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diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 14286cb657..063fa696c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -66,12 +66,6 @@ endif -include ../config.mak # -# For asciidoc ... -# -7.1.2, set ASCIIDOC7 -# 8.0-, no extra settings are needed -# - -# # For docbook-xsl ... # -1.68.1, no extra settings are needed? # 1.69.0, set ASCIIDOC_ROFF? @@ -81,9 +75,6 @@ endif # 1.73.0-, no extra settings are needed # -ifndef ASCIIDOC7 -ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a asciidoc7compatible -endif ifdef DOCBOOK_XSL_172 ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-asciidoc-no-roff MANPAGE_XSL = manpage-1.72.xsl @@ -134,15 +125,6 @@ DEFAULT_EDITOR_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(DEFAULT_EDITOR)) ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a 'git-default-editor=$(DEFAULT_EDITOR_SQ)' endif -# -# Please note that there is a minor bug in asciidoc. -# The version after 6.0.3 _will_ include the patch found here: -# http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=111558757202243&w=2 -# -# Until that version is released you may have to apply the patch -# yourself - yes, all 6 characters of it! -# - QUIET_SUBDIR0 = +$(MAKE) -C # space to separate -C and subdir QUIET_SUBDIR1 = @@ -280,6 +262,7 @@ technical/api-index.txt: technical/api-index-skel.txt \ technical/api-index.sh $(patsubst %,%.txt,$(API_DOCS)) $(QUIET_GEN)cd technical && '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./api-index.sh +technical/%.html: ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-relative-html-prefix=../ $(patsubst %,%.html,$(API_DOCS) technical/api-index): %.html : %.txt $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 -f asciidoc.conf \ $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) $*.txt @@ -333,6 +316,7 @@ $(patsubst %,%.html,$(ARTICLES)) : %.html : %.txt WEBDOC_DEST = /pub/software/scm/git/docs +howto/%.html: ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-relative-html-prefix=../ $(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(wildcard howto/*.txt)): %.html : %.txt $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \ sed -e '1,/^$$/d' $< | $(ASCIIDOC) $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -b xhtml11 - >$@+ && \ diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7a7e9d6fd1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +Git v1.7.10.2 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.10.1 +--------------------- + + * The test scaffolding for git-daemon was flaky. + + * The test scaffolding for fast-import was flaky. + + * The filesystem boundary was not correctly reported when .git directory + discovery stopped at a mount point. + + * HTTP transport that requires authentication did not work correctly when + multiple connections are used simultaneously. + + * Minor memory leak during unpack_trees (hence "merge" and "checkout" + to check out another branch) has been plugged. + + * In the older days, the header "Conflicts:" in "cherry-pick" and "merge" + was separated by a blank line from the list of paths that follow for + readability, but when "merge" was rewritten in C, we lost it by + mistake. Remove the newline from "cherry-pick" to make them match + again. + + * The command line parser choked "git cherry-pick $name" when $name can + be both revision name and a pathname, even though $name can never be a + path in the context of the command. + + * The "include.path" facility in the configuration mechanism added in + 1.7.10 forgot to interpret "~/path" and "~user/path" as it should. + + * "git config --rename-section" to rename an existing section into a + bogus one did not check the new name. + + * The "diff --no-index" codepath used limited-length buffers, risking + pathnames getting truncated. Update it to use the strbuf API. + + * The report from "git fetch" said "new branch" even for a non branch + ref. + + * The http-backend (the server side of the smart http transfer) used + to overwrite GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL with the + value obtained from REMOTE_USER unconditionally, making it + impossible for the server side site-specific customization to use + different identity sources to affect the names logged. It now uses + REMOTE_USER only as a fallback value. + + * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its + output had line breaks at wrong places. + + * Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the + final commit correctly. + + * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago; + this release resurrects it. + + * The error and advice messages given by "git push" when it fails due + to non-ff were not very helpful to new users; it has been broken + into three cases, and each is given a separate advice message. + + * The insn sheet given by "rebase -i" did not make it clear that the + insn lines can be re-ordered to affect the order of the commits in + the resulting history. + + * "git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects + when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned + due to its age. + + * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless + user futzed with her $PATH. + + * "git rev-parse --show-prefix" used to emit nothing when run at the + top-level of the working tree, but now it gives a blank line. + + * The i18n of error message "git stash save" was not properly done. + + * "git submodule" used a sed script that some platforms mishandled. + + * When using a Perl script on a system where "perl" found on user's + $PATH could be ancient or otherwise broken, we allow builders to + specify the path to a good copy of Perl with $PERL_PATH. The + gitweb test forgot to use that Perl when running its test. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..703fbf1d60 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +Git v1.7.10.3 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.10.2 +--------------------- + + * The message file for German translation has been updated a bit. + + * Running "git checkout" on an unborn branch used to corrupt HEAD. + + * When checking out another commit from an already detached state, we + used to report all commits that are not reachable from any of the + refs as lossage, but some of them might be reachable from the new + HEAD, and there is no need to warn about them. + + * Some time ago, "git clone" lost the progress output for its + "checkout" phase; when run without any "--quiet" option, it should + give progress to the lengthy operation. + + * The directory path used in "git diff --no-index", when it recurses + down, was broken with a recent update after v1.7.10.1 release. + + * "log -z --pretty=tformat:..." did not terminate each record with + NUL. The fix is not entirely correct when the output also asks for + --patch and/or --stat, though. + + * The DWIM behaviour for "log --pretty=format:%gd -g" was somewhat + broken and gave undue precedence to configured log.date, causing + "git stash list" to show "stash@{time stamp string}". + + * "git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake. The + output for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not + terminate the record for the current branch name with NUL as asked. + + * When a submodule repository uses alternate object store mechanism, + some commands that were started from the superproject did not + notice it and failed with "No such object" errors. The subcommands + of "git submodule" command that recursed into the submodule in a + separate process were OK; only the ones that cheated and peeked + directly into the submodule's repository from the primary process + were affected. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..326670df6e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Git v1.7.10.4 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.10.3 +--------------------- + + * The message file for Swedish translation has been updated a bit. + + * A name taken from mailmap was copied into an internal buffer + incorrectly and could overun the buffer if it is too long. + + * A malformed commit object that has a header line chomped in the + middle could kill git with a NULL pointer dereference. + + * An author/committer name that is a single character was mishandled + as an invalid name by mistake. + + * The progress indicator for a large "git checkout" was sent to + stderr even if it is not a terminal. + + * "git grep -e '$pattern'", unlike the case where the patterns are + read from a file, did not treat individual lines in the given + pattern argument as separate regular expressions as it should. + + * When "git rebase" was given a bad commit to replay the history on, + its error message did not correctly give the command line argument + it had trouble parsing. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4db1770e38 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Git v1.7.10.5 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.10.4 +--------------------- + + * "git fast-export" did not give a readable error message when the + same mark erroneously appeared twice in the --import-marks input. + + * "git rebase -p" used to pay attention to rebase.autosquash which + was wrong. "git rebase -p -i" should, but "git rebase -p" by + itself should not. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..577eccaacd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Git v1.7.11.1 Release Notes +=========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.11 +------------------- + + * The cross links in the HTML version of manual pages were broken. + +Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt index 9e50db35ac..15b954ca4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt @@ -13,38 +13,49 @@ UI, Workflows & Features name over there. The plan is to make this mode the new default value when push.default is not configured. + * A couple of commands learned the "--column" option to produce + columnar output. + * A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/ + * A remote helper that acts as a proxy and caches ssl session for the + https:// transport is added to the contrib/ area. + * Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its - upstream configured have been clatified. + upstream configured have been clarified. - * Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up + * Even with the "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch informational message. + * Your build platform may support hardlinks but you may prefer not to + use them, e.g. when installing to DESTDIR to make a tarball and + untarring on a filesystem that has poor support for hardlinks. + There is a Makefile option NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS for you. + * The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_* variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are now preserved when set. - * "include.path" mechanism of the configuration files learned to - understand "~/path" and "~user/path". - * "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of existing the "--exclude" option. - * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application to a - synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that + * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application of the patch + to a synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that needed such treatment are now reported to the end user, so that the result in them can be eyeballed with extra care. * The output from "diff/log --stat" used to always allocate 4 columns to show the number of modified lines, but not anymore. - * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors - involved in the side topic you are merging. + * "git difftool" learned the "--dir-diff" option to spawn external + diff tools that can compare two directory hierarchies at a time + after populating two temporary directories, instead of running an + instance of the external tool once per a file pair. - * The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three - categories; each case is given a separate advise message. + * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learned to list the primary contributors + involved in the side topic you are merging in a comment in the merge + commit template. * "git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not introduce any change in the original history. @@ -60,51 +71,54 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Foreign Interface - * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with HTTP + * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with an HTTP server that uses keep-alive. * "git svn" learned to use platform specific authentication providers, e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc. - * "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area and has seen more work - on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels to) - p4. + * "git p4" has been moved out of the contrib/ area and has seen more + work on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels + to) p4. Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) + * Bash completion script (in contrib/) have been cleaned up to make + future work on it simpler. + * An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead. + * "git archive" learned to produce its output without reading the + blob object it writes out in memory in its entirety. + + * "git index-pack" that runs when fetching or pushing objects to + complete the packfile on the receiving end learned to use multiple + threads to do its job when available. + * The code to compute hash values for lines used by the internal diff engine was optimized on little-endian machines, using the same trick the kernel folks came up with. * "git apply" had some memory leaks plugged. - * "git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects - when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned - due to its age. - * Setting up a revision traversal with many starting points was inefficient as these were placed in a date-order priority queue one-by-one. Now they are collected in the queue unordered first, and sorted immediately before getting used. - * "git rev-parse --show-prefix" used to emit nothing when run at the - top-level of the working tree, but now it gives a blank line. - - * Minor memory leak during unpack_trees (hence "merge" and "checkout" - to check out another branch) has been plugged. - * More lower-level commands learned to use the streaming API to read from the object store without keeping everything in core. + * The weighting parameters to suggestion command name typo have been + tweaked, so that "git tags" will suggest "tag?" and not "stage?". + * Because "sh" on the user's PATH may be utterly broken on some systems, run-command API now uses SHELL_PATH, not /bin/sh, when spawning an external command (not applicable to Windows port). - * The API to iterate over refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to allow - walking only a subset of it more efficiently. + * The API to iterate over the refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to + allow walking only a subset of it more efficiently. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -116,61 +130,10 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). - * When using a Perl script on a system where "perl" found on user's - $PATH could be ancient or otherwise broken, we allow builders to - specify the path to a good copy of Perl with $PERL_PATH. The - gitweb test forgot to use that Perl when running its test. - (merge 0754e08 jk/maint-gitweb-test-use-sane-perl later to maint). - - * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless - user futzed with her $PATH. - (merge 53876fc jc/rerere-train later to maint). - - * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its - output had line breaks at wrong places. - (merge bafa16e lp/diffstat-with-graph later to maint). - - * "git config --rename-section" to rename an existing section into a - bogus one did not check the new name. - (merge 94a35b1 jk/maint-config-bogus-section later to maint). - - * The test scaffolding for git-daemon was flaky. - (merge 46e3581 js/daemon-test-race-fix later to maint). - - * The test scaffolding for fast-import was flaky. - (merge 7fb8e16 pw/t5800-import-race-fix later to maint). - - * Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the - final commit correctly. - (merge 5802f81 jc/merge-reduce-parents-early later to maint). - - * In the older days, the header "Conflicts:" in "cherry-pick" and - "merge" was separated by a blank line from the list of paths that - follow for readability, but when "merge" was rewritten in C, we lost - it by mistake. Remove the newline from "cherry-pick" to make them - match again. - (merge 5112068 rt/cherry-revert-conflict-summary later to maint). - - * The filesystem boundary was not correctly reported when .git - directory discovery stopped at a mount point. - (merge 2565b43 cb/maint-report-mount-point-correctly-in-setup later to maint). - - * The command line parser choked "git cherry-pick $name" when $name - can be both revision name and a pathname, even though $name can - never be a path in the context of the command. - (merge 6d5b93f cb/cherry-pick-rev-path-confusion later to maint). - - * HTTP transport that requires authentication did not work correctly - when multiple connections are used simultaneously. - (merge 6f4c347 cb/http-multi-curl-auth later to maint). - - * The i18n of error message "git stash save" was not properly done. - (merge ed3c400 rl/maint-stash-i18n-save-error later to maint). - - * The report from "git fetch" said "new branch" even for a non branch - ref. - (merge 0997ada mb/fetch-call-a-non-branch-a-ref later to maint). + * "git submodule init" used to report "registered for path ..." + even for submodules that were registered earlier. + (cherry-pick c1c259e jl/submodule-report-new-path-once later to maint). - * The "diff --no-index" codepath used limited-length buffers, risking - pathnames getting truncated. Update it to use the strbuf API. - (merge 875b91b jm/maint-strncpy-diff-no-index later to maint). + * "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified + execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite + right. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..117f4b1904 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +Git v1.7.12 Release Notes +========================= + +Updates since v1.7.11 +--------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms + where "man" viewer is not widely available. + + * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to + optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but + we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always + use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to + turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file:// + URL. + + * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over + the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage + distribution of clients. + + +Foreign Interface + + +Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions) + + * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs. + + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.7.11 +------------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance +releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for +details). + +* Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete + history said "it requires these 0 commits". + (merge 8c3710f jc/bundle-complete-notice later to maint). + +* "git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as + excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths + while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also + updated. + (merge 0d316f0 jc/ls-files-i-dir later to maint). + +* "git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged + with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output + but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag. + (merge 682853e jc/request-pull-match-tagname later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf index aea8627be0..a26d245ab4 100644 --- a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf +++ b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf @@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ endif::backend-docbook[] endif::doctype-manpage[] ifdef::backend-xhtml11[] +[attributes] +git-relative-html-prefix= [linkgit-inlinemacro] -<a href="{target}.html">{target}{0?({0})}</a> +<a href="{git-relative-html-prefix}{target}.html">{target}{0?({0})}</a> endif::backend-xhtml11[] diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt index 6aa1be0478..67a90a828c 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ and accumulating child directory counts in the parent directories: diff.statGraphWidth:: Limit the width of the graph part in --stat output. If set, applies - to all commands generating --stat outuput except format-patch. + to all commands generating --stat output except format-patch. diff.external:: If this config variable is set, diff generation is not diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 6cfedd85dc..cf4b216598 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] Generate a diffstat. By default, as much space as necessary will be used for the filename part, and the rest for the graph part. Maximum width defaults to terminal width, or 80 columns - if not connected to a terminal, and can be overriden by + if not connected to a terminal, and can be overridden by `<width>`. The width of the filename part can be limited by giving another width `<name-width>` after a comma. The width of the graph part can be limited by using diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index 6e22522c4f..c1ddd4c2cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -46,13 +46,18 @@ OPTIONS mechanism and clones the repository by making a copy of HEAD and everything under objects and refs directories. The files under `.git/objects/` directory are hardlinked - to save space when possible. This is now the default when - the source repository is specified with `/path/to/repo` - syntax, so it essentially is a no-op option. To force - copying instead of hardlinking (which may be desirable - if you are trying to make a back-up of your repository), - but still avoid the usual "git aware" transport - mechanism, `--no-hardlinks` can be used. + to save space when possible. ++ +If the repository is specified as a local path (e.g., `/path/to/repo`), +this is the default, and --local is essentially a no-op. If the +repository is specified as a URL, then this flag is ignored (and we +never use the local optimizations). Specifying `--no-local` will +override the default when `/path/to/repo` is given, using the regular +git transport instead. ++ +To force copying instead of hardlinking (which may be desirable if you +are trying to make a back-up of your repository), but still avoid the +usual "git aware" transport mechanism, `--no-hardlinks` can be used. --no-hardlinks:: Optimize the cloning process from a repository on a diff --git a/Documentation/git-column.txt b/Documentation/git-column.txt index 9be16eea0e..5d6f1cc464 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-column.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-column.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git column' [--command=<name>] [--[raw-]mode=<mode>] [--width=<width>] - [--indent=<string>] [--nl=<string>] [--pading=<n>] + [--indent=<string>] [--nl=<string>] [--padding=<n>] DESCRIPTION ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index cfb9906bb5..ff73286509 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent>)...] < changelog -'git commit-tree' [(-p <parent>)...] [(-m <message>)...] [(-F <file>)...] <tree> +'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent>)...] [(-m <message>)...] [(-F <file>)...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ OPTIONS Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object. -m <message>:: - A paragraph in the commig log message. This can be given more than + A paragraph in the commit log message. This can be given more than once and each <message> becomes its own paragraph. -F <file>:: @@ -88,15 +88,6 @@ for one to be entered and terminated with ^D. include::date-formats.txt[] -Diagnostics ------------ -You don't exist. Go away!:: - The passwd(5) gecos field couldn't be read -Your parents must have hated you!:: - The passwd(5) gecos field is longer than a giant static buffer. -Your sysadmin must hate you!:: - The passwd(5) name field is longer than a giant static buffer. - Discussion ---------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index 81b03982e3..d9463cb387 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -44,11 +44,15 @@ a "true" or "false" string for bool), or '--path', which does some path expansion (see '--path' below). If no type specifier is passed, no checks or transformations are performed on the value. -The file-option can be one of '--system', '--global' or '--file' -which specify where the values will be read from or written to. -The default is to assume the config file of the current repository, -.git/config unless defined otherwise with GIT_DIR and GIT_CONFIG -(see <<FILES>>). +When reading, the values are read from the system, global and +repository local configuration files by default, and options +'--system', '--global', '--local' and '--file <filename>' can be +used to tell the command to read from only that location (see <<FILES>>). + +When writing, the new value is written to the repository local +configuration file by default, and options '--system', '--global', +'--file <filename>' can be used to tell the command to write to +that location (you can say '--local' but that is the default). This command will fail (with exit code ret) if: @@ -194,9 +198,7 @@ If not set explicitly with '--file', there are three files where 'git config' will search for configuration options: $GIT_DIR/config:: - Repository specific configuration file. (The filename is - of course relative to the repository root, not the working - directory.) + Repository specific configuration file. ~/.gitconfig:: User-specific configuration file. Also called "global" diff --git a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt index fe38f667f9..31fc2e3aed 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt @@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ linkgit:git-diff[1]. OPTIONS ------- +-d:: +--dir-diff:: + Copy the modified files to a temporary location and perform + a directory diff on them. This mode never prompts before + launching the diff tool. + -y:: --no-prompt:: Do not prompt before launching a diff tool. @@ -30,11 +36,9 @@ OPTIONS -t <tool>:: --tool=<tool>:: - Use the diff tool specified by <tool>. - Valid diff tools are: - araxis, bc3, deltawalker, diffuse, emerge, ecmerge, gvimdiff, - kdiff3, kompare, meld, opendiff, p4merge, tkdiff, vimdiff and - xxdiff. + Use the diff tool specified by <tool>. Valid values include + emerge, kompare, meld, and vimdiff. Run `git difftool --tool-help` + for the list of valid <tool> settings. + If a diff tool is not specified, 'git difftool' will use the configuration variable `diff.tool`. If the @@ -62,6 +66,9 @@ of the diff post-image. `$MERGED` is the name of the file which is being compared. `$BASE` is provided for compatibility with custom merge tool commands and has the same value as `$MERGED`. +--tool-help:: + Print a list of diff tools that may be used with `--tool`. + -x <command>:: --extcmd=<command>:: Specify a custom command for viewing diffs. diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 4785f1c5c6..3bec036883 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- Look for specified patterns in the tracked files in the work tree, blobs -registered in the index file, or blobs in given tree objects. +registered in the index file, or blobs in given tree objects. Patterns +are lists of one or more search expressions separated by newline +characters. An empty string as search expression matches all lines. CONFIGURATION diff --git a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt index 909687fed4..39e6d0ddd8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt @@ -74,6 +74,16 @@ OPTIONS --strict:: Die, if the pack contains broken objects or links. +--threads=<n>:: + Specifies the number of threads to spawn when resolving + deltas. This requires that index-pack be compiled with + pthreads otherwise this option is ignored with a warning. + This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor + machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search + window is however multiplied by the number of threads. + Specifying 0 will cause git to auto-detect the number of CPU's + and use maximum 3 threads. + Note ---- diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt index 51955a5f7c..fe1f49bc6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt @@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ subsequent 'sync' operations. + This example imports a new remote "p4/proj2" into an existing git repository: ++ ---- $ git init $ git p4 sync --branch=refs/remotes/p4/proj2 //depot/proj2 @@ -438,7 +439,7 @@ git-p4.branchList:: enabled. Each entry should be a pair of branch names separated by a colon (:). This example declares that both branchA and branchB were created from main: - ++ ------------- git config git-p4.branchList main:branchA git config --add git-p4.branchList main:branchB @@ -503,7 +504,7 @@ git-p4.skipUserNameCheck:: user map, 'git p4' exits. This option can be used to force submission regardless. -git-p4.attemptRCSCleanup: +git-p4.attemptRCSCleanup:: If enabled, 'git p4 submit' will attempt to cleanup RCS keywords ($Header$, etc). These would otherwise cause merge conflicts and prevent the submit going ahead. This option should be considered experimental at diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index f63b81aad6..4cc3e9586f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -137,7 +137,8 @@ shown. If the pattern does not contain a globbing character (`?`, --git-dir:: Show `$GIT_DIR` if defined. Otherwise show the path to - the .git directory, relative to the current directory. + the .git directory. The path shown, when relative, is + relative to the current working directory. + If `$GIT_DIR` is not defined and the current directory is not detected to lie in a git repository or work tree diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index 2883a285ba..67e5f53a9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ order is reversed (e.g 'from \-> to' becomes 'to from'). Second, a NUL and the terminating newline (but a space still separates the status field from the first filename). Third, filenames containing special characters are not specially formatted; no quoting or -backslash-escaping is performed. Fourth, there is no branch line. +backslash-escaping is performed. CONFIGURATION ------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index c243ee552b..fbbbcb282c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ if you choose to go that route. Submodules are composed from a so-called `gitlink` tree entry in the main repository that refers to a particular commit object within the inner repository that is completely separate. -A record in the `.gitmodules` file at the root of the source -tree assigns a logical name to the submodule and describes -the default URL the submodule shall be cloned from. +A record in the `.gitmodules` (see linkgit:gitmodules[5]) file at the +root of the source tree assigns a logical name to the submodule and +describes the default URL the submodule shall be cloned from. The logical name can be used for overriding this URL within your local repository configuration (see 'submodule init'). @@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ update:: checkout the commit specified in the index of the containing repository. This will make the submodules HEAD be detached unless `--rebase` or `--merge` is specified or the key `submodule.$name.update` is set to - `rebase`, `merge` or `none`. + `rebase`, `merge` or `none`. `none` can be overridden by specifying + `--checkout`. + If the submodule is not yet initialized, and you just want to use the setting as stored in .gitmodules, you can automatically initialize the @@ -148,10 +149,6 @@ submodule with the `--init` option. + If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into the registered submodules, and update any nested submodules within. -+ -If the configuration key `submodule.$name.update` is set to `none` the -submodule with name `$name` will not be updated by default. This can be -overriden by adding `--checkout` to the command. summary:: Show commit summary between the given commit (defaults to HEAD) and diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 34ee785064..cfe8d2b5df 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -189,18 +189,16 @@ and have no uncommitted changes. last fetched commit from the upstream SVN. 'dcommit':: - Commit each diff from a specified head directly to the SVN + Commit each diff from the current branch directly to the SVN repository, and then rebase or reset (depending on whether or not there is a diff between SVN and head). This will create a revision in SVN for each commit in git. - It is recommended that you run 'git svn' fetch and rebase (not - pull or merge) your commits against the latest changes in the - SVN repository. - An optional revision or branch argument may be specified, and - causes 'git svn' to do all work on that revision/branch - instead of HEAD. - This is advantageous over 'set-tree' (below) because it produces - cleaner, more linear history. ++ +When an optional git branch name (or a git commit object name) +is specified as an argument, the subcommand works on the specified +branch, not on the current branch. ++ +Use of 'dcommit' is preferred to 'set-tree' (below). + --no-rebase;; After committing, do not rebase or reset. @@ -572,6 +570,8 @@ config key: svn.repackflags --merge:: -s<strategy>:: --strategy=<strategy>:: +-p:: +--preserve-merges:: These are only used with the 'dcommit' and 'rebase' commands. + Passed directly to 'git rebase' when using 'dcommit' if a @@ -800,18 +800,19 @@ have each person clone that repository with 'git clone': REBASE VS. PULL/MERGE --------------------- - -Originally, 'git svn' recommended that the 'remotes/git-svn' branch be -pulled or merged from. This is because the author favored +Prefer to use 'git svn rebase' or 'git rebase', rather than +'git pull' or 'git merge' to synchronize unintegrated commits with a 'git svn' +branch. Doing so will keep the history of unintegrated commits linear with +respect to the upstream SVN repository and allow the use of the preferred +'git svn dcommit' subcommand to push unintegrated commits back into SVN. + +Originally, 'git svn' recommended that developers pulled or merged from +the 'git svn' branch. This was because the author favored `git svn set-tree B` to commit a single head rather than the -`git svn set-tree A..B` notation to commit multiple commits. - -If you use `git svn set-tree A..B` to commit several diffs and you do -not have the latest remotes/git-svn merged into my-branch, you should -use `git svn rebase` to update your work branch instead of `git pull` or -`git merge`. `pull`/`merge` can cause non-linear history to be flattened -when committing into SVN, which can lead to merge commits reversing -previous commits in SVN. +`git svn set-tree A..B` notation to commit multiple commits. Use of +'git pull' or 'git merge' with `git svn set-tree A..B` will cause non-linear +history to be flattened when committing into SVN and this can lead to merge +commits unexpectedly reversing previous commits in SVN. MERGE TRACKING -------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-var.txt b/Documentation/git-var.txt index 988a3234f4..67edf58689 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-var.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-var.txt @@ -59,15 +59,6 @@ ifdef::git-default-pager[] The build you are using chose '{git-default-pager}' as the default. endif::git-default-pager[] -Diagnostics ------------ -You don't exist. Go away!:: - The passwd(5) gecos field couldn't be read -Your parents must have hated you!:: - The passwd(5) gecos field is longer than a giant static buffer. -Your sysadmin must hate you!:: - The passwd(5) name field is longer than a giant static buffer. - SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 8527775988..d58fad71bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -44,9 +44,19 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v1.7.10.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.10.1] +* link:v1.7.11.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.1] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.7.11.1.txt[1.7.11.1], + link:RelNotes/1.7.11.txt[1.7.11]. + +* link:v1.7.10.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.10.5] + +* release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.7.10.5.txt[1.7.10.5], + link:RelNotes/1.7.10.4.txt[1.7.10.4], + link:RelNotes/1.7.10.3.txt[1.7.10.3], + link:RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt[1.7.10.2], link:RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt[1.7.10.1], link:RelNotes/1.7.10.txt[1.7.10]. @@ -725,7 +735,7 @@ other 'GIT_EDITOR':: This environment variable overrides `$EDITOR` and `$VISUAL`. - It is used by several git comands when, on interactive mode, + It is used by several git commands when, on interactive mode, an editor is to be launched. See also linkgit:git-var[1] and the `core.editor` option in linkgit:git-config[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt index 4e1fd52e7d..4effd78902 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt @@ -41,8 +41,11 @@ submodule.<name>.update:: the commit specified in the superproject. If 'merge', the commit specified in the superproject will be merged into the current branch in the submodule. + If 'none', the submodule with name `$name` will not be updated + by default. + This config option is overridden if 'git submodule update' is given - the '--merge' or '--rebase' options. + the '--merge', '--rebase' or '--checkout' options. submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules:: This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt index b9dd56753a..49474557d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ $highlight_bin:: By default set to 'highlight'; set it to full path to highlight executable if it is not installed on your web server's PATH. Note that 'highlight' feature must be set for gitweb to actually - use syntax hightlighting. + use syntax highlighting. + *NOTE*: if you want to add support for new file type (supported by "highlight" but not used by gitweb), you need to modify `%highlight_ext` diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt index 21ca6a2553..adb6f0c896 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt @@ -6,8 +6,52 @@ password credentials from the user (even though credentials in the wider world can take many forms, in this document the word "credential" always refers to a username and password pair). +This document describes two interfaces: the C API that the credential +subsystem provides to the rest of git, and the protocol that git uses to +communicate with system-specific "credential helpers". If you are +writing git code that wants to look up or prompt for credentials, see +the section "C API" below. If you want to write your own helper, see +the section on "Credential Helpers" below. + +Typical setup +------------- + +------------ ++-----------------------+ +| git code (C) |--- to server requiring ---> +| | authentication +|.......................| +| C credential API |--- prompt ---> User ++-----------------------+ + ^ | + | pipe | + | v ++-----------------------+ +| git credential helper | ++-----------------------+ +------------ + +The git code (typically a remote-helper) will call the C API to obtain +credential data like a login/password pair (credential_fill). The +API will itself call a remote helper (e.g. "git credential-cache" or +"git credential-store") that may retrieve credential data from a +store. If the credential helper cannot find the information, the C API +will prompt the user. Then, the caller of the API takes care of +contacting the server, and does the actual authentication. + +C API +----- + +The credential C API is meant to be called by git code which needs to +acquire or store a credential. It is centered around an object +representing a single credential and provides three basic operations: +fill (acquire credentials by calling helpers and/or prompting the user), +approve (mark a credential as successfully used so that it can be stored +for later use), and reject (mark a credential as unsuccessful so that it +can be erased from any persistent storage). + Data Structures ---------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ `struct credential`:: @@ -21,14 +65,17 @@ Data Structures The `helpers` member of the struct is a `string_list` of helpers. Each string specifies an external helper which will be run, in order, to either acquire or store credentials. See the section on credential -helpers below. +helpers below. This list is filled-in by the API functions +according to the corresponding configuration variables before +consulting helpers, so there usually is no need for a caller to +modify the helpers field at all. + This struct should always be initialized with `CREDENTIAL_INIT` or `credential_init`. Functions ---------- +~~~~~~~~~ `credential_init`:: @@ -72,7 +119,7 @@ Functions Parse a URL into broken-down credential fields. Example -------- +~~~~~~~ The example below shows how the functions of the credential API could be used to login to a fictitious "foo" service on a remote host: @@ -135,8 +182,10 @@ credentials from and to long-term storage (where "long-term" is simply longer than a single git process; e.g., credentials may be stored in-memory for a few minutes, or indefinitely on disk). -Each helper is specified by a single string. The string is transformed -by git into a command to be executed using these rules: +Each helper is specified by a single string in the configuration +variable `credential.helper` (and others, see linkgit:git-config[1]). +The string is transformed by git into a command to be executed using +these rules: 1. If the helper string begins with "!", it is considered a shell snippet, and everything after the "!" becomes the command. @@ -243,3 +292,10 @@ request. If a helper receives any other operation, it should silently ignore the request. This leaves room for future operations to be added (older helpers will just ignore the new requests). + +See also +-------- + +linkgit:gitcredentials[7] + +linkgit:git-config[5] (See configuration variables `credential.*`) diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index 546980c0a4..49cdc571cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ Then the server will start sending its packfile data. A simple clone may look like this (with no 'have' lines): ---- - C: 0054want 74730d410fcb6603ace96f1dc55ea6196122532d\0multi_ack \ + C: 0054want 74730d410fcb6603ace96f1dc55ea6196122532d multi_ack \ side-band-64k ofs-delta\n C: 0032want 7d1665144a3a975c05f1f43902ddaf084e784dbe\n C: 0032want 5a3f6be755bbb7deae50065988cbfa1ffa9ab68a\n @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ A simple clone may look like this (with no 'have' lines): An incremental update (fetch) response might look like this: ---- - C: 0054want 74730d410fcb6603ace96f1dc55ea6196122532d\0multi_ack \ + C: 0054want 74730d410fcb6603ace96f1dc55ea6196122532d multi_ack \ side-band-64k ofs-delta\n C: 0032want 7d1665144a3a975c05f1f43902ddaf084e784dbe\n C: 0032want 5a3f6be755bbb7deae50065988cbfa1ffa9ab68a\n diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 1b942074b6..02ed5668e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1600,7 +1600,7 @@ dangling tree b24c2473f1fd3d91352a624795be026d64c8841f You will see informational messages on dangling objects. They are objects that still exist in the repository but are no longer referenced by any of your branches, and can (and will) be removed after a while with "gc". -You can run `git fsck --no-dangling` to supress these messages, and still +You can run `git fsck --no-dangling` to suppress these messages, and still view real errors. [[recovering-lost-changes]] |