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-rw-r--r--Documentation/CodingGuidelines6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt27
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt68
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-options.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-am.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-archive.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-check-attr.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-checkout.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-clone.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-config.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-daemon.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-diff-index.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-difftool.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fast-export.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fsck.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-gc.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-grep.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-merge.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-mergetool.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-push.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-reflog.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-remote.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-revert.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-svn.txt36
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-update-index.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/glossary-content.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/merge-options.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/urls.txt6
39 files changed, 246 insertions, 101 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 7e4d5716a6..559d5f9ebf 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -237,8 +237,10 @@ For Python scripts:
Writing Documentation:
- Most (if not all) of the documentation pages are written in AsciiDoc
- and processed into HTML output and manpages.
+ Most (if not all) of the documentation pages are written in the
+ AsciiDoc format in *.txt files (e.g. Documentation/git.txt), and
+ processed into HTML and manpages (e.g. git.html and git.1 in the
+ same directory).
Every user-visible change should be reflected in the documentation.
The same general rule as for code applies -- imitate the existing
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
index 0fdb84068b..ead568e7f1 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
@@ -41,12 +41,20 @@ Updates since v1.8.2
Foreign interface
- * remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/) have been updated;
- especially, the latter has been accelerated to help Emacs folks,
+ * remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/ since v1.8.2) have
+ been updated; especially, the latter has been done in an
+ accelerated schedule (read: we may not have merged to this release
+ if we were following the usual "cook sufficiently in next before
+ unleashing it to the world" workflow) in order to help Emacs folks,
whose primary SCM seems to be stagnating.
+
UI, Workflows & Features
+ * A handful of updates applied to gitk, including an addition of
+ "revert" action, showing dates in tags in a nicer way, making
+ colors configurable, and support for -G'pickaxe' search.
+
* The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) learned to
show how many changes there are in total and how many have been
replayed during a "git rebase" session.
@@ -106,9 +114,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
of erroneous inputs was suboptimal and has been improved.
* When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues
- a message meant to help the system administrator to enable it.
- An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by
- issuing custom messages to refuse such an access has been added.
+ a message meant to help the system administrator to enable it. An
+ explicit way has been added to issue custom messages to refuse an
+ access over the network to help the end users who connect to the
+ service expecting an interactive shell.
* In addition to the case where the user edits the log message with
the "e)dit" option of "am -i", replace the "Applying: this patch"
@@ -118,8 +127,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git status" suggests users to look into using --untracked=no option
when it takes too long.
- * "git status" shows a bit more information during a
- rebase/bisect session.
+ * "git status" shows a bit more information during a rebase/bisect
+ session.
* "git fetch" learned to fetch a commit at the tip of an unadvertised
ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the
@@ -236,7 +245,6 @@ details).
* Various subcommands of "git remote" simply ignored extraneous
command line arguments instead of diagnosing them as errors.
- (merge b17dd3f tr/remote-tighten-commandline-parsing later to maint).
* When receive-pack detects an error in the pack header it received in
order to decide which of unpack-objects or index-pack to run, it
@@ -259,7 +267,6 @@ details).
buffer around as human readable object names. This was not a huge
problem but was exposed by a new change that uses these names in
error output.
- (merge 70d26c6 tr/copy-revisions-from-stdin later to maint).
* Smart-capable HTTP servers were not restricted via the
GIT_NAMESPACE mechanism when talking with commit-walking clients,
@@ -304,11 +311,9 @@ details).
* Fix a 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without a
trailing slash) to a directory "dir".
- (merge efa5f82 jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix later to maint-1.8.1).
* "git apply --whitespace=fix" was not prepared to see a line getting
longer after fixing whitespaces (e.g. tab-in-indent aka Python).
- (merge 329b26e jc/apply-ws-fix-tab-in-indent later to maint-1.8.1).
* The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) did not notice
when we are in a middle of a "git revert" session.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4d86a78fdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+Git v1.8.4 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Updates since v1.8.3
+--------------------
+
+Foreign interface
+
+ * Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and
+ maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better.
+
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * "check-ignore" (new feature since 1.8.2) has been updated to work
+ more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes.
+
+ * We used the approxidate() parser for "--expire=<timestamp>" options
+ of various commands, but it is better to treat --expire=all and
+ --expire=now a bit more specially than using the current timestamp.
+ "git gc" and "git reflog" have been updated with a new parsing
+ function for expiry dates.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
+
+ * Object lookup logic, when the object hashtable starts to become
+ crowded, has been optimized.
+
+ * When TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY setting is used, it was handled somewhat
+ inconsistently between the test framework and t/Makefile, and logic
+ to summarize the results looked at a wrong place.
+
+ * Many warnings from sparse source checker in compat/ area has been
+ squelched.
+
+ * The code to reading and updating packed-refs file has been updated,
+ correcting corner case bugs.
+
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.8.3
+------------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance
+track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
+details).
+
+ * When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we
+ used to complain and die. Loosen the check.
+ (merge 4698c8f jn/config-ignore-inaccessible later to maint).
+
+ * "git subtree" (in contrib/) had one codepath with loose error
+ checks to lose data at the remote side.
+ (merge 3212d56 jk/subtree-do-not-push-if-split-fails later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch" into a shallow repository from a repository that does
+ not know about the shallow boundary commits (e.g. a different fork
+ from the repository the current shallow repository was cloned from)
+ did not work correctly.
+ (merge 71d5f93 mh/fetch-into-shallow later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout foo" DWIMs the intended "upstream" and turns it into
+ "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo". This codepath has been
+ updated to correctly take existing remote definitions into account.
+ (merge 229177a jh/checkout-auto-tracking later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 104579dc75..b8a9b86375 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
--ignore-submodules[=<when>]::
Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when> can be
- either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default
+ either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default.
Using "none" will consider the submodule modified when it either contains
untracked or modified files or its HEAD differs from the commit recorded
in the superproject and can be used to override any settings of the
diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index 19d57a80f5..5bbe7b6d10 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--keep-cr | --no-keep-cr] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
+'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[no-]utf8]
[--3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date]
[--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace]
[--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>]
[--exclude=<path>] [--include=<path>] [--reject] [-q | --quiet]
- [--scissors | --no-scissors]
+ [--[no-]scissors]
[(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...]
'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort)
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ OPTIONS
--keep-non-patch::
Pass `-b` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
---keep-cr::
---no-keep-cr::
+--[no-]keep-cr::
With `--keep-cr`, call 'git mailsplit' (see linkgit:git-mailsplit[1])
with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of
lines. `am.keepcr` configuration variable can be used to specify the
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 250e5228a3..b97aaab4ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git archive' [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
- [-o | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
+ [-o <file> | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
[--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
[<path>...]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
index 5abdbaa51c..a7be80d48b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ being queried and <info> can be either:
'set';; when the attribute is defined as true.
<value>;; when a value has been assigned to the attribute.
+Buffering happens as documented under the `GIT_FLUSH` option in
+linkgit:git[1]. The caller is responsible for avoiding deadlocks
+caused by overfilling an input buffer or reading from an empty output
+buffer.
+
EXAMPLES
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
index 854e4d0c42..8e1f7ab7ea 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ OPTIONS
below). If `--stdin` is also given, input paths are separated
with a NUL character instead of a linefeed character.
+-n, --non-matching::
+ Show given paths which don't match any pattern. This only
+ makes sense when `--verbose` is enabled, otherwise it would
+ not be possible to distinguish between paths which match a
+ pattern and those which don't.
+
OUTPUT
------
@@ -65,6 +71,20 @@ are also used instead of colons and hard tabs:
<source> <NULL> <linenum> <NULL> <pattern> <NULL> <pathname> <NULL>
+If `-n` or `--non-matching` are specified, non-matching pathnames will
+also be output, in which case all fields in each output record except
+for <pathname> will be empty. This can be useful when running
+non-interactively, so that files can be incrementally streamed to
+STDIN of a long-running check-ignore process, and for each of these
+files, STDOUT will indicate whether that file matched a pattern or
+not. (Without this option, it would be impossible to tell whether the
+absence of output for a given file meant that it didn't match any
+pattern, or that the output hadn't been generated yet.)
+
+Buffering happens as documented under the `GIT_FLUSH` option in
+linkgit:git[1]. The caller is responsible for avoiding deadlocks
+caused by overfilling an input buffer or reading from an empty output
+buffer.
EXIT STATUS
-----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
index ec1739a896..a49be1bab4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
@@ -83,8 +83,7 @@ typed the branch name.
OPTIONS
-------
---allow-onelevel::
---no-allow-onelevel::
+--[no-]allow-onelevel::
Controls whether one-level refnames are accepted (i.e.,
refnames that do not contain multiple `/`-separated
components). The default is `--no-allow-onelevel`.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 23a9413525..ca118ac6bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -131,9 +131,9 @@ entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored.
"--track" in linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.
+
If no '-b' option is given, the name of the new branch will be
-derived from the remote-tracking branch. If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/"
-is prefixed it is stripped away, and then the part up to the
-next slash (which would be the nickname of the remote) is removed.
+derived from the remote-tracking branch, by looking at the local part of
+the refspec configured for the corresponding remote, and then stripping
+the initial part up to the "*".
This would tell us to use "hack" as the local branch when branching
off of "origin/hack" (or "remotes/origin/hack", or even
"refs/remotes/origin/hack"). If the given name has no slash, or the above
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 5c16e317f6..a0727d7759 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[-o <name>] [-b <name>] [-u <upload-pack>] [--reference <repository>]
[--separate-git-dir <git dir>]
[--depth <depth>] [--[no-]single-branch]
- [--recursive|--recurse-submodules] [--] <repository>
+ [--recursive | --recurse-submodules] [--] <repository>
[<directory>]
DESCRIPTION
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
with a long history, and would want to send in fixes
as patches.
---single-branch::
+--[no-]single-branch::
Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch,
either specified by the `--branch` option or the primary
branch remote's `HEAD` points at. When creating a shallow
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 8172938653..1a7616c73a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[--dry-run] [(-c | -C | --fixup | --squash) <commit>]
[-F <file> | -m <msg>] [--reset-author] [--allow-empty]
[--allow-empty-message] [--no-verify] [-e] [--author=<author>]
- [--date=<date>] [--cleanup=<mode>] [--status | --no-status]
+ [--date=<date>] [--cleanup=<mode>] [--[no-]status]
[-i | -o] [-S[<keyid>]] [--] [<file>...]
DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 9ae2508f3f..d88a6fcb29 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -186,8 +186,7 @@ See also <<FILES>>.
Opens an editor to modify the specified config file; either
'--system', '--global', or repository (default).
---includes::
---no-includes::
+--[no-]includes::
Respect `include.*` directives in config files when looking up
values. Defaults to on.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index bfb106cccd..223f731523 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -16,8 +16,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
[--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=<file>]
[--enable=<service>] [--disable=<service>]
[--allow-override=<service>] [--forbid-override=<service>]
- [--access-hook=<path>]
- [--inetd | [--listen=<host_or_ipaddr>] [--port=<n>] [--user=<user> [--group=<group>]]
+ [--access-hook=<path>] [--[no-]informative-errors]
+ [--inetd |
+ [--listen=<host_or_ipaddr>] [--port=<n>]
+ [--user=<user> [--group=<group>]]]
[<directory>...]
DESCRIPTION
@@ -169,8 +171,7 @@ Git configuration files in that directory are readable by `<user>`.
repository configuration. By default, all the services
are overridable.
---informative-errors::
---no-informative-errors::
+--[no-]informative-errors::
When informative errors are turned on, git-daemon will report
more verbose errors to the client, differentiating conditions
like "no such repository" from "repository not exported". This
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
index c0b7c581ad..a86cf62e68 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-diff-index(1)
NAME
----
-git-diff-index - Compares content and mode of blobs between the index and repository
+git-diff-index - Compare a tree to the working tree or index
SYNOPSIS
@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via a tree
-object with the content of the current index and, optionally
-ignoring the stat state of the file on disk. When paths are
-specified, compares only those named paths. Otherwise all
-entries in the index are compared.
+Compares the content and mode of the blobs found in a tree object
+with the corresponding tracked files in the working tree, or with the
+corresponding paths in the index. When <path> arguments are present,
+compares only paths matching those patterns. Otherwise all tracked
+files are compared.
OPTIONS
-------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
index 8361e6e4e3..11887e63a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
@@ -69,8 +69,7 @@ with custom merge tool commands and has the same value as `$MERGED`.
--tool-help::
Print a list of diff tools that may be used with `--tool`.
---symlinks::
---no-symlinks::
+--[no-]symlinks::
'git difftool''s default behavior is create symlinks to the
working tree when run in `--dir-diff` mode and the right-hand
side of the comparison yields the same content as the file in
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
index 03fc8c39d8..efb03806f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
@@ -106,11 +106,11 @@ marks the same across runs.
different from the commit's first parent).
[<git-rev-list-args>...]::
- A list of arguments, acceptable to 'git rev-parse' and
- 'git rev-list', that specifies the specific objects and references
- to export. For example, `master~10..master` causes the
- current master reference to be exported along with all objects
- added since its 10th ancestor commit.
+ A list of arguments, acceptable to 'git rev-parse' and
+ 'git rev-list', that specifies the specific objects and references
+ to export. For example, `master~10..master` causes the
+ current master reference to be exported along with all objects
+ added since its 10th ancestor commit.
EXAMPLES
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
index b81e90d8e7..1e71754347 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag]
- [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>]
- [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress]
- [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
+ [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>]
+ [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress]
+ [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
index 3a0f55ec8e..bb1232a52c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ OPTIONS
Do not list one-line descriptions from the actual commits being
merged.
---summary::
---no-summary::
+--[no-]summary::
Synonyms to --log and --no-log; these are deprecated and will be
removed in the future.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
index e5878bd97b..25c431d3c5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ index file, all SHA-1 references in `refs` namespace, and all reflogs
Print out objects that exist but that aren't reachable from any
of the reference nodes.
---dangling::
---no-dangling::
+--[no-]dangling::
Print objects that exist but that are never 'directly' used (default).
`--no-dangling` can be used to omit this information from the output.
@@ -78,8 +77,7 @@ index file, all SHA-1 references in `refs` namespace, and all reflogs
a blob, the contents are written into the file, rather than
its object name.
---progress::
---no-progress::
+--[no-]progress::
Progress status is reported on the standard error stream by
default when it is attached to a terminal, unless
--no-progress or --verbose is specified. --progress forces
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
index b370b025b8..2402ed6828 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
@@ -62,8 +62,9 @@ automatic consolidation of packs.
--prune=<date>::
Prune loose objects older than date (default is 2 weeks ago,
- overridable by the config variable `gc.pruneExpire`). This
- option is on by default.
+ overridable by the config variable `gc.pruneExpire`).
+ --prune=all prunes loose objects regardless of their age.
+ --prune is on by default.
--no-prune::
Do not prune any loose objects.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index 50d46e1a7b..8497aa4494 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[-W | --function-context]
[-f <file>] [-e] <pattern>
[--and|--or|--not|(|)|-e <pattern>...]
- [ [--exclude-standard] [--cached | --no-index | --untracked] | <tree>...]
+ [ [--[no-]exclude-standard] [--cached | --no-index | --untracked] | <tree>...]
[--] [<pathspec>...]
DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index 97e7a8e9e7..164a3c6ede 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
+'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--[no-]scissors] <msg> <patch>
DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index 42391f2ae7..67ca99cd92 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -76,8 +76,7 @@ The 'git fmt-merge-msg' command can be
used to give a good default for automated 'git merge'
invocations.
---rerere-autoupdate::
---no-rerere-autoupdate::
+--[no-]rerere-autoupdate::
Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the
result of auto-conflict resolution if possible.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
index 6b563c500f..07137f252b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-mergetool - Run merge conflict resolution tools to resolve merge conflicts
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git mergetool' [--tool=<tool>] [-y|--no-prompt|--prompt] [<file>...]
+'git mergetool' [--tool=<tool>] [-y | --[no-]prompt] [<file>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index eb2883c94c..d51481394c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -162,8 +162,7 @@ useful if you write an alias or script around 'git push'.
linkgit:git-pull[1] and other commands. For more information,
see 'branch.<name>.merge' in linkgit:git-config[1].
---thin::
---no-thin::
+--[no-]thin::
These options are passed to linkgit:git-send-pack[1]. A thin transfer
significantly reduces the amount of sent data when the sender and
receiver share many of the same objects in common. The default is
diff --git a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
index fb8697ea4c..70791b9fd8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
@@ -67,14 +67,19 @@ them.
--expire=<time>::
Entries older than this time are pruned. Without the
option it is taken from configuration `gc.reflogExpire`,
- which in turn defaults to 90 days.
+ which in turn defaults to 90 days. --expire=all prunes
+ entries regardless of their age; --expire=never turns off
+ pruning of reachable entries (but see --expire-unreachable).
--expire-unreachable=<time>::
Entries older than this time and not reachable from
the current tip of the branch are pruned. Without the
option it is taken from configuration
`gc.reflogExpireUnreachable`, which in turn defaults to
- 30 days.
+ 30 days. --expire-unreachable=all prunes unreachable
+ entries regardless of their age; --expire-unreachable=never
+ turns off early pruning of unreachable entries (but see
+ --expire).
--all::
Instead of listing <refs> explicitly, prune all refs.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
index 7a6f354680..581bb4c413 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git remote' [-v | --verbose]
-'git remote add' [-t <branch>] [-m <master>] [-f] [--tags|--no-tags] [--mirror=<fetch|push>] <name> <url>
+'git remote add' [-t <branch>] [-m <master>] [-f] [--[no-]tags] [--mirror=<fetch|push>] <name> <url>
'git remote rename' <old> <new>
'git remote remove' <name>
'git remote set-head' <name> (-a | -d | <branch>)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
index 70152e8b1e..f79c9d8583 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' [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] <commit>...
+'git revert' [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] <commit>...
'git revert' --continue
'git revert' --quit
'git revert' --abort
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 74d5bdc59d..e5767134b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ argument <path> is the relative location for the cloned submodule
to exist in the superproject. If <path> is not given, the
"humanish" part of the source repository is used ("repo" for
"/path/to/repo.git" and "foo" for "host.xz:foo/.git").
+The <path> is also used as the submodule's logical name in its
+configuration entries unless `--name` is used to specify a logical name.
+
<repository> is the URL of the new submodule's origin repository.
This may be either an absolute URL, or (if it begins with ./
@@ -124,8 +126,10 @@ linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-diff[1] will provide that information
too (and can also report changes to a submodule's work tree).
init::
- Initialize the submodules, i.e. register each submodule name
- and url found in .gitmodules into .git/config.
+ Initialize the submodules recorded in the index (which were
+ added and committed elsewhere) by copying submodule
+ names and urls from .gitmodules to .git/config.
+ Optional <path> arguments limit which submodules will be initialized.
It will also copy the value of `submodule.$name.update` into
.git/config.
The key used in .git/config is `submodule.$name.url`.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 58b6d540ca..aad452f169 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -271,13 +271,15 @@ first have already been pushed into SVN.
Create a tag by using the tags_subdir instead of the branches_subdir
specified during git svn init.
--d;;
---destination;;
+-d<path>;;
+--destination=<path>;;
+
If more than one --branches (or --tags) option was given to the 'init'
or 'clone' command, you must provide the location of the branch (or
- tag) you wish to create in the SVN repository. The value of this
- option must match one of the paths specified by a --branches (or
- --tags) option. You can see these paths with the commands
+ tag) you wish to create in the SVN repository. <path> specifies which
+ path to use to create the branch or tag and should match the pattern
+ on the left-hand side of one of the configured branches or tags
+ refspecs. You can see these refspecs with the commands
+
git config --get-all svn-remote.<name>.branches
git config --get-all svn-remote.<name>.tags
@@ -298,6 +300,11 @@ where <name> is the name of the SVN repository as specified by the -R option to
git config --get-all svn-remote.<name>.commiturl
+
+--parents;;
+ Create parent folders. This parameter is equivalent to the parameter
+ --parents on svn cp commands and is useful for non-standard repository
+ layouts.
+
'tag'::
Create a tag in the SVN repository. This is a shorthand for
'branch -t'.
@@ -1032,6 +1039,25 @@ comma-separated list of names within braces. For example:
tags = tags/{1.0,2.0}/src:refs/remotes/tags/*
------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Multiple fetch, branches, and tags keys are supported:
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+[svn-remote "messy-repo"]
+ url = http://server.org/svn
+ fetch = trunk/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/trunk
+ fetch = branches/demos/june-project-a-demo:refs/remotes/project-a/demos/june-demo
+ branches = branches/server/*:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/*
+ branches = branches/demos/2011/*:refs/remotes/project-a/2011-demos/*
+ tags = tags/server/*:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/*
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Creating a branch in such a configuration requires disambiguating which
+location to use using the -d or --destination flag:
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ git svn branch -d branches/server release-2-3-0
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
Note that git-svn keeps track of the highest revision in which a branch
or tag has appeared. If the subset of branches or tags is changed after
fetching, then .git/svn/.metadata must be manually edited to remove (or
diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
index 670e9fb2c2..e0a87029cd 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
[--refresh] [-q] [--unmerged] [--ignore-missing]
[(--cacheinfo <mode> <object> <file>)...]
[--chmod=(+|-)x]
- [--assume-unchanged | --no-assume-unchanged]
- [--skip-worktree | --no-skip-worktree]
+ [--[no-]assume-unchanged]
+ [--[no-]skip-worktree]
[--ignore-submodules]
[--really-refresh] [--unresolve] [--again | -g]
[--info-only] [--index-info]
@@ -77,8 +77,7 @@ OPTIONS
--chmod=(+|-)x::
Set the execute permissions on the updated files.
---assume-unchanged::
---no-assume-unchanged::
+--[no-]assume-unchanged::
When these flags are specified, the object names recorded
for the paths are not updated. Instead, these options
set and unset the "assume unchanged" bit for the
@@ -102,8 +101,7 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually.
Like '--refresh', but checks stat information unconditionally,
without regard to the "assume unchanged" setting.
---skip-worktree::
---no-skip-worktree::
+--[no-]skip-worktree::
When one of these flags is specified, the object name recorded
for the paths are not updated. Instead, these options
set and unset the "skip-worktree" bit for the paths. See
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 9e302b0a60..68f1ee60cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,12 +43,17 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from 'master'
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
+* link:v1.8.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.3]
+
+* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/1.8.3.txt[1.8.3].
+
* link:v1.8.2.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.2.3]
* release notes for
- link:RelNotes/1.8.2.3.txt[1.8.2.3].
- link:RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt[1.8.2.2].
- link:RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt[1.8.2.1].
+ link:RelNotes/1.8.2.3.txt[1.8.2.3],
+ link:RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt[1.8.2.2],
+ link:RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt[1.8.2.1],
link:RelNotes/1.8.2.txt[1.8.2].
* link:v1.8.1.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.1.6]
@@ -811,8 +816,9 @@ for further details.
'GIT_FLUSH'::
If this environment variable is set to "1", then commands such
as 'git blame' (in incremental mode), 'git rev-list', 'git log',
- and 'git whatchanged' will force a flush of the output stream
- after each commit-oriented record have been flushed. If this
+ 'git check-attr', 'git check-ignore', and 'git whatchanged' will
+ force a flush of the output stream after each record have been
+ flushed. If this
variable is set to "0", the output of these commands will be done
using completely buffered I/O. If this environment variable is
not set, Git will choose buffered or record-oriented flushing
diff --git a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
index da746419b3..0827f69139 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
@@ -159,11 +159,11 @@ Miscellaneous capabilities
carried out.
'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.
+ For remote helpers that implement 'import' or 'export', this capability
+ allows the refs to be constrained to 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.
+ capability use this. It's mandatory for 'export'.
+
A helper advertising the capability
`refspec refs/heads/*:refs/svn/origin/branches/*`
@@ -174,8 +174,8 @@ 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 a helper does not need a specific 'refspec'
-capability then it should advertise `refspec *:*`.
+the list command. If no 'refspec' capability is advertised,
+there is an implied `refspec *:*`.
'bidi-import'::
This modifies the 'import' capability.
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index 68a18e1497..db2a74df93 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -400,12 +400,13 @@ should not be combined with other pathspec.
<<def_ref,ref>> and local ref.
[[def_remote_tracking_branch]]remote-tracking branch::
- A regular Git <<def_branch,branch>> that is used to follow changes from
- another <<def_repository,repository>>. A remote-tracking
- branch should not contain direct modifications or have local commits
- made to it. A remote-tracking branch can usually be
- identified as the right-hand-side <<def_ref,ref>> in a Pull:
- <<def_refspec,refspec>>.
+ A <<def_ref,ref>> that is used to follow changes from another
+ <<def_repository,repository>>. It typically looks like
+ 'refs/remotes/foo/bar' (indicating that it tracks a branch named
+ 'bar' in a remote named 'foo'), and matches the right-hand-side of
+ a configured fetch <<def_refspec,refspec>>. A remote-tracking
+ branch should not contain direct modifications or have local
+ commits made to it.
[[def_repository]]repository::
A collection of <<def_ref,refs>> together with an
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt
index 2adccf8fec..afba8d4f3b 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt
@@ -8,12 +8,13 @@ failed and do not autocommit, to give the user a chance to
inspect and further tweak the merge result before committing.
--edit::
+-e::
--no-edit::
Invoke an editor before committing successful mechanical merge to
further edit the auto-generated merge message, so that the user
can explain and justify the merge. The `--no-edit` option can be
used to accept the auto-generated message (this is generally
- discouraged). The `--edit` option is still useful if you are
+ discouraged). The `--edit` (or `-e`) option is still useful if you are
giving a draft message with the `-m` option from the command line
and want to edit it in the editor.
+
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
index 32ddc1cf13..1317db4d6c 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ The parse-options API allows:
* Boolean long options can be 'negated' (or 'unset') by prepending
`no-`, e.g. `--no-abbrev` instead of `--abbrev`. Conversely,
options that begin with `no-` can be 'negated' by removing it.
+ Other long options can be unset (e.g., set string to NULL, set
+ integer to 0) by prepending `no-`.
* Options and non-option arguments can clearly be separated using the `--`
option, e.g. `-a -b --option -- --this-is-a-file` indicates that
@@ -174,6 +176,10 @@ There are some macros to easily define options:
Introduce an option with date argument, see `approxidate()`.
The timestamp is put into `int_var`.
+`OPT_EXPIRY_DATE(short, long, &int_var, description)`::
+ Introduce an option with expiry date argument, see `parse_expiry_date()`.
+ The timestamp is put into `int_var`.
+
`OPT_CALLBACK(short, long, &var, arg_str, description, func_ptr)`::
Introduce an option with argument.
The argument will be fed into the function given by `func_ptr`
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
index f1a51edf47..b898e97988 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
@@ -228,8 +228,7 @@ obtained through ref discovery.
The client MUST write all obj-ids which it only has shallow copies
of (meaning that it does not have the parents of a commit) as
'shallow' lines so that the server is aware of the limitations of
-the client's history. Clients MUST NOT mention an obj-id which
-it does not know exists on the server.
+the client's history.
The client now sends the maximum commit history depth it wants for
this transaction, which is the number of commits it wants from the
diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 3ca122faed..476e3381c5 100644
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ An alternative scp-like syntax may also be used with the ssh protocol:
- {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:path/to/repo.git/
+This syntax is only recognized if there are no slashes before the
+first colon. This helps differentiate a local path that contains a
+colon. For example the local path `foo:bar` could be specified as an
+absolute path or `./foo:bar` to avoid being misinterpreted as an ssh
+url.
+
The ssh and git protocols additionally support ~username expansion:
- ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/