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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.2.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt84
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/fetch-options.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-add.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-stripspace.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/shallow.txt3
10 files changed, 125 insertions, 37 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.2.txt
index 76ad0b3d01..5ab7b18906 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.2.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,16 @@ Git 1.8.1.2 Release Notes
Fixes since v1.8.1.1
--------------------
+ * An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the
+ real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused
+ the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling.
+
+ * Command line completion for "tcsh" emitted an unwanted space
+ after completing a single directory name.
+
+ * Command line completion leaked an unnecessary error message while
+ looking for possible matches with paths in <tree-ish>.
+
* "git archive" did not record uncompressed size in the header when
streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip.
@@ -11,3 +21,5 @@ Fixes since v1.8.1.1
trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from
there. As e-mail headers field names are case insensitive, this
script should follow suit and treat "cc:" and "Cc:" the same way.
+
+Also contains various documentation fixes.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt
index 7cbe8a6b94..aa3c1ea3ea 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt
@@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
E.g. "foo/**/bar" matches "bar" in "foo" itself or in a
subdirectory of "foo".
+ * When giving arguments without "--" disambiguation, object names
+ that come earlier on the command line must not be interpretable as
+ pathspecs and pathspecs that come later on the command line must
+ not be interpretable as object names. This disambiguation rule has
+ been tweaked so that ":/" (no other string before or after) is
+ always interpreted as a pathspec; "git cmd -- :/" is no longer
+ needed, you can just say "git cmd :/".
+
* "git blame" (and "git diff") learned the "--no-follow" option.
* "git check-ignore" command to help debugging .gitignore files has
@@ -112,7 +120,8 @@ Foreign Interface
* A new remote helper to interact with bzr has been added to contrib/.
- * "git p4" got various bugfixes around its branch handling.
+ * "git p4" got various bugfixes around its branch handling. It is
+ also made usable with Python 2.4/2.5.
* The remote helper to interact with Hg in contrib/ has seen a few
fixes.
@@ -126,6 +135,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* Matching paths with common forms of pathspecs that contain wildcard
characters has been optimized further.
+ * We stopped paying attention to $GIT_CONFIG environment that points
+ at a single configuration file from any command other than "git config"
+ quite a while ago, but "git clone" internally set, exported, and
+ then unexported the variable during its operation unnecessarily.
+
* "git reset" internals has been reworked and should be faster in
general. We tried to be careful not to break any behaviour but
there could be corner cases, especially when running the command
@@ -153,6 +167,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
USE_WILDMATCH, using the resulting Git daily and reporting when you
find breakages, you can help us get closer to that goal.
+ * Some reimplementations of Git do not write all the stat info back
+ to the index due to their implementation limitations (e.g. jgit).
+ A configuration option can tell Git to ignore changes to most of
+ the stat fields and only pay attention to mtime and size, which
+ these implementations can reliably update. This can be used to
+ avoid excessive revalidation of contents.
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -167,13 +188,11 @@ details).
* An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the
real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused
the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling.
- (merge 059b379 mh/ceiling later to maint).
* When attempting to read the XDG-style $HOME/.config/git/config and
finding that $HOME/.config/git is a file, we gave a wrong error
message, instead of treating the case as "a custom config file does
not exist there" and moving on.
- (merge 8f2bbe4 jn/warn-on-inaccessible-loosen later to maint).
* The behaviour visible to the end users was confusing, when they
attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn
@@ -184,11 +203,14 @@ details).
* A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was
reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was
spawned by us, with or without a shell in between.
- (merge 709ca73 jk/unify-exit-code-by-receiving-signal later to maint).
* After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing
pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms.
- (merge f7be59b jc/mkstemp-more-careful-error-reporting later to maint).
+
+ * We used to stuff "user@" and then append what we read from
+ /etc/mailname to come up with a default e-mail ident, but a bug
+ lost the "user@" part.
+ (merge dc342a2 jn/do-not-drop-username-when-reading-from-etc-mailname later to maint).
* The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be
applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the
@@ -197,17 +219,22 @@ details).
degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic.
(merge 9db9eec nd/fix-directory-attrs-off-by-one later to maint).
+ * "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch,
+ when it is run in a locale outside C (or en).
+ (merge 5185b97 dl/am-hg-locale later to maint).
+
* "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing
excess trailing blank lines.
- (merge 5de7166 jc/apply-trailing-blank-removal later to maint).
* A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a
way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy.
- (merge 22f0dcd rs/leave-base-name-in-name-field-of-tar later to maint).
* "git archive" did not record uncompressed size in the header when
streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip.
- (merge 5ea2c84 rs/zip-with-uncompressed-size-in-the-header later to maint).
+
+ * Attempt to "branch --edit-description" an existing branch, while
+ being on a detached HEAD, errored out.
+ (merge 75135b2 nd/edit-branch-desc-while-detached later to maint).
* "git clean" showed what it was going to do, but sometimes end up
finding that it was not allowed to do so, which resulted in a
@@ -220,27 +247,27 @@ details).
* When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it
failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.
- (merge 9be1980 jl/interrupt-clone-remove-separate-git-dir later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways. The
+ resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was
+ unclear how to wipe the shallowness of the repository with the
+ command, and documentation was misleading.
+ (merge cfb70e1 nd/fetch-depth-is-broken later to maint).
* The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
- (merge e9263e4 ss/svn-prompt later to maint).
* The --graph code fell into infinite loop when asked to do what the
code did not expect.
- (merge 656197a mk/maint-graph-infinity-loop later to maint).
* http transport was wrong to ask for the username when the
authentication is done by certificate identity.
- (merge 75e9a40 rb/http-cert-cred-no-username-prompt later to maint).
* "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that
created new refs had a nasty race.
- (merge b3f1280 jk/repack-ref-racefix later to maint).
* After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the
index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.
- (merge eec3e7e nd/invalidate-i-t-a-cache-tree later to maint).
* "git clone" used to allow --bare and --separate-git-dir=$there
options at the same time, which was nonsensical.
@@ -253,49 +280,43 @@ details).
* "git merge --no-edit" computed who were involved in the work done
on the side branch, even though that information is to be discarded
without getting seen in the editor.
- (merge 9bcbb1c jc/maint-fmt-merge-msg-no-edit-lose-credit later to maint).
* "git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git
commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit
status of the hook.
- (merge 3e4141d ap/merge-stop-at-prepare-commit-msg-failure later to maint).
* When users spell "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the
trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from
there. As e-mail headers field names are case insensitive, this
script should follow suit and treat "cc:" and "Cc:" the same way.
- (merge 6310071 nz/send-email-headers-are-case-insensitive later to maint).
* Output from "git status --ignored" showed an unexpected interaction
with "--untracked".
- (merge a45fb69 ap/status-ignored-in-ignored-directory later to maint).
* "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new
activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely
nothing in it early, which was not very useful.
- (merge 28dae18 md/gitweb-sort-by-age later to maint).
* "gitweb"'s code to sanitize control characters before passing it to
"highlight" filter lost known-to-be-safe control characters by
mistake.
- (merge 0e901d2 os/gitweb-highlight-uncaptured later to maint).
* When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters
whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed
to add a newline after such a line.
- (merge e0db176 sp/shortlog-missing-lf later to maint).
* Command line completion leaked an unnecessary error message while
looking for possible matches with paths in <tree-ish>.
- (merge ca87dd6 ds/completion-silence-in-tree-path-probe later to maint).
* Command line completion for "tcsh" emitted an unwanted space
after completing a single directory name.
- (merge 92f1c04 mk/complete-tcsh later to maint).
+
+ * Command line completion code was inadvertently made incompatible with
+ older versions of bash by using a newer array notation.
+ (merge 50c5885 bc/fix-array-syntax-for-3.0-in-completion-bash later to maint).
* Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it
around by explicitly setting it to the default value.
- (merge 393050c jc/maint-fbsd-sh-ifs-workaround later to maint).
* Some scripted programs written in Python did not get updated when
PYTHON_PATH changed.
@@ -303,24 +324,25 @@ details).
* When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran
"config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary.
- (merge 1226504 jn/less-reconfigure later to maint).
* We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
old version of the tutorial; removed.
- (merge 0a85441 ta/remove-stale-translated-tut later to maint).
+
+ * t0050 had tests expecting failures from a bug that was fixed some
+ time ago.
+ (merge 336e2e2 tb/t0050-maint later to maint).
* t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that
broke on OpenBSD.
- (merge 27f6342 jc/maint-test-portability later to maint).
* t9020 and t3600 tests had various portability issues.
- (merge 5a02966 jc/test-portability later to maint).
* t9200 runs "cvs init" on a directory that already exists, but a
platform can configure this fail for the current user (e.g. you
need to be in the cvsadmin group on NetBSD 6.0).
- (merge 8666df0 jc/test-cvs-no-init-in-existing-dir later to maint).
* t9020 and t9810 had a few non-portable shell script construct.
- (merge 2797914 tb/test-t9020-no-which later to maint).
- (merge 6f4e505 tb/test-t9810-no-sed-i later to maint).
+
+ * Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was
+ affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH.
+ (merge 5047822 jc/do-not-let-random-file-interfere-with-completion-tests later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index b87f744643..c8abe86ed5 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ advice.*::
pushUpdateRejected::
Set this variable to 'false' if you want to disable
'pushNonFFCurrent', 'pushNonFFDefault',
- 'pushNonFFMatching', and 'pushAlreadyExists'
+ 'pushNonFFMatching', 'pushAlreadyExists',
+ 'pushFetchFirst', and 'pushNeedsForce'
simultaneously.
pushNonFFCurrent::
Advice shown when linkgit:git-push[1] fails due to a
@@ -162,6 +163,15 @@ advice.*::
pushAlreadyExists::
Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that
does not qualify for fast-forwarding (e.g., a tag.)
+ pushFetchFirst::
+ Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that
+ tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an
+ object we do not have.
+ pushNeedsForce::
+ Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that
+ tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an
+ object that is not a committish, or make the remote
+ ref point at an object that is not a committish.
statusHints::
Show directions on how to proceed from the current
state in the output of linkgit:git-status[1], in
@@ -235,6 +245,12 @@ core.trustctime::
crawlers and some backup systems).
See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
+core.checkstat::
+ Determines which stat fields to match between the index
+ and work tree. The user can set this to 'default' or
+ 'minimal'. Default (or explicitly 'default'), is to check
+ all fields, including the sub-second part of mtime and ctime.
+
core.quotepath::
The commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files',
'diff'), when not given the `-z` option, will quote
@@ -528,6 +544,12 @@ core.editor::
variable when it is set, and the environment variable
`GIT_EDITOR` is not set. See linkgit:git-var[1].
+core.commentchar::
+ Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
+ messages consider a line that begins with this character
+ commented, and removes them after the editor returns
+ (default '#').
+
sequence.editor::
Text editor used by `git rebase -i` for editing the rebase insn file.
The value is meant to be interpreted by the shell when it is used.
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index 6e98bdf149..9cb649673d 100644
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -8,11 +8,15 @@
option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten.
--depth=<depth>::
- Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by
+ Deepen or shorten the history of a 'shallow' repository created by
`git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see linkgit:git-clone[1])
to the specified number of commits from the tip of each remote
branch history. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched.
+--unshallow::
+ Convert a shallow repository to a complete one, removing all
+ the limitations imposed by shallow repositories.
+
ifndef::git-pull[]
--dry-run::
Show what would be done, without making any changes.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index fd9e36b99f..533355984c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -107,9 +107,10 @@ apply to the index. See EDITING PATCHES below.
from the index if the corresponding files in the working tree
have been removed.
+
-If no <filepattern> is given, default to "."; in other words,
-update all tracked files in the current directory and its
-subdirectories.
+If no <filepattern> is given, the current version of Git defaults to
+"."; in other words, update all tracked files in the current directory
+and its subdirectories. This default will change in a future version
+of Git, hence the form without <filepattern> should not be used.
-A::
--all::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
index 9d5353e8be..f059ea94da 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
+*WARNING:* `git cvsimport` uses cvsps version 2, which is considered
+deprecated; it does not work with cvsps version 3 and later. If you are
+performing a one-shot import of a CVS repository consider using
+link:http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or
+link:https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs].
+
Imports a CVS repository into git. It will either create a new
repository, or incrementally import into an existing one.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
index 8c751202d7..b81e90d8e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet.
--depth=<n>::
Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n.
+ 'git-upload-pack' treats the special depth 2147483647 as
+ infinite even if there is an ancestor-chain that long.
--no-progress::
Do not show the progress.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt b/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt
index a80d94650d..e6fdfcb994 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,13 @@ OPTIONS
-------
-s::
--strip-comments::
- Skip and remove all lines starting with '#'.
+ Skip and remove all lines starting with comment character (default '#').
+
+-c::
+--comment-lines::
+ Prepend comment character and blank to each line. Lines will automatically
+ be terminated with a newline. On empty lines, only the comment character
+ will be prepended.
EXAMPLES
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
index 84686b5c69..2c59cb2259 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
@@ -156,6 +156,11 @@ then they will free() it.
Remove the bytes between `pos..pos+len` and replace it with the given
data.
+`strbuf_add_commented_lines`::
+
+ Add a NUL-terminated string to the buffer. Each line will be prepended
+ by a comment character and a blank.
+
`strbuf_add`::
Add data of given length to the buffer.
@@ -229,6 +234,11 @@ which can be used by the programmer of the callback as she sees fit.
Add a formatted string to the buffer.
+`strbuf_commented_addf`::
+
+ Add a formatted string prepended by a comment character and a
+ blank to the buffer.
+
`strbuf_fread`::
Read a given size of data from a FILE* pointer to the buffer.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt
index 0502a5471e..ea2f69faf5 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt
@@ -53,3 +53,6 @@ It also writes an appropriate $GIT_DIR/shallow.
You can deepen a shallow repository with "git-fetch --depth 20
repo branch", which will fetch branch from repo, but stop at depth
20, updating $GIT_DIR/shallow.
+
+The special depth 2147483647 (or 0x7fffffff, the largest positive
+number a signed 32-bit integer can contain) means infinite depth.