useful for private repository.
-. You also could have an incomplete but locally usable repository
-by cloning shallowly. See linkgit:git-clone[1].
-. You can be using `objects/info/alternates` mechanism, or
-`$GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES` mechanism to 'borrow'
+. You could have an incomplete but locally usable repository
+by creating a shallow clone. See linkgit:git-clone[1].
+. You could be using the `objects/info/alternates` or
+`$GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES` mechanisms to 'borrow'
objects from other object stores. A repository with this kind
of incomplete object store is not suitable to be published for
use with dumb transports but otherwise is OK as long as
-`objects/info/alternates` points at the right object stores
-it borrows from.
+`objects/info/alternates` points at the object stores it
+borrows from.
objects/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]::
- Traditionally, each object is stored in its own file.
- They are split into 256 subdirectories using the first
- two letters from its object name to keep the number of
- directory entries `objects` directory itself needs to
- hold. Objects found here are often called 'unpacked'
- (or 'loose') objects.
+ A newly created object is stored in its own file.
+ The objects are splayed over 256 subdirectories using
+ the first two characters of the sha1 object name to
+ keep the number of directory entries in `objects`
+ itself to a manageable number. Objects found
+ here are often called 'unpacked' (or 'loose') objects.
objects/pack::
Packs (files that store many object in compressed form,
@@ -85,7 +78,7 @@ objects/info/http-alternates::
refs::
References are stored in subdirectories of this
- directory. The 'git prune' command knows to keep
+ directory. The 'git prune' command knows to preserve
objects reachable from refs found in this directory and
its subdirectories.
@@ -119,16 +112,17 @@ HEAD::
+
HEAD can also record a specific commit directly, instead of
being a symref to point at the current branch. Such a state
-is often called 'detached HEAD', and almost all commands work
-identically as normal. See linkgit:git-checkout[1] for
-details.
+is often called 'detached HEAD.' See linkgit:git-checkout[1]
+for details.
branches::
A slightly deprecated way to store shorthands to be used
- to specify URL to 'git fetch', 'git pull' and 'git push'
- commands is to store a file in `branches/<name>` and
- give 'name' to these commands in place of 'repository'
- argument.
+ to specify a URL to 'git fetch', 'git pull' and 'git push'.
+ A file can be stored as `branches/<name>` and then
+ 'name' can be given to these commands in place of
+ 'repository' argument. See the REMOTES section in
+ linkgit:git-fetch[1] for details. This mechanism is legacy
+ and not likely to be found in modern repositories.
hooks::
Hooks are customization scripts used by various git
@@ -173,9 +167,11 @@ info/exclude::
at it. See also: linkgit:gitignore[5].
remotes::
- Stores shorthands to be used to give URL and default
- refnames to interact with remote repository to
- 'git fetch', 'git pull' and 'git push' commands.
+ Stores shorthands for URL and default refnames for use
+ when interacting with remote repositories via 'git fetch',
+ 'git pull' and 'git push' commands. See the REMOTES section
+ in linkgit:git-fetch[1] for details. This mechanism is legacy
+ and not likely to be found in modern repositories.
logs::
Records of changes made to refs are stored in this
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
index d527b30770..8823a37067 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ by doing the following:
- Update "What's cooking" message to review the updates to
existing topics, newly added topics and graduated topics.
- This step is helped with Meta/UWC script (where Meta/ contains
+ This step is helped with Meta/cook script (where Meta/ contains
a checkout of the 'todo' branch).
- Merge topics to 'next'. For each branch whose tip is not
@@ -197,10 +197,9 @@ by doing the following:
- Nothing is next-worthy; do not do anything.
- - Rebase topics that do not have any commit in next yet. This
- step is optional but sometimes is worth doing when an old
- series that is not in next can take advantage of low-level
- framework change that is merged to 'master' already.
+ - [** OBSOLETE **] Optionally rebase topics that do not have any commit
+ in next yet, when they can take advantage of low-level framework
+ change that is merged to 'master' already.
$ git rebase master ai/topic
@@ -209,7 +208,7 @@ by doing the following:
pre-rebase hook to make sure that topics that are already in
'next' are not rebased beyond the merged commit.
- - Rebuild "pu" to merge the tips of topics not in 'next'.
+ - [** OBSOLETE **] Rebuild "pu" to merge the tips of topics not in 'next'.
$ git checkout pu
$ git reset --hard next
@@ -241,7 +240,7 @@ by doing the following:
- Fetch html and man branches back from k.org, and push four
integration branches and the two documentation branches to
- repo.or.cz
+ repo.or.cz and other mirrors.
Some observations to be made.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
index 3f575bdcff..ce24eb96f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ member (you need this if you add things later) and you should set the
. Can sort an unsorted list using `sort_string_list`.
+. Can remove individual items of an unsorted list using
+ `unsorted_string_list_delete_item`.
+
. Finally it should free the list using `string_list_clear`.
Example:
@@ -112,6 +115,13 @@ write `string_list_insert(...)->util = ...;`.
The above two functions need to look through all items, as opposed to their
counterpart for sorted lists, which performs a binary search.
+`unsorted_string_list_delete_item`::
+
+ Remove an item from a string_list. The `string` pointer of the items
+ will be freed in case the `strdup_strings` member of the string_list
+ is set. The third parameter controls if the `util` pointer of the
+ items should be freed or not.
+
Data structures
---------------