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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt | 102 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 108 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-am.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-clone.txt | 31 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-config.txt | 22 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fast-export.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt | 11 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-name-rev.txt | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-p4.txt | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pull.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-remote.txt | 25 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-stash.txt | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt | 22 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/urls.txt | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user-manual.txt | 36 |
22 files changed, 322 insertions, 118 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt index 58a570ef3d..04289e793c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt @@ -4,8 +4,23 @@ Git v1.8.3.3 Release Notes Fixes since v1.8.3.2 -------------------- + * "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each + request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one + when used as a persistent CGI. + + * The wildmatch engine did not honor WM_CASEFOLD option correctly. + + * "git log -c --follow $path" segfaulted upon hitting the commit that + renamed the $path being followed. + + * When a reflog notation is used for implicit "current branch", + e.g. "git log @{u}", we did not say which branch and worse said + "branch ''" in the error messages. + * Mac OS X does not like to write(2) more than INT_MAX number of bytes; work it around by chopping write(2) into smaller pieces. * Newer MacOS X encourages the programs to compile and link with their CommonCrypto, not with OpenSSL. + +Also contains various minor documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index 5f440b8a6b..4250e5a3a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -1,11 +1,55 @@ Git v1.8.4 Release Notes ======================== +Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0) +------------------------------------------ + +When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the +traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent +to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name +over there). In Git 2.0, the default will change to the "simple" +semantics that pushes: + + - only the current branch to the branch with the same name, and only + when the current branch is set to integrate with that remote + branch, if you are pushing to the same remote as you fetch from; or + + - only the current branch to the branch with the same name, if you + are pushing to a remote that is not where you usually fetch from. + +Use the user preference configuration variable "push.default" to +change this. If you are an old-timer who is used to the "matching" +semantics, you can set the variable to "matching" to keep the +traditional behaviour. If you want to live in the future early, you +can set it to "simple" today without waiting for Git 2.0. + +When "git add -u" (and "git add -A") is run inside a subdirectory and +does not specify which paths to add on the command line, it +will operate on the entire tree in Git 2.0 for consistency +with "git commit -a" and other commands. There will be no +mechanism to make plain "git add -u" behave like "git add -u .". +Current users of "git add -u" (without a pathspec) should start +training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ." +before Git 2.0 comes. A warning is issued when these commands are +run without a pathspec and when you have local changes outside the +current directory, because the behaviour in Git 2.0 will be different +from today's version in such a situation. + +In Git 2.0, "git add <path>" will behave as "git add -A <path>", so +that "git add dir/" will notice paths you removed from the directory +and record the removal. Versions before Git 2.0, including this +release, will keep ignoring removals, but the users who rely on this +behaviour are encouraged to start using "git add --ignore-removal <path>" +now before 2.0 is released. + + Updates since v1.8.3 -------------------- Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. + * "git rebase -i" now honors --strategy and -X options. + * Git-gui has been updated to its 0.18.0 version. * MediaWiki remote helper (in contrib/) has been updated to use the @@ -35,6 +79,25 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. UI, Workflows & Features + * "gitweb" learned to optionally place extra links that point at the + levels higher than the Gitweb pages themselves in the breadcrumbs, + so that it can be used as part of a larger installation. + + * "git log --format=" now honors i18n.logoutputencoding configuration + variable. + + * The "push.default=simple" mode of "git push" has been updated to + behave like "current" without requiring a remote tracking + information, when you push to a remote that is different from where + you fetch from (i.e. a triangular workflow). + + * Having multiple "fixup!" on a line in the rebase instruction sheet + did not work very well with "git rebase -i --autosquash". + + * "git log" learned the "--author-date-order" option, with which the + output is topologically sorted and commits in parallel histories + are shown intermixed together based on the author timestamp. + * Various subcommands of "git submodule" refused to run from anywhere other than the top of the working tree of the superproject, but they have been taught to let you run from a subdirectory. @@ -56,9 +119,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * On Cygwin, "cygstart" is now recognised as a possible way to start a web browser (used in "help -w" and "instaweb" among others). -### * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration -### variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override -### with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line). + * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration + variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override + with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line). * "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string, directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref @@ -116,6 +179,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * The original way to specify remote repository using .git/branches/ + used to have a nifty feature. The code to support the feature was + still in a function but the caller was changed not to call it 5 + years ago, breaking that feature and leaving the supporting code + unreachable. The dead code has been removed. + * "git pack-refs" that races with new ref creation or deletion have been susceptible to lossage of refs under right conditions, which has been tightened up. @@ -175,6 +244,33 @@ 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). + * "git diff" refused to even show difference when core.safecrlf is + set to true (i.e. error out) and there are offending lines in the + working tree files. + (merge 5430bb2 jc/maint-diff-core-safecrlf later to maint). + + * A test that should have failed but didn't revealed a bug that needs + to be corrected. + (merge 94d75d1 jc/t1512-fix later to maint). + + * An overlong path to a .git directory may have overflown the + temporary path buffer used to create a name for lockfiles. + (merge 2fbd4f9 mh/maint-lockfile-overflow later to maint). + + * Invocations of "git checkout" used internally by "git rebase" were + counted as "checkout", and affected later "git checkout -" to the + the user to an unexpected place. + (merge 3bed291 rr/rebase-checkout-reflog later to maint). + + * "git stash save", when your local change turns a tracked file into + a directory, has to remove files in that directory in order to + revert your working tree to a pristine state. This will lose + untracked files in such a directory, and the command now requires + you to "--force" it. + + * The configuration variable column.ui was poorly documented. + (merge 5e62cc1 rr/column-doc later to maint). + * "git name-rev --refs=tags/v*" were forbidden, which was a bit inconvenient (you had to give a pattern to match refs fully, like --refs=refs/tags/v*). diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 1153585aa2..81856dd5a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -934,6 +934,9 @@ column.ui:: This variable consists of a list of tokens separated by spaces or commas: + +These options control when the feature should be enabled +(defaults to 'never'): ++ -- `always`;; always show in columns @@ -941,19 +944,30 @@ column.ui:: never show in columns `auto`;; show in columns if the output is to the terminal +-- ++ +These options control layout (defaults to 'column'). Setting any +of these implies 'always' if none of 'always', 'never', or 'auto' are +specified. ++ +-- `column`;; - fill columns before rows (default) + fill columns before rows `row`;; fill rows before columns `plain`;; show in one column +-- ++ +Finally, these options can be combined with a layout option (defaults +to 'nodense'): ++ +-- `dense`;; make unequal size columns to utilize more space `nodense`;; make equal size columns -- -+ -This option defaults to 'never'. column.branch:: Specify whether to output branch listing in `git branch` in columns. @@ -1830,39 +1844,59 @@ pull.twohead:: The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch. push.default:: - Defines the action `git push` should take if no refspec is given - on the command line, no refspec is configured in the remote, and - no refspec is implied by any of the options given on the command - line. Possible values are: + Defines the action `git push` should take if no refspec is + explicitly given. Different values are well-suited for + specific workflows; for instance, in a purely central workflow + (i.e. the fetch source is equal to the push destination), + `upstream` is probably what you want. Possible values are: + -- -* `nothing` - do not push anything. -* `matching` - push all branches having the same name in both ends. - This is for those who prepare all the branches into a publishable - shape and then push them out with a single command. It is not - appropriate for pushing into a repository shared by multiple users, - since locally stalled branches will attempt a non-fast forward push - if other users updated the branch. - + - This is currently the default, but Git 2.0 will change the default - to `simple`. -* `upstream` - push the current branch to its upstream branch - (`tracking` is a deprecated synonym for this). - With this, `git push` will update the same remote ref as the one which - is merged by `git pull`, making `push` and `pull` symmetrical. - See "branch.<name>.merge" for how to configure the upstream branch. -* `simple` - like `upstream`, but refuses to push if the upstream - branch's name is different from the local one. This is the safest - option and is well-suited for beginners. It will become the default - in Git 2.0. -* `current` - push the current branch to a branch of the same name. --- + +* `nothing` - do not push anything (error out) unless a refspec is + explicitly given. This is primarily meant for people who want to + avoid mistakes by always being explicit. + +* `current` - push the current branch to update a branch with the same + name on the receiving end. Works in both central and non-central + workflows. + +* `upstream` - push the current branch back to the branch whose + changes are usually integrated into the current branch (which is + called `@{upstream}`). This mode only makes sense if you are + pushing to the same repository you would normally pull from + (i.e. central workflow). + +* `simple` - in centralized workflow, work like `upstream` with an + added safety to refuse to push if the upstream branch's name is + different from the local one. ++ +When pushing to a remote that is different from the remote you normally +pull from, work as `current`. This is the safest option and is suited +for beginners. ++ +This mode will become the default in Git 2.0. + +* `matching` - push all branches having the same name on both ends. + This makes the repository you are pushing to remember the set of + branches that will be pushed out (e.g. if you always push 'maint' + and 'master' there and no other branches, the repository you push + to will have these two branches, and your local 'maint' and + 'master' will be pushed there). + -The `simple`, `current` and `upstream` modes are for those who want to -push out a single branch after finishing work, even when the other -branches are not yet ready to be pushed out. If you are working with -other people to push into the same shared repository, you would want -to use one of these. +To use this mode effectively, you have to make sure _all_ the +branches you would push out are ready to be pushed out before +running 'git push', as the whole point of this mode is to allow you +to push all of the branches in one go. If you usually finish work +on only one branch and push out the result, while other branches are +unfinished, this mode is not for you. Also this mode is not +suitable for pushing into a shared central repository, as other +people may add new branches there, or update the tip of existing +branches outside your control. ++ +This is currently the default, but Git 2.0 will change the default +to `simple`. + +-- rebase.stat:: Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last @@ -2078,6 +2112,14 @@ status.relativePaths:: relative to the repository root (this was the default for Git prior to v1.5.4). +status.short:: + Set to true to enable --short by default in linkgit:git-status[1]. + The option --no-short takes precedence over this variable. + +status.branch:: + Set to true to enable --branch by default in linkgit:git-status[1]. + The option --no-branch takes precedence over this variable. + status.showUntrackedFiles:: By default, linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1] show files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 19f78a7d5c..87e92d6537 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ endif::git-log[] a fraction, with a decimal point before it. I.e., `-M5` becomes 0.5, and is thus the same as `-M50%`. Similarly, `-M05` is the same as `-M5%`. To limit detection to exact renames, use - `-M100%`. + `-M100%`. The default similarity index is 50%. -C[<n>]:: --find-copies[=<n>]:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index 5bbe7b6d10..54d8461d61 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this. --resolvemsg=<msg>:: When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed to the screen before exiting. This overrides the - standard message informing you to use `--resolved` + standard message informing you to use `--continue` or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'. @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways: . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should - have produced. Then run the command with the '--resolved' option. + have produced. Then run the command with the '--continue' option. The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch, diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index a0727d7759..85769b884e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -182,11 +182,13 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. --depth <depth>:: Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revisions. A shallow repository has a - number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from - it, nor push from nor into it), but is adequate if you - are only interested in the recent history of a large project - with a long history, and would want to send in fixes - as patches. + number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor + push into it), but is adequate if you are only interested in + the recent history of a large project with a long history. ++ +Pushing from a shallow clone should be avoided if the git version on +the receiver end is older than v1.7.10, or any other git +implementation that does not perform connectivity check. --[no-]single-branch:: Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch, @@ -239,8 +241,8 @@ Examples * Clone from upstream: + ------------ -$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.6 my2.6 -$ cd my2.6 +$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux.git my-linux +$ cd my-linux $ make ------------ @@ -257,10 +259,10 @@ $ git show-branch * Clone from upstream while borrowing from an existing local directory: + ------------ -$ git clone --reference my2.6 \ - git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.7 \ - my2.7 -$ cd my2.7 +$ git clone --reference /git/linux.git \ + git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux.git \ + my-linux +$ cd my-linux ------------ @@ -271,13 +273,6 @@ $ git clone --bare -l /home/proj/.git /pub/scm/proj.git ------------ -* Create a repository on the kernel.org machine that borrows from Linus: -+ ------------- -$ git clone --bare -l -s /pub/scm/.../torvalds/linux-2.6.git \ - /pub/scm/.../me/subsys-2.6.git ------------- - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index 19a7be0856..99dc497b6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ OPTIONS --get:: Get the value for a given key (optionally filtered by a regex matching the value). Returns error code 1 if the key was not - found and error code 2 if multiple key values were found. + found and the last value if multiple key values were found. --get-all:: Like get, but does not fail if the number of values for the key @@ -206,12 +206,8 @@ FILES If not set explicitly with '--file', there are four files where 'git config' will search for configuration options: -$GIT_DIR/config:: - Repository specific configuration file. - -~/.gitconfig:: - User-specific configuration file. Also called "global" - configuration file. +$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig:: + System-wide configuration file. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config:: Second user-specific configuration file. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set @@ -221,8 +217,12 @@ $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config:: you sometimes use older versions of Git, as support for this file was added fairly recently. -$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig:: - System-wide configuration file. +~/.gitconfig:: + User-specific configuration file. Also called "global" + configuration file. + +$GIT_DIR/config:: + Repository specific configuration file. If no further options are given, all reading options will read all of these files that are available. If the global or the system-wide configuration @@ -230,6 +230,10 @@ file are not available they will be ignored. If the repository configuration file is not available or readable, 'git config' will exit with a non-zero error code. However, in neither case will an error message be issued. +The files are read in the order given above, with last value found taking +precedence over values read earlier. When multiple values are taken then all +values of a key from all files will be used. + All writing options will per default write to the repository specific configuration file. Note that this also affects options like '--replace-all' and '--unset'. *'git config' will only ever change one file at a time*. diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index efb03806f5..85f1f30fdf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Limitations ----------- Since 'git fast-import' cannot tag trees, you will not be -able to export the linux-2.6.git repository completely, as it contains +able to export the linux.git repository completely, as it contains a tag referencing a tree instead of a commit. GIT diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt index 774de5e9d9..2e22915eb8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt @@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ OPTIONS exit without talking to the remote. <repository>:: - Location of the repository. The shorthand defined in - $GIT_DIR/branches/ can be used. Use "." (dot) to list references in - the local repository. + The "remote" repository to query. This parameter can be + either a URL or the name of a remote (see the GIT URLS and + REMOTES sections of linkgit:git-fetch[1]). <refs>...:: When unspecified, all references, after filtering done @@ -70,9 +70,8 @@ EXAMPLES $ git ls-remote http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git master pu rc 5fe978a5381f1fbad26a80e682ddd2a401966740 refs/heads/master c781a84b5204fb294c9ccc79f8b3baceeb32c061 refs/heads/pu - b1d096f2926c4e37c9c0b6a7bf2119bedaa277cb refs/heads/rc - $ echo http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git >.git/branches/public - $ git ls-remote --tags public v\* + $ git remote add korg http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git + $ git ls-remote --tags korg v\* d6602ec5194c87b0fc87103ca4d67251c76f233a refs/tags/v0.99 f25a265a342aed6041ab0cc484224d9ca54b6f41 refs/tags/v0.99.1 c5db5456ae3b0873fc659c19fafdde22313cc441 refs/tags/v0.99.2 diff --git a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt index 6b0f1ba75f..15b00e0991 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt @@ -32,8 +32,10 @@ OPTIONS List all commits reachable from all refs --stdin:: - Read from stdin, append "(<rev_name>)" to all sha1's of nameable - commits, and pass to stdout + Transform stdin by substituting all the 40-character SHA-1 + hexes (say $hex) with "$hex ($rev_name)". When used with + --name-only, substitute with "$rev_name", omitting $hex + altogether. Intended for the scripter's use. --name-only:: Instead of printing both the SHA-1 and the name, print only diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt index c579fbc2b8..8cba16d67f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt @@ -176,13 +176,16 @@ Sync options These options can be used in the initial 'clone' as well as in subsequent 'sync' operations. ---branch <branch>:: - Import changes into given branch. If the branch starts with - 'refs/', it will be used as is. Otherwise if it does not start - with 'p4/', that prefix is added. The branch is assumed to - name a remote tracking, but this can be modified using - '--import-local', or by giving a full ref name. The default - branch is 'master'. +--branch <ref>:: + Import changes into <ref> instead of refs/remotes/p4/master. + If <ref> starts with refs/, it is used as is. Otherwise, if + it does not start with p4/, that prefix is added. ++ +By default a <ref> not starting with refs/ is treated as the +name of a remote-tracking branch (under refs/remotes/). This +behavior can be modified using the --import-local option. ++ +The default <ref> is "master". + This example imports a new remote "p4/proj2" into an existing Git repository: diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index 24ab07a3f8..6ef8d599d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-pull(1) NAME ---- -git-pull - Fetch from and merge with another repository or a local branch +git-pull - Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local branch SYNOPSIS diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index c84854ae87..6b2e1c86ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -389,7 +389,9 @@ squash/fixup series. the same ..., automatically modify the todo list of rebase -i so that the commit marked for squashing comes right after the commit to be modified, and change the action of the moved - commit from `pick` to `squash` (or `fixup`). + commit from `pick` to `squash` (or `fixup`). Ignores subsequent + "fixup! " or "squash! " after the first, in case you referred to an + earlier fixup/squash with `git commit --fixup/--squash`. + This option is only valid when the '--interactive' option is used. + diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt index 581bb4c413..9c3e3bf83a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt @@ -187,18 +187,25 @@ Examples $ git remote origin $ git branch -r -origin/master -$ git remote add linux-nfs git://linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6.git + origin/HEAD -> origin/master + origin/master +$ git remote add staging git://git.kernel.org/.../gregkh/staging.git $ git remote -linux-nfs origin -$ git fetch -* refs/remotes/linux-nfs/master: storing branch 'master' ... - commit: bf81b46 +staging +$ git fetch staging +... +From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging + * [new branch] master -> staging/master + * [new branch] staging-linus -> staging/staging-linus + * [new branch] staging-next -> staging/staging-next $ git branch -r -origin/master -linux-nfs/master -$ git checkout -b nfs linux-nfs/master + origin/HEAD -> origin/master + origin/master + staging/master + staging/staging-linus + staging/staging-next +$ git checkout -b staging staging/master ... ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-stash.txt b/Documentation/git-stash.txt index db7e803038..7c8b648fbe 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-stash.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-stash.txt @@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git stash' ( pop | apply ) [--index] [-q|--quiet] [<stash>] 'git stash' branch <branchname> [<stash>] 'git stash' [save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-q|--quiet] - [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [<message>]] + [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-f|--force] + [<message>]] 'git stash' clear 'git stash' create [<message>] 'git stash' store [-m|--message <message>] [-q|--quiet] <commit> @@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ is also possible). OPTIONS ------- -save [-p|--patch] [--[no-]keep-index] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-q|--quiet] [<message>]:: +save [-p|--patch] [--[no-]keep-index] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-q|--quiet] [-f|--force] [<message>]:: Save your local modifications to a new 'stash', and run `git reset --hard` to revert them. The <message> part is optional and gives @@ -71,6 +72,13 @@ linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode. + The `--patch` option implies `--keep-index`. You can use `--no-keep-index` to override this. ++ +In some cases, saving a stash could mean irretrievably removing some +data - if a directory with untracked files replaces a tracked file of +the same name, the new untracked files are not saved (except in case +of `--include-untracked`) but the original tracked file shall be restored. +By default, `stash save` will abort in such a case; `--force` will allow +it to remove the untracked files. list [<options>]:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index e5767134b1..bfff09062d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ OPTIONS --remote:: This option is only valid for the update command. Instead of using the superproject's recorded SHA-1 to update the submodule, use the - status of the submodule's remote tracking branch. The remote used + status of the submodule's remote-tracking branch. The remote used is branch's remote (`branch.<name>.remote`), defaulting to `origin`. The remote branch used defaults to `master`, but the branch name may be overridden by setting the `submodule.<name>.branch` option in diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt index ea0526ecc4..305db633cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt @@ -336,8 +336,26 @@ $home_link_str:: used as the first component of gitweb's "breadcrumb trail": `<home link> / <project> / <action>`. Can be set at build time using the `GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR` variable. By default it is set to "projects", - as this link leads to the list of projects. Other popular choice it to - set it to the name of site. + as this link leads to the list of projects. Another popular choice is to + set it to the name of site. Note that it is treated as raw HTML so it + should not be set from untrusted sources. + +@extra_breadcrumbs:: + Additional links to be added to the start of the breadcrumb trail before + the home link, to pages that are logically "above" the gitweb projects + list, such as the organization and department which host the gitweb + server. Each element of the list is a reference to an array, in which + element 0 is the link text (equivalent to `$home_link_str`) and element + 1 is the target URL (equivalent to `$home_link`). ++ +For example, the following setting produces a breadcrumb trail like +"home / dev / projects / ..." where "projects" is the home link. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- + our @extra_breadcrumbs = ( + [ 'home' => 'https://www.example.org/' ], + [ 'dev' => 'https://dev.example.org/' ], + ); +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- $logo_url:: $logo_label:: diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index db2a74df93..dba5062b37 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Note that commands that operate on the history of the current branch while the HEAD is detached. They update the HEAD to point at the tip of the updated history without affecting any branch. Commands that update or inquire information _about_ the current branch (e.g. `git -branch --set-upstream-to` that sets what remote tracking branch the +branch --set-upstream-to` that sets what remote-tracking branch the current branch integrates with) obviously do not work, as there is no (real) current branch to ask about in this state. @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a The default upstream <<def_repository,repository>>. Most projects have at least one upstream project which they track. By default 'origin' is used for that purpose. New upstream updates - will be fetched into remote <<def_remote_tracking_branch,remote-tracking branches>> named + will be fetched into <<def_remote_tracking_branch,remote-tracking branches>> named origin/name-of-upstream-branch, which you can see using `git branch -r`. diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index b462f17f62..e157ec3fe7 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -625,6 +625,10 @@ By default, the commits are shown in reverse chronological order. Show no parents before all of its children are shown, but otherwise show commits in the commit timestamp order. +--author-date-order:: + Show no parents before all of its children are shown, but + otherwise show commits in the author timestamp order. + --topo-order:: Show no parents before all of its children are shown, and avoid showing commits on multiple lines of history diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt index 6dc82ca5a8..f716d6d97f 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt @@ -135,9 +135,9 @@ them, and give the same timestamp to the index file: $ git ls-files | git update-index --stdin $ touch -r .datestamp .git/index -This will make all index entries racily clean. The linux-2.6 -project, for example, there are over 20,000 files in the working -tree. On my Athlon 64 X2 3800+, after the above: +This will make all index entries racily clean. The linux project, for +example, there are over 20,000 files in the working tree. On my +Athlon 64 X2 3800+, after the above: $ /usr/bin/time git diff-files 1.68user 0.54system 0:02.22elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt index 5e185f87c2..9ccb24677e 100644 --- a/Documentation/urls.txt +++ b/Documentation/urls.txt @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ and ftps can be used for fetching and rsync can be used for fetching and pushing, but these are inefficient and deprecated; do not use them). +The native transport (i.e. git:// URL) does no authentication and +should be used with caution on unsecured networks. + The following syntaxes may be used with them: - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 644acce079..e364007d7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git The initial clone may be time-consuming for a large project, but you will only need to clone once. -The clone command creates a new directory named after the project (`git` -or `linux-2.6` in the examples above). After you cd into this +The clone command creates a new directory named after the project +(`git` or `linux` in the examples above). After you cd into this directory, you will see that it contains a copy of the project files, called the <<def_working_tree,working tree>>, together with a special top-level directory named `.git`, which contains all the information @@ -431,19 +431,25 @@ You can also track branches from repositories other than the one you cloned from, using linkgit:git-remote[1]: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git remote add linux-nfs git://linux-nfs.org/pub/nfs-2.6.git -$ git fetch linux-nfs -* refs/remotes/linux-nfs/master: storing branch 'master' ... - commit: bf81b46 +$ git remote add staging git://git.kernel.org/.../gregkh/staging.git +$ git fetch staging +... +From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging + * [new branch] master -> staging/master + * [new branch] staging-linus -> staging/staging-linus + * [new branch] staging-next -> staging/staging-next ------------------------------------------------- New remote-tracking branches will be stored under the shorthand name -that you gave `git remote add`, in this case `linux-nfs`: +that you gave `git remote add`, in this case `staging`: ------------------------------------------------- $ git branch -r -linux-nfs/master -origin/master + origin/HEAD -> origin/master + origin/master + staging/master + staging/staging-linus + staging/staging-next ------------------------------------------------- If you run `git fetch <remote>` later, the remote-tracking branches @@ -455,9 +461,9 @@ a new stanza: ------------------------------------------------- $ cat .git/config ... -[remote "linux-nfs"] - url = git://linux-nfs.org/pub/nfs-2.6.git - fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-nfs/* +[remote "staging"] + url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git + fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/staging/* ... ------------------------------------------------- @@ -1835,7 +1841,7 @@ Once the index is updated with the results of the conflict resolution, instead of creating a new commit, just run ------------------------------------------------- -$ git am --resolved +$ git am --continue ------------------------------------------------- and Git will create the commit for you and continue applying the @@ -2156,7 +2162,7 @@ To set this up, first create your work tree by cloning Linus's public tree: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git work +$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git work $ cd work ------------------------------------------------- @@ -2198,7 +2204,7 @@ make it easy to push both branches to your public tree. (See ------------------------------------------------- $ cat >> .git/config <<EOF [remote "mytree"] - url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git + url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux.git push = release push = test EOF |